- The U.K. government has raised the minimum salary threshold for overseas workers by nearly 50%, threatening research teams hoping to bring in foreign talent.
- In a hiring freeze that CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski attributes to the rise of AI, Swedish fintech firm Klarna is no longer recruiting staff beyond its engineering department.
- The gender disparity in those pursuing STEM careers persists among young people ranging from tweens to recent grads, new data shows.
- Developers recognize generative AI as a powerful productivity tool, but it could also make their jobs more complicated by adding to code sprawl and technical debt.
- Thousands of faculty members who were teaching mechanical, civil, electrical, and electronics engineering are said to have lost jobs in the last year as colleges are not inclined to hire them to teach emerging tech courses.
- More universities are integrating gaming into STEM courses, adding elements from video games such as badges, leaderboards, and tokens.
- The person writing a piece of code shouldn't buy convenience at the expense of the people who will have to read it and modify it in the future.
- Satish Puri at Missouri University of Science and Technology is working with petabytes of digital, primarily geospatial data to find the best ways to run queries and get useful results quickly.
- In February 2003, with only two weeks until the Spirit Mars Rover was delivered for launch operations in Florida, I made a mistake that may have created a $500M piece of scrap.
- The United States has the highest demand-supply talent gap among global tech leaders in 2023, at 34%-to-36%, followed by the U.K., with a 30%-to-32% gap, according to an analysis by NASSCOM.