The internet eats up less energy than you might think
The giant tech companies with their power-hungry, football-field-size data centers are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed to be on social media and...
Once tech’s favorite economist, Paul Romer is now a thorn in its side
Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer was once Silicon Valley’s favorite economist. Not anymore. His call for government activism, particularly toward the big tech companies, reflects...
Job training that’s free until you’re hired is a blueprint for Biden
A new model of workforce training bases pay for training programs partly on whether students get hired. Early results are promising.
China punishes Microsoft’s LinkedIn over lax censorship
LinkedIn has been the lone major American social network allowed to operate in China. To do so, the Microsoft-owned service for professionals censors the posts...
Up to 30 million in U.S. have the skills to earn 70% more, researchers say
Labor experts and workforce organizations increasingly argue that hiring should increasingly be based on skills rather than degrees.
Don’t fear the robots, and other lessons from a study of the digital economy
An analysis three years in the making by a task force assembled by MIT examines how technology has changed, and will change, the workforce, and...
Remote but inclusive for years, Ultranauts is now showing other companies how
The company has been developing creative ways to hire, manage and motivate a remote, far-flung and diverse workforce for seven years.
Google up against laws that thwarted Microsoft (and others since 1890)
The Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google points to restrictive contracts, a focus that a professor said “is as old as the Sherman Act.” The...
IBM, seeing its future in the cloud, breaks off IT unit
The split-up strategy reflects how decisively computing has shifted to the cloud.