“Adobe’s mixed-reality display blends digital and physical”
“Adobe’s research team has created an experimental display prototype that blends digital and physical worlds, the company said in a Friday blog post. The project, called Project Glasswing, features a transparent display that lets users tweak a screen’s opacity to reveal objects on the other side. They can also interact with or reposition images and videos on the...
“10 things women in tech are sick of hearing”
“When you’re at the checkout and something doesn’t scan properly, it’s tempting to say “It must be free!” and have a good old chuckle, right? Well, if you’ve ever worked in a shop yourself, you’ll know exactly how many times a sales assistant hears that joke: it’s roughly equivalent to the number of times she’s...
Tech giant plans to launch a credit card
“Apple’s new credit card could launch as soon as the first half of August, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The Apple Card was officially unveiled in March alongside the company’s new gaming and video services. Apple has not said when the card will officially launch beyond saying that it’s set to debut in the summer.” Read...
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“Chicago’s tech labor pool grew slightly last year”
“Talent is the top consideration among companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Salesforce, all of which have expanded in Chicago and other cities outside Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Chicago’s tech talent pool got a little deeper last year. The number of tech workers grew 2 percent in 2018 from a...
The Age of Female Dominance
“The coming wave is likely to empower women in ways that they not empowered today.” – Jerry Kaplan, Futurist & Professor, Stanford University ...
“We’ve debunked tech’s ‘pipeline problem.’ So why aren’t
“If you look at the startup world today, there’s an undeniably distinct pattern in who gets the lion’s share of investor funding, year after year. Spoiler: It’s men. Specifically, white men. For the past few years, we’ve heard from leaders at tech companies and venture capital firms around the world pledging to fund and hire...
New tech explores the depths of Gulf of Mexico
“A multi-institution research team will deploy experimental technology next week to explore the deep scattering layers of the ocean. The team which includes marine scientist Kevin Boswell from Florida International University is looking for information about animals in the Gulf of Mexico that make up the scattering layers—those that undergo daily vertical migrations of 100...