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• IDG Contributor Network: Look at me!

  16-11-2018 18:49
  "I'm a loud dog!  ...You must obey me because I am loud!" —Dogbert
  You're in the gym and the person next to you makes lots of noise doing the exact same exercise that you are doing silently.  He is not sweating more than you are, he is just loud.You're walking along the street or sitting outside having a cup of coffee and a car goes by that is deliberately so loud that you cannot hear anything but the car.  (This is not to be confused with a car I had whose muffler seemed to
  
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• 8 jobs ripe for automation

  16-11-2018 12:00
  Amid a frenzy of innovation in robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, CIOs are scouring their enterprises for tasks that can be automated. In a recent survey of tech-sector business leaders, the Consumer Technology Association found that just 10 percent of respondents aren't planning to automate any job functions over the next five years. That means that on the order of 90 percent of firms plan to automate at least some job functions.To read this article in full, please cli
  
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• Why women leave tech

  16-11-2018 11:30
  Did you know that in 1984, 37 percent of computer science degrees were held by women? Today, that figure is just 19 percent. Even when women do choose STEM careers, only 26 percent work in technical roles, compared to 40 percent of men. And in technology specifically, the women who enter the industry leave at a rate 45 percent higher than their male peers.Why? Indeed.com reached out to 1,000 women and asked them to explain.“Lack of career growth or trajectory is a major factor driving wom
  
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