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People must give more thought to the objectives of hiring algorithms, experts say, or else human biases may be perpetuated in software. Fifty-five years ago, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, which he said was a continuation of “the unending search for justice

With students taking to the streets to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has taken upon itself to put a full stop to the situation once and for all by asking the educational institutions to step in. According

The last decade has seen social media solidify into thriving, multifaceted communities where more than 3.2 billion people worldwide are active daily. More than 90 percent of millennials regularly use at least one of these platforms, and more than 85 percent of Generation Zers learn about new products through social media. It’s not

An agency owner asked me: “What PM software do you recommend? We’re in the process of switching from our current system.” She was considering Basecamp for client-facing and internal communication, and she planned to continue using FunctionFox for time-tracking. Basecamp is great as a client communications tool, and they keep enhancing it. (One

A deep dive into the websites that made us – and how selfies have killed creativity. What were the first websites you fell in love with? For me, it had to be Beck’s website circa 1999 and the release of his seminal Midnite Vultures, that mad album’s music

We’ve lost count of how many times insiders have accumulated shares in a company that goes on to improve markedly. On the other hand, we’d be remiss not to mention that insider sales have been known to precede tough periods for a business. So we’ll take a

Automation is the currently darling of the technology industry. Alongside big data analytics, cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI), if you haven’t got an automation story to tell, then you haven’t earned your stripes and you don’t get anything special from Santa this year. Over and above

A group of filmmakers have sued the US government for making visa applicants hand over details about their social media accounts. The lawsuit argues that the requirement unconstitutionally discourages applicants from speaking online — and, conversely, discourages people who post political speech from trying to enter the US. The

SafeBreach Labs has published three major vulnerability disclosures which concern three popular and widely-used software products. The first deals with Trend Micro’s antivirus product Trend Micro Security 16, the second concerns Kaspersky’s VPN product Kaspersky Secure Connection and the third involves the Autodesk Desktop Application. SafeBreach discovered that all of these products

Is the future of business to be found in “done for you” service solutions or “do it yourself” software solutions? While the latest buzz trends may oscillate between these two extremes, there’s much to be said for tech that empowers service providers to do their jobs with