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The tech industry added almost 13,000 positions so far this month. Though a recent tech-jobs report featured some month-to-month declines, a conversation with one of its contributors revealed some reasons to be optimistic. Trade association CompTIA’s most recent jobs numbers for December featured encouraging data points: Tech-industry employment—in areas like semiconductor manufacturing, IT services, andContinue reading “Tech jobs report shows mixed signals, but reasons to be hopeful for 2024.”

Nontraditional media, artificial intelligence, and personalization define the future of hospital marketing. Healthcare systems are notoriously slow to change (hence fax machines still being used)—and hospital marketing is no exception. Many hospitals continue to use traditional marketing tactics like billboards and newspapers. But with advances in technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and the rapid changes the healthcareContinue reading “The future of hospital marketing.”

The new Zenbook Duo has two 14-inch screens and a detachable keyboard and trackpad. If you’re a creative, or you work alongside others in person, Asus’ new laptop could be right up your street. The company has announced a new Zenbook Duo device, the latest in its range of the dual-screened laptops, at CES 2024.Continue reading “Wild new laptop design from Asus could be a game-changer for creatives.”

Link fraud is increasingly undermining trust in major online platforms, including ad-supported websites like Google, Bing, Twitter.com, and Reddit. These platforms allow advertisers to spoof links with unverified ‘vanity URLs’, laundering trust in their systems, while simultaneously deflecting blame onto advertisers when these mechanisms are exploited for fraudulent purposes.  I believe that this status quo must beContinue reading “Big Tech’s role in enabling link fraud.”

And it’s not all down to nostalgia. Over the best part of the last 30 years, pixels have replaced grains and algorithms have usurped darkroom chemistry for almost every application of photography in the creative industries. You don’t need me to tell you why. If we remove our rose-tinted glasses for a moment, it’s clearContinue reading “Why analogue photography is making a creative comeback.”

When you speak with chief human resource officers at major companies asking employees to come back to the office with more frequency, most issue a common refrain about the work-from-home debate: Can’t we just stop talking about it already? Some have tried to end the argument. “Return to office is dead,” a Stanford WFH guruContinue reading “Full return to office isn’t the only work model dying. So is fully remote.”

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are aContinue reading “What Will Happen In 2024”

It’s where Check Point Software’s Mark Ostrowski first figured out how to make cables—like, literally make them. Or where Hyland engineer Brian Blasius learned how to disassemble and reassemble a laptop in a half hour. Or where Drew Rose, co-founder of the cybersec company Living Security, read the manual on a variety of military devices,Continue reading “Help desk offers valuable meeting places for young IT pros.”

Prototyping, once an eleventh-hour nice-to-have, has risen to become a critical tool at multiple points in the product development workflow. Picture this: You open Figma with a flash of inspiration or a problem to solve. You start with a blank canvas, creating shapes and manipulating colors, crafting a design you’re eager to share. You pingContinue reading “Why cultivating a prototyping culture will help you build better products.”

Software engineering salaries come from one of 3 budgets. Which budget pays your salary shapes your day-to-day and influences your career trajectory. I think this is like a business law of physics. Nobody needs to make a conscious choice for the pattern to emerge. The 3 budgets are: This framing can be useful when thinkingContinue reading “The 3 budgets.”