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Why Do Companies' IT Projects Fail So Often?
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Why Do Companies' IT Projects Fail So Often?

A study of hundreds of IT project mishaps found that executives rarely identify the root causes of failing or underachieving tech investments because they focus...

Seven Simple Habits of The Top 1% of Engineers
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Seven Simple Habits of The Top 1% of Engineers

Phenomenal engineers all have some overlapping habits in the code they produce.

How Managers Discourage Employees From Sharing Their Best Ideas
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How Managers Discourage Employees From Sharing Their Best Ideas

Researchers found that employees came to regret offering a business suggestion to their boss when it led to more work, making them less likely to share ideas in...

Researchers Race to Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Again
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Researchers Race to Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Again

Responding to a DARPA challenge, research teams at Sandia National Laboratories are working to build smaller, more accurate atomic clocks. 

Professor to Develop Electronic Devices Made Entirely of Paper
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Professor to Develop Electronic Devices Made Entirely of Paper

Professor Seokheun (Sean) Choi wants to build electronic devices made entirely of paper as a nontoxic, cost-effective, and biodegradable alternative to silicon-...

Engineering Students Develop Battery Charging System for Soldiers
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Engineering Students Develop Battery Charging System for Soldiers

Electrical engineering students at the University of West Florida have developed a charging method that uses the motion of soliders as they walk to help charge...

Ranking the Best Computer Scientists
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Ranking the Best Computer Scientists

The 9th edition of Research.com ranking of the best scientists in the field of Computer Science is based on data consolidated from various data sources including...

Reports Paint Damaging Picture of Return-to-Office Mandates
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Reports Paint Damaging Picture of Return-to-Office Mandates

A trio of reports shows the damaging consequences of the return-to-office mandates. The reports from Greenhouse, the Federal Reserve, and Unispace collectively...

Why Mainframes Survive
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Why Mainframes Survive

Many companies continue to pay the licensing fees on mainframe hardware, OS, and applications, and maintain staff for the hundreds or thousands of support personnel...

Researchers Boost the Building Blocks of Computing
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Researchers Boost the Building Blocks of Computing

Researchers from the group of Jean Anne Incorvia, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, describe improvements on current semiconductor technology...

Employees Want ChatGPT at Work. Bosses Worry They'll Spill Secrets
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Employees Want ChatGPT at Work. Bosses Worry They'll Spill Secrets

Some corporate leaders have banned the use of generative artificial intelligence tools over concerns about exposing sensitive company and customer information. ...

What Makes Developers Productive?
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What Makes Developers Productive?

We tend to miss some factors that go into developer productivity, perhaps because they are hard to directly measure. But it is still worthwhile to ensure that you...

Shopify Calculator Shows How Much Meetings Are Costing the Company
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Shopify Calculator Shows How Much Meetings Are Costing the Company

In an escalating war on pointless meetings, Shopify has introducing a calculator that shows employees how much it costs to gather dozens of colleagues for a meeting...

AI Content Detectors Discriminate Against Non-Native English Speakers
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AI Content Detectors Discriminate Against Non-Native English Speakers

Computer programs used to detect essays, job applications, and other work generated by artificial intelligence can discriminate against people who are non-native...

Digital vs. Paper Calendar: Which Is Better for Planning?
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Digital vs. Paper Calendar: Which Is Better for Planning?

Researchers studied digital calendars and paper calendars to determine which leads to better planning and higher efficiency. Their work is published in the Journal...

ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
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ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work

Workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk and other crowd-work platforms are the latest group to face accusations of using large language models like ChatGPT as a shortcut...

92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, GitHub Survey Says
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92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, GitHub Survey Says

AI programming isn't the future, it's the present.

AI Creates Algorithms That Sort Data Faster Than Those Built by People
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AI Creates Algorithms That Sort Data Faster Than Those Built by People

A system based on Google DeepMind's AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three...

ChatGPT Took Their Jobs. Now They Walk Dogs and Fix Air Conditioners
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ChatGPT Took Their Jobs. Now They Walk Dogs and Fix Air Conditioners

Artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paying jobs of writers of marketing and social media content.

Professors Use Oral Exams to Thwart AI-Enabled Cheating
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Professors Use Oral Exams to Thwart AI-Enabled Cheating

With students submitting papers genderted almost entirely by artificial intelligence, a wave of professors around the world are experimenting with oral exams to...
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