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Google partners with Howard University in an effort to recruit more black engineers

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March 24, 2017

Juniors and seniors enrolled in Howard University’s computer science program can study for three months at the newly dubbed “Howard West.”

Technology has always had a diversity issue. But rather than relegate to the way things appear to be, some technology companies are instead electing to invest in changing the status quo. Google has been particularly active in its initiatives. The company announced that it’s partnered with Howard University to launch a school branch on its Mountain View campus,  [Read More…]

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Counter-Strike 1.6 can be played on an Android phone with some extra effort

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April 21, 2016

While Valve isn’t planning to release a native version of its classic PC multiplayer shooter Counter-Strike 1.6 in the Google Play Store, someone has figured out a way to get the game running on Android phones.

The person who made this happen is Alibek Omarov, who has created the necessary files in an APK format and posted them to GitHub (via Kotaku). You will also need to own Counter-Strike 1.6 itself on Steam for this to work. Omarov  [Read More…]

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Intel to lay off 12,000 employees in major restructuring effort

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April 20, 2016

Confirming previous rumors, Intel has announced a major restructuring that will result in 12,000 of its employees being laid off by mid-2017. That will represent about 11% of the company’s workforce.

The chip company says the move is part of its plans to “accelerate its evolution from a PC company to one that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices.” Intel says:

The data center and Internet of Things (IoT) businesses are Intel’s  [Read More…]

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T-Mobile takes to the sky in effort to protest overage charges

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October 27, 2015

Today, we sent @Verizon a message they couldn’t ignore… right over their headquarters. #AbolishOverages!! https://t.co/zSAQGrKxGA

— John Legere (@JohnLegere) October 26, 2015

T-Mobile CEO John Legere took to a vlog today to continue to call out other carriers for their overage charges, specifically calling out AT&T and Verizon. In the vlog, Legere talks about his recent petition to end carrier overages, which garnered more than 330,000 signatures.

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Kaboom is the latest effort to create self-destructing online messages

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July 31, 2015

As a general rule, it’s pretty widely understood that if you want something to stay private you keep it off the Internet. There’s never going to be a 100% guarantee that a private message will stay private, because at some point in the process a human being is involved and those folks can’t be universally trusted to do the right thing. That doesn’t stop companies from giving it a try, and with each revision of this idea  [Read More…]

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Google updates its Play Developer Program Policies in an effort to maintain a positive experience for all

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June 25, 2015

Google has rolled out a few changes to its Play Developer Program Policies, which are aimed at keeping the Play Store experience a positive one.

In an effort to maintain a positive experience in the Play Store, some changes have been made to the Google Play Developer Program Policies to provide some additional guidance to developers.

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