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Survey: Austin is nation's most desirable city for IT professionals

Tech professionals would move for the right job, especially if that job were in Austin, tech trade association CompTIA found.

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Robots to take 20 mn jobs, worsening inequality: study

Robots are expected to take over some 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030, extending a trend of worsening social inequality while boosting overall economic output, a new study shows.

Jun 26, 2019

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How machines teach us to be more innovative

Technology still cannot simulate human intelligence to solve complex problems, in a variable environment and with partial information. But it is getting closer. An example is the case of autonomous vehicles, able to make ...

Feb 26, 2019

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Amazon's 'collaborative' robots offer peek into the future

Hundreds of orange robots zoom and whiz back and forth like miniature bumper cars—but instead of colliding, they're following a carefully plotted path to transport thousands of items ordered from online giant Amazon.

Feb 20, 2019

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Chefs and truck drivers beware: AI is coming for your jobs

Robots aren't replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation of existing work, according to a new Brookings Institution report.

Jan 24, 2019

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Baidu team's paper describes their neural net approach to match job openings with candidates

One can say that software product types that travel at supersonic speed to consumers' beating hearts would have to put sites for dating, price-slashed sales alerts and jobs way up at the top. The latter has a new friend ...

Oct 06, 2018 weblog

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Study suggests smaller cities likely to see more job loss due to automation

A small team of researchers from MIT and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management has found evidence that suggests automation will cause more job loss in smaller cities than large cities. In their paper published ...

Jun 11, 2018 report

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Artificial intelligence will both disrupt and benefit the workplace, scholar says

In tomorrow's workplace, many routine jobs now performed by workers will increasingly be assumed by machines, leaving more complicated tasks to humans who see the big picture and possess interpersonal skills, a Stanford scholar ...

May 18, 2018

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Renewable energy jobs surge above 10 million: agency

The growing renewable energy industry created 500,000 new jobs globally last year, surpassing the 10 million-mark for the first time, an Abu Dhabi-based agency said on Tuesday.

May 08, 2018

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We should learn to work with robots and not worry about them taking our jobs

We have all heard the dire predictions about robots coming to steal our jobs. Some would even have us believe these silicon bogeymen are coming to kill us. It plays straight into people's darkest fears about technology.

Feb 19, 2018

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Google pledges $50 million to help people land jobs

Google is pledging $50 million over the next two years to prepare workers for a 21st century job market that's being dramatically reshaped by powerful forces, including Google itself.

Jul 26, 2017

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Report examines automation waves that threaten upward mobility

(Tech Xplore)—Remember when there such a thing as the job ladder—do great work and catch the rewards in the form of promotion, or job assurance, or higher salary, or all three in one great moving-up package?

Jul 17, 2017 weblog

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Job report weighs in on technology disruption: Too much or too little?

Self-driving vans and trucks are only part of the labor puzzle. Robots that can mix drinks, make sandwiches, deliver pizzas, stock inventory and join assembly lines are only adding to the big question: Are we to be replaced ...

May 15, 2017 weblog

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