Daily Archives: July 30, 2015

Women Significantly More Likely To Use 3-D Printers Than Men

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In late 2014, a report came out from Intel. It was not about new processor design, or their RealSense 3D camera, but about how to get more girls and women into technology. The 80-page report: MakeHers: Engaging Girls and Women in Technology through Making, Creating, and Inventing shares some impressive research on how to use “making” to close the gender gap in education and technology access.

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The CEO Of Avanade On Digital Transformation And The Future Of Work

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Avanade started off in the 2000s as a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Today, they have over 20,000 employees around the world. For this episode of the Future of Work Podcast I spoke with the CEO of Avanade, Adam Warby. Our conversation was all about digital transformation which is becoming an increasingly crucial topic around the future of work. Organizations are realizing that “work” is something that you take with you regardless of where you are and digital transformation is about enabling that to happen while shifting focus towards the employee experience.

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The Five Online Security Measures You’re Probably Doing Wrong

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After surveying security experts and non-experts alike, three Google researchers identified some distinct discrepancies between the practices and recommendations of experts (defined as having studied or worked in computer security for at least five years) and non-experts, recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform.

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