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GUEST: How do you fill 4.5 million cybersecurity jobs - the number that the IT industry will need to protect itself by the end of the decade? If you’re an IT giant like Cisco, you set aside $10 million to fund a traini...

You are in business to help others solve a problem of some sort. If you do a good job at that, then you?ll make money. The Beatles said it best, ?The love you take is equal to the love you make.? The profit you make is e...

GUEST: There has been a lot written about diversity (or the lack thereof) in the tech industry. Even with Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding affirmative action, tech c...

GUEST: Here's a secret no one wants you to hear: Marketing agencies are destined to die, and if you rely on one, you'll die with it. This may sound like insanity coming from someone who founded a digital agency and has s...

Getting the robots to perform the Friday fridge clean-out seemed like an awesome idea ... until they formed an alliance with the fungi. Cartoon by Ted Rall.

China's internet regulator will launch a crackdown on the reporting of news gathered from social media, as part of what the government calls a campaign against fake news and the spreading of rumors.

The seventh in a preview from cartoonist Ted Rall's upcoming graphic biography of Donald Trump, "Trump: A Graphic Biography." The book will be published on July 19, 2016.

GUEST: Bots will soon transform the world of productivity tools, business workflows, and enterprise software. The change will happen incrementally, almost invisibly, until it redefines software completely. Remember the o...

You may have heard about the Donald Trump bot army and the Twitter bots that have influenced elections in Latin America, but there are other bots out there, bots that connect citizens to services, bots that plan to crowd...

Inside a renovated building in Palo Alto, Calif. is a wall adorned with photographs from some of the major figures and breakthroughs of history. From David Bowie to the death-defying leap by Felix Baumgartner to the Supr...

FEATURE: Massive open online courses (MOOCs) — distance-learning courses open to an unlimited number of people on the web — are estimated to become an $8.5 billion industry by 2020, up from almost $2 billion last yea...

We put together a little fireworks display of our own using video games. Come watch!

We had already reported that LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman would pocket $2.9 billion from selling his stock when Microsoft buys his company. But it turns out that CEO Jeff Weiner is not exactly going to be a pauper after...

European and Israeli startups completed 782 funding rounds in the second quarter of 2016, worth a combined €4.1 billion (about $4.6 billion). According to our own data and research, both figures represent a decrease co...

OPINION: Pricing a piece of software is difficult. When you consider that video games are not only pieces of software but also immersive and interactive works of art, that difficulty increases. VR has a limited base of c...

We need a hero. Dozens, actually. That’s why Blizzard doesn’t stop churning them out. The company behind hits like World of Warcraft supports its free-to-play MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) with a steady stre...

GUEST: If you think that paying 6x for Uber is a bitter injustice, brace yourself: surge pricing is coming to on-demand food delivery. The delivery companies cannot afford their driver fleets without making this change. ...