This isn’t just a conversation for the women. All people must be included in the discussion of how to make STEM an achievable path for young girls and women. This guide discusses the gender divide, its contributing factors and contains some available resources and college programs. Why are women so underrepresented in STEM? The reasons women don’t pursue STEM careers vary by person and can be attributed to a number of influences....

Q: AI and machine learning initiatives have been underway for several years now. What lessons have enterprises been learning in terms of most productive adoption and deployment? Huang: “Machine learning projects are much more complicated and bigger than ML model algorithms, so be ready to build a robust team to take care of machine learning operations. Staffing a world-class machine learning team is extremely hard. The ML talent with experience are in high demand....

The same is true when Black, Hispanic and Indigenous students enter the workforce. And the number of people of color in tech is often out of alignment with the demographics of local communities. Work to address these issues continues. But progress in increasing diversity in STEM jobs remains “uneven,” according to a 2021 report. Several years ago, Google employees of color came together to talk about ways to address this ongoing challenge....

It doesn’t have an annual fee and offers 1% cash back for every purchase, with a small bonus to rewards for paying on time. If you’re looking for a simple way to build credit and earn rewards, it’s not a bad one to pick. And for students who are looking to study abroad, the card has no foreign transaction fee to worry about. Cardholders will earn slightly improved rewards so long as they pay on time, which will help reinforce positive habits....

At the end last financial year, CBA hit the 44% mark, according to Tara Le Friedman, CBA strategy performance and transformation general manager. Speaking during VMware’s virtual 2021 VMworld conference, Le Friedman detailed that the bank’s decision to stand up three “execution factories” has been the driving force behind the pace for the bank’s migration of its workload to the cloud, a project that only kicked off a year ago....

The study, published in JAMA Network Open, involves 13-months of examining the online activities of middle and high school-aged children. Youth who experienced a high-severity suicide or self-harm alert based on activity on school-issued devices were compared to students who did not have a high-severity alert. Researchers compared both groups’ online behaviors before the self-harm event or suicide occurred and found that the students who experienced a high-severity suicide/self-harm alert had significantly higher prior incidents of risky online behavior flagged by Bark....

China uses this mechanism to control its national internet and limit people’s access to information. The list of taboo topics is ever-growing, significantly reducing people’s right to freedom of expression. Chinese citizens or those traveling to the country can get around the Firewall by using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). While unregistered VPN providers are officially banned in China, people aren’t persecuted for use. However, there are some tips and tricks for using a VPN you should know:...

“Our goal is to continue to create an even better TV experience for everyone. These Roku-branded TVs will not only complement the current lineup of partner-branded Roku TV models, but also allow us to enable future smart TV innovations. The streaming revolution has only just begun,” says Mustafa Ozgen, President, Devices, Roku. While no word yet on the specs, initial imaging from Roku shows larger models with nearly bezel-less designs....

CES Day 1 saw a series of announcements from major companies like Nvidia, Acer, Samsung, and Intel, and Day 2 revealed new innovations from MSI, Withings, Roku, AMD, and HP. The third day of the largest tech conference in the U.S. saw drops from companies we’ve been waiting eagerly to hear from. Below, we’ve rounded up the biggest launches throughout the day. Check out the specs here. You can also see it up close with our YouTube short, courtesy of ZDNET expert June Wan....

Also: ChatGPT’s intelligence is zero, but it’s a revolution in usefulness, says AI expert In an interview with ZDNET, Rosedale remarked that the present capabilities of AI, such as large language models like GPT-4 and image generation technologies, resemble “alien intelligence” that can perform superhuman tasks but lacks human-like reasoning. Despite the awe-inspiring potential, Rosedale highlighted that current AI models are limited by their ability to read and write to memory at the same time – resulting in “zombie AIs” that cannot listen and reason like humans....

Or, at least, claiming to. An app here, an algorithm there, and what used to be impossible now seems merely usual. Some problems, though, can’t be fixed with the wave of an iPhone and the appropriate software. Please look at the quandary of Chick-fil-A. This highly popular fast-food chain has managed to find all sorts of clever ways to expand its business, while still keeping it closed on a Sunday....

In fact, every gigabyte you add above that base price adds costs in the region of $0.40. This might not seem like much, but how many gigabytes are you wasting on junk like downloads, cat videos, and files that should be archived to storage? I’ve had my MacBook Pro a few months, and I’ve been simultaneously amazed and horrified how quickly space can fill up on the system. But there’s a tool that will allow you to claw back that wasted space....

Microsoft has refreshed over 1,800 emoji in its Windows and Microsoft 365 products, such as Office and Teams. It’s redesigned the emoji using Microsoft’s Fluent Design scheme and has opted to animate a majority of them in 3D rather than 2D. Among them is the paper clip emoji, and Microsoft has allowed its designers to cast Clippy for the role. SEE: Best Microsoft certification 2021: Top technical exams “We had to use this opportunity to make a change that only we could truly make – so long flat, standard paperclip, and hello Clippy!...

“We’ve sort of said, we’ve got enough non-material workloads now to say, we know how it works, we know our risks, and control frameworks are good; let’s start moving the important ones,” Andrew Cresp, CIO of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, told ZDNet. Cresp said some of those “important” workloads that would be moved include the bank’s New Payments Platform as well as its lending and card capabilities. “We are focusing now on the workloads at Bendigo where our customers will have interactions with them,” he said....

According to a survey of 700 industry experts on security issues in the cloud industry carried out by the Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit that promotes best practices for cloud computing, insufficient identity, credential, access and key management for privileged accounts is a top concern around cloud cybersecurity. The shift towards remote and hybrid working has changed how businesses and employees operate, no longer accessing office applications and productivity suites installed on their PCs at the office, but rather accessing the tools they need through software-as-a-service and cloud-based productivity suites – from any device, no matter where they are....

The TV represents a middle ground between the open PC platform that yields many titles on the popular streaming services and mobile. Smartphones offer the largest potential market for games, but service providers must contend with small screens, touchscreen controls, and app store restrictions that major providers have circumvented by targeting the browser. TVs may represent a much smaller market for games than smartphones. But while there are significant differences between the PC and console gaming worlds, the two are more similar in that they both feature large screens and longer play sessions....

Both companies have argued that if they were to pull their services, they would be hurting Russian citizens who are trying to access information from outside of the country, but said they condemn Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post acknowledging that the company has received “several calls to terminate” all of its services inside Russia, including by government. “Our conclusion … is that Russia needs more internet access, not less,” he said....

There are several goals with Cockroach Serverless. The first is providing a lower entry point, where customers do not have to commit to any minimum number of nodes or clusters. For developers, making life simpler by eliminating the need to capacity plan and provision nodes. Specifically, CockroachDB Serverless will autoscale, and the company claims that clusters can be spun up or down in under 10 milliseconds. Beyond autoscaling, the service will have automated failover as the data is replicated across three AZs – for now within the same region....

The company admitted in an August 13 letter that on May 6, the ransomware group “acquired certain records” stored in their systems. “The affected records contained certain personal information, such as name, contact information, date of birth, government-issued ID (such as Social Security, military ID, tax ID and driver’s license numbers) and health-related information (including health insurance information). Not all of this information was affected for each impacted individual,” the letter said....

One misconception about this field is that it is inaccessible. In reality, most people can master computer science with determination. However, certain skills and interests will likely fit better with this major. Want to learn more about the characteristics and skills that might make a computer science degree a good fit for you? Read on for that, and to explore other considerations for computer science degrees. Computer science as a degree: What is it?...