CITE 2022: Women Boldly Approach Tech and Leadership Roles

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles  —  Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

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Through initiatives with organizations such as CDW, Samsung and Intel, nonprofit SC30 is working to provide new opportunities for K–12 students. These initiatives include golf tournaments and esports labs that aim to refine student players’ leadership skills.
On the green, students learn life lessons such as perseverance, dedication and integrity, says Karl Schulz, CDW vice president of product and partner management. On the screen, meanwhile, esports shows students the career opportunities that can come from science, technology, engineering and math.
Whether these student-athletes go on to…

Through initiatives with organizations such as CDW, Samsung and Intel, nonprofit SC30 is working to provide new opportunities for K–12 students. These initiatives include golf tournaments and esports labs that aim to refine student players’ leadership skills.
On the green, students learn life lessons such as perseverance, dedication and integrity, says Karl Schulz, CDW vice president of product and partner management. On the screen, meanwhile, esports shows students the career opportunities that can come from science, technology, engineering and math.
Whether these student-athletes go on to…

Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal:
US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack  —  National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding  —  WASHINGTON—A simple digital …

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber Eats signs a 10-year deal with Nuro and plans to launch autonomous delivery vehicles in Mountain View, California, and Houston, Texas in fall 2022  —  Nuro’s delivery pods are big enough to drive in the street  —  Uber Eats customers in California and Texas may soon have their takeout delivered …