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Entrepreneur
In the face of a growing number of cybersecurity threats and increasingly sophisticated attacks, IT professionals need help. Unfortunately, they’re having a hard time finding it.
According to Cisco, there are more than 1 million unfilled cybersecurity positions around the globe. To drive that nail further, a recent report published by ISACA states that many cybersecurity positions remain open for six months or more before they're filled (if they're ever filled).
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The New York Times
Like many inventions, the internet was the work of countless hands. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap than Robert W. Taylor, who died on Thursday at 85 at his home in Woodside, California.
Indeed, few people were as instrumental in shaping the modern computer-connected world as he.
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Tech Titans
Satisfaction with the Tech Titans organization has risen since the last survey in 2014, with member satisfaction at 85% and their intention to renew their membership at 91%. During the survey, respondents identified key issues for their organizations including getting quality sales leads, finding the right talent and developing new technology. Their primary motivation for involvement is primarily 1) the desire to better the North Texas tech community and 2) wanting to get personally involved.
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Scientific American
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50 percent of earners has stagnated since 1999. Most of the monetary gains have gone to a small group at the very top. Technology is not the only reason, but it is probably the most important one.
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InformationWeek
It's time to rethink the role and structure of IT in the enterprise.
How many times a day does your organization rely on connected technology to get business done? IT is at the center of nearly every interaction we have today, every email, phone call, and text, every order placed and filled, every patient cared for, every financial transaction completed. Now more than ever, IT is responsible for keeping the lights on both literally and figuratively. It's no longer a support system. It's the foundation of modern business.
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USA Today
Mark Zuckerberg is sitting ramrod straight on the edge of a gray couch, sketching a vision of what Facebook will soon be like for its nearly 2 billion users.
A blank wall turns into a 3-D art display with an animated, infinite rainbow waterfall — just by holding up a smartphone and viewing it through the camera.
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MIT Technology Review
Blockchain, the technology that underpins Bitcoin, may be poised to inspire solutions to key societal challenges, offering help with everything from trading carbon emissions to maintaining health records. But only if the companies and developers involved can agree on things.
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Dallas Business Journal
Humans have biases. Humans program computers. Does that mean computers have biases?
One artificial intelligence study says yes, since machines learn not only vocabulary from text written by humans, but also word associations, Axios reported.
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Dallas Business Journal
As one of the most widely-discussed yet elusive new technologies emerging in business, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have become a fascinating topic in innovation. A highly-disruptive technology, AVs are already on track to boost companies, alter traditional industries, change laws, and redefine consumer expectations.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 No matter how you slice it, 2017's startup deals are going well. In one analysis, more than $1 billion in deals have been done; even better, there may have been upwards of $2.5 billion already spent. Rock Health stats show the previous, StartUp Health shows the latter. Across the course of the first quarter of 2017, there were 71 deals, according to Rock Health, while StartUp Health says its amount was collected across 124 deals — a major difference, but only because of funding methodologies.
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Forbes
Too many people succumb to the mistaken belief that being likable comes from natural, unteachable traits that belong only to a lucky few — the good looking, the fiercely social, and the incredibly talented. It's easy to fall prey to this misconception. In reality, being likable is under your control, and it's a matter of emotional intelligence.
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