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Tech Titans
Tech Titans, The Technology Association for North Texas, recognized outstanding technology companies and individuals in the North Texas area who have made significant contributions to their industries at its annual awards gala. The Tech Titans Award Gala at the Hotel Intercontinental in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 19.
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Dallas Business Journal
Dallas ranked fifth in the country in total tech employment and added the sixth-most tech jobs of any market last year, according to statistics compiled in a new report by JLL.
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MIT News Office
When Alicia Chong Rodriguez first toured the MIT campus as a high school student, she was so impressed by everything she saw that she still remembers excitedly phoning her mom back home in Costa Rica, calling collect from a pay phone in the student center.
"It's the first time I was faced with the fact that people create the things that we use," says Chong, who has always been interested in technology and computers. "I felt like I could do that too."
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MIT Technology Review
Startup Civil Maps has a plan to get human-piloted cars to hasten their own demise.
Autonomous vehicles like those being tested by Google, Uber and major automakers rely on 3-D maps that record the position of curbstones and traffic lights with high accuracy. The maps are usually created by driving around in vehicles outfitted with expensive sensors.
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CIO
Evidence that IT has turned into a customer-driven enterprise abounds, as changing customer preferences continue to blur the line between the physical and digital worlds. What customers do in your retail stores they also want to do from their mobile phones. That means that the CIO role has moved from the back-office to the front-office.
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QTS Realty Trust, Inc.
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading provider of secure, compliant data center, hybrid cloud and managed services. QTS features the nation’s only fully integrated technology services platform providing flexible, scalable solutions for the federal government, financial services, healthcare and high tech industries.
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Information Week
In response to sophisticated cyber-security threats that have emerged in the past few years, some organizations in industry and government have formed groups known as "hunt teams" to defend their networks.
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By Suzanne Mason
 Without leaving my home, I am whisked away to go whitewater rafting in Idaho. Seeing the water crash into the boat, I feel like I am almost there to experience this adrenaline adventure. This is thanks to a series of 360-degree videos curated by Visit Idaho that allows consumers to experience the Gem State . Virtual reality is giving markets the opportunity to share travel experiences, and giving consumers a new level of exploration when it comes to planning a vacation.
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Business Insider
When you think of high-tech cars, you probably think Tesla or BMW.
But there's another automaker that is quietly becoming one of the industry's most tech-centric brands: Volvo.
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Defense One
Iraqi security forces are prepping an armed robot for combat with ISIS forces, according to the Baghdad Post. A video posted with the story shows off a wheeled vehicle about the size of a small car. Loosely dubbed Alrobot — Arabic for robot — it has four cameras, an automatic machine gun, and a launcher for Russian-made Katyusha rockets, and can be operated by laptop and radio link from a kilometer away, the story says.
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CIO
In a technology-driven, increasingly digital world, you might think you need a computer science, engineering, technology, mathematics or other degree to succeed. Turns out that's far from the truth.
Arijit Sengupta, CEO of advanced analytics firm BeyondCore, holds a bachelor of science in computer science and a bachelor of arts in economics and fell one class short of having a minor in dance. He brings elements of all three to his daily work with BeyondCore, and some of the most valuable lessons he's learned have come from his liberal arts education and his dance training, he says.
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Forbes
A manager tells employees what to do. A leader inspires them to go beyond their job descriptions and accomplish something more.
For technology leaders, inspiring your team starts by empathizing with those building your tech as well as those using your product. The combination of great people skills and an inspiring vision are what elevate a good manager to the level of leader.
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Daily Nation
It is 11 o'clock. Ruth Wanjiru and her friend jump out of a 72-seater bus parked at a chief's camp in Kawangware, Nairobi.
Minutes later, a group of teenage boys and girls alight from the bus, some clutching bags, others carrying books in their arms.
Watching the boys and girls from a distance, it is easy to mistake them for regular passengers. But no! The teenagers are not passengers, and the blue bus is not exactly a bus; it is a moving computer classroom.
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