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Los Angeles Times
Airbnb's annual tech conference, OpenAir, has traditionally focused on engineering challenges: How to grow a platform, how to use big data, how to better match people looking for short-term lodging with those who have rooms for rent.
This year, the conference focused on a different challenge for the company and the tech industry: diversity and inclusion.
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The New York Times
Many tech start-ups are in the business of making themselves successful. But some entrepreneurs have set up businesses with the express mission of training others to be successful in the tech sector.
Several of those start-ups have dedicated themselves to creating programs, incubators or accelerators to train blacks and Hispanics for tech jobs.
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CNet
This might be the first year that a presenter at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference has asked the audience to clap along and rap the classic hit, "Rapper's Delight."
That moment of audience participation and self-aware awkwardness led by Bozoma "Boz" Saint John turned the self-proclaimed "head diva" of global consumer marketing at Apple Music and iTunes into the breakout star of this year's WWDC.
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Technical.ly Brooklyn
Good for POC launched recently and it's turned out to be a great repository of information for people of color looking for good, healthy work in the tech world.
A few months ago, a trio of people of color decided that something needed to change. Too often were tech companies comprised entirely or nearly entirely of white guys, and it just wasn't fair (still isn't!). In a world where "company culture" can just mean that new hires look and act like the people who hired them, Catt Small, Amelie Lamont and Jacky Alcine decided to crowdsource information from black and brown people on the web about where is good to work and why.
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Tech.Co
Diversity in tech is a layered, complicated matter to tackle. Initiatives have been created over the past few years to give possible solutions to solving one of the industry's most pervasive challenges. However, one project in particular is working towards solutions that will help everyone in tech.
Project Include, a diversity-focused initiative, has been working hard to bring new life to how diversity is approached in tech.
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KCET
In Silicon Valley, the workforce and executive suites are predominantly white male. Will Silicon Beach offer more hi-tech job opportunities to women and minorities? Reporter Cara Santa Maria goes to South Gate where a school is training a group of diverse students computer skills. She also meets digital entrepreneur, Beatriz Acevedo, whose digital content company, Mitu, employs a predominantly Latino workforce in front of and behind the camera.
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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
The National Society of Blacks in Computing held its inaugural conference in Atlanta, with the goal of increasing the numbers of Blacks in the computer science field within the academy.
The conference, which included three tracks focused on undergraduates, graduate students and future faculty/research scientists, attracted more than 90 participants from across the country.
Although the number of Black Ph.D.s in computer science has steadily increased over the past few years, experts say that a lot more work still needs to be done.
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Society for Human Resource Management
While many technology giants such as Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo have "leaned in" with diversity initiatives in the past few years, tech executives say there is still much work to do when it comes to bringing women and minorities on board.
At the 2016 Talent42 Tech Recruiting Conference, Candice Morgan, head of diversity at Pinterest in San Francisco, said companies should set public goals around hiring diverse talent.
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KNTV-TV
Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the massacre in Orlando, Florida, and asked for a moment of silence at the tech giant's annual developer's conference.
Cook spoke to the crowd at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco during the weeklong Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company touted its new line of smart watches and TV features.
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CNet
At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple debuted a new tutorial app for iPads called Swift Playgrounds that will ship this fall. Students learn basic programming instructions to control an animated character named Byte, like writing for loops that get Byte to repeat his gem-collecting actions. At the heart of the app is Apple's Swift programming language, which the company urges programmers to use when writing software for Macs, iPhones and other Apple devices.
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