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June 17, 2020

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Juneteenth gives perfect chance to deepen black culture understanding Tech Titans Tech Titans member Bottle Rocket has developed a thoughtful piece to encourage companies and their employees to reflect and seek out black culture on Friday. Their starter kit is available for download and includes ideas, conversation starters, books, articles, documentaries, TED talks, movies, podcasts and a list of local Juneteenth celebrations. READ MORE

Podcast: Bottle Rocket CEO Calvin Carter Tech Titans Bottle Rocket is known for being innovative, thanks to the collaborative leadership of Founder & CEO Calvin Carter. The organization has been recognized locally for their leadership by Tech Titans in 2018 with its Emerging Company Innovation award and in 2019 with the Emerging Company CEO award for Calvin himself. READ MORE

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3 kinds of automation CIOs should prioritize in 2020 The Enterprisers Project "Two years' worth of digital transformation in two months." That’s what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during a recent earnings call, offering one reason the technology firm beat analysts' estimates.COVID-19 has made digital transformation mandatory almost overnight as companies scramble to adjust to the new reality of remote work. One of the most promising areas of digital transformation lies in automation. READ MORE

AT&T announces it has invested around $3.7 billion to keep Dallas connected Dallas Innovates AT&T has made a big announcement about its commitment to its hometown.The Dallas-headquartered telecom giant released a report today that shows it invested nearly $3.7 billion in wireless and wireline networks in Dallas from 2017-2019. The intent was to expand and improve connectivity in more communities—overall increasing reliability, coverage, and performance for residents and businesses. READ MORE

RevTech's managing director: 'North Texas will continue to be the perfect place to test new retail concepts' Dallas Innovates The COVID-19 pandemic forced some of the biggest names in retail—three headquartered in Dallas—to file for bankruptcy. RevTech's Managing Director poses the question: “How can Dallas possibly be a viable retail tech hub?” READ MORE

IT hiring rose in May, but tech sector bled 34K jobs CIO Dive Employers across sectors added 28,000 technology workers in May as stay-at-home orders began to ease in parts of the country, according to a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data from IT trade organization CompTIA. READ MORE

US chip revival gains traction EE Times A new front has opened in efforts to revive U.S. chip manufacturing as lawmakers propose billions of dollars in spending and tax incentives to promote technology innovation across the entire semiconductor ecosystem — from post-Moore’s Law basic research to advanced chip packaging. READ MORE

What technology has accidentally killed the most people? Gizmodo Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not talking about machine gun manufacturers or nuclear scientists—those people, at least, have some sense of what they’re up to. I’m talking about the folks behind the printing press, the automobile, various kinds of boat technology. READ MORE

Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female The Conversation Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women.NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the Moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 years of human spaceflight, women are still in the territory of “firsts”. READ MORE

AI has a big data problem. Here's how to fix it ZDNet Artificial intelligence has, quite literally, got a big data problem – and one that the COVID-19 crisis has now made impossible to ignore any longer. For businesses, governments, and individuals alike, the global pandemic has effectively redefined "normal" life; but while most of us have now adjusted to the change, the same cannot be said of AI systems, which base their predictions on what the past used to look like. READ MORE

Yes, office politics are still a thing when you're working remotely. Here's why Fast Company Common sense and experience dictate that there will always be office politics at work, but what happens when we remove the office?This question is more pertinent than ever because for the first time in history, a large portion of the industrialized workforce has been detached from its physical habitat. Can technology erase, or at least sanitize, the invisible forces that govern the power dynamics of an organization? READ MORE

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