Category: General
UK faces triple whammy from skills shortfall, visa restrictions and Brexit uncertainty
Britain’s tech sector faces a triple whammy hit to its workforce without government action, according to new reports. Firstly, from a critical fall-off in STEM skills in its own population due to lack of funding; secondly, from visa restrictions on the availability of high-skilled specialists from overseas; and, thirdly, from the uncertainty of the impact […]
MashRead Podcast: ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ is the classic novel that should be on every reading list
Image: Mashable Composite, HarperCollins Sometimes the best way to understand the present is to look at the past. Or at least that’s true with Zora Neale Hurston’s classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The book was written 80 years ago, but the commentary it makes on race and feminism feels as fresh and contemporary […]
The most delightfully geeky signs from the ‘Stand up for Science’ rally
From Sunday’s “Stand Up For Science” rally at Copley Square in Boston. Image: Tomas Green/Twitter At a rally full of scientists, things were bound to get a bit geeky. On Sunday, thousands scientists and supporters gathered in Boston’s Copley Square to “stand up for science” under the Trump administration. Their signs were, predictably, quite clever. […]
Ex-Googler (and Cisco’s newest board member) Amy Chang on her leap into startups
Wednesday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, venture capitalist Aileen Lee took the stage to interview Amy Chang, a former eBay product manager turned head of Google Analytics turned startup founder. It’s a transition that has introduced Chang to night sweats, she readily admitted. Chang’s three-year-old startup, Accompany, received one of its first […]
Tiny chip looks deep inside your body with millimeter-wave radiation
Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created a chip for use in medical imaging and other applications thats as powerful as it is tiny. The pint-size millimeter-wave radiator could lead to better scanning of tissues and organs, but may also work as part of our everyday wireless data ecosystem. “We’re very excited about […]