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Why You Might Want to Start Interning at a Tech Startup 

The current job market can be a very challenging space to squeeze into, so interning at a tech startup or with a big name in the industry seems like a catch. Many brilliant students or jobseekers jump into such opportunities seeking big names. With all their allure, big tech internships can be a big step […]

Exclusive - Slack x BT: How BT’s Digital HQ Enables a 1000+ Strong Tech Team to Move at Lightning Speed

BT is one of the UK’s biggest telecommunications and network providers. It has operations in 180 countries worldwide, and its applications and services are used by millions of customers every day. At the heart of delivering those applications is BT’s technical engineering team, made up of over 1000 people. They’re tasked with servicing 20 million […]

India Nixes Privacy Bill that Alarmed Big Tech Companies, Works on New Law

India’s government on Wednesday withdrew a data protection and privacy bill which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law. The 2019 law had proposed stringent regulations on cross-border data flows and proposed giving the Indian government powers […]

Racism in Facial Recognition Technology

Facial recognition is everywhere, even if we are not aware of it. In its most abstract form, this innovation is surrounding us and keeping track of every move, fueled by one thing, face recognition technology algorithm. But can algorithms discriminate? What if algorithms used in artificial intelligence (AI) are simply beneficial as the data adopted […]

Japan May Force Big Tech Companies to Disclose Their Algorithms

Big tech companies such as Meta (Facebook), Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others have always tried to keep their algorithms close to their hearts. At the end of the day, these long stretches of code are main contributors to the company’s revenue streams. Whether it is in marketing, advertisement selection, recommendation, search optimization, or other functionalities, […]

How Did India Benefit from Western Technology?

Over the past few years, India immensely benefited from Western technologies in various aspects. For a country with a relatively fractured economy, technology swooped in to simplify and accelerate mass production for an extensively increased population, allowing them to improve their production of raw materials, typically traded in global economies. Adopting western technology in India […]

U.S. Tech Companies Yank Job Offers, Leaving College Grads Scrambling

One by one, over the last week of May, Twitter Inc rang up some members of its incoming class of new hires who had recently graduated from college and revoked the job offers in 15-minute calls, according to some of the recipients. “It was traumatic,” Iris Guo, an incoming associate product manager living in Toronto, […]

The Big Tech Telecoms Convergence: Dream or Disaster?

Big Tech’s entry into telecoms is shaking up the industry 2021 was a huge year for tech giants and telecoms with Google, Verizon and most recently Amazon Web Services (AWS) all announcing plans to enter the telecoms space. The convergence of Big Tech telecoms is nothing new and each company has their own plans to […]