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News Articles: tech industry

A pedestrian walks through the Georgia Tech campus as the downtown Atlanta skyline looms in the background, March 11, 2016.

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  • News

Georgia Tech commencement speaker pledges to cover startup incorporation costs for graduates

Georgia Tech's commencement speaker promised to cover incorporation costs for any graduate launching a startup. Tech entrepreneur Christopher Klaus spoke to graduates at the Friday commencement.

May 05, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria's civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it.

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  • World

He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country's tech industry.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Eric Schmidt, billionaire and former Google CEO, at the ai-Pulse conference at Station F technology campus in Paris, France, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.

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  • Technology

6 unsettling thoughts Google's former CEO has about artificial intelligence

Neither the public or the tech giants pushing artificial intelligence understand its long-term implications, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

February 05, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
Tech workers said they saw unusually high numbers of men in a monster line for a career expo at a tech conference aimed at elevating women and nonbinary workers.

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  • National

'You could feel the cutthroatness': Droves of men took over this women's tech fair

Organizers of the Grace Hopper Celebration said some men lied about their gender to gain access to a space designed to help women and nonbinary tech workers meet with hiring managers.

October 06, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson

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  • Business

Want to lay off workers more smoothly? There's a startup for that

The tech industry is in turmoil. But there's at least one startup that is thriving these days, and it's one that's helping other startups lay off workers.

July 26, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
Kids in front of computer

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  • Education

Cloud Computing Being Added To Georgia Careers Pathways Program

The state Board of Education has approved State School Superintendent Richard Woods’ recommendation to launch a career pathway in cloud computing. The pathway will include three courses: Introduction to Software Technology, Computer Science Principles and Cloud Computing.

July 27, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Open up any social media app on your phone and you'll see it: links to COVID-19 information from trustworthy sources. Here, a Twitter screen reads, "No, 5G isn't causing coronavirus."

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  • Technology

WHO Is Fighting False COVID Info On Social Media. How's That Going?

A year ago, the World Health Organization declared war on misinformation by partnering with Big Tech, from Facebook to Twitter to ... Uber. They're sending out public health messages. Who's tuning in?

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib

On Second Thought For Monday, April 9, 2018

The ransomware attack that crippled Atlanta a few weeks ago isn't the only high-profile cyberattack Georgia has faced in recent years. Two years ago, a...

September 25, 2018
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By:
  • Sean Powers ,
  • Adam Ragusea ,
  • and 6 more
Google search predictions can send you down a rabbit hole of biased information.

Searching For Information On Google? It's Looking For You, Too.

Type any word into Google, and the search engine will offer a drop-down list of suggestions for what you should type next. So if you type "Russia...

July 09, 2018
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Virginia Prescott
Gov. Nathan Deal is considering a bill that would criminalize unauthorized computer access.

Could Cybersecurity Bill Hurt Georgia's Growing Tech Industry?

The ransomware attack that crippled Atlanta a few weeks ago isn't the only high-profile cyberattack Georgia has faced in recent years. Two years ago, a...

April 09, 2018
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By:
  • Maura Currie and
  • Adam Ragusea

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