A startup in Silicon Valley is challenging conventional hiring practices in the white, male-dominated world of tech by giving coders a platform to be tested on their raw talent. San Francisco-based CodeFights offers a gamified coding platform for job-seeking programmers to reach recruiters by performing well—but...
It’s not much of a secret that women are underrepresented in the tech industry — its lack of diversity has become notorious over the years. According to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), women represented a mere 15% of computer science bachelor’s...
As one of the top 20 universities in the U.K., The University of Sussex offers undergraduate courses that could be pivotal to the future of VR. Its teachings stretch across neuro, cognitive and biomedical sciences, among other areas. We could well see a new generation...
Localeur, a travel recommendation service aimed at millennials, has raised nearly $4.2 million of a $4.6 million offering from 43 investors, according to papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin-based startup, founded in March of 2013, previously raised $1.2 million, according to its...
In space, no one can hear your gender. These days, it is common to acknowledge that women are underrepresented in science and technology. I have to say, however, astronomy is worlds apart. When I was an astronomer on the Hubble Telescope, looking back in time at...