The computer science industry is filled with talented techies, most of whom are white or Asian. Black professionals make up only 5% of the tech workforce, a segment that increased by only 1 percentage ...

A handful of nonprofit and for-profit groups are working to address what they see as a national education crisis: Too few of America's K-12 public schools actually teach computer science basics and ...

On a college campus with wireless Internet in every building, where notebook computers are almost as plentiful as notebooks, Ohio State students might not think of access to technology as a pressing ...

Amid the havoc that the pandemic wreaked on our lives, there were important lessons to be learned. It proved that people skilled with technology could navigate and succeed, and that many of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – With very few California high school students being enrolled in computer science, this week's Jefferson Award winner heads a nonprofit aimed at bringing those numbers up and ...

Life on The (Digital) Frontier. You have probably heard of the digital divide. Middle- and upper-income families own computers; lower-income ones don't. Those on the wrong side of the digital divide ...

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Rebecca Heilweil covered emerging technology, artificial intelligence, and the supply chain. The United States is racing to vaccinate millions of people for Covid-19, but online appointment ...

World Computer Literacy Day is celebrated annually on December 2. This day was established by an Indian company, the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), in 2001. Through Computer ...

I’ve written before about how talking on the phone to a telemarketer or customer-service agent is often more like dealing with a computer than a human being. Even though the person on the other end is ...