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Afghanistan To Open Coding School For Girls
Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for a lot of things. He has advertised science and technology to thousands and even found Krypton (okay he found a planet roughly where Krypton would be and got it named after Supermans home planet). This week though he presented a session at the Clinton…
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Mozilla Set to Fire Employee Responsible for Hate Speech on Reddit
Mozilla’s CEO has vowed to fire an employee who was suspected of engaging in a vitriolic tirade on Reddit. The person in question used the alias, aoiyama and expressed joyous glee from the recent departure of Mozilla’s community organizer, Christie Koehler, and said: “Everyone was glad to see the back of her” “When…
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Electronic Arts Might Have a Woman on the Cover of FIFA 16 This Year
Electronic Arts is working on the latest FIFA 16 title, as it is every year, but this year should be different. EA has looked into adding female players in the FIFA titles, but this year the company will finally do it. But this comes with another question, which is who…
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Largest Ever Email Study Reveals That We All Are Very Predictable
Researchers from Yahoo labs are said to have examined more than two million users exchanging about 16 billion messages in search of patterns. In order to conduct the study, they are said to have tracked the identities of senders and recipients, the time of day emails were sent, email length,…
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Femsplain Blog Targeted with DDoS Attack on Women’s Day
According to Amber Gordon, the founder of Femsplain, the blog has been taken down Sunday by a DDoS attack for a period of 3 hours, when the services came back online. The attack cannot be deemed as random, with the site been attacked on international Women’s Day. Gordon has shared…
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7,000 Women Achieved a World Record for Hackathon Ahead of Women’s Day
A three-day coding marathon organised by HackerEarth, a Bengaluru-based coding platform, which started on Friday managed to get together exactly 7134 women from all around the world. “We want to catalyse a change that encourages more women to take up technology. An IDC report found that only 18% of the…
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Internet Outrage at Barbie ‘Computer Engineer’ Book
A children’s book centred around Barbie becoming a ‘computer engineer’ has faced allegations of sexism from hordes of internet users. “I Can Be a Computer Engineer” has since been pulled from sale on Amazon after it contents went viral on the web. The book features Barbie in the process of building…
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