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How Cisco Boosted Hiring Of Workers Without College Degrees

5 mn readAs talent leaders prepare for the incoming Trump Administration, and concerns rise about what that will mean for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within their workforces, I suspect employers’ focus on skills-based hiring strategies will only continue to grow. The increasingly popular efforts—in which college degrees are eliminated from certain hiring requirements in lieu of […]

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Stripe’s Bet On Crypto Reveals Shifting Payment Landscape

3 mn readIn a move that might appear modest on the surface but carries profound implications for the future of global payments, Stripe has acquired Bridge, a startup specializing in stablecoin payment infrastructure, for approximately $1.1 billion. While Bridge’s current metrics, with revenue some market participants estimate to be at $10-12 million, might raise eyebrows at the […]

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Leak Reveals December Crypto Bombshell As Bitcoin And Ripple’s XRP Price Suddenly Soar

3 mn readBitcoin and cryptocurrencies, including Ripple’s XRP, have suddenly shot higher, with the bitcoin price now again within touching distance of $100,000 after suddenly crashing back this week. The bitcoin price has rocketed this year, pushed on by the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president—fueling a huge $15 trillion bitcoin price bet. Now, as Elon […]

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Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car’s Automated Driving System

4 mn readCarmakers say their increasingly sophisticated automated driving systems make driving safer and less stressful by leaving some of the hard work of knowing when a crash is about to happen—and avoiding it—to the machines. But new research suggests some of these systems might do the virtual opposite at the worst possible moment. A new paper from researchers at […]

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US bombers intercepted by Russian jets near Kaliningrad on Monday

< 1 mn readTwo B-52 Stratofortress bombers of the United States were intercepted by two Russian SU-27 fighter jets near Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad on Monday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The U.S. bombers were in the Baltic Sea region to train together with their NATO ally Finland, which shares a 1,340 km (833 mile) […]

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Judge Overturns $198M Jury Award In Ex-UPS Employee’s Discrimination Case

2 mn readA federal judge dismissed a $198 million punitive damages award previously granted to a fired UPS employee who had won a lawsuit for workplace discrimination and wrongful termination, calling it unreasonable. U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice in Yakima, Washington, granted UPS’s request to reduce a $237.6 million jury award by dismissing the $198 million in punitive damages awarded to […]

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