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November 23, 2020

How To Fortify Authentication And Access Control For Your Digital Products

by rebecca jordan in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News, Engineering Recruiting, Environment, Industry News, Robotics, Semiconductors

There are several proven steps to fortify authentication and access control across all your digital products. As an IT professional, you may find yourself wondering if your network and digital assets are safe. Fortunately, there are a wide range of authentication technologies and activities that keep your proprietary data and products safe. These proactive measures […]

November 23, 2020

How To Improve Your Software Development Team?

by rebecca jordan in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News, Engineering Recruiting, Environment, Industry News, Robotics, Semiconductors

Software development is a complex and volatile job that requires a combined effort from various individuals in order to succeed. With rapid technology advancement, volatile requirements, tremendous competition in the industry, and a rise in customer demands, it can be a challenge to increase performance and maintain high levels of productivity in your software development […]

November 23, 2020

Want to fix your own Tesla? Massachusetts just made it easier.

by maddie stone in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

If you own a Tesla, you might be accustomed to waiting a long time when your car needs a repair. You might have also noticed there aren’t a lot of independent shops able to take on the job. But that could start to change soon, thanks to a groundbreaking new “right-to-repair” law Massachusetts voters approved […]

November 23, 2020

How to prepare kids for the climate crisis? Cara Hoffman’s books might help.

by maddie stone in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

Cara Hoffman was a young reporter in 1994 when she covered an explosion at a chemical plant in Buffalo, New York. She remembers a toxic plume coating nearby lawns in white. Gardens wilted. Pets died, and goldfish floated lifeless in bowls next to open windows. Without an evacuation plan, people in the neighborhood went on […]

November 22, 2020

These rare seeds escaped Syria’s war — to help feed the world

by matt simon in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2014, the remaining staff of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, or ICARDA, fled their beloved gene bank in Tel Hadia, 20 miles south of Aleppo. Syria’s civil war, which had broken […]

November 21, 2020

Count on Biden to restore the national monuments Trump trashed

by Engineering Recruiting in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump’s legacy on public lands is a four-year war against protected wild places, which has included dismantling Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. That legacy will follow him long after he’s out of […]

November 20, 2020

This entrepreneur is plugging the world’s drinking water into the (digital) cloud

by Engineering Recruiting in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

Growing up outside of Mumbai, India, Meena Sankaran struggled to access what many people take for granted: clean drinking water. With service for only an hour a day, her family had to collect as much as they could in buckets. But the water wasn’t potable, and Sankaran’s parents couldn’t afford a filtration system. “My mom […]

November 20, 2020

The first step to bridging the urban ‘canopy gap’? Counting and mapping trees.

by joseph winters in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

All eyes were on Maricopa County, Arizona, earlier this month as election officials were counting every vote. But in the meantime, another group has been busy counting every tree. Trees bring enormous benefits to the communities where they grow. For example, they scrub pollution out of the air and counter the urban heat island effect […]

November 20, 2020

Solar companies ask Biden to reverse Trump’s biggest blow to the industry

by joseph winters in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In January 2018, President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on imported solar panels despite protests from much of the industry, sending jobs in one of the nation’s fastest-growing employment engines tumbling for the following two years. Now the […]

November 20, 2020

Listen: The great green energy divide

by joseph winters in Engineering, Engineering News, Environment

What do Al Gore, Matt Damon, and a trash-compacting robot have in common? You’ll find that out and more on today’s episode of Temperature Check, Grist’s weekly podcast on climate, race, and culture. Host Andrew Simon and co-host Justin Worland kick-start the episode with a conversation on clean energy, the stock market, and solar farms. […]