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Apple hires Tesla’s former Autopilot software director

The Verge

Apple hasn’t been all that vocal about its electric car project, but according to Bloomberg , the iPhone maker is hiring Tesla’s Autopilot software engineer to work on its EVs. The full self-driving software, currently in beta, does not make a Tesla vehicle fully autonomous, as a driver must keep control of the vehicle at all times.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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Why smart contracts can't be fully automated

Network World

Blockchain technology has been generating excitement in the public and private sectors for the past several years for many reasons — a prominent one being support for self-executing contracts commonly referred to as smart contracts. I think it's going to take forever."

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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DTW 2022: Vodafone Germany CIO Ulrich Irnich wants to break the IT bottleneck

TM Forum

He is also responsible for Vodafone Group’s global “Modernization Garage”, which is driving transformation of business support systems (BSS) across the companies. “There is just one way: You’ll be part of that speed, or you’ll be out.” The company is one of the earliest adopters of the.

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NCMS CIO exploits ‘Great Resignation’ to slash costs, streamline IT operations

CIO Business Intelligence

The end of the Great Resignation — the latest buzzword referring to a record number of people quitting their jobs since the pandemic — seems to be nowhere in sight. As the company had legacy systems, it became tough to hire resources that could manage them. The applications had been transformed into SaaS and PaaS environment.

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‘Boomerang’ CIOs: IT leaders level up by coming back

CIO Business Intelligence

Postulka is an example of a boomerang IT leader — professionals who leave a company, gain experience elsewhere, and then return in a higher tech leadership position. These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates.

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