The Brains Behind the Company, Looker, That Google Acquired for $2.6 Billion
Looker, a big data analytics platform, was recently acquired by Google. Meet the black software engineer who is the brains behind Looker....
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Largest Number of Black Software Engineers to Date Join This Tech Group
Meet /dev/color, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower Black engineers. It recently announced it's largest cohort for A* Program, which consists of a new...
Kenyan Engineer Creates High-Tech Gloves That Turn Sign Language into Speech
It sounds futuristic—a pair of gloves that translates sign language into speech—but such an invention is indeed a reality. A young engineer from Kenya, Roy...
Facebook Invests $1 Million in Program for Underrepresented Engineers
CodePath.org, an organization that provides free, accelerated mobile engineering classes for professional developers, recently announced that Facebook has invested $1 Million to help expand their reach....
Meet the Tech Twins Looking to Help 10,000 Founders
Dr. Troy Nunnally and Travis Nunnally are creating a name for themselves in the tech space....
You Got to Math Like an African
Entrepreneurs, engineers, and developers are emerging from Sub-Saharan African nations as though they are being churned out from assembly lines. This is based on my...
Detroit Engineer: Turn Buses Into Rolling Tech Teaching Labs
An Amazon engineer hailing from Detroit has a novel idea for that city’s unused school buses: turn them into mobile tech labs. Thomas Phillips presented...
Meet The Game Designer Creating Video Games with Social Impact
“If you discriminate by color, you can’t win the game..."...
Nearly 40% of Minority Engineers in Tech Say They’ve Experienced Bias in the Workplace
A recent study by diversity recruitment platform Jopwell shows that 36% of surveyed minority engineers in tech say they've experienced workplace bias....
In the News: Flint, Michigan
Here is an update from Black Enterprise on the most recent news about the Flint Water Crisis in Detroit....