More women in tech? No problem!

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Jobs in the gaming industry are still often male-dominated. However, the Wooga development studio has increased the proportion of female employees from 20 to 40 percent in recent years. This goal was achieved, for example, through training courses on gender bias and the rule that at least one woman must always be present at job interviews.

In addition, the company has its job advertisements scanned by software for gender-oriented language – i.e. for formulations that appeal more to men than women. As a further measure, recruiters have the requirement that at least one female person must always be in the last round of applications. Wooga now has 30 percent women in top management and 24 percent in the tech department.

According to a newsletter from the tech magazine Bloomberg, iOS 17 should not primarily function as a bug fix and performance improvement update, as initially planned. The development team has allegedly changed its strategy in the meantime, which is why the new version of the Apple operating system should also contain many new functions that users have been asking for for a long time. Exact details are not yet known.

It is possible that there will be an alternative app store due to changed legislation in the EU, for example. iOS 17 should also prepare iPhones for the MR Reality headset and the Car Play 2.0 update. The company will probably go public with the innovations during the WWDC in June before the update can then be downloaded in September.

Microsoft allows search engines such as Yahoo, Ecosia or Duckduckgo to use the technology of its own search engine Bing for a fee. However, the tech group has now strictly forbidden the licensees from using the data obtained to feed their own AI chatbots.

Apparently, Microsoft has already warned two partner companies and threatened to completely withdraw their access to Bing use. The integration of the chatbot GPT-4 into the in-house search engine made Microsoft a serious competitor for the front-runner Google. Apparently, the group is trying to keep competitors as small as possible in all aspects of the new AI technology in order to secure its supremacy.

A fierce dispute over copyright infringement has broken out between two South Korean game developers. Previously, many employees who had developed the fantasy MMO “P3” for Nexon had switched to the competitor Ironmace. It was there that they began work on the game Dark and Darker, which is now said to be loaded with intellectual property claimed by Nexon. Meanwhile, there was even a police raid on Ironmace and the game, whose early access was planned for April, was removed from Steam. The “Dark and Darker” developers reject the allegations and see the competitor’s actions as an unfair attempt to assert oneself on the market.

Semiconductor pioneer Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94 surrounded by his family in Hawaii. The qualified chemist was initially employed by industry pioneer William Shockley and left the company with seven colleagues to found Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. The electronics company played a key role in driving the development of the microchip and laid the foundation for the emergence of Silicon Valley.

Also, in the 1960s, Moore predicted that transistors on chips would regularly double every two years. The assessment was so accurate that it went down in history as Moore’s Law. As the founder of Intel, Moore eventually became a billionaire. He and his wife, Betty, have also been involved in charitable causes such as protecting the San Francisco Bay.

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