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Tech Tuesday: Connecting minority college students to big tech internships

Students stroll around the campus of Spelman College, a historically black college in Atlanta.
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Students stroll around the campus of Spelman College, a historically black college in Atlanta.

Internships can provide a student with their first real world experience in their chosen field.

If the goal is to work for a big tech company, obtaining an internship is especially hard for lower-income students.

We’ll learn about the challenges and how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are working to overcome them.

By now the pings and dings of the smartphone are familiar to most of us. But they never cease to irritate.

There are thoughtful and intentional ways to disengage, however, and the movement devoted to disengagement is called digital minimalism.

The White House wants to know if your employer uses artificial intelligence to track you.

In a memo issued this week, the Biden administration asked workers across every industry for input about how they use automated tools and AI at work.

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