JPMorgan is poaching developers who work on video games like Fortnite — and they say it’s ‘actually been very easy’ to lure them away (JPM)

Fortnite/Epic Games JPMorgan Chase co-president Gordon Smith said the bank is having no trouble competing for top tech talent to fuel its $ 10.8 billion digital ambitions. Smith said a number of software developers the bank has hired come from the video game world. How does JPMorgan get programmers to ditch Fortnite for mobile banking? […]

Drones and AI help stop poaching in Africa

Several organizations are already using drones to fight poaching, but the Lindbergh Foundation is taking it one step further. The environmental non-profit has joined forces with Neurala in order to use the company’s deep learning neural network AI to boost the capabilities of the drones in its Air Shepherd program. Neurala taught its technology what […]

The Last Animals, Photojournalist Kate Brooks's Poaching Documentary, Is a Quietly Stunning Call-to-Arms 

A herd of elephants in the desert near Lake Chad; there are less than 800 elephants remaining in the country. Kate Brooks for The Last Animals. When director and photojournalist Kate Brooks began filming The Last Animals, which premiered last month at the Tribeca Film Festival, there were seven Northern White Rhinos left on the […]

The top 10 tech companies that pay the most when poaching employees

Helge Thomas/flickr The talent wars are alive and well in the tech industry, according to salary research site Paysa. And there’s one company willing to go to the nines to win them: Netflix. Paysa recently looked at hiring, staying, and poaching trends for a number of top tech companies and discovered that Netflix spent more than […]