As layoffs continue to gut DE&I efforts across the tech industry, the notorious tech wage gap is widening, most notably for Black and Hispanic tech workers.

That’s according to new data from job marketplace Hired, which shows that the wage gap between white men and most of their counterparts in underrepresented groups widened between 2021 and 2022.

Black women in tech—who in 2022 made 90 cents on the dollar compared to white men, down from 92 cents in 2021—represented the widest wage gap in the industry. Hispanic women made 92 cents on the dollar, down from 93 cents in 2021. Black men were making 93 cents on the dollar, down from 95 cents in 2021, while Hispanic men dropped from 99 cents on the dollar to 97 cents.

White and Asian women, who made 95 cents and 98 cents on the dollar, respectively, were the only two demographics for which the gap didn’t increase in 2022, the Hired report said.

“We believe that DE&I rollbacks are going to significantly hinder a company’s ability to attract qualified talent from a range of backgrounds and skill sets,” Hired CEO Josh Brenner said.

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The semiconductor shortage that began in 2020 affected industries across the world, from electronics to automobiles to medical equipment. But in the defense industry, the effect was outsized because so much of its equipment today relies on semiconductors.

The critical nature of semiconductors helps explain why defense firm Lockheed Martin partnered with semiconductor giant GlobalFoundries this month with the goal of locking down domestic production of semiconductors.

The semiconductor industry is centered overseas, particularly in Taiwan and South Korea, but Covid and the resulting supply-chain crisis made a clear argument for domesticating the highly specialized industry.

Keep reading here.—JM

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How would you describe your job to someone who doesn’t work in tech?

I sit between the R&D and manufacturing teams to ensure that everything we concept and design integrates well into the final aircraft. My major focus is to bridge the two teams and ensure everyone is thinking holistically—beyond just the system they are responsible for. It’s helpful that Beta has a cross-functional, flat team structure because it allows me to bounce between a traditional integration engineer and final assembly line manufacturing engineer just from meeting to meeting.

What’s the most compelling tech project you’ve worked on, and why?

It might be cheesy to say, but the Alia-250, an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, has been my favorite and most exciting tech project to date. We are designing, developing, and building something that has not been done before—this is entirely new. I love that there is often no right answer or clear next step because we have to work together as a team to evaluate and decide our course of action. Working collaboratively as a company to navigate this new—and oftentimes unknown—space has required me to really think creatively to move us along in making electric aviation a reality.

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Stat: 25 gigabytes per hour. That’s how much data your car can produce, according to a Wired analysis, noting “it’s a lot.”

Quote: “Eventually, we will realize that memorizing the internet doesn’t lead to intelligence.”—David Magerman, co-founder and managing partner at Differential Ventures, in an op-ed in The Information

Read: Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story (The Counter)

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