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Some prestigious universities including MIT and Princeton are seeing fewer students interested in computer-engineering degrees amid industry turmoil.

Last week, staffers at Bandcamp voted to form a union. It's the latest sign that a real labor movement is starting to take shape in the music industry.

There's a lot more cultural diversity, a lot more frankly to do in san francisco. there's never been a time when the world's economy depended so much on the ideas and the work product that comes out of one location. >> the biggest problem, they say, is that young, well-paid tech workers are taking up a disproportionate share of the housing and driving up already astronomical real estate prices. >> i'm going to read you some of the headlines that we have seen about san francisco in the last couple of years. "decaying." "a crime-ridden hellhole." "no one or no place is safe in san francisco." an...

Most watched and read journalists. >> right outside her bathroom window. >> that was the case when i was a reporter at ktvu in the early 2000s. it still holds true today. >> san francisco has always been a boom/bust city. it was built by the 49ers came here looking for gold. now we have the tech boom. >> san francisco is the global headquarters of big tech. >> if you're in your 20s, 30s, you want to life in vibrant environment. there's a lot more cultural diversity, a lot more, frankly, to do in san francisco. there has never been a time when the world's economy depended so much on the ideas a...

Tech workers who have been laid off possess a lot of highly skilled talent that's poised to take steps in new directions.