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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless
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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless

More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...

How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon—or Blame the Wrong Guy
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How Big Data Could Help Identify the Next Felon—or Blame the Wrong Guy

Think of it as big data meets "Minority Report."

Onstar, Garmin Try to Keep Pace With Waze, Other Free Navigation Apps
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Onstar, Garmin Try to Keep Pace With Waze, Other Free Navigation Apps

When Tim Nixon’s sons want to figure out how to get somewhere in their cars, they turn their iPhones sideways, attach them to their windshields with a suction cup...

Data Scientists Most Sought After
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Data Scientists Most Sought After

There is a growing demand by U.S. employers for data scientists who can analyze and manipulate the mountains of information generated and stored in the Internet...

The Tech Company Lawyers Who Stand Between You and Government Snoops
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The Tech Company Lawyers Who Stand Between You and Government Snoops

The in-house legal teams at Silicon Valley companies are usually associated with intellectual property disputes, anti-trade spats, and the maneuvering around initial...

Spies Like ­s: How We All Helped Build Prism
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Spies Like ­s: How We All Helped Build Prism

It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.

Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight
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Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight

By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...

Charlie Rose Talks to Tumblr's David Karp
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Charlie Rose Talks to Tumblr's David Karp

What made you decide that this was the right time to sell—and that Yahoo! was the right buyer?

In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business
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In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business

With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...

Inside Google's Secret Lab
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Inside Google's Secret Lab

Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...

Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite
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Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite

On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO...

Infer Promises More Sales Through Better Math
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Infer Promises More Sales Through Better Math

It’s hard to take Vik Singh seriously as he talks about his mathematical formula to boost almost any company's sales.

Stephen Lake's Muscle-Reading Remote Control
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Stephen Lake's Muscle-Reading Remote Control

Over microbrews last April at a pub near Ontario's University of Waterloo, engineering student Stephen Lake, 23, and two friends discussed using wearable devices...

Nebula Builds Cloud Computer for the Masses
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Nebula Builds Cloud Computer for the Masses

For his sixth-grade science fair project, Chris Kemp put together a cold fusion kit.

Revealed: The 1962 CIA Paper That Predicts the Big Deal With Big Data
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Revealed: The 1962 CIA Paper That Predicts the Big Deal With Big Data

The Central Intelligence Agency has published for the first time "Some Far-Out Thoughts on Computers," a 1962 internal document that shows how eager the agency...

For Ibm, Africa Is Risky and Rife With Opportunity
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For Ibm, Africa Is Risky and Rife With Opportunity

Tony Mwai moved back to his homeland of Kenya in 2009 to run IBM's East Africa operations, about 20 years after joining the company in New York.

Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home
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Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home

In the elusive dream of the automated home, visitors ring a doorbell, and it buzzes the homeowner's mobile phone. Lawn sprinklers take rainy days off. At bedtime...

Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers
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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers

Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...

Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars

In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...

Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market
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Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market

The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the first of a breed of ultratall buildings that will exceed 3,000 feet in height. That's more than twice as tall...
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