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Why Big Data Has Some Big Problems When It Comes to Public Policy
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Why Big Data Has Some Big Problems When It Comes to Public Policy

For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...

When Google Closes the Nest Deal, Privacy Issues For the Internet of Things Will Hit the Big Time
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When Google Closes the Nest Deal, Privacy Issues For the Internet of Things Will Hit the Big Time

Google rocked the smart home market Monday with its intention to purchase connected home thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, which will force a much-needed...

Pgp Inventor and Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann on the Surveillance Society
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Pgp Inventor and Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann on the Surveillance Society

Phil Zimmermann might be a technologist, but he tends to get philosophical when it comes to the issues of privacy and security and how they intersect with our society...

Meet the Designer Behind Some of the Web’s Newest Killer Fonts
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Meet the Designer Behind Some of the Web’s Newest Killer Fonts

Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.

Why Microsoft's Reorganization Closes the Books on an Era of Computing
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Why Microsoft's Reorganization Closes the Books on an Era of Computing

Nothing ever stays the same. On more than one occasion, it has taken Microsoft, one of the most important engines powering the rise of the technology industry,...

Why Google Is the Big Data Company That Matters Most
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Why Google Is the Big Data Company That Matters Most

Every now and then, someone asks "Who’ll be the Google of big data?"

The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators
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The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators

The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...

Meet Dssd, Andy Bechtolsheim's Secret Chip Startup For Big Data
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Meet Dssd, Andy Bechtolsheim's Secret Chip Startup For Big Data

For almost three years many of the creators of Sun's Zettabyte File System have been slaving away in a Menlo Park, Calif., building trying to build a chip that...

How to Make Your Mark in Professional Basketball at 5′ 9″
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How to Make Your Mark in Professional Basketball at 5′ 9″

Growing up in India, Vasu Kulkarni was the self-proclaimed "biggest basketball fan in the world."

Qualcomm's Decidedly Different Plan to Connect Your Devices to the Internet of Things
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Qualcomm's Decidedly Different Plan to Connect Your Devices to the Internet of Things

Qualcomm, the chip company that made its fortune in mobile connectivity had big visions beyond its CDMA and cellular radio heritage.

Why Marissa Mayer's Ban on Remote Working at Yahoo Could Backfire Badly
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Why Marissa Mayer's Ban on Remote Working at Yahoo Could Backfire Badly

Not long after her arrival at Yahoo, new CEO Marissa Mayer started handing out carrots to her new employees, including new smartphones, free food, and other Google...

The Newest Overhyped Mobile Industry Buzzword: Lte-Advanced
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The Newest Overhyped Mobile Industry Buzzword: Lte-Advanced

Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks.

Yep, Skype Is Still Taking Business Away from the Telcos
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Yep, Skype Is Still Taking Business Away from the Telcos

The popularity of Skype and other IP-based international calling options has continued to take market share away from the international minutes, according to research...

Which iPhone App May Get You Into Stanford? The One You Make
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Which iPhone App May Get You Into Stanford? The One You Make

Standing out from the crowd of applicants vying to get into Stanford University's Computer Science undergraduate program is no easy task.

Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners ­p with Cern
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Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners ­p with Cern

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...

Open Compute Project to Ask College Students for Hardware Ideas
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Open Compute Project to Ask College Students for Hardware Ideas

In its quest to figure out how best to build efficient, scalable data centers, the Open Compute Project is looking to students and other independent people for...

Meet the Guys Behind the Iphone's Best Calendar App
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Meet the Guys Behind the Iphone's Best Calendar App

It's not a surprise when a company with copious resources like Google builds a better iPhone search or mail app. But it’s far more interesting when small development...

We Don't Need More Data Scientists; Just Make Big Data Easier to ­se
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We Don't Need More Data Scientists; Just Make Big Data Easier to ­se

Virtually any article today about big data inevitably turns to the notion that the country is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists.

Agile Developers Rule the Roost, Experience Trumps Toolsets
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Agile Developers Rule the Roost, Experience Trumps Toolsets

If you're an agile development pro, especially on the West Coast, Utah, Minnesota, New York or Massachusetts, you're pretty much in the catbird seat when comes...

How London's Silicon Roundabout Really Got Started
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How London's Silicon Roundabout Really Got Started

Four years ago developer Matt Biddulph jokingly coined "Silicon Roundabout" as a description of East London's small but growing startup scene—now it's become the...
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