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Google Science Fair Answers and Raises Questions
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Google Science Fair Answers and Raises Questions

Here's what a successful scientist looks like: Sabera Talukder is standing in an elegantly lighted hall at Google, surrounded by peers from around the world, explaining...

Steve Blank Believes Social Might Be Killing Silicon Valley
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Steve Blank Believes Social Might Be Killing Silicon Valley

Amid the buildup to the Facebook IPO, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank was sounding an ominous warning to anyone who would listen.

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Silicon Valley Foreign Worker Search Speeds ­p After Lull

Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...

When It Comes to Robotics, Silicon Valley Is a Follower, Not a Leader
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When It Comes to Robotics, Silicon Valley Is a Follower, Not a Leader

Attention, Silicon Valley: We are losing the robot war! Not the apocalyptic one where robots rise up and enslave humans or wipe us out or turn us into cute pets...

Silicon Valley Techie Turns Travel-Writing Nomad
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Silicon Valley Techie Turns Travel-Writing Nomad

Like a lot of Silicon Valley techies, Francis Tapon had a billion-dollar idea. He just found a different way to bring it to life.  

Ship Code or Ship Out: Bootcamp For New Facebook Engineers
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Ship Code or Ship Out: Bootcamp For New Facebook Engineers

Congratulations, recruit! It's time to learn the ropes of your Facebook engineering job.

Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+
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Apple Pioneer Brings Emotion to Google+

Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...

Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language
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Silicon Valley Tech Companies Struggle to Describe Themselves in Comprehensible Language

Google's easy. It helps you find stuff. Facebook—duh—lets you connect with friends. Even Intel's a no-brainer—they make those little pieces of whatever inside your...

Metavana's Minh Duong-Van Is an Unorthodox Tamer of Chaos
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Metavana's Minh Duong-Van Is an Unorthodox Tamer of Chaos

Minh Duong-van sees chaos wherever he looks. Maybe you do, too, but Minh is different because he actually understands how to tease order out of the mess and from...

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Bill Campbell Makes Future of Journalism His Next Crusade

Buried way down in a recent news release announcing a media innovation institute to be shared by Stanford and Columbia universities was an intriguing tidbit: The...

What Dropbox Can Teach ­S About Cloud Computing
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What Dropbox Can Teach ­S About Cloud Computing

Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.

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New Execs Pledge to Rev ­p Amd

Hoping to revive their struggling company, Advanced Micro Devices executives vowed Thursday to more quickly make microchips that are power-efficient, low-cost,...

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Companies Worry About Sec's Advice to Disclose Cyberthreats

Deluged by cyberattacks they've mostly hidden from the public, companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are being prodded by federal regulators to finally fess...

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The Opposite of Evil: Google Named Best Place to Work in America

Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place...

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Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo and a Cautionary Tale Behind

It had to be hard for Jerry Yang to walk away from Yahoo on Tuesday. You know it had to be hard or he would have walked away years ago—which is exactly what many...

Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists
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Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists

Bay Area high school seniors snagged an astounding 29 spots among the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists, it was announced Wednesday.

Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
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Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

It was a tough year for Nintendo. Revenue at the venerable game company plunged. Its stock price was cut in half. And initial sales of its new 3DS handheld game...

In Silicon Valley, Rose-Colored Glasses Sometimes Provide Best View
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In Silicon Valley, Rose-Colored Glasses Sometimes Provide Best View

When I heard the news that Google was moving into the indoor-mapping business, I called Ankit Agarwal to offer my condolences.

In Her Free Time, This Google Researcher Designs Puzzles of the Wooden Kind
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In Her Free Time, This Google Researcher Designs Puzzles of the Wooden Kind

By day, Google researcher Maya Gupta tries to solve the puzzle of how to teach computers to recognize the contents of digital images.

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Despite Problems, Silicon Valley Still an Innovation Magnet

All it takes is five minutes to compile a lengthy list of reasons not to come to Silicon Valley. The cost of living is off the charts. Traffic stinks. Housing...
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