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Private-Sector IT Pros to See 5.6 Percent Average Pay Boost in 2014
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Private-Sector IT Pros to See 5.6 Percent Average Pay Boost in 2014

The average base compensation for U.S. IT professionals is expected to rise an average 5.6 percent in 2014, with tech salaries seeing the largest gains among all...

The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested
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The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested

Check it out, I'm working on a reboot of The Graduate, set in 2013.

Nih Funds Novel Robots to Assist People with Disabilities, Aid Doctors
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Nih Funds Novel Robots to Assist People with Disabilities, Aid Doctors

As part of the National Robotics Initiative, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded funding for three projects to develop the next generation of robots...

The Decline of Wikipedia
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The Decline of Wikipedia

The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.

DARPA Announces Cyber Grand Challenge
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DARPA Announces Cyber Grand Challenge

DARPA will hold a first-of-its-kind cyber defense tournament in an effort to drive an automation revolution in information security.

Former Nsa Chief: Nsa and ­.s. Cyber Command Are Now 'indistinguishable'
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Former Nsa Chief: Nsa and ­.s. Cyber Command Are Now 'indistinguishable'

The public's trust in government has been battered by repeated abuses of power, but it's not the NSA's fault.

Brain Decoding: Reading Minds
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Brain Decoding: Reading Minds

Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...

Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'
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Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'

Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.

Academia.edu Acquires Plasmyd to Let Peers Review Papers
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Academia.edu Acquires Plasmyd to Let Peers Review Papers

The online repository of academic research papers is building in a new variant of the ages-old peer-review process to scrutinize academic work.

Fifteen Common It Job Search Mistakes
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Fifteen Common It Job Search Mistakes

Career coaches, resume writers and IT recruiters shed light on the most commonly seen mistakes IT pros make when conducting their job search.

Supercapacitor Stores Electricity on Silicon Chips
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Supercapacitor Stores Electricity on Silicon Chips

Material scientists at Vanderbilt University have designed a novel supercapacitor that can be constructed in a silicon chip alongside the microelectronic circuitry...

Memo to Workers: The Boss Is Watching
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Memo to Workers: The Boss Is Watching

Dennis Gray suspected that workers in his pest-control company were spending too much time on personal issues during the workday.

The ­mbilical Link of Man to Robot
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The ­mbilical Link of Man to Robot

Atlas doesn't shrug. But he teeters, loses his grip, stutters, and staggers.

Wall Street Banks Learn How to Survive in Staged Cyber Attack
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Wall Street Banks Learn How to Survive in Staged Cyber Attack

In a staged simulation called Quantum Dawn 2, bank executives in charge of operations, technology, and crisis planning were tasked with detecting how a massive...

Why I Am ­napologetic About Paywalls or Promotion
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Why I Am ­napologetic About Paywalls or Promotion

Late last week I posted a short essay on LinkedIn, where I am an Influencer, called "The best case study you'll ever read."

Twitter's Tv Future Started in Cambridge
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Twitter's Tv Future Started in Cambridge

So Twitter hasn't made money just being a social media darling.

Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov
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Here's Why the Feds Didn't Have More Skilled Programmers For Healthcare.gov

HealthCare.gov, the Web site at the center of President Obama's federal health insurance exchange, has been plagued with problems since it opened for business Oct...

A Symptom of a Larger Problem For Women in STEM
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A Symptom of a Larger Problem For Women in STEM

Brown University professor Anne Fausto-Sterling and university graduate Maia Weinstock recently organized a Wikipedia "edit-a-thon" with the goal of adding more...

More Businesses Want Workers With Math or Science Degrees
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More Businesses Want Workers With Math or Science Degrees

A shortage of highly skilled U.S. technology workers comes amid mounting concerns over a national failure to produce sufficient numbers of talented science, technology...

Qualcomm to Build Neuro-Inspired Chips
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Qualcomm to Build Neuro-Inspired Chips

The world's largest smartphone chipmaker, Qualcomm, says it is ready to start helping partners manufacture a radically different kind of a chip—one that mimics...
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