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Atari's Bankruptcy: Gen X Bids Pong Farewell
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Atari's Bankruptcy: Gen X Bids Pong Farewell

Reading the news that Atari’s U.S. subsidiary is filing for bankruptcy was a little like hearing that Bob Hope died—in that you were surprised to discover he had...

Hp Ceo Whitman Dubs Windows 8 a Work in Progress
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Hp Ceo Whitman Dubs Windows 8 a Work in Progress

There are plenty of Meg Whitman doubters out there. Some say the former EBay chief executive officer doesn't have the requisite big company experience to run a...

Andrew Schwartz: Brain Control For Artificial Limbs
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Andrew Schwartz: Brain Control For Artificial Limbs

When Jan Scheuermann grasped a chocolate bar and raised it to her mouth last year, it was a neuroscience breakthrough.

The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer
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The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer

Americans are discarding a growing pile of electronics.

Job Applicants' Cultural Fit Can Trump Qualifications
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Job Applicants' Cultural Fit Can Trump Qualifications

"Cultural fit" is becoming a popular buzzword with hiring managers. In order to evaluate the cultural fit of a candidate, companies are increasingly making hiring...

Calculating a College Degree's True Value
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Calculating a College Degree's True Value

How much is a college diploma actually worth? The perennial question asked by every former English, philosophy, and art history major now has an answer in some...

Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home
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Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home

At 21, Basheer Tome has a rather well-defined notion of what he thinks the world needs: clever, useful, beautiful objects that elevate our homes well and truly...

Moocs Boost Online Public Health Education
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Moocs Boost Online Public Health Education

In the past four months, more than 222,000 students have enrolled in eight Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

Job Recruiters Turn to Linkedin, Social Media Startups
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Job Recruiters Turn to Linkedin, Social Media Startups

In his more than 15 years as a headhunter, Jeff Vijungco has tried Monster, Craigslist, CareerBuilder, and other online job boards. Lately the head of recruitment...

Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple Ceo Speaks
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Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple Ceo Speaks

Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive...

Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google
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Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google

Apple Inc.'s Eddy Cue, who took charge of map software last month, is racing to turn around the troubled service, firing a senior manager, and urging partners to...

Desperate, Hockey Fans Root For Virtual Team
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Desperate, Hockey Fans Root For Virtual Team

Pat Hickey, who covered his first Montreal Canadiens game in 1968 for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and who has chronicled the team's exploits over the past 22...

The Workday After Tomorrow
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The Workday After Tomorrow

What happens when business as usual is impossible?

Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac

Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...

An Overseas Push For Video Software For Sports Teams
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An Overseas Push For Video Software For Sports Teams

In 2006, football coaches at the University of Nebraska approached Jeffrey S. Raikes about ways to improve the Cornhuskers’ game with technology. Raikes, then president...

Japan's Once Mighty Tech Industry Has Fallen Far Behind Silicon Valley
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Japan's Once Mighty Tech Industry Has Fallen Far Behind Silicon Valley

In the 1980s, Sony co-founder Akio Morita fired a verbal missile across the Pacific at Silicon Valley: Japan's supremacy in business and technology would overwhelm...

Jeff Brennan's Anatomy-Based Industrial Design Software
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Jeff Brennan's Anatomy-Based Industrial Design Software

Most people look at the cross section of a human bone and see an incomprehensible tangle of sponge-like scaffolding. Jeffrey Brennan sees a secret mathematical...

Facebook's 'Next Billion': A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg
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Facebook's 'Next Billion': A Q&A With Mark Zuckerberg

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years...

China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It
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China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It

Stay or go? That question has erupted in a public way among China's large population of expatriate businessmen, entrepreneurs, journalists, and academics, who the...

Pete Koomen: The Quest For More Clicks
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Pete Koomen: The Quest For More Clicks

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