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Charlie Rose Talks to Nathan Myhrvold
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Charlie Rose Talks to Nathan Myhrvold

You worked for years at Microsoft, where things now look uncertain.

Why Steven Sinofsky Really Left Microsoft
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Why Steven Sinofsky Really Left Microsoft

About every six weeks, a small group of Microsoft executives gathers at a Seattle restaurant to talk strategy.

University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
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University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School

Recent engineering graduate Mike McCauley is living the dream.

The Exciting $3 Trillion Promise of Open Data
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The Exciting $3 Trillion Promise of Open Data

The world is awash in data that's in the public domain but mostly goes to waste.

Hiring in the Age of Big Data
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Hiring in the Age of Big Data

Wasabi Waiter looks a lot like hundreds of other simple online games.

How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer

The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.

Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows
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Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows

The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...

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...

Miscreants of the Internet Love to Torture Brian Krebs
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Miscreants of the Internet Love to Torture Brian Krebs

What is Brian Krebs?

Makerbot Sells Out to 3D Printing's Old Guard For $403 Million
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Makerbot Sells Out to 3D Printing's Old Guard For $403 Million

The 3D printing industry turned downright frothy Wednesday as Stratasys agreed to acquire the startup MakerBot for about $403 million.

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...

Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls
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Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls

The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...

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...

It's Getting Harder to Make Money on Youtube
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It's Getting Harder to Make Money on Youtube

Despite success stories about YouTube sensations such as Jenna Marbles, the vast majority of the site's users probably don’t think of it as a place to earn money...

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
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Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

To be a good coder in Silicon Valley is to be among the pampered elite.

No Free Meals? IRS Considers Taxing Perks at Google, Other Tech Firms
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No Free Meals? IRS Considers Taxing Perks at Google, Other Tech Firms

For thousands of Bay Area techies blessed to be working for benevolent behemoths like Google (andFacebook, there could be an end to the free lunch. And the free...
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