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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.

­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)
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­.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)

Alternate-reality games are no longer just for geeks and corporations that want to sell you stuff.

Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats
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Navy Wants You to Write Algorithms That Automatically ID Threats

It remains the dream of military imagery analysts who stare at surveillance footage all day: sensors and cameras that alert their human masters to looming threats...

The Other Ted Prize
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The Other Ted Prize

Sergey Brin waltzed in for a try and threw up a score of 250,953, first time out of the gate and with Google Glass still perched on his face.

The Ar-15 Is More Than a Gun. It's a Gadget
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The Ar-15 Is More Than a Gun. It's a Gadget

I was shaking as I shouldered the rifle and peered through the scope at the small steel target 100 yards downrange.

The Quantified Man: How an Obsolete Tech Guy Rebuilt Himself for the Future
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The Quantified Man: How an Obsolete Tech Guy Rebuilt Himself for the Future

Tesco—the company that runs a chain of grocery stores across Great Britain—uses digital armbands to track the performance of its warehouse staff.

Meet the Detective Who Handcuffed Intel's Packet of Death
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Meet the Detective Who Handcuffed Intel's Packet of Death

When Kristian Kielhofner first heard that his company's new servers were crashing last summer, he worried that he might be facing a product recall.

Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market

When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook

Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...

Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs

It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.

The Next Big Os War Is in Your Dashboard
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The Next Big Os War Is in Your Dashboard

Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...

Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own
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Want a Flying Drone? These Students 3D-Printed Their Own

It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.

The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing
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The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing

In most of corporate America, you write the press release when your creation is finished. But at Amazon, you write it before you've even begun.

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The 10 Silicon Valley Companies You Wish You Worked for (or Started)

The history of Silicon Valley is the history of digital technology. To become a part of that history, do you go to work for one of the giants—Apple, Google, Intel...

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The 10 San Francisco Tech Companies You Wish You Worked For

As a veteran Silicon Valley investor on the faculty of Stanford business school, Andy Rachleff spends much of his time counseling young tech workers on how to manage...

Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality

The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.

Why VMware Paid $1.26B for 70 Software Engineers
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Why VMware Paid $1.26B for 70 Software Engineers

One of the reasons Google and VMware have been so successful over the past decade, says Eric Brewer, is that both companies managed to snatch some of the world's...

Nasa Mohawk Guy Bobak Ferdowsi on Sci-Fi, Legos, and Becoming a Meme
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Nasa Mohawk Guy Bobak Ferdowsi on Sci-Fi, Legos, and Becoming a Meme

As space geeks watched nervously to see if NASA's Curiosity rover would land safely on Mars, many found themselves wondering, "Hey, who's that cool dude with the...

Robot Master
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Robot Master

When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...

­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
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­.s. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes

The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...
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