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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made
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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made

The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that.

Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator
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Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator

Sometimes playing a guitar with a plectrum isn't enough.

IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps
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IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps

IBM has announced its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge for mobile software developers to create applications that use its Watson cognitive computing platform on...

Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security

In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...

Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group

President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...

A Four-Minute Explanation of Why Innovation Is So Important to the ­nited States
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A Four-Minute Explanation of Why Innovation Is So Important to the ­nited States

What makes America great?

TrustyCon's RSA Conference Rebels Promise More to Come
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TrustyCon's RSA Conference Rebels Promise More to Come

What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...

How an ­nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
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How an ­nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website

Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...

Ibm to Take Watson Mobile with Developer Challenge
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Ibm to Take Watson Mobile with Developer Challenge

IBM wants to bring its Jeopardy!-winning cognitive computing system Watson to the mobile industry.

The ­nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
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The ­nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World

This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.

Nasa Responds to California's Evolving Drought
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Nasa Responds to California's Evolving Drought

NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's...

Mt. Gox Disappears From Web in New Setback
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Mt. Gox Disappears From Web in New Setback

Bitcoin suffered a major setback Tuesday as the website of Mt.Gox, the once dominant trading platform for the virtual currency, was all but shut down.

How to Get a Job at Google
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How to Get a Job at Google

Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google—i.e., the guy in charge of hiring...

The Special Effects Firms Transforming the Film Industry
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The Special Effects Firms Transforming the Film Industry

If you are looking for a sure thing at this year's Oscars look no further than Gravity to win the best visual effects category.

Mobile Privacy Sells in Post-Snowden World
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Mobile Privacy Sells in Post-Snowden World

Following the Snowden snooping revelations, there is growing interest in a range of mobile phone products with one central selling point: privacy.

Comcast's Deal with Netflix Makes Network Neutrality Obsolete
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Comcast's Deal with Netflix Makes Network Neutrality Obsolete

For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market.

The Interstellar Contract
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The Interstellar Contract

Last September, the Times reported that Voyager 1, the hardy spacecraft launched in 1977, had exited the solar system and entered the interstellar void.

Willow Garage's Last Days
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Willow Garage's Last Days

In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.

The Political Science of Cybersecurity III—How International Relations Theory Shapes U.S. Cybersecurity Doctrine
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The Political Science of Cybersecurity III—How International Relations Theory Shapes U.S. Cybersecurity Doctrine

U.S. cybersecurity officials have been much more skeptical about international cooperation than their Cold War counterparts were.

The Rags-To-Riches Tale of How Jan Koum Built Whatsapp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby
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The Rags-To-Riches Tale of How Jan Koum Built Whatsapp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby

Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist...
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