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Times Have Changed For the Wristwatch Industry
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Times Have Changed For the Wristwatch Industry

It showed 12:17 p.m. on all of the timepieces carried by students and young workers taking a break around a coffee table at Johnson County Community College.

How London's Silicon Roundabout Really Got Started
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How London's Silicon Roundabout Really Got Started

Four years ago developer Matt Biddulph jokingly coined "Silicon Roundabout" as a description of East London's small but growing startup scene—now it's become the...

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NASA Offers High School Girls a Chance to Jump-Start Their Future

NASA is offering high school junior girls from across the United States an opportunity to jump-start their future by participating in the Women In STEM High School...

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...

Crowdsourcing Site Compiles New Sign Language For Math and Science
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Crowdsourcing Site Compiles New Sign Language For Math and Science

A crowdsourced website aims to be a combination of Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary for deaf people in math and science, creating a common sign language for technical...

Texas Teen Wins $100,000 National Science Prize
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Texas Teen Wins $100,000 National Science Prize

A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for a developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles, an algorithm...

Star Trek Classroom: The Next Generation of School Desks
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Star Trek Classroom: The Next Generation of School Desks

Durham University researchers are developing NumberNet, a multi-touch, multi-user classroom desk that can boost students' math skills. The desk has shown that...

The ­ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go
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The ­ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go

You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.

Darpa Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities
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Darpa Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense—perhaps best known for its central...

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I.b.m. and Ohio State ­niversity to Open Center For Big Data

There is plenty of debate about just how much Big Data analytics can help businesses make smarter decisions to increase sales and cut costs. Yet there seems to...

How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World
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How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World

Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...

Asian Workers Now Dominate Silicon Valley Tech Jobs
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Asian Workers Now Dominate Silicon Valley Tech Jobs

Asian-Americans make up half of the Bay Area's technology workforce, and their double-digit employment gains came from jobs lost among white tech workers, according...

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University R&D Hit a High in 2011, But Is Threatened by the Fiscal Cliff

While we love to focus on the entrepreneurs and startups that bring new technologies to market, so much of the groundbreaking innovation that has driven the U.S...

The 10 Best-Paying College Majors For Women
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The 10 Best-Paying College Majors For Women

Despite women's gains in educational attainment (they are now the majority of college graduates), an ugly gender pay gap persists.

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.

Women Band Together, Make Inroads Into Tech
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Women Band Together, Make Inroads Into Tech

The computer science field remains dominated by men. The U.S. National Science Foundation says the number of women graduating with computer science degrees has...

Special Report: Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret—Age Bias
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Special Report: Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret—Age Bias

When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought...

Hatching Ideas, and Companies, By the Dozens at Mit
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Hatching Ideas, and Companies, By the Dozens at Mit

How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?

How to Reduce America's Talent Deficit
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How to Reduce America's Talent Deficit

Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel of Microsoft, weighs in on what academia and industry can do to produce more graduates with the IT skills...

College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
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College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All

Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...
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