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Twitter ­sage at Work Jumped 700% Last Year, Study Says

Working hard or hardly working? Managers may find themselves asking that question after examining the results of a study that found massive increases in employees'...

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Nyc to Open Its First Software Engineering High School

New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley—the East Coast’s own tech hub—with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering...

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Making It in America

In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.

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The Rise of the New Groupthink

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement...

Happy Birthday, John Lasseter!
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Happy Birthday, John Lasseter!

It's a good bet that a lot of kids who can’t get enough cartoons dream about someday getting a job making them.

Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists
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Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists

Bay Area high school seniors snagged an astounding 29 spots among the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists, it was announced Wednesday.

Hr and Virtual Employees
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Hr and Virtual Employees

Within the modern organization, HR does not always understand the role of virtual employees who work off-site. Given the rapid pace of technological change, there...

Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll
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Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll

The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...

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Could Coding Be the Next Mass Profession?

Like farming in the 17th century, factory work in the industrial revolution, construction in the Great Depression, and manufacturing following World War II, but...

In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector
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In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector

The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011—and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.

Help Nasa Code Its Way Through Space
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Help Nasa Code Its Way Through Space

If you'd like to work on software projects that might one day send your code to Mars or on a deep space mission, NASA has some code for you to hack on.

It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery

The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.

Who's Above Average?
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Who's Above Average?

The most business-savvy CIOs tend to report to the CEO, lead a non-IT area, and make more money than average CIOs, according to this year's State of the CIO survey...

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You Need To Learn How To Program

If you're looking for a New Year's resolution, let me suggest an idea that you might not have considered: You should learn computer programming. Specifically,...

Could You Make It Past Google's Gatekeepers?
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Could You Make It Past Google's Gatekeepers?

How many taxis are there in New York City? You either know how to answer that question or you don't.

Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools

Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.

What's That Job Candidate Really Like?
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What's That Job Candidate Really Like?

Little things can be revealing in a job interview and a skilled interviewer can look beneath the surface to discover the real candidate.

Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...

Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
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Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

It was a tough year for Nintendo. Revenue at the venerable game company plunged. Its stock price was cut in half. And initial sales of its new 3DS handheld game...

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First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside Sri's Amazing R&d

Who invented Siri?
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