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Dr. Dobb's Annual Developer Salary Survey 2013
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Dr. Dobb's Annual Developer Salary Survey 2013

Developer salaries are on the rise again after a period of nearly two years in which salaries did not change. This advance is most likely attributable to an improving...

Study Shines Light on What Makes Digital Activism Effective
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Study Shines Light on What Makes Digital Activism Effective

Digital activism is usually non-violent and tends to work best when social media tools are combined with street-level organization, according to new research from...

Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey

Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...

Shocker: Women Outnumber Men in This Year's Tech Hires
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Shocker: Women Outnumber Men in This Year's Tech Hires

Women represented a majority of workers filling new technology jobs created through September of this year, for the first time in at least 10 years, according to...

Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley
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Twitter Ipo Makes San Francisco the Sexy New Face of Silicon Valley

In case you haven't noticed, Silicon Valley has been pulling up some of its roots and moving north.

Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps
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Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps

In Israel, like most of the world, the universe of computer whizzes and technology entrepreneurs is overwhelmingly male.

Microsoft's New Cybercrime Center Combines Tactics Against Hacking Groups
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Microsoft's New Cybercrime Center Combines Tactics Against Hacking Groups

The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers...

Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It

The internet backbone—the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels—went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active...

Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition ­pgrade
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Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition ­pgrade

The U.S. intelligence community is pushing a leap forward in facial recognition software that will enable it to determine better the identity of people through...

The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse
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The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse

Google X is responsible for some of Google's most literally fantastic projects: Google Glass, self-driving cars, gigantic inflatable balloons that beam Internet...

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.
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They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.

At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for...

Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan
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Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan

Ten million people affected. Half a million displaced. Ten thousand feared dead.

Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts—or the Data?
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Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts—or the Data?

For many tech companies, design is no longer subjective.

How Corporate America Fights Hackers
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How Corporate America Fights Hackers

To defend themselves against hackers, some of America's largest corporations have adopted shadowy tactics usually reserved for government spies.

Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation

Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...

The False Promise of Classroom Technology
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The False Promise of Classroom Technology

The cover story of Life magazine on Oct. 16 was "U.S. Schools: They Face a Crisis."

The 'dark Side' at Work
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The 'dark Side' at Work

In a Q&A, Binghamton University's Seth Spain, an industrial psychologist, says employers should look beyond the characteristics measured by common personality...

Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data
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Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data

When technology companies get floated on the stock market, it prompts all kinds of analytical soul searching.

As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
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As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry

On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on...

What's the Nsa Going to Do With Your Data?
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What's the Nsa Going to Do With Your Data?

We are all Angela Merkel.
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