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The Newest Overhyped Mobile Industry Buzzword: Lte-Advanced
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The Newest Overhyped Mobile Industry Buzzword: Lte-Advanced

Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks.

Can Obama Convince High Schools To Teach Kids To Code?
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Can Obama Convince High Schools To Teach Kids To Code?

With President Obama making time in his latest State of the Union Address to address the national deficit in STEM education, there is now more momentum than ever...

It Training Gets an Extreme Makeover
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It Training Gets an Extreme Makeover

IT professionals who grew up on a steady diet of bite-size online videos now consider it commonplace to learn within a video-centric training environment.

Other Countries Court Skilled Immigrants Frustrated by U.S. Visa Laws
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Other Countries Court Skilled Immigrants Frustrated by U.S. Visa Laws

Business and academic leaders are concerned that U.S. immigration laws are forcing the departure of highly skilled foreigners educated in U.S. universities.  

Quantum Cryptography Put to Work For Electric Grid Security
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Quantum Cryptography Put to Work For Electric Grid Security

A quantum cryptography team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently completed the first-ever successful demonstration of securing control data for electric grids...

How to Find and Be a Good Mentor
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How to Find and Be a Good Mentor

Allison McWilliams, director of the Mentoring Resource Center at Wake Forest University, offers tips on finding a mentor and improving your own mentoring skills...

The Boy Wonder of Buzzfeed
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The Boy Wonder of Buzzfeed

"BenSmithing is now an official term!" shouted Michael Hastings, a BuzzFeed reporter and author, at his book release party in Chelsea on a subfreezing night in...

Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold
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Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold

A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...

Robocalls Are Annoying, So This Man Is ­sing Raspberry Pi to Stop Them
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Robocalls Are Annoying, So This Man Is ­sing Raspberry Pi to Stop Them

When the Federal Trade Commission told the public it would give $50,000 to anyone who could devise an effective and convenient way to stop telemarketing robocalls...

Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...

Tech Hotshots: The Rise of the ­x Expert
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Tech Hotshots: The Rise of the ­x Expert

In an age of mobility and consumer-facing technology, IT departments are putting a premium on hiring people with user experience (UX) and user interface expertise...

PAEMST Awards Now Include Computer Science
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PAEMST Awards Now Include Computer Science

For the first time ever, the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) will specifically name computer science...

New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash
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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash

The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...

Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address Touts His Efforts on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Schooling
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Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address Touts His Efforts on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Schooling

Glittering, high-tech schools of the future are fast becoming reality thanks to massive investments in education, Mayor Bloomberg said Thursday.

In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On
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In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On

Japan is renowned for its robots and bullet trains, and has some of the world's fastest broadband networks. But it also remains firmly wedded to a pre-Internet...

New Medal Honors Tech, Cyber Experts
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New Medal Honors Tech, Cyber Experts

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta has approved a new medal designed to recognize service members such as technologists and cyber personnel who directly...

Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression
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Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression

The Open Invention Network, a community set up by an IBM-led consortium in 2005 to foster a safe patent environment for developers and users of the free, open-source...

Iowa State's Mirage Lab Mixes Real and Virtual Worlds
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Iowa State's Mirage Lab Mixes Real and Virtual Worlds

Iowa State University researchers have mixed the real and virtual worlds to create Mirage, a unique research lab that uses props, technology, and stagecraft to...

Where DARPA Is Going, You Don't Need Passwords
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Where DARPA Is Going, You Don't Need Passwords

DARPA's Active Authentication program is investigating using behavioral biometrics for online identity checks to address the frailty of password-based validation...

Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home
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Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home

In the elusive dream of the automated home, visitors ring a doorbell, and it buzzes the homeowner's mobile phone. Lawn sprinklers take rainy days off. At bedtime...
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