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Drone Home
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Drone Home

A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...

Facebook, It's Time For a Break
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Facebook, It's Time For a Break

We all have that friend who has stubbornly disappeared from Facebook at one time or another, only to reappear some weeks or months later.

Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says
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Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says

Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels, and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all...

Award Will Accelerate Research on ­AV Simulations ­sing Supercomputers
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Award Will Accelerate Research on ­AV Simulations ­sing Supercomputers

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded Wu Feng, associate professor at Virginia Tech, and his colleagues a project to improve the simulation speed...

Study Finds American CEOs Are Worth Their Paychecks
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Study Finds American CEOs Are Worth Their Paychecks

A University of Virginia Darden School of Business study finds that American CEOs are worth their paychecks.

Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars

In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...

Cheaper Broadband Will Close the 'digital Divide,' Expert Says
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Cheaper Broadband Will Close the 'digital Divide,' Expert Says

Low-income city residents learn to use broadband through public programs, but they will not get home broadband until it costs less — and government must help make...

Samsung Plans to Conquer Silicon Valley
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Samsung Plans to Conquer Silicon Valley

Last December, a piece in the MIT Technology Review revealed that Young Sohn, Samsung Electronics' new Silicon Valley-based chief strategy officer, uses Apple products...

Inside Michael Dell's World
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Inside Michael Dell's World

Michael Dell is close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take private the computer company he founded nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to remake Dell Inc...

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook

Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...

Researcher ­sing Snail Teeth to Improve Solar Cells and Batteries
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Researcher ­sing Snail Teeth to Improve Solar Cells and Batteries

The teeth of the chiton, a marine snail found off the coast of California, may provide clues to the development of nanoscale materials for solar cells and lithium...

Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View

The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.

License Will Lead to Faster-Charging Batteries for Phones, Electric Vehicles
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License Will Lead to Faster-Charging Batteries for Phones, Electric Vehicles

An enhanced battery technology developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been licensed to Vorbeck Materials. The technology could reduce the time it...

Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy
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Addressing the Complexities of Meritocracy

MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...

Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion
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Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion

Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world's top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc's iPhone, is trying to raise participation in...

20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads of Money
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20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads of Money

If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average U.S. citizen.

Meet the Programming Language That Uses Arabic Script
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Meet the Programming Language That Uses Arabic Script

A computer scientist has written the first programming language based on Arabic script. Named "heart" in Arabic, the language is "the first programming language...

Microsoft to Big Data Programmers: Try F#
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Microsoft to Big Data Programmers: Try F#

Microsoft researcher Don Syme notes that one primary difference between F# and other programming languages is that F# is a functional-first language and, in many...

Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market
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Otis Elevator Vies For the Ultratall Skyscraper Market

The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the first of a breed of ultratall buildings that will exceed 3,000 feet in height. That's more than twice as tall...
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