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Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2013
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Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2013

On Monday, the research firm laid out "10 critical tech trends for the next five years." Tuesday, it took a look at a little closer in, providing a list of the...

In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?
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In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers?

Guitar teacher Erich Andreas works from a basement studio in Nashville, Tenn. His classroom, though, is the world itself.

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The Tech Job Market Keeps Heating ­p, But Not for Everybody

At first glance, you might think that anyone with up-to-date IT skills and a few years of work experience has it made in the shade.

Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy
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Stanford Grads' Companies Combined Equals 10th Largest Economy

If companies founded by Stanford graduates formed an independent nation, it would be the 10th largest economy in the world, according to a new study by two Stanford...

How Startups Are Killing Off Bosses
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How Startups Are Killing Off Bosses

The most innovative tech companies today are building work cultures that rely on "peer management" instead of traditional hierarchical structures.

Drivers' Ed for Robots
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Drivers' Ed for Robots

How do you teach a robot to get into vehicle and drive it? Three University of Delaware professors plan to figure it out as part of a team competing in a new U...

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Nasa Selects Early-Stage Innovation Proposals From 10 ­niversities

NASA has selected 10 university-led proposals for study of innovative, early-stage space technologies designed to improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft...

Training Your Robot the Par-Par Way
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Training Your Robot the Par-Par Way

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute have developed a biology-friendly, easy-to-use robot programming language...

Automakers Can Monitor Social Media to Identify Quality Issues
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Automakers Can Monitor Social Media to Identify Quality Issues

Virginia Tech researchers evaluate a new process and decision support system to identify and prioritize automotive defects using social media.

In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm
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In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm

A Des Moines television station has turned off the lights on the city's Weather Beacon, igniting a tempest among residents who were raised to look downtown for...

U.S. Tech Workers By the Numbers
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U.S. Tech Workers By the Numbers

The percentage of tech workers in the American workforce stayed constant from 2010 to 2011 at 5.2%, according to a new survey on demographics, occupation, and earnings...

Glove Keyboard May Alter ­se of Devices with One Hand
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Glove Keyboard May Alter ­se of Devices with One Hand

Students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville have designed a tool that could create new ways to interact with electronic devices using just one hand. It's...

Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8
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Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8

Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...

At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years

Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.

OSU Simulation Lab Will Study Driver Distraction and More
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OSU Simulation Lab Will Study Driver Distraction and More

The new $1.3 million Ohio State University Driving Simulation Laboratory will be the most technologically sophisticated lab of its kind in Ohio and will help...

Venture Competition Awards $50,000 to Digital Innovators
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Venture Competition Awards $50,000 to Digital Innovators

The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business recently announced the winners of its...

ORNL Wins Grants for Solar Power Research
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ORNL Wins Grants for Solar Power Research

In a push to lower the cost of solar power, the U.S. Department of Energy has funded two projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory focused on improving concentrating...

Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
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Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers

The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.

Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?
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Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?

Sodium could be an effective, inexpensive, and virtually inexhaustible substitute for lithium in rechargeable batteries, but it has a drawback that Michigan Tech's...

Information Wants to Be Shared, E-Book Says
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Information Wants to Be Shared, E-Book Says

A new ebook from Harvard Business Review Press takes a fresh examination of the economics of information selling in the digital age. What information really wants...
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