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Overconfident CEOs Are Better Innovators, Research Shows
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Overconfident CEOs Are Better Innovators, Research Shows

New research reveals overconfident CEOs are more likely to pursue riskier projects with potentially greater rewards. The findings are published in the latest edition...

Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders
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Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders

Public schools in Estonia will soon have a curriculum for teaching web and mobile application development to students as early as first grade.

How Shazam Stayed On Top By Reinventing Itself—twice
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How Shazam Stayed On Top By Reinventing Itself—twice

Naming that tune has been the name of Shazam’s game for more than decade. But should you confuse Shazam for a predictable, tired old company, you're even more clueless...

Cellphone Medical Test Wins Npr's 'big Idea' Contest
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Cellphone Medical Test Wins Npr's 'big Idea' Contest

Most of us would like to make life better for people in developing countries. Most of us don't do anything about it. Catherine Wong is different.

Should the Boss Learn to Code?
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Should the Boss Learn to Code?

Learning to write code has become something of a trendy thing to do. But is it necessary? Among European entrepreneurs polled by The Wall Street Journal, the answer...

Visiting the White House, 'Anytime, Anywhere, and on Any Device'
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Visiting the White House, 'Anytime, Anywhere, and on Any Device'

The White House has launched a mobile program that includes a mobile-friendly WhiteHouse.gov website, revamped mobile apps, and the release of source code for the...

Tech Jobs Are All Across America
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Tech Jobs Are All Across America

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute recently released a report that presents a county-by-county picture of how high-tech jobs are distributed throughout the...

Key Skills Pay Off in Fast-Evolving World of Mobile App Development
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Key Skills Pay Off in Fast-Evolving World of Mobile App Development

As demand for mobile app developers continues to increase, some universities are beginning to offer the type of basic training that is essential to a career in...

Using YouTube to Assess and Supplement Online Learning
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Using YouTube to Assess and Supplement Online Learning

As online learning steadily becomes the norm, it is important that more educators are aware of the tools they can incorporate into their classrooms — such as Skype...

The Security Skills Shortage Is Worse Than You Think
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The Security Skills Shortage Is Worse Than You Think

Enterprise employers and security specialists are increasingly growing concerned about what some see as a deepening skills shortage in the information technology...

Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson in Sharing
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Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson in Sharing

Some Silicon Valley companies are instituting pair programming in which two people share a desk and a computer, with one programmer designated a driver who mans...

Make Your Own Action Figures With a 3-D Printer
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Make Your Own Action Figures With a 3-D Printer

Computer graphics researchers at Cornell and Harvard have created software that will translate a character from a movie or video game, or even something you've...

Game Maker Valve Software Recruits Hardware Experts
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Game Maker Valve Software Recruits Hardware Experts

Valve Software has started searching for hardware engineers.

The Joys of ­rban Tech
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The Joys of ­rban Tech

For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's...

One-of-a-Kind Smartphone Lab Takes Shape at ­b
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One-of-a-Kind Smartphone Lab Takes Shape at ­b

University at Buffalo researchers are enlisting hundreds of students to build an unprecedented smartphone network that will provide scientists with ready access...

A Peace Corps For Civic-Minded Geeks
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A Peace Corps For Civic-Minded Geeks

The nonprofit Code for America, a kind of Peace Corps for geeks, has led the way in bringing online efficiency to offline government systems, picking a team of...

Making Web Applications More Efficient
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Making Web Applications More Efficient

A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.

New Program Joins Computer Science and Design Experts at ­W, Tsinghua ­niversity
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New Program Joins Computer Science and Design Experts at ­W, Tsinghua ­niversity

Computer science, HCI, and design students from the University of Washington and Beijing's Tsinghua University collaborated this summer developing ways that technology...

Six Home Truths About 'Rock Star' Developers
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Six Home Truths About 'Rock Star' Developers

You want the best and the brightest money can buy. Or do you? In fact, you're better served by a group of developers with mixed skill levels who focus on getting...

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Painful Birth For Europe's New One-Stop Patent

That Europe needs a common patent is patently obvious to Michael Setton, who runs a tiny technology firm in France making wireless sensors that track environmental...
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