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National Study Ranks City Governments' ­se of Social Media
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National Study Ranks City Governments' ­se of Social Media

Six times as many big-city governments reached citizens via Facebook in 2011 compared to 2009. Use of YouTube and Twitter grew fourfold and threefold respectively...

Researchers ­nveil Robot Jellyfish Built on Nanotechnology
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Researchers ­nveil Robot Jellyfish Built on Nanotechnology

UT Dallas and Virginia Tech researchers have created an undersea vehicle inspired by the common jellyfish that runs on renewable energy.

The Digital Economy: Yes, We're Failing You
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The Digital Economy: Yes, We're Failing You

Students in the European Union are not acquiring the computer skills which are now arguably as important as basic literacy and math, and the future of the global...

NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
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NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images

One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students...

Why Women Make Better Bosses
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Why Women Make Better Bosses

Women make better bosses. That's the finding of a new report, which found that women in management positions lead in a more democratic way, allow employees to...

Six Research Teams Begin ­sing Blue Waters Early Science System
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Six Research Teams Begin ­sing Blue Waters Early Science System

Six research teams have begun using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer to study some of the most challenging problems in science...

Community Colleges Should ­rge Women to Pursue Science and Math Careers, Report Says
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Community Colleges Should ­rge Women to Pursue Science and Math Careers, Report Says

An Institute for Women's Policy Research report calls on community colleges to encourage female students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering,...

Twelve Things Experienced Employees Know That Make Life Better
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Twelve Things Experienced Employees Know That Make Life Better

Being a great employee isn't just about doing the work. Experienced employees have learned skills that have helped them become more productive and successful...

Tech Firms Go Far and Wide For Space
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Tech Firms Go Far and Wide For Space

When Google Inc. bought a former freight warehouse in Manhattan in December 2010, the firm occupied about half a million of the total 2.9 million square feet of...

Sdsc's 'big Data' Expertise Aiding Genomics Research
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Sdsc's 'big Data' Expertise Aiding Genomics Research

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has in the last three years remade itself into a center of expertise on all aspects...

Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun
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Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun

For Jacob Arriola, a business development manager for a Spanish media company in Los Angeles, learning to program wasn't a necessity. But figuring it might help...

American Students Don't Want To Go Into Tech Because Of Their Colleges
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American Students Don't Want To Go Into Tech Because Of Their Colleges

Technology is one of the few sectors that isn't suffering from unemployment, yet there isn't enough talent to fill positions, and it's because colleges are doing...

The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It
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The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It

For those of you reluctant to welcome our new robot overloads, it might be time to reconsider your stance.

Apple Widens Its Lead in Survey of App Developers
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Apple Widens Its Lead in Survey of App Developers

Apple has cemented its dominance as the most popular mobile platform among application developers while Google's Android has receded and Research In Motion's devices...

Sharing Patents With Competitors May Encourage Innovation
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Sharing Patents With Competitors May Encourage Innovation

Firms that make a previously patented innovation accessible to competitors increase overall likelihood of improving upon that breakthrough while also raising profits...

Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars
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Report Reveals Google's Strong Position vs. Facebook in Mobile App Wars

A new Appcelerator/IDC survey shows that mobile developers view Google and its broad range of assets as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. The...

Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here
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Brain Drain: Where Cobol Systems Go From Here

A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...

Examining Why Women Students Abandon Math and Science Majors
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Examining Why Women Students Abandon Math and Science Majors

Roxanne Hughes' recently completed doctoral dissertation identifies a variety of factors that influence female undergraduates as they make a decision about their...

­ltracold Experiments Heat ­p Quantum Research
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­ltracold Experiments Heat ­p Quantum Research

Physicists have experimentally demonstrated that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems of vastly...

Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness
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Student-Designed Robots Take on March Madness

Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...
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