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Sites That Pay the Shopper For Being a Seller
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Sites That Pay the Shopper For Being a Seller

Julie Medeiros thinks her taste in fashion is worth something. Turns out it is: about $50 a month.

A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan
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A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan

Every Wednesday, a bar in central Tokyo hosts an unusual speed-dating event. There are drinks and plenty of coy looks. But the young people at the bar aren’t here...

Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
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Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free

Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...

Sandia Builds Android-Based Network to Study Cyber Disruptions
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Sandia Builds Android-Based Network to Study Cyber Disruptions

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a virtual network of 300,000 handheld computing devices running the Android operating system in order...

Power, Pollution, and the Internet
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Power, Pollution, and the Internet

Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.

NY­ Experiments With Codecademy's Online Hacker Lessons
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NY­ Experiments With Codecademy's Online Hacker Lessons

New York University is teaming up with the computer programming tutorial site Codecademy to offer a free, non-credit programming class for NYU students.

How Student Coders Helped Cern Build Iphone App, Speed ­p Simulations
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How Student Coders Helped Cern Build Iphone App, Speed ­p Simulations

Google Summer of Code is one of the best deals out there both for students looking to hone their coding skills and for organizations that need cheap, talented labor...

Making Money on Mobile: The Youtube Perspective
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Making Money on Mobile: The Youtube Perspective

It's no secret that more and more content is being consumed on mobile devices. While this has been a source of stress for some web publishers like Facebook, YouTube...

Pete Koomen: The Quest For More Clicks
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Pete Koomen: The Quest For More Clicks


Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?
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Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?

Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...

'We're Literally Watching the Internet Be Rebuilt'
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'We're Literally Watching the Internet Be Rebuilt'

A new company uses big-data capabilities to decode the inner-workings of the modern Internet.

Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering
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Arturo Bejar, Facebook Director of Engineering

Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...

The Acer Smartphone That Never Was
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The Acer Smartphone That Never Was

It was going to be the big mobile-phone breakthrough Chinese e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba needed.

With Iphone 5, Apple Again Raises the Smartphone Bar
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With Iphone 5, Apple Again Raises the Smartphone Bar

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook took the stage Wednesday to unveil an eagerly awaited revamping of the company's flagship products, including the iPhone, iPod, iTunes—all...

Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout
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Facebook Boosts Voter Turnout

An experiment conducted on Facebook during the U.S. elections in 2010 demonstrates that important real-world behaviors like voting can be influenced by online social...

Game Maker Without a Rule Book
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Game Maker Without a Rule Book

This is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.

Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks
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Robots, Codebreaking, and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

On a dusk-lit beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, four miles from the northwesternmost point of the continental U.S., a man dressed in a mad scientist's white...

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.
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