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Silicon Valley's Data Gurus Lure Defense Customers

Silicon Valley's biggest names are betting on data gurus to analyze the fire hose of information on the Web—and it turns out that military and federal government...

The Education of Mark Zuckerberg
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The Education of Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is ready for his close-up.

Why Do Our Best and Brightest End ­p in Silicon Valley and Not D.c.?
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Why Do Our Best and Brightest End ­p in Silicon Valley and Not D.c.?

Recently I visited one of the primary ventricles of Silicon Valley's investment culture, Google Ventures.

Deaf Ibm Researcher Scoffs at Not Talking on the Phone
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Deaf Ibm Researcher Scoffs at Not Talking on the Phone

IBM research scientist Dimitri Kanevsky develops technologies that help people with hearing loss to communicate. He was honored at a White House ceremony this...

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Microsoft's New Lab Hunts For Value in User Data

A new research lab that opens in New York today brings together researchers studying such questions as how to identify the most influential users of a social network...

Don't Be Evil, but Don't Miss the Train
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Don't Be Evil, but Don't Miss the Train

Back in 2004, as Google prepared to go public, Larry Page and Sergey Brin celebrated the maxim that was supposed to define their company: "Don’t be evil."

Robots Fighting Wars Could Be Blamed For Mistakes on the Battlefield
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Robots Fighting Wars Could Be Blamed For Mistakes on the Battlefield

Humans apply a moderate amount of morality and other human characteristics to robots that are equipped with social capabilities and are capable of harming humans...

Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
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Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking

In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...

Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub
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Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub

Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...

Move Over, Eye Candy. Here Comes the Business Tech Boom
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Move Over, Eye Candy. Here Comes the Business Tech Boom

Sometimes an IPO is more than just another IPO, and that's the case with Palo Alto Networks, which has just filed to go public.

The Enemy Within
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The Enemy Within

Companies' IT staffs often hold the keys to the castle. And that's the problem.

Cell Service Providers Are Liberally Peddling Your Private Data
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Cell Service Providers Are Liberally Peddling Your Private Data

Federal data privacy laws are obsolete and should be reformed, says Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Stanford Grad Student Investigates Online Privacy
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Stanford Grad Student Investigates Online Privacy

Stanford's Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising and Privacy last year was attended by executives from big valley tech companies, important privacy researchers...

Google's Grand Plan
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Google's Grand Plan

In a typical month, David Lawee meets two dozen founders of new companies. He grills them on their businesses, their ambitions, their funding, and their clever...

Computer System Identifies Liars
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Computer System Identifies Liars

In a study of 40 cases, a computer correctly identified liars more than 80 percent of the time, a better rate than humans with the naked eye typically achieve in...

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...

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...

­spto and Autm Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative
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­spto and Autm Announce Joint Patent Examiners Training Initiative

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Association of University Technology Managers, a nonprofit organization, have launched a specialized training program...

Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says

In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...

How To Kill Patent Trolls
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How To Kill Patent Trolls

Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...
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