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Power (of Electronics) to the People
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Power (of Electronics) to the People

MIT Media Lab alumna and entrepreneur Ayah Bdeir SM '06 wants to help all people worldwide, tech savvy or not, understand and build creatively with electronics.

What Secrets Your Phone Is Sharing About You
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What Secrets Your Phone Is Sharing About You

Fan Zhang, the owner of Happy Child, a trendy Asian restaurant in downtown Toronto, knows that 170 of his customers went clubbing in November.

IT Pros Get Training on Their Own Dime
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IT Pros Get Training on Their Own Dime

IT spending may be on the rise, but training budgets are not. That's left many IT professionals shouldering more of their own training costs as they seek to keep...

Why Google Bought Nest: A Theory
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Why Google Bought Nest: A Theory

Google is acquiring Nest, makers of a smart thermostat, for a reported $3.2 billion.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Job
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Job

It's no coincidence that Sanjeev Agrawal, the co-founder and chief executive of Collegefeed, compares finding a job with dating.

Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar For New Hires
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Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar For New Hires

In fulfilling online orders, Amazon.com Inc. is all about expediency. The fewer people involved the better.

No Wyoming Students Took the Ap Computer Science Exam Last Year
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No Wyoming Students Took the Ap Computer Science Exam Last Year

In 2013, no female students took the AP computer science examin three states (Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming).

IBM Doubles Down on Watson
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IBM Doubles Down on Watson

IBM plans to jumpstart Watson with a $100-million venture fund to build a business around the supercomputer that famously beat two human champions at the TV game...

Boost Careers of Female Scientists: Let Women Help Choose Symposia Speakers
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Boost Careers of Female Scientists: Let Women Help Choose Symposia Speakers

Women are notoriously underrepresented in senior academic science positions. New research suggests that putting more women in decision-making roles on the teams...

Meet Alphalem, an Open Source Brain Just for Robots
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Meet Alphalem, an Open Source Brain Just for Robots

For years, robotics was the domain of massively rich corporations.

How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success
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How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success

When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...

Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics
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Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics

A new year is a good time to make long-term plans, and NASA has jumped into the deep end of planning.

Catching (radio) Waves
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Catching (radio) Waves

In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to...

James Kuffner, Google Robotics Researcher
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James Kuffner, Google Robotics Researcher

At a racetrack in Florida this weekend, 16 robots competed to complete a series of tasks inspired by challenges faced in cleaning up the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi...

How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research

One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...

Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down
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Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down

Depending on whom you ask, the coming year is supposed to be the one during which server chips based on the ARM architecture that is now so popular in smartphones...

Employers Receptive to Hiring It Job Candidates With Mooc Educations
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Employers Receptive to Hiring It Job Candidates With Mooc Educations

IT professionals looking to advance their careers can benefit from taking a MOOC, employers say.

'become an Ios Developer in 8 Weeks': The Truth About Hack Schools
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'become an Ios Developer in 8 Weeks': The Truth About Hack Schools

After the design firm where he worked as a web developer went under, Ray S. turned the bad news into an opportunity to transition into iOS development.

Ceos Tend to Overstay Their Welcome, Hurting Firm Performance, New Study Finds
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Ceos Tend to Overstay Their Welcome, Hurting Firm Performance, New Study Finds

The longer CEOs stay in power — and a new study suggests most exceed the optimal tenure length by about three years — the more likely the executives are to limit...

An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'

Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.
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