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Get a Security Boost: Add More Women to Your Cyber Team
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Get a Security Boost: Add More Women to Your Cyber Team

A dearth of women in IT and cybersecurity positions may be playing a role in the frequent failure of enterprise cybersecurity strategies and defense, according...

Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead
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Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead

With the successful launch just hours ago of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has passed the first test in its bid to orbit the Red Planet. Next up is a nail...

Sportvision Wants to Take You (Home) to the Ball Game
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Sportvision Wants to Take You (Home) to the Ball Game

These days, you'd be forgiven if you're more excited about watching the "big game"—whether that's football, basketball, hockey—on TV rather than from inside a sports...

Will the Next Nate Silver Please Stand ­p?
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Will the Next Nate Silver Please Stand ­p?

Ever since Nate Silver made a splash with his freakishly accurate election predictions, all sorts of companies have been looking for their own rock-star data scientists...

University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
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University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School

Recent engineering graduate Mike McCauley is living the dream.

The Clever Circuit That Doubles Bandwidth
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The Clever Circuit That Doubles Bandwidth

A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...

Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking

The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...

Moocs Data Offers Promise of Perfect Teaching
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Moocs Data Offers Promise of Perfect Teaching

When students learn online, every mouse click is tracked.

Making Robots More Like ­S
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Making Robots More Like ­S

On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...

Two-Hit Wonder
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Two-Hit Wonder

Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06.

The Exciting $3 Trillion Promise of Open Data
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The Exciting $3 Trillion Promise of Open Data

The world is awash in data that's in the public domain but mostly goes to waste.

Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
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Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes

How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?

Lavabit Founder Says He Fought Feds to Protect the Constitution
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Lavabit Founder Says He Fought Feds to Protect the Constitution

Like a story straight out of the universe of Franz Kafka, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison found himself before a judge in Washington, representing himself against...

All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines

On the evening of February 12, 2009, a Continental Connection commuter flight made its way through blustery weather between Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New...

There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't
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There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't

"I’m just not a math person."

Information Systems Job Index Shows Healthy Market For College Grads
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Information Systems Job Index Shows Healthy Market For College Grads

Despite a 7.2 percent national unemployment rate, the U.S. job market is a healthy one for college students majoring in information systems, with nearly three...

Haunted House Business Gets Boost As Techs ­p Thrill Ante
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Haunted House Business Gets Boost As Techs ­p Thrill Ante

Ed Terebus was an 18-year-old high school student when he and his big brother Jim, a laid-off auto worker, decided to build their first haunted house 34 years ago...

­.k. Official ­rges ­.s. Government to Adopt a Digital Core
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­.k. Official ­rges ­.s. Government to Adopt a Digital Core

When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day.

Hiring in the Age of Big Data
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Hiring in the Age of Big Data

Wasabi Waiter looks a lot like hundreds of other simple online games.

Private-Sector IT Pros to See 5.6 Percent Average Pay Boost in 2014
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Private-Sector IT Pros to See 5.6 Percent Average Pay Boost in 2014

The average base compensation for U.S. IT professionals is expected to rise an average 5.6 percent in 2014, with tech salaries seeing the largest gains among all...
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