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Job Hunting? Apply to Be Apple Watch Evangelist
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Job Hunting? Apply to Be Apple Watch Evangelist

The ideal candidate needs to be an "iOS app development expert" and would join the company's evangelism team, Apple posted on its jobs page late last week.

Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong
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Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine—after Getting It Wrong

It's flu season and Google has some news.

With $100 Million, Entrepreneur Sees Path to Disrupt Medical Imaging
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With $100 Million, Entrepreneur Sees Path to Disrupt Medical Imaging

A scanner the size of an iPhone that you could hold up to a person’s chest and see a vivid, moving, 3-D image of what’s inside is being developed by entrepreneur...

A Print Magazine For Hackers
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A Print Magazine For Hackers

On a Saturday afternoon earlier this summer, dozens of hackers, journalists, and activists sat on the floor in a darkened hallway of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Midtown...

Megan Smith: 'you Can Affect Billions of People'
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Megan Smith: 'you Can Affect Billions of People'

Now that you work at the White House, approximately how many times a day do you find yourself thinking, God, we did this so much better at Google?

Directing Planes, By Remote Control
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Directing Planes, By Remote Control

On a clear day, Per Granquist cannot see forever. But from his perch inside the airport control tower here, he does have an unobstructed view of the future.

Chinese Internet Censor Hints at Facebook's China Challenges
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Chinese Internet Censor Hints at Facebook's China Challenges

A senior Chinese Internet regulator on Thursday showed the hurdles Facebook could encounter trying to get into the Chinese market—no matter how impressive Mark...

Facebook, Google, and the Rise of Open Source Security Software
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Facebook, Google, and the Rise of Open Source Security Software

Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan says that people like Mike Arpaia are hard to find.

Prepare For the Part-Time Self-Driving Car
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Prepare For the Part-Time Self-Driving Car

Self-driving AI cars have been a staple in popular culture for some time—any child of the 1980s will fondly remember both the Autobots and Knight Rider's KITT—but...

Demystifying the Mooc
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Demystifying the Mooc

When massive open online courses first grabbed the spotlight in 2011, many saw in them promise of a revolutionary force that would disrupt traditional higher education...

10 Innovations For the Bank of the Future
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10 Innovations For the Bank of the Future

Around 100 of the U.K.s finest minds in the financial technology sector gathered Tuesday for the Financial News and WSJD inaugural Fintech Conference in London.

This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever
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This Guy's Quest to Track Every Shot in the Nba Changed Basketball Forever

As a kid, Kirk Goldsberry was a rabid basketball fan. But this was the 1980s, and living near Penn State meant his house wasn't quite close enough to Philadelphia...

Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon
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Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon

After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives.

Your Retirement May Include a Robot Helper
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Your Retirement May Include a Robot Helper

Youngsters aren't the only ones who get the latest high-tech gadgets.

Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode
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Future Scenarios Show How Easily Ebola Could Explode

Just how bad will the Ebola outbreak in West Africa get?

The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put a Man on the Moon
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The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put a Man on the Moon


­sing Drones to Make Peace, Not War
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­sing Drones to Make Peace, Not War

Amin Rigi says drones should be used to save lives, not spy or kill.

Christine Kenneally's 'invisible History of the Human Race'
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Christine Kenneally's 'invisible History of the Human Race'

Of Christine Kenneally’s father’s father—a man neither Kenneally nor her father ever knew, a man who did the deed requisite to reproduction and promptly vanished—she...

Google, Oxford ­niversity Partner in Artificial Intelligence Research
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Google, Oxford ­niversity Partner in Artificial Intelligence Research

Following Google's acquisition of the secretive firm DeepMind, the tech giant has teamed up with Oxford University to research artificial intelligence.

Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts

The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.
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