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Hacker Knows Best: Privacy Tips from Kevin Mitnick
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Hacker Knows Best: Privacy Tips from Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick knows all the ways your privacy could be violated through your phone, computer and tablet.

New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk
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New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk

About a year ago, in a widely reported story, journalists at British newspaper the Telegraph found little black boxes installed under their desks.

Bay Area tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated
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Bay Area tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated

Tech's annual job growth in the Bay Area throttled back to 3.5 percent, or 26,700 new jobs, in 2016. That's much slower than the 6 percent annual gain of 42,300...

How Do Israel's Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly
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How Do Israel's Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly

Over the course of 30 years working in Israeli intelligence, Shmuel Bar immersed himself in the hermeneutics of terrorism.

Being Black in Tech Can Cost You $10k a Year
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Being Black in Tech Can Cost You $10k a Year

African-American technology workers receive an average $10,000 less annually than whites in New York and San Francisco, according to a survey from the Hired online...

Is the Library the New Public Square?
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Is the Library the New Public Square?

The Future of the Libraries Task Force seeks feedback on recommendations to make MIT's research library an open global platform. 

Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How to Stay Anonymous Online
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Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How to Stay Anonymous Online

Don't expect balloons and singing at a cryptoparty.

The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming...

Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?
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Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?

American manufacturing job losses to China and Mexico were a major theme of the presidential campaign, and President Trump has followed up on his promise to pressure...

IBM to Train 25 Million Africans For Free to Build Workforce
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IBM to Train 25 Million Africans For Free to Build Workforce

IBM is ramping up its digital-skills training program to accommodate as many as 25 million Africans in the next five years, looking toward building a future workforce...

As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the ­niverse Are Threatened
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As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the ­niverse Are Threatened

At its height back in 2000, the U.S. cash equities trading desk at Goldman Sachs’s New York headquarters employed 600 traders, buying and selling stock on the orders...

Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies
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Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies

Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to...

Machine Learning Method Accurately Predicts Metallic Defects
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Machine Learning Method Accurately Predicts Metallic Defects

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have built and trained machine learning algorithms to predict defect behavior in certain intermetallic compounds...

Microsoft Leads Pushback Against Trump Immigration Order
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Microsoft Leads Pushback Against Trump Immigration Order

Microsoft Corp. is asking U.S. officials to grant exceptions for law-abiding, visa-holding workers and students from President Donald Trump’s immigration order,...

Why Bill Belichick Cast Down His Tablet
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Why Bill Belichick Cast Down His Tablet

As the New England Patriots' 10th appearance in a Super Bowl approaches, sports fans are eager to see the legendary pairing of quarterback Tom Brady and head coach...

­csd Comet Supercomputer Surpasses '10,000 ­sers' Milestone
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­csd Comet Supercomputer Surpasses '10,000 ­sers' Milestone

About 15,000 users have used Comet, the petascale supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, to run science gateway jobs since the system went into production...

Federal Workers Turn to Encryption to Thwart Trump
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Federal Workers Turn to Encryption to Thwart Trump

Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking...

Botnets Could Meet Their Match in Robot Hackers
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Botnets Could Meet Their Match in Robot Hackers

Last summer the Pentagon staged a contest in Las Vegas in which high-powered computers spent 12 hours trying to hack one another in pursuit of a $2 million purse...

­.s. Reports on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
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­.s. Reports on Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has released the 2017 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report...

Tech Companies Fight Trump Immigration Order in Court
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Tech Companies Fight Trump Immigration Order in Court

Technology executives have for days assailed President Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries, framing their arguments...
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