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Apple Needs More Than A Good Lawyer in China
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Apple Needs More Than A Good Lawyer in China

Apple has no problem getting Chinese consumers to desire its products, as a near-riot outside its Beijing store showed in January. But the U.S. tech giant has been...

Georgia Tech Develops Braille-Like Texting App
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Georgia Tech Develops Braille-Like Texting App

Georgia Tech researchers have designed a texting solution that could become a modern substitute for passing notes under the table. BrailleTouch is a prototype...

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U.s. Manufacturing Sees Shortage of Skilled Factory Workers

This stretch of the Rust Belt might seem like an easy place to find factory workers.

Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups

Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...

Silicon Valley Sets Up Shop in New York
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Silicon Valley Sets Up Shop in New York

Start spreadin' the news: Silicon Valley is invading New York. In the past year, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, game maker Zynga, and other technology players have opened...

What Dropbox Can Teach ­S About Cloud Computing
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What Dropbox Can Teach ­S About Cloud Computing

Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.

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Fbi Seeks Social Media Monitoring Tool

The goal is to use the tool to keep on top of breaking events, incidents and emerging threats, the agency said in a recent Request for Information from IT vendors...

Why Nasa's Really Into Making Video Games
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Why Nasa's Really Into Making Video Games

Most people think of NASA as an organization full of rocket scientists. But while the U.S. space agency has spent decades launching spaceships and working on other...

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The Age of Big Data

Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

Building a 'blind-Friendly' Internet
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Building a 'blind-Friendly' Internet

Rakesh Babu, a blind assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, says the Internet is critical to education and social interaction in today’s...

Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion
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Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion

For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.

Mitx Prototype Course Opens For Enrollment
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Mitx Prototype Course Opens For Enrollment

In December, MIT announced the launch of an online learning initiative called "MITx." Starting this week, interested learners can now enroll for free in the initiative’s...

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Tides Are Changing For Web Surfers

David Weinberger has a new book out entitled Too Big to Know in which he argues that one of the implications of a comprehensively networked society is that the...

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Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein

Google's very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy.

How One Kitchen Table in Brooklyn Became a School for Coders
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How One Kitchen Table in Brooklyn Became a School for Coders

Every week at a kitchen table in Brooklyn, coders Amit Pitaru and David Nolen host a salon/workshop called Kitchen Table Coders, bringing together a small group...

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'cyberspace Requires a World-Class Cyber Warrior'

With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central...

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Facebook Woos Investors With an Eye for Start-­ps

Facebook Inc., with an eye toward future business relationships, wants to be friends with more social-media start-ups.

The Future of Hiring: Human Resources, Without the Humans
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The Future of Hiring: Human Resources, Without the Humans

Imagine a scenario where your next job interview isn't face-to-face, but face-to-screen. There are no questions about your former work experience and office habits...

Api: Three Letters That Change Life, the ­niverse, and Even Detroit
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Api: Three Letters That Change Life, the ­niverse, and Even Detroit

Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date—or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date.

Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion
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Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion

There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest of all. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he's taken...
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