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It's Not Game Over For Pinball
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It's Not Game Over For Pinball

The game peaked in the early 1990s, when pinball machines filled dark arcades and backrooms of bowling alleys.

New Video Games Mirror Debates About Data Privacy, Hacking
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New Video Games Mirror Debates About Data Privacy, Hacking

A man shuffles down the street, phone in hand.

A Titan's How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling
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A Titan's How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write "Lean In," her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty...

The Quantified Man: How an Obsolete Tech Guy Rebuilt Himself for the Future
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The Quantified Man: How an Obsolete Tech Guy Rebuilt Himself for the Future

Tesco—the company that runs a chain of grocery stores across Great Britain—uses digital armbands to track the performance of its warehouse staff.

U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms

The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...

Private ­.s. Firms Take Major Role Vs. Cyberattacks
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Private ­.s. Firms Take Major Role Vs. Cyberattacks

When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn't have to consult...

The Newest Overhyped Mobile Industry Buzzword: Lte-Advanced
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The Newest Overhyped Mobile Industry Buzzword: Lte-Advanced

Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks.

It Training Gets an Extreme Makeover
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It Training Gets an Extreme Makeover

IT professionals who grew up on a steady diet of bite-size online videos now consider it commonplace to learn within a video-centric training environment.

How to Find and Be a Good Mentor
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How to Find and Be a Good Mentor

Allison McWilliams, director of the Mentoring Resource Center at Wake Forest University, offers tips on finding a mentor and improving your own mentoring skills...

The Boy Wonder of Buzzfeed
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The Boy Wonder of Buzzfeed

"BenSmithing is now an official term!" shouted Michael Hastings, a BuzzFeed reporter and author, at his book release party in Chelsea on a subfreezing night in...

Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold
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Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold

A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...

Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...

Tech Hotshots: The Rise of the ­x Expert
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Tech Hotshots: The Rise of the ­x Expert

In an age of mobility and consumer-facing technology, IT departments are putting a premium on hiring people with user experience (UX) and user interface expertise...

New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash
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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash

The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...

Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address Touts His Efforts on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Schooling
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Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City Address Touts His Efforts on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Schooling

Glittering, high-tech schools of the future are fast becoming reality thanks to massive investments in education, Mayor Bloomberg said Thursday.

Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression
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Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression

The Open Invention Network, a community set up by an IBM-led consortium in 2005 to foster a safe patent environment for developers and users of the free, open-source...

Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home
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Smartthings Aims to Deliver the Internet-Connected Home

In the elusive dream of the automated home, visitors ring a doorbell, and it buzzes the homeowner's mobile phone. Lawn sprinklers take rainy days off. At bedtime...

Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause
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Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause

What do computer programmers and illegal immigrants have to do with each other?

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Cyber Command to Hire Thousands of Troops, Civilians

The Pentagon plans a massive expansion of the joint U.S. Cyber Command, potentially creating a rare pocket of job growth for troops in a force otherwise constrained...

Pentagon Creates New Medal For Cyber, Drone Wars
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Pentagon Creates New Medal For Cyber, Drone Wars

They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.
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