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Genetics Inspired Research Prevents Cyber Attacks
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Genetics Inspired Research Prevents Cyber Attacks

Leveraging the concept of "survival of the fittest," Wake Forest University researchers are fighting the continual evolution of computer viruses, worms and malware...

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...

Electrical Engineers Build 'no-Waste' Laser
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Electrical Engineers Build 'no-Waste' Laser

A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a...

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.

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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Still Creating Otherworldly Adventures

When the special-effects whiz and director Douglas Trumbull receives a special Oscar on Saturday—the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for filmmakers "whose technological...

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Welcome to the Desktop Degree

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, in 1995 to be precise, a scholar named Eli Noam published an article in the prestigious journal Science under the titleElectronics...

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Facebook's Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery

So the numbers are out, and we know that Facebook’s ad business really is huge. And it really is growing like a weed.

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Take That, Cornell! Stanford and Columbia Partner (in Manhattan and the Valley) for Media Innovation

New York is a city bursting with media companies who love technology. Silicon Valley is an incubator for technology talent in love with (and beloved by) the media...

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David Karp, Founder of Tumblr, on Realizing His Dream

David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo. With a smattering of Japanese and a...

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What The Fbi Wants In A Social Media Monitoring App

The FBI has raised eyebrows in the tech world with a public document that asks for advice on how to harvest information from social networking sites.

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Companies Worry About Sec's Advice to Disclose Cyberthreats

Deluged by cyberattacks they've mostly hidden from the public, companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are being prodded by federal regulators to finally fess...

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No More R

Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst.

Ncsa Blue Waters Project Selects Globus Online For Data Movement
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Ncsa Blue Waters Project Selects Globus Online For Data Movement

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen Globus Online as the data movement solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer, set for deployment...

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Social Media Predicting Stock Moves Spawn Sentiment Firms

The torrent of posts on Twitter Inc. last year about Netflix Inc. might have tipped off investors to stock swings that erased about $8 billion from the movie-rental...

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How ­.s. Lost Out on Iphone Work

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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