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The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer
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The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer

Americans are discarding a growing pile of electronics.

Job Applicants' Cultural Fit Can Trump Qualifications
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Job Applicants' Cultural Fit Can Trump Qualifications

"Cultural fit" is becoming a popular buzzword with hiring managers. In order to evaluate the cultural fit of a candidate, companies are increasingly making hiring...

Engineers Working to Help Biologists Cope with Big Data
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Engineers Working to Help Biologists Cope with Big Data

Iowa State computer and electrical engineers are developing computing tools to help biologists analyze all of the data that is commonly produced by today's research...

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Tiny Tools Help Advance Medical Discoveries

To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from...

Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs

It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.

Big Data, Java and Other Developer Skills: Top Hiring Priorities
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Big Data, Java and Other Developer Skills: Top Hiring Priorities

Big data-related jobs ranked fourth among the top information technology skills hiring executives are looking for in 2013, according to a recent Dice.com survey...

Project Login Aims to Double State's Computer Science Graduation Rate
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Project Login Aims to Double State's Computer Science Graduation Rate

The University of Maine and Educate Maine recently launched Project Login, which aims to double the number of computer science and information technology graduates...

5 Nerds to Watch in 2013
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5 Nerds to Watch in 2013

When Steve Jobs died, there was a lot of talk about who would be the next Steve Jobs. But the truth is, rarely can one person reshape the future. And breakthroughs...

Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export

To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...

If Tech Is So Important, Why Are It Wages Flat?
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If Tech Is So Important, Why Are It Wages Flat?

Despite technology's increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat, with the sluggish economy getting most of the blame for...

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?

I couldn't help thinking of John Le Carré's spy novels as I awaited my rendezvous with Jaron Lanier in a corner of the lobby of the stylish W Hotel just off Union...

Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt

The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.

Agile Developers Needed, Demand Outpaces Supply: Study
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Agile Developers Needed, Demand Outpaces Supply: Study

The number of advertised agile software development jobs outnumbers active candidates by 4.59 to one, according to a recent Yoh Services study.

No Women in Cs? Well, Not For Long
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No Women in Cs? Well, Not For Long

Stanford University students Ayna Agarwal and Ellora Israni recently founded she++, a Stanford community for women in tech.

Marking the Birth of the Modern-Day Internet
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Marking the Birth of the Modern-Day Internet

A long time ago, my colleagues and I became part of a great adventure, teamed with a small band of scientists and technologists in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China
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Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China

One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back...

Ftc Offers $50,000 Reward to Help Stop Robocalls
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Ftc Offers $50,000 Reward to Help Stop Robocalls

Unwanted telemarketing calls, trademarked for interrupting dinners across the nation, have become such a nuisance over the years that the Federal Trade Commission...

Social Media: Five Predictions For 2013
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Social Media: Five Predictions For 2013

When you think of social media these days, you probably think primarily of Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps Instagram. But while those services have massive—and...

China Tightens Internet Controls, Legalizes Post Deletion
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China Tightens Internet Controls, Legalizes Post Deletion

China unveiled tighter Internet controls on Friday, legalizing the deletion of posts or pages which are deemed to contain "illegal" information and requiring service...

Loreto College Pioneering Best-Practice in Computer Science Education
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Loreto College Pioneering Best-Practice in Computer Science Education

Loreto College in Northern Ireland recently hosted a Java programming course for teachers. The course is a response to a growing demand from pupils and the information...
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