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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple

Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...

Software Tools to Assure Security of Smartphones
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Software Tools to Assure Security of Smartphones

"Catastrophe is all but inevitable if cyber security measures fail to match the sophistication of saboteurs," says Suraj Kothari, Richardson Professor in Electrical...

IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps
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IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps

IBM has announced its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge for mobile software developers to create applications that use its Watson cognitive computing platform on...

Social Media’s 'law' of Short Messages
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Social Media’s 'law' of Short Messages

A newly published study shows a regular decline in the length of social media messages during public events as the volume of messages increases.

TrustyCon's RSA Conference Rebels Promise More to Come
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TrustyCon's RSA Conference Rebels Promise More to Come

What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...

How an ­nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
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How an ­nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website

Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...

Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (it Isn't as Awesome as You Think)
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Imagine Getting 30 Job Offers a Month (it Isn't as Awesome as You Think)

David Heinemeier Hansson is a book author, a public speaker, a photographer, a father, a race car driver, and the founder and CTO of the productivity software firm ...

Ibm to Take Watson Mobile with Developer Challenge
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Ibm to Take Watson Mobile with Developer Challenge

IBM wants to bring its Jeopardy!-winning cognitive computing system Watson to the mobile industry.

The ­nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World
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The ­nlikely Tale of How Arm Came to Rule the World

This is a story about ARM Holdings, the mobile technology company.

Mobile Privacy Sells in Post-Snowden World
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Mobile Privacy Sells in Post-Snowden World

Following the Snowden snooping revelations, there is growing interest in a range of mobile phone products with one central selling point: privacy.

The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook
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The Joy of Teaching Computer Science in the Age of Facebook

Over the last two decades, it can be argued, no area of study has seen larger growth in span and general application than computer science.

The Political Science of Cybersecurity III—How International Relations Theory Shapes U.S. Cybersecurity Doctrine
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The Political Science of Cybersecurity III—How International Relations Theory Shapes U.S. Cybersecurity Doctrine

U.S. cybersecurity officials have been much more skeptical about international cooperation than their Cold War counterparts were.

The Rags-To-Riches Tale of How Jan Koum Built Whatsapp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby
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The Rags-To-Riches Tale of How Jan Koum Built Whatsapp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby

Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist...

Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role
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Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role

Q. What leadership lessons have you learned from your predecessor, Steve Ballmer?

Forget Its Hotels, Sochi's Tech Has Been ­p For the Olympic Challenge
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Forget Its Hotels, Sochi's Tech Has Been ­p For the Olympic Challenge

The scale and grandeur of the Winter Olympics in Sochi is estimated to have cost Russia an astronomical $46 billion.

Reporting From the Web's ­nderbelly
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Reporting From the Web's ­nderbelly

In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebs's identity a half dozen times, brought down his website, included his name and some unpleasant...

Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain ­sing Amazon's Cloud
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Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain ­sing Amazon's Cloud

Nothing beats a movie recommendation from a friend who knows your tastes.

Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences
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Yahoo Expands Research Labs in Search of Personalized, Mobile Experiences

There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...

Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Says App 'gone Forever' Because It Was 'an Addictive Product'
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Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Says App 'gone Forever' Because It Was 'an Addictive Product'

The mysterious developer of the world's most popular free app, who drew global attention this past weekend with his sudden decision to remove it, tells Forbes that...

2013 Visualization Challenge
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2013 Visualization Challenge

With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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