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From Doom to Rage: 20 Years of Id Development
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From Doom to Rage: 20 Years of Id Development

Both Tim Willits and Matt Hooper got their start in game design as fans, creating maps for id Software games like Doom and Quake. Now, as the studio celebrates...

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The ­niversity of Wherever

For more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have...

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In China, Business Travelers Take Extreme Precautions to Avoid Cyber-Espionage

Packing for business in China? Bring your passport and business cards, but maybe not that laptop loaded with contacts and corporate memos.

On Your Mark, Get Set, Hack!
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Hack!

During a "hackathon" last year, GroupMe co-founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht built a group text-messaging service in one 24-hour stretch. In August, the...

Apple's Design Wizard Has Not Left the Building
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Apple's Design Wizard Has Not Left the Building

He was the resident wizard at 1 Infinite Loop, the guy sporting minimalist attire, closely cropped hair and a mischievous smile as he pulled one delightful new...

Researchers ­sing Ipads to Treat Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries
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Researchers ­sing Ipads to Treat Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries

The Occupational Therapy Department at Nova Southeastern University is giving iPads to patients with limited mobility.    

Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker
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Kids Today Need a Licence to Tinker

Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers.

Mumbai Surgeon Performs Knee Replacement Surgery ­sing Ipod Touch
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Mumbai Surgeon Performs Knee Replacement Surgery ­sing Ipod Touch

A Mumbai surgeon successfully performed knee replacement surgery on a 75-year-old patient using an iPod Touch. It was the first commercial non-experimental orthopedic ...

Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics
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Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics

In a new paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers describe a new energy-harvesting technology that promises to dramatically reduce the dependence on batteries...

Antennas in Your Clothes? Researchers' Design Could Pave the Way
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Antennas in Your Clothes? Researchers' Design Could Pave the Way

The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers...

Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle
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Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle

Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees...

Recruiters Outnumber Job-Seekers at Hacker Fair
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Recruiters Outnumber Job-Seekers at Hacker Fair

Tom Sherlock demonstrated his wearable computer. Steven Neff, hemmed in by a scrum of recruiters from Google, Rackspace and Pulse News, showed off his art-filled...

Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps
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Students Develop Beneficial Smartphone Apps

Students and professors at The University of Alabama are working together to develop beneficial smartphone applications, including health related apps for blindness...

Professor Tweets Her Way to Knighthood
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Professor Tweets Her Way to Knighthood

The creative use of Twitter and other technology to teach and promote French has earned University of South Carolina Professor Lara Lomicka Anderson knighthood...

Attachment to Cellphones More About Entertainment, Less About Communication
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Attachment to Cellphones More About Entertainment, Less About Communication

That panicked feeling you get when the family pet goes missing is the same when you misplace your mobile phone, says a Kansas State University marketing professor...

Can Blogging Help You Get A Job?
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Can Blogging Help You Get A Job?

Writing a professional blog on a topic related to your future career path can lead to internship and job opportunities. If a recruiter checks out your blog, he...

Tweeting the Raid: Social Media, National Security and 'Eyes on the Ground'
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Tweeting the Raid: Social Media, National Security and 'Eyes on the Ground'

Sohaib Athar's unwitting live-tweeting of the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan hours before it was publicly announced marks "the beginning of a new day," says Professor...

Study Points to E-Reader's Role in Higher Education
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Study Points to E-Reader's Role in Higher Education

A nine-month study of how University of Washington graduate students did or did not use the large-format Amazon Kindle DX in their course reading provides information...

Visual Recognition in Mobile App Makes Tree Identification a Snap
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Visual Recognition in Mobile App Makes Tree Identification a Snap

The University of Maryland, Columbia University and the Smithsonian Institution have created the world's first plant identification mobile app using visual search...

Social Media 101: Facebook and Job Hunting
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Social Media 101: Facebook and Job Hunting

As social networking sites become an increasingly important part of the job search, candidates should adjust their current approach to Facebook.
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