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Can Too Much Talent Harm Your Team's Performance?
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Can Too Much Talent Harm Your Team's Performance?

Every organization wants to hire the best, but research from Columbia Business School shows that teams with the most talent don't always net the best results. The...

'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life
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'minimal' Cell Raises Stakes in Race to Harness Synthetic Life

Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

Remembering Silicon Valley's First Giant, Intel's Andrew Grove
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Remembering Silicon Valley's First Giant, Intel's Andrew Grove

Silicon Valley is full of logical absolutists, people who will follow a line of argument wherever it goes, no matter what the human repercussions.

Silicon Valley Rides Obama's Coattails Into Cuba
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Silicon Valley Rides Obama's Coattails Into Cuba

President Barack Obama is in Cuba, and Silicon Valley is tagging along for the ride.

Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock Iphone, Might Resist
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Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock Iphone, Might Resist

If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apple's help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may run into yet another roadblock: Apple's engineers.

Why Students Are Throwing Tons of Money at a Program that Won't Give Them a College Degree
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Why Students Are Throwing Tons of Money at a Program that Won't Give Them a College Degree

Brian O'Neill has been trying to hire a developer at Philly-based tech company Monetate.

After Alphago, What's Next For Ai?
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After Alphago, What's Next For Ai?

AlphaGo's victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research.

Play This Game and Win a Job!
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Play This Game and Win a Job!

Last fall, Barclays PLC began testing a new tool for attracting young job applicants: a mobile video game.

Cothority to Apple: Let's Make Secret Backdoors Impossible
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Cothority to Apple: Let's Make Secret Backdoors Impossible

Cothority, a new software project designed to make secret backdoored software updates nearly impossible, is offering to help Apple ensure that any secret court...

Thousands of Tech Jobs Will Go Unfilled
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Thousands of Tech Jobs Will Go Unfilled

There will be as many as 182,000 high-paying technology jobs up for grabs in Canada by 2019, but the country's school systems aren't producing enough high technology...

One-In-Three Developers Fear A.i. Will Replace Them
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One-In-Three Developers Fear A.i. Will Replace Them

What keeps software developers up at night, other than coding? The fear that artificial intelligence systems can replace them, according to a new survey.

Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts
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Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts

Amazon Web Services, a globe-spanning cloud computing network that is part of the online retailing giant Amazon, has rapidly become one of the most powerful forces...

Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar
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Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar

U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...

­.s. Tech Companies ­nite Behind Apple Ahead of Iphone Encryption Ruling
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­.s. Tech Companies ­nite Behind Apple Ahead of Iphone Encryption Ruling

Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed...

A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck
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A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck

Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply...

Seven Keys to Effective Negotiation
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Seven Keys to Effective Negotiation

MIT Sloan Professor Jared Curhan emphasizes a set of elements to consider when preparing for a negotiation.

Ford's Futurist Knows Kids Today See Status in Their Smartphones, Not Cars
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Ford's Futurist Knows Kids Today See Status in Their Smartphones, Not Cars

There can't be many job titles out there cooler than "futurist." And earlier this week, I sat down with Sheryl Connelly, who holds that position at the Ford Motor...

The Plan to Give Every Cellphone ­ser Free Data
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The Plan to Give Every Cellphone ­ser Free Data

More than half the people on the planet still don't have Internet access. But figuring out how to get them online is as much of a political challenge as it is a...

Apple Encryption Stand Highlights Mobile Operators' Dilemma
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Apple Encryption Stand Highlights Mobile Operators' Dilemma

Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions...

The Robots Are Coming For Wall Street
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The Robots Are Coming For Wall Street

When Daniel Nadler woke on Nov. 6, he had just enough time to pour himself a glass of orange juice and open his laptop before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released...
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