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Google's Marissa Mayer Says More Women Needed in Tech
Despite recent advances by women in high-tech fields, there is still much room for growth, according to a group of female tech executives speaking at the recent...
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The Opposite of Evil: Google Named Best Place to Work in America
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place...
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Scratching Your Head Over Sopa?
As Wikipedia and other Websites go dark Wednesday in what backers are calling the largest Internet protest ever, the epic battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood...
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Sopa: Sites Go Dark As Part of Anti-Piracy Law Protests
Thousands of Internet sites are taking part in a "blackout" protest against anti-piracy laws being discussed by U.S. lawmakers.
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Will Tablets Replace Laptops?
Tablets like the iPad 2 are hot … and apparently so hot that 46% of respondents believe they will eventually eliminate the need for laptop computers, according...
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Ethical Supercomputing
Socially conscious organizations can turn to a non-profit supercomputing grid service, Charity Engine, for extra compute cycles.
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Nyc to Open Its First Software Engineering High School
New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley—the East Coast’s own tech hub—with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering...
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Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.
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Kaist's Smart E-Book System More Convenient Than Paper-Based Books
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed the Smart E-book System, technology designed to make reading easier on smartphones...
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Patent Grants Hit All-Time High in 2011; Ibm Leads the Way
Patents were a hot-button issue in 2011, so there's no wonder so many companies were filling their portfolios with new intellectual property all year.
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How Research Goes Viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers...
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Critics See 'disaster' in Expansion of Domain Names
Vast new tracts of the Internet are up for sale as of Thursday.
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How Siri Makes Computers (and Coders) More Human
Siri, a program in the latest Apple iPhone that can carry out a wide spectrum of vocal commands without requiring training or special syntax from the user, stands...
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The Search For the Right Candidate Just Got More Personal
The 2012 presidential campaign is about to get a lot more personal, at least if Google has any say in it.
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Almost 1 In 3 U.s. Warplanes Is a Robot
Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes?
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It Security Pros Go Full Year With No Joblessness
The Information Security Media Group reports that an analysis of new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests that there was no joblessness for information...
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Winter Driving Trouble? There's an App for That
North Dakota State University researchers have developed Winter Survival Kit, a free iPhone and Android application that helps motorists prepare for winter driving...
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What Fueled Twitter's Success?
Innovators anxious to see their software products go viral might want to take a close look at how Twitter—which is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide—accomplished...
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.S. Report Sees Perils to America's Tech Future
A Department of Commerce report warns that certain aspects of the U.S. economy are losing their competitive edge. "Our ability to innovate as a nation will determine...
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