December 31, 2012

Happy New Year: Now Measure My Results, Not My Hours

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Too many businesses judge an employee’s performance by hours worked rather than by value created. It's time to get with the program and...
December 24, 2012

My Digital Nightmare: A Hacker Stole My Family Photos and Upended My Life, and It Could Easily Happen to You

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In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed, said Mat Honan of Wired . "First my Google account was taken over, the...
December 17, 2012

Virtual Princeton: A Guide to Free Online Ivy League Classes

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Elite universities are opening their classrooms' doors to anyone with an Internet connection — for free! The company Coursera has teame...
December 10, 2012

How Teens’ Texts Lead to Unsafe Sex

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Teenagers who engage in sexting —sending sexually explicit texts—are far more likely to begin having intercourse at an early age and engag...
December 3, 2012

The Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies in 2012

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Business Insider evaluated private tech companies and ranked the top 100 by value. Their rankings are based on several metrics, including...
November 26, 2012

How to Clean Up Your Online Image

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You would never let your front porch or storefront become dilapidated. You would never hand out a crumpled resume or business card. And y...
November 19, 2012

Meet Baxter: The Humanoid Robot to Revolutionize U.S. Manufacturing

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Rethink Robotics unveils Baxter, a robot that can work alongside humans. According to Valentin Schmid at The Epoch Times , Baxter could re...
November 12, 2012

U.S. is Tightening Web Privacy Rule to Protect Young

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Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online. According to Natasha Singer of The...
November 5, 2012

Squishy Robots That Can Hide and Seek

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Researchers have built soft-bodied robots that can either blend into or stand out in their environment by changing their color. According t...
October 29, 2012

Naive Online Daters Turn into Drug Mules

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Seriously? YCMTSU ! One fine day, Sharon's and Catherine's online dates , called "Frank" and "Marc," asked them...
October 24, 2012

Why Young People Should Create Their Own 4-Hour Work Week

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Young people shouldn't bother "fighting over the remaining scraps of the old economy," said Walter Russell Mead. Now is a fan...
October 22, 2012

5 New Rules to Pick a Cell Phone Carrier

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There are more variables than ever to consider when signing-up for cell phone service (or shall I say tracker service ;-) New shared plans...
October 15, 2012

When Rachel became the Office Robot

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Telepresence robots, which retail for about $9,700, just may be the future of work. For several weeks in the summer of 2012, I was a robot i...
October 12, 2012

Cyberwarfare Emerges From Shadows for Public Discussion by U.S. Officials

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta warned Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 that the United States was facing the possibility of a “cyber-Pearl Harbor”...