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Stock indexes shake off early slide, close higher
Investors nudged the stock market to all-time highs Wednesday despite a handful of disappointing economic reports. Google's stock topped $900 for the first time after the company announced several upgrades to its Android software for smartphones, and...Tags: Science, NASDAQ, Science and Technology, Money and Monetary Policy, Stock Market
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Can computers decode dreams? Researchers take a first step
Dreams defy even the dreamer, slipping away as stealthily as they arrive in a mind made credulous by sleep. But what if scientists could read our dreams by using the most advanced medical imaging machines and employing the sophisticated algorithms that...
Tags: Science and Technology, MRI (imaging), Science, Electroencephalography, Medical Research
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Smartphone app speeds up border crossings
SAN YSIDRO — Two eternal truths about crossing the Mexican border: It's worth the drive to Rosarito Beach for Tacos El Yaqui. And coming back is hell. In the last several years, crossing the border from the Mexican side has become a test of...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, St. Patrick's Day, Services and Shopping, Landforms, Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
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Inspired by Marissa Mayer, tech wimp takes MIT computer course
As soon as I learned that Marissa Mayer was tapped to be Yahoo's new CEO, I, like many women I know, immediately started devouring everything I could find on the 37-year-old former Google employee. I've interviewed many computer scientists over the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Marissa Mayer, Oscar de la Renta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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UC Berkeley joins online education platform of Harvard and MIT
L.A. NOWUC Berkeley announced Tuesday that it is joining the new online education platform founded by Harvard and MIT that offers free but not-for-credit courses to a worldwide audience. The addition of UC Berkeley will give the “edX” online effort... -
Yahoo CEO apologizes in resume flap; board member Patti Hart to depart
The fallout from Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson's resume controversy continued this week, with the beleaguered CEO sending out a staffwide apology and board member Patti Hart deciding to not seek reelection. The debacle began last week when it...
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Jacob E. Goldman dies at 90; creator of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center
Jacob E. Goldman, the former Xerox chief scientist who created the company's famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and developed an array of other pioneering computing...Tags: Stamford, Science, Sun Microsystems Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Applied Physics
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Firefighters rescue teen's science project drone from palm tree
L.A. NOWOne of the best student science projects in all of Los Angeles County’s nearly fell victim to a palm tree.... -
Patrick Fischer dies at 75; target of Unabomber
Patrick Fischer, a retired computer science professor at Vanderbilt University whose secretary was injured when he was targeted by the Unabomber in 1982, has died. He was 75.
Fischer died Aug. 26 in hospice care in Montgomery County, Md., the...Tags: Science, Health, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Montgomery County (Maryland), University of Michigan
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John McCarthy dies at 84; the father of artificial intelligence
In the mid-1950s mathematician John McCarthy issued a call for research on "Automata Studies," but the phrase was so bland that few people understood what he meant. So he came up with a more provocative description of the idea he was promoting.
He called...Tags: Science, Princeton University, Game Playing, Computer Networking and Internet, Heart Attack
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Dennis Ritchie dies at 70; computer scientist helped develop Unix
Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist who wrote the popular C programming language and helped develop the Unix operating system, has died. He was 70.
Ritchie died a month after his birthday, according to his biography on a Web page of Alcatel-Lucent's...Tags: Science, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Software Industry, Linux, File Sharing
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Bill Gates: How to be super-rich, or save the world trying
Nation NowBill Gates: The co-founder of Microsoft offers his words of wisdom and reflection to an audience at the University of Washington; among the questions: How does one become rich?...
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