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How You Can Salvage A Hopeless Software Project
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Like a carpenter called in to salvage a home repair gone wrong, developers who’ve been around the block are used to seeing a handful of the same problems. The code gets creaky; bug reports file at an ever-increasing clip; the time spent maintaining the project surpasses any ability to add feature
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How Facebook Will Change From January 2015
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Come January, Facebook users will be breathing a sigh of relief. The company is making sure that it trims down pushed or promoted posts from company pages on a user's news feeds but businesses will bear the brunt.
Companies that have spent lakhs of rupees acquiring fans on the social ne
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How Touch Smartphones Change Our Brains
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A new study has revealed that use of Smartphone shapes the part of our brain that controls our finger movement in a similar way as learning to play violin.
Arko Ghosh from the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich decided to investigate the impact that
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How World Top Tech Companies Got Their Names
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From Apple to Amazon to Microsoft to Twitter, the names of some of the world's most popular tech companies tend to have interesting and significant backstories.
1. Adobe
With products like Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe has been an important and influential player in tech
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How Google Glass Helped A Blind
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Google Glass has already proven itself useful when it comes to the medical industry. Some doctors, for example, have been using Glass in the operating room to assist with surgery. Now, Google's wearable display is being used to help a teenager losing his vision see the world around him.
Michigan
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Hackers Turning Smartphones Into Slave Armies
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Mobile security firm Lookout on Wednesday warned that Android-powered smartphones or tablets are being targeted with malicious software that puts them at the mercy of hacker overlords.
The persistence and sophistication of malware dubbed NotCompatible is another sign that cyber criminal
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Honeywell Turns Up The Heat On Google
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Honeywell is turning up the heat on its rival Google Nest with the launch of the UK’s first voice-controlled thermostat.
The new technology allows users to adjust the temperature in their homes simply by saying "hello, thermostat", followed by a voice command such as "make it warmer" or
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How To Think Like An Engineer
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Most engineers spend a lot of time thinking about how to solve design problems. However, most of us don't spend very much time thinking about how we think. Fortunately, two cognitive psychologists at the University of Pittsburgh have done just that. Joel Chan and Christian Shunn are the authors o
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How You Can Avoid a Bad USB Attack
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Thanks to a couple of enterprising (or thoughtless) security experts and hackers presenting at Derbycon in Louisville, Kentucky, last week, BadUSB is now out in the wild — Or at least downloadable on GitHub. It's enough to make your stomach turn and certainly leave you wondering: How do I avoid B
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Hot IT skills that are in demand
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IT professionals seeking certifications in the coming months may get their best return with cloud and security-related certifications. Agile-related training won't hurt, either.
But there are many other skills that are more likely to be valued by employers than others, according to the
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