Apple released their newest iteration of OS X, called Mavericks (finally straying from the “big cat” theme that’s been prevalent from the first OS X release), a few weeks ago, and there are some...
December 17, 2013
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The company says it wants to wire the world. But will it do more than make its own app work better? Last spring, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg invested in an impressive domain name:...
December 17, 2013
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Genetically modified crops will allow farming practices closer to the ideals of the organic movement. I grew up on a farm on the North Coast of California in the 1970s. It had been a sort of...
December 17, 2013
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Robots will be more useful when they can work alongside us, says Julie Shah. Traditionally, robots were designed to work separately from people. That is starting to change as robots begin working...
December 17, 2013
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Revelations about NSA surveillance have prompted Yahoo, Microsoft, and other companies to deploy long-overdue security improvements. Last week, Google, Microsoft, and five other leading Web...
December 17, 2013
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Professor Marie desJardins received a research award from the National Science Foundation focused on increasing the expertise of Maryland high school teachers for teaching computer science, with...
December 16, 2013
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President Obama will meet executives from leading technology companies like Google and Apple on Tuesday.
December 16, 2013
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TO: The UMBC Community FROM: Provost Philip Rous and Faculty Senate President Kathleen Carroll As co-chairs of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee, we have the inspiring opportunity...
December 16, 2013
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Uber upset customers over the weekend when the start-up raised its prices during a snowstorm to as much as seven times the normal fare, charging customers $35 per mile.
December 16, 2013
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HTML5 development tools company Gizmox has announced the release of their Visual WebGui Version 7 with a new mobile feature set, a code assessment tool for analyzing legacy desktop apps, and...
December 16, 2013
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