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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search Party Satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe is posting photos of the sea where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely to have gone down and asking for the public’s help to comb through them. Its pictures map thousands of square miles, prompting a crowdsourcing effort to scour the open water for evidence. |
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Why Hiring from the Top Schools May Not Always Be the Best Strategy Laszlo Bock, Google's senior vice president of people operations, revealed that at Google the percentage of people without any college education has increased over time. This opens an interesting debate about whether hiring from the top schools is really valuable for technology companies. |
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Gossip: The Thin Line between Useful and Destructive Communication Agile values—such as communication, feedback, and trust—are essential to making teams work. While all communication is equally valued, the line between useful and destructive communication may be fuzzier than you think. |
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Time to Learn Linux? Try (Free) Online edX The Linux Foundation has announced it is building a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program with edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and MIT. "Introduction to Linux will be the first class available as a MOOC and will be free to everyone, everywhere." |
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Will This Be a Record Year for Foreign Tech Workers Requesting Visas? The H-1B US work visa application window that starts on April 1 each year is an anticipated time for many in the global technology marketplace. The visa application process has steadily picked up steam in the past five years, and this is expected to be a record year for the number of applications. |
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Survey Results Say: Don't Catch This Tech Phrase There has been a strong push for teaching programming and computer skills to American students. Those in favor of teaching programming in schools may have more support for their objective after a recent survey about tech terms revealed respondents had some alarming—and funny—gaps in knowledge. |
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How to Offer Help at Work Offering help to a colleague or your boss can be a tricky thing. You want to make sure your offer is serious and specific, but you don't want to foist your help where it's not wanted. But even if your help is wanted, you have to realize when to stop. For more helpful tips on helping, read on. |
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More Businesses Buying Cyber Insurance against Security Risks Cyber hacking, which gained more attention when Target experienced a massive data breach, has become such a security risk that businesses are rushing to cover themselves against customers’ information being compromised in the same way they get coverage for more traditional risks—buying insurance. |
