Wirecutter picks best laptop

The Best Laptop
Brian Lam, thewirecutter.com

It’s pret­ty clear that the 13-inch Mac­book Air is the best over­all lap­top for most peo­ple, in the minds of many review­ers.

(Last Updat­ed Octo­ber 31st, 2012: Apple released a 13-inch Mac­Book Pro with reti­na dis­play ear­li­er this…

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New York start-ups’ own flavour

bbc.co.uk

How New York’s new tech firms differ from Silicon Valley rivals

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New York start-ups’ own flavour

Online Classes Mean No Dorm, Gym or Debt

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Simon Johnson, bloomberg.com

Numer­ous arti­cles and com­men­taries from inside and out­side of acad­e­mia are rais­ing the alarm that Amer­i­can pub­lic high­er edu­ca­tion faces an unprece­dent­ed finan­cial cri­sis.

For years, state leg­is­la­tures have been dis­in­vest­…

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Online Classes Mean No Dorm, Gym or Debt

Best digicams for video

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Why LinkedIn is replacing Monster as job search tool

Job Recruiters Eschew Monster to Find Hidden Talent on LinkedIn
By Olga Kharif -, bloomberg.com

In his more than 15 years as a head­hunter, Jeff Vijung­co has tried Mon­ster, Craigslist, Career­Builder, and other online job boards. Late­ly the head of recruit­ment at Adobe Sys­tems Inc. (ADBE) has scrapped most of them.

“I think job post­i…

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Good engineers try to hide

Gen Y professionals give up cubicles for personal control

American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals
By Elliot Blair Smith -, bloomberg.com

After being dis­missed from her job as a Mid­town Man­hat­tan secu­ri­ties attor­ney in Octo­ber 2009, Christi­na Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trail­er to her Dodge Ram pick­up and drove 1,628 miles to Texas.

The 32-year-old lawyer sold…

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Frog picks top tech trends

20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog
By frog, fastcodesign.com

From automated cars to smarter smartphones, here are the ideas that will shape the future.

Yes, it’s already that tran­si­tion­al time when our cur­rent year ends and anoth­er begins, and today and tomor­row are quick­ly chang­ing hands. Rather…

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IBM says future of tech is cognitive science

IBM Imagines Our Five-Year Future: It’s A Touchy, Feely, Smart World
By Kit Eaton, fastcompany.com

IBM guesses at innovations that will change the world inside the next half a decade, and much of it requires computers that work like your brain.

It’s a smart idea to think of IBM as one of the smartest com­pa­nies ever, so when it releas­es its…

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Talented workers bring their own devices

Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic]
Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com

It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that…

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