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    Wall Street Looks to Critical March Jobs Report

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    A truckload of data will hit markets in the coming week, but it's the jobs report Friday when Wall Street is closed that will be the most important and possibly have the most lasting impact. The...

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    The Secret Success of Today’s Biohackers

    By Ellen Jorgensen, Techonomy

    In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for...

  • Stocks Have Scores of Reasons for New Volatility

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Stocks, stuck in their own zigzag pattern, remain vulnerable to the whims of unusually volatile currencies in the week ahead. As financial markets adjust to the Fed's latest guidance on rates,...

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Hack Attacks Mean More Cyber Firms Will Go Public

    By Liana B. Baker, Reuters

    Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to...

  • Why the Military Wants to Restore Your Online Privacy

    By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

    The average, technologically connected American worker produces some 5,000 megabytes of digital data a day, enough to fill nine CD-ROMs. Only a small fraction of it is stored permanently or is...

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    What If You Could Print What You Eat ...

    By Linda Federico-O'Murchu, CNBC

    If you're not excited by 3D printing it's because you're not thinking big enough, say some technology visionaries who predict that life on Earth will soon radically change because of it. According to...

  • Why Workers Mistrust the New Performance Quotas

    By Knowledge@Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

    In a PowerPoint presentation to its editorial staff earlier this year, owners of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Ore., announced a new policy that ties journalists’ performance to the size of...

  • Tomorrow’s Sci-Fi Tech Excites Us…and Scares Us

    By John Grgurich, The Fiscal Times

    For all the technological change Americans have witnessed in recent decades, from space travel to smartphones, we know much more is coming. And we’re only happy about some of it.

  • Beware of Hackers and the 'Heartbleed' Bug

    By JIM FINKLE, Reuters

    The U.S. government warned banks and other businesses on Friday to be on alert for hackers seeking to steal data exposed by the "Heartbleed" bug, as a German programmer took responsibility for the...

  • When Big Data Becomes Big Brother

    By Herb Weisman, CNBC

    Your life is an open book. Unless you live off the grid, big data companies know all about you. They constantly collect information about the things you buy and the websites you visit, plus thousands...