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Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Intel named its acting CEO Bob Swan as its permanent chief executive today. By the end of the day, the company’s stock price fell nearly 1 percent, a decline of about $4 billion in market value. Perhaps the stock market and industry observers were

Author: Don Clark / Source: New York Times Sascha Steinbach/EPA, via Shutterstock SAN FRANCISCO — Intel answered many questions from Wall Street Thursday, but not the one that has dogged the company for seven months: Who will become chief executive of the giant chip maker? The lengthy search,

Author: Bethany Brookshire / Source: Science News for Students PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Maybe it took nerves of steel. Or maybe these young researchers merely showed steely determination. But dozens conquered the odds, here in Steel City, to claim big prizes. Roughly 1,790 students competed, this week,

They’re often featured as James Bond villains — super-rich megalomaniacs who pour their infinite resources into sophisticated doomsday devices, private rockets for last-minute escapes, and enough high-tech toys to rival the NSA, FBI and CIA combined. It’s easy to vilify the mega-rich, but

“A common challenge to the ideas presented in this book is that these exponential trends must reach a limit, as exponential trends commonly do.” –Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near Much of the future we envision today depends on the exponential progress of information technology, most popularly