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Happy Pi Day! In an effort to call attention to the importance of improving mathematics and science education, Congress made National Pi Day an official US holiday in 2009, and Pi Day is celebrated worldwide on March 14 (3.14). Pamela Rentz highlights the only holiday that honors a number. |
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The Internet a Decade from NowThe Internet has come a long way in twenty-five years—from something that most people didn't know much about to something more than half of adults surveyed by Pew Research Center said would now be nearly impossible to give up. Read on for what the Internet might mean to society in ten more years. | 
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search PartySatellite 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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Time to Learn Linux? Try (Free) Online edXThe 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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Rolls-Royce of Drones May Be Unmanned Cargo ShipsRolls-Royce Holdings is a well-known provider, designer, and manufacturer of power systems for air, sea, and land applications. These days, Rolls-Royce is in the early stages of exploring a transportation technology concept for the maritime market: unmanned cargo freighters or drone ships. |
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Keep Your Friends Close, But Keep Your Users CloserBonnie Bailey writes on the importance of knowing your users and keeping them close to you. The more you live and breathe your users, the more you know what they look like. Keeping your users close also implies making room for their data and their environments. | 
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The Future of the Internet (of Things)In another twenty years our current Internet will seem just as archaic as 2004 does today, and we might very well look back at 2014 as the seminal year when everything changed. The new Internet will leverage wearable computers, anticipatory computing, and user context to deliver data. | 
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Finding the Right People to Manage Your ProgrammersManagers are often the ones responsible for removing impediments, but finding people who are good at managing programmers is difficult. Steve Berczuk explores why quality engineering managers are hard to come by. | 
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