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NASA SPHERES Sending Google Technology to SpaceNASA and space exploration just became more like something out of the realm of science fiction—and Google played a role in it. Beginning in October, NASA's satellites known as SPHERES will begin to incorporate Google’s Project Tango technology in an effort to help NASA increase overall efficiency. | 
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How Employers Really Benefit from Those “Best Employer” RankingsSeveral entities compile data and publish annual “best employers to work for” studies. In addition to bragging rights, there are many other valuable benefits the employers on those lists stand to gain—and also some lessons for organizations hoping to get on the lists. Read on. | 
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Google Acquires Word Lens Translation App Google recently acquired Quest Visual, maker of the Word Lens translation app. Word Lens uses built-in cameras on smartphones to quickly scan and identify foreign text and then translate and display the words in another language. Anuj Magazine examines the possible strategy driving the acquisition. |
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Six Productivity Tips You May (or May Not) Want to FollowSome productivity tips seem at first glance to be designed to slow you down or stall your progress. But they may actually help you achieve results faster and better. The key to being more productive is finding what works for you personally. Read on for some suggestions on maximizing your time. | 
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Book Review: Getting Value out of Agile RetrospectivesRetrospectives are valuable but often neglected agile practices. Some teams struggle to take the time to hold them, and others don't know how. The book Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives: A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises can help you keep your retrospectives engaging and useful. | 
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Best Selfie Ever: NASA's Global Earth Day NASA had an ambitious event this year to create a “global selfie,” a crowd-sourced mosaic image that would resemble Earth as it appeared from space on Earth Day—and more than 50,000 people responded. The result is a zoomable 3.2 gigapixel image built with more than 36,000 individual images. |
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Business Analytics: Requirements for Big Data TransformationsMany businesses are turning to big data and analytics, which has created new opportunities for business analysts. BAs are a valuable resource for stakeholders, helping them identify their analytics-solution needs by defining requirements, just as they would on any other software project. | |
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Writing Actionable Risk StatementsProject management is about accomplishing project objectives. These objectives can't be met without sufficient consideration of risk. Payson Hall describes a favorite technique for risk management that your team will actually find useful. | 
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