People and Teams
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Are There Benefits to Multitasking?Multitasking gets a bad rap, but not without reason. When we do it, we take longer to complete tasks, make more mistakes, retain less content, and get stressed. Can there be any benefits to multitasking? Naomi Karten found out there are at least a few. Read on to find out what they are. | 
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Is A/B Testing Fundamentally Unethical?Facebook created a controversy recently by sharing the study results of an experiment it did in the news feed of around 700,000 users. The basis of Facebook's study was to prove whether emotions are contagious on the social network. It was a version of an A/B test—without users knowing about it. | 
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Thinking about Going Back to School? Georgia Tech Offers Online MS CSThe Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing rolled out the first accredited Online Master of Science in Computer Science program in spring 2014. Offered in cooperation with AT&T and Udacity, students can earn a degree through the massive open online courses (MOOCs) delivery format. | 
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The Strange Matter of How We Perceive TimeEven though we can’t do much about the passage of time—and it seems like we’ll never have enough of it—it’s intriguing to consider how we experience it. Our perception of time is subjective and influenced by all sorts of things. Keep these facts in mind when managing your time and your workweek. |
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OpenStack Architecture Design Guide—Now Available for Download Organizations wanting to deploy OpenStack-based clouds have struggled with the lack of best practices for the many different use cases. To address the well-known gap in architecture design best practices documentation, the OpenStack Architecture Design Guide is now available for download. |
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Google’s Project Zero Recruits Bug Hunters to Protect the InternetCalling Internet security a “top priority,” Google announced Project Zero, its new security research team dedicated solely to ferreting out potential targeted attacks—such as the Heartbleed bug—that can affect a significant number of people. |
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Darknets—Solving the Internet Security ProblemMany people have come to the realization that the Internet is so riddled with security holes that they have decided to take a different approach to securing their data. Welcome to darknets—stealth networks for those folks who really do not want to be found. |
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Will the Instagration Phenomenon Make Private Clouds More Popular?Facebook recently achieved something dramatic with Instagram's infrastructure. Without 200 million users noticing, Facebook moved about 20 billion photos from Amazon's EC2 infrastructure to Facebook's own data center. Facebook refers to this phenomenon as Instagration. |
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