It's the kind of electronic junk that piles up in basements and garages—an old computer motherboard with wires sticking out.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 21, 2013
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An original Apple computer from 1976 has sold at auction for nearly $388,000.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 10, 2013
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If you are stuck in a highly repetitive, altogether routine job with no alternative employment options, then Scott Herriott of the Maharishi University of Management, in Fairfield, Iowa, suggests you take 20 minutes twice ...
Economics & Business
Jul 4, 2014
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Many households in impoverished regions around the world are starting to shift away from inefficient and polluting fuel-based lighting—such as candles, firewood, and kerosene lanterns—to solar-LED systems. While this ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 19, 2016
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Prison inmates who receive general education and vocational training are significantly less likely to return to prison after release and are more likely to find employment than peers who do not receive such opportunities, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2013
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Care to guess what is the world's fastest growing industry? Health care? Biotech? Energy? Nope. According to a recent report, it's robotics.
Robotics
May 7, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A study conducted by business and economic researchers Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales, has found that both men and women hold biases against women's math abilities. In their paper published ...
Having more authority in the workplace comes with many rewards – including greater forms of job control and higher earnings. However, according to new research out of the University of Toronto, the benefits are not evenly ...
Social Sciences
Mar 26, 2013
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With the rise of the big-box retailer in the past four decades, many are concerned that U.S. middle-class jobs in manufacturing have been replaced by minimum-wage jobs in retail.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2016
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Google's unveiling last week of yet another device it hopes will change the way people watch TV highlights a stubborn truth: The revolution may be televised, but television itself has so far been impervious to a revolution.
Telecom
Aug 2, 2013
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