Two major fantasy sports operators said Thursday they would suspend contests involving teams and athletes from universities as part of an agreement with the governing body for college athletics.
Business
Mar 31, 2016
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Virtual reality (VR) appears ready to take the entertainment world by storm in 2016. In addition to the much-hyped Oculus Rift, major corporations such as Facebook, Sony and Samsung are poised to release high-quality VR headsets ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 28, 2016
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Starboard Value LP nominated an entirely new board at Yahoo on Thursday, setting up a fight for control of the faded Internet company.
Business
Mar 24, 2016
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Following a spectacular liftoff, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is performing flawlessly en route to the Red Planet.
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2016
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Many people dream of working from home. And with today's technology—everything from phone calls and email to texting and videoconferences—maintaining 'virtual' communications with the team seems to be easier than ever.
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2016
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Deciding which teams to pick in your NCAA basketball pool? Then you're faced with a classic decision problem – and here, science can help.
Mathematics
Mar 16, 2016
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Conventional wisdom has held that boosting team performance in the workplace should focus on rewarding entire teams that perform well – and that rewarding individuals increases competition rather than helping team performance. ...
Economics & Business
Mar 11, 2016
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Great scientific discoveries often raise more questions than they answer. Just days after the announcement that gravitational waves from two merging black holes have been detected, astrophysicists are already pondering what ...
Astronomy
Feb 17, 2016
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Yesterday, a 'team of teams' working at ESA's control centre conducted a final rehearsal for tomorrow's launch of Sentinel-3A.
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2016
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The email came in the night on Sept 15. A potentially significant event had happened at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, during their engineering run. A ripple in spacetime had occurred somewhere ...
Astronomy
Feb 15, 2016
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