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Researcher Nabs $500K to Work On "Green Software"

"Green" computer code would be increase energy efficiency in the machines running such software. A computer scientist from Binghamton University has recently scored about a half million in funding--$450,000 from the National Science Foundation, and $50,000 from Google--that will help support his interested in "green" software development.

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Apple Spends the Weekend in Court

Apple won against Nokia, but potentially could lose--big--against Kodak. Apple's legal team had a roller coaster of a weekend, winning against

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MLB Opening Day

The real world's baseball season starts today, which also means batters up for another stat-fueled year of the fantasy version.

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Government Security Expo

Law-enforcement officials are trained to fight crime in the physical world. Still, the need to transition them from guns and patrol cars to keyboards and mouses is pressing

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National Volunteer Week

Gym reimbursements and lavish company parties may be going the way of the dinosaur, but paid time for volunteering is one employee perk not yet in danger of extinction. Take UnitedHealthcare, whose company attorneys recently donated 600 hours of pro bono legal service. Or Target, whose workers spend 450,000 hours annually on projects such as overhauling school libraries

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World Health Day

We bet you can't guess the theme of this year's World Health Day. And no, that line wasn't laced with sarcasm -- really, we bet you can't.

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Google Global Science Fair

What do earmuffs, television, and ChatRoulette have in common? They were all dreamed up by teenagers -- the same age group Google is targeting with its first-ever science fair, an online smarts search.

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Why Is the New York Times Partnering With Shell Oil?

The New York Times often covers Shell Oil's misdeeds and questionable choices, which in past years have included drilling in the arctic and denying human rights abuses in Nigeria . The oil industry is undeniably contentious and filled with scandals and coverups--all the more reason for the Times to write about it. But how can the Times remain objective when it is partnering with Shell Oil on an energy conference

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Are the Best Leaders Revolutionaries?

In 1970, Dov Frohman was a young electrical engineer working for a relatively unknown 100-person company called Intel. While troubleshooting a problem with an Intel product one day, Frohman stumbled upon a radically new way to record memory on a semiconductor.

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The Legend of Princeton Professor Jeff Nunokawa

An English prof gains a cult following on campus through "Jeffbook," his 3,221-entry (and counting) experiment in literary criticism, conducted exclusively on Facebook. His StairMaster mastery and Red Bull-slamming ability may also have helped

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Facebook Finds a Friend in Washington

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today

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The Amazon Kindle’s New, Old Threat: Barnes & Noble’s Nook Is Coming on Strong

Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader is in the headlines for a number of reasons at the moment, and it's prompting a big question: With no competing device from Amazon , can the Nook steal the Kindle's throne? The original Nook was the first e-reader to challenge the Amazon Kindle with a cleverer Android-powered device that one-upped the Kindle with a second color screen.

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