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Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up

Ray Ozzie, who took over for Gates in 2006 as Microsoft's chief software architect, drops a few hints about new tech company Cocomo. Ray Ozzie, aka Bill Gates' handpicked successor as Microsoft's chief software architect, has a new start-up

We wrote about a lot of machines in 2011. Here are the best of our future (dancing!) robot overlords. Robo Profs One of the most impressive, and perhaps most challenging developments in robotics (because it treads very close indeed to sensitivities about artificial people) is demonstrated by the Geminoid line--a group of highly advanced puppets that have been designed to replicate their human model right down to hair color, eye movements, and shrugs

The best businesspeople don't know everything. They're the ones who are brave and truthful enough to admit mistakes--and learn the most from them along the way

New England Journal of Medicine report details three full face transplants performed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in 2011

Dave and Carrie Kerpen got so much buzz when sponsors helped foot the cost of their big wedding that they opened Likeable Media, a social media firm now in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Mexico City. Here Dave tells that story--and what you need to know about word-of-mouth marketing in the new year. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/andrew-maclean/how-i-did-it-likeable-media-dave-kerpen.html

The Company of the Year is rejecting industry trends, getting customers to pay for something that's free, and reinventing the way we remember. Phil Libin remembers the moment he left childhood behind.

When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly. With a little help from what's called the Internet of Things, engineers are transforming cities from passive conduits for water into dynamic systems that store and manage it like the tissues of desert animals.

Congress is beginning to view entrepreneurship by 20-somethings as a low-cost fix for all that ails the economy. A little realism, please?

Matt is a history teacher.

Gamification isn't just about badges and trophies. Experts weigh in on what you need to make next-generation customer rewards really work for your business

(PhysOrg.com) -- By measuring the motion of a vibrating, porous membrane separating water and air, researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory, the University of Maryland, and Boston University have revealed a new regime of fluid behavior near solid surfaces that has not been previously observed.

Forget slashing prices and big ad campaigns. With just a few days left, here's how to max your sales in three easy steps. Black Friday is almost upon us and the big box stores are gearing up for the usual insanity

Asimo Gets An Upgrade For robot fans, Honda's Asimo has perhaps always been the biggest treasure: He's been in development for decades, and Honda just this week revealed a refresh that makes Asimo the most advanced yet. There's a host of improvements, from slicker and faster gaits, more sophisticated movements, individually articulated fingers (flexible enough to cope with sign language) to improved voice recognition that can discern commands even when three voices are talking at once. The best way to understand how advanced this child-sized bot is nowadays is to watch this video: [youtube eU93VmFyZbg] Asimo is, arguably, just one step away from being the science fiction robots we've been seeing for years

PETMAN Cometh Come on, Boston Dynamic! Who are you trying to kid? You tell us PETMAN is the latest evolution of your human-form android that uses similar tech to your military BigDog, and that he's a development from an earlier prototype that included just legs