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Imagine if your prospects for beating the 9.1% unemployment rate depended not on a meticulously crafted cover letter and résumé, but on a complicated algorithm that helped companies determine the best matches for open jobs.

One of the perennial pieces of advice I get as a new entrepreneur is to put together a board of advisors or get a circle of mentors. I’ve found this doesn’t really require well-connected folks with the word chief in their titles. What I really benefit from is practical advice on how to do things I don’t know how to do

oBaz is short for online bazaar, and like that famously fluid market environment, it's all about haggling to get what you want.

There is genetically modified produce in a lot of the processed food you eat, but this is the first time that Monsanto is taking fresh GM produce from the ground straight to your mouth. If it works out, there will be plenty more. Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, is known for developing engineered crops (i.e.

Twitter is experiencing growing pains. Last week, the company said it would integrate Promoted Tweets into user Twitter streams, placing them at the top of one's timeline. Here's expert opinion on how or if the once-breezy service can follow in the footsteps of ubiquitous ad machine Facebook

After Syrian troops began shelling civilian targets in the city of Hama, brave activists used smuggled phones and sympathetic allies abroad to upload grainy, graphic warfare footage onto YouTube. On Sunday Syrian tanks assaulted Hama and shelled civilian targets; at least 70 are confirmed dead and hundreds more seriously injured. Observers are calling it the " Ramadan Massacre " since it occurred on the eve of the Muslim holiday.

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In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines?

Not all inventions need to involve new discoveries. Two new projects--one which draws power from the air, one which uses heat from servers--show that we can hack our way out of wasteful systems. Fresh research from a couple of different quarters suggests that waste isn't really waste, and that innovators don't need to discover new materials or unknown principles in order to innovate.

While the world is debating what to do in Libya, the rebels have been getting technical--here's a look inside two mobile-phone networks created by the Libyan rebels to make calls without pesky surveillance and jamming.

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With the success of Google+, the company must eventually decide what to do with Buzz and Orkut--either shut them down and port their users, or risk creating a fragmented social ecosystem. After taking several big swings (and whiffs) at social, Google has finally cracked a line drive with Google+

This week News Corp. execs James and Rupert Murdoch were dragged before a investigatory committee of Parliament over the U.K.'s phone-hacking scandal. Meanwhile hacktivists LulzSec decided to take matters into their own hands, and targeted the website of News Corp

One of Google Plus's most unique features, Circles, initially attracted users to the service and set it apart from competitors.

From the twisted mind behind some of the funniest, weirdest, cringe-inducing comedy of the last decade comes a new podcast channel born for Funny or Die. At any given moment of the day, you can be in the front row of your own curated comedy club: Conan sidekick Andy Richter yukking it up with comedian-writer Paul F. Tompkins , for instance, or Patton Oswalt expressing deep disgust about well--does it matter?