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Barely two years after she arrived , Vivian Schiller has resigned from her post as CEO of NPR. David Folkenflik, NPR's own media reporter, has gone on record

How were the top companies of the 1980s so successful?

Google 's cloud-based music service may already be up and running--if you know where to look for it. A hacker from the XDA-Dev forum found something interesting when he forced the Motorola Xoom Android tablet's music app onto his Android smartphone: a "Sync Music" feature. So the hacker tested the out the feature

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

Today's robots may be astonishing , scary, or militarily useful , but they rarely move with all the occasional grace, jitters, and other subtle quirks that humans have.

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As an understocked purveyor of large dried fruit might say, we’re out of big dates for a while. The Orwellian 1984 came and went, we partied like it was 1999, the most ominous monoliths in 2001 turned out to be ideological and the Clarkesque follow-up of 2010 recently ended without interplanetary incident. We have another five centuries before we judge the prescience of Zager and Evans, if we are still alive.

After 26 years, 230 million kilometers, and a combined year in orbit, space shuttle Discovery is headed home one last time. The oldest, most utilized shuttle in NASA's fleet is inbound from its final visit to the International Space Station and is scheduled to touch down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida just before noon Eastern Standard Time on March 9. But Kennedy, the traditional home of the shuttle program, may not be the final destination for Discovery this time around

Depending on how you deploy it, live chat on a company website can be a boon for business or a terrible calamity. For some, it’s like adding a crack team of ace deal-closers who contribute directly to the bottom line. For others, it’s like hiring a surly, inattentive sales clerk who sends customers fleeing for the virtual door

Wondering when's the best time of day to make a big decision? Forget the astrology charts and drink a cup of coffee—or four. You make better decisions when you have a full bladder, or so says a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Singer has been in the news often lately - this time the news is good

Singer has been in the news often lately - this time the news is good

With the click of a mouse, archaeologist Vince Gaffney proudly summons up a vision of an ancient landscape.

Wondering exactly what your employees are doing all day? Well, at least half their time is spent on e-mail.

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