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Duke Researchers Use Photo-Acoustic "Fingerprints" to Locate Mobile Phones Indoors

Computer engineers have come up with a way to use smartphones' microphones, cameras, and accelerometers, to identify a person's location in the end all and be all of indoor mazes: the shopping mall.READ»

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Next-Gen Cloaking Devices Even Better At Hiding

The clever chaps at Duke University have been busy beavering away for years to make the sci-fi staple cloaking device a reality, and their recent results mean a real product is closer than ever. They've fabricated a better ...READ»

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Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ»

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New Robot Surgeons Can Operate Without Human Assistance

Paging Dr. 3PO. One day soon robots could performing routine procedures in the OR. Bioengineers at Duke University announced yesterday that they've created a robot that can "locate a man-made, or phantom, lesion in simulated ...READ»

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Is Solar Power Now Cheaper Than Nuclear Energy?

Solar power took a big step toward becoming the alternative energy of choice with this week's news that energy from sunlight might be cheaper than nuclear power. The analysis, which comes from a Duke University report entitled Solar ...READ»

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Our Brains Versus Fast Food? No Contest

Do we crave flavor, or just calories? A new study reveals that our brain chemistry may be to blame for our love affair with food.READ»

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PhonePoint App Will Let You Write in Thin Air

Students at Duke University have developed an application that allows users to write short notes in thin air using the accelerometers in their phones.READ»

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The Big Issue(s)

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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MBA Front Lines

Professors, faculty members, and second-year students at ten of America's most recognized business schools contribute survival advice and lessons.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: We're Drowning in Green Label Glut

A glut of eco-labels has actually made it harder to consume responsibly.READ»

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Rex Adams

Do Online Education and Training Click? Rex Adams Dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University Even for top business schools, using the Internet to supplement classroom learning is a relatively new endeavor. Fuqua was the ...READ»

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Apple Logo Is an Agnostic's Crucifix, Star of David: Study

New Research from Duke University demonstrates the connection between brand loyalty and religion.READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 31

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The Making of the 2007 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards

The numbers: 314 nominations, 133 applicants, 43 winners What we required: The executive director's statement explaining mission and strategy; two years of audited financials and tax filings; and a 35-question survey regarding ...READ»

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Tech Life | Sima Diane Sistani

Tech Life follows the daily routines of the world's Fastest movers and shakers to find out what products make them click -- and scroll and surf, too.READ»

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Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips

Top 50 MBA Programs Online Resume Books at Your Fingertips If you want top-tier business talent to fill positions in your office, look here first! MBA student and alumni online resume books are available to order right now! ...READ»

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Do Online Education and Training Click?

Rex Adams Rex Adams is the dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Wrote about: Do Online Education and Training Click? Is reading: On a daily basis ... the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New ...READ»

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Behind the (i)Podium

Yesterday, Shasha touched on some of Apple's recent improvements to the iPod. In today's news, it's reported that Duke University will issue 1,650 iPods preloaded with an academic calendar and course material as part of a $500,000 ...READ»

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Freeman Hrabowski - Fast 50 2002

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CEO: Career Ending Opportunity

"The giant sucking sound heard in the business world during 2004 was the extraction of chief executives from seats of power," states a recent study by Booz Allen Hamilton consultants. According to the study, of the world's 2,500 ...READ»

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Undercover Bedbugs?

The latest in soldiery: a menagerie of robo-animals.READ»

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Other Recommended Reading

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It doesn't cost $40,000. It doesn't take two years. And you're never late to class.READ»