Face recognition and detection technology is becoming cheaper, faster, and much more commonplace, raising the question of whether people will be able to remain anonymous in the near future.
As the economy continues to struggle, more people are betting on a dollar and a dream -- and thanks to Friday's lucky date, Nov. 11, 2011, or 11/11/11, ticket sales are booming.
Video gamers spend tons of time -- for many it's 10,000 hours by age 21 -- battling mythic monsters, shooting aliens and rescuing princesses from digital castles.
Ever wonder why you always seem to come down with a life-interrupting virus this time of year, while other women you know sail through the season sniffle-, cough-, and ache-free?
If you haven't been feeling emotional about money lately, you must have an excellent yoga instructor. There have been the rolling freak-outs about unemployment, the debt, and European defaults; meanwhile, investors seem to be inflating a bubble in tech.
President Barack Obama -- whose poll numbers have dipped in recent weeks amid a stubbornly sluggish economic recovery -- touted the hard-hit manufacturing sector Friday, saying the country's best production days may well lie ahead.
Mobile devices are emerging as a key security risk, especially for companies. As a result, the vast majority -- 95% -- of companies have mobile security policies in place.
Sometimes the best thing retailers can do these days is hand over part of their store to someone else.
For car shoppers under the age of 31, the biggest factor in deciding what to buy isn't performance, fuel economy or comfort, it's the shopping experience and "cockpit technology," according to a recent study.
Back in the way olden days, folks used to scrawl pictures on cave walls to convey meaning. Needless to say, we've evolved since then -- what with the planting and harvesting, the creation of the wheel, the no longer living in caves.
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A flying car and a device to help paraplegics walk are named among 2010's top inventions. CNN's Josh Levs reports.
Along with the jetpack, the flying car tops the list of classic science-fiction imaginings that lead legions of fans to ask -- why don't we have this yet?
Glass screens that can feel the touch of your fingers are all the rage these days. You'll find them in all kinds of gadgets, from smartphones to tablet computers.
With stock returns projected to be low and pensions going the way of Lindsay Lohan's career, retirement planning can seem awfully daunting these days. You can't change the market or your employer's largesse.
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Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon unveil "Skinput," which turns the skin's surface into a touchscreen.
If you think an electric toothbrush is high-tech, wait until you hear about the Internet-enabled version.
Mobile therapy apps are on the way. Just imagine -- you might not have to pay $200 an hour to talk about your problems. You can just pop out your iPhone and a virtual therapist can offer you some perspective.
Marketers want to get inside your brain. Literally.
Paul King was headed to the airport in Pittsburgh in 2006 when he suffered an ill-timed communications blackout. His cell phone died -- and the Carnegie Mellon student realized he still had his roommate's house key in his pocket.
"I'll be disappointed if you're still in Pittsburgh."
This week the international community is converging on my chosen hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as heads of state gather for the G20 summit.
Alas, our romance with shopping seems to be coming to an end -- or at least it's up for careful reevaluation.
After two years of pumping money into the financial system to keep the economy afloat, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will have to reverse the process or risk an opposite problem: inflation.
Any hope that General Motors can survive without massive aid from the federal government was dashed last week when the automaker reported a huge fourth-quarter loss.
You salt away 10% of your pay into a retirement plan, but this "retirement" thing can feel pretty abstract. What will it be like? To judge by the pictures in personal-finance magazines (including Money), there will be a house by the water. And Adirondack chairs. And the occasional sea kayaking expedition.
Kevin Spacey says their role is shifting, and Meryl Streep tells CNN they're becoming "scarily irrelevant."
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Myleene Klass investigates the role and influence of the film critic in this month's The Screening Room.
Are you getting enough sleep? If not, it could be hurting your health.
Imagine this hypothetical situation: You're a hard-nosed business trader and I'm a contact who's just passed on a great tip on some undervalued shares. Do you take me up on the advice? Well, to imagine some more, it depends on whether or not you argued with your spouse that morning.
Prices soared in July on the back of record oil. Now, after witnessing the sharp drop in the cost of crude, Americans are hoping for relief in August. They may be sorely disappointed.
The Carnegie Mellon professor, who battled pancreatic cancer, became an Internet sensation
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A "last lecture" by Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor facing terminal cancer, became an Internet sensation.
Randy Pausch, the professor whose "last lecture" became a runaway phenomenon on the Internet and was turned into a best-selling book, died Friday of pancreatic cancer, Carnegie Mellon University announced on its Web site.
Professor Randy Pausch, whose "last lecture" about his terminal cancer became a bestselling book, has died.
Time can be on your side -- if you re-shape your schedule. With the help of a dozen psychologists, researchers, and coaches, we came up with a three-part plan to reseize the day.
Slow and steady wins the race, but a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Those dueling proverbs sum up the investing mind.
Third place team: NeuroBank What it does: Extracts and stores neural stem cells for the treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's Founders: Raymond Sekula, 35, and Sasha Bakhru, 27 School: Carnegie Mellon University Launched: September 2007
updated: Fri Feb 22 2008 10:58:00
CNN's Schams Elwazer follows a budding entrepreneur who hopes one day to open her own business in the region.
Noor Al-Mohannadi is a budding Qatari businesswoman taking part in the inaugural class of a new entrepreneurship program -- the first of its kind her country -- delivered by the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Qatar Science & Technology Park.
Research into how people make financial decision suggests that sad people spend more, and they don't even realize they're doing it
Hard core robot experts tend to turn up their noses at remote-control bots like Robotex's - even if they're fully armed.
It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.
Like a lot of businesspeople, Todd Mowry hates videoconferencing with his colleagues. "It's like visiting someone in prison," he says. "You talk through a glass wall, but you can't deal with each o...
For someone trapped under rubble after an earthquake the sight of something resembling a snake wriggling towards them would probably be the last thing they would want to see. But a new breed of life-saving robot is being developed that take their shape and movement from those limbless reptiles, and, it is hoped, will prove invaluable not only in search and rescue operations but also be a great asset to human surgery.
It may seem melodramatic, but the truth is, hackers across the globe - or maybe across the street - are working 24/7 to find ways to steal your passwords, take control of your computer or turn your hard drive into a whirring pile of scrap metal.
On a typical day, I'm surrounded by a lot of people who are probably smarter than I am, whether I'm in a classroom full of MBAs or in a boardroom with top executives. But I'm wise enough to know on...
Just when you thought it was safe to switch on your cell phone, it seems that making calls in the air could pose a greater risk than running up an exorbitant bill.
When you have a legitimate point to make, it can undercut your argument to rely heavily on a sound-bite statistic that easily can be misinterpreted.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Quick confession: I really dislike dealing with demanding, arrogant women.
As the residents of shattered Gulf Coast towns like Biloxi, Miss., and Gretna, La., began returning home or crawling from the wreckage in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit, many found their way ...
So you're thinking about getting a master's of business administration, and you want to know which school is the best for you. With tuition at top-tier schools reportedly up 55 percent in the past ...
How often do you say "Whoops!" about your investing decisions? I've been kicking myself lately over a mistake that I'll bet you've made too. My 401(k), I've come to realize, is a big, fat tax mess....
How often do you say Whoops! about your investing decisions? I've been kicking myself lately over a mistake that I'll bet you've made too. My 401(k), I've come to realize, is a big, fat tax mess.
Ten years ago Kieran Fitzpatrick was stuck at a fast-food drive-thru when inspiration struck. A robotics scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, Fitzpatrick got an idea for speeding up drive-thru ...
A Norwegian and an American have jointly been awarded the 2004 Nobel prize for economics.
Even a Gaggle of Geeks Lured by a $1 million prize couldn't figure out how to make a car drive itself 142 miles. The Grand Challenge race, sponsored by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Resear...
Business minds greater than ours have already found ways to make consumers pay for water and air (hellooooo, Las Vegas oxygen bar), so why not sleep? Arshad Chowdhury and Christopher Lindholst rece...
Bad moods are bad for business. So say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's department of social and decision sciences, who have determined that sadness and disgust drive down the prices sel...
Richard Florida likes to chat about cities the way most people chat about movies or pop culture. This is not to say that Florida, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, likes to discuss the bes...
Think you paid too much for a little gift you bought yourself after a tough day at the office? A new study suggests your emotions may have pushed you to a bad decision.
Of more than 100 entries, only 15 robotic vehicles, ranging from a motorcycle to a mega-military truck, made the final cut.
Bull markets, so they say, climb a wall of worry. This one has vaulted right over anxiety and leaped to euphoria.
Bull markets, so they say, climb a wall of worry. This one has vaulted right over anxiety and leaped to euphoria.
Want to change the world? Lead the assault on daunting frontiers? Goad your fellow man into achieving greatness? Improve the odds of finding a parking space? It's easy. Even better, it might make y...
Here's a gnarly challenge: coaxing a bunch of autonomous robotic dogs into winning a soccer game. That's what engineering and computer science students did at the seventh annual Robo Cup American O...
On a July afternoon 16 years ago, I put down a magazine that I'd been leafing through and gazed out of an airplane window. I was at 31,000 feet and halfway through a London-to-Newark flight; outs...
1 Out West: Colorado multitasks with the Telluride Film Festival and the Renaissance Weekend in Aspen. Back East: Russia conducts its first census since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
It's mid-April, and my boyfriend, Scott, and I are headed out on a road trip. We're going to spend a month visiting colleges and talking with kids about technology. It's an awesome assignment, and ...
BetterManagement.com Pop quiz! Under the tenure of Jack Welch, before any GE employee could reach executive level, he had to be trained to black-belt status in what? If all you can think of is kara...
You've burned your broker's number. Shut down your Ameritrade account. Rediscovered money markets. After a year of misery, your equity fever finally broke, and you don't want to fix it. Isn't it be...
My, my. There seem to be an awful lot of job seekers out there who, like "Peeved" (Nov. 22), endure several rounds of interviews, sometimes with psychological testing thrown in. Then they wait to h...
Janet Baker founded Dragon Systems, which makes speech-recognition software, with her husband, Jim, in 1982. Baker, who is CEO of the Newton, Mass., company, has a Ph.D. in computer sciences from C...
DEAR ANNIE: I just came from an interview for a job I want very badly, and I may have made a big mistake. The interviewer asked me what my salary was in my last job. I left there largely because I ...
Wall Street economists and analysts, like some small children, insist on having a bogeymen to scare themselves to sleep with. For many years, the specter of choice has been inflation: whenever thin...
In a big gray brick building in Highland Park, Michigan, a half-dozen technicians and engineers in shirt sleeves are hard at work killing American ingenuity. Armed with air-powered socket tools, sc...
If you think programming your VCR is difficult, pity the poor souls who must give robots their instructions. Factory automation has simplified and streamlined assembly lines, yet programming the ro...
The days when parents meekly had to accept whatever financial aid package a college offered are long gone. Today, growing numbers of people are bargaining hard -- and getting great deals. Among the...
It may look like a cubist bed frame with suction cups for feet, but ANDI could come in just as handy as its robot cousin R2D2 in Star Wars. Engineers at the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute desig...
While it's far from proven that electromagnetic fields are harmful, a little caution can't hurt. In addition to power lines and wiring, many devices around your home or office produce fields when t...
Faced with a stagnant job scene, unemployed managers, career changers, and freshly minted college graduates are finding new ways to hunt for work. Big - corporations still look good to many, who fl...
Begin with the premise, not universally conceded as yet but where the zeitgeist seems headed, that no right-thinking business person would use the term ''boss'' anymore. Much too hierarchical, fell...
As college students get set to crack the books for the 1991-92 school year, their parents might like to know the best-kept secret about financial aid: it's often negotiable. That's one of the impor...
If the daily reports of economic mayhem have you feeling panicky, you're not alone. According to MONEY's Consumer Comfort index (left) and other surveys, Americans are extremely gloomy about the ec...
Though it's still unclear whether extremely low frequency (ELF) fields ^ contribute to cancer, you may want to play extra safe and not take unnecessary chances. Granger Morgan, a professor of engin...
More and more brokers are urging clients to take quickie psychological quizzes to determine ''your investment personality.'' No matter what your broker says, these tests usually are mostly for his ...
On the wall of the ladies' room of a bar in upstate New York, a plaintive graffito recites a loser's litany for our times: ''No BMW, no condo, no MBA.'' As an antidote to hopelessness, the car or t...
More women are moving into the boardrooms of the top U.S. corporations, according to a survey by executive recruiter Korn/Ferry International. Lois Dickson Rice, 56, a senior vice president of Cont...
IF STUDENTS are a bellwether of trends, then listen up. The get-rich-quick fever that over the past few years drove business school students to Wall Street like hootch-crazed prospectors bound for ...
FOUR high-browed Ph.D.s solemnly carried out their assignment: Redesign a coffee maker. They belong to the Center for Industrial Innovation on the wind- swept campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti...
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