Articles by Dice Staff

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  Microsoft's Xbox Metro Update Comes to Our Consoles This Week

  Microsoft's long-awaited Xbox Metro Update will roll out this week with a new dashboard that looks more like a home entertainment center than a gaming console interface. As you see in the picture…
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  Despite Layoffs, AMD's Still Hiring

  AMD, which last month announced plans to cut its work force by 10 percent or about 1,400 people, also is hiring. Its job postings appear to be focused on engineers in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) desig…
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  HP Announces Cloud-Computing Certifications

  Hewlett-Packard is joining the party of vendors offering cloud computing certifications. They'll be focused on HP CloudSystem. In November, CompTIA announced a vendor-neutral cloud certification…
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  Maximize the Impact of Your Company’s Benefits

  Co-pays, premiums, PPOs: They may not be the most glamorous part of the HR professional’s portfolio, but in an increasingly competitive recruiting landscape, staying on top of your benefits is mo…
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  Facebook: How to Opt Out of App Permissions

  Facebook friends, rejoice. A developer created an extension on Google Chrome that allows users to pick and choose the permissions that they grant to apps. If you use Facebook Apps, you know that…
• How the EU Could Trump U.S. Piracy Bill

  The European Union stood up for freedom of speech this month with its resolution to halt domain seizures by U.S. authorities, in an attempt to stay one step ahead of controversial online-privacy…
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  Need a Photographer? Hire a Kinect-Powered Personal Robot

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47F0b_4HLDw&w=560&h=349] Here's a cool demo of “Eddie,” a new personal robot reference platform from Parallax, powered by Kinect and Microsoft Robotics Dev…
• Space Travel for the Rest of Us. Sort Of

  Space travel: Another frontier for the free market. To be a space tourist today you have to be pretty much rich, able to pay tens of millions of dollars for the privilege. But folks like Richard…
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  Itty-Bitty Printer Puts the Web on Tiny Thermal Paper

  I know how everyone absolutely hates printers, but not all of them are necessary evils. BERG, a London-based design studio, has invented one that is adorable and lovable, called the Little Printe…
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  Google Maps 6.0 Available on Android Marketplace

  Google announced few hours ago that the sixth version of Google Maps has been released on Android Marketplace. Thankfully, the new version is great leap forward for Google, as it will send Maps t…