Cornell Just Got $133 Million To Open This Massive New Tech School On An Island In New York City

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Cornell's new graduate school of applied sciences is expected to fuel major growth in the New York City tech sector.

To help fuel that growth, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife just donated $133 million to the school, Ariel Kaminer of The New York Times reports.

The new school, Cornell NYC Tech, is the result of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's contest to a create a new science school. It beat out top-notch schools like Columbia, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford to open up a new graduate school focused on computer science.

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These 15 Tech Billionaires Are Spending Millions To Save The World

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With great wealth comes great responsibility.

That's how we judge the tycoons of tech. While many of them spend their money on expensive luxuries, like cars, houses, planes — even islands — they are also expected to use their prosperity to do good works.

That's the implicit demand of the tech industry.

Some are astoundingly generous, giving tens of millions —even hundreds of millions — to their favorite causes. How much they give says a lot about them. Which causes they support does, too...

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15 More Tech Skills That Can Instantly Net You A $100,000+ Salary

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We recently brought you a list of 30 tech skills that are in big demand for jobs that pay over $100,000.

Now we've got 15 more to add to the list, from a salary survey done by Global Knowledge and TechRepublic. The research was conducted in late 2012, based on a survey of 9,500 tech professionals.

This survey asked these folks how much they earned and which IT certifications they had. That's a little different than our previous story, which was based on skills desired by employers with open jobs.

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The Next 10 Tech Markets That Will Be Worth $1 Billion Or More

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New tech industries start small but can grow into permanent, billion-dollar slices of infrastructure. Sometimes that seems to happen overnight — like with smartphones.

And sometimes it takes years — like with the dumbphones that grew like mold from the mid-1990s through the late 2000s.

And now, for example, the prevalence of smart mobile devices has spurred the mobile app industry, an entirely new piece of infrastructure which supports thousands of companies and billions of dollars in sales.

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Who's Hiring? These 10 Tech Companies Have The Most Job Openings

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Looking for a new job?

It helps to know which companies are hiring.

But more than that. It helps to know which companies have lots of openings. The more employees they need, the better your chances to get the job you want at the salary you want.

With that in mind, we asked job search site Indeed.com to sift through its massive database of job openings to tell us which tech companies are in hyper-hiring mode, with thousands of openings.

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The 15 Richest People In Tech

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Forbes has released its annual billionaires list.

This is the 27th year the publication has put together the ranking.

A majority of the individuals on the tech portion of Forbes' massive list are self-made.

Bill Gates is still the richest man in technology, his net worth increased by $1 billion between 2012 and 2013.

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15 Apps The Tech World Is Obsessed With Right Now

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Apps, apps, and more apps.

The app market has evolved a lot since Apple introduced its App Store for iPhone nearly 5 years ago. Today, there are more hundreds of thousands to choose from on all mobile platforms.

But recently, we've noticed a few that people keep talking about more than any others. Here are the apps that have the tech world buzzing today.

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Funniest Tech People On Twitter

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Following technology news via Twitter can get dry and boring pretty easily.

Thankfully there's a cadre of people working to mix it up with funny tweets about tech (or something else entirely).

Our hats are off to these hilarious folks deriving comedy from the weird world of technology.

You can follow them all at once by following this Twitter list here...

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The Best Gadget Designs In Tech History

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Sometimes function isn't enough.

With gadgets, we like them to look good too.

Check out the gallery below to see the best examples of gadget design.

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20 YouTube Tech Channels To Subscribe

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YouTube has definitely evolved beyond being a site for videos. It is now a place where people share snapshots of their lives: babies, pets, song covers, experiments, reviews, weird phenomena among others to the world. Lucky for most of us, it is also a great place to find great how-to tutorials. The text is kept to a minimum, and you get a visual walkthrough of how exactly you can do new things, in particular, with tech and gadgets.

Today, we’ll be showing you 20 great YouTube channels that talk about technology and gadgets. A majority of these YouTubers talk about PC hardware components, and mobile gadgets like the latest smartphones, tablets and other portable devices. If you are interested in learning about the latest tech info, be sure to subscribe to them and literally watch and learn.

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4 Tech Trends That Will Make Colleges and Universities Better Teachers

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These are dark days for many colleges and universities. Sharp decreases in government funding and private-giving have forced academic cutbacks. That, along with soaring tuition and disappointing postgraduate employment, has earned the United States the dubious distinction of being number one in college dropouts.

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Top 10 Tech Tools Perfect for the Modern Office

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Whether you work in a tall skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company or at home for yourself, your office is a place you spend an inordinate amount of time. Why not let it reflect who you are? In this day and age, we’re all looking for tech tools that not only increase our productivity but also speak to our design sensibility. That’s why, today, we’ve put together this list of the top 10 tech tools that are perfect for the modern office. From a device that seamlessly switches from a laptop to a tablet to a productivity app that’s simple and “clear,” these ten products will make your life easier and, your time spent working, all the more enjoyable.

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5 Big Tech Companies That Are Killing It On Facebook

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It's taken for granted these days that if you run a business, you need to be on Facebook. And while any monkey can click the "Create Page" button, it takes a smart strategy to wind up with the kind of Facebook numbers that are truly brag-worthy.

Of course, it doesn't hurt to be a huge corporation with major brand recognition. But size doesn't necessarily translate into a solid Facebook presence, either. Heck, the biggest tech company of all apparently doesn't even need Facebook to succeed. Other than for iTunes, Apple doesn't maintain any official corporate presence on Facebook.

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10 Trends That Will Dominate the Tech Startup World in 2013

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The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library and email lessons.

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6 Cool Tech Tools Small Businesses Just Gotta Have

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Last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas does promise consumer right in its name, and the 2013 event was indeed chock-full of gizmos you will want to bring home: bicycle video cameras, space-age baby carriages (complete with a smartphone dock), and Brainwave Cat Ears (I already ordered my own set).

Happily, however, the consumer focus doesn’t keep vendors from showing plenty of business-class equipment. The miles of booths included everything from the latest laptop computers and office printers to small, useful gadgets and tools tuned to small business’s needs. Here are my favorites.

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5 New Year's Resolutions To Manage Your Tech Habits

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I took two weeks completely offline over the Holidays, and I learned something humbling. I like to blame technology itself for encouraging bad habits.

But in my reluctance to come back onto the grid this week, I eased in cautiously, and I realized that most of the problems just arise from me using tech too much and without enough intention. When I use my gadgets and services more deliberately and less often, the problems mostly go away, but still leave me with the benefits of being connected.

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7 Tech Resolutions for 2013

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The new year is only yards away, which means you've got a shining chance to reinvent yourself as less of a jerk. Adopt these tech principles and you'll be a better person in 2013.

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2012 Year in tech: A timeline

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While planet Earth has yet to meet its demise, the end of 2012 is nigh. It was a year of lengthy legal battles and shifting power dynamics in the tech industry. It brought with it great advancements and great failures -- and, for some, the promise of the end of days. We've combed our archives to bring you just a few of the stories that made the biggest impact on our reporting this year. Herewith, an abridged look back at the year that was.

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25 Unique Steampunk Gadgets and Hi-Tech Hacks

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Steampunk is the mating of technology (gadgets) and romance, breeding some of the most wickedly cool gadget’s and art you’ve ever seen. It’s cool and brass-clad sexy. With a post apocalyptic type of rebellion, Steampunk enthusiast mod almost everything you can imagine and then some. This amazing urban art movement was birthed on the Internet, so it’s no wonder hi-tech hardware hackers are romancing technology with a Victorian passion, yearning for the aesthetic realm of The Time That Never Happened; Steampunk – where the future meets the past. Here are some of the slickest mods, 26 sexy Steampunk art and hi-tech hacks.

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The 7 Technology Trends That Will Matter Most To Small Business in 2013

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If 2012 was a year of "wait and see," for small business technology, 2013 will be a year to "go for it."

One key reason is that small business optimism is already rising. According to the Fall 2012 Bank of America Small Business Owner Report, more than half of small business owners project sales will grow in the next year, and almost one-third plan to hire. Just 7% expect sales to drop and only 3% plan to lay off employees. And entrepreneurs typically believe they're local economies are doing better than the nation as a whole. (That can't be true for everyone, of course, but it still speaks to increasing optimism.)

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