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Arts, Culture & Media
Ten TV Episodes to Watch Before the Golden Globes
Social media
Global Politics
Confronting the new geopolitics of ‘net-states’
College graduation
Business, Finance & Economics
How H-1B work visas transformed tech and education in the US and India
President Donald Trump waiting for the arrival of Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi at the White House in Washington on April 3.
Economics
Trump unveils more limits on visas favored by Silicon Valley
Executives meet at an IT Senior Management Forum gathering, a group that mentors senior African-American managers in STEM fields
Black Lives Rising (in STEM)
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Companies like the Diamond Foundry can manufacture a high-quality diamond in about two weeks. It takes the Earth about a billion years to do it the traditional way.
Business
Diamond labs say theirs are forever too — even if they were made yesterday
Indian startup entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to potential investors at the Startup Warehouse in Bangalore
Prepare to be Bangalore-d: India’s rising challenger to Silicon Valley
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Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA
Seeing into the Future: A Practitioner’s View
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computer virus
Technology
On the trail to catch cyber criminals
Godfather
Business
What we can learn from pirates, gangsters and others in the ‘misfit’ economy
Dancers relax after performing during a Diwali Festival in Silicon Valley
Arts, Culture & Media
Silicon Valley gets linguistic enlightenment from India