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  • A specialist trader is reflected on his screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange August 25, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

    Wall Street Looks to Critical March Jobs Report

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    A truckload of data will hit markets in the coming week, but it's the jobs report Friday when Wall Street is closed that will be the most important and possibly have the most lasting impact. The...

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    The Secret Success of Today’s Biohackers

    By Ellen Jorgensen, Techonomy

    In a laboratory in New York City, molecular biologist Roy Buchanan is finishing up at the bench for the day. It is eight o’clock in the evening, and while late night work is a familiar scenario for...

  • Stocks Have Scores of Reasons for New Volatility

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Stocks, stuck in their own zigzag pattern, remain vulnerable to the whims of unusually volatile currencies in the week ahead. As financial markets adjust to the Fed's latest guidance on rates,...

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees work during a guided media tour inside the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia in this file photo taken on June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Hack Attacks Mean More Cyber Firms Will Go Public

    By Liana B. Baker, Reuters

    Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to...

  • Why the Military Wants to Restore Your Online Privacy

    By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

    The average, technologically connected American worker produces some 5,000 megabytes of digital data a day, enough to fill nine CD-ROMs. Only a small fraction of it is stored permanently or is...

  • Tech Giants Push for Government Surveillance Reforms

    By KATE HOLTON, Reuters

    Eight major U.S. web companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, made a joint call on Monday for tighter controls on how governments collect personal data, intensifying the furor over online...

  • Now, Even Your Bra Could Be Hacked

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    This could be the biggest thing to hit the world of intimate apparel in years – and the biggest boon for creative hackers , too. A prototype for a “smart bra” that can detect the presence of stress...

  • Investors Look Past Santa Rally to Volatility

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    As stocks sail into the holiday season at record highs, strategists are looking past any Santa rally to the volatility that could come with the new year. In the week ahead, the focus will be very...

  • Denver Broncos cornerback Kayvon Webster (R) breaks up a pass to Baltimore Ravens Brandon Stokley in the endzone in the second quarter of their NFL football game in Denver September 5, 2013.

    Today's Armchair Sports Gambler Could Be a Robot

    By Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC

    There's an old saying among writers that there are only three human narratives: man versus man, man versus nature, and man versus himself. Add a fourth narrative for the age of big data: man versus...

  • The Privacy Illusion: Why We Gave It Up Years Ago

    By David Francis

    Outrage over the amount of information the government collects had been contained to the media and the hacking community. That’s because millions of Americans volunteer personal information every day...