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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...

  • Why We Really Want to Lose Our Privacy

    By Jacqueline Leo

    When did human beings begin to lose their "privacy"? Some say we have more privacy in 2013 living anonymously in big cities than early human beings had living in tribes, where everyone knew the other...

  • NSA Focused on Just 300 Calls Out of Millions

    By Mark Hosenball, Reuters

    Fewer than 300 phone numbers of Americans have been closely scrutinized, according to a paper from the U.S. spy agency.

  • Why Data Analysts Can Peer Into Your Future

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    Businesses and companies – not to mention the federal government – are ascertaining untold truths about us as private individuals and consumers through the use of Big Data. And the new technologies...

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    Rand Paul Threatens Class Action Suit on NSA Spying

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    President Obama didn't plan to spend his second term debating the Fourth Amendment. But the limits on search and seizure just became the hot subject, after new reports revealed last week that the...

  • NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seeks Asylum

    By Barton Gellman and Aaron Blake, The Washington Post

    Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former undercover CIA employee, unmasked himself Sunday as the principal source of recent Washington Post and Guardian disclosures about top-secret National Security...