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The Best Articles We’ve Read This Week: The March 6 Hitlist

Every Friday The Daily Anchor offers up the best articles we’ve read all week. Most are recent, some are old, but hopefully they’ll all be useful, interesting or entertaining. The list isn’t huge and it isn’t exhaustive, because if it were there’d be no chance you’d read them all.

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The Best Articles We’ve Read This Week: The Feb 20 HitList

This is the second in a series of Friday posts in which we’ll cover the best articles we’ve read all week. Most will be new, some will be old, but hopefully they’ll all be useful, interesting or entertaining.

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Google and NASA Launch Singularity University

Google, NASA and a handful of other science and tech companies are combining forces to form Singularity University. The school’s mission is to solve “humanity’s grand challenges” and will be based near Mountain View, CA. Since we’re all a little ADD, here are the key takeaways, some pretty pictures, and a video…

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Google Layoffs 2009: Google Cuts 100 Positions yet Manages to Redeem Itself

Earlier this week Google closed several engineering offices and eliminated 100 recruiting positions (Googlers, not contractors this time), but handled it such a way that it actually serves as a model for how other companies should manage layoffs…

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Google Layoffs: 5,000-10,000 Contract and Temp Jobs Get Cut

Details are murky, but Google Inc. has cut 5,000-10,000 temporary workers in a recent austerity drive spurred by the recession, although the Internet search leader still intends to spend billions of dollars during the next two years on product research, development and acquisitions…

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