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President Obama speaks about moving forward to create jobs, out-compete in the global economy by investing in innovation and education, and win the future for our children and our country. This enhanced version features charts, graphs and other visual aids that accompany the President’s speech.

Intel has just announced that it has named the Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am the company’s new Director of Creative Innovation. Ummm, what?

As an extension of his insatiable fascination with technology, which plays a significant role in his professional and personal lives, will.i.am will engage in a multi-year, hands-on creative and technology collaboration with Intel Corporation. He already sports an Intel ID badge, which he proudly showed off at a news conference in Anaheim, where Intel is holding an internal sales and marketing conference.

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The longest determined non-technical word was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, apparently slang for the disease you get when you inhale silicon dioxide. Yes, “slang.”

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In Pittsburgh in September 1980, Bob Marley gave what would be his final concert; a few months later, in May 1981, he would be dead of cancer.

Marley knew he was deathly ill when he hit the stage, but his final performance was nonetheless bursting with vigor, and featured many of his most-beloved songs. That last concert has never been officially issued in the U.S.–until now. Next month the recording of Marley’s final performance will be released, titled “Bob Marley & The Wailers—Live Forever.”

What if detecting urban pollution was as easy as looking down at your neighbor’s chest? It is–if your neighbor is wearing one of the high-tech sweatshirts designed by NYU grad students Sue Ngo and Nien Lam. The shirts, designed for a class on wearable technologies, feature internal organs that change colors depending on the levels of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.