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• White House launches strategy to lead world in quantum

  The White House yesterday launched a national strategy for Quantum Information Science (QIS) in a bid to secure global leadership in “the next technological revolution”.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, July 7

  Privacy group wants Google to forget more... Programmer escapes vampire squid... Self-driving cars evade human menace... and more tech news

• US judge dimisses second conviction of ex-Goldman Sachs coder

  A former Goldman Sachs programmer saw his second criminal conviction dismissed on Monday in a long-fought, technically challenging legal battle that centered on 32MB of copied code.

• 13 best companies for female IT pros

  One key to recruiting and retaining more women in technology is representation: Organizations with women in visible leadership positions tend to attract other women. To recognize firms that both measure and actively work to change underrepresentation of women, the Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance women in computing, released this month its annual list of top companies for women technologists leadership index.

• SDN start-up stitches together Clouds

  A software-defined networking start-up has emerged from stealth mode proposing accelerated deployment of applications and services spanning private, public or hybrid clouds.

• Goldman Sachs seeks deletion of mistakenly sent confidential email

  Google has blocked access to a sensitive email that was sent by mistake to the Gmail account of an unknown person, according to Goldman Sachs, on whose behalf the email was sent. Now it wants Google to delete the email.

• Tip of the Hat: The man behind Apple's post-Jobs acquisition spree

  Apple's move to buy headphone maker and streaming music service Beats Electronics brought its acquisitive ways -- started after the death of founder Steve Jobs -- to the forefront.

• 11 tips to prepare for SDN

  Making the leap to SDN? Don't jump in blind. It helps to know what software-defined networking is, first off, and then what it can do for you.

• At Goldman Sachs SDN is déjà vu all over again

  Goldman Sachs has been doing SDNs for a long time. It just wasn't called SDNs when the investment giant invested in network programmability. It was just a bunch of APIs, software development kits and other code used to cobble together a large number of various specialized networks – trading, investment banking and the like -- across the globe.

• Twitter suffering from growing pains

  Twitter faces growing pressure to attract new users and dramatically increase engagement on the platform. Can it ever rival the numbers and growth of Facebook?

• Marissa Mayer 'very excited' about contextual search

  If you think Yahoo has given up on search, think again. The company may have handed its back-end search operations to Microsoft, but Marissa Mayer thinks there's work to be done on mobile devices, particularly around contextual search.

• SDN thinking lags behind technology, VMware's Casado says

  The last legacy systems to make the shift to software-defined networking may be network engineers' minds, but even those are changing.

• Goldman Sachs, with 10,000 tech workers, embraces open systems

  A surprising thing about Goldman Sachs, one of the globe's most influential investment banks, may be the sheer size of its technology organization. It makes up a major part of its workforce.

• Goldman Sachs must pay software coder's legal fees, court rules

  Goldman Sachs must pay the legal fees of a software engineer facing New York state charges that he allegedly stole the firm's proprietary source code, a federal judge ruled.

• Twitter reportedly kicking off roadshow Oct. 25

  Twitter reportedly is getting ready to begin its IPO roadshow on Oct. 28 and then begin trading on Nov. 15.