In the heat of the moment, it is so easy to tweet, post or Instagram emotionally charged or questionable content. Those posts or content can come back to bite you. That could be why a new survey finds about one in four young adults fear they’ll get fired or turned down for a job by employers who see their more risqué social-media posts.
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An Amazon.com warehouse.
Amazon.com Inc has unveiled a new hiring spree on Monday that will fill more than 5,000 new full-time jobs at 17 of its fulfillment centers across the United States. This is ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to one of the Internet retailer’s giant distribution warehouses this week.
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Everyone hates mosquitoes, and the market is flooded with products aimed at getting you rid of the nuisance. A new product, the Kite patch claims to contain natural ingredients that, when worn, make you undetectable to the insects for 48 hours. Better yet, it doesn’t have to be worn on the skin, but will work just fine on clothing. We’re not sure what’s in it, but if it works as advertised, it should become an instant hit. Currently doing the crowdfunding dance on IndieGogo, the plan is for the makers to test the first batch in Uganda, where malaria is common. Once that’s done, and once they’ve received US EPA approval, Kite will become available stateside.
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The number of technology companies founded by women is only 3%.
Only 3% of technology companies are founded by women. This is despite the fact that women-led private technology companies get 35% higher return on investment, that the venture-backed ones have 12% higher revenue, and that women-owned companies with $10M in revenue have 47% higher growth than the average 10M in revenue company. Sadly, however, 98% of women-owned companies never make it over $1M in annual revenue.
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Green and sustainable energy
The economy is recovering, and entrepreneurialism has played a large role in helping it along. One of the most interesting parts of this recovery, however, is the emergence of new types of industry. Businesses have found all new niches to fill, and seven industries in particular have shown substantial growth in 2013. (Infographic)
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Using 3D printing, researchers can create scaffolds to repair/replace bone tissue.
A new technique that involves 3D printing a tissue using living stem cells could repair damaged bones. For example, if a child had a jawbone defect, you could take an image of the defect, feed it into a computer and print a replacement to precisely fill the defect using the patient’s own cells, said Kevin Shakeshaff, a pharmacist at the University of Nottingham in England.
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When two Heart Sync player’s hearts have completely synchronized, the hoods swirl white and the game is won.
Two major conferences were held last week in the U.S. to discuss the future of wearable technology, the Wear Tech Con in San Francisco and Wearable Tech Expo in New York City. Here are some of the technologies they talked about. (Photos)
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The twin wheeled skateboard works like a Segway. Electric skateboards exist already with powered rear wheels, but the plan here was to build something like a Segway but in the form of a skateboard. It knows which way is “up” via a combination of gyroscope and and accelerometer sensors. (Videos)
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Salt for Life will begin rolling out online and in grocery stores in August and September of this year.
Salt for Life comes from Nu-Tek Salt, a Bill Gates-endorsed company that sells salt replacement products that contain 70% less sodium than traditional salt. Unlike salt replacers of the past, Nu-Tek’s products actually taste like the real thing. Big food producers have already started using it, but soon you’ll be able to buy it yourself.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: If you haven’t noticed, there’s a massive battle brewing in academia. No it’s not just a battle between MOOCs and traditional education. What’s at stake is nothing short of the future of humanity.
Mice implanted with false memories.
U.S. and Japan memory researchers have, for the first time, implanted false memories into a lab animal. The researchers made mice believe that they had once received electrical shocks in their feet while sitting in a certain little chamber, even though that had never happened. Thereafter, whenever the researchers put the mice in that chamber, the mice would freeze up in a typical mouse response to fear.
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Caffeine may also act as a mild antidepressant.
Good news for coffee drinkers. According to a new study by the Harvard School of Public Health, subjects who drank two to four cups of coffee daily were 50 percent less likely to commit suicide. This was observed in comparison to those who drink decaffeinated, very little, or no coffee.
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