College graduates who are unemployed and have had to move back in with their parents have become a stock figure of the past few years and is helping to cement the Millennials’ reputation as the “Boomerang Generation.” How many of these graduates are returning to live with mom and dad ((or their aunt or uncle)?
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People in Mexico City show pictures of missing women.
During the six years of Mexico’s former President Felipe Calderon’s administration the number of people who went missing stands at 26,121 according to government officials. That figure ranks as among the worst episodes of “disappearances” in Latin American history.
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In 2012, global music sales rose by 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion. This marks the first good year for the music industry since 1999.The music industry’s 21st century renaissance comes down to four factors: Better mobile technology, a growing global middle class, more music-listening options, and an effective crackdown on piracy that is making paid music a more attractive option.
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Cyber cold-war
A lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data for corporations in America was circulated to the country’s internet providers last week by the Obama administration. But, it left out an important fact that almost every one of the digital addresses could be traced to he neighborhood in Shanghai that is headquarters to the Chinese military’s cybercommand.
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Fauja Singh is not your average great-great grandfather. Singh has completed nine 26-mile marathons since taking up long-distance running just over ten years ago.
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Plants are natural friends and always lend a sense of warmth and spread freshness.
Space is a problem for city dwellers when it comes to gardens. But, bringing the charm of gardens in the life of people who suffer a space crunch are vertical gardens that will bring the garden inside the comfort of your house. Designers have come up with ideas that cover the walls with vegetation and give them an all new life. Listed below are 10 indoor vertical gardens that will help you lead a greener life. (Pics)
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A piece of electronics with physical properties, i.e. stiffness, bending rigidity, thickness and mass density, matched to the epidermis.
According to researchers, temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones.
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“We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.”
Here is the internal memo, courtesy of some very irked Yahoo employees, sent to the company about a new rule rolled out by CEO Marissa Mayer. The new rule requires that Yahoo employees who work remotely relocate to company facilities.
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Drone pilots
Researchers with the Defense Department have found in a first of its kind study that pilots of drone aircraft experience mental health problems like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress at the same rate as pilots of manned aircraft who are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Not all Ph.D. students want a career as a tenured college professor. There are many fields, such as humanities, that spending your life buried in books and papers is the gold standard of success. Data from the National Science Foundation has been broken down on the job market for doctorate holders and we take a look at just what fraction of new graduates were landing jobs in the academy.
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MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D desktop printer.
It may only be in its infancy, but a new startup has already found a way to disrupt the 3D printing industry. Makexyz is a 3D printing service with a brilliantly simple premise: Link the 3D printer owners of the world with the designers that need them. It’s like Airbnb or Wheelz, but for 3D printers.
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What do startups like Groupon, Twitter, Living Social, and Guitar Hero all have in common? They are all fast-growing startups that built their business on Ruby on Rails. Rails is the best way for beginners to learn how to build their own web applications and it comes with all the advantages of power, agility, and robustness of these top websites.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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