Jun 13

IBM reportedly cuts over 1,600 US jobs as part of billion-dollar restructuring

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IBM reportedly axing around 1,600 US jobs as part of billiondollar restructuring

Missing your earnings target by five cents a share wouldn’t trouble most companies — but IBM isn’t like most companies. That’s why it’s reportedly implementing a billion-dollar restructuring program that’ll see up to 8,000 jobs being lost from the firm. The Alliance@IBM union is reporting that over 1,600 jobs in the US have already been cut, including 165 from chip research and 121 from storage development. Given that the company is also working out ways of making supercomputer Watson pay its own way, it seems that no-one’s immune to a spot of belt-tightening.

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Via: Bloomberg

Source: Endicott Alliance @ IBM

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Jun 13

Len Filppu: Father’s Day Message to Dads: You Can Still Be Heroes

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Sure, everyday heroes know their acts of giving, teaching, caring, husbandry, and self-sacrifice are standard parental procedures performed since cave dwelling days. It’s invariably the simple things that make heroes of parents.
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Jun 13

The Center for Public Integrity: Tornado shelter firm lobbies up for federal tax relief

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Jun 13

19 Dazzling Photos Of Neon Signs

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19 Dazzling Photos Of Neon Signs Neon. It’s glitz and glamour from another age, a piece of dazzling technology worked into bespoke cultural artifacts. Here’s your own tribute to this aging electric artform.

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Jun 13

Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.: Dreaming in the Digital Age: The Impact of New Database Technologies

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If privacy protection is taken as the shared responsibility of both the participant and the database host, the risks don’t disappear, but they shrink down to a size that makes it possible to balance them with the upside potentials.
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Jun 13

Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera appears in press shots, may launch later this month

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Samsung Galaxy NX mirrorless camera appears in press shots, launch expected later this month

Samsung’s mobile chief JK Shin hinted that the company would soon be announcing an Android-powered mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera, and now the Galaxy NX is all but official. In press shots appearing on a Vietnamese gadget site, the device is pictured with a mirrorless mount and a trio of NX lenses. Judging from the body, the camera is likely to be closer in size to a DSLR than Samsung’s existing CSC lineup, with a large touchscreen occupying much of the rear.

Hardware controls are few and far between, and may be limited to a shutter release, video capture button, top-mounted dial and a pop-up flash release, along with the compulsory lens release to the left of the swappable optic. It’s said to include Android 4.2, a 20.3-megapixel APS-C sensor, ISO sensitivity through 25,600 and 1080p video capture. Pricing info is still up in the air, as is an official announce date, which could very well be as soon as Samsung’s June 20th event in London. Hit up the source for a few more shots.

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Via: SlashGear

Source: Tinh te (Vietnamese)

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Jun 13

Iron Man Arc Reactor Ring Will Keep Your Love Alive

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…or you can use it to keep metal shards at bay, as your last resort to keep your finger alive. You will claim that endearing vulnerability for four movies. Then for some unfathomable reason you will retcon the arc reactor’s reason for existence, and you will do so in the most hurried way possible. Just… what?! Clearly, this ring is far more beautiful than the highly polished piece of crap that is Iron Man 3.

iron man arc reactor wedding ring by gino arizmendi

The arc reactor ring was made by Gino Arizmendi aka Pathetic Peripatetic. Gino was commissioned to make the ring by a fellow geek who had seen his unofficial TARDIS ring. To make the ring pop, Gino set blue topaz and diamond baguettes (Ho ho ho! Un baguette!) in white gold.

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If you want to own a unique and geeky ring, Gino’s your man. You can also browse his other jewelry on his business website.

[via BuzzFeed]

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Jun 13

Allison Tate: The Third Metric: It’s All About the Halloween Parades

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Parenting is a great equalizer. Whether we are suburban moms hoping for a good nap out of our toddlers or renowned actresses or CTOs or television personalities or political big shots, we’re parents. When our children scan a crowd expecting to see our faces, we want to be there. Period.
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Jun 13

Joanna_Montgomery: What If You Treated Everyone Like They Might Die Tomorrow?

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We talk about not “sweating the small stuff” and “going with the flow,” but how many of us really practice this in our lives? I don’t know why any of us has to have a near death experience to chill the eff out — it doesn’t have to be that way, does it?
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Jun 13

Daniel Burrus: Social Media ROI for Business: Facebook versus LinkedIn

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With the multitude of social media sites, it’s hard for businesses to determine where they should be allocating their time and resources. And since many are reporting that they’re not getting the return they expected from their social media efforts, it’s important to know the psychology of social media and the various types of networking that fall under the social media umbrella. When you understand this, you can make smarter social media decisions for your business. Continue Reading…

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