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History of Instragram

Posted in Statistics, Technical/Gadgets, The web on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Learn more about Instagram’s brief but explosive history, from its conception to its recent $1B purchase by Facebook:

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Personal Analytics of Stephen Wolfram creator of Mathematica

Posted in Investment Banking & Hedge Funds, Technical/Gadgets on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We all know that Stephen Wolfram, the guy who came up with Mathematica software and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine, is incredibly clever (he published his first physics paper at 18 and got a PhD in particle physics at 20). But did you know that he’s a bit obsessed by data? And by “data”, [...]

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Robot Hairdresser

Posted in Funny, Technical/Gadgets, YouTube on April 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Intelligent Automation developed the Multi-Arm Unmanned Ground Vehicle as a military robot to deal with bombs and such, but it may just have a hidden talent as a barber/hairdresser. Here’s the Robot Hairdresser/Barber shaving a volunteer’s head to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a charity that raises money to find cures for childhood [...]

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Wally can’t hide from Mathematica

Posted in Funny, Technical/Gadgets on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In my role as a recruiter I spend a lot of time speaking with developers and programmers who often use Mathematica whilst at university, now I’ve discovered a great use for this programme. Wally may be good at hiding from you and me, but can he hide from computers?  Stack Overflow user Heike used the [...]

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Facebook Acquires Instagram

Posted in Technical/Gadgets, The web on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Right on the heels of the release of its Android app, Instagram was acquired by social media giant Facebook. What does this mean for Instagram users? For now, not much. The creators of Instagram want you to know that the service isn’t going anywhere and this should only mean positive change: It’s important to be [...]

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Google’s April Fools’ Day Joke

Posted in Funny, Technical/Gadgets, YouTube on April 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is brilliant Via Mashable

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The World’s First Heartless Man

Posted in Technical/Gadgets on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Doctors from the Texas Heart Institute have successfully replaced a patient’s heart with a device that keeps the blood flowing, thereby allowing him to live without a detectable heartbeat or even a pulse. Here’s how it works: The turbine-like device, that are simple whirling rotors, developed by the doctors does not beat like a heart, [...]

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Teenagers to be taught how to code

Posted in Recruitment, Technical/Gadgets on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I was pleased to read on the Prosperity Blog that coding lessons for teenagers are spreading globally.  The ‘Kid-code-teaching-classes’ which started in Ireland are to launch in San Francisco at the end of this month. One of the main areas in which I am currently recruiting is the C++ Software Developer for investment banks and hedge funds. [...]

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The Evolution of the iPod in a Decade

Posted in Technical/Gadgets on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The picture says it all …

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Email v social media

Posted in Technical/Gadgets, The web on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I saw an interesting little article on the BBC on Email v social media: The headlines were unequivocal – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had announced that email is dead. The truth however was a little more prosaic. At the launch of the social network’s new messaging platform, he had said “we don’t think a modern messaging [...]

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