How to Be a Highly Competitive Mobile Developer
The demand for mobile software developers is red hot, and the demand for Android developers is even hotter
Since Americans are consumed by their smartphones alone for about an hour per day (a figure that doesn't even account for tablet/other electronic media usage), most companies need highly skilled mobile developers to adapt their website or service to mobile usage.
Generally, enterprises and startups alike are adapting their products or services to the two biggest names in mobile technology: iOS and Android. Read more...
Android is outpacing iOS in the job market by a landslide
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Rick Perry's Twitter Account Sends Out 'Unauthorized' Meme
Texas Governor Rick Perry's Twitter official account sent out a meme mocking the drunk-driving attorney who was behind his recent indictment.
Here's a screengrab of that "unauthorized" Rick Perry tweet: http://ift.tt/1r1gZA1
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) September 1, 2014
The tweet superimposed the head of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg on an ad for Dos Equis beer. Moments later, it was deleted and Perry wrote on the social media site that the post was "unauthorized."
A tweet just went out from my account that was unauthorized. I do not condone the tweet and I have taken it down.
— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 1, 2014 Read more...
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Google Glass is Getting a Second Look from Businesses
A few months after Google publicly teased its plans to develop Google Glass, Ian Shakil convinced some friends who worked at the company to let him try on an early prototype of the smart glasses. It proved to be an eye-opening experience.
"It was sort of a lightning strike eureka moment trying it on," Shakil told Mashable in a recent interview. "This was not vaporware. This was real."
At the time, during the summer of 2012, Shakil had just graduated from Stanford's business school and was working at MC10, a startup building stretchable electronics that could adapt to body movements and be used to track health information. After seeing Glass firsthand, he realized it could serve as a powerful tool to improve the medical industry. "I left my job and dropped everything to found the company," he says. Read more...
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Drone Reveals the First Stages of Apple's New Spaceship Campus
We may have to wait another week and a half to see what Apple has in store with the iPhone 6 and a possible iWatch, but one drone pilot managed to capture at least one Cupertino secret early: the new Apple spaceship campus
Looking like the unearthed remains of a grounded Death Star or the ancient ruins of an alien civilization, the early stages of Apple's new campus construction reveal that the ambitious architectural project is on track
The footage was shot by a YouTuber using a GoPro Hero 3+ Black edition and a DJI Phantom 2 drone, which flew from the construction site's perimeter and then over the site itself to deliver the footage Read more...
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Social Media Goes Wild Over Massive Celebrity Nude Photo Leak
A massive leak of what appears to be celebrities in compromising positions has seen the Internet go into overdrive.
On Sunday evening, a hacker posted photographs to 4Chan purporting to show dozens of stars naked or partially exposed. The images spread quickly across Twitter and other social media platforms.
The 'master list' released by the hacker includes some of the biggest names in the world such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Bosworth, Kim Kardashian, Scarlett Johansson, Selena Gomez, Rihanna and many more Read more...
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How Safe is iCloud and Other Cloud Services?
A trove of celebrity nude images — purportedly of some major celebrities — spread across the web Sunday evening. Although the veracity of many of the images in question is unclear, a number of celebrities have confirmed that they are the victims of this violation of privacy.
Hacking into cell phones or online accounts to access nude or personal photographs from celebrities is hardly new (remember when Paris Hilton's SideKick was hacked?), but what makes this incident potentially more disturbing are the rumors that this cache of images is associated with a broader attack on iCloud and its Photo Stream feature. Read more...
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Tony Stewart Returns to Racing After Crash That Killed Fellow Driver
Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart returned to racing on Sunday in Atlanta following a three-week absence after his car hit and killed fellow driver Kevin Ward Jr. at a dirt race track in New York on Aug. 9
"I’ve taken the last couple weeks off out of respect for Kevin and his family, and also to cope with the accident in my own way," Stewart said in a statement. "It’s given me the time to think about life and how easy it is to take it for granted."
Stewart has missed or canceled races in New York, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee since the incident, two of which were part of the Sprint Cup. Missing any regular season Sprint Cup race normally disqualifies a driver from competing in The Chase — NASCAR's version of the post-season — but NASCAR has granted Stewart an exemption Read more...
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How Big Data Could Help Prevent the Next Ferguson
Watson is getting its data-analyzing hands into everything. From health care to food science, IBM's "cognitive supercomputer" — who won Jeopardy more than three years ago — is taking on the intellectual heavy lift of sifting through enormous amounts of data, so humans don't have to.
One area where it's just getting started is law enforcement, where Watson's data-processing abilities have enormous potential to speed up investigations, which generate thousands of pages of paperwork. The computer can process those documents in the time it took to read this sentence, potentially giving detectives the best actionable leads much faster than before. Read more...
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American Kids Eat Vegemite, React With Absolute Disgust
SYDNEY — It is the most Australian thing you can eat, yet these American kids can't hide their disgust at trying Vegemite for the first time.
Vegemite is a black paste made from leftover brewers' yeast extract and has a salty and bitter taste that lingers in the mouth. Smear it on a piece of toast for breakfast or smudge it across a biscuit for a snack.
Down Under, if you don't eat it, you may as well pack your belongings and get on the next flight out.
As much as Aussie kids are bred on the iconic spread, Americans have never had a version to call their own. Read more...
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Jennifer Lawrence and Other Celebs Hacked as Nude Images Circulate on the Web
A major trove of celebrity images, some including images alleged to be actress Jennifer Lawrence nude, began spreading all over the web and Twitter on Sunday evening
Early word of the images began spreading on 4Chan earlier in the day, where posters claimed that the images were the result of a hacker intrusion on a number of iCloud accounts and that the images included nude celebrities such as Victoria Justice, Emily Browning, Kate Bosworth, Jenny McCarthy and Kate Upton
However, at least one of the alleged victims of the hack has taken to Twitter to dispute the authenticity of the images. Justice wrote via Twitter: "These so called nudes of me are FAKE people. Let me nip this in the bud right now. *pun intended*" Read more...
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Jay Z Threw $2 Bills at Made in America, But What Does It Mean?
PHILADELPHIA — Jay Z watches as the stack of $2 bills he tossed into the air rains down on the rowdy crowd at the Steve Aoki show at Made in America
Too enraptured with Aoki throwing cakes and showering them with champagne, the festival-goers thought little of what the unexpected money signified on Saturday night. All they knew was that is was Jay Z's music festival, and he could do whatever he wanted to do.
But the $2 bills, in fact, have a mysterious history in the music industry. The sightings of the uncommon paper money can be attributed to one wealthy lawyer: Mr. Steven Reisman, a human $2 bill dispensary for the stars in the hip-hop and rap world Read more...
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Ukraine: Pro-Russian Rebels Fire on Border Guard Vessel
KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called on Ukraine to immediately start talks on a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
Hours later, Ukraine said a border guard vessel operating in the Azov Sea was attacked by land-based forces. Pro-Russian rebels have recently opened a new offensive along the seacoast.
Putin's comment, made to national TV network Channel 1, said Ukraine should "hold substantive, meaningful talks, not about technical issues, but about the question of the political organization of society and statehood in southeast Ukraine, with the goal of safeguarding the legitimate interests of those people who live there." Read more...
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China Won't Allow Open Elections in Hong Kong
China's central government declared on Sunday that all candidates for Hong Kong's chief executive position in the 2017 election must be approved by Beijing's 1,200-member nominating committee, quashing the notion of a fully democratic election.
The announcement set off a protest outside Hong Kong's government headquarters on Sunday, the latest in a series of demonstrations against what democracy activists say is Beijing's attempt to bring Hong Kong more firmly under the central government's control
When the United Kingdom transferred jurisdiction of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the island was promised significant autonomy and its first open election for the city's leader in 2017. A Beijing-controlled committee has chosen the the head of the city's government for the past 17 years, and the central government has said it will continue to oversee the electoral process, according to Time. Before Hong Kong became a part of China, it was ruled by a colonial government, although citizens did get to elect local officials after 1985. Those officials were part of "district councils" that governed portions of the city, and did not include Hong Kong's governor, a British official who served as head of the city's government (similar to the role that the chief executive assumes now) Read more...
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