How LinkedIn Is Taking Care of Business

How LinkedIn Is Taking Care of Business "According to the infographic below, created by Online MBA, 68% of LinkedIn users are 35 or older, 74% have a college degree or better and 39% make more than $100,000 a year. As those stats illustrate, although LinkedIn may not have the buzz of Facebook or Twitter right now, it has an enviable demographic base. The company also is profitable, fast-growing and expanding into new lines of business like news aggregation. As LinkedIn prepares to go public this year, here’s an overview of the phenomenon that Reid Hoffman created 8 years ago."

James Cameron's 3-D camera gets bumped from Mars flight

James Cameron's 3-D camera gets bumped from Mars flight: "Filmmaker James Cameron had been building a 3-D camera for Mars rover Curiosity, but for this mission we won't be needing the 3-D glasses.

NASA said Friday it was dropping the 3-D camera from the $2.5 billion Curiosity mission."

Best Flight Preparation Video EVER with Richard Simmons!

Best Flight Preparation Video EVER with Richard Simmons!

Understanding Calculus With A Bank Account Metaphor

Understanding Calculus With A Bank Account Metaphor: "Calculus examples are boring. 'Hey kids! Ever wonder about the distance, velocity, and acceleration of a moving particle? No? Well you're locked in here for 50 minutes!'"

My Brilliant Career: Making a living, now in 3-D

My Brilliant Career: Making a living, now in 3-D: "Ryan Crocker is a senior 3-D artist and animator at Spaghetti Media. He speaks to Margaret Harris about how animators need to have strong people skills along with an ability to draw"

PS3 Hacker Shoots Through To South America Sony Really Upset

PS3 Hacker Shoots Through To South America Sony Really Upset: "Sony has gone hunting in South America for a PS3 hacker who shot through from the USA last week. The Hacker George Hotz, claims he is on holiday, Sony are suspicious."

Ben Heck's Got an Atari 2600-esque Xbox 360

Ben Heck's Got an Atari 2600-esque Xbox 360: "We’re getting kind of used to seeing all the different creative projects dreamt up by Ben Heck but Heck’s most recent project was actually a request from Atari."

Is it a bird? No it's a robot

Is it a bird? No it's a robot: "There are some developments that are too beautiful to miss, even if you are not interested in the hardware and so it is with Festo's collection of biologically inspired robots. To a programmer a robot is 'just another platform', but to take control of a machine that literally flies like a bird is inspiring."

Five Steps to Having a Productive Month

Five Steps to Having a Productive Month: "Do you plan for the month ahead? Most of us don't – if I'm truthful, I don't always manage this myself. But a bit of forethought can make a huge difference."

JAPAN DISASTER FROM A TECHNOLOGICAL VIEW

JAPAN DISASTER FROM A TECHNOLOGICAL VIEW: "The following comes to us from one of our friends and correspondents in Japan. After reading, please do whatever you can to lend a hand"

Can libraries survive in a digital world?

Can libraries survive in a digital world?: "Publishers stand accused of 'nonsensical' policies on e-book lending to libraries. So, with nearly $1bn spent on e-books last year in the US alone, what does this mean for the institutions already at risk of closure?"

Learn to be a polyglot Java programmer

Learn to be a polyglot Java programmer: "Arun Gupta is the Java EE & GlassFish Guy at Oracle and has been personally involved with Java EE6 platform. He has been part of the software community for the past 13 years now, working on various distributed computing technologies, especially Java platform."

Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer gets 8 years in prison

Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer gets 8 years in prison: "A former programmer for New York-based Goldman Sachs has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for stealing secret computer code that enables high-speed trading."

Build an easy JavaScript data access layer

Build an easy JavaScript data access layer: "Work through the entire process of building a database access wrapper in PHP for the back end and connecting it to a JavaScript access wrapper at the user interface layer in this article."

Co-Founder of Geek Squad Reports Gas Main Explosion with iPad

Co-Founder of Geek Squad Reports Gas Main Explosion with iPad : "Stephens used Apple’s recently updated iMovie for iPad to cut the footage up and add all of the bells and whistles together."

Muammar Gaddafi dances to the beat of bullets

When bombs fall from the sky....

Top 12 iPhone Apps That'll Increase Your Productivity

Top 12 iPhone Apps That'll Increase Your Productivity: "This list will show you 12 iPhone apps that could significantly enhance your daily productivity. Like most of the lists published on this blog, this one too is diverse with all kinds of good and innovative tools."

Doug Landis - Mouth Art

Doug Landis - Mouth Art: This artist makes incredible paints just by using his mouth.

Digital Pinball Machine

Digital Pinball Machine: "I'm a pinball fan from way back, but pinball machines are so expensive, and need a lot of maintenance. With the creation of software such as Visual Pinball, Future Pinball and Hyperpin, Digital pinball cabinets are a reality, and can be made quite cheaply. the advantage of digital pinball is that it's cheap to maintain, relatively cheap to build and you can have as many tables as have been created. A number of people have built cabinets, and the Hyperpin Forums are a great place to get all the information. Here's a step by step on how to configure the software, build the cabinet and wire it all together."

Geek Survival Guide from the streets of earthquake-hit Japan

Geek Survival Guide from the streets of earthquake-hit Japan: "Here at DVICE we often make humorous quips about how this or that device may help you when disaster strikes, but for the last two days I've been dealing with the aftermath of the Sendai Earthquake here in Tokyo, Japan and I've actually had the opportunity to put many of our geek-centric theories to the test."

Python Tools for Visual Studio

Python Tools for Visual Studio: "Microsoft has posted Python Tools for Visual Studio, a free open source plug-in for VS 2010, to the Codeplex website."

Eye-controlled laptop raises eyebrows

Eye-controlled laptop raises eyebrows: "A Swedish company has unveiled the world’s first laptop that can be controlled by the movement of the human eye. The Tobii Technology prototype allows users to scroll through documents, zoom in and out, and switch between windows without the use of a keyboard or mouse. The screen of the laptop also automatically dims when it detects that it is not being looked at."

Could the computer in your car be hacked?

Could the computer in your car be hacked?: "The familiar problem for personal computers is being studied in automobiles as internal computer networks become as critical to vehicles as tires and engines, and as auto companies push to bring the Internet to motorists."

How ‘RANGO’ could change the game in animation

How ‘RANGO’ could change the game in animation: "Paramount/Nickelodeon's 'Rango' tells the tale of a chameleon -- an apt character metaphor for an actor of Depp's sly talents -- who winds up in the dusty Wild West town of Dirt as a tall-talkin', gun-slingin' sheriff. And the look is beguilingly intricate: Paramount worked with George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic for this, its first big-budget digital animation. (The move also marks a shift: For years, DreamWorks has supplied Paramount with its animated family fare.)"

So You Wanted to Be a Nature Photographer...

So You Wanted to Be a Nature Photographer...: "For your twelfth birthday your aunt got you a subscription to National Geographic magazine. It brought cultures, landscapes, and wildlife from far afield directly into your bedroom in full color and made you feel like you were right there exploring jungles, seeing exotic lizards run across water, and meeting even more exotic topless women from primitive tribes. In a time before the Internet you were amazed that these images could make their way across the world and into your hands and you were both grateful to and jealous of the people who were on the scene with nothing but a camera lens between them and the great bounty of nature."

The deepest swimming pool on Earth

The deepest swimming pool on Earth: "Located in Brussels, this swimming pool is perfect for learning how to dive or for fine-tuning your skills before you hit the deep ocean. It’s 105 feet (33 meters) deep with 2.5 million liters of chlorine-free warm water. But the pool isn’t just used for practice; it’s also a tourist attraction. Everyone is welcome to test dive with instructors who will provide training if you are a beginner."

100 things you didn’t know about Apple and Steve Jobs

100 things you didn’t know about Apple and Steve Jobs: "If you’re into interesting facts, few companies have as secretive, cool and intriguing histories as Apple and its leader, Steve Jobs. Anything missing?"

It's OFFICIAL Seth MacFarlane and the Family Guy crew are a bunch of spineless assholes

It's OFFICIAL Seth MacFarlane and the Family Guy crew are a bunch of spineless assholes: "... a particularly tasteless tweet started rolling around the web last night, and I found out it had been written by Family Guy scriptwriter Alec Sulkin, I wasn’t too surprised. Here’s what he said:

If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google “Pearl Harbor death toll”."

The Japan Earthquake Seen by Millions of Digital Cameras (Updating Live)

The Japan Earthquake Seen by Millions of Digital Cameras (Updating Live): "Many videos you won't see on TV"

No, the “supermoon” didn’t cause the Japanese earthquake #japan #tsunami

No, the “supermoon” didn’t cause the Japanese earthquake #japan #tsunami: "Japan suffered a massive earthquake last night, measuring nearly magnitude 9. This is one of the largest quakes in its history, causing widespread and severe damage. Before I say anything else, I’m greatly saddened by the loss of life in Japan, and I’ll be donating to disaster relief organizations to help them get in there and do what they can to give aid to those in need."

Up' and away: Balloons lift house

Up' and away: Balloons lift house.

Cyndi Lauper Rocks

Cyndi Lauper Rocks! Kudos to a TRUE artist with a heart of the size of a bus #cyndilauper

Rango: actors and animators got their hands dirty

Rango: actors and animators got their hands dirty: "Verbinski didn't get involved with the project to merely weigh on the actors' vocal inflections, however. They shot in what visual effects animator Hal Hickel described as 'emotion capture,' a process that involved the actors dressing in theme and interacting with each other and props during the motion capture process."

Top five inspiring technologies to watch for in 2011

Top five inspiring technologies to watch for in 2011: "Jenna Blumenthal explores advancements worth paying attention to"

No More Lines to Meet Mickey Mouse?

No More Lines to Meet Mickey Mouse?: "Mickey Mouse is joining the ranks of Fastpass attractions at Magic Kingdom such as Space Mountain. For the first time this spring, Walt Disney World Resort in Florida is going to let guests use a timed pass to meet the iconic mouse."

PVC Camera Shoulder Rig - Filmmaking

PVC Camera Shoulder Rig - Filmmaking: "There are all kinds of PVC shoulder rig tutorials on the web, but this design is created specifically for a DSLR camera!
Made from 1/2 Inch PVC, here is a simple totally customizable 'spider-brace' style shoulder rig!"

Brazil at heart of Google's Latin America strategy

Brazil at heart of Google's Latin America strategy: "The world's No. 1 Internet search company saw its revenue in the region surge last year on the back of brisk economic growth, with countries showing growth of 50 percent to 100 percent last year."

Ten Caching Mistakes that Break your App

Ten Caching Mistakes that Break your App: "Caching large objects, duplicate objects, caching collections, live objects, thread unsafe caching and other common mistakes break your app instead of making it fly. Learn ten common caching mistakes devs make."

IBM's Watson and Sherlock Holmes

IBM's Watson and Sherlock Holmes: "Watson has just won big, very big, on the game show Jeopardy.
Does this mean that Dr. John H. Watson, faithful friend and chronicler of the ingenious detective Sherlock Holmes, has moved from Victorian literature to television game shows? No, but he does have a role in these current events, and we’ll get to that."

Microsoft Embraces Kinect Hackers, Will Release Official Non-Commercial SDK

Microsoft Embraces Kinect Hackers, Will Release Official Non-Commercial SDK: "Without Microsoft's help, legions of hackers have used the Kinect to bring drawings to life, create mimicking robots, perform surgery, and play music. Over the weekend, Microsoft announced its intention to bring a starter kit for development--basically, a box of tools so developers can legitimately take advantage of the Kinect's potential--to those same enterprising folks, which can only mean we're in for ever more evolved uses for our favorite futuristic gaming accessory."

Captured by the Camera

A funny and impressive view of day to day photography.

Coping with the "Chewbacca Syndrome"

Coping with the "Chewbacca Syndrome": "11-year Supatra Sasuphan was once the target of rude remarks and jibes, thanks to her unique appearance. Children teased her and called her 'Monkey face' and 'Wolf girl'."

Iraqi Tron

This is how Iraquis Tron!