Robot animals are scary

Robot spiderThere’s really no two ways about it. The appeal to create robotic doppelgangers of already scary animals seems to be too strong for some people to resist. The seemingly innocuous drone hummingbird that I blogged about a few weeks ago is harmless enough (although the surveillance implications are concerning) but when a few faithful readers sent me the videos below, I had to share them.   Continue reading

Social networking and employment

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According to a survey released by recruiting software provider Jobvite more than 22 million Americans sought new employment in 2011. Not surprisingly the majority of job seekers used a social network to facilitate their search (54% used Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter) although 86% disclosed having a profile on one of these sites.

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