Facebook hires: Sydney vertical leads, data tools engineer, finance ...

Facebook hires: Sydney vertical leads, data tools engineer, finance manager, more

Facebook removed 38 positions from its?careers page?this week, likely after making hires in the areas of sales, HR, finance and user operations, among others.

The company appears to have filled a number of key sales roles in Sydney:?Head of Financial Services & Travel;?Head of Technology, Telecommunications & Entertainment; and?Head of Sales Mid-Market, Australia & New Zealand. That team seems to be growing quickly over the past few months as Facebook looks to build deeper relationships with advertisers all over the world.

Prior listings removed from Facebook?s?careers page:

• Hardware Test Engineer, Intern (Menlo Park)
• Solutions Engineer (London)
• Manager, Software Engineering (Menlo Park)
• Business Operations Manager (Menlo Park)
• Finance Manager, FP&A ? IT (Menlo Park)
• International General Ledger Accountant (Contract) (Hyderabad)
• Administrative Assistant, Platform Partnerships (Menlo Park)
• Regional Product Marketing Partner (Dublin)
• Data Tools Engineer (Menlo Park)
• Technical Systems Principal, APAC (Hyderabad)
• IT Operations Lead (Menlo Park)
• HR Generalist ? Contract (Hyderabad) (Hyderabad)
• Lead, People Services, L&D Benefits Ops (Menlo Park)
• Manager, Global Compensation (Menlo Park)
• People Operations Manager (Menlo Park)
• Technical Sourcer, Diversity ? Contract (Menlo Park)
• Technical Sourcer, Diversity (Menlo Park)
• Training and Development Program Manager (Menlo Park)
• Content Strategist (Menlo Park)
• Data Center Facility Operations Engineering Manager (Altoona)
• Ads Policy Enforcement Associate (Austin)
• Data Analyst, Latin America (S?o Paulo)
• Analyst, User Operations, Vietnamese (Dublin)
• Media Solutions (Mexico City)
• Media Solutions (Buenos Aires)
• Account Manager (Paris)
• Account Manager Brazil (S?o Paulo)
• Client Partner Miami (Miami)
• Client Partner (Buenos Aires)
• Head of Financial Services & Travel (Sydney)
• Head of Sales Mid-Market, Australia & New Zealand (Sydney)
• Head of Technology, Telecommunications & Entertainment (Sydney)
• Manager, Global Sales Outsourcing (S?o Paulo)
• Account Manager (London)
• Agency Manager (London)
• Client Partner, National Sales (Menlo Park)
• Client Partner, QSR (Chicago)
• Client Partner (Austin)

Who else is hiring? The?Inside Network Job Board?presents a survey of current openings at leading companies in the industry.

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In the past few weeks, we?ve added industry insiders from Facebook, Chartboost, Tango, Tilting Point, PlayHaven, Paltalk, and more to the speaking roster of Inside Social Apps, June 6-7 in San Francisco. You?ll learn strategies for success with experts like Deb Liu, Product Manager at Facebook. Register now and save $200.?

Source: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2013/05/24/facebook-hires-sydney-vertical-leads-data-tools-engineer-finance-manager-more/

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Trans fighter Fallon Fox wins unimpressively (Video)

Considering Fallon Fox won her first two fights in the first round, it was expected for the first openly trans fighter to walk through her next opponent, Allanna Jones at Championship Fighting Alliance on Friday. In her first nationally televised bout, Fox won with a submission in the third round, but it was not the overwhelming win that oddsmakers were expecting.

You can watch the full fight in the video above. Fox and Jones both made mistakes like keeping their hands too low and holding their chin out too far throughout the bout. They looked like two inexperienced fighters because that's what they are.

Much of the controversy that surrounded Fox was the perception that since she was born a man, she would have clear advantage over her opponents. As Sherdog's Jordan Breen pointed out, "So, did anyone watch that and think, 'Wow, what an insurmountable advantage Fallon Fox has, no one could ever beat her!'?" She beat a 2-1 fighter, but not soundly. When she goes up in level of competition, as she will do in the next round of the CFA tournament, she will have a hard time.

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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/trans-fighter-fallon-fox-wins-unimpressively-video-142855590.html

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Get $50 Off an iPhone at Best Buy From Sunday

From Sunday, Best Buy is knocking $50 off the price off the price of iPhones for four weeks.

The deal applies to the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 on two-year contracts with Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. So, if you've been umm-ing and ahh-ing, now might be the time to stump up some cash.

There will also be a series of Memrorial Day offers, too: a Galaxy S3 on AT&T or Sprint will cost $50; an HTC Droid DNA on Verizon $50; and an HTC One X on AT&T will be free. Better than a kick in the face. [All Things D]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/get-50-off-an-iphone-at-best-buy-from-sunday-509681810

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Perfect skin: More touchy-feely robots

May 24, 2013 ? Robots could become a lot more 'sensitive' thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies developed by European scientists. Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home.

The new capabilities, and a production system for building touch-sensitivity into different robots, will improve the way robots work in unconstrained settings, as well as their ability to communicate and cooperate with each other and with humans.

The EU-funded project 'Skin-based technologies and capabilities for safe, autonomous and interactive robots' (ROBOSKIN) developed new sensor technologies and management systems which give robots an artificial sense of touch -- until now an elusive quality in robotics.

According to the partners behind the research from Italy, Switzerland and the UK, it was important to create cognitive mechanisms that use tactile feedback (the sense of 'touch' or 'feel') and behaviour to make sure human-robot interaction is safe and effective for the envisaged future applications.

The artificial skin is modelled largely on real skin, which has a tiny network of nerves that sense or feel changes like hot/cold or rough/smooth. In this case, the electronic sensors collect this so-called 'tactile data' and process it using application software which has been front-loaded to include some basic robot behaviours which can be added to over time.

'Here, we opted for programming through demonstration and robot-assisted play so the robots learn as they go along by feeling, doing and interacting,' explains project coordinator Professor Giorgio Cannata of Genoa University, Italy.

'We had to generate a degree of awareness in the robots to help them react to tactile events and physical contact with the outside world,' he adds.

Kaspar the friendly robot

But robot cognition is extremely complex, so ROBOSKIN started with modest ambitions in lab tests by classifying types or degrees of touch. They created a geometric mapping using continuous contact between the test robot and the environment to build a 'body representation' -- parameters by which data can be assimilated by the robot into behaviour.

Outside the lab, on the other hand, ROBOSKIN sensor patches were applied to common touch points (feet, cheeks, arms) located on the University of Hertfordshire's KASPAR robot, a humanoid robot designed to help autistic children communicate better.

'With our sensors, the robot could sense or detect contact and the data collected formed an important part of the contact classification we did -- the distinction between, for example, wanted and unwanted touch,' explains Prof. Cannata.

ROBOSKIN scientists explored various technologies, from the more basic capacitive sensors in today's sensing technologies, to higher-performing transducers found in piezoelectric materials, and flexible organic semiconductors.

'We'll see more and more piezoelectric materials -- which can act like sensors because they react to changes brought on by contact with an outside force -- in the near future,' predicts Prof. Cannata. But sensors using organic semiconductors will be the future game-changer, he suggests, as you will be able to print the chips on different organic materials like fake skin or bendable materials, and they will eventually be much cheaper to make, once scaled up.

Promoting the prototypes

The ROBOSKIN funded project ended last summer but the researchers are actively promoting the findings through scientific channels, including papers in 'IEEE Xplore' and 'Science Direct', as well as calls for interest in sharing their prototypes with non-commercial research projects.

Tactile sensors are not new by any means, stresses Prof. Cannata, but ROBOSKIN has succeeded in developing a production system for building tactile sensing into different robots. These unique methods solve the decades-old problem of adding more sensory perception to robots.

'We are still at the pre-commercial demonstrator stage, but the latest version of our tactile sensors clearly have wider potential in industry as factories seek safe, cost-efficient ways of using robots in closer contact with human workers,' explains the coordinator.

Patents have been filed for parts of the team's work, but they stress that prototypes remain available for scientific research work. ROBOSKIN technology has already been integrated into iCub, the Italian Institute of Technology's open robotics platform.

'The key was to ensure that our basic technologies would be compatible across different robotic platforms that may evolve in this fast-moving field,' notes Prof. Cannata. 'And this is what we have achieved.'

The ROBOSKIN project received EUR 3.5 million (of total EUR 4.7 million project budget) in research funding under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/JSAIKViUjc8/130524134317.htm

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LEGO Made A Full Scale X-Wing!

FROM MTV GEEK There are only a handful of ways to experience the world of "Star Wars" for yourself, but most of them are pretty lame. You could buy a replica lightsaber, but it won't actually work. You could go to Disney World, but that Darth Vader is someone's nephew and will probably break into [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/05/23/lego-made-a-full-scale-x-wing/

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Tests show that deadly flu could spread among people

New influenza virus transmits through air between ferrets, raising concerns that it could do the same in humans

New influenza virus transmits through air between ferrets, raising concerns that it could do the same in humans

By Tina Hesman Saey

Web edition: May 23, 2013

A new bird flu that has killed 36 people in China can spread from ferret to ferret through the air. A laboratory test showing airborne transmission of the H7N9 avian influenza virus between the animals has raised fears that the virus is poised to become a human pandemic.

The H7N9 avian influenza virus emerged suddenly at the end of February and has infected 131 people. A few patients may have caught the virus from other infected people, but no evidence has emerged that H7N9 can readily transmit from human to human.

To find out how the virus might spread among people, an international group of researchers infected ferrets, which often stand as proxies for people in influenza studies. Infected ferrets passed the virus to all of the uninfected animals housed in the same cage, indicating that H7N9 spreads through direct contact, the team reports May 23 in Science. One of three uninfected ferrets in neighboring cages also caught the virus, suggesting that it can also transmit through airborne droplets when an infected animal sneezes or coughs. Airborne transmission among people is a prerequisite for a pandemic.

As a comparison, the researchers also exposed ferrets to an airborne flu strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. All of the animals got sick. Because only one of three ferrets that could have contracted the new H7N9 virus through the air actually did, the researchers conclude that airborne H7N9 transmission is inefficient.?

But the experiment was not designed to quantify the efficiency of airborne transmission and ferrets aren?t perfect representations of people, so it may be difficult to gauge a person?s risk of catching H7N9 through airborne droplets, says coauthor Robert Webster of St. Jude Children?s Research Hospital in Memphis. ?It shows it can happen. Statistically, who knows what it means??

There?s no guarantee the virus will spread similarly from person to person, says Ana Fernandez-Sesma, a viral immunologist in at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. In the experiment, ferrets are together for hours with forced airflow under temperature and humidity conditions that favor viral transmission, she says. ?I don?t think this is what happens in real life.?

Ram Sasisekharan, an MIT biochemist who studies influenza viruses, agrees that the virus probably is not capable of person-to-person spread through the air. But it could evolve that ability. ?With these viruses, you will never know if and when they mutate and if it will acquire mutations that will be a cause of concern,? he says.

That could happen via pigs. The animals can serve as mixing vessels where human and bird viruses swap genes, creating new flu strains. That?s how the 2009 pandemic virus came to be. In the new study, the researchers exposed pigs to the H7N9 virus. The animals became infected but didn?t pass the new flu to other pigs or to ferrets, the researchers found. That result indicates that pigs probably are not a source of the virus and would not pass H7N9 along if they did become infected. Outside the lab, no pigs have been found to carry the virus.

Public health officials have not located the origin of the H7N9 virus, but growing evidence suggests that birds sold at live poultry markets infected some patients. George Gao of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing and colleagues have now traced the source of one woman?s infection to poultry sold at the market where she was a butcher. Those birds already carried the virus when they arrived from a wholesaler. The team recounts the trail May 22 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

No new human cases have been reported since May 8, which Webster attributes partially to the seasons changing (summer weather is not favorable to the flu), but mainly to China?s temporary closing of the live bird markets in Shanghai and other affected areas. The markets have been closed since April 6 and the government has not announced when trading will resume. ?We could get it stamped out if China can close the markets for a bit longer,? Webster says.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350619/title/Tests_show_that_deadly_flu_could_spread_among_people

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Google Announces It Will Update Chrome for iOS With Voice Search

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Source: http://www.iclarified.com/30367/google-announces-it-will-update-chrome-for-ios-with-voice-search

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