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Study Says Software Engineers Have the Best US Jobs 337

Posted by Soulskill from the i'm-sure-you're-all-totally-on-board-with-this dept.
D H NG writes "According to a new study by CareerCast.com, software engineers have the best jobs of 2011 in the United States, based on factors such as income, working environment, stress, physical demands and job outlook, using Labor Department and Census data. Mid-level software engineers make between $87,000 and $132,000 a year, putting them in the top 25% of the 200 professions studied by income. Software engineers beat out last year's number one job, actuary, which came in third, behind mathematician."
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Submission + - Software engineers have the best US jobs (wsj.com)

Submitted by D H NG
D H NG writes: According to a new study by CareerCast.com, software engineers have the best jobs of 2011 in the United States, based on factors such as income, working environment, stress, physical demands and job outlook, using Labor Department and Census data. Mid-level software engineers make between $87,000 and $132,000 a year, putting them in the top 25% of the 200 professions studied by income. Software engineers beat out last year's number one job, actuary, which came in third, behind mathematician.

Comment Google will do what it did in Korea (Score 5, Interesting) 254

by D H NG (#34725936) Attached to: YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy
When South Korea passed a law that requires large websites with user-generated contents to collect user's personal information, Google simply disabled the uploading and commenting features in YouTube for Korean users and encouraged them to set their locale to some other country. This continued for a year, shining a spotlight on South Korea's stupid law until the government gave up and exempted YouTube from the law.
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Submission + - Google gives 10% raise across the board (wsj.com)

Submitted by mccrew
mccrew writes: Moving to plug the defection of staff to competitors, Google Inc. is giving a 10% raise to all of its 23,000 employees, according to people familiar with the matter.

The raise, which will be given to executives and staff across the globe, is effective in January.

The pay hike comes as Google ramps up its battle with competitors, especially neighboring Facebook Inc., in a fight to secure talented staff. Roughly 10% of Facebook's employees are Google veterans and other Silicon Valley companies have aggressively poached employees from the Internet giant.
Robotics

Robotic Hands Grip Without Fingers 105

Posted by Soulskill from the please-don't-send-this-to-japan dept.
sciencehabit writes "Physicists have designed a robotic hand that doesn't have fingers, yet can still serve drinks and draw pictures. The hand is a thin, rubber sack filled with coffee grains or small glass spheres. When it comes into contact with an object, a small pipe sucks air from the sack, causing it to contract and mold to the object's shape. As long as the gripper can fold about one-fourth of the object's surface, it can pick up just about any shape thrown in its path. The article includes a video of the hand in action."
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Submission + - Khan Academy One Of Google's 10^100 winners (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Kilrah_il
Kilrah_il writes: In the past we talked about Khan Academy. Today Google annonced that they are one of 5 winners of their Project 10^100, their competition to find projects that help the most to spread information globally. Amongst the other winners arte a project intended to drive innovation in public transport and a project to help make government more transparent.

Comment Very useful (Score 3, Insightful) 242

by D H NG (#33426586) Attached to: GMail Introduces Priority Inbox
I've been using this for about 6 months and it's very useful. Mail from people I read and reply to more often usually percolate to the top. Sometimes unimportant mail are marked as "important" but I can downgrade them. Just keep an eye on the "Everything else" pile once in a while, sometimes important mail are mislabeled.
Communications

Google Kills Wave Development 327

Posted by timothy from the harshing-on-mellow dept.
We've mentioned several times over the past two years Wave, Google's ambitiously multi-channel, perhaps plain overwhelming entry in the social media wars. Now, reader mordejai writes "Google stated in its official blog that they will not continue developing Wave as a standalone product. It's sad, because it had a lot of potential to improve communications, but Google never promoted it well, denying it a chance to replace email and other collaboration tools for many uses."
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Submission + - Google kills Wave (blogspot.com)

Submitted by mordejai
mordejai writes: Google stated in it's official blog that they will not continue developing wave as a standalone product. It's sad because it had a lot of potential to improve communications, but Google never promoted it well, denying it a chance to replace email and other collaboration tools for many uses.

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