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Hired wants finding a job to be like online dating, minus the ick

Mashable

Hired likes to compare itself with an online dating service, but for tech jobs. Founded in 2012, the job-matching marketplace officially launched in Australia Thursday. Hired sells itself as offering pre-assessed quality and reliability, both to job candidates and companies. Candidates don't pay to be listed on the platform, but companies, or "clients," pay in one of two ways: If they make a hire, they can pay a success fee of 15 percent of first year salary. Alternatively, clients can pay a subscription fee, including a flat monthly fee for unlimited hires.


Google's Go language ventures into machine learning

#artificialintelligence

Machine learning developers who want to use Google's Go language as their development platform have a small but growing number of projects to choose from. Rather than call out to libraries written in other languages, chiefly C/C, developers can work with machine learning libraries written directly in Go. Existing machine learning libraries in other languages have a far larger culture of users, but there's clearly an interest in having Go toolkits that take advantage of the language's conveniences. GoLearn, described as a "batteries included" machine learning library, is one of the most prominent. "Simplicity, paired with customisability, is the goal," the developers write in their introduction to the project.


Stunning image shows what the universe would look like if human eyes could see radio waves

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Spot the Milky Way! Stunning image shows what the universe would look like if human eyes could see radio waves The center of the Milky way is pictured in stunning radio colour, just one of more than 300,000 galaxies observed in one of the biggest radio sky surveys ever assembled. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle frequencies and blue the highest frequencies. The Gleam survey observes radio waves traveling through space at frequencies of 70-230 HMz. Pictured is a'radio colour' view of the sky above a portion of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.


Who's Iris Pear? Nuclear physics conference accepts nonsensical 'autocomplete' study

Christian Science Monitor | Science

Next month, Dr. Iris Pear will present her groundbreaking new study at the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Iris Pear โ€“ a play on "Siri Apple" โ€“ is the invention of Christophe Bartneck, an associate professor of computer science at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. The study in question is completely nonsensical, procedurally generated by iOS's autocomplete function. Why, then, did a conference for "leading academic scientists" select it for presentation? On Thursday, Dr. Bartneck received an invitation to submit research for an upcoming conference on nuclear physics.


WEF: Robots, automation, and AI will replace 5 million human jobs by 2020

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Significant technological advances have reshaped society as we know it. But the World Economic Forum (WEF) warned that while this is pushing us into "the fourth industrial revolution" and is transforming the labour markets beyond all recognition from decades ago, it will lead to a net loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies by 2020. These countries include Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US. WEF said in its report, entitled "The Future of Jobs," which was published on Monday, that while skills and jobs displacement will affect every industry and geographical region, these job losses can be offset by employment growth in other areas. WEF estimated that 7.1 million jobs could be lost through redundancy, automation, or disintermediation, while the creation of 2.1 million new jobs, mainly in more specialised areas such as computing, math, architecture, and engineering, could partially offset some of the losses. "Without urgent and targeted action today to manage the near-term transition and build a workforce with futureproof skills, governments will have to cope with ever-growing unemployment and inequality, and businesses with a shrinking consumer base," said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, in the report.


Exercise IS good for your brain: Boosting muscle strength can help stave off dementia

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Keeping active can help keep pensioners healthy, but new research shows that building up muscles can boost brain power as well. Researchers in Australia found that increased muscle strength can lead to improved brain function in adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The team says the findings are important as people with MCI are at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. With 135 million people forecast to suffer from dementia globally by 2050, researchers say their findings have implications for the type and intensity of exercise that is recommended for the growing ageing population. MCI defines people who have noticeably reduced cognitive abilities such as poorer memory, but are still able to live independently.


Is he Siri-us? Professor writes entire nonsense paper using Apple autocomplete app only for it to ACCEPTED for an academic conference

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Professor Christopher Bartneck never believed his research paper, written by Apple's iOS autocomplete, would be accepted for a nuclear physics conference An academic who jokingly wrote a research paper written entirely by Apple's iOS autocomplete - and was subsequently filled with nonsense - has been accepted to present his findings at a nuclear physics conference. Christopher Bartneck, an associate professor at the University of Canterbury's Human Interface Technology laboratory in New Zealand, was stunned to discover he had been successful in securing a place at the conference, which takes place in America next month. 'I started a sentence with'Atomic' or'Nuclear' and then randomly hit the autocomplete suggestions,' wrote Bartneck in a blog post on Thursday. 'The text really does not make any sense.' Bartneck's mischievous side was fired up after receiving an invitation from the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics, which will be held in Atlanta in November.


Sydney University launches on-campus innovation hub

ZDNet

The University of Sydney has established an on-campus innovation hub, aimed at fixing Australia's historic inability to turn ideas into "wealth generating businesses", which the university said is crucial to the country's economic future. According to James Meade, head of the Sydney Social Innovation Hub, universities have an essential role to play in fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in both the private and public sectors. "Innovation and entrepreneurship requires enthusiasm and we have lots of that. But it also requires targeted support. By leveraging informal knowledge networks within the university we can enable successful student innovation outcomes," Meade said.


Nuclear physics conference accepts nonsensical 'autocomplete' study

Christian Science Monitor | Science

Next month, Dr. Iris Pear will present her groundbreaking new study at the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Iris Pear โ€“ a play on "Siri Apple" โ€“ is the invention of Christophe Bartneck, an associate professor of computer science at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. The study in question is completely nonsensical, procedurally generated by iOS's autocomplete function. Why, then, did a conference for "leading academic scientists" select it for presentation? On Thursday, Dr. Bartneck received an invitation to submit research for an upcoming conference on nuclear physics.


ICYMI: Orbital space junk is putting us in jeopardy

Engadget

Today on In Case You Missed It: The US Air Force is moving its Space Surveillance Telescope to Australia to track space junk littering geosynchronous orbit. That's the orbit 22,000 miles away from our planet where satellites mirror the Earth's rotation so that they don't appear to move. The Department of Justice story about facial recognition is here, while that darling sneezing baby (who eschews costumes) is here. If you enjoy the cartoon humor that is an engine giving up on a job, that's here. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.