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When it comes to getting a job, your résumé can be the difference between being hired and being passed over. While there is no simple formula for your résumé that will help you get the job for which you are applying, making a mistake is a surefire way to lose out on the position. If you unfortunately are passed over for a job, at least you can take solace in the fact that you did not make one of the mistakes listed in a poll of 2,298 hiring managers conducted by CareerBuilder.  Some of the most egregious mistakes include: Candidate called himself a genius and invited the hiring manager to interview him at his apartment. Candidate's cover letter talked about her family being in the mob. Candidate applying for a management job listed "gator hunting" as a skill. Candidate's résumé included phishing as a hobby.  Candidate specified that her résumé was set up to be sung to the tune of "The Brady Bunch." Candidate highlight

H ackers belonging to a hacking collective called D33Ds Company have retrieved and dumped login details of more than 400,000+ user accounts in plain text. A post on Trustedsec stated,  "The passwords contained a wide variety of email addresses including those from yahoo.com, gmail.com, aol.com, and much more."   Interestingly, the post adds that the affected website is a sub-domain of yahoo.com, and that the compromised server may be Yahoo! Voice a.k.a Associated Content. " The affected website was only named as a sub-domain of yahoo.com. However, digging through and searching for the hostname, the attacker forgot to remove the hostname “dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com” (credit to Mubix for the hostname find),"  Trustedsec wrote. The most worrisome bit here is that the passwords that were stored were completely unencrypted, and as you're reading this, 400,000+ login credentials (comprising usernames and passwords) have been exposed. It has been brought to light that

Don’t be surprised if, in a few years, your smartphone serves you ads for drink specials in a part of town you don’t even know you’ll be visiting after work that day. You see, your phone will know you’re likely to go there because it’s a Monday and you always go out for drinks on Monday with your buddy Joe, who just did an Internet search for cool bars and drink specials in that part of town. This is all possible thanks to an algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham that uses data collected by your smartphone and those of your friends to predict your future whereabouts. While that may sound scary, it’s likely to happen as mobile network operators grasp for new ways to make money. “These companies already possess such data and could use it to provide sharper recommendations or ads for restaurants or shops near locations where you are likely to go,” notes MIT’s Technology Review . The development of the algorithm was led by Mirco Musolesi , a

An artist’s concept depicts the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a nuclear-powered mobile robot for investigating the Red Planet’s past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Evidence of ancient life on Mars, if any such evidence exists, might be detectable at shallower depths below the planet's surface than has been thought, a new study says – which would improve the chances that NASA's newest Mars rover, scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet next month, finds it. The research indicates that simple organic molecules, such as a single molecule of formaldehyde, could exist a mere 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) beneath the Martian surface. While the radiation level at these depths is still intense, simple building blocks of life (and, in the case of young craters, perhaps even complex building blocks) could survive, the researchers said. The study, which suggests ideal locations and depths to search for or

Military drones, ships, troops and missiles that rely upon GPS navigation to find and strike enemy targets can run into trouble if enemies jam the GPS signals. A new navigation system can bypass the problem by plucking any electronic signal out of the air to figure out locations — even using the signals from GPS jammers. The technology made by defense company BAE Systems is able to not only use hundreds of different TV, Wi-Fi, or cell phone signals to triangulate the location of a person or vehicle, but can also learn from previously unidentified signals. That could protect U.S. military drones from both jamming and GPS "spoofing" that uses bogus signals to hack and take control of drones or other robots. "This technology is a real game-changer when it comes to navigation, which builds upon the rich heritage that both BAE Systems and the U.K. have in radio engineering," said James Baker, managing director at BAE Systems Advanced Technology Ce

Physicists are more than 99 percent sure that they've found a new elementary particle that is likely the long-sought Higgs boson. Evidence for the new particle was reported today (July 4) by scientists from the world's largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Researchers reported they'd seen a particle weighing roughly 125 times the mass of the proton, with a level of certainty that all but seals the deal it's the Higgs boson . "This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it’s the heaviest boson ever found," Joe Incandela, spokesperson for LHC's CMS experiment, said in a statement. "The implications are very significant and it is precisely for this reason that we must be extremely diligent in all of our studies and cross-checks." The Higgs boson, also called the "God particle," is thought to explain why other particles have mass. The idea is that a related energy field,

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