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Facebook’s stock has lost 31% of its value since it went public one year ago
On May 18th, 2012, Facebook went public at a per-share price of $38. The company experienced a brief gain, spiking into the 40s, but ended its first day of trading just a few cents above the set $38 price.
The following days saw the stock decline, under its listing price. The stock would fall as low as $17.55 before it began a period of recovery. As Facebook has grown its income from mobile users, and proven that its desktop market share isn’t transitory, investors have warmed to its shares.
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Hundreds of LED-equipped umbrellas will descend on MIT this Sunday night
Residents in the Boston area will have the chance to see a pretty unique art installation this weekend. On Sunday evening, hundreds of LED-enabled umbrellas will light up Cambridge thanks to a collaboration between MIT and a Connecticut-based dance group known as Pilobolus. The event is called UP: The Umbrella Project and was first performed up in Camden, Maine last October. Over 300 members of the MIT student body, faculty, and staff will participate; each gets an umbrella lined with red, green, and blue LED lights plus a controller to let them change the lighting as they see fit, and all of the movements will be broadcast onto a large inflatable screen so that the performers can see their movements.
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Stuxnet virus may have actually helped the Iranian nuclear program
in 2009, the U.S. and Israel launched the Stuxnet virus to throw a wrench into the Iranian nuclear program. It might have backfired.
The virus was distributed in a social hack via thumbdrives scattered around the Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz. The virus itself screwed with a system in large industrial computers, which caused the centrifuges used in refining uranium to overheat.
Common wisdom was that the Stuxnet worm had significantly delayed the Iranian’s production of nuclear weapons by causing the country to rebuild a large part of its nuclear power plants’ hardware and software.
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The Most Beloved "Game Of Thrones" Characters On Twitter
Find out who’s watching Game of Thrones , and who their favorites are, in BuzzFeed’s original Twitter analysis.
Source: Yiren Lu for BuzzFeed
We know a lot about the characters on Game of Thrones, thanks to five books and countless fan sites. Finding out who’s watching those characters is a little trickier. Luckily, Twitter has some answers.
BuzzFeed analyzed 200,000 tweets related to GoT to determine viewers' demographics (above) and positive and negative reactions to different characters.
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Shopping cart-mounted tablet detects nearby items and offers recipes in real time
Regular readers of Springwise may remember the Hellmann’s mayonnaise campaign in Brazil that printed recipes for those who purchased the mayonnaise, using the other items also being bought as ingredients. Unsatisfied with stopping there, the company has returned with the Recipe Cart, which uses NFC technology to immediately suggest meal ideas to shoppers as they walk past other ingredients.
The campaign was the brainchild of digital agency CUBOCC, who fitted shopping carts at the Pão de Açúcar shopping center in São Paulo with touchscreen devices.
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