Its common knowledge that Google is one of the most desired employers in the world. Yet, a startup project made the Brazilian MIT student Isabel Pesce Mattos drop out of both Google and MIT. And it seems it wasnt such a bad idea. The startup she joined is called Lemon, and reportedly raised no less than $10 million in funding thanks to its receipt tracking app (see our review).

Its not a story about luck or privilege; Isabel Pesces trajectory is a shining example of determination against all odds. Unlike many of her fellow students, Isabel wasnt raised to join a top American university.

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Is Bill Gates about to do a Steve Jobs and return to Microsoft has CEO?

It’s certainly one of the more ‘out-there’ rumours we’ve heard in the past month, especially since the man has been away from Microsoft, despite still being Chairman of the board, since June 2008. 

Gates left Microsoft, the company he co-founded way back in 1975, to pursue more altruistic endeavours with his acquired billions. The most recent of which is helping China develop a nuclear reactor – we kid you not.

The leak comes via Fortune:

If Gates did return as CEO he would, of course, be replacing his long-time collaborator Steve Ballmer. But why wo

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The convertible tablet is strange machine that for some reason struggles in the market, it is neither a netbook or a tablet, but being both it has a foot in two camps and sometimes this is concept that does not work very well. However Gigabyte are pulling out all of the stops with this next generation convertible tablet device by giving a couple of these away to their Facebook fans, simply visit the page, like the brand and fill out a survey to be in with a chance of winning.

Back the computer!

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- Review by CNET

Canon ELPH 500 HS (IXUS 310 HS) is a 12 MP CMOS Digital Camera features 4x Optical Zoom, ISO 100-3200, 3x optical zoom (35 mm film equivalent: 24-105mm), TTL Autofocus, Built-in Flash, Photo Effects, Full HD with optical zoom. Dynamic IS, Smart Auto (32 scenes), High-speed Burst Super Slow Motion Movie, Movie Digest, iFrame movie, Creative modes manual control, and 3.2-inch TFT LCD. The camera measures (W x H x D) 3.96 x 2.18 x 0.98 in / 100.6 x 55.4 x 25.0mm and weighs 5.82 oz.

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Review This Toshiba delivers possibly the sharpest HD picture I’ve seen on any 32in TV all year. There, I’ve said it. If you’re looking for a good reason to buy this set, that’s it.

But there’s more to this screen than just kick-ass clarity. There’s also internet connectivity – in the form of the Toshiba Places Smart portal – local media streaming and even a hidden camera in the bezel for futuristic face detection.

A fine looking set

The latter is something of a touchstone for Toshiba, cropping up on laptops as well as TVs. It ostensibly allows you to create preference profiles for different users. Stare at th

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Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.

Canonical confirmed that it would be discontinuing use of CouchDB as part of its Ubuntu One service. The news broke that a hacker had allegedly remotely intruded into the industrial control systems of a hydroelectric power plant in Illinois; however, confusion was later caused as ICS-CERT said that the pump wasn’t destroyed by an intrusion after all. A n Read more…

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