Archive of Stories for Last 7 days

Google Patents Image-Capturing Walking Sticks 13
Medal PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years 82
NSA's Role In Terror Cases Concealed From Defense Lawyers 60
Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source 73
Medal Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? 101
Cat-like Robot Runs Like the Wind 44
Revisiting Amdahl's Law 34
Medal Altering Text In eBooks To Track Pirates 345
NVIDIA To License Its GPU Tech 84
MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL 193
Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming 141
Oculus Rift Raises Another $16 Million 83
Medal KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software 316
Google Files First Amendment Challenge Against FISA Gag Order 137
Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 222
With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations 110
2013 U.S. Wireless Network Tests: AT&T Fastest, Verizon Most Reliable 123
Medal How Ubiquitous Autonomous Cars Could Affect Society (Video) 325
First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered 106
Jon 'Maddog' Hall On Project Cauã: a Server In Every Highrise 128
HFT Nothing To Worry About (at Least In Australia) 126
Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements 87
NASA Selects 8 New Astronaut Trainees, Including 4 Women 135
UK Town of Ipswich Remodelled As Zelda Level 50
BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law 234
ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" 282
UnGrounded: British Airways Attempts to Bottle Some Startup Spirit 124
TiVo Series 5 Coming This Fall 162
How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List 203
Medal Have We Hit Peak HFT? 428
Intel Announces New Enterprise Xeons, More Powerful Xeon Phi Cards 56
Google Enables VP9 Video Codec In Chromium 155
Scores of Vulnerable SAP Deployments Uncovered 117
Cerulean Studios Releases Trillian IM Protocol Specifications 93
Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home 192
Medal Medal Supreme Court Decides Your Silence May Be Used Against You 634
Comcast To Expand Public WiFi Using Home Internet Connections 196
Echolocation For Your Cell Phone 73
Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae Into Fuel 110
High TechCarnival Aims To Entertain, Inspire, and Educate 26
Ocean Plastics Host Surprising Microbial Array 115
State Photo-ID Databases Mined By Police 202
China Bumps US Out of First Place For Fastest Supercomptuer 124
Book Review: The Chinese Information War 127
Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? 114
DNA Fog Helps Identify Trespassers, Thieves, and Brigands 126
SanDisk Focusing More On Desktop and Mobile SATA SSDs, Extreme II Series Tested 71
Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews 357
Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data 115
Medal Medal Canadian Couple Charged $5k For Finding 400-Year-Old Skeleton 575
Medal MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher 436
Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations 416
Google Aims To Cull Child Porn By Algorithm, Not Human Review 301
Anxiety Gaming Wants To Offer Mental Help Via Game Console 63
Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype 122
Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 191
Medal Medal Microsoft Reputation Manager's Guide To Xbox One 597
Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits 241
Medal ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014 309
Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle 86
Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code? 245
Intel Streaming Media Service Faces An Uphill Battle for Bandwidth 82
AT&T Rolls Out iPhone Wireless Emergency Alerts 198
SCO v. IBM Is Officially Reopened 99
Medal Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler 332
Proposed Rule Would Drastically Restrict Chimp Research 131
NY and SF Mayors Announce Joint Tech Summits 27
Helicopter Parts Make For Amazing DIY Camera Stabilization 78
Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) 294
Future Astronauts Must Deal With Toxic Chemicals In Martian Soil 115
Ortiz-Heymann: the Prior Generation 57
Spikes Detected In Autorun Malware 140
Medal Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon 374
Medal Medal Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles 784
Facebook and Microsoft Disclose Government Requests For User Data 140
India To Send World's Last Telegram 203
Ask Slashdot: Neurofeedback At Home, Is It Possible? 68
Software-Defined Data Centers: Seeing Through the Hype 39
Medal Medal Sexism Still a Problem At E3 729
Legislators Introduce Bill To Stop Set Top Boxes From Watching You 161
Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture 320
Draft NASA Funding Bill Cancels Asteroid Mission For Return To the Moon 237
Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi 113
Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple (and Google, and Facebook) 302
POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits 67
Robot Dominates Air Hockey, Adapts To Opponents' Playing Style 49
Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities 122
How the Linux Foundation Runs Its Virtual Office 49
Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosting Git Repositories? 164
Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised 175
Onion Pi — Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy 74
FDA Calls On Medical Devicemakers To Focus On Cybersecurity 40
Flying Bicycle Is Real, Takes First Flight 123
A350XWB, the Plane Airbus Did Not Want To Build, Makes Maiden Flight 135
Apogee Suing Gearbox Over Unpaid Royalties For Duke Nukem Forever 88
802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds 107
EA Takes Over Scrabble App, Wipes Player Histories and Switches Dictionary 196
Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches 257
Facebook's Complaint Process Is Arbitrary — But So Is Campaigning 113
Volvo's Electric Roads Concept Points To Battery-Free EV Future 216
A Database of Brains 25
Medal Medal Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders 741
Mozilla Launches Initiative To Adapt Scientific Practice To the Open Web 28
UK Government 'Muzzling' Scientists 83
Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB 202
Medal Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages 440
Microsoft Office Finally Gets iOS App 138
Congress Proposes Strategy For Fighting Patent Trolls 96
Dotcom Alleges Megaupload Raid Was Part of Deal To Film The Hobbit 112
Medal NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts 327
Google Retiring Chrome Frame 104
Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources 159
Facebook's Newest Datacenter Relies On Arctic Cooling 106
Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release 50
Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator 244
Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried 310
Dell's Haswell-Powered Alienware X51 R2 SFF, a PC Gamer's Console Alternative 154
World's Smallest Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A9 Module? 42
Medal Medal Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia 546
TreeSheets (Cross-Platform Data Organizer) Now Open Source 29
26 New Black Hole Candidates Found In Andromeda 57
Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores 214
Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film 137
World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100 321
Intel Removes "Free" Overclocking From Standard Haswell CPUs 332
Ask Slashdot: How To Bypass Gov't Spying On Cellphones? 361
OWASP Top 10 2013 Released 17
Learn About the FRDCSA 'Weak AI' Project (Video) 51
Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences 209
iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack 89
Medal The $200,000 Software Developer 463
Researchers Discover Another Layer To the Cornea 74
Red Hat Confirms GNOME Classic Mode For RHEL 7 192
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With New Free Time? 297
Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom 284
Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC 322
New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions 130
Apple Revises Warranty Policies In Europe To Comply With EU Laws 156
SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? 172
Medal Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar 382
The Trajectory of Television: A Big History of the Small Screen. 134
Genomics Impact On US Economy Approaches $1 Trillion 113
Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens 195
Your License Is Your Interface 352
Fly, Drones, and Bring Me Data 18
Medal Medal Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free 583
Partially-Undersea Water Discus Hotel To Be Built In the Maldives 89
To Hack Back Or Not To Hack Back? 183
Another Study Confirms Hands-Free Texting While Driving Is Unsafe 284
Computer Memory Can Be Read With a Flash of Light 69
German Parliament Tells Government To Strictly Limit Patents On Software 75
Medal Medal Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) 610
Medal Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid 540
KDE Plasma Can Now Run On Wayland 29
International Linear Collider Design Ready To Go 71
Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access 94
Pandora's Promise and the Problem of "Solutionism" 293