On August 25th, 2011 with 1521 comments
After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it's finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. I created
this place with my best friends in a run down...
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On August 24th, 2011 with 137 comments
Thorfinn.au says "Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with...
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On August 24th, 2011 with 351 comments
dtmos wrote in to say that "This summer, StarCraft II has become the newest bar room spectator sport. Fans organize so-called Barcraft events, taking over...
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On August 24th, 2011 with 132 comments
wiredmikey writes "In their most recent intelligence report, Symantec researchers pointed out a massive increase in the amount of boot time malware striking...
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On August 24th, 2011 with 160 comments
First time accepted submitter chrisl456 writes "MakerBot Industries, makers (hah!) of 3D printers / personal fabrication devices, just got a big boost in the...
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On August 24th, 2011 with 91 comments
DeviceGuru writes to note that "Robonaut 2 (aka R2), the first humanoid robot to become a permanent resident of the International Space Station (ISS), was...
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On August 24th, 2011 with 223 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Last week, an appeals court ruling opened the door to making it easier to kill software patents. It turns out that the guy whose...
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On August 23rd, 2011 with 348 comments
alphadogg says "With the market flush with hot-selling tablet computers, it shouldn't bowl anyone over to learn that many users are taking the plunge and...
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On August 23rd, 2011 with 189 comments
GMGruman wrote in to say "Microsoft embarrassed itself last week when it got caught using 'zombie cookies' — a form of tracking cookies that users can't...
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On August 23rd, 2011 with 137 comments
quarterbuck writes "Bloomberg has a story on Google's acquisition of Motorola and quotes IP lawyers who claim that 18 patents dating to 1994 are probably what...
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On August 18th, 2011 with 637 comments
Hugh Pickens writes "Blake Snow writes that according to one expert, 90% of players who start a game will never see the end of it and it's not just dull games...
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On August 18th, 2011 with 223 comments
theodp writes "In purchasing Motorola Mobility, Slate's Farhad Manjoo reports that Google will also come into possession of one the nation's biggest suppliers...
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On August 17th, 2011 with 360 comments
dkd903 noticed another amusing shot in the battle between G+ and Facebook. CNN is running a story where Facebook's director of game partnership Sean Ryan...
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On August 17th, 2011 with 144 comments
coondoggie writes "The comet Elenin, which will pass by Earth October 16, has generated such an inordinate amount of doomsday reports from a number of...
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On August 17th, 2011 with 157 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from UCSD have demonstrated how thermal imagery cameras can be used to
steal customers' PINs (PDF) when you withdraw...
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On August 17th, 2011 with 135 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Last week, Facebook said it found the original 'authentic contract' between Mark Zuckerberg and Paul Ceglia, a man who claims he...
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On August 17th, 2011 with 108 comments
toybuilder writes "It took nearly 80 years for the first 1 million patents to issue in the U.S. On Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued its...
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On August 17th, 2011 with 258 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers have unearthed a piece of malware that mints a digital currency known as Bitcoins by harnessing the immense...
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On August 16th, 2011 with 228 comments
pbahra writes "When you think of product placement on television you tend to think of cumbersome 1950s examples where the actor would cheesily turn to camera...
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On August 16th, 2011 with 73 comments
itwbennett writes "I bet you forgot all about the JooJoo, the tablet that started life as CrunchPad and sparked a bitter fight between Michael Arrington and...
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On August 16th, 2011 with 177 comments
Some nameless reader noted a surprising twist in the tale of Cyanogen, an android modder once cease and desisted by Google. "Samsung Mobile has hired one of...
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On August 16th, 2011 with 77 comments
Trailrunner7 writes "Finding Aaron Barr at this year's DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas was like a giant game of 'Where's Waldo.' Given the events of the...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 79 comments
Slags writes "The idea behind Fluidinfo is that read-only information is just not as useful on the Web as openly writable information. Metadata is used...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 106 comments
wintertargeter writes "Yeah, it's another article on security, but this time we finally get a complete picture. Tom's Hardware looks at WPA/WPA2 brute-force...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 282 comments
I typically travel with a laptop and camera, but usually with a bag for each: a
backpack for the laptop and a lowepro top loader for the camera. I'd really...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 62 comments
coondoggie writes "Denizens of the malware underworld who sell access to compromised computers do so at varying rates depending on where the machines are...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 228 comments
MojoKid writes "The Federal Communications Commission has released the results of a year-long scientific study it conducted with regard to the upload and...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 244 comments
MrSeb writes "Intel's next consumer CPUs — the Sandy Bridge-E — will ship without a heatsink and fan. These new chips, which will feature up to...
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On August 15th, 2011 with 578 comments
zacharye writes "Google and Motorola Mobility have announced an agreement whereby Google will acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion. The acquisition price equates...
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On August 11th, 2011 with 425 comments
Zothecula writes "In an industry obsessed with polygon counts and frame rates, Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld were the proverbial knives at a gunfight....
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