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On September 5th, 2016 with 47 comments
A new report suggests that an insecticide sprayed from airplanes to kill mosquitos carrying the Zika virus may in fact be killing bees, since the "fine mist"...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 208 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Post: U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 25 comments
Roughly two months later, SoftBank announced today that it has completed its $31 billion acquisition of British chip designer ARM Holdings. The Verge reports: ...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 16 comments
Chinese web firm Tencent, which has stake in apps such as messaging clients WeChat and India's Hike messenger, has become the most valuable company in Asia....
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On September 5th, 2016 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Nikkei: A joint venture in Japan will begin creating high-definition 3D maps for self-driving cars in September as...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 18 comments
For the technology addicts out there, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and International Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) are events to pay close attention to....
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On September 5th, 2016 with 58 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In wake of Samsung's recall of the Galaxy Note 7, Apple has reportedly hiked orders for parts and components required for the...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 97 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neowin: Four years ago, Adobe made a decision to stop updating the Flash Player package (NPAPI) on Linux, aside from...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard report: Freddie Mercury, frontman of Queen and transcendent being of pure performative joy and vitality, would have...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 105 comments
An anonymous reader writes:During an address to reporters at the G-20 international summit in China, President Obama stated that he'd like to prevent an "arms...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 66 comments
Vlad Savov, writing for The Verge: Like a grand old dinosaur that's being left behind by the evolution of the tech industry, Sony is in desperate recovery mode...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 32 comments
Earlier this year, Microsoft claimed that its Edge browser was much lighter on battery than Chrome. Google is now attempting to address that. It has announced...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 53 comments
astroengine writes: With only a month before its mission ends, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission swooped low over Comet...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 66 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In a case of sloppy automation run amok, Warner Bros' copyright enforcement contractor -- Vobile -- issued takedown notices for...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 231 comments
Kelly Fiveash, writing for ArsTechnica:UK Prime minister Theresa May said at the weekend that she wanted to take her time to secure the best trade deals for a...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader shares a TorrentFreak report: Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof is launching a direct attack against Spridningskollen, the group...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 134 comments
Rob Price, writing for Business Insider: Apps are eating the web. Over the past decade, there has been an inexorable movement from the open internet to the...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 39 comments
Forum of porn website Brazzers has been hacked, exposing the data of as many as 800,000 users, reports Motherboard. Though the data originated from the...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 188 comments
As America celebrates a national holiday honoring organized labor, long-time Slashdot reader itwbennett shares this story about the modern workplace:
Three...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 170 comments
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Promising "intelligent food management" to help with shopping and meal planning, Microsoft is collaborating with household...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 79 comments
"Tor hasn't changed, it's the world that's changed," says Aaron Johnson, the lead researcher on a 2013 paper which reported that 80% of Tor users could be...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 97 comments
The New York Times continues their coverage of the commercial spytech industry, noting its services "are in higher demand now that companies like Apple,...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 234 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
TSA checkpoints caused 6,800 American Airlines passengers to miss their flights in just one week this spring, and the...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 521 comments
Finland is getting ready to launch their first pilot program with a Universal Basic Income -- one of several countries which are now testing the concept. An...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 78 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes a report from TechHive:
On Friday, HDMI Licensing announced a new cable standard that connects USB-C and HDMI devices... ...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 85 comments
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"A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 102 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes a report from Bloomberg: John McAfee, the creator of the eponymous antivirus computer software system, sued Intel...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 443 comments
If scientists could send Zika-carrying mosquitoes into extinction, should they do it? Several science and business journals are now exploring the question,...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 79 comments
"The promotion has ended," a bank spokesperson said. After more than a year of preparation, Amazon's partnership with Wells Fargo to sell student loans barely...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 62 comments
Slashdot reader chicksdaddy quotes an article from Security Ledger:
The Federal Trade Commission is warning consumers to beware of new 'connected car' features...
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