On December 28th, 2019 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
A North Carolina couple was watching a movie in their bedroom when they suddenly heard loud noises coming from downstairs....
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On December 9th, 2019 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader shares a remarkable story from Fortune's Data Sheet newsletter:
The story begins on Dec. 3, when an artist going by @Hannahdouken on...
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On November 24th, 2019 with 89 comments
"They have done biohacking, clean sleeping and the keto diet, but now Silicon Valley types have coined a new health trend -- dopamine fasting," reports the...
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On November 3rd, 2019 with 269 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a Yahoo News 360 report on Americans who hate Daylight Saving Time:
A push to end the semiannual clock shift, which has been shown...
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On November 2nd, 2019 with 31 comments
haaz (Slashdot reader #3,346) tells us that history has just been made as part of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals annual online game-playing...
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On September 15th, 2019 with 91 comments
A reporter for SFGate describes what happened when he tried out for the quidditch team at the University of California at Berkeley:
The person throwing me...
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On September 14th, 2019 with 17 comments
CNN reports:
Pizza might protect against cancer, why wombats poop in cubes and a diaper changing machine that can be used on human babies -- these are just...
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On September 8th, 2019 with 62 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider:
An ambitious project that purported to turn anyone into a farmer with a single tool is scraping by with...
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On September 7th, 2019 with 53 comments
Microsoft's 2019 summer interns have created Microsoft: the Musical, an 8-minute video whose director describes it as "a Tony Awards-style musical theater...
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On September 7th, 2019 with 247 comments
"This was a Wayne's World scene gone awry..." says an attorney for 23-year-old Andrew Harris. "They were Wayne and Garth in a blue Pacer with a dumb idea and a...
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On September 1st, 2019 with 76 comments
"A Boston study published this month suggests people who tend to be optimistic are likelier than others to live to be 85 years old or more," reports NPR:
That...
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On September 1st, 2019 with 202 comments
Inside Edition filmed a 10-minute segment with safety expert Steve Kardian to answer the question, "What Will Happen if You Try to Storm Area 51."
More than 2...
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On August 31st, 2019 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the lead consumer technology writer for the New York Times:
I'm neither a Luddite nor a cheapskate. But after testing hundreds of...
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On August 17th, 2019 with 155 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen writes:
Imagine you had a perfect chair for using your computer. Also a perfect chair for watching TV. And a chair for...
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On August 4th, 2019 with 82 comments
An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:
Cybersecurity stock images are predictable at this point: a hooded man with a shadowy face in front of a keyboard or a...
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On July 20th, 2019 with 532 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the Atlantic:
Suze Orman wants young people to stop "peeing" away millions of dollars on coffee. Last month, the personal-finance...
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On July 14th, 2019 with 97 comments
"The World Chess Federation (FIDE) announced Saturday that it caught chess grandmaster Igors Rausis cheating during a tournament in France," writes Bleacher...
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On July 8th, 2019 with 128 comments
The Hustle profiles a community for whom entering online sweepstakes are a way of life. And they "consistently land hundreds of prizes year after year --...
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On July 7th, 2019 with 168 comments
Design firm Baggar writes:
A user assumes certain actions to be in a certain place or color because interface designers worldwide have been collaboratively...
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On June 15th, 2019 with 68 comments
"It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State," writes Concord Monitor science reporter David Brooks.
"The latest...
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On June 8th, 2019 with 59 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Architectural Digest on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' $80 million New York City bachelor pad: "Jeff Bezos is not only taking...
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On May 4th, 2019 with 42 comments
In December the breed registry for Thoroughbred horses released their list of the over 42,000 names for currently-registered racehorses. Then research...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 101 comments
Yesterday Billboard magazine reported that Elon Musk had dropped a rap song on SoundCloud -- an auto-tuned song called "RIP Harambe."
Posted under the handle...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 119 comments
"DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED" reads a new message at the home page for Devuan (a fork of Debian without systemd) -- which re-redirects to a new page named...
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On March 31st, 2019 with 323 comments
"The Tinder dating app will soon be asking men to submit photos in order to verify their height," writes long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike, sharing a post...
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On March 30th, 2019 with 27 comments
Slashdot reader RockDoctor writes: The project to actually construct Babbage's Analytical Engine, the first design for a general purpose computing machine,...
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On March 30th, 2019 with 30 comments
IEEE Spectrum is publishing a six-part series exploring the human history of AI. the_newsbeagle writes: The 19th century British engineer Charles Babbage is...
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On March 9th, 2019 with 51 comments
"Baseball's potential future will be showcased in the independent Atlantic League this year, and it includes robot umpires..." reports ESPN, calling it part of...
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On February 23rd, 2019 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider's update on Microsoft Clippy, the animated cartoon paperclip that was Office's virtual assistant until the early...
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On February 9th, 2019 with 151 comments
A burn surgeon at Loyola University Medical has treated eight different people for second and third-degree burns after they attempted to replicate the viral...
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Tomorrow's computers some time next month. -- DEC
