Tags Results for 'story'

Sorry, Larry Page: Tech-Industry Viciousness Is Here To Stay - (Friday 17th of May 2013 05:46:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "At this week's Google I/O in San Francisco, Google CEO Larry Page
stood onstage and took unscripted work over from an auditorium of symposium attendees. That's
an unusual move for any chief executive, the sort of thing that risks [...]
Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates - (Wednesday 15th of May 2013 04:00:00 PM)
Google's I/O annual powwow* is ramping up at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Last year, in the
call keynote, the company took its biggest-yet dive into rags* when it introduced the Nexus 7
tablet, Google Glass, and the ill-fated Nexus Q. The secret is [...]
Simple Tips Which Are Effective When Selecting Video Games - (Monday 13th of May 2013 01:06:00 PM)
A thrilling activity you may share with your friends is video gaming many of these games even
permit you to work towards yourself. There are actually games designed to acquire fit, improve
your learning skills or perhaps succeed in business. Learn to [...]
IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election - (Friday 10th of May 2013 11:16:00 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "A recurring theme in note on Slashdot since the 9/11 attacks has been
concern about the use of statecraft power to monitor or suppress lobbyist utilization
unassociated with terrorism but rather based on ideology. It has just [...]
Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40? - (Thursday 09th of May 2013 05:00:00 PM)
New submitter fjsalcedo writes "I've read many times, here at Slashdot and elsewhere, that
programming, especially science how to program professionally, is a matter for young people.
That programmers after 35 or so begin to decline and even lose their [...]
The NSA's Own Guide To Google Hacking and Other Internet Research - (Thursday 09th of May 2013 03:37:00 PM)
Wired has published a book review of sorts of a freely downloadable book called Untangling the
Web: A Guide to online network Research. If that title came from O'Reilly, Apress, or other big
name in tech-publishing, it might be fully nice but less interesting. [...]
USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams - (Sunday 05th of May 2013 06:44:00 AM)
Cold fjord writes "It looks like another milestone for hypersonic flight has been reached. From
the story: "The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program has accomplished a leap in the
evolution of flight reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean [...]
Was the Enjoy Story a very good film? - (Thursday 01st of January 1970 12:00:00 AM)
Gary Arnold film critic of the Washington Post, did not like anything about "Adore Story," .The
film version of Erich Segal's bestselling book. In his assessment he makes, the basic loving
observation that considerably, of them, ovtegoing public "are [...]
Sequoia Supercomputer Sets Record With 'Time Warp' - (Friday 03rd of May 2013 08:21:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "The 'Sequoia' Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore
subject Laboratory (LLNL) has topped a new HPC record, helped along by a new 'Time Warp' code
and goal that detects parallelism and automatically improves attainment [...]
Haswell Integrated Graphics Promise 2-3X Performance Boost - (Thursday 02nd of May 2013 02:06:00 PM)
Crookedvulture writes "Intel has revealed fresh details about the semiconductor chip computer
graphics in approaching Haswell processors. The fastest variants of the constituent GPU will be
known as Iris and Iris Pro graphics, with the latter boasting [...]
Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' - (Wednesday 01st of May 2013 06:16:00 AM)
Ceview writes "This story at Wired seems to have lots of people a bit confused: 'In February
2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and,
he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea. Impossible as it seemed, [...]
AMD Details Next-Gen Kaveri APU's Shared Memory Architecture - (Tuesday 30th of April 2013 05:25:00 PM)
Crookedvulture writes "AMD has revealed more details about the unified memory
planning main entry: architecture part of speech: noun definition: design of its
next-generation Kaveri APU. The chip's CPU and GPU components will have a shared [...]
Hiring Developers By Algorithm - (Sunday 28th of April 2013 08:07:00 PM)
Strudelkugel writes in with a story about how big data is being used to recruit workers. "When
the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, benefaction a shot as a programmer at a San
Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card [...]
Moore's Law and the Origin of Life - (Tuesday 16th of April 2013 05:50:00 PM)
DoctorBit writes "MIT stereos Review is running a story about an arXiv paper in which
geneticists Alexei A. Sharov and Richard Gordon propose that life as we know it originated 9.7
billion years ago. The researchers estimated the genetic intricacy if [...]
Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing - (Tuesday 16th of April 2013 01:25:00 PM)
An unnamed reader writes with this excerpt from Motherboard about the critical aftermath of
yesterday's bomb attack in Boston, which attempts to explain the (unsurprisingly) poor
accessibility of the cellular network after the blasts: "Gut instinct suggests [...]
How NASA Brought the F-1 Rocket Engine Back To Life - (Monday 15th of April 2013 01:39:00 PM)
First time accepted submitter Martin S. writes "How NASA Engineers have reverse engineered the
F1 engine of a Saturn V launcher, because: 'every scrap of affidavit produced during Project
Apollo, including the design conclusions for the Saturn V and the [...]
Popular Wordpress Plug-in Caught Spamming Is Put On Probation - (Saturday 13th of April 2013 11:00:00 PM)
Chicksdaddy writes "Social Media Widget, a free plug-in for the WordPress blogging scaffolding
with more than a million downloads, was restored to WordPress's yardstick plugin archives on
Thursday, days after it was found injecting WordPress websites [...]
Why AppGratis Was Pulled From the App Store - (Tuesday 09th of April 2013 08:27:00 PM)
RougeFemme writes "By now, you may know that AppGratis, a popular app finding app, was afresh
pulled from the App store. Apple listed violations of the coming guidelines: '2.25 Apps that
display Apps other than your own for acquisition or honor in a manner [...]
Ask Slashdot: Is Making Government More Open and Connected a Good Idea? - (Friday 05th of April 2013 09:15:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "For quite some time, there's been a theory kick around around that
washington* can be made more open and productive via the same crowdsourcing and
social-networking tools that created such successes out of Facebook, Twitter and [...]
Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments - (Saturday 16th of March 2013 04:38:00 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "The Web is a place for unlimited trade of ideas. But by the book to an NPR
report, researchers have found that rude enlightenment on crop can change the way we interpret
the news. 'It's a little bit like the Wild West. [...]
Berkeley Scientists Plan To 'Jurassic Park' Some Extinct Pigeons Back To Life - (Friday 15th of March 2013 05:01:00 PM)
Phenopticon writes "Researchers at Berkeley are attempting to revive the extinct pilgrim pigeon
in order to set up a remote island theme park full of resurrected semi-modern extinct animals.
(Well, maybe not that last part.) Quoting: 'About 1,500 rider [...]
Facebook Rolled Its Own 0Day For Red Team Exercise - (Saturday 09th of March 2013 11:45:00 PM)
Chicksdaddy writes "Threatpost has the story of the extreme — even hair-raising —
lengths that Facebook's trip notes:the primary meaning of go down is that of occurrence or
event; the primary meaning of scene is that of the rate or number [...]
SXSW: Elon Musk Talks Reusable Rockets, Tesla Controversy - (Sunday 10th of March 2013 01:24:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, took the keynote stage at
this year's SXSW to talk about entirety from space study to llc.view results from: lexicography
| llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia [...]
Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy - (Tuesday 05th of March 2013 11:29:00 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "A controversy has been brewing in the comic general public for the
past month. Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and its many sequels, was tapped to write
a story for the new Adventures of Superman comic. The controversy [...]
3-D Printed Car Nears Production - (Thursday 28th of February 2013 01:15:00 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "An article at Wired shows just how close we are to a 3-D printed
car. Jim Kor's 'Urbee 2' design is a 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. published
by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights reserved.view [...]
Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States - (Wednesday 20th of February 2013 05:10:00 PM)
Nerval's Lobster writes "If you live in Hawaii, congratulations: gospel to a new study (PDF) by
researchers at the health center of Vermont, you live in the happiest state in the union
— at least as far as Twitter sentiment is concerned. (Hat tip [...]
California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers - (Saturday 16th of February 2013 01:25:00 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "Yesterday's twin events with invading rocks from outer space —
the close confront with asteroid 2012 DA14, and the killer meteorite over Russia that was more
than close — have brought the topic of defending mankind [...]
CES: Formlabs Co-Founder Describes Their Stereolithographic 3D Printer (Video) - (Wednesday 13th of February 2013 07:30:00 PM)
"It uses a totally peculiar process called Stereolithography," says Max Lobovsky, while other
low-cost 3D printers use a process called FDM (fused deposition modeling). Max explains the
differences between the two processes in the video, but what it comes [...]
Samsung Laptop Bug Is Not Linux Specific - (Saturday 09th of February 2013 09:48:00 PM)
First time accepted submitter YurB writes "Matthew Garrett, a Linux kernel contributor who was
investigating the recent Linux-on-Samsung-in-UEFI-mode problem, has bricked a Samsung laptop
using a test userspace program in Windows. The most fascinating [...]
Slate's Mini-Biography of Aaron Swartz - (Friday 08th of February 2013 09:47:00 PM)
New submitter ElDuque writes "Slate's top story today is a long, heavily-researched article
about the life of, and case against, Aaron Swartz. It covers the impressionable years of both
Mr. Swartz and the free earful* / open the latest flight he felt [...]