Now that the election is over, we hit up some of the smartest, hungriest folks in tech to get their wish-list for the next four years with Obama running the show.
Ferrari announces that Apple VP Eddy Cue is taking a spot atop the automaker's board. But what does it mean?
Civil rights groups sued Wednesday to block parts of a voter-approved California measure they say dramatically limits the online, First Amendment rights of registered sex offenders. The Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act requires offenders to provide to law enforcement their "electronic mail address, user name, screen name, or similar identifier used for the purpose of internet forum discussions, Internet chat room discussions, instant messaging, social networking, or similar internet communication."
On Wednesday, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou publicly acknowledged the difficulties Foxconn is facing in producing the tremendous quantities required for Apple's latest iPhone."It's not easy to make the iPhones. We are falling short of meeting the huge demand," Gou told reporters following a business forum, according to a?Reuters report.Apple saw blockbuster iPhone sales this past ...
As election results poured in, stats geek Nate Silver became the new Chuck Norris of Twitter with the hashtag #NateSilverFacts.
The North American saber-tooth cat, , is a symbol of the big Ice Age animals that roamed the continent thousands of years ago. But the sabercat's gigantic fangs remain a mystery.
Don't be fooled by the candy coating on these nonrolling stones: They'd flatten you like a cartoon coyote if they ever got moving.Good thing the 45 tons of rock and steel are stuck firmly in place at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The installation (called Untitled) is by artist Jim Hodges, who first selected ...
The Race Sense app uses information from your phone?s accelerometers, GPS system, and inclinometer, then plots the data onto Google Maps. Drivers hope the readings will help shave seconds off their lap times.
Kim Dotcom, the file-sharing kingpin indicted on criminal copyright infringement allegations in the United States, is suffering a setback in his purported quest to build a followup site to Megaupload, which U.S. authorities shuttered in January. We're skeptical that Dotcom would unveil a new file-sharing service as he awaits his potential extradition from New Zealand to the United States. But the domain for his alleged new site -- me.ga -- has been seized by the African nation of Gabon, where it was hosted. Dotcom unveiled the domain last week and said the new, encrypted site was to open soon for business.
Last night's election wasn't just a defeat for Mitt Romney. It was a setback for Congress' informal anti-Islam caucus -- and an example of how embracing irrationality might carry political consequences.
The sole focus of the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next month, hosted by the UN's International Telecommunication Union, is making regulations valuable to all stakeholders to support future growth in global communications. There has already been much debate. Could the internet be impacted as a consequence of revising the regulations?
Scientists and hackers continue to show that Microsoft's Kinect platform is a boundless source of both creative and useful applications. The latest, a project called HoloHands, seems like something straight out of Minority Report.
Amazon's Glacier storage service can back up your files for mere pennies per gigabyte. Combine Glacier with the latest version of Arq, a Mac OS X backup app, and you've got an easy, dirt cheap way to create off-site backups.
Many folks assessing the potential success of Microsoft's mobile chip-friendly Windows RT cite the inclusion of Office as key to its appeal. A freebie is one thing, but what if Apple iOS and Android devices all had Office apps?
Google's latest Chrome web browser supports the controversial new Do Not Track privacy settings. Even better, this release is easier on your laptop battery and features a slick new interface for controlling a website's cookies and permissions.
Most of the stars that will ever exist have already been born, according to the most comprehensive survey of the age of the night sky.
Slow to change, no. Disaster ready, yes.
When Eugene Korsunskiy and seven of his fellow students from Stanford University's d.school set out to tour the nation in a brightly painted truck full of laser cutters and rapid prototyping machines, they thought they were bringing a chance to play with high-tech maker tools to school kids who hadn't had one yet.
Designed with input from ultramarathoner Scott Jurek, the Cascadia 7s utilize a breathable, microfiber upper with an asymmetrical anatomical design and a curved lacing system.
Find out what's inside Quikrete, a type of concrete that -- you guessed it -- sets quickly.
Bravo's new reality show delves into the lives of the meme-makers at I Can Has Cheezburger? -- can web celebs become TV stars?
AliveCor's yet-to-be-released iPhone cover and accompanying app promise to help you monitor your heart. The case, which fits on the iPhone 4 and 4S, is essentially a portable electrocardiogram (ECG), a diagnostic test that evaluates the heart?s electrical activity. Unlike a personal heart rate monitor, which counts heartbeats, an ECG measures the electrical impulses that make the heart pulse.
Most people are too groggy in the morning to pay attention to their cereal, but Ernie Button is not like most people. He specializes in noticing the small details others miss, and over the past decade has built an impressive archive of cereal photos that explore the texture, color and marketing wrapped up in these niblets of nourishment.
Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo uses a radio remote controller to operate a boat more than a mile away in the Bilbao estuary. The crowd is amazed.
Moots has, since 1990, built nothing but titanium bikes. This isn?t to say the company didn?t consider straying from its path. During the darkest days, when it seemed carbon might rule the world, Moots experimented with all sorts of titanium-carbon mash-ups, but such plans didn?t go far. But the company stayed the course.
It's the last day of the contest, and the final Twitter messages are rolling down TweetDeck. They're unenthusiastic. "I'm feeling awfully bored right now," says Bernt Michaels. Bernt describes himself as an engineer who specializes in mechanical devices. "My real passion, but certainly not only vice, is sports," says his Twitter page.Bernt punctuates his boredom ...
For online clothing retailer and design house Betabrand, leading a shy, khaki-clad existence is not exactly the point. The startup's stylish, often bizarre and always fun take on clothing has brought them a small but insanely loyal following around the world. This week it also brought $6.5 million from Foundry Group.
is beautiful, original and plenty fun to play, but some worry that it may already be a "solved game."
There's more at stake in the Megaupload case than the freedom of Kim Dotcom and his file-sharing associates indicted on criminal copyright infringement and other charges. The privacy and property rights of its users are also in jeopardy. There's no clear process to give back any of the property from its users that effectively was seized when federal prosecutors shuttered the file-sharing and cyberlocker service in January. And even if a system is put in place to give back files, it's likely data would be reviewed by a third party because the government is not going to give back infringing files.
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An anonymous reader writes "In Britain, where it is custom and practice to charge around £10 for a copy of your medical results, a patient has discovered that his copy will cost him £2,000 because the records are stored on an obsolete system that the current IT systems cannot access. Can this be good for patient care if no-one can access records dating back from a previous filing system? Perhaps we need to require all current systems to store data in a way that is vendor independent, and DRM-free, too?"
CowboyRobot writes "Jeremiah Grossman of Whitehat Security has an article at the ACM in which he outlines the current state of browser security, specifically drive-by downloads. 'These attacks are primarily written with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, so they are not identifiable as malware by antivirus software in the classic sense. They take advantage of the flawed way in which the Internet was designed to work.' Grossman's proposed solution is to make the desktop browser more like its mobile cousins. 'By adopting a similar application model on the desktop using custom-configured Web browsers (let's call them DesktopApps), we could address the Internet's inherent security flaws. These DesktopApps could be branded appropriately and designed to launch automatically to Bank of America's or Facebook's Web site, for example, and go no further. Like their mobile application cousins, these DesktopApps would not present an URL bar or anything else making them look like the Web browsers they are on the surface, and of course they would be isolated from one another.'"
Nerval's Lobster writes "When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, the combination of high winds, rain, and storm surges wreaked havoc on homes and businesses alike. With a data center on the Avenue of the Americas, CoreSite Realty escaped the worst the storm had to offer. But was it coincidence or careful planning? Slashdot sat down for an interview with Billie Haggard, CoreSite's senior vice president of data centers. He's responsible for the design, construction, maintenance, facilities staffing and uptime, reliability and energy efficiency of CoreSite's data centers. He described what it took to weather the worst weather to hit New York City in decades."
Velcroman1 writes "No smartphones. No exploding pens. No ejector seats. No rocket-powered submarines. 'It's a brave new world,' gadget-maker Q tells James Bond in the new film Skyfall. The new film, released on the 50th anniversary of the storied franchise, presents a gadget-free Bond fighting with both brains and brawn against a high-tech villain with computer prowess Bill Gates would be envious of. What inspired such a villain? 'Stuxnet,' producer Michael G. Wilson said. 'There is a cyberwar that has been going on for some time, and we thought we'd bring that into the fore and let people see how it could be going on.'"
Teancum writes "Colleen Lachowicz, candidate for the State Senate District 25 of Maine, won the election yesterday against her opponent Thomas Martin. This race was notable in part because her World of Warcraft character that was mentioned earlier on Slashdot, where the Maine Republican Party turned her game playing into a significant issue. It is also notable that she was able to raise a total of $6,300 in campaign contributions from gamers who came to her defense in her successful campaign. The Maine GOP even tried to block these contributions where Lachowicz was cleared of any wrong doing and the investigation was dropped."
Hugh Pickens writes "Jordan Kahn reports that the main building on Pixar's campus has been named in memory of Steve Jobs who actually played a big role in designing the building itself as CEO of Pixar. Pixar's campus design originally separated different employee disciplines into different buildings – one for computer scientists, another for animators, and a third building for everybody else. But according to Jobs' recent biography, the headquarters was to be a place that 'promoted encounters and unplanned collaborations.' Because Jobs was fanatic about unplanned collaborations, he envisioned a campus where these encounters could take place, and his design included a great atrium space that acts as a central hub for the campus. 'Steve's theory worked from day one,' says John Lasseter, Pixar's chief creative officer. 'I've never seen a building that promoted collaboration and creativity as well as this one.'"
An anonymous reader writes "Brooks Davis has announced that the FreeBSD Project has now officially switched to Clang/LLVM as C/C++ compiler. This follows several years of preparation, feeding back improvements to the Clang and LLVM source code bases, and nightly builds of FreeBSD using LLVM over two years. Future snapshots and all major FreeBSD releases will ship compiled with LLVM by default!"