Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks; Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Facebook Staff Suppressed Stories With Conservative Viewpoints

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In this whitepaper, we will discuss the increased value of APIs and how they are going to change how we all do business in the coming months and years. [Learn More!] [Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks] From the importance-of-efficiency department An anonymous reader writes: In response to the rising minimum wage, the fast-food chain Wendy's plans to start automating all of its restaurants. The company said it will have self-service ordering kiosks available to its 6,000-plus restaurants in... [Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class] From the teaching-a-lesson department Ontario is considering making parents who choose to not vaccinate their children for non-medical reasons take a science class. The health ministry of Canada's most populous province has proposed a bill which would force those parents sit through... [Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Facebook Staff Suppressed Stories With Conservative Viewpoints] From the prove-it department An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg has issued a statement in response to the controversy alleging that Facebook staff intentionally prevented stories with a conservative viewpoint from appearing in the site's... [Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car] From the master-of-disguise department An anonymous reader writes: Matt Blaze, a University of Pennsylvania computer and information science professor, discovered a SUV "tucked away in the shadows of the Philadelphia Convention Center's tunnel" that was labeled as a Google Maps Street... [France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality] From the work-life-balance department Jesse Ferreras, writing for Huffington Post: France is that much closer to becoming the first country to ban after-work emails. The country's lower parliamentary house passed a bill this week that would ban companies with 50 or more employees from... [Tech Layoffs More Than Double In Bay Area] From the it's-alarming,-but-don't-panic-yet department An anonymous reader shares an article on Mercury News: In yet another sign of a slowdown in the booming Bay Area economy, tech layoffs more than doubled in the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year (could be... [China's Tech Work Culture Is So Intense People Sleep and Bathe In Their Offices] From the different-culture,-different-lifestyle department An anonymous reader writes: China's technology sector is booming at an intensely fast pace. Many startups are seeing their business grow faster than they can hire, placing a heavy burden on those already working within the industry. "The pace of... [Oregon ISP Now Forcing Cordcutters to Sign up For TV to Avoid Caps] From the that-should-do-it department An anonymous reader writes: Oregon ISP BendBroadband has revised its usage-based broadband policies to favor customers that subscribe to TV services as well. According to a blog post by the company, Bend is deploying a number of new speed... [Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation?] From the history-lesson department speedplane writes: The New York Times is running a story on innovation over the past 150 years. [The story starts at the end of the American Civil War with the newly completed transcontinental railway in the 1870s. Then it highlights the... [Dangerous 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Flow To Top Security, Software Tools] From the access-rights department mask.of.sanity quotes a report from The Register: Some of the world's biggest security and software vendors will be rushing to patch holes in implementations of the popular 7-Zip compression tool to stop attackers gaining full control of customer... [Linksys WRT Routers Won't Block Open Source Firmware, Despite FCC Rules] From the affinity-for-open-source department The FCC requires all manufacturers to prevent users from having any direct ability to change RF parameters (frequency limits, output power, country codes, etc). The easiest way for a router manufacturer to comply with FCC's guideline is to block... [Fitness App Runkeeper Secretly Tracks Users At All Times, Sends Data to Advertisers] From the they-know-what-you-did-last-summer department An anonymous reader writes: FitnessKeeper, the company behind running app Runkeeper, is in hot water in Europe. The company has received a formal complaint from the Norwegian Consumer Council for breaching European data protection laws. But why?... [Raspbian Linux OS Gets Major Update, Adds Bluetooth Support to Pi 3] From the tiny-computer-gets-better department An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi 3 was launched with built-in chip for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi support, however, software support for Bluetooth was lacking until now. The drivers were there, but today's update to the Raspbian Linux... [Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update] From the update-that-needs-updating department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mac Rumors: A large number of MacBook Pro owners running OS X El Capitan are reporting widespread system freezes since installing the 10.11.4 update to Apple's Mac OS. The problem appears to be concentrated... [Bing Bans 'Computer Support' Ads From Its Network] From the making-web-safer department An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has changed the terms of service for its Bing Ad network to disallow ads which offer computer support service. Its Bing Ads User Safety Policy now reads: Bing Ads disallows the promotion of third party online... Follow us on [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google+] [Submit a Story to Slashdot!] You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . To [change your preferences]- receive this in html or text, visit the [Preference Center!] To unsubscribe, [click here] or send an email to: unsubscribe-47676@elabs10.com Slashdot | 1660 Logan Ave. Ste A | San Diego, CA 92113 To view our Privacy Policy click [here.]