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[Learn More!] ['Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple'] From the redefining-courage department theodp writes: Every fall," writes The Intercept's Sam Biddle, "internet and its resident tech mumblers congregate for The Apple Event, a quasi-pagan streaming-video rite in which Tim Cook boasts of just how much money his company is making (a... [Apple's Response To Diversity Criticism: 'We Had a Canadian' Onstage at iPhone 7 Event] From the diversity department Mic published a report last week in which it criticized the gender divide at Apple's last two iPhone events. The reporter noted that at iPhone 7 event, women spoke for roughly eight minutes at stage compared to men, who spoke for 99. Furthermore,... [ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden] From the pretty-please department Coinciding with the launch of Oliver Stone's movie Snowden in select theaters this week, a coalition of civil rights groups are launching a campaign to convince President Obama to pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Fusion reports: The... [Ubuntu Torrent Removed From Google Due To DMCA Complaint] From the oops department Reader LichtSpektren shares a report from OMG Ubuntu: Cited in a DMCA takedown request filed against Google on behalf of Paramount Pictures is an innocuous link to a 32-bit alternate install image Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. The takedown request seeks to... [Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs] From the grappling-with-Giphy-GIFs department An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes Softpedia: Mozilla has announced this week that it is delaying the release of Firefox 49 for one week to address two unexpected bugs. Firefox 49, which was set for release on Tuesday, September 13, will now... [Facebook Is Collaborating With The Israeli Government To Determine What Should Be Censored] From the root-cause department An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: The Israeli government and Facebook agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network, a senior Israeli Cabinet minister said Monday. The announcement came... [Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says] From the gaining-traction department Despite major tech companies working aggressively on making digital wallet solutions available everywhere, these digital payment apps in our smartphones are yet to gain traction, according to Chief Executive of Consumer Banking JP Morgan Chase... [Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes In New York, Burns Six-Year-Old Boy] From the ticking-time-bomb department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A six-year-old boy from Brooklyn has reportedly become the latest victim of Samsung's disastrous exploding Galaxy Note 7 batteries. The boy had been using the device at his family home when it... [Amazon Will Open 100 Retail Stores] From the goodbye-Seattle department An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Amazon plans to open "as many as 100" retail stores in shopping malls by the end of next year, according to Business Insider. The 300- to 500-square-foot stores will sell familiar Amazon hardware products like... [Elon Musk Says Tesla New Autopilot Features Would Have Prevented Recent Death] From the could-have-would-have department An anonymous reader writes:Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Sunday the automaker was updating its semi-autonomous driving system Autopilot with new limits on hands-off driving and other improvements that likely would have prevented a... [Netflix Pushes FCC To Crack Down On Data Caps] From the hate-data-caps department Netflix hates data caps. The on-demand movies and TV shows service has asked the US Federal Communications Commission to declare that home internet data caps are unreasonable and that they limit customers' ability to watch online video. From an... [Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Technology Books and Novels?] From the share-share-share department It can be a nonfiction book, or a fictional narrative where technology plays a key role. I recently started to read 'The Rise of the Robots' by Martin Ford. It talks about how robots are threatening mass unemployment more than they ever did... [Nvidia's New GeForce Experience 3.0 Requires Mandatory Registration] From the mandatory-things department An anonymous reader writes: With the newly released GeForce Experience 3.0 software, Nvidia might irk some users. While you will still be able to download the drivers from their web site sans registration, You will now be required to register in... [A Very Detailed Dissection of a Frame From DOOM] From the weaponizing-demons-for-a-brighter-tomorrow department DOOM 2016 "cleverly re-uses old data computed in the previous frames...1331 draw calls, 132 textures and 50 render targets," according to a new article which takes a very detailed look at the process of rendering one 16-millisecond frame. An... [HP To Buy Samsung's Printer Business For $1.05 Billion] From the refill-ink-cartridges department HP has agreed to a deal with Samsung to acquire their printer business for $1.05 billion, a deal that will be the largest print acquisition in HP's history. USA Today reports: "The acquisition of Samsung's printer business allows us to deliver... 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.]