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[Learn More!] [Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election] From the day-late-and-a-dollar-short department An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: Google today introduced a new feature that will tag and help find "fact checking in large news stories." Tagged articles will show up in the new story box on news.google.com, as well as in the... [2016 Has Been an Ugly Year For Tech Layoffs, and It's Going To Get Worse, Says Analyst] From the fighting-layoffs department IEEE Spectrum writer Tekla Perry writes: Early this year, analyst Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research predicted that the tech world was going to see big layoffs in 2016 -- some 330,000 in all at major tech companies. At the time, these... [Billionaire Tech Investors Support Divisive Plan To Ban San Francisco's Homeless Camps] From the in-the-aftermath department An anonymous reader shares a USA Today report: The images are startling: Homeless men, women and children huddled on the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area -- often in the shadows of start-ups and high-tech behemoths generating billions of... [It's Time For Laptop Companies To Switch To Precision Touchpad] From the please-to-note department A new Windows 10 insider build (version 14946) comes with a new interface for configuring touchpad gestures. In the recent months, Microsoft has also improved the detection of two-finger gestures and clicking on Windows 10, and also added new... [President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather'] From the out-of-this-world department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: President Barack Obama today issued an Executive Order that defines what the nation's response should be to a catastrophic space weather event that takes out large portions of the electrical... [Russia Builds Microwave Weapon To Take Down Enemy Drones] From the drone-despise department An anonymous reader writes: The Russian government is backing a military research project to develop a powerful microwave-based weapon designed to take out unmanned enemy drones from up to half a mile away. The country's United Instrument... [Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone] From the money-back-guaranteed department In an effort to presumably stop customers from jumping ship to the iPhone 7 or other non-Samsung device, Samsung is offering up to $100 in credit to every customer who exchanges their Note 7 for another Samsung smartphone. Mashable reports: The... [KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday!] From the socially-awkward-birthday-parties department prisoninmate writes from Softpedia: Can you believe it's been 20 years since the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) was announced on the 14th of October, 1996, by project founder Matthias Ettrich? Well, it has, and today we'd like to say a happy 20th... [Apple CEO Tim Cook On Virtual Reality: There's No Substitute For Human Contact] From the reality-vs-virtual-reality department As major tech companies ramp up their efforts to develop new technologies to make sense of virtual and augmented reality spaces, one company is noticeably off the game. We're talking about Apple. And it may have something to do with how it... [HP Plans To Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs Over Next 3 Years Amid PC Slump] From the reduce-heat-and-simmer department Yesterday, it was reported that the PC industry is on a two-year downslide as PC shipments have declined for eight consecution quarters. Today, HP announced it will cut between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs over the next three years due to the PC slump.... [Google To Divide Its Index, Giving Mobile Users Better and Fresher Content] From the for-unexplained-reasons department Desktop Google searches could soon feel slightly out of touch compared to those done via smartphones as the company begins to push mobile search. Google has said it is fully splitting its search index into two versions: a rapid updated mobile one,... [US Issues Emergency Ban On Flying With Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Offenders May Face Criminal Prosecution] From the phone-on-fire department Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone will be banned from aircraft in the United States starting at noon EDT (1600 GMT) under an emergency order, regulators said on Friday. Among other penalties, those who attempt to circumvent the ban could be... [Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet] From the internet-fame department An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: In a lot of ways, unlikely presidential debate star Ken Bone is a marketer's dream. He is undecided on his political leanings (for now), inoffensive, instantly recognizable, and affable on TV and... [Images Show Further Damage To Great Barrier Reef, But Scientists Assure It's Not Dead] From the alarming,-but-not-the-end department New images of the Great Barrier Reef, the largest living thing on Earth, are alarming and show the extent of the damage climate change has caused to the coral. But it's not dead yet, scientists have assured, reports the HuffingtonPost citing... [Google Creates AI Program That Uses Reasoning To Navigate the London Tube] From the see-in-the-dark department An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Google scientists have created a computer program that uses basic reasoning to learn to navigate the London Underground system by itself. Deep learning has recently stormed ahead of other... Follow us on [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google+] [Submit a Story to Slashdot!] You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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