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[US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone](
From the yearning-to-breathe-free department
Sidd Bikkannavar works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After racing solar-powered cars in Chile, he had trouble returning to America. mspohr quote The Verge: Bikkannavar says he was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and pressured to...
[Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew?](
From the and-ESR-still-does department
Open source guru Eric Raymond turns 60 this year, prompting this question from an anonymous reader: Eric Raymond's newest writing project is "Things Every Hacker Once Knew," inspired by the day he learned that not every programmer today's knows...
[Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials](
From the how-we-live department
For a fun new entry into millennials are lazy, consider this: According to new data tracked down by Richard Fry for Pew Research, just 20 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds (Old Millennials, if you will) reported having lived at a different address...
[188,000 Evacuated As California's Massive Oroville Dam Threatens Catastrophic Floods](
From the high-ground department
Mr D from 63 quotes a report from The Washington Post: About 188,000 residents near Oroville, Calif., were ordered to evacuate Sunday after a hole in an emergency spillway in the Oroville Dam threatened to flood the surrounding area. Thousands...
[Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age](
From the shape-of-things-to-come department
Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas. So it didn't come as a surprise when on Monday at the World Government Summit in Dubai, he predicted that over time we will see a "closer merger of biological intelligence and digital...
[Encrypted Email Is Still a Pain in 2017](
From the encrypted-emails department
Bristol-based software developer James Stanley, who used to work at Netcraft, shares how encrypted emails, something which was first introduced over 25 years ago, is still difficult to setup and use for even reasonably tech savvy people. He says...
[Researchers Working on Liquid Battery That Could Last For Over 10 Years](
From the breakthrough? department
Jon Fingas, writing for Engadget: If Harvard researchers have their way, you may not have to worry about replacing power backs quite so often. They've developed a flow battery (that is, a battery that stores energy in liquid solutions) which...
[34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia](
From the speaking-of-user-contributions department
Researchers used machine learning to analyze every single comment left on Wikipedia in 2015. An anonymous reader shares their results: 34 "highly toxic users" were responsible for 9% of all the personal attacks in the comments on Wikipedia,...
[Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated](
From the fewer-to-come-by department
An anonymous reader shares a MercuryNews report: Job growth in the tech industry used to zoom like a race car, but these days, hiring by this principal driver of the Bay Area's economy chugs along more like a family SUV. The technology industry's...
[LinuxQuestions Users Choose Their Favorite Distro: Slackware](
From the 24-years-young department
ZDNet summarizes some of the surprises in this year's poll on LinuxQuestions, "one of the largest Linux groups with 550,000 member". An anonymous reader quotes their report: The winner for the most popular desktop distribution? Slackware...!...
[Getting All Your News From Facebook Is Like Eating Only Potato Chips, Flipboard CEO Says](
From the analogies department
In a wide-ranging interview, Mike McCue, CEO of news curator app Flipboard, talked about how -- and from where -- people get their news nowadays and how it shapes their worldview. From a report: McCue said getting all your news from either...
[Face Recognition + Mandatory Police Body Cameras = Mass Surveillance?](
From the I'll-be-seeing-you department
Facial recognition software is already in use, and it has privacy advocates worried. An anonymous reader quotes the Bay Area Newsgroup. Southern California-based FaceFirst sells its facial recognition technology to retail stores, which use it to...
[Ending Emails With Certain Variation Of Thank You Vastly Improves Response Rate, Study Finds](
From the email-psychology department
An anonymous reader shares an Inc article: The folks at Boomerang, a plug-in for scheduling emails, did a little study to see how the language people use to close their emails has any effect on the response rate. "We looked at closings in over...
[Chrome's Sandbox Feature Infringes On Three Patents So Google Must Now Pay $20 Million](
From the pay-the-piper department
An anonymous reader writes: After five years of litigation at various levels of the U.S. legal system, today, following the conclusion of a jury trial, Google was ordered to pay $20 million to two developers after a jury ruled that Google had...
[Ransomware Insurance Is Coming](
From the times-are-changing department
Trailrunner7 quotes a report from On the Wire: As bad as the ransomware problem is right now -- and it's plenty bad -- we're likely only at the beginning of what could become a crisis, experts say. "Lots of people are being infected and lots of...
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