New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests (latimes.com)
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· 88 comments
Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline?
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying (techspot.com)
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· posted by
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· from the apparently-spying-is-the-only-thing-that-happens-over-the-holidays dept.
· 152 comments
Astronaut Tim Peake Calls the Wrong Number From Space (independent.co.uk)
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· from the check-the-number-and-try-again dept.
· 27 comments
US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class
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· posted by
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· from the close-enough dept.
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Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" (theguardian.com)
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· from the pay-to-play dept.
· 474 comments
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet (reuters.com)
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· posted by
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· from the all-your-business dept.
· 77 comments
Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months
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· posted by
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· from the send-your-kids-to-the-school-of-mines dept.
· 292 comments
Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning?
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· posted by
timothy
· from the well-equipped-household dept.
· 122 comments
Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores
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· posted by
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· from the creative-destruction-at-play dept.
· 133 comments
Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices (softpedia.com)
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· from the makes-you-wonder-what-companies-say-yes dept.
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For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word (arstechnica.com)
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· from the warmth-or-hiss-or-whatever dept.
· 169 comments
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer
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· posted by
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· from the until-it-includes-a-browser dept.
· 78 comments
NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History (networkworld.com)
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· posted by
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· from the checking-it-twice dept.
· 90 comments
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland (theguardian.com)
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· posted by
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· from the no-humans-allowed dept.
· 704 comments
Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com)
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· from the expensive-elmo-dolls-are-the-key-to-intelligence dept.
· 519 comments
Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier (softpedia.com)
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· posted by
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· from the your-way-right-away dept.
· 32 comments
BBC Launches Machine-Translated Synthetic Voiceovers (bbc.co.uk)
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· from the robot-voice dept.
· 24 comments
Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos (facebook.com)
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· from the flash-in-the-dust-pan dept.
· 76 comments
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception (opensource.com)
Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels (washingtonpost.com)
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· posted by
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· from the pay-it-greenward dept.
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Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon (huffingtonpost.com)
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· posted by
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· from the professional-lunacy dept.
· 73 comments
12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com)
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· posted by
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· from the at-least-it-wasn't-a-trapper-keeper dept.
· 954 comments
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying (theintercept.com)
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· posted by
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· from the all-the-spy-gear-you'll-ever-need dept.
· 69 comments
Canonical Patches the Raspberry Pi 2 Kernel of Ubuntu 15.10 (softpedia.com)