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Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara
Date : 2008 08 16 Slashdotiminplaya sends along a New Scientist article that begins: "One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hos read more »
Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph
Date : 2008 08 16 Slashdotjamie found links to a discriminating selection of Siggraph papers at waxy.org. Among the more captivating: automatically improvin read more »
Internet Radio's "Last Stand"
Date : 2008 08 16 SlashdotWe've been discussing the plight of Internet radio for some time, as the Copyright Royalty Board imposed royalties that industry o read more »
Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will?
Date : 2008 08 16 SlashdotAn anonymous reader sends in a Science News article that begins: "Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical read more »
Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising
Date : 2008 08 16 Slashdotghostlibrary sends a note about Sean Tevis, an information architect in Kansas, who is running for state representative with the h read more »
ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead
Date : 2008 08 16 SlashdotTopSpin writes "Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript programming language, has announced that ECMA Technical Committee 39 has a read more »
HP Releases Hackable ARM-Based Calculator
Date : 2008 08 16 Slashdotmikeselectricstuff writes "HP's 20b business consultant calculator isn't the sort of thing that would normally interest the averag read more »
Cassini Finds Source of Icy Jets On Enceladus
Date : 2008 08 16 SlashdotNot long ago, we discussed Cassini's mission to "skeet-shoot" Saturn's moon Enceladus in order to take high-resolution pictures as read more »
Biologists Create Genetic Map of Europe
Date : 2008 08 16 SlashdotDeath Metal Maniac brings us a story from the New York Times about a team of scientists who were able to relate genetic difference read more »
Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction
Date : 2008 08 16 Slashdottheodp writes "Judge Faith Hochberg has denied a preliminary injunction sought by the Programmers Guild to put a hold on a controv read more »
McCain Releases Technology Platform
Date : 2008 08 16 SlashdotI Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "John McCain has finally released a technology platform. Most of it is the same old s read more »
Sixth place in Beijing for twin ConnectU founders
Date : 2008 08 16 CNET News.comAfter making it all the way to the grand final of the men's pair in the rowing event, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss fail to win a m read more »
How Important Is Protecting Streaming Media?
Date : 2008 08 16 Slashdotspaj writes "In the ongoing battle with the MPAA and RIAA, there seems to be an ongoing argument about who is to blame. If you lea read more »
Debian On the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner Phone
Date : 2008 08 15 SlashdotBrianWCarver writes "It was inevitable. One can now run the entire Debian distribution (ARM port) on the Openmoko Neo Freerunner. read more »