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Scientists Invent Grow-in-the-Dark Plants [Science]

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:40:00 -0700

Kymera Magic Wand Remote Review: Only a Wizard Could Make This Thing Work [Video]

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:00 -0700

Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:27:00 -0700

An anonymous reader writes "Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again." See this earlier story on Saverin's plan to make the leap out of the U.S. tax system.

This Is the NYC Factory Where Legendary Guitar Tone Is Made [Video]

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:20:00 -0700

#watchthis

Japan Successfully Broadcasts an 8K Signal Over the Air: Prepare To Upgrade Your TVs Again [TV]

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:00:00 -0700

#tv

Comcast Increases Its Monthly Data Cap from 250GB to 300GB [Comcast]

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:52:00 -0700

#comcast

BestBuy's GeekSquad Has the Worst Password Protection You Can Imagine [Security]

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:40:00 -0700

#security

Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea?

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:33:00 -0700

New submitter penmanglewood writes "I am a developer at a small IT company, and we primarily make software and games for the education market. I used to work with a team of developers, but for reasons outside the scope of this question, my boss and I are the only ones left. My boss says that our new strategy is to use outsourced developers to do the 'monkey work' for us. To me, this sounds like a bad idea. Do we give the developers access to our internal libraries? How will they be able to work on parts of our product without having access to our repository. I could think of a hundred more objections, but maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way. Is there a smart way to outsource development, or is it just a bad idea?"

Amazingly Detailed and Animated Terminator Busts Will Strike Fear In Sarah Connors Everywhere [Video]

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:25:00 -0700

#robots

LG 55" Cinema 3D Smart TV Lightning Review: A Pretty Good TV for Children of the Night [Lightning Review]

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:00 -0700

#lightningreview

NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:52:00 -0700

parallel_prankster writes "Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death [full paper is paywalled, at the New England Journal of Medicine] overall than others who did not drink coffee, according to a study by researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and AARP. Coffee drinkers were less likely to die from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, injuries and accidents, diabetes, and infections, although the association was not seen for cancer. These results from a large study of older adults were observed after adjustment for the effects of other risk factors on mortality, such as smoking and alcohol consumption. They also found that the association between coffee and reduction in risk of death increased with the amount of coffee consumed. Relative to men and women who did not drink coffee, those who consumed three or more cups of coffee per day had approximately a 10 percent lower risk of death. Researchers caution, however, that they can't be sure whether these associations mean that drinking coffee actually makes people live longer."

Who Is Still Using IE6? the UK Government

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:33:00 -0700

strawberryshakes writes "The death knell for IE6 was sounded a couple of years ago, but seems like some people just can't let go. Many UK government departments are still using IE6, which is so old — 11 years old to be exact — it can't cope with social media — which the government is trying to get its staff to use more to engage with citizens."

Mac Pro Fans Launch Sad Facebook Campaign For Upgrade [Apple]

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:20:00 -0700

#apple

DreamHammer Wants To Corner the Drone OS Market

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:11:00 -0700

nonprofiteer writes "The Pentagon is increasingly transforming the military into an unmanned force, taking soldiers out of harm's way and replacing them with drones and robots. In 2011, it spent $6 billion on unmanned systems. The problem is that the unmanned systems don't work well together thanks to contractors building proprietary control systems (to lock government into exclusive relationships and to make extra money). A company called DreamHammer plans to have a solution to this — a universal remote control that could integrate all robots and drones into one control system. It would save money and allow anyone to build apps for drones. 'DreamHammer CTO Chris Diebner compares it with a smartphone OS — on which drones and features for those drones can be run like apps. Of course, Ballista is doing something on a much larger scale. It means that it takes fewer people to fly more drones and that new features can be rolled out without the need to develop and build a new version of a Predator, for example.'"

Twitter Won't Track Your Personal Information If You Opt-Out [Do Not Track]

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:59:00 -0700

#donottrack