On June 9th, 2020 with 8 comments
Commonwealth countries are to gain free access to satellite technology that will help them monitor and protect their endangered coral reefs from threats such...
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On June 9th, 2020 with 46 comments
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to adopt auction procedures to provide up to $16 billion to areas that lack broadband service,...
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On June 9th, 2020 with 13 comments
Senate investigators said Tuesday that government officials had "exercised minimal oversight" of the risks posed by three Chinese telecom companies that...
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On June 8th, 2020 with 49 comments
San Francisco's famous Golden Gate Bridge has started "singing" following recent changes to bicycle-path railings that appear to make music as the wind blows...
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On June 8th, 2020 with 54 comments
Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon's listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun using this...
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On June 8th, 2020 with 258 comments
It may seem obvious, with double-digit unemployment and plunging economic output. But if there was any remaining doubt that the U.S. is in a recession, it's...
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On June 8th, 2020 with 44 comments
A new study on kids' app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube's dominance, as kids now split their time between Google's online video platform...
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On June 7th, 2020 with 148 comments
"This spring, America took an involuntary crash course in remote learning," writes the Wall Street Journal, noting it affected 50 million students from...
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On June 7th, 2020 with 69 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Wired:
When students return to school in New Albany, Ohio, in August, they'll be carefully watched as they wander through red-brick...
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On June 6th, 2020 with 16 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
In 2011, the late film critic Roger Ebert gave tech's movers-and-shakers a PLATO history lesson in his Remaking My...
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On June 5th, 2020 with 116 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Mint's programmers, led by lead developer, Clement "Clem" Lefebvre, has dropped support for Ubuntu's Snap...
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On June 5th, 2020 with 7 comments
Benedict Evans: I suspect part of the answer to this is actually that a lot of physical events will come back in some form as we emerge from lockdown. But this...
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On June 5th, 2020 with 15 comments
From a report: Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has...
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On June 5th, 2020 with 116 comments
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency in the city of Norilsk after a massive oil spill in the Arctic region. An estimated 20,000 tons...
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On June 4th, 2020 with 68 comments
Sarah Whitten writes via CNBC: The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed the entertainment industry. With movie theaters shuttered, studios have been...
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On June 4th, 2020 with 54 comments
Spain is preparing to significantly reduce the distribution and sale of single-use plastic cutlery, straws, cups and products containing microplastics as part...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 283 comments
schwit1 shares news that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would be willing to allow more than 2.8 million people from Hong Kong to live and work in the...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 56 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Broadband and TV providers can keep charging "rental" fees for equipment that customers own themselves until December 2020, thanks...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 68 comments
Canadian carriers Bell and Telus announced on Tuesday that each of them would not be continuing the use of Huawei equipment in their respective 5G networks,...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: Coatue's $350 million data-driven 'quant fund' made a swift exit from the market in early April --...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 99 comments
Streaming platform Roku has removed a channel dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement after facing criticism for letting it slip through its review...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 524 comments
Thelasko shares an excerpt from FiveThirtyEight: Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave -- and what...
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On June 2nd, 2020 with 99 comments
The U.S. investigation targets nine countries, plus the European Union, that have adopted or are considering new taxes that would hit American companies like...
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On June 2nd, 2020 with 98 comments
schwit1 shares a report: Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus....
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On June 2nd, 2020 with 56 comments
Universities are struggling with online learning. And with social distancing here for some time, there are no easy solutions. From a report: As thousands of...
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On June 2nd, 2020 with 30 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 77 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 77 includes faster JavaScript debugging, optional...
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On June 2nd, 2020 with 120 comments
The US Department of Defense is woefully behind on its plan to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support the newer IPv6 protocol, according to a government...
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On June 1st, 2020 with 187 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: As the United States deals with widespread civil unrest across dozens of cities, "hacktivist" group Anonymous...
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On June 1st, 2020 with 95 comments
Today, member companies of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Internet Archive (IA) in the United...
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On June 1st, 2020 with 122 comments
Leading media outlets in Australia lost big in court when a judge ruled publishers can be sued for comments left on their Facebook pages.
They're now...
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