On April 22nd, 2021 with 181 comments
Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Over the past ten years, Firefox market share has decreased substantially and the web browser has lost its appeal and coolness....
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On August 9th, 2020 with 42 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader goombah99 wonders how college students should approach this next academic year.
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On November 24th, 2019 with 333 comments
Slashdot reader Thelasko says his oldest child made some "interesting" statements when they came home from first grade:
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On November 10th, 2019 with 136 comments
Slashdot reader dryriver writes: More and more professional 3D software like 3DMax, Maya, AutoCAD (Autodesk) and Substance Painter (Adobe) is now only...
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On October 24th, 2019 with 90 comments
Daniel T. Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, writes: You can learn anything on the internet, so why do I so often learn things I don't...
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On September 30th, 2019 with 68 comments
dryriver writes: BitChute is a video-hosting website like YouTube, except that it states its mission as being "anti-censorship" and is Peer-To-Peer,...
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On May 11th, 2019 with 337 comments
"It has become too easy to take Linux and FOSS for granted," warns a Linux Journal editorial by Doc Searls, complaining, for example, that today "We...
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On November 6th, 2018 with 128 comments
An anonymous reader writes: As a student, what's the best way to bring change to an outdated college tech curriculum? The background on this is that I have 15...
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On September 17th, 2018 with 154 comments
Long-time reader theodp writes: Some education watchers have adopted a wait-and-see response to Jeff Bezos' two-pronged $2B pledge to aid the homeless and to...
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On March 19th, 2018 with 357 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Asking someone how much money they make is often -- if not always? -- considered impolite. But over the years, there has been a...
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On January 7th, 2018 with 206 comments
The network card died on Thelasko's smart TV -- and rather than spend $65 on a new one, they're considering buying a nice, simple streaming box.
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On July 21st, 2017 with 298 comments
Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical, writes: Howdy all- Back in March, we asked the HackerNews community, "What do you want to see in...
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On April 28th, 2017 with 405 comments
An anonymous reader writes: I found this article that talks about whether an engineer should be fired if s/he is working on a side project. Several people who...
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On March 20th, 2017 with 270 comments
New submitter devrtm writes: It appears that Bitcoin, a currency designed with anonymity in mind, can be effectively used almost anywhere in the world, except...
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On November 8th, 2016 with 598 comments
Last Sunday, those of us in North America, Europe and some areas of the Middle East rolled back the clock an hour in accordance with Daylight Savings Time...
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On September 29th, 2016 with 87 comments
Media outlets are increasingly vying for your attention. But they are also feeding Google's algorithm. Some of them churn hundreds of news articles every day,...
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On September 25th, 2016 with 186 comments
We're moving to a world of voice interactions processed by AI. Now Long-time Slashdot reader jernst asks, "Will we ever be able to do that without going...
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On September 12th, 2016 with 175 comments
It can be a nonfiction book, or a fictional narrative where technology plays a key role. I recently started to read 'The Rise of the Robots' by Martin Ford. It...
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On July 31st, 2016 with 385 comments
It's easy to pontificate about the best security practices -- but the real test is what we do with our own money. Long-time Slashdot reader Keybounce writes:
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On July 29th, 2016 with 93 comments
New submitter supernova87a writes: Last week, Southwest Airlines had an epic crash of IT systems across their entire business when "a router failure caused the...
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On July 8th, 2016 with 110 comments
BarbaraHudson writes: Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free screen reader that is only available for Windows and comes with lots of features for people...
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On June 30th, 2016 with 226 comments
New submitter bkr1_2k writes: Way back when, I had a PC dedicated as a media server using MythTV. That died and I didn't bother building a new one. Consumer...
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On May 13th, 2016 with 177 comments
speedplane writes: The New York Times is running a story on innovation over the past 150 years. [The story starts at the end of the American Civil War with the...
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On March 24th, 2016 with 143 comments
A new "ethics" policy from NPR details new rules to stop promoting NPR One and its podcasts on the air, to ultimately please local station managers who pay the...
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On June 29th, 2015 with 171 comments
NicknamesAreStupid writes: I need to choose an open source license. I am developing an open source iOS application that use a significant number of other open...
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On June 22nd, 2015 with 268 comments
An anonymous reader writes: As a recent college graduate I now have a job and enough money to actually buy things and donate to causes. Up until now I really...
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On May 14th, 2015 with 200 comments
kramer2718 writes: I am working on a project that requires uploading and storing of documents. Although the application will need to allow uploading of .docx,...
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On October 10th, 2014 with 102 comments
An anonymous reader writes "I'm a computer science professor and a group of students want me to help them train for a capture the flag competition. I am...
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On April 24th, 2014 with 247 comments
peetm (781139) writes "Having visited with me and my wife recently, the girlfriend of an ex-student of mine (now taking an M.Sc. in pure CS) asked me to...
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On March 9th, 2014 with 197 comments
An anonymous reader writes "I am a middle school math teacher and I also run a programming club. I recent completed my M.Ed in math education and was inspired...
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