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'Our future won't be handed to us,' says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. 'We will build it.' 'But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?' says another young voice... The ad goes on to tout the power 'to create with...
Deno Land has released Deno 2.3, an update of the company’s JavaScript and TypeScript runtime that brings improvements to deno compile and adds support for local NPM packages. Announced May 1, Demo 2.3 extends deno compile to support programs that use Foreign Function...
Thursday the Free Software Foundation announced plans for a celebratory hackathon in November to improve free/libre software 'in honor of its fortieth anniversary. The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the...
Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology, told the Guardian that 'We're living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that. Measles — because it is the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases, the most contagious...
Slashdot reader Mirnotoriety shared this report from the Register: A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring 'blind spot' in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface. That...
The cheapest hard-sided hot tub on Wayfair is totally worth buying.
El Reg checks out shop in SF On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for...
Dance Your PhD is an annual contest run by Science magazine that challenges PhD holders or candidates to explain their thesis through dance. The contest was started by John Bohannon in 2008 when he was a Science correspondent. Although he has moved on to other work, he still ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the [U.S.] Justice Department's proposals to restrict Google's search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. 'It's very...
If, like me, you've run out of clever ways to express your true feelings about the current regime—I mean, there's just so many iterations of 'f*cking a*sholes' one can utter before the sentiment loses its punch—I've got a great new resource for you! — Read the rest The p...
When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement, and its inverse, have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science.
These are the best Star Wars gifts for everyone from Padawan fans to Jedi masters.
Get Mom something special and save some money on it, too. Plenty of our recommendations are on sale.
Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way!
Root the box turtle is missing a front foot. He gets around pretty well in his enclosure at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is covered in wood chips. However, Root gets to explore outside his enclosure three times a week for enrichment. — Read...
Moving incredibly quickly after a court ruled that Apple was in “willful violation” of an injunction that ordered it to allow out-of-app purchases, Spotify has updated its app with new payment options. Developers have long been frustrated by Apple’s requirement for...
It is a year since Microsoft embraced passkeys for user accounts, and now the company is taking things further. With passkeys having been conceived as a replacement for passwords, any newly created Microsoft account will be passwordless. This is not just a change that is...
'It is the fastest, most efficient transistor ever,' proclaims an announcment from Peking University. 'And most important of all, there's no trace of silicon involved,' adds ZME Science. From the South China Morning Post: A team of researchers at Peking University claims to...
In 2016, an online 'swarm intelligence' platform stunned horse-racing fans by making a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But the next year its predictions weren't even close, with TechRepublic suggesting 2016's race just had...
There's 9,000 satellites circling the earth, the Guardian points out, with projections over over 60,000 by 2040. But 'A new study shows that the emissions from expired satellites, as they fall to Earth and burn up, will be significant in future years, with implications for...
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