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Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes
Date : 2008 08 23
Slashdoteonlabs writes "A new paper has been published on the formation of stars in close proximity to a supermassive black hole. Their fo read more »
The Future of Persistent Worlds In MMOs
Date : 2008 08 23 SlashdotZonk did an interesting interview with Ed Stark and Dave Williams, employees for an MMO developer named Red 5 (and experienced tab read more »
Legal Group Releases Guide To GPL Compliance
Date : 2008 08 23 SlashdotAn anonymous reader brings news that the Software Freedom Law Center has published a guide for compliance with the GNU General Pub read more »
Telecom Rollouts Raise Ire Over Utility Boxes
Date : 2008 08 23 SlashdotAnti-Globalism points out this AP story, which notes: "As cable and phone companies race to upgrade services or offer video for th read more »
Bringing Cell Phones To the Third World
Date : 2008 08 23 SlashdotAn anonymous reader tips a story about Denis O'Brien, a mobile phone entrepreneur whose goal is to spread cell phones throughout t read more »
China Blocks iTunes
Date : 2008 08 23 Slashdoteldavojohn writes "If you like iTunes and you are one of the billion people residing in China, you may have noticed that you no lo read more »
Ratio of IT Department Workers To Overall Employees?
Date : 2008 08 23 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "I was recently talking to a friend about the Fortune 100 company she works for in IT. She told me the read more »
In-Game Gold Farming a $500M Industry
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotSpuriousLogic brings us this excerpt from a BBC report: "Prof. Heeks said very accurate figures for the size of the gold farming s read more »
Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost
Date : 2008 08 22 Slashdotmonkeymonkey writes "Mozilla has integrated tracing optimization into SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript interpreter in Firefox. This im read more »
Inside Intel's Core i7 Processor, Nehalem
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotMojoKid writes "Intel's next-generation CPU microarchitecture, which was recently given the official processor family name of 'Cor read more »
Nonprofit Group Sends Filesharing Propaganda To Students
Date : 2008 08 22 Slashdotpalegray.net writes "The National Center for State Courts, a nonprofit organization, has sent file-sharing propaganda to thousands read more »
First Review of Intel's New Classmate PC
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "Intel gave the press a sneak preview of its 3rd generation Classmate PC at IDF. It looks like this guy read more »
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotI Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Attorney General Michael Mukasey has agreed to allow Congressional hearings, but not read more »
Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotBecause the number of abductions in Mexico has jumped almost 40% in the past 3 years, the wealthy are getting subcutaneous transmi read more »
Sneak Peek At Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotShawn M. Smith writes "Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle) has a new novel coming out in just a couple weeks &mdash read more »
Interview With MIT Subway Hacker Zack Anderson
Date : 2008 08 22 Slashdotlongacre writes "In his most extensive interview since the DefCon controversy emerged, MIT subway hacker Zack Anderson talks with read more »
DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotHugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School i read more »
NASA's Orion Mock-Up Fails Parachute Test
Date : 2008 08 22 Slashdotleetrout writes "Fox News has the story on a parachute test failing on a mock up of the new Orion spacecraft. 'This is the most co read more »
Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades
Date : 2008 08 22 Slashdotruphus13 writes "Firefox has been pushing version 3.0 very aggressively, and firmly believes that it is a solid product. The Downl read more »
Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotI Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that ca read more »
Microsoft Releases Photosynth
Date : 2008 08 22 SlashdotSpy Hunter writes "Photosynth has graduated from a 'tech preview' to a complete service. Now you can upload your own photos and ha read more »