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6 days ago
Analysis sjvnMicrosoft's patent move: Giant leap forward or business as usual?
Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft's open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old.
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7 days ago
Current Event sjvn
Soyuz rocket failure forces NASA astronaut, Russian cosmonaut to make emergency landing
Russian Soyuz rocket's booster malfunctions after launch, forcing NASA's Nick Hague and his Russian colleague to make a "ballistic" descent back to Earth
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7 days ago
Current Event sjvn
Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio -- with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code -- to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.
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8 days ago
Expression sjvn
What the heck is it with Windows updates?
Lately, it’s been difficult to update Windows systems without running into some showstopping bugs. WTH is going on?
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8 days ago
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Nonplussed: Why I'll miss Google+, the best of all social networks
Really, Google? I know not many of us used your Google+ social network, but those of us who did use it really, really liked it.
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10 days ago
Current Event sjvn
China confirms it is detaining Interpol president
The Chinese government confirmed Sunday that it is holding Interpol President Meng Hongwei as it investigates him on "suspicion of violating the law" and "under the supervision" of an anticorruption watchdog tied to the Chinese Communist Party.
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10 days ago
Comment sjvn
In every day, in every way, he shows what an utterly scummy person he is.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis sjvn
The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert
The presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first of its kind, but it's part of a decades-long lineage of official government doomsday alerts.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event sjvn
Hunting alien planets and protecting Earth from asteroids: Five ways NASA is using AI
The director of NASA's Frontier Development Lab on how AI is helping humans to explore the cosmos.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event sjvn
Found: An Ancient Roman Comic Strip With Speech Bubbles
“Alas for me! I am dead!”
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2 weeks ago
Analysis sjvn
Shareware: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Shareware helped to spark the PC revolution. It's the forerunner of today's mobile app development. @Enterprisenxt
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2 weeks ago
Current Event sjvn
Web inventor Berners-Lee creates a new privacy first way of dealing with the internet
First, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web, now he wants to save it.
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2 weeks ago
Comment sjvn
He went ahead and signed off on it today: https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/29/technology/b...ess/elon-musk-tesla-sec-settlement/index.html I think his lawyer must have had a "Come to Jesus" talk with him.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event sjvn
Scientists create most powerful indoor magnetic field, blow up own lab
Watch as the newly built instrument goes BANG, after generating a magnetic field strength of 1,200 teslas.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event sjvn
'Distracted boyfriend' ad ruled sexist
A Swedish company broke gender discrimination rules by using a popular meme in an advert.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis sjvn
What happens if you try to take your code out of Linux?
Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter.
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3 weeks ago
Current Event sjvn
Exclusive: Mystery Science Theater 3000’s new season gets a fitting premiere date on Netflix
Last Turkey Day, Netflix gave fans of bad movies and wisecracking robots something to be thankful for, renewing Mystery Science Theater 3000 for a 12th season. It was a fitting choice, extending the show’s Kickstarted revival on a date that’s long been synonymous with MST3K marathons and premieres.
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3 weeks ago
How-to sjvn
Here’s How We Booted Windows 10 in 4.9 Seconds (Now, Beat Us)
With these tweaks, you can go from hitting the power button to seeing the desktop in under 5 seconds.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis sjvn
Linus Torvalds and Linux Code of Conduct: 7 myths debunked
No, protesting programmers are not removing code from Linux; there are no purges of politically incorrect Linux kernel developers. And Linus Torvalds is coming back.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis sjvn
Greece’s disappearing whistled language
For some 2,500 years, residents of this mountainous village have used an astonishing language that only they understand. But there are only six people left who can ‘speak’ it.
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3 weeks ago
Analysis sjvn
We’re inching closer to DaaS Windows
How Windows is supported and sold is changing. Or should I say ‘sold’?
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3 weeks ago
Expression sjvn
Books Where the Dog Dies, Rewritten So the Dog Doesn't Die
Finally, it's safe to read "Where the Red Fern Grows"
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1 month ago
Current Event sjvn
Astronomers just discovered Spock's home planet, Vulcan
Newfound exoplanet orbits a star identified with the famed science officer from "Star Trek."