Collaborate Disseminate
Ian Kar, writing for Quartz: Over the last year or so in the U.S., a lot of the plastic credit cards we carry around every day have been replaced by new one with chips embedded in them. The chips are supposed to make your credit and debit cards more se… Continue reading The Chip Card Transition In the US Has Been a Disaster
Instagram has had enough of questionable, offensive comments. The company announced Friday that it will soon give users the ability to make the choice about what’s acceptable and what’s not, reports BBC. From an article: The first will let people hide … Continue reading Instagram Will Soon Allow Users To Filter Comments
Amazon remains one of the biggest attractors of talent worldwide. During its quarterly earnings, the company said it hired 23,700 employees in the second quarter — making the total employee headcount at the company 268,900. GeekWire reports: Amazon’s … Continue reading Amazon Reaches New High Of 268,900 Employees — Skyrocketing 47% In Just One Year
An anonymous reader shares a CNET report: Australia is changing from “down under” to “down under and across a bit”. The country is shifting its longitude and latitude to fix a discrepancy with global satellite navigation systems. Government body Geosci… Continue reading Australia Has Moved 1.5 Metres, So It’s Updating Its Location For Self-Driving Cars
Exactly one year ago, Microsoft released Windows 10 to the general public. The latest version of company’s desktop operating system brought with it Cortana, and Windows Hello among other features. While users have lauded Windows 10 for performance impr… Continue reading Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What’s Your Thought On This?
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp retains and stores chat logs even after those messages have been deleted, according to iOS researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. The Verge reports: Examining disk images taken from the most recent version of the app, Zdzi… Continue reading WhatsApp Isn’t Fully Deleting Its ‘Deleted’ Chats
Some more graphics cards news via our long time reader MojoKid: AMD is officially announcing its newest mainstream members of the Polaris graphics family today, known as the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460. AMD is touting the RX 470 as a perfect compan… Continue reading AMD Extends Polaris GPU Line-up With Mainstream Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460
Reader LichtSpektren writes: Almost eleven years ago, Slashdot featured an Ask titled “Favorite Firefox Extensions?”. I thought it might be worthwhile to ask the question again (Editor’s note: we couldn’t agree more!), but expand the query to all web b… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions — 2016 Edition
The British spy agency GCHQ used a custom URL shortener and Twitter sockpuppets to influence and infiltrate activists during the Iran revolution of 2009 and the Arab Spring of 2011, reports Motherboard, citing leaked documents by Edward Snowden. From t… Continue reading British Spy Agency GCHQ Used URL Shortener To Honeypot Arab Spring Activists
Parents who found themselves with hefty bills after their kids made in-app purchases — mainly via the now-defunct Facebook Credits — can now request a refund from Facebook. PCMag reports: The news comes as part of a settlement for a class-action laws… Continue reading Facebook Offering Refunds For Kids’ In-App Purchases