Collaborate Disseminate
“The World Chess Federation (FIDE) announced Saturday that it caught chess grandmaster Igors Rausis cheating during a tournament in France,” writes Bleacher Report.
According to ESPN.com, the FIDE noted that Rausis was “caught red-handed using his pho… Continue reading Chess Grandmaster Caught Cheating in Tournament With Hidden Cellphone in Bathroom
The Hustle profiles a community for whom entering online sweepstakes are a way of life. And they “consistently land hundreds of prizes year after year — vacation packages, cars, event tickets, electronics, and cash — and their hauls sometimes amount … Continue reading Meet The Community That Always Seem To Win Online Sweepstakes
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Architectural Digest on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $80 million New York City bachelor pad: “Jeff Bezos is not only taking over the internet but is also ruling the real-estate world too. It was just revealed that he … Continue reading Bezos HQ2: Amazon CEO Pays $80 Million For Three NYC Apartments
“DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED” reads a new message at the home page for Devuan (a fork of Debian without systemd) — which re-redirects to a new page named pwned.html, reports Slashdot reader DevNull127:
In all capital letters, its carefully-indented mess… Continue reading Devuan.org Now Points To ‘Pwned’ Page With Gopher URLs
“The Tinder dating app will soon be asking men to submit photos in order to verify their height,” writes long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike, sharing a post made Friday (March 29th) on the official Tinder blog.
Let’s be real, when it comes to online d… Continue reading Tinder Announces New ‘Height Verification’ Feature. But They May Be Lying
IEEE Spectrum is publishing a six-part series exploring the human history of AI. the_newsbeagle writes: The 19th century British engineer Charles Babbage is sometimes called the father of the computer. But his first design for a massive computing machi… Continue reading When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk
A burn surgeon at Loyola University Medical has treated eight different people for second and third-degree burns after they attempted to replicate the viral “boiling water challenge,” according to one local news station.
These people (like many others … Continue reading Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral ‘Boiling Water Challenge’
An anonymous reader writes:
Thursday the humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research held their 28th annual ceremony recognizing the real (but unusual) scientific research papers “that make people laugh, then think.” And winning this year’s coveted L… Continue reading Research Proving People Don’t RTFM, Resent ‘Over-Featured’ Products, Wins Ig Nobel Prize
An anonymous reader quotes the Mercury News:
Tesla’s sleek, $1,500 carbon fiber surfboard sold out in a day, and it’s not surprising: The company, in collaboration with a Southern California board maker, said it was producing a limited edition of 200,… Continue reading Tesla’s Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450
An anonymous reader quotes The Next Web:
The word ‘hack’ used to mean something, and hackers were known for their technical brilliance and creativity. Now, literally anything is a hack — anything — to the point where the term is meaningless, and shou… Continue reading ‘The Word Hack is Meaningless and Should Be Retired’