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Boeing Spacecraft Carrying Two Astronauts Lifts Off On Historic Maiden Voyage - Slashdot
Slashdot· 5 days agoSlashdot readers destinyland and LazarusQLong share a report from CNN: The third attempt was the charm for Boeing's Starliner mission after launching its first crewed flight ...
Boeing Starliner Docks With ISS - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoLongtime Slashdot reader destinyland shared a story from Space.com reporting on Boeing's missed opportunity to dock with the International Space Station, after five of the ...
Louisiana Becomes 10th US State to Make CS a High School Graduation Requirement - Slashdot
Slashdot· 2 days agoLong-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: "Great news, Louisiana!" tech-backed Code.org exclaimed Wednesday in celebratory LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter posts. Huge thanks ...
UK Imposes Mysterious Ban On Quantum Computer Exports - Slashdot
Slashdot· 3 days agoLongtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist: Quantum computing experts are baffled by the UK government's new export restrictions on the exotic ...
Dutch Police Test AI-Powered Robot Dog to Raid Drug Labs - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day ago"Now, the Dutch police are looking at employing AI-powered autonomous robot dogs in drug lab raids to protect officers from criminal risks, hazardous chemicals, and explosions." New Scientist's ...
US Justice Department Indicts Creators of Bitcoin-Anonymizing 'Samouri' Wallet - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoAmerica's Justice Department "indicted the creators of an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously," writes Reason.com: They're accused of "conspiracy to commit money laundering ...
How Google Will Distribute $100 Million to Canada's News Companies - Slashdot
Slashdot· 17 hours agoIn November Google agreed to pay Canadian news publishers $100 million annually "in order to be exempt from the Online News Act, which compels tech companies to enter into agreements with news ...
Should Police Departments Use Drones? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 21 hours agoWired visits Chula Vista, California (population: 275,487) — where since 2018 drones have been dispatched by police "teleoperators" monitoring 911 calls. The [Chula Vista] department says that ...
Is Nuclear Power in America Reviving - or Flailing? - Slashdot
Slashdot· 1 day agoLast week America's energy secretary cheered the startup of a fourth nuclear reactor at a Georgia power plant, calling it "the largest producer of clean energy, and the largest producer of electricity ...
Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died - Slashdot
Slashdot· 4 days agoMichael 'Mike' Karels, one of the authors of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4Bsd Operating System" and a part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, who received the USENIX ...
