“In recent months, at least half a dozen game studios have revealed plans to add NFTs to their games or said they were considering doing so,” reports the New York Times.
Then they were confronted by gamers like 18-year-old Christian Lantz, who for ye…
“As part of their growing battle against popular open source software tool youtube-dl, three major music labels are now suing Uberspace, the company that currently hosts the official youtube-dl homepage,” reports TorrentFreak:
According to plaintiffs S…
Slashdot reader BoogieChile writes:
Details of an important new fossil site has just been published in the first Science Advances journal for the new year. McGraths Flat, in New South Wales, Australia, was once the location of this oxbow lake in a mes…
Mike Melanson’s “This Week in Programming” column looks at what happened after Mozilla founder Jamie “jwz” Zawinski slammed the group for accepting donations in cryptocurrency (which Zawinski called partnering “with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.”…
The programming language of the year has been announced by the TIOBE Index: Python!
But noting that the TIOBE index is based on the number of search results for a programming language across popular search engines, a headline at The Next Web asks: “W…
Today in airports around the world, 3,189 flights were cancelled, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. And
5,155 more flights were cancelled yesterday (with another 1,345 flights also already cancelled for tomorrow).
Even in the U.S…
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: Google marked what would’ve been Stephen Hawking’s 80th birthday with a very special Doodle — an animated video in which the voice of Stephen Hawking speaks again, generated and used with the approval of the Haw…
Nearly a million people live in Erie County, New York. Slashdot reader McGruber brings news that their legislature just approved a new public corporation to bring the county a 500-mile high-speed fiber-optic internet network, making them one of the lar…
“Since joining NASA in 1980, Jim Green has seen it all,” writes the New York Times.
He has helped the space agency understand Earth’s magnetic field, explore the outer solar system and search for life on Mars. As the new year arrived on Saturday, he b…
“Chinese telecom giant Huawei said on Friday its annual revenue had fallen by nearly a third from the previous year,” reports Agence France-Presse, “as it continued to be weighed down by U.S. sanctions that have hit its smartphone sales…”
The firm’s…
