“E-commerce sales jumped nearly 32 percent in 2020 compared to the prior year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data,” reports Politico — and this year “online sales are on track to outpace that record…”
“Now, cities, climate scientists and com…
GitHub’s Annual Developer Survey Finds Remote Developers Aren’t Returning to the Office
GitHub’s annual report on its user community “combined telemetry data from over four million repositories with direct survey from over 12,000 developers to identify current trends among software development companies and open-source projects,” reports …
The Last Days of Amiga – and the Lost Amiga CD64
This week Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) looked back nearly 30 years to the glory days of the world’s first true 32-bit CD based home console — Commodore’s Amiga32. In the final three months of 1993, the company had sold 100,000 in just thr…
Could Fusion Energy Provide a Safer Alternative to Nuclear Power?
“One way to help eliminate carbon emissions and thereby fight global warming may be to exploit fusion, the energy source of the sun and stars…” argues a new article in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (shared by Slashdot reader DanDrollette).
Thou…
Harvard Astronomers Challenge Theory That ‘Oumuamua Was a Nitrogen Iceberg
“Although Oumuamua probably isn’t some probe looking for humpbacked whales,” writes Slashdot reader alaskana98, “it does continue to deliver plenty of intrigue — and controversy — for those astronomy buffs out there.
“In the latest move i…
UPDATE: Broad 329,000-Page Document Request Led to FDA’s 2076 ‘Scheduling Dispute’
UPDATE: While one group of physicians has complained that the FDA is slow-walking the release of vaccine-approval documents, Snopes.com points out you can also see this story from a different perspective:
A scheduling dispute related to a Freedom of In…
Amazingly, New Commercial Amiga Games are Under Development
Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: Pixelglass Games and BitBeamCannon are working on new commercial Amiga games. Metro Siege is a 2-player beat ’em up for the Amiga 500 with 1 MB of Ram. You can watch a teaser trailer here. Alarcity is a shoo…
Should Police Be Allowed to Demand Your Cellphone’s Passcode?
Slashdot reader FlatEric521 tipped us off to an interesting story (from the News Service of Florida):
When police responded in 2018 to a call about a shattered window at a home in Orange County, they found a black Samsung smartphone near the broken wi…
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shared this report from the New York Times about a “particularly unusual” star about 150 light-years away that’s orbited by three planets:
What’s unusual is the inclinations of the outer two planets, HD 3167 c an…
Microsoft 365 Will Get ‘Natively-Integrated AI Experiences’
“Microsoft’s new Loop collaboration app and components isn’t the only new thing coming to Office,” reports ZDNet:
Microsoft is introducing what it calls a “set of natively integrated AI experiences” across Microsoft 365 that will go beyond the current…