Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease; Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence 'Demon'

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Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease   Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment  Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence 'Demon' Black Swan Author: Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin  What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US?  The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows  Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron  Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer  'Police Detector' Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions  Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security  OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers  Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App  Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients  20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies  First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China    Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. 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Learn More!    Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease   From the riding-dinosaurs department sciencehabit writes "A creationist conference set for a major research campus — Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing — is creating unease among some of the school's students and faculty, which includes several prominent...   Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment  From the CS-needs-women department theodp writes After an NPR podcast fingered the marketing of computers to boys as the culprit behind the declining percentages of women in undergraduate CS curricula since 1984 (a theory seconded by Smithsonian mag), some are concluding that NPR...   Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence 'Demon'  From the protect-ya-neck department An anonymous reader writes Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, said that artificial intelligence is probably the biggest threat to humans. "I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to...   Black Swan Author: Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin  From the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-world? department KentuckyFC writes It's 20 years since the FDA approved the Flavr Savr tomato for human consumption, the first genetically engineered food to gain this status. Today, roughly 85 per cent of corn and 90 per cent of soybeans produced in the US are...   What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US?  From the johnny-cab department ashshy writes Tesla, Google, and many other companies are working on self-driving cars. When these autopilot systems become perfected and ubiquitous, the roads should be safer by orders of magnitude. So why doesn't Tesla CEO Elon Musk expect to...   The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows  From the terrorists-might-use-sunlight-for-something department merbs writes: Hope you're not too attached to looking out the windows when you fly — the designers of tomorrow's airplanes seem intent on getting rid of them. A Paris design firm recently made waves when it released its concept for a sleek,...   Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron  From the write-it-off department McGruber (1417641) writes "According to a report published by The Financial Times (paywalled), ex-Microsoft CEO Billionaire Steve Ballmer will be able to write off about a billion dollars of his basketball team's purchase price from the taxable...   Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer  From the watching-you department RoccamOccam writes A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a "government-related entity" that planted classified documents on her computer. In...   'Police Detector' Monitors Emergency Radio Transmissions  From the warning-warning-warning department schwit1 writes A Dutch company has introduced a detection system that can alert you if a police officer or other emergency services official is using a two-way radio nearby. Blu Eye monitors frequencies used by the encrypted TETRA encrypted...   Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security  From the experts-agree department RockDoctor writes: The BBC reports that Britain's car thieves, rapidly followed by Britain's car insurance companies, have been expressing their opinions on the security of keyless car entry and/or control systems. The thieves are happy to steal...   OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers  From the bigger-cloud department First time accepted submitter FlyHelicopters writes "Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and others have been competing to become your favorite place to store stuff in the cloud. Just this past June, Microsoft upgraded Office 365 users from 25GB to 1TB,...   Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App  From the you-can-keep-it department Nerval's Lobster writes Everybody knows that Apple runs a tight ship when it comes to approving iOS apps for its App Store, rejecting software because it features porn, allows gambling, installs types of executable code, etc. But Apple also denies...   Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients  From the sitting-ebola-class department First time accepted submitter halfquibble52 writes As more U.S. troops head to West Africa, the Pentagon is developing portable isolation units that can carry up to 12 Ebola patients for transport on military planes. The Pentagon says it does not...   20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies  From the internet-of-the-people department Jason Koebler writes At least 20 additional American cities have expressed a formal interest in joining a coalition that's dedicated to bringing gigabit internet speeds to their residents by any means necessary—even if it means building the...   First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China  From the there-and-back department mbone writes with news about the first privately-funded spacecraft to travel the Moon. Cold War competition between superpowers dominated the first decades of space travel and exploration. Individual governments took the lead, bankrolling most of...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet; US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors

Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required   |  Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion     What Is Most Important to Your Users and Customers? Every business wants to have an in-depth understanding of what their customers want, and what makes them pull the trigger for a new purchase. Take our quick four-question poll to let us know what is most important to developing a holistic view of your customers - whether internal users or beyond the firewall. Learn More! 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Watch interviews with industry leaders, convention overviews, Maker Faire finds, and discussions on things like Linux, hacking, coding, gadgets, computers, gaming, and much more!  Learn More!    Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet  From the your-money-is-no-good-here department An anonymous reader writes CVS and Rite Aid have reportedly shut off the NFC-based contactless payment option at point of sale terminals in thousands of stores. The move will make it impossible to pay for products using Apple Pay or Google Wallet....   Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required  From the you-can-trust-us department schwit1 writes: The IRS admits to seizing hundreds of thousands of dollars of private assets, without any proof of illegal activity, merely because there is a law that lets them do it. From the article: "Using a law designed to catch drug...   US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors  From the couch-patrol department HughPickens.com writes Clifford Davis reports that only 30% of young people between the ages of 17 and 24 are qualified to become soldiers. This is primarily due to three issues: obesity or health problems; lack of a high school education; and...   Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion  From the still-no-match-for-a-good-blaster department An anonymous reader writes: 390,127 Brits declared their religion as Jediism in their last census — many as a joke, but some are quite serious, the BBC reports. Cambridge University Divinity Faculty researcher Beth Singler estimates at...   When Snowden Speaks, Future Lawyers (and Judges) Listen  From the everybody-else-is-watching-duck-dynasty department TheRealHocusLocus writes: We are witness to a historic first: an individual charged with espionage and actively sought by the United States government has been (virtually) invited to speak at Harvard Law School, with applause. [Note: all of the...   Tetris Is Hard To Test  From the deceptive-tetrominomic-compexity department New submitter JackDW writes: Tetris is one of the best-known computer games ever made. It's easy to play but hard to master, and it's based on a NP-hard problem. But that's not all that's difficult about it. Though it's simple enough to be...   Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere  From the it's-getting-hot-in-here department Chipmunk100 writes Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere. Researchers have found that circulation of the ocean plays an equally important role in...   Apple A8X IPad Air 2 Processor Packs Triple-Core CPU, Hefty Graphics Punch  From the give-me-the-numbers department MojoKid writes When Apple debuted its A8 SoC, it proved to be a modest tweak of the original A7. Despite packing double the transistors and an improved GPU, the heart of the A8 SoC is the same dual-core Apple "Cyclone" processor tweaked to run at...   Dwarf Galaxies Dim Hopes of Dark Matter  From the nothing-to-measure-here department An anonymous reader writes Once again, a shadow of a signal that scientists hoped would amplify into conclusive evidence of dark matter has instead flatlined, repeating a maddening refrain in the search for the invisible, omnipresent particles....   Study: New Jersey e-Vote Experiment After Sandy a Disaster  From the vote-and-vote-often department TMB writes Al Jazeera reports on a Rutgers study about e-voting in New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, and it is damning. It concludes that the middle of a natural disaster is the last time to try switching to a new voting method, especially one...   The Man With the Golden Blood  From the rarest-of-the-rare department First time accepted submitter Torontoman points out this story of a man with one of the rarest blood types in the world. Forty years ago, when ten-year-old Thomas went into the University Hospital of Geneva with a routine childhood infection, his...   Identity As the Great Enabler  From the imagine-if-you-will department New submitter steve_torquay writes: Last week, President Obama signed a new Executive Order calling for "all agencies making personal data accessible to citizens through digital applications" to "require the use of multiple factors of...   SpaceX Capsule Returns To Earth With Lab Results  From the home-sweet-home department An anonymous reader writes SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean carrying NASA cargo and scientific samples from the International Space Station. A boat is ferrying the spacecraft to a port near Los Angeles,...   Century Old Antarctic Expedition Notebook Found Underneath Ice  From the thawed-writing department An anonymous reader writes During his second expedition to Antarctica, British explorer Robert Scott—and most of his team—died from overexposure to the elements. Over 100 years after their deaths, an artifact from his journey has...   Rosetta Probe Reveals What a Comet Smells Like  From the do-you-smell-that? department An anonymous reader writes If you like the smell of rotten eggs, horse urine, formaldehyde, bitter almonds, alcohol, vinegar with a hint of sweet ether, you'd love the smell of a comet. Researchers at the University of Bern, in Switzerland,...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax'; CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones

High Speed Evolution   |  Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business"     What Is Most Important to Your Users and Customers? Every business wants to have an in-depth understanding of what their customers want, and what makes them pull the trigger for a new purchase. Take our quick four-question poll to let us know what is most important to developing a holistic view of your customers - whether internal users or beyond the firewall. Learn More! 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Watch interviews with industry leaders, convention overviews, Maker Faire finds, and discussions on things like Linux, hacking, coding, gadgets, computers, gaming, and much more!  Learn More!    Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax'  From the making-hardware-a-bit-cheaper department An anonymous reader writes: In a post at the Free Software Foundation, lawyer Marco Ciurcina reports that the Italian Supreme Court has ruled the practice of forcing users to pay for a Windows license when they buy a new PC is illegal....   High Speed Evolution  From the turned-up-to-11 department Taco Cowboy writes: Normally, the term "evolution" implicitly refers to super-long time frames. However, in the case of lizards on Florida islands, evolution seems to have shifted into a higher gear. Researchers have documented noticeable changes...   CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones  From the your-tax-dollars-at-work department sabri writes: Following the initial suspension of a California Highway Patrol officer earlier this week, news has come out that the CHP has an entire ring of officers who steal and subsequently share nude pictures. The nudes are stolen from women...   Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business"  From the but-they-sure-have-a-good-catalog department theodp writes According to Steve Ballmer, Amazon.com is not a real business. "They make no money," Ballmer said on the Charlie Rose Show. "In my world, you're not a real business until you make some money. I have a hard time with businesses that...   Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof?  From the lots-of-duct-tape department jimwormold writes: I need to build a system for outdoor use, capable of withstanding a high pressure water jet! "Embedded PC," I hear you cry. Well, ideally yes. However, the system does a fair bit of number crunching on a GPU (GTX970) and there...   EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030  From the go-big-or-go-home department An anonymous reader writes: The 28 nations in the European Union agreed Friday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% (going by 1990 levels) by the year 2030. The deal received widespread criticism; industry bosses said the 2030 targets were too...   OwnCloud Dev Requests Removal From Ubuntu Repos Over Security Holes  From the if-you-could-turn-back-time department operator_error notes a report that ownCloud developer Lukas Reschke has emailed the Ubuntu Devel mailing list to request that ownCloud (server) be removed from the Ubuntu repositories because it contains "multiple critical security bugs for which...   The Problem With Positive Thinking  From the take-that-optimists department An anonymous reader writes: The NY Times explains research into how our mindset can influence results. The common refrain when striving for a goal is to stay positive and imagine success — people say this will help you accomplish what you...   Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion  From the but-that's-just-on-the-surface department SmartAboutThings writes Microsoft has recently published its Q1 fiscal 2015 earnings report, disclosing that it has made $4.5 billion in net income on $23.20 billion in revenue. According to the report, revenue has increased by $4.67 billion,...   Building All the Major Open-Source Web Browsers  From the who-needs-packages department An anonymous reader writes: Cristophe de Dinechin, long-time software developer, has an interesting article on the processes involved in building the major browsers. From the article: "Mozilla Firefox, Chromium (the open-source variant of Chrome)...   Google Search Finally Adds Information About Video Games  From the where's-my-danged-atari-2600?! department An anonymous reader writes Google has expanded its search engine with the capability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph panel on the right-hand side of Google's search results page will offer more...   Peter Kuran:Visual Effects Artist and Atomic Bomb Archivist  From the everyone-should-have-a-hobby department Lasrick links to this interview with Peter Kuran, an animator of the original Star Wars and legendary visual effects artist, writing If you saw the recent remake of Godzilla, you saw stock footage from Atom Central, known on YouTube as 'the atomic...   Scientists Engineer Cancer-Killing Stem Cells  From the stem-cell-rambo department SternisheFan writes with news that medical researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully cultivated stem cells that will kill brain cancer cells in mice without damaging healthy cells. "They used...   FCC Postpones Spectrum Auction Until 2016  From the no-extra-spectrum-for-you department An anonymous reader writes: 2014 was supposed to be the year broadcasters would be allowed to sell off their unused spectrum to mobile carriers. That got pushed back to 2015 in December, and now the Federal Communications Commission has bumped it...   New Oculus SDK Adds Experimental Linux Support and Unity Free For Rift Headset  From the immersive-tux department An anonymous reader writes: Oculus, creator of the Rift VR headset, has released a new version of their SDK which brings with it long sought-after support for Linux, which the company says is "experimental." Linux support was previously...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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