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New Scientist - Online News
* Smart windows keep heat out - but let light in
* The matter of your brain
* Biobank promises to pinpoint the cause of disease
* Friday Illusion: Ghostly spiral appears from nowhere
* Feedback: Feedback can be dangerous
* How large is warming effect of North Sea gas leak?
* How to turn old plastic bags into racing cars
* Lightning directed by laser beams
* Get tantric at meal times to enjoy what you eat
* A tale of two classics: biology vs economics
* Earth has little to fear from a black hole attack
* Apollo 11 rocket engines may be dredged from the sea
* Pesticides cause bees to lose their bearings
* Human brain organised like a 3D 'New York City' grid
* Life-extending drug without the negative side effects
* Age of oldest rocks off by millions of years
* Today on New Scientist: 29 March 2012
* Full face transplant promises less risk of rejection
* Glowing fountains on icy Saturn moon
* Superhot gas spirals from massive tornado on the sun
* Blind man 'drives' Google's autonomous car
* US scepticism – it's been a long time coming
* New space radars track small but deadly space junk
* Modified bacteria could get electricity from sewage
* Clocking galaxy clusters to gauge dark energy

March 30, 2012, 11:17 EST

Root
* Ghana coordinates nuclear planning activities
* New French ministers assembled
* Rolls-Royce technology for AECL
* Low-dose study finds no effects
* Westinghouse in Chinese crane joint venture
* Tails deal gives Paducah another year
* Critical time for UK government and industry
* Areva, Mitsubishi explore Australia together
* Cameco to buy Nukem Energy
* Milestones at new Russian reactors
* Tepco faces $10 billion loss
* Ningde 4 gets its dome
* Spanish government starts turnaround
* Sandvik celebrates new mill
* Tepco gets government bail-out
* Eastern European projects gather momentum
* Water waste set to become uranium resource in USA
* Investigations continue into tube wear at SONGS
* Hollande wins French presidential election
* Celebrations at South Korean groundbreaking
* Greenland U project cost competitive
* Rosatom puts a ring on it
* Last Japanese reactor in outage
* Horizon scanning
* Kalinin 4 in late commissioning
* Canadian new build getting nearer
* Levy nuclear project moved back by three years
* Activists move on presidential debate
* Texas waste facility gets to work
* Uprates cost-effective despite price increase
* Security software tie-up for national lab
* Jordan shortlist down to two
* Stress tests on the home straight
* TVA presses ahead with Watts Bar 2 completion
* Construction starts on new Chernobyl cover
* Wylfa 2 bows out
* Most Chernobyl towns fit for habitation
* Further interest in Summer stake
* Germany plans $79 billion in energy investments
* Inspection sheds light on Fukushima torus

May 17, 2012, 17:43 EST

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
* Make TV Awesome with Bluecop
* Hack and / - Password Cracking with GPUs, Part I: the Setup
* An Introduction to Application Development with Catalyst and Perl
* Cryptocurrency: Your Total Cost Is 01001010010
* HTML5 for Audio Applications
* May 2012 Issue of Linux Journal: Programming
* Three Ways to Web Server Concurrency
* Tales From the Server Room: Zoning Out
* Mercurial - Revision Control Approximated
* New Products
* Science the GNU Way, Part I
* Complexity, Uptime and the End of the World
* Blue Drop Awards Celebrate Achievements in Open Source Web Development
* MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3 - Comparing Command-Line Interfaces
* Non-Linux FOSS: TrueCrypt

May 17, 2012, 17:32 EST

Nobel Intent
* Microsoft goes green: data centers, offices to be carbon neutral come July
* Belching dinosaurs may have helped keep their world a hot one
* Anti-climate science group "experiments" with billboard trolling
* LA smog: more cows than cars?
* EPA, Department of the Interior announce additional fracking oversight
* Weird Science increases its fondness for atheists
* Week in science: feel the heat
* Researchers spot planet-eating white dwarfs
* UK to science publishers: don't follow recording industry down the tubes
* New electrode material could lead to powerful rechargeable sodium batteries
* Mars Opportunity rover reaches Endeavour crater, finds signs of ancient Martian water
* House pares NASA's 2013 spending back to 1959 levels, may force Europa mission
* Feature: 1859's "Great Auroral Storm"—the week the Sun touched the earth
* Dept. of Energy extracts hydrocarbons from sea, sequesters CO2 in Davy Jones' locker
* USDA's Wildlife Services program reportedly kills 50,000 harmless animals
* A burp of light from a black hole reveals that it ate a star
* Research finally published showing how bird flu virus can spread among mammals
* Massive offshore wind turbines to float in waters over a thousand feet deep
* Carbon storage capacity: there's plenty, but fracking may be wrecking some
* Expanding an optical lattice to accelerate particles
* Turning up the heat: windfarms lead to local nighttime warming
* Facial recognition to be used in art history research
* SpaceX to webcast static rocket firing today in preparation for Dragon spacecraft launch
* Saturn may have snagged Pluto's cousin, turned it into a moon
* Researchers build an RGB laser using quantum dots

May 08, 2012, 23:38 EST

Apple Hot News
* Amtrak Enlists iPhone as a Service Tool
* Apple Reports Record March Quarter Sales of iPhone, iPad, and Mac
* Final Cut Pro X In Action
* New FileMaker 12 Software Line Released Today
* Lowe’s Uses iPhone to Put Power In Hands of Employees and Customers
* Climbing Everest with iPad and iPhone
* New iPad Tops Three Million
* The New iPad is Here
* New iPad: A Million More Pixels Than HDTV
* New Apple iPad is a Delight
* Apple Launches New iPad
* Apple Completes iLife for iOS
* Apple Brings 1080p HD to New Apple TV
* Apple’s App Store Downloads Top 25 Billion
* Apple World’s Most Admired Company
* OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview
* Mooresville’s Shining Example (It’s Not Just About the Laptops)
* Fair Labor Association Begins Inspections of Foxconn
* Apple Scores with Digital Textbooks and App
* Apple Invades Corporate Market with iPad

May 07, 2012, 17:15 EST

FOXNews.com Live Bookmark
* Wife of Killed US Captain 'Shocked' Jihadist Cleared
* Unfriend US? Lawmakers Say Pay the Piper First
* Trayvon Martin Bullet Shot At 'Intermediate Range'
* Changing America: Minority Births Now Outpace Whites
* Mom battles flesh-eating bacteria after giving birth
* Museum's sex exhibit for teens sparks outrage
* New Mexico 'city in chaos' is rocked by scandals
* Lawmaker: war on religious belief in the military exists- White House opposes religious liberty amendment for military chaplains
* 5 shot, 3 dead in Kentucky neighborhood
* Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife died of hanging
* Supposed Obama-Wright ads plan knocked down- POWER PLAY: Grossed-out voters help Obama
* Law could put poultry workers at increased risk
* Illinois attorney general dives for disabled swimmer
* High school cheerleaders suspended for hazing
* Newlywed accused of killing pregnant wife- Manhunt for groom suspected of killing new bride
* Massive chocolate sculpture breaks world record
* Victim's mom catches alleged molester on cellphone- Woman faces charges for walking into store naked
* Defense: Edwards sinned but broke no laws
* 'Swamp People' Death Explained
* Shocking Same Age Stars!
* Donna Summer Dies at 63
* Coolest Camper Ever
* Gator Attack Caught on Tape
* What Groceries You Should Buy
* Creepy: Fruit Grown with Logo
* Did Danny Grope Kenickie?
* Smartphone Ruining Looks?
* Mind-Boggling Tech Toys
* iPad, Apps Unlocking Autistic

May 17, 2012, 18:08 EST

The Resilient Earth
* Fossil Raindrops and the Faint Young Sun
* Crank of the Week – April 30, 2012 – Leon Panetta
* Prominent Green Denounces Carbon Offsets
* Stop Them, Before They Model Again
* Crank of the Week - April 9, 2012 – Matt Damon
* So Insensitive
* NASA Satellite Debunks Melting Glacier Myth
* The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness - An Interview with Judith Curry
* Climate Impact Modeling Twice Removed From Reality
* Arctic Ocean To Close, Polar Bears Doomed

May 17, 2012, 17:20 EST

May 17, 2012, 17:43 EST

Linuxtoday.com
* Facebook Open Compute Products May Lure CIOs
* GNOME Tweak Tool 3.4.0 Has Been Released
* Open Source Startup Inktank Sets Gaze on Ubuntu Server
* BitTorrent not always piracy, says Wil Wheaton
* How to Sync Files to Amazon S3 on Linux
* Oracle v. Google - Patent Infringement Instructions, Damage Phase Witnesses, and the Continuing Saga of Infringer's Profits
* VLC player rocks- Jean Kempf talks about it!
* Mandriva Community Planning Next Release
* 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Encrypt Your Linux Partitions

May 17, 2012, 17:43 EST

xkcd.com
* Felidae
* Kickstarter
* The bacon
* Ten Thousand

May 17, 2012, 08:17 EST

Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
* Poultry scientists working on a "chicken translator"
* Paralyzed woman uses thought-controlled robotic arm to drink coffee
* Ford C-MAX hybrid undercuts the Toyota Prius
* Lawless Rocket electric drag bike does quarter mile in 6.94 seconds, breaks 200 mph speed barrier
* Sony retires α35, launches new alpha fixed mirror camera: the α37
* Finnish micro house is small enough to build without a permit
* Playsurface: The affordable flat-pack touchscreen for the masses
* Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon previewed
* The US$19,000 Quadrofoil - ecologically-sound 40 km/h electric hydrofoil sportscar for the water
* NASA’s NEOWISE survey provides best estimate yet of potentially hazardous asteroids
* "Dolphin speaker" could pave the way for human-cetacean communication
* Scanbox turns your smartphone into a scanner
* Porsche's 918 Spyder hybrid on track for 2013 release, now with 770 bhp and 94 mpg
* Dip Chip biosensor uses microbes to instantly detect almost any toxic substance
* Scientists create an air-conditioned bulletproof vest
* U.S. Army tests renewable energy systems for soldiers in the field
* Tesla Gun jumps out of graphic novel and into reality
* Rumors suggest iPhone 5 will feature a 4-inch screen
* W1PPS combines all your peripheral cords and plugs in one device
* Mamiya launches Leaf Credo 40, 60 and 80 megapixel medium format camera backs
* For sale: one-off amphibious supercar, barely used
* FDA approves 20 minute take-home HIV test
* Dwarf plants could reduce demands for water, fertilizer, nutrients and pesticides
* Smartsense navigation system works where GPS won't - indoors
* Fully autonomous ASV Roboat to make world record attempt

May 17, 2012, 17:35 EST

The Register
* Hybrid computing just like FLESH-EATING bacteria
* Symantec releases software as Amazon Machine Image
* Whitman said to be planning massive HP job cuts
* Dell forges GPU-enriched virty rack workstation
* Seagate, WD need to get a firm grip on solid disks
* You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes, startup brags
* Mutant number-crunchers win cluster popularity contest
* Seeing ads on Wikipedia? Then you're infected
* Acronis creates new roles for biz and M&A hotshots
* SGI skips future Xeon E7s, lobs E5-4600s into UV2 supers
* Finally a real use for NFC: Heart monitor in a credit card
* BBC shrinks Red Button: Loses 8 channels after the Olympics
* Nvidia drops veil on game-changing might of VGX
* Pre-Pet Commodore micro up for grabs on eBay
* Google Knowledge Graph straddles semantic web and Star Trek
* Google, French watchdog to hook up over privacy
* Adobe sucks on Oracle brain drain for HTML5 game gain
* Council fined £70k after burglars nick vulnerable kids' files
* Pinterest valued at $1.5 BILLION, bags $100m in funding
* Watchdog tells Greenpeace to stop 'encouraging anti-social behaviour'
* Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen
* UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack
* Microsoft books stall at Appule - the Mac expo stiffed by Apple
* HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants
* SoundBrush
* UK.gov IT slasher axes himself - after 5 months in new job
* Off-the-shelf forensics tool slurps iPhone data via iCloud
* Compare The Market can't touch web filth extension - simples
* Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones
* Soyuz hooks up with Space Station, delivers new 'nauts
* LOHAN starts to feel the barometric pressure
* Mobile net filters block legit content too – campaign group
* Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays
* Google offers up new mobile usage interface to attract ad loot
* Dell to cut UK workforce
* Child support IT fail: Deadbeat mums 'n' dads off the hook
* Hong Kong CERT wants bigger team to tackle cyber threats
* Sony NEX-7 24.3Mp APS-C compact system camera
* GPS rival Beidou will cover Asia Pac by end of the year
* Asia leads global BYOD race
* AWS CISO needs permission to visit his data centres
* Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable
* Roman roads get the web maps treatment
* Gates' Corbis busted again for fraud
* Australia's first space park launched
* Pirate Bay struggling to get on feet after DDoS to the knee
* UK.gov's G-Cloud 2.0 pushes back launch date
* Nvidia shows off superjuiced Kepler GPU
* Mobile fee dodgers will get away with enough cash to bail out Greece
* Samsung and SK Hynix shares slide on Apple snub

May 17, 2012, 16:21 EST

freshmeat.net announcements (Global)
* Relational 0.9 (Default branch)
* Relational 0.8 (Default branch)
* TaDaPro 0.8.4 (Default branch)
* massXpert mass spectrometry package 1.9.5 (Default branch)
* Presented By:
* gdigi 0.1.5 (Default branch)
* BIRD 1.0.13 (Default branch)
* vpntool 0.6 (Default branch)
* Liferea 1.5.14 (Unstable branch)
* wumwum 0.4 (Default branch)
* sptrace 1.4.2 (Default branch)
* libburnia 0.6.4 (libburn/cdrskin branch)
* DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.6-beta3 (Default branch)
* PHP-BottleRocket/SOSDG 0.3 (Default branch)
* DynaStop 08333.1634-106 (Default branch)
* CPAN shell 1.9304 (Default branch)
* GWTruts 0.7-Final (Stable branch)
* Presented By:
* Perl Archive Toolkit 0.991 (Default branch)
* AKVIS Decorator 1.6 (Default branch)
* moz-hocr-edit 0.1 (Default branch)
* Liferea 1.4.27 (Default branch)
* Mudlet Beta 3-1 (Default branch)
* Froggix 0.1 (Default branch)
* Lifebox 1.0.3alpha (Default branch)
* Zombie Nation MUD 0.0.1 (Default branch)
* Payment Gateway Library 1.0 (Default branch)
* cppcheck 1.30 (Default branch)
* OpenGuides 0.64 (Default branch)
* gentoo 0.15.2 (Default branch)
* Presented By:
* XML-Grammar-Fortune 0.0108 (Default branch)
* Geneious 4.5.5 (Default branch)
* Parabuild 4.0.0 Beta (Early Access branch)

March 14, 2009, 16:55 EST

Slashdot
* Vermont Bans Fracking
* Tenenbaum To SCOTUS: Let's Get This Debate Rolling
* Comcast To Remove Data Cap, Implement Tiered Pricing
* From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader
* Paul Vixie: 100,000 DSL Modems May Lose Their DNS On July 9
* Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian'
* The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS
* Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin
* Ask Slashdot: Is Outsourcing Development a Good Idea?
* NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death
* Who Is Still Using IE6? the UK Government
* DreamHammer Wants To Corner the Drone OS Market
* Online Loneliness At Google+
* RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD
* Federal Court Rejects NDAA's Indefinite Detention, Issues Injunction

Search Slashdot

May 17, 2012, 17:41 EST

May 17, 2012, 17:43 EST

Science News

* Dancing droplets reveal physics at work
* FOR KIDS: Helmet helper
* Coffee gives jolt to life span
* Stellar superflares' trigger challenged
* Don’t listen to advice, and other advice from Nobel laureates
* Paralyzed woman grips, sips coffee with robot arm
* At ISEF, fusion is hot
* Natural sinks still sopping up carbon
* Even moderate noise may harm hearing
* Schizophrenia’s core genetic features proposed
* Gene study links stronger memories, PTSD
* Climate change may leave many mammals homeless
* Retinal implants could restore partial vision
* Genes may influence body's bacteria
* FOR KIDS: Dark matter search turns up empty

May 17, 2012, 11:27 EST

BBC News - Home
* Cameron defends his euro warning
* Moody's downgrades Spanish banks
* Disco singer Donna Summer dies
* French government takes pay cut
* Facebook shares valued at $100bn
* Olympic flame handed over to UK
* Jobs boost as UK gets Astra deal
* Court quashes murder conviction
* Syria opposition head 'to resign'
* Man charged with making explosive
* Arrests in beaten pensioner case
* Private police roles put on hold
* Adele wins songwriter of the year
* Author Lovering wins romance gong
* Martinez on Liverpool shortlist
* Stoner announces shock retirement
* Murray beaten by Gasquet in Rome
* Broad's six give England control
* Owen wants to extend his career
* Markets drop on eurozone worries
* More households in fuel poverty
* Lobbying 'to be reformed by 2015'
* MP defies 58,000/1 odds in ballot
* Statins 'benefit healthy people'
* Oldest living kidney donor at 83
* Warning over A-level reform plans
* Gove loses court ruling over cuts
* Met Police to extract phone data
* Government to miss cookie cut-off
* 'Superflares' from stars counted
* UK retains strict animal test law
* Wiggles founder members bow out
* Broadway run for Priscilla ends
* The baby time-lapse trend
* Viewpoint: Is it time to get rid of traffic lights?
* Man admits dead woman's bag theft
* 'Wrong Paul' denies wrongdoing
* Man admits rape and sex assault
* Man who changed legal system free
* Hain case end 'free speech win'
* Doctor revelation in McKeown case
* Case against Hain not proceeding
* Vauxhall boost for Welsh workers
* SA 'fails pupils on textbooks'
* African troops in Guinea-Bissau
* US relaxes some Burma sanctions
* Passport boost for activist Chen
* Greece names caretaker cabinet
* Mladic trial hit by legal hitch
* Inmates take over Honduras jail
* Rio hotels agree summit price cut
* US strike plan on Iran 'ready'
* Turkey jets 'pursue Israel plane'
* Zimmerman found with bloody nose
* White births now minority in US
* In pictures: Olympic flame tours Greece
* Your pictures: Sailing
* Day in pictures: 17 May 2012
* Gold buttons for Queen's banner
* In Pictures: Carlos Fuentes' wake
* In pictures: Royal visit to Lancashire
* Day in pictures: 16 May 2012
* Day in pictures: 15 May 2012
* VIDEO: House of Commons
* VIDEO: US man's close brush with alligator
* VIDEO: When live TV goes wrong - it's Odd Box
* VIDEO: Stolen scrap metal haul recovered
* VIDEO: China activist's family claim torture
* VIDEO: UK's oldest living kidney donor
* VIDEO: A look at 'wind turbines' of the deep
* VIDEO: Innocent man on seven years in jail
* VIDEO: Princess on pressure of Olympics
* Swimming: Why I took the plunge
* What does 're-moding' actually mean?
* Armitstead & Cooke battle for superiority
* How to grow a four-metre moustache
* Q&A: The debate over statins
* Royal events: Britain and the box
* Papers discuss eurozone warnings

May 17, 2012, 17:35 EST

List of recently published journal articles
* PrePrint: CAP and Cloud Data Management
* PrePrint: Cloud Data Protection for the Masses
* PrePrint: Why the FBI Can't Build a Case Management System
* PrePrint: Perspectives on the CAP Theorem
* PrePrint: Overcoming CAP with Consistent Soft-State Replication
* PrePrint: Cultural Analytics in Large-Scale Visualization Environments
* PrePrint: Parallel Logic Simulation --- A Myth or Reality?
* Computer - December 2011 (Vol. 44, No. 12)
* PrePrint: Software Development for Infrastructure
* PrePrint: Imagining the Future: Thoughts on Computing
* PrePrint: Optimized Interactive Processes
* PrePrint: Society's Nervous System: Building Effective Government, Energy, and Public Health Systems
* PrePrint: Musings About Information Security
* PrePrint: Methods for Defending against Cross Site Scripting Attacks
* PrePrint: Link Graph Analysis for Business Site Selection
* PrePrint: The Devils Behind Web Application Vulnerabilities
* PrePrint: MRI-based 4D Computational Modeling of Respiratory Motion for Lung Tumor Radiotherapy
* PrePrint: Enhancing Trustworthiness within Service Federations by Continuous On-line Testing

January 04, 2012, 05:00 EST

The Guardian World News
* Barack Obama tells EU: boost growth now or face a global crisis
* Donna Summer dies of cancer at 63
* Austerity will send Greece to hell, warns Alexis Tsipras
* Ratko Mladic war crimes trial plunged into confusion
* Sam Hallam criticises Metropolitan police after murder conviction quashed
* French ministers sign up to austerity wages and sober code of conduct
* Iran's persecution of gay community revealed
* Facebook share price set at $38
* Harold Evans tells Leveson of conflict and 'vindictive' atmosphere at Times
* Syria opposition rift widens with resignation of Burhan Ghalioun
* Examiners axed after marking mistakes
* Barack Obama appoints Derek Mitchell as first US ambassador to Burma
* 'Team UK' effort saves Ellesmere Port car plant
* Peter Hain contempt charge dropped
* Lloyds bankers relax at luxury spa

May 17, 2012, 17:43 EST

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