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Date / TimeStory
Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:43AM Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute
Friday May 17, 2013 @06:41PM Firefox 21 Arrives
Monday May 13, 2013 @10:05AM Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US
Tuesday May 07, 2013 @08:42AM 450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up
Monday May 06, 2013 @09:16PM English May Have Retained Words From an Ice Age Language
Sunday May 05, 2013 @09:20AM Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million
Sunday May 05, 2013 @07:48AM Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate
Friday May 03, 2013 @06:17PM Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea?
Thursday May 02, 2013 @10:30PM LLNL/RPI Supercomputer Smashes Simulation Speed Record
Tuesday April 30, 2013 @08:36AM EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:44PM From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car'
Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:57AM Harvard/MIT Student Creates GPU Database, Hacker-Style
Saturday April 20, 2013 @10:21PM Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday
Friday April 19, 2013 @10:45PM Statistical Errors Keep 4700 K-3rd Students From NYC 'Gifted' Programs
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @01:00PM Excel Error Contributes To Problems With Austerity Study
Friday April 12, 2013 @06:19PM Browser Choice May Affect Your Job Prospects
Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:46PM Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware
Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:23AM Windows 8 Killing PC Sales
Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:15AM Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2%
Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:48AM Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence, Suggests Study
Friday April 05, 2013 @07:11PM Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013
Friday March 29, 2013 @11:22AM Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK
Monday March 25, 2013 @01:20PM World's Most Powerful Private Supercomputer Will Hunt Oil and Gas
Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:07AM Pew Research Finds Opinion Dominates MSNBC More Than Fox News
Monday March 18, 2013 @03:42PM Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps
Monday March 18, 2013 @03:26PM How To Bet Money On Your Future Success
Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:00AM Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican
Thursday March 07, 2013 @11:39AM The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban
Saturday March 02, 2013 @08:49AM With 'Obamacare' Kicking In, Microsoft Sees a Health-Data Windfall
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:46AM Nvidia Tegra 4 Benchmark Results
Tuesday February 26, 2013 @09:29AM We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects
Friday February 22, 2013 @07:12PM CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification
Thursday February 21, 2013 @09:25AM You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer
Wednesday February 20, 2013 @01:42PM Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States
Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:28AM Interactive Tool Visualizes Tolkien's Works
Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:14AM When Google Got Flu Wrong
Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:10AM Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior
Thursday February 07, 2013 @10:01AM Rich Countries Suffer Less Malware, Says Microsoft Study
Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:05AM Racism In Online Ad Targeting
Sunday January 27, 2013 @10:34AM Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared
Saturday January 26, 2013 @08:53PM Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote
Thursday January 17, 2013 @09:53AM Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:39AM Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month
Tuesday January 15, 2013 @09:16AM How the Internet Makes the Improbable Into the New Normal
Friday January 11, 2013 @08:09PM US Near Bottom In Life Expectancy In Developed World
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @10:13AM C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:33AM America's Real Criminal Element: Lead
Thursday January 03, 2013 @02:33PM Why "We The People" Should Use Random Sample Voting
Saturday December 29, 2012 @01:21PM Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth
Friday December 28, 2012 @07:34PM McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:48AM Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties
Sunday December 23, 2012 @12:19PM Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives?
Friday December 21, 2012 @08:50PM First Radeon HD 8000M GPU Benchmarked
Tuesday December 18, 2012 @12:37PM Pentaho and Jaspersoft: Good Alternatives To Bigger-Name Software?
Thursday December 06, 2012 @09:11AM Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version?
Tuesday December 04, 2012 @01:40PM Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science
Saturday December 01, 2012 @10:46PM Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%
Friday November 30, 2012 @08:04PM US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low
Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:37PM PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android
Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:25AM Seas Rising Faster Than Projected
Thursday November 22, 2012 @08:48AM UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo
Tuesday November 13, 2012 @11:39AM With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race
Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:03AM Geomapping Racism With Twitter
Friday November 09, 2012 @08:31PM Bank Puts a Billion Transaction Records Behind Analytics Site
Thursday November 08, 2012 @03:28PM All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True
Thursday November 08, 2012 @11:46AM Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone
Thursday November 08, 2012 @10:17AM Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees
Sunday November 04, 2012 @09:16AM Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars
Thursday November 01, 2012 @08:23AM Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads
Thursday October 25, 2012 @02:50PM Android Will Surpass Windows By 2016, Say Gartner Stats
Thursday October 25, 2012 @10:53AM 72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes"
Saturday October 20, 2012 @08:16PM Smartphone Mugging More Popular Than Ever
Friday October 19, 2012 @07:44PM Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map
Friday October 12, 2012 @05:10PM Has Lenovo Taken the Top PC Manufacturer Spot From HP?
Tuesday October 09, 2012 @08:03AM Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth
Monday October 08, 2012 @09:20PM Greenhouse Emissions Drop Less During Economic Downturn Than Expected
Sunday October 07, 2012 @01:11PM They Work Long Hours, But What About Results?
Saturday October 06, 2012 @12:21PM Ad Group Says Internet Accounts For 5.1M US Jobs, 3.7% of GDP
Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:40AM The History of 'Correlation Does Not Imply Causation'
Monday October 01, 2012 @07:18PM Statistical Tools For Detecting Electoral Fraud
Tuesday September 25, 2012 @09:56AM Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords
Sunday September 23, 2012 @01:32AM NTT and Partners Show 1 Petabit/Sec Transfer Over 50km of Fiber
Saturday September 22, 2012 @08:36PM iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours
Monday September 17, 2012 @07:17PM A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond
Monday September 17, 2012 @04:03PM Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer
Monday September 17, 2012 @03:21PM Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered
Monday September 17, 2012 @02:06PM Study Attempts To Predict Scientists' Career Success
Monday September 10, 2012 @06:31PM Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots
Sunday September 09, 2012 @10:15PM Google Reinvents Micropayments — As Surveywall
Friday September 07, 2012 @07:09PM Poll-Based System Predicts U.S. Election Results For President, Senate
Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:30PM Norton '12 Cybercrime Numbers Lower Than Last Year's — But Just As Bad
Monday September 03, 2012 @01:50PM Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption
Friday August 31, 2012 @08:14PM Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha
Tuesday August 28, 2012 @09:11AM Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ
Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:48AM Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign?
Sunday August 26, 2012 @03:35AM Gartner Says Application Development Is a $9 Billion Industry
Thursday August 23, 2012 @08:25AM Cats Not Linked To Brain Cancer After All
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @12:38PM The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:22AM The Panic Over Fukushima
Thursday August 16, 2012 @07:55AM Obama Finally Beats Bieber Fever According To Klout
Friday August 10, 2012 @08:05AM ISPs Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, Study Finds
Thursday August 09, 2012 @08:40AM Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick
Thursday August 09, 2012 @08:03AM Wikipedia-Sponsored Pilot Study Lauds Wikipedia Accuracy
Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:54AM July Heat Set U.S. Record
Tuesday August 07, 2012 @07:56AM What Happens To Your Used Games?
Friday July 20, 2012 @11:22PM Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths
Friday July 20, 2012 @04:58AM Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption
Thursday July 19, 2012 @08:37AM Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+
Monday July 16, 2012 @02:58PM Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved
Sunday July 08, 2012 @07:50PM Internet Explorer Market Share Drops To Almost 15%
Sunday July 08, 2012 @06:28PM Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One
Saturday July 07, 2012 @10:52AM Firefox Notably Improved In Tom's Hardware's Latest Browser Showdown
Saturday July 07, 2012 @01:03AM Social Networks, Suicide and Statistics
Tuesday June 26, 2012 @12:21PM Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration
Sunday June 24, 2012 @03:11PM Teaching Natural Sciences To Social Science Students?
Wednesday June 20, 2012 @08:03AM Women's Enrollment In Computer Science Correlates Negatively With Net Access
Tuesday June 19, 2012 @07:24PM Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors
Saturday June 16, 2012 @09:24AM The $100 Masters Degree From Udacity
Friday June 15, 2012 @09:11PM "Muthuball": How To Build an NBA Championship Team
Thursday June 14, 2012 @12:27PM Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically
Thursday June 14, 2012 @09:13AM Chords To 1300 Songs Analyzed Statistically For Patterns
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @09:40AM Search Tracking Purports To Show Effect of Racism On '08 Election
Tuesday June 12, 2012 @08:28AM Russian Programmers Dominate At Google Code Jam
Thursday June 07, 2012 @04:55PM The Art of Elections Forecasting
Thursday June 07, 2012 @09:14AM Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail?
Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:19AM SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign
Thursday May 31, 2012 @04:20PM Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Hits 7GHz Overclock Record
Monday May 28, 2012 @01:16PM New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss
Wednesday May 23, 2012 @09:45AM Chrome Browser Usage Artificially Boosted, Says Microsoft
Saturday May 19, 2012 @07:19PM Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @08:27AM Global Broadband Speeds Dropped At the End of 2011
Thursday April 19, 2012 @02:15PM Finding the Obamas In the 2000 Census
Wednesday April 18, 2012 @10:23AM Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing
Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:55PM 1366x768 Monitors Top 1024x768 For the First Time
Sunday April 08, 2012 @12:13PM 42% of Worldwide Households Expected To Have Wi-Fi By 2016
Thursday April 05, 2012 @09:02AM Microsoft Counted As Key Linux Contributor
Thursday April 05, 2012 @08:20AM Chrome Beats Internet Explorer On Any Given Sunday
Tuesday April 03, 2012 @01:44AM Confidentiality Expires For 1940 Census Records
Friday March 30, 2012 @11:07PM Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away
Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:05PM Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook
Friday March 23, 2012 @07:48AM How Big US Firms Use Open Source Software
Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:25PM Blackjack Player Breaks the Bank At Atlantic City
Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:28PM Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does?
Tuesday March 13, 2012 @08:35AM Using Graph Theory To Predict NCAA Tournament Outcomes
Friday March 02, 2012 @11:21PM A Taxonomy of Visualization Techniques
Thursday March 01, 2012 @09:22AM Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+
Monday February 27, 2012 @12:52PM Women More Likely To Unfriend Than Men
Friday February 24, 2012 @07:40PM Comparing Today's Computers To 1995's
Friday February 24, 2012 @06:46PM 'Culturomics' Spreads From Google Books To Scientific Preprints
Friday February 10, 2012 @04:03PM Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube
Thursday February 09, 2012 @02:57PM Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack
Thursday February 09, 2012 @12:24PM IBM Seeks Patent On Judging Programmers By Commits
Thursday February 09, 2012 @11:09AM Three Unexpected Data Points Describe Elementary School Quality
Friday February 03, 2012 @12:27PM What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage
Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:20AM Android Users Most Likely to Get Laid on First Dat
Thursday February 02, 2012 @09:42AM Surveillance Cameras Used To Study Customer Behavior
Saturday January 28, 2012 @05:15PM Study Finds Growing Up WIth Gadgets Has a Downside: Social Skill Impairment
Friday January 20, 2012 @08:31PM Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @10:42AM China Internet Users Hit Half a Billion
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:50PM Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:01PM 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C
Monday January 09, 2012 @12:55AM Kodak Failing, But Camera Phones Not To Blame
Saturday January 07, 2012 @10:58PM China To Begin Submitting Air Pollution Reports
Friday January 06, 2012 @09:22PM IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels
Thursday January 05, 2012 @09:26AM Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa
Sunday December 25, 2011 @09:05PM Study Finds Online Cheating Is Infectious
Sunday December 18, 2011 @01:04AM The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives
Saturday December 17, 2011 @07:51PM Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot
Friday December 16, 2011 @07:10PM Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team?
Friday December 16, 2011 @07:09PM Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights
Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:34AM The Kindle Skews Amazon's 2011 Best-Seller List
Thursday December 15, 2011 @09:13AM Publicly Available Russian Election Results Hint At Fraud
Thursday December 15, 2011 @08:50AM A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web
Tuesday December 13, 2011 @09:54AM Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence
Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:27AM Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions
Thursday December 08, 2011 @09:01AM AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier
Sunday December 04, 2011 @06:07PM AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million
Friday December 02, 2011 @07:01PM TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970
Friday December 02, 2011 @01:01PM Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser
Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:19AM NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks
Saturday November 19, 2011 @02:51PM 2-Year Study Shows Mac Users Downloading More Open Source Software
Thursday November 17, 2011 @03:22PM The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics
Wednesday November 16, 2011 @04:24PM Ask Slashdot: Statistical Analysis Packages For Libraries?
Sunday November 06, 2011 @11:26AM Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings
Friday November 04, 2011 @07:57PM Angry Birds Downloads Pass Half-Billion Mark
Tuesday November 01, 2011 @08:07AM HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US
Tuesday November 01, 2011 @08:00AM Re-evaluating the Benefits of Cancer Screening
Sunday October 30, 2011 @07:28PM Droughts Linked To Global Warming
Tuesday October 11, 2011 @09:26AM Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million
Wednesday October 05, 2011 @11:02AM How Windows Gets Infected With Malware
Sunday October 02, 2011 @02:45PM Top 1% of iOS Game Developers Make a Third of All Revenue
Friday September 30, 2011 @03:01AM Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox
Thursday September 29, 2011 @08:54AM Is the Sparc T4 Too Little Too Late?
Friday September 23, 2011 @06:28PM One Third of UK Kids Under 10 Own a Mobile Phone
Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:40AM 28-Way Radeon GPU Comparison Under Linux
Saturday September 10, 2011 @08:50AM The Linux Counter Relaunches
Tuesday September 06, 2011 @11:34AM World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October
Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:14AM Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid
Friday August 19, 2011 @08:59PM The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds
Sunday August 14, 2011 @12:19AM Bing More Effective Than Google?

I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

 



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