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Slashdot: House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers
Lucas123 writes "U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include 'personalization technology' in their weapons. Tierney said he got the idea for The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 fro...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:31pm -07:00T (197 words)
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Slashdot: So You've Always Wanted a Hovercraft... (Video)
What little boy or girl never wanted a hovercraft? Something loud that could travel over water, pavement, maybe even over a plowed field or through a swamp? Ben King obviously wanted one, so after he grew up and got his PhD in physics and found a good job...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (107 words)
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Slashdot: Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive?
jammag writes "Free sodas, candy and energy bars can be surprisingly important to developers, says longtime coder Eric Spiegel. They need the perks, not to mention the caffeine boost. More important, free sodas from management are like the canary in the c...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (100 words)
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Slashdot: Ask Neil Gaiman and Amber Benson About Their Kickstarter Vampire Movie
Writer and novelist Neil Gaiman and Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame have teamed up to star in a new vampire movie called, Blood Kiss. Kickstarted by ST:TNG and Emmy-winning writer Michael Reaves, Blood Kiss is a film noir vampire movie set i...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (123 words)
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Slashdot: Microsoft Unveils Xbox One
Today at a press conference leading up to E3, Microsoft unveiled its next-gen games/entertainment console, the Xbox One. Their stated goal for the Xbox One is to have a single device provide "all of your entertainment." One of the big changes is increased...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (334 words)
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Slashdot: Hollywood Studios Use DMCA To Censor Pirate Bay Documentary
First time accepted submitter Aaron B Lingwood writes "As reported by TorrentFreak, Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary 'TPB-AFK.' The film, created by Simon Klose, is availa...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:46am -07:00T (115 words)
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Slashdot: Immigration Reform May Spur Software Robotics
dcblogs writes "The Senate's immigration bill may force the large offshore outsourcing firms to reduce their use of H-1B visa-holding staff, forcing them to hire more local workers and raising their costs. But one large Indian firm, Infosys, will try to o...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:46am -07:00T (190 words)
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Slashdot: Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer
Just a few weeks after Cody Wilson and friends successfully fired an instance of their own 3-D printed handgun design, Sparrowvsrevolution writes, "a couple of Wisconsin hobbyist gunsmiths have already managed to adapt Defense Distributed's so-called Libe...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (131 words)
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Slashdot: Inside the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit
Trailrunner7 writes "The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been spearheading botnet takedowns and other anti-cybercrime operations for many years, and it has had remarkable success. But the cybercrime problem isn't going away anytime soon, so the DCU is i...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (108 words)
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Slashdot: Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
walterbyrd writes "In 2012, IBM started retiring the Lotus brand. Now 1-2-3, the core product that brought Lotus its fame, takes its turn on the chopping block. IBM stated, 'Effective on the dates listed below, [June 11, 2013] IBM will withdraw from marke...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (113 words)
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Slashdot: Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds
mspohr writes with news that Apple might be in a bit of hot water over its policy of offshoring revenues to favorable tax jurisdictions. Only they take it a step further, from the article: "Apple relied on a 'complex web of offshore entities' and U.S. tax...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:01am -07:00T (122 words)
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Slashdot: Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority
An anonymous reader writes "The Australian government came a step closer to formalising its plans to make Asian language study compulsory for schools this week. It has released a draft curriculum for public consultation which reveals plans to include Indo...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:01am -07:00T (134 words)
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Slashdot: German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link
judgecorp writes "German researchers from the Fraunhover and Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:16am -07:00T (59 words)
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Slashdot: The Hunt For LulzSec's Missing Sixth Member
DavidGilbert99 writes "LulzSec's star burnt brightly in the short period it was active, but things quickly turned sour when its core members began getting arrested. Last week three of the six core members were sentenced in the UK, but this only served to ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 1:01am -07:00T (123 words)
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Slashdot: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook
richlv writes "Latvian police recently raided the home of a history teacher and confiscated his computer. The crime? Scanning a history book and making it available on his website covering various topics on history. The raid was based on a complaint from ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:31pm -07:00T (77 words)
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