Before Bauhaus, the father of modernism wanted to be a cowboy
A new biography traces the many lives and influences of architect Walter Gropius. Walter Gropius, one of the leaders of the early 20th-century modernist movement in architecture and a founder of one of the world’s most important schools of de.....»»
Apple"s $64 Billion-a-Year App Store Isn"t Catching the Most Egregious Scams
A one-man Bunco Squad is poking holes in Apple's App Store image. From a report: Recently, I reached out to the most profitable company in the world to ask a series of basic questions. I wanted to understand: how is a single man making the entire App.....»»
How Often Do People Actually Copy and Paste From Stack Overflow?
Stack Overflow blog: They say there's a kernel of truth behind every joke. In the case of our recent April Fools gag, it might be more like an entire cob, perhaps a bushel of truth. We wanted to embrace a classic Stack Overflow meme and tweak one of.....»»
Archaeologists: Site of Harriet Tubman"s father"s home found
Archaeologists in Maryland say they believe they have found the homesite of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman's father......»»
Zoom launches $100M Zoom Apps investment fund
When Zoom launched Zoom Apps and the Marketplace as a place to sell them last year, it was a big signal that the company wanted to be more than just a popular video conferencing application. It wanted to be a platform, which developers could use to b.....»»
Why expensive workout gear is actually cheap
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex wanted to dig into the Tonal EC-1, a huge document spread across a.....»»
With two new funds, LocalGlobe has more latitude than ever
“You wanted me to record this?” asks Saul Klein, LocalGlobe founding partner. “Just in case you say anything interesting,” I quip back. “I won’t be doing most of the talking, so maybe someone will say something interesting,” Kle.....»»
Monitor overseeing Prime"s majority owner wants oversight to continue
The SEC wanted the monitor to protect GPB's assets, including the more than three dozen Prime dealerships which it said represent at least 70 percent of GPB's revenue......»»
FBI arrest man over alleged Amazon centre bomb plot
The man allegedly wanted to bomb an Amazon data centre to wipe out 70% of the online world......»»
How a Researcher "Clinging To the Fringes of Academia" Helped Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: The New York Times tells the story of Hungarian-born Dr. Kariko, whose father was a butcher and who growing up had never met a scientist — but knew they wanted to be one. Despite earning a Ph.D. at.....»»
Apple: ‘Moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us’
Android users have long wanted an iMessage app to use the popular messaging service on non-Apple devices. Epic’s lawsuit against Apple has now revealed and confirmed that lock-in is the reason why iMessage for Android does not exist. moreR.....»»
US Arrests Suspect Who Wanted To Blow Up AWS Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: The FBI has arrested on Thursday a Texas man who planned to blow up one of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in an attempt to "kill of about 70% of the internet." Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, o.....»»
Team cracks eggs for science
Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, forcing the hosts to do the hard work of raising the unrelated young. A team of scientists wanted to simulate the task of piercing an egg—a tactic that only a minority of host.....»»
AlmaLinux Released As a Stable RHEL Clone For Those Who Liked CentOS
Long-time Slashdot reader xiando quotes the backstory from LinuxReviews.org: CentOS used to be the go-to alternative for those who wanted to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) without having to pay RedHat to use it. It was a almost 1:1 clone until.....»»
Fake App On Apple"s App Store Scams User Out of 17.1 Bitcoins ($600,000)
Long-time Slashdot reader phalse phace quotes the Washington Post: Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his bitcoin balance last month, so he searched the App Store on his iPhone for "Trezor," the maker of a small hardware device he uses to store h.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Grifters Paradise
The other day, I attended a celebration of one of the pioneers of collaboration technology, Ray Ozzie. The father of Lotus Notes, Ozzie left Lotus and his startup firm Iris after a hostile takeover by IBM, and eventually joined Microsoft when that co.....»»
Hidden genetic defects contain real risks for serious diseases
Researchers have gained insight into the 'hidden genetic defects' of the general European population. This is important because these defects, if inherited from both father and mother, can lead to all kinds of illnesses in their children. Research in.....»»
Kitboga: How AI is helping me waste scammers’ time
Twitch streamer, Kitboga, says he wanted to stop con artists trying to steal from people......»»
Vint Cerf vs. Martin Hellman: How Should We Assess the Risks of Nuclear War?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a discussion between a 77-year-old "father of the internet" and a 75-year-old "father of public key cryptography". Long before Vinton Cerf and Martin Hellman changed the world with their inventions, th.....»»
Brazilian startup Tractian gets the Y Combinator seal of approval for its equipment monitoring tech
Igor Marinelli and Gabriel Lameirinhas were raised around manufacturing plants. Marinelli’s father worked for International Paper in a plant outside of Sao Paulo while Lameirinhas’ father worked in a cement plant. Throughout their lives.....»»
Don"t Peek is a short horror movie starring a girl, a Switch, and Animal Crossing
During the pandemic lockdowns last year, filmmaker Julian Terry made a six-minute horror movie called Don't Peek. This week his short was screened at SXSW Online, where it caught the attention of Wanted series director Timur Bekmambetov who wants to.....»»