A recruiter with 20 years of experience recently reported on the research into whether remote software teams perform better. One study of 10,000 coding sessions concluded it takes 10-15 minutes for a programmer to resume work after an interruption. Another…
Techdirt Asks Judge To Dismiss Another Lawsuit By That Guy Who Didn't Invent Email
Three months ago Shiva Ayyadurai won a $750,000 settlement from Gawker (after they’d already gone bankrupt). He’d argued Gawker defamed him by mocking Ayyadurai’s claim he’d invented email, and now he’s also suing Techdirt founder Michael Masnick — who is…
Fans Choose A New Football Team's Plays With Their Smartphones
A new arena-league football team plays on a 50-yard field and uses a mobile app that allows fans to vote on the team’s next play. An anonymous reader writes: Slate describes a receiver tackled for a short gain after the…
Alaska Gets 'Artificial Aurora' As HAARP Antenna Array Listens Again
Freshly Exhumed quotes Hackaday: The famous HAARP antenna array is to be brought back into service for experiments by the University of Alaska. Built in the 1990s for the US Air Force’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, the array…
A Source Code Typo Allowed An Attacker To Steal $592,000 In Cryptocurrency
An anonymous reader writes: “A typo in the Zerocoin source code allowed an attacker to steal 370,000 Zerocoin, which is about $592,000 at today’s price,” reports BleepingComputer. According to the Zcoin team, one extra character left inside Zerocoin’s source code…
How Atari's Nolan Bushnell Pioneered the Tech Incubator In the 1980s
harrymcc writes: After Nolan Bushnell founded Atari and Chuck E. Cheese in the 1970s, he had so many ideas for new tech products that he started a tech incubator called Catalyst to spin them off into startups. Catalyst’s companies were…
Juno Jupiter Probe Won't Move Into Shorter Orbit After All
NASA announced today that their Juno spacecraft will not move into a closer orbit around Jupiter as originally planned. “Juno slipped into a highly elliptical, 53-Earth-day-long orbit around Jupiter when it arrived at the giant planet on July 4, 2016,”…
Genetically-Modified 'Surrogate Hens' Could Lay Eggs of Rare Chicken Breeds, Scientists Say
In an effort to preserve rare varieties of chicken breeds and diversify the chicken gene pool, scientists at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute have come up with a plan to breed genetically-modified chickens designed to act as surrogates that…
Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: President Donald Trump regularly makes news because of his tweets. Now a congressman is making news because of the device the president reportedly uses to tweet. On Friday, Congressman Ted Lieu, a…
MAME Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
After years of work, a fan has finally completed a MAME version of Atari’s unreleased game Primal Rage II this week, one more example of the emulator preserving digital history. Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes MAME.net: Way back in 1997,…