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Also, join today to enter for a chance to win a cash prize of $1,000, $500 or $200. Learn More!  Learn More!    Apple Announces iPhone 5  From the who-would-have-guessed department Phil Schiller took to the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where he announced the long-expected iPhone 5. The casing is made entirely of glass and aluminum, and it's 7.6mm thick, which is 18% thinner than the...   Is a Computer Science Degree Worth Getting Anymore?  From the art-history-is-back-on-top department snydeq writes "Self-taught technologists are almost always better hires than those with a bachelor's degree in computer science and a huge student loan, writes Andrew Oliver. 'A recruiter recently asked me why employers are so picky. I explained...   EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks  From the small-world department New submitter overmoderated writes first with news of an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya. From the article: "The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as...   Ask Slashdot: How Much Is a Fun Job Worth?  From the three-hundred-fifty-two-dollars-and-eight-cents department Nicros writes "I have the good fortune to be a lead software engineer in a really fun company. The culture and people are great, and while the position has some down sides (distance from home, future opportunities), in general I'm quite happy...   Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake  From the passing-on-the-mega-death-ray-may-have-been-wrong-too department An anonymous reader writes "Speaking yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company's stock performance was disappointing. He also made an interesting remark about Facebook's development efforts over...   House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act  From the listen-up department wiedzmin writes "The U.S. House of Representatives voted 301-118 today, in favor of extending the FISA Amendments Act until December 31st, 2017, effectively reauthorizing the broad electronic eavesdropping powers that largely legalized the George...   Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement  From the let-me-know-how-that-works-out-for-you department Nate the greatest writes "Do you know what is crazier than sending DMCA notices to a site like Lendink which doesn't host any content? It's when an author threatens to sue book reviewers over trademarks. Jazan Wild, a comics creator, is sending...   China's Alibaba To Outsell Amazon, eBay Combined  From the but-do-they-have-free-shipping-for-25-bucks department hackingbear writes "China's largest e-commerce firm, Alibaba Group, expects to sell merchandise this year worth more than that sold by Amazon Inc and eBay combined. The company is aiming for 3 trillion yuan ($473 billion) in annual transaction...   Star Trek Tech That Exists Today  From the where-are-my-self-sealing-stembolts department Esther Schindler writes "When Star Trek hit the air waves, talking computers were just a pipe dream. While teleportation remains elusive, several once-fictional technologies are changing the way people live and work. Here are some ways in which...   Intel Demos McAfee Social Protection  From the protect-ya-neck department MojoKid writes "During the Day Two keynote address at Intel Developer's Forum, Renee James, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Software & Services Group, talked about software development, security and services in an 'age of...   Around 200,000 Tons of Deep Water Horizon Oil and Gas Consumed By Bacteria  From the sludge-monster-rises-from-gulf department SchrodingerZ writes "The University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have determined that in the five months following the Deepwater Horizon Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, bacteria have consumed over 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas....   Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker  From the i-thought-the-nuclear-wessels-were-in-alameda department Hugh Pickens writes "Eve Conant reports that Russia's dream to dominate the Arctic will soon get a boost with a $1.1 billion nuclear-powered icebreaker 170 meters long and 34 meters wide. It's designed to navigate both shallow rivers and the...   University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster  From the build-a-beowulf-wait-a-minute department hypnosec writes about a neat little hack using Lego, Raspberry Pis, and Scratch to construct a "supercomputer." From the article: "A team of computational engineers over at the University of Southampton led by Professor Simon Cox have built a...   Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete  From the nerd-crossover department TsukiKage writes "A 50-card M:tG combo for four players is demonstrated that is used to construct a simple Turing machine, performing arbitrary computations just by following the rules of Magic and card text thereafter."   Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants  From the bigger-they-are-the-cloudier-they-fall department An anonymous reader writes "A Wired article discusses the relative decline of Dell, HP, and IBM in the server market over the past few years. Whereas those three companies once provided 75% of Intel's server chip revenue, those revenues are now...

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