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We're just getting started with it; if you'd like to something featured in the blog, email us at feedback@slashdot.org.    Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago   |  Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017     With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race   Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago  Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive  Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017  Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft  Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal  Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012?  In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music  Foxconn Begins To Assemble Its Robot Army  Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine  Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism?  Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email  AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options  UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events  Review: World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (video)     With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race   From the racism-as-practiced-by-idiots department According to a story at Northwest Public Radio, the state of Virginia's board of education has decided to institute different passing scores for standardized tests, based on the racial and cultural background of the students taking the test....   Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago  From the on-the-shoulders-of-consecutively-dumber-giants department eldavojohn writes "Professor Gerald "Jerry" Crabtree of Stanford's Crabtree Laboratory published a paper (PDF) that has appeared in two parts in Trends in Genetics. The paper opens with a very controversial suggestion: 'I would be willing to...   Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive  From the year-of-the-linux-desktop department BluPhenix316 writes "Microsoft has made Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive. I think this is merely an update to make Direct X more integrated with Windows 8. Is this going to be the trend? To lock you into the OS updates so Windows 7 doesn't last...   Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017  From the where's-al-gore-now department Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that according to a report by the International Energy Agency, the U.S. will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil producer by about 2017, will become a net oil exporter by 2030, and will become...   Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft  From the sinofsky's-all-haiku-now department CWmike writes with this excerpt from Computerworld: "Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind the new OS, is leaving the company effective immediately, Microsoft announced late...   Wayback Machine Trumps FOI Tribunal  From the this-thing-called-the-internet department New submitter calder123 writes "Last week, the BBC won an FOIA tribunal ruling that they didn't have to reveal the names of attendees at a seminar in 2006, designed to shape the BBC's coverage of climate change issues. The document, uncovered by...   Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012?  From the looking-backwards-fondly department First time accepted submitter justthinkit writes "I have a number of applications that will not run on 64-bit Windows, but I would like to gain the benefits (most better caching) of having more than 4GB of RAM. Am I stuck with these Windows...   In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music  From the caught-violently-assaulting-copyright department New submitter patella.whack writes "A guilty plea for six counts of selling counterfeit media gets a defendant 15 years in Mississippi. An undercover reporter from the Attorney General's Intellectual Property Theft Task Force managed to buy a...   Foxconn Begins To Assemble Its Robot Army  From the good-robot-goooood-robot department kkleiner writes "Foxconn, the Chinese electronics manufacturer that builds numerous mobile devices and gaming consoles, previously said the company would be aiming to replace 1 million Foxconn workers with robots within 3 years. It appears as if...   Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine  From the monetizing-your-eyeballs department concealment sends this quote from an article at ReadWriteWeb: "Tech billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says he is fed up with Facebook and will take his business elsewhere. He's sick of getting hit with huge fees to send messages to...   Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism?  From the when-google-images-isn't-enough department First time accepted submitter jemenake writes "A friend of mine teaches electronic media (Photoshop, Premiere, etc.) at a local high-school. Right now, they're doing Photoshop, and each chapter in the book starts with an 'end result' file which...   Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email  From the man-vs-state department An anonymous reader writes "Back in April, we discussed how the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act says email that has resided on a server for more than six months can be considered abandoned. The recent investigation of General Petraeus...   AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options  From the who-gets-what's-left-of-ATI department Dainsanefh tips this report from Reuters: "Advanced Micro Devices has hired JPMorgan Chase & Co to explore options, which could include a potential sale, as the chipmaker struggles to find a role in an industry increasingly focused on mobile...   UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events  From the am-radio-on-the-attack department theodp writes "GeekWire's Taylor Soper reports that the University of Washington has capped live sports coverage at 20 Tweets per basketball game (45 for football) and threatens to revoke the credentials of journalists who dare exceed the Twitter...   Review: World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (video)  From the yes-actual-panda-men department In this video (with transcript) we review the newest expansion to World of Warcraft, titled Mists of Pandaria. This is the fourth expansion to Blizzard's successful MMORPG, and while the quality of the content remains high, it's becoming...

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