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Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt?   |  Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold     How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car?  Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt?  Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art  Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold  West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought  Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam  NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station  FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon  China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years  Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation  Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs  US Congress May Not Have Stomach For Another SOPA  Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts?  Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor  Book Review: Burdens of Proof     How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car?  From the kitt-got-into-the-bourbon-again department FatLittleMonkey writes "New Scientist asks a Bryant Walker Smith, from the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, whether the law is able to keep up with recent advances in automated vehicles. Even states which have allowed...   Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt?  From the pushing-keys department An anonymous reader writes "In fifth grade, I amazed my fellow classmates when I demonstrated what 132 words per minute looked like. Recently, an acquaintance of mine saw me typing out a word document for graduate school and was impressed by my...   Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art  From the bloody-eye-of-the-beholder department First time accepted submitter wilbrod writes "A Quebec special effects artist charged with corrupting morals has been found not guilty in a case that tested the boundaries of creative expression and Canadian obscenity laws. He was charged with...   Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold  From the not-sure-smart-money-is-the-right-word department dryriver writes "The BBC reports that cosmetic products using bee venom as an ingredient are a new 'hot seller' in the cosmetics market. Bee venom is said to have an effect on female skin similar to Botox injections, tightening the skin and making...   West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought  From the it's-just-preheating-for-now department New submitter dgrobinson writes "NY Times reports that West Antarctica has warmed more over the last half century than was first thought. A paper released Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience found that the temperature at a research station in...   Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam  From the that-sounds-spicy department SchrodingerZ writes "The Venus, Steve Jobs' custom-made mega yacht, (valued at 137.5 million dollars), has been impounded in Amsterdam. Philippe Starck, the boat's main designer, had The Venus impounded by debt collectors, after supposedly Starck...   NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station  From the rock-roping department SternisheFan writes "NASA scientists are planning to capture a 500 ton asteroid, relocate it and turn it into a space station for astronauts to refuel on their way to Mars. From the article: 'The 1.6bn-pound plan will be considered by the White...   FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon  From the it's-what's-for-dinner department An anonymous reader writes with a story about the possibility of genetically engineered salmon showing up on your table. "A controversial genetically engineered salmon has moved a step closer to the consumer's dining table after the U.S. Food and...   China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years  From the deep-pockets department dcblogs writes "China is on track to overtake the U.S. in spending on research and development in about 10 years, as federal R&D spending either declines or remains flat. The U.S. today maintains a large lead in spending over China, with...   Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation  From the now-you-must-shout department An anonymous reader writes "Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser. As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled by default and all...   Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs  From the metal-arms department theodp writes " It can be tough to stay connected over long distances, writes GeekWire's Todd Bishop. 'Yes, there's phone calls, texting, Facebook, Twitter, IM, video chatting and everything else. But what if you could give virtual hugs to each...   US Congress May Not Have Stomach For Another SOPA  From the lets-not-do-that-again department alphadogg writes "As a new session of Congress convenes in early 2013, don't expect lawmakers to rush out a new version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the Protect IP Act (PIPA). While some groups representing copyright holders still want...   Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts?  From the virtual-stockings department theodp writes "With all of the content that can be delivered electronically — e-books, music, apps, movies, e-gift cards, tickets — the percentage of Christmas gift giving that's digital is growing each year. However, the e-gift...   Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor  From the they-do-amazing-stuff department The Internet Archive curates an astounding collection (actually, a collection of collections) of online resources, from historically significant to modern but obscure. Storing, serving and organizing more than 10 petabytes isn't cheap, despite...   Book Review: Burdens of Proof  From the read-all-about-it department benrothke writes "When the IBM PC first came out 31 years ago, it supported a maximum of 256KB RAM. You can buy an equivalent computer today with substantially more CPU power at a fraction of the price. But in those 31 years, the information...

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