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• Robots Dive Deep To Solve Airliner Crash Mystery

  coondoggie writes "A small squadron of undersea robots has begun to conduct a 4-month, 3,900 square mile search of Atlantic Ocean bottom looking for the deep-sea wreck site of and black boxes from Air France Flight 447 which crashed off the coast of Brazil nearly two years ago. The Air...

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  March 31, 2011, 6:11 pm| Read full article

• Case Closed On Jerusalem UFO Video

  astroengine writes "Skepticism was high after videos surfaced earlier this year depicting a UFO over Jerusalem. However, ufologists defended the sighting, dismissing claims that it was a hoax. But a few days ago, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), one of the oldest, largest, and most respected UFO investigation organizations in...

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  March 31, 2011, 4:40 pm| Read full article

• San Francisco Opening Computer & Video Game Museum

  An anonymous reader writes "A team of game scholars, game journalists, and plain old geeks have gotten together to put together San Francisco's first and most comprehensive non-profit museum dedicated to the design, creation, history, and play of computer and video games. The museum is currently raising funds and shopping...

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  March 31, 2011, 3:56 pm| Read full article

• Robert Bunsen, Open Source Pioneer?

  cygtoad writes "Today marks Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday. I found this interesting factoid on the man: 'Bunsen and Desaga did not apply for patent protection on their burner and it was quite soon that others began to produce their own versions. Some even went so far as to claim the...

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  March 31, 2011, 3:09 pm| Read full article

• It's World Backup Day

  1sockchuck writes "Today is World Backup Day, an occasion to back up your personal data and financial information and check your restores. For those needing motivation — a group that apparently includes 15 percent of data centers — the Slashdot archives bear witness to date disasters at providers small (Ma.gnolia)...

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  March 31, 2011, 2:21 pm| Read full article

• After Japan's Quake, Taiwan Helps Fill iPad 2 Supply-Chain Gaps

  RedEaredSlider writes "Like many device manufacturers, Apple cannot seem to escape supply concerns in the wake of the ongoing crisis in Japan. The company is hoping that AU Optronics will fill the void left by companies like Hitachi and Toshiba, both of which have been affected by the series of...

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  March 31, 2011, 1:37 pm| Read full article

• AP Adopts Firefox's 'Do Not Track'; Others On the Way

  theweatherelectric writes "As noted by the Mozilla Blog, the AP News Registry is the first large scale service to support the Do Not Track (DNT) feature of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9. They write, 'The Associated Press (AP) is the first company to deploy DNT on a large scale,...

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  March 31, 2011, 12:53 pm| Read full article

• FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript

  Phoe6 writes "Apparently, FSF is calling it a 'JavaScript Trap' and wants 'useful websites' such as Gmail and others such as twitter, facebook to release their Javascript code under Free Software License so that users can trust their service." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

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  March 31, 2011, 12:08 pm| Read full article

• Android 3.0 Is Trickling In, But Are the Apps?

  jhernik writes "As tablets based on the new Honeycomb version of Android appear, critics have questioned Google's moves to enforce a standard Android platform, and said there may be as few as 20 'real' apps for the devices. Motorola's Xoom tablet is due to appear in the UK next week,...

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  March 31, 2011, 11:22 am| Read full article

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