John Gordon Ross

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Anyone who works as a freelancer these days has to be at least a bit familiar with techie things. But it isn’t just that. When I was a kid and those vaguely SF puppet shows were on the television and all the other kids wanted to be Greg Gogetem or Steve Savetheuniverse, I wanted to be the guy in a white coat and glasses called Doc or Brains. Here are some technology-related feeds I find useful and/or entertaining.

Slashdot » Big Tobacco Loses 11-Year Fight, Forced To Broadcast 'Dangers of Smoking' Ads

Sunday 26 November 23:29:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes NBC News: Smoking kills 1,200 people a day. The tobacco companies worked to make them as addictive as possible. There is no such thing as a safer cigarette. Ads with these statements hit the major television networks and newspapers this weekend, but they are not being placed by the American Cancer Society or other health groups. … [Link]

Mashable » Snapchat quietly releases new filters based on what you're snapping

Sunday 26 November 22:49:29 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookToo lazy to be creative with Snapchat? Well, there's a new feature for you. Snap quietly launched new filters that recognize what's being snapped and provide a contextually relevant border or sticker. The update comes ahead of a massive app redesign as the company tries to keep users and advertisers engaged. The filters began gradually rolling out to users last week, … [Link]

Mashable » New York Times responds to backlash after profiling Nazi sympathizer

Sunday 26 November 22:31:54 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookA New York Times profile of a self-described white supremacist sent the internet into such a blazing fury that the paper responded Sunday with a 706-word explanation. Readers took issue with how the profile of Tony Hovater, an Ohio man described as the "Nazi sympathizer next door," normalized his behavior. The piece leads with his wedding plans, mentions his love for … [Link]

Slashdot » Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin?

Sunday 26 November 22:24:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes CryptoCoinsNews: It should be no surprise that the elusive hunt for Satoshi, often referred to as the father of Bitcoin, has led to the theory that Elon Musk has been hiding a big secret from all of us. Sahil Gupta, a computer science student at Yale University and former intern at SpaceX, believes just this… Bitcoin … [Link]

Slashdot » FBI Failed To Notify 70+ US Officials Targeted By Russian Hackers

Sunday 26 November 21:19:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes the AP: The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin's crosshairs, The Associated Press has found. Nearly 80 interviews with Americans targeted by Fancy Bear, a Russian government-aligned … [Link]

Mashable » Sesame Street parodies 'Stranger Things' with a delightful Demogorgon spoof

Sunday 26 November 20:49:07 UTC 2017

Twitter Facebook You may know The Upside Down inside and out, but what about the Snackside Down?  Oh yes, we're talking about the Netflix hit show Stranger Things parodied by our friends over at Sesame Street. (Warning: If you haven't finished the season and/or don't want to see any spoilers, steer clear of the 6-minute video above.) Here's a spoiler-free summary: In … [Link]

ProgrammableWeb.com » Which API Types and Architectural Styles are Most Used?

Sunday 26 November 20:40:18 UTC 2017

One of the great things about our directory data model is that it allows us to get a big picture view of what an API looks like in today’s world. When ProgrammableWeb changed it’s directory model in 2014, we decided to allow for a more detailed way to describe an API. [Link]

Slashdot » Motorola Ad Mocks Samsung Ad Mocking Apple

Sunday 26 November 20:14:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes BGR: A few days after the iPhone X launched in stores, Samsung came out with an anti-iPhone campaign… I actually did not expect Samsung to pull off cheap tricks like that, but it sure looks like the iPhone X is a pretty scary device to fight against. But what probably nobody saw coming is Motorola trolling … [Link]

Mashable » Grandma's accidental text turns into sweet Thanksgiving tradition

Sunday 26 November 20:09:40 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookSometimes the best people to spend the holiday with are the ones accidentally brought together via text message. At least, that's the case for Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton. Remember the grandma who accidentally texted a Thanksgiving invitation to the wrong number? And then, the owner of said wrong number actually showed up? Well, they didn't forget, and the pair reunited … [Link]

Mashable » Netflix price jumps are here to crush your Thanksgiving and Christmas cheer

Sunday 26 November 19:37:18 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookHappy holidays, your Netflix subscription will soon cost you more, the company seemingly told users over the weekend.  Netflix revealed in October prices were going up for its streaming video service. The timing of the price hike depended on individuals' billing cycles. Unfortunately for many loyal subscribers, that lined up nicely with the holidays. SEE ALSO: Public binging on Netflix is … [Link]

Slashdot » Computer Pioneer Geoff Tootill Passed Away

Sunday 26 November 19:09:00 UTC 2017

"Computer pioneer Geoff Tootill passed away in October," writes long-time Slashdot reader tigersha. Born in 1922, Tootill began his career troubleshooting airborne radar systems during World War II, leading him to some pioneering research in the late 1940s. "He worked on the first computer that stored a program in main memory, as opposed to a paper tape, and actually had … [Link]

Mashable » Hope Donald Trump has ice handy, because he just got burned by CNN

Sunday 26 November 18:31:08 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookDonald Trump can't stop getting dunked on by news organizations. On Saturday, Donald Trump took to Twitter for one of his favorite activities: attacking CNN (now in 280 characters!). .@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to … [Link]

Slashdot » Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker

Sunday 26 November 18:09:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes CNN: A young Russian alleged to have masterminded a massive hacking of social networks including LinkedIn and Dropbox is now at the center of an extradition struggle between the United States and Russia. Yevgeniy Nikulin was detained in October 2016, in the Czech Republic capital of Prague, after US authorities issued an international arrest warrant for … [Link]

Mashable » 'Coco' tops Thanksgiving weekend box office, beats 'Justice League' to a pulp

Sunday 26 November 18:08:04 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookCoco won the Thanksgiving weekend box office this year, crushing the Justice League.  The latest film from Disney's Pixar pulled in $71.2 million over its first five days ($49 million came from the three-day weekend). Meanwhile, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment's Justice League brought in $59.7 millionCoco played at 3,987 theaters in North America from Wednesday to Sunday. SEE ALSO: Pixar's … [Link]

Mashable » Bali's Mount Agung has first major volcano eruption since 1963, sends thick ash cloud into sky

Sunday 26 November 18:00:04 UTC 2017

Twitter Facebook Mount Agung, a volcano on Bali, erupted over the weekend, sending a thick ash cloud into the sky over the Indonesian island and grounding thousands of travelers. The latest eruption sent ash more than 1.2 miles, or 2,000 meters, into the air on Sunday, Bali's Regional Disaster Management Agency told CNN. The volcanic ash plume following the eruption reached an … [Link]

Slashdot » Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million

Sunday 26 November 17:04:00 UTC 2017

schwit1 tells us that "Robby the Robot" — a prop from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet — has just been auctioned for $5.3 million, making it the second most-expensive movie prop in history. New Atlas reports: The complete Robby suit, control panel, his jeep, numerous spares, alternate original "claw" hands, and the original wooden stage shipping crates, were sold Tuesday … [Link]

Mashable » Chrissy Teigen roasted Animal Crossing for teaching us horrible morals, and she's absolutely right

Sunday 26 November 16:16:58 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookA new smartphone obsession brought people together this holiday weekend. And no, we're not talking about the price of bitcoin or the trivia game HQ.  SEE ALSO: Tamagotchis are coming to your smartphone Animal Crossing, a video game first released for Nintendo 64 back in 2001, came to smartphones last week. As advertised in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, players build their … [Link]

Mashable » This eco-friendly fabric can repel stains and odors

Sunday 26 November 16:00:00 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookAbly Apparell creates clothing that is liquid and odor resistant using an innovating material called fillium.  Read more…More about Tech, Fashion, Kickstarter, Clothing, and Clean [Link]

Slashdot » Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That?

Sunday 26 November 15:59:00 UTC 2017

jespada writes: New York Times has an article warning that the Patent Appeal and Trial Board is being challenged on the basis that patents represent real property and that a government agency is not empowered to take real property. Here's a quotes from the Times article. (Non-paywalled version here): In the five years since it began its work — a … [Link]

Mashable » Bitcoin reaches new record high, breaks $9,000

Sunday 26 November 15:22:38 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookBitcoin is getting closer and closer to $10,000.  The cryptocurrency hit a record high of $9,033 per bitcoin early Sunday morning. The price rose steadily over the weekend and surpassed $9,000 at around 6:40 a.m. UTC (1:40 a.m. ET), according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index. It now has a market cap of more than $150 billion.  SEE ALSO: Bitcoin's little brother … [Link]

Mashable » It used to be gaming's most pervasive meme. Then it took an arrow in the knee.

Sunday 26 November 15:00:00 UTC 2017

Twitter Facebook“I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee." Ah, Skyrim. In the pantheon of Gaming's Greatest Memes, "The cake is a lie" from Portal may have the edge. But anyone who was plugged into games back in 2011, when Bethesda Softworks released The Elder Scrolls V, surely remembers "arrow in the knee." SEE … [Link]

Slashdot » There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab

Sunday 26 November 14:54:00 UTC 2017

Slashdot reader overheardinpdx shares a video from the SC17 supercomputing conference where Bruce Tulloch from BitScope "describes a low-cost Rasberry Pi cluster that Los Alamos National Lab is using to simulate large-scale supercomputers." Slashdot reader mspohr describes them as "five rack-mount Bitscope Cluster Modules, each with 150 Raspberry Pi boards with integrated network switches." With each of the 750 chips … [Link]

Mashable » Get a jumpstart on your to-do list and save on this productivity tool

Sunday 26 November 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookJust to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. The people we work with aren’t just in the next cubicle over anymore. Sometimes they’re not even in the same state or country. Which means collaboration is essential. So what tools do the pros rely on? If you’re asking Dollar Shave Club, Squarespace, AirBnB, … [Link]

Mashable » There's a great deal on this camera drone ahead of Cyber Monday

Sunday 26 November 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookJust to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. It can be hard to pick out holiday gifts for picky friends and family members. You're pretty safe betting on some kind of tech, but there's so much to choose from: cameras, phones, speakers… you need to get a gift that no one else … [Link]

Mashable » Get this Cyber Monday deal on a sensor that matches any color

Sunday 26 November 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Twitter FacebookJust to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. You rely on colors to help you make decisions, whether you're designing a website or just painting your kitchen. The problem is that the average set of eyes isn't built to tell minute differences between colors. Thanks to technology, however, it doesn't matter. The Nix … [Link]

Slashdot » Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality'

Sunday 26 November 11:49:00 UTC 2017

Robert Cringely has a plan to ensure that internet providers will never profit from the end of net neutrality: We are being depended upon to act like sheep — Internet browsing sheep, if such exist — and without a plan that's exactly what we'll be. The key to my plan is that this is a rare instance where consumers are … [Link]

Slashdot » Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired

Sunday 26 November 8:44:00 UTC 2017

Wired's senior staff writer David Pierce says Firefox Quantum "feels like a bunch of power users got together and built a browser that fixed all the little things that annoyed them about other browsers." The new Firefox actually manages to evolve the entire browser experience, recognizing the multi-device, ultra-mobile lives we all lead and building a browser that plays along. … [Link]

Slashdot » Yesterday Americans Spent $5 Billion Online

Sunday 26 November 4:39:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes CNN Money: Black Friday 2017 was all about digital sales. American shoppers spent a record $5 billion in 24 hours. That marks a 16.9% increase in dollars spent online compared with Black Friday 2016, according to data from Adobe Digital Insights, which tracks 80% of online spending at America's 100 largest retail websites… Meanwhile, malls and … [Link]

Slashdot » Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Are Surging Again

Sunday 26 November 2:34:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes CNBC: Bitcoin is getting a Black Friday boost. The digital currency climbed above $8,700 to a record high Saturday following increased investor interest around the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday shopping. Bitcoin rose more than 6 percent to a record high of $8,725.13, according to CoinDesk, trading around $8,674 midday on Saturday. [Bitcoin passed $8,000 … [Link]

Slashdot » After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them

Sunday 26 November 0:34:00 UTC 2017

An anonymous reader quotes BuzzFeed: In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com, arguing that the billionaire has been unfairly excluded from bidding for the assets of the defunct news website… Whoever ends up buying the site will also buy its archives, which are still up, … [Link]

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