Are News Outlets Responsible For Comments Left On Their Facebook Pages?

Leading media outlets in Australia lost big in court when a judge ruled publishers can be sued for comments left on their Facebook pages. Th...

'Lord of the Rings' Reunion Brings Actors, Director, Writers Together on Zoom

"Just about the entire cast of The Lord of the Rings gathered their Zoom screens together for a reunion nearly two decades after the en...

Walmart Employees Complain Its Anti-Shoplifting AI Is Buggy, Inaccurate, and Dangerous

Walmart uses "Everseen" AI technology in thousands of its stores "to prevent shoplifting at registers and self-checkout kiosk...

A restaurant in the Netherlands is using creepy robot waiters for social distancing

Royal Palace Renesse/Instagram A restaurant in the Netherlands has introduced new robot waiters as a way to reduce human-to-human contact ...

Linus Torvalds Argues Against 80-Column Line Length Coding Style, As Linux Kernel Deprecates It

"The Linux kernel has officially deprecated its coding style that the length of lines of code comply with 80 columns as the 'strong...

YouTube will donate $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube says it will donate $1 million to the Center for Policing Equity, to demonstrate “solidari...

Protesting Mark Zuckerberg Comments About Fact-Checking, Fake News About Mark Zuckerberg Goes Viral

"I don't think that Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday....

82-Year-Old Ridley Scott Shares Some Secrets About 'Alien'

Ridley Scott was the fifth choice to direct the 1979 film Alien, remembers the Los Angeles Times, "meaning that no one was expecting th...

Dutch Restaurant Will Re-Open With Robot Waiters

When Dutch restaurants open tomorrow, one will be using two shiny white-and-red robot waiters, reports the Associated Press: "Hello and...

Jake Paul filmed looting, but denies being a part of it

Eric Espada/Getty Images Jake Paul is denying that he took part in looting captured on video at an Arizona mall after backlash about his a...

Microsoft Edge To Save Edits Made To PDF Files Without Saving a Copy Each Time

techtsp quotes The Windows Club: In a major breakthrough, Microsoft Edge now supports Native File System API, which will take progressive we...

Zoom's New, Stronger Encryption May Only Protect Paying Clients

"Zoom plans to strengthen the encryption of its service for paying customers," reports Newsweek, "but the upgrade will not be...

Caught on camera, police explode in rage and violence across the US

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images Over the past 72 hours, people across the US have captured what may be the most comprehensive live pictu...

Ask Slashdot: Why is Microsoft Blocking Its Own Server Pages?

Long-time Slashdot reader lpq writes: I followed a link that pointed at a Microsoft security advisory about ".lnk" files. The orig...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully docks with the space station

Crew Dragon Endeavour approaches the ISS. | Image: NASA / SpaceX This morning, SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with ...

Watch NASA Astronauts on SpaceX Crew Dragon Docking with ISS

"We're less than 10 meters away..." "@AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug are suited up, strapped in their seats and ready to be...

Amazon removed racist images that appeared on some listings for headphones

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon says it has removed images with racist language from some listings for headphones on its UK...

Trump vs. Twitter: The president takes on social media moderation

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images Twitter finally flagged several of Trump’s tweets that violated its policies Continue reading… from ...

Waymo's Self-Driving Minivans Return to Phoenix, Detroit, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area

Digital Trends reports: Waymo is planning to relaunch its fleet of self-driving minivans into Bay Area streets on June 8, according to an em...

Should Maintainers of Open Source Projects Be Paid?

Matt Asay, a former COO of Canonical now working at AWS, writes "Over the last few weeks I've interviewed a range of open source pr...

How to watch SpaceX’s first crew dock with the International Space Station

On Saturday afternoon, SpaceX launched its first human crew to space for NASA on the company’s new Crew Dragon spacecraft — but the mission...

Microsoft Replaces Dozens of Staff With AI for News Stories on MSN

"Workforce automation is about to cost dozens of news contractors their jobs," writes Engadget: The Seattle Times and The Guardian...