Chrome Experimental Feature Will Throttle Javascript-Timer Wakeups on Backgrounded Tabs

Slashdot reader techtsp writes: Starting with October's release of Chrome 86, the web browser will offer a way to limit JavaScript timer...

How Crowdfunding Transformed Tabletop Board Games

The board game Frosthaven has become Kickstarter's "most-funded board game on the site ever, with nearly $13 million pledged toward...

Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start

Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit ...

Is Slashdot the Answer to Facebook's Fake News Problem?

David Collier-Brown led the Sun Microsystems Canada team specializing in performance and capacity planning. He later becoming a consulting s...

Streaming this week: Babysitters’ Club and The Old Guard on Netflix, Palm Springs on Hulu

Photo: Hulu If you have spent the holiday weekend watching the Hamilton movie on repeat, let’s just say I’m not judging you. At all. Poly...

Linus Torvalds Likes His New AMD Threadripper System

This week Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel re-created their keynote conversation for a special all-virtual edition of the Open Source Summit ...

200 Scientists Say WHO Ignores the Risk That Coronavirus 'Aerosols' Float in the Air

"Six months into a pandemic that has killed over half a million people, more than 200 scientists from around the world are challenging ...