Why Do We Keep Setting Our Clocks Back an Hour?

"Its that time of year again," writes long-time Slashdot reader rufey: Millions of people around the world will be adjusting (or h...

How a Tiny Bit of Lacquer Grounded New Falcon 9 Rockets For a Month

On October 2, SpaceX automatically aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket (with just two seconds left in the countdown) after two of its fi...

'I'm Not Drunk, It's My Car.' Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Gets Mixed Reviews

CNN describes the reactions posted online by six beta testers of Tesla's "full self-driving" software, saying they "appea...

Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge

Forbes reports that TikTok "cannot be shut down in the United States next month, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday afternoon, th...

Apple ordered to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in patent trial

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A jury in Texas has ruled that Apple has to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in royalties for VPN on Dem...

Therapy Patients Blackmailed For Cash After Clinic Data Breach

"Many patients of a large psychotherapy clinic in Finland have been contacted individually by a blackmailer, after their data was stole...

While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection

Europe "now accounts for 46% of global coronavirus cases," reports ABC News, "and nearly a third of total related deaths.&quo...