Recovering Samples From the Moon, China's Chang'e-5 Team Used Exoskeletons

AmiMoJo quotes Universe Today: Other worlds aren't the only difficult terrain personnel will have to traverse in humanity's explorat...

Flash Is About To Die, But Classic Flash Games Will Live On

Fast Company's technology editor harrymcc writes: After years of growing technical irrelevance and security concerns, the Flash browser ...

Fantasy and Sci-Fi Author Debra Doyle, 1952-2020

Long-time Slashdot reader serviscope_minor wanted to remind us that 2020 also saw the death of science fiction/fantasy author Debra Doyle at...

G.E. Wind Turbine Prototype: 853 Feet Tall, Can Generate 13 Megawatts

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from the New York Times: Twirling above a strip of land at the mouth of Rotterdam'...

Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox Design Refresh

Mozilla is "investigating" a design refresh for its Firefox browser. Ghacks reports that the refresh is referred to internally as ...

Are We Experiencing a Great Software Stagnation?

Long-time programmer/researcher/former MIT research fellow Jonathan Edwards writes a blog called "Alarming Development: Dispatches from...

Among 2020's Most Underreported Stories: Pharmaceutical Profiteering May Accelerate Superbugs

Since 1976 "Project Censored," a U.S.-based nonprofit media watchdog organization, has been identifying "the news that didn...