Why Gov.UK Stopped Using jQuery

The head of the UK government's digital transformation unit recently announced a change to the nation's government services site gov...

How to Write Your Own Games - for the Amiga

Mike Bouma (Slashdot reader #85,252) writes: With the release of the A500 mini (which also supports A1200 games) and its side loading featur...

Legendary Japanese Game Developer Returns After Two Decades

An anonymous reader shares a report: In the late 1990s, Yoshitaka Murayama made a name for himself among a subset of video game fans by crea...

Google Chat adds warning banners to protect against phishing attacks

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Chat has replaced Hangouts and will now display banners warning you against potential phi...

Match Group and Google Reach an Interim Compromise Over App Payments

Match Group, the parent company of dating apps Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, is getting along better with Google, just by a little bit. From a ...

Ancient Forest Found at Bottom of Huge Sinkhole in China

An ancient forest has been found at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in China, with trees up to 40 metres (130ft) tall. From a report: Scienti...

More accurate wind forecasts can save Americans millions in energy costs

An array of electricity producing wind turbines (aka the San Gorgonio Pass wind farm) are viewed along Interstate 10 on May 11, 2022, near ...