| Date / Time |
Story |
| Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:26PM |
How The Advance Weather Forecast Got Good |
| Friday June 21, 2019 @04:03PM |
Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How To Code |
| Friday June 14, 2019 @08:55PM |
How to Get XKCD Author Randall Munroe To Visit Your City |
| Friday June 07, 2019 @02:10PM |
Book Subtitles Are Getting Ridiculously Long. Blame it on SEO. |
| Friday May 24, 2019 @09:17PM |
Neal Stephenson Says Social Media Is Close To A 'Doomsday Machine' |
| Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:30AM |
No, Someone Hasn't Cracked the Code of the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript |
| Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:36PM |
Is Big Tech Needlessly Ruining Entire Industries? |
| Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:42PM |
Robert Zubrin Makes 'The Case For Space' |
| Friday April 26, 2019 @07:21PM |
A Bookstore, Finally, Comes To the Bronx |
| Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:57PM |
Microsoft Stops Selling eBooks, Will Refund Customers For Previous Purchases |
| Friday March 08, 2019 @02:37PM |
Woman Wins $10,000 For Reading Fine Print of Terms and Conditions of Travel Insurance Policy |
| Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:11PM |
Pew Research: Three-Quarters of Americans Have Read a Book in Last One Year -- 67% in Print Format; Use of Audiobooks Rising |
| Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:01AM |
DC Cancels Comic Where Jesus Learns From Superhero After Outcry |
| Monday February 18, 2019 @03:11PM |
How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? |
| Sunday February 17, 2019 @10:33AM |
Bill and Melinda Gates: Textbooks Are Becoming Obsolete |
| Wednesday December 26, 2018 @01:56PM |
NYPL's Chief Digital Officer Says Public is Better off When Libraries Are 'Risk Averse' About Tech |
| Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:07AM |
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? |
| Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:57PM |
Sting on Amazon Booksellers Aims To Weed Out Counterfeit Textbooks, But Small Sellers Getting Hurt |
| Wednesday November 28, 2018 @01:57PM |
Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures |
| Friday November 16, 2018 @04:44PM |
Amazon Has Everything it Needs To Make Massively Popular Algorithm-Driven Fiction |
| Thursday November 08, 2018 @01:30PM |
Amazon's AbeBooks Backs Down After Booksellers Stage Global Protest |
| Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:43PM |
Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? |
| Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:25PM |
Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book |
| Friday October 12, 2018 @11:09PM |
150 San Franciscans Explain How Tech Money Changed Their City |
| Friday October 12, 2018 @06:35PM |
150 San Franciscans Explain How Tech Money Changed Their City |
| Monday October 01, 2018 @06:48PM |
A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip |
| Friday September 14, 2018 @12:34PM |
Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? |
| Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:50AM |
How Do Things Stick To Us in a Culture Where Information and Ideas Are Up So Quickly That We Have No Time To Assess One Before Another Takes Its Place? |
| Saturday August 25, 2018 @03:38PM |
Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online |
| Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:10PM |
Ancient Public Library Discovered In Germany |
| Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:59PM |
'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' |
| Sunday July 22, 2018 @04:29PM |
Comic Book Publishers, Faced With Flagging Sales, Look To Streaming |
| Monday July 16, 2018 @04:38PM |
Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback |
| Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:32PM |
New Book Paints Different Picture of Workplace Behavior At Google and Facebook |
| Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:10PM |
How Minecraft Is Helping Kids Fall In Love With Books |
| Friday June 29, 2018 @02:49AM |
Science Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison Dies At 84 |
| Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:22PM |
Oxford English Dictionary Extends Hunt For Regional Words Around the World |
| Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:01AM |
New York's Last Remaining Independent Bookshops |
| Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:42AM |
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain |
| Friday April 27, 2018 @10:43PM |
New Book Describes 'Bluffing' Programmers in Silicon Valley |
| Friday April 13, 2018 @08:06PM |
Google's New Book Search Deals in Ideas, Not Keywords |
| Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:31PM |
Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series |
| Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:37PM |
Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comic Books |
| Thursday March 29, 2018 @10:39AM |
Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon' |
| Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:10AM |
Amazon Plans Blockbuster TV Series Based On Chinese Sci-Fi Trilogy 'The Three-Body Problem' |
| Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:14PM |
Ask Slashdot: I Want To Get Into Comic Books, But Where Do I Start? |
| Friday March 09, 2018 @07:34PM |
Project Gutenberg Blocks German Users After Outrageous Court Ruling |
| Friday March 09, 2018 @11:44AM |
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Apps and Online Services You Use To Discover, Track and Evaluate Movies, TV Shows, Music and Books? |
| Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:10PM |
The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy Returns With the Original Cast |
| Monday February 26, 2018 @05:30PM |
HBO's Fahrenheit 451 Trailer Teases Dystopian World Filled With Burning 'Chaos' |
| Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:46PM |
Amazon Is Developing a TV Series Based On Iain M. Banks' Sci-Fi Novel 'Consider Phlebas' |
| Friday February 16, 2018 @05:56PM |
The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble |
| Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:31PM |
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? |
| Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:26AM |
High School Computer Science: Look Ma, No Textbooks! |
| Friday January 26, 2018 @05:04PM |
Walmart Teams Up With Kobo To Sell EBooks and Audiobooks |
| Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:43AM |
Apple's Getting Back Into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon |
| Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:46PM |
Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 |
| Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:53PM |
Donald Knuth Turns 80, Seeks Problem-Solvers For TAOCP |
| Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:39PM |
Microsoft Tries To Write the Book On AI |
| Friday January 12, 2018 @08:10PM |
'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy |
| Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:46PM |
White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing |
| Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:12PM |
In a Declining Comics Market, DC Beats Marvel |
| Monday December 25, 2017 @03:05PM |
How Many Books Will You Read in a Lifetime? Around 4600, If You Read Fast |
| Monday December 25, 2017 @12:04PM |
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books, Movies, Documentaries and Shows From This Year That You Liked and Recommend To Others? |
| Saturday December 23, 2017 @08:03PM |
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' |
| Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:10PM |
A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO |
| Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:40PM |
Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter |
| Saturday December 09, 2017 @04:30PM |
San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' |
| Friday December 08, 2017 @07:17PM |
Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory |
| Monday November 27, 2017 @06:46PM |
Tom Baker Returns To Finish Shelved Doctor Who Episodes Penned By Douglas Adams |
| Friday November 10, 2017 @11:41AM |
Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? |
| Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:05PM |
MIT Researchers Trained AI To Write Horror Stories Based On 140,000 Reddit Posts |
| Saturday October 28, 2017 @03:38PM |
Captain Crunch (and Steve Wozniak) Write New Book: 'Beyond the Little Blue Box' |
| Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:13PM |
Amazon E-Book Buyers Receive Payment From Antitrust Lawsuit Settlement |
| Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:15PM |
Amazon Finally Makes a Waterproof Kindle |
| Tuesday October 10, 2017 @07:59PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite William Gibson Novel? |
| Sunday October 08, 2017 @08:56PM |
Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book |
| Sunday October 08, 2017 @04:48PM |
Astronaut Scott Kelly Describes One Year In Space -- And Its After Effects |
| Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:17AM |
Tim O'Reilly: Don't Fear AI, Fear Ourselves |
| Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:36PM |
'Banned Books Week' Recognizes 2016's Most-Censored Books (and Comic Books) |
| Friday September 22, 2017 @08:57PM |
Inside Amazon's Warehouses: Thousands of Senior Citizens and the Occasional Robot Mishap |
| Saturday September 16, 2017 @03:18PM |
New Book Argues Silicon Valley Will Lead Us to Our Doom |
| Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:11PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are You Reading This Month? |
| Friday September 08, 2017 @09:59PM |
SciFi Author (and Byte Columnist) Jerry Pournelle Has Died |
| Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:34PM |
Amazon Tries To Snuff Out a Bunch of Kindle Publishing Scams |
| Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:45AM |
Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries |
| Monday September 04, 2017 @12:43PM |
One of the World's Most Influential Math Texts is Getting a Beautiful, Minimalist Edition |
| Friday September 01, 2017 @09:47PM |
Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller |
| Monday August 28, 2017 @10:31PM |
Lost Turing Letters Give Unique Insight Into His Academic Life Prior To Death |
| Friday August 25, 2017 @08:39PM |
Science Fiction Author Brian Aldiss Dies Aged 92 |
| Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:07PM |
The 2017 Hugo Awards |
| Thursday July 27, 2017 @02:24PM |
Librarian Attacks Amazon's Kindle Lending Program |
| Monday July 24, 2017 @04:25PM |
United Airlines Claims TSA Banned Comic Books In Checked Luggage For Comic-Con, TSA Denies It |
| Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:42AM |
'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education' |
| Friday June 30, 2017 @09:36AM |
You're Thinking About the Dictionary All Wrong, Lexicographers Say |
| Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:58AM |
O'Reilly Media Has Stopped Retailing Books Directly On Its Ecommerce Store |
| Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:27PM |
O'Reilly No Longer Selling Individual Books, Videos Online |
| Friday June 23, 2017 @09:13PM |
Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals |
| Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:11AM |
University of Missouri To Use Open Source And Other Cheaper Alternatives For General Education Textbook |
| Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:47PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? |
| Friday June 02, 2017 @05:40PM |
JRR Tolkien Book 'Beren and Luthien' Published After 100 Years |
| Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:18PM |
Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This |
| Saturday May 27, 2017 @09:31PM |
Creative Commons Staff Members Release New Free eBook |
| Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:55AM |
Amazon Brings Its Physical Bookstore To New York |
| Friday May 05, 2017 @08:11PM |
Today is 'Free Comic Book Day' |
| Thursday May 04, 2017 @09:58AM |
Amazon Will Change Its Ebook Contracts With Publishers as EU Ends Antitrust Probe |
| Saturday April 29, 2017 @08:28PM |
As Print Surges, Ebook Sales Plunge Nearly 20% |
| Thursday April 27, 2017 @04:09PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Favorite Books On Entrepreneurship? |
| Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:10PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are Good Books On Inventing, Innovating and Doing R&D? |
| Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:43AM |
How Google Book Search Got Lost |
| Friday April 07, 2017 @07:54AM |
Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month? |
| Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:23PM |
O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know |
| Friday March 17, 2017 @10:05AM |
Ebook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds |
| Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:17PM |
Math Teacher Solves Adobe Semaphore Puzzle |
| Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:13PM |
GitHub Invites Contributions To 'Open Source Guides' |
| Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:48AM |
University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' |
| Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:04AM |
New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' |
| Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:19AM |
The Most Mentioned Books On StackOverflow |
| Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:56PM |
George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List |
| Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:40AM |
Amazon Offers To Scrap Ebook Clauses To Settle EU Antitrust Probe |
| Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:05PM |
Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming' |
| Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:44PM |
Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60 |
| Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:35AM |
Amazon, Apple To End Audiobook Exclusivity: EU |
| Monday January 02, 2017 @10:44PM |
Scribd Pulls Digital Comics From Its Subscription Reading Service |
| Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:20PM |
Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging |
| Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:26PM |
'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Died On Christmas Eve At Age 96 |
| Thursday December 29, 2016 @09:48AM |
Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads |
| Monday December 26, 2016 @09:15AM |
What's the Best Book You Read This Year? |
| Tuesday December 06, 2016 @10:46PM |
'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google |
| Sunday December 04, 2016 @09:22PM |
Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? |
| Friday November 25, 2016 @10:40PM |
O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% |
| Friday November 25, 2016 @02:41PM |
For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds |
| Sunday November 20, 2016 @08:07PM |
2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition |
| Sunday November 20, 2016 @04:04PM |
Humble Bundle Supports The EFF With A LEGO eBook Sale |
| Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:30AM |
'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV |
| Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:12PM |
Apple Releases $300 Book Containing 450 Photos of Apple Products |
| Friday November 11, 2016 @03:11PM |
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks |
| Saturday November 05, 2016 @12:08PM |
Will The New 'Starship Troopers' Reboot Stay Faithful To The Book? |
| Wednesday November 02, 2016 @01:04AM |
Interviews: Ask American Author and Entrepreneur Seth Godin a Question |
| Friday October 28, 2016 @10:43PM |
Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary |
| Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:40PM |
New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' |
| Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:32AM |
Spanish Police Arrest Their First Ever eBook Pirate |
| Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:55PM |
O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks |
| Sunday October 09, 2016 @12:15AM |
Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? |
| Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:47AM |
Amazon Piles On the Prime Benefits With New 'Prime Reading' Perk |
| Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:41AM |
Amazon's Kindle Unlimited Is a Victim of Its Success in Japan |
| Monday October 03, 2016 @04:21PM |
Amazon Bans Incentivized Reviews Tied To Free Or Discounted Products |
| Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:52PM |
Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars |
| Tuesday September 13, 2016 @07:23PM |
Amazon Adds Audiobooks and Podcasts To Prime Membership |
| Monday September 12, 2016 @07:56PM |
MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books |
| Monday September 12, 2016 @02:34PM |
Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Technology Books and Novels? |
| Friday September 02, 2016 @10:38AM |
No, the Internet Has Not Killed the Printed Book - Most People Still Prefer Them |
| Friday August 26, 2016 @02:41PM |
Belgians Are Hunting Books, Instead Of Pokemon |
| Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:48PM |
Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' |
| Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:30AM |
CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download |
| Monday August 01, 2016 @12:37AM |
British Newspaper Fooled By Online Harry Potter/Pokemon Go Hoax |
| Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:52AM |
Google Play Rolls Out Family Sharing |
| Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:00PM |
Google Will Let You Share Movies, Apps, and Music You Buy With Up To Six People |
| Tuesday June 21, 2016 @05:03PM |
Apple Starts To Shell Out $400 Million To Customers In eBook Settlement |
| Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:00PM |
Hacker Who Stole Half-Life 2's Source Code Interviewed For New Book |
| Sunday June 19, 2016 @04:38PM |
IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI |
| Friday June 10, 2016 @05:00PM |
What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein |
| Sunday May 29, 2016 @01:31PM |
William Gibson Announces New Sci-Fi Comic Book |
| Sunday May 29, 2016 @12:22PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Books Should An Aspiring Coder Read? |
| Thursday May 26, 2016 @01:37PM |
Slashdot Asks: Should It Be Legal To Resell E-Books, Software, and Other Digital Goods? |
| Monday May 16, 2016 @12:12AM |
2015 Nebula Award Winners Announced |
| Monday May 09, 2016 @03:57PM |
Uganda, Where a Book Can Cost a Month's Salary |
| Saturday May 07, 2016 @02:39PM |
Kobo Customers Losing Books From Their Libraries After Software Upgrade |
| Saturday May 07, 2016 @11:02AM |
Does Free Comic Book Day Help Retailers? |
| Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:59PM |
Man Sets World Record With 25 Continuous Hours In Virtual Reality |
| Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:16PM |
Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? |
| Saturday April 30, 2016 @11:02AM |
Neil Gaiman Celebrates Independent Bookstore Day |
| Tuesday April 26, 2016 @06:13PM |
2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign |
| Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:45AM |
Kindle Unlimited Scammers Gaming the System At the Expense of Real Authors |
| Friday April 15, 2016 @05:18PM |
Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China |
| Monday March 21, 2016 @09:50PM |
Intel's Former CEO (and First Hire) Andy Grove Dead at 79 |
| Friday March 18, 2016 @08:20PM |
Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? |
| Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:49AM |
Google Docs Can Now Export EPUB |
| Saturday February 27, 2016 @03:02AM |
AI Bookworms Seek To Predict Human Behavior |
| Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:32PM |
E-book Museum At the Library of Congress? |
| Tuesday February 16, 2016 @09:50PM |
New Study Shows Mystery 'Hobbits' Not Humans Like Us |
| Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:14PM |
Scientists Propose Using Cold War Era Weapons To Deflect Asteroids |
| Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:28PM |
Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited |
| Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:38PM |
Interviews: 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke Responds |
| Friday February 12, 2016 @07:50PM |
US Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia To Remove the Diary of Anne Frank |
| Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:27AM |
Amazon Restores Some Heft To Helvetica For Kindle E-Ink Readers |
| Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:36PM |
Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s |
| Friday February 05, 2016 @01:27PM |
Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability |
| Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:19PM |
Interviews: Ask 'Ubuntu Unleashed' Author Matthew Helmke |
| Sunday December 27, 2015 @02:23PM |
Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? |
| Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:52AM |
Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores |
| Saturday November 07, 2015 @12:06AM |
Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? |
| Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:10AM |
Ask Slashdot: An 'Ex Libris' For My Books In a Digital Age? |
| Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:42PM |
Book Review: Abusing the Internet of Things |
| Monday August 31, 2015 @12:16AM |
Brain Cancer Claims Horror Maestro Wes Craven At 76 |
| Sunday August 30, 2015 @04:45PM |
Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82 |
| Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:29AM |
FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria |
| Sunday August 23, 2015 @02:17PM |
Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes |
| Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:16AM |
XKCD Author's New Unpublished Book Becomes Scientific Best-Seller |
| Tuesday August 18, 2015 @10:02AM |
Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Is Trying To Save a Huge Storage Room of Manuals |
