Apple Pay, New iPhones, Apple Watch Unveiled; Microsoft Reportedly to Buy Minecraft Maker for $2B

First Law to Stop Businesses from Banning Consumer Reviews | What Happens When Scientists Give Up To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Apple Pay, New iPhones, Apple Watch Unveiled Microsoft Reportedly to Buy Minecraft Maker for $2B+ First Law to Stop Businesses from Banning Consumer Reviews What Happens When Scientists Give Up Buses, Not Cars Will Lead Electric Vehicle Revolution Hot Comment: "What's funny is that Apple is pushing for it so gradually that..." From the Vault: Linux Torvalds Says 'Linux Is Bloated' Watch It: Real-Time Linux Embedded OS Offering Poll Booth: To prepare for a cornal mass ejection, I ... Sponsored Resource: Develop in the Cloud, Deploy Anywhere Apple Pay, New iPhones, Apple Watch Unveiled Apple's September press conference announced several new offerings, including the new iPhone 6 models, the company's entry into the mobile payments market, and the long-anticipated Apple Watch. The new iPhones are thinner than earlier models and sport a faster CPU and better battery life. Sound Off>> Microsoft Reportedly to Buy Minecraft Maker for $2B+ Citing a person with knowledge of the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is looking to buy Minecraft developer Mojang. The reported price tag is "more than US$2 billion." According to the report, "For Microsoft, "Minecraft" could reinvigorate the company's 13-year-old Xbox videogame business by giving it a cult hit with a legion of young fans." Sound Off>> First Law to Stop Businesses from Banning Consumer Reviews ericgoldman writes that some businesses are so paranoid about negative consumer reviews that they have contractually banned their customers from writing reviews or imposed fines on consumers who bash them. California has told businesses to stop it with a new law that any contract provisions restricting consumer reviews are void. Sound Off>> What Happens When Scientists Give Up All Things Considered has a report about how the struggle for scientific funding in today's political and economic environment is forcing scientists to give up on the types of research that led to so many of today's marvels. At the same time, many promising young scientists are giving up on the field altogether. "There are far more scientists competing for grants than there is money to support them." Sound Off>> Buses, Not Cars Will Lead Electric Vehicle Revolution Slate reports that if we really want to reduce vehicle emissions, it's unglamorous buses, not flashy sedans, that need to go electric. "Forget about Tesla and its futuristic new Gigafactory. When it comes to using electricity for transportation, the real action may lie in the polar opposite of the fancy sports car. Municipal intracity buses may be declasse, unloved, slow, lumbering behemoths. But they're the workhorses of America's transit systems." Sound Off>> Re: Deprecating the telephone system "What's funny is that Apple is pushing for it so gradually that the carriers still haven't realized what's happening. The sooner they wake up and realize we only need data (and a lot more of it), the better." --by ArcadeMan Read More>>   Linux Torvalds Says 'Linux Is Bloated' Five years ago, Cnet reported that Linus Torvalds made a somewhat surprising comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore. "While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux 'huge and scary now,' according to Torvalds." Read More>>   Real-Time Linux Embedded OS Offering Enea A.B. produces a commercial embedded Linux distribution based on the Yocto project called Operating System Embedded. Timothy Lord recently caught up with Enea's Jon Aldama at LinuxCon in Chicago to get the details about the "solution." Watch the Video>> To prepare for a cornal mass ejection, I ... Do nothing. Stockpile toilet paper, guns, and water. Back up my data. Back up my data and foil-wrap the drive. Just duck and cover. Cast Your Vote>> Develop in the Cloud, Deploy Anywhere Enterprise applications today are becoming increasingly complex, leveraging components across multiple platforms, including cloud. Learn how you can provide full multi-stage release and deployment management to facilitate development, test and staging of complex applications. Learn More>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.