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Do Cognitive Abilities Predict Performance in Everyday Computer Tasks?(2025-04-13 05:00:03)

"Researchers say that a person's intelligence plays a bigger role in their computer proficiency than previously believed," writes SciTechDaily, "so much so that practice alone may not be enough to ensure ease of use." A new study has found that general cognitive abilities, such as perception, reas...
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Torvalds Celebrates Git's 20th Anniversay. Is It More Famous Than Linux?(2025-04-13 00:00:14)

Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News. Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he's better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, "because they actually use Git for everything there." W...
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Original 1977 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades(2025-04-12 20:00:19)

Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news that in June "a rare screening of the original 1977 Star Wars movie — complete with Han shooting first — will be shown at a theater in London..." Petapixel reports: Subsequent alterations made to the film are well-documented: Han Solo...
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Germany's 'Universal Basic Income' Experiment Proves It Doesn't Encourage Unmployment(2025-04-12 15:00:09)

People "are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments," reports CNN, citing results from a recent experiment in Germany (discussed on Slashdot in 2020): Mein Grundeinkommen (My Basic Income), the Berlin-based non-profit that ran t...
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Leaving Money on the Table(2025-04-12 10:00:11)

Abstract of a paper on NBER: There is much disagreement about the extent to which financial incentives motivate study participants. We elicit preferences for being paid for completing a survey, including a one-in-twenty chance of winning a $100 electronic gift card, a guaranteed electronic gift card...
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