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Slashdot: President By Day, High-Tech Headhunter By NightNewsFactor Networktheodp writes "The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas. The offer was made during a live online town hall after the ex-TI engineer's wife ...and more »

Slashdot: World's Largest Virtual Optical Telescope CreatedNewsFactor Networkerice writes "Astronomers in Chile linked four telescopes together to form a single virtual mirror 130 meters in diameter. Previous efforts had linked two telescopes but this is the first time that all four had been linked.and more »

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At TechdirtTechdirtIf you have more time, I think it would be great if you would do something like a Slashdot interview (although I hear the kids these days are doing reddit AMAs instead? Either or.) Thank you for your efforts. And, coming in second was the very next ...

Slashdot: Craigslist Donates $100000 To the Perl FoundationNewsFactor Networkmikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl.

WebOS Swings Along the Open RoadTechNewsWorldSimilarly, "this is a good start," opined Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project. "It will be interesting to see where this goes." Travers would like to see a far more community-oriented competitor to products like Android ...and more »

Slashdot: Maine Senator Wants Independent Study of TSA's Body ScannersNewsFactor NetworkOverTheGeicoE writes "US Senator Susan Collins, the top Republican on the homeland security committee, plans to introduce a bill that would require a new health study of the X-ray body scanners used to screen airline passengers nationwide.and more »

Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back?TechNewsWorldBy Katherine Noyes Ubuntu seems to have shifted lately "from trying to make a rock-solid desktop distribution to playing around with cool ideas for next-generation interfaces," observed Slashdot blogger Chris Travers. "A lot of these ideas are very ...and more »

FOSS' Factious Gender DivideTechNewsWorldBy Katherine Noyes "For every 'geeker girl' there are probably 100000 that only want to use a PC long enough to get the job done and get away from the stupid thing," said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. In the end, "as long as there is a decent workplace ...and more »

Slashdot: How the US Lost Out On iPhone WorkNewsFactor NetworkHugh Pickens writes "Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year are manufactured overseas.and more »

Slashdot: Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For GamesNewsFactor NetworkNew submitter Man Eating Duck writes "Guru3D describes how the activation system in Ubisoft's RTS game Anno 2070 also tracks hardware changes: 'So yesterday I started working on a performance review. We know (well, at least we figured we knew), ...and more »