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Author Topic: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?  (Read 4339 times)

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What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« on: September 19, 2014, 06:30 AM »
I am looking for some new resources for the Weekly Tech/Science News Roundup and hope you guys may be able to point me to some lesser known, but good sources!

For my current list, I use the following list (Sometimes others, and not always all):

Tech News:
  • BBC.co.uk
  • Wired.co.uk
  • Endagadget.com
  • TechCrunch.com
  • TheRegister.co.uk
  • CNet.com
  • TechRadar.com - No longer used as they have become 99% about Apple and don't really feature much else...gets really boring really quickly.

Science News:
  • Iop.org
  • Sciencenews.org
  • Sciencedaily.com
  • BBC.co.uk
  • Newscientist.com
  • Sci-news.com
  • Science.nasa.gov
  • IFLScience.com



Sooo, you guys got any I can add to my radar?! :D - I mainly need some cool Tech News websites as I do have a fairly extensive list of Science News sites already, but...the more the merrier!

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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 07:02 AM »
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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2014, 06:14 PM »
Torrent Freak...is...awesome!  Spent WAY too long on there earlier haha

Added both to my list!  Thanks!!!

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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2014, 09:49 PM »
CodeProject news:
http://www.codeproje...cript/News/List.aspx

Nixcraft (for actually interesting Linux/BSD/OpenSource articles, tutorials & how-tos,  and the like):
http://www.cyberciti.biz/
... and their facebook feed is pretty cool too:
https://www.facebook.com/nixcraft

That's all I got for now...


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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2014, 10:02 PM »
Cheers Eddy!  Added to my list!

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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2014, 10:08 PM »
Good old Slashdot and in science, phys.org


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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2014, 01:43 AM »
I often check Hacker News, mostly the comments, which are sometimes more insightful than the actual content linked.

(I use hckr news as an interface, because it shows submissions by time, so you can see what was posted since your last visit.)

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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2014, 08:12 AM »
Thank you!  Added to the list!  :D

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Re: What are your favorite Tech News or Science News websites?
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2014, 09:13 PM »
ArsTechnica occasionally has breaking tech news. I find the site to be more interesting than some of the others listed in this thread.