Hardware Stories for 2021

Boston Dynamics' Stretch Can Move 800 Heavy Boxes Per Hour 91
University Loses 77TB of Research Data Due To Backup Error 74
Tokyo Police Lose 2 Floppy Disks Containing Personal Info on 38 Public Housing Applicants 101
China Lays Out Path To Become Robotics Powerhouse by 2025 22
Data Centers Are Pushing Ireland's Electric Grid To the Brink 66
Sweden's Northvolt Builds First Lithium-Ion Battery Cell In Europe 21
Apple Ditched Intel, and It Paid Off 101
Hyundai Shuts Down Its Engine Development Team Amid Focus On Electric Cars 215
13 Battery Gigafactories Are Coming To the US By 2025 47
Google is Just Letting the Pixelbook Rot 42
Why the Air Force Wants To Put Lidar On Robot Dogs 18
Virginia Family Gets Keys To Habitat For Humanity's First 3D-Printed Home in the US 33
Habitat for Humanity Just Delivered Its First 3D Printed Home in the US 93
'A Quadrillion Mainframes On Your Lap' 101
Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer? 164
New Era Begins: Construction Starts on 47-Acre Fusion Reactor Funded by Google and Bill Gates 215
Micron Explains Reason For DDR5 Shortage 46
MIT Engineers Produce the World's Longest Flexible Fiber Battery 35
'World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm' Produces First Power 205
Cuttlefish-Like Robots Are Far More Efficient Than Propeller-Powered Machines 49
The US Could Reliably Run On Clean Energy By 2050 214
This 8-bit Processor Built in Minecraft Can Run Its Own Games 60
Imagining an All-Renewable Grid With No Blackouts Without Long-Duration Batteries 227
Google Drive Could Soon Start Locking Your Files 76
IBM and Samsung Say Their New Chip Design Could Lead To Week-Long Battery Life On Phones 85
Metaverse Vision Requires 1000x More Computational Power, Says Intel 79
Telecom Data Storage Locations Will Soon Be Public In Japan 4
Dell's Luna Laptop Concept Is All About Repairability 77
What Will Happen To Arm Now? 46
Tyson Foods To Spend $1.3 Billion To Automate Meat Plants 135
Toyota Plans $1.29 Billion Electric Vehicle Battery Factory In North Carolina 77
'Deep Fake' Technology Used to Perfectly Re-Create a Radio Announcer's Voice 44
A New Humanoid Robot Has the Most Advanced and Realistic Facial Expressions Yet 44
Hackers Are Spamming Businesses' Receipt Printers With 'Antiwork' Manifestos 96
Microsoft Makes Breakthrough In the Quest To Use DNA As Data Storage 43
Renewable Energy Has 'Another Record Year of Growth' Says IEA 128
EU Official: Semiconductor Independence Is Impossible 120
'Massive' Startup Wants To Rent Your Spare Compute Power To Pay For Apps 47
World's First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce, Scientists Say 77
Intel Is Stockpiling Legacy Technology For Security Research 43
AMD Allegedly Jacking Up RX 6000 GPU Prices by 10 Percent 51
Nissan Lays Out $17.6 Billion Plan To Electrify Its Future 101
'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say 161
Raspberry Pi Trading Could Go Public This Spring 32
'Squeezed' Light Might Produce Breakthroughs in Nano-Sized Electronics 15
Will a 'Lithium Rush' From California's Salton Sea Fund Its Environmental Remediation? 36
3D Printer Using Living Ink Made of Microbes Could Print Healing Structures in Space 13
Galaxy Note is Dead; Samsung Reportedly Ending Production on Note 20, No Plans for 2022 Model 58
Components Shortage Sends Smartphone Market Into Decline 25
Rooftop Solar Helps Send South Australia Grid To Zero Demand In World's First 180
Rolls-Royce's All-Electric Airplane Reached a Record 387.4 MPH Top Speed 82
Qualcomm is Updating Its Snapdragon Branding To Try and Simplify Its Chip Names 14
Intel's Expensive New Plan to Upgrade Its Chip Technology - and US Manufacturing 131
Is 'The NFT Bay' Just a Giant Hoax? 74
Could Fusion Energy Provide a Safer Alternative to Nuclear Power? 239
Texas Plans To Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All 119
First Electric Autonomous Cargo Ship Launched In Norway 72
Ford Plans To Produce 600,000 EVs a Year By the End of 2023 117
Alphabet Puts Prototype Robots To Work Cleaning Up Google's Offices 31
'The NFT Bay' Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of 'Pirated' NFTs 88
Bill Gates' TerraPower Will Set Up a $4 Billion Nuclear Plant In Wyoming 243
Qualcomm's Next-gen CPU for PCs Will Take on Apple's M-series Chips in 2023 100
DDR4 Memory Protections Are Broken Wide Open By New Rowhammer Technique 115
Report: NVIDIA's ARM Takeover Faces Second Antitrust/National Security Inquiry 17
Hydrogen and Hybrids: Toyota CEO Defends Combustion Engines, Saying 'The Enemy Is Carbon' 265
Increasingly Popular Ghost Guns Fuel an 'Epidemic of Violence', says NYT 344
Have Scientists Disproven Google's Quantum Supremacy Claim? 35
Can We Use Big Batteries to Power Our Trains? 238
Cerebras Systems' WSE-2 Chip: 2.6 Trillion Transistors + 850,000 Cores = 'the Fastest AI Processor on Earth' 49
Could Electric Cars Save the Coal Industry? 165
Last Year's Texas Power Outage Will Now Cost Natural Gas Customers $3.4 Billion 174
Apple-1 Computer Fetches $400,000 At US Auction 20
America Is Hiring a Record Number of Robots 91
Seagate Unveils First Ever PCIe NVMe HDD 70
Windows 11 SE Won't Be Sold Separately, Can't Be Reinstalled Once Removed 87
Steam Deck Delayed, Valve Apologizes 27
Apple Will No Longer Break Face ID On Repaired iPhone 13s 63
A Bitcoin Mine In Navajo Nation Flares Tensions 172
Rolls-Royce Gets Funding To Develop Mini Nuclear Reactors 161
Disney+ Will Slash Your HDTV's Black Bars With IMAX Digital Update 37
France To Build New Nuclear Energy Reactors 206
Microsoft's New $249 Surface Laptop SE is Its First True Chromebook Competitor 26
Japan To Create Scheme To Subsidize Domestic Chip Output 24
Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage 64
Arm CEO Says Industry is Spending $2B a Week to Address Chip Crisis 20
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb 122
As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance 106
US Passes Massive Infrastructure Bill, Investing in Clean Energy, Electric Cars, and Broadband Internet 157
The iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever 215
Drone Used In Attack On US Electrical Grid Last Year, Report Reveals 54
Over 50 PC Games Are Incompatible With Intel's Alder Lake CPUs Due To DRM 74
Intel's Alder Lake Reviewed: 12th Gen Core Processors Bring Fight Back To AMD 154
Future iPad Pro and MacBook Pro Models Rumored To Feature Ultra-Bright Double-Stack OLED Displays 26
Researchers Demonstrate Complete Solar-Powered Hydrocarbon Production 73
Chromebooks on 'Massive Downturn' from Pandemic-fueled Heights 57
US Charging Infrastructure Is Outpacing Forecasts, Study Finds 75
Dropbox Is Adding Folders That Will Automatically Organize For You 23
Why Hyundai Is the One To Watch In the Race For EVs 200
Stanford Engineers Team Up With Michelin-Star Chef To Build Modular Restaurants 52
5D Optical Disc Could Store 500TB For Billions of Year 133
Tesla Is Letting Non-Tesla EVs Use Its Supercharger Network For the First Time 66
'We Mapped Every Large Solar Plant on Earth Using Satellites and Machine Learning' 82
The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' 33
The US Is Installing New Power- and Accuracy-Increasing Sensors on Its Nuclear Weapons 147
A Colorado Firm Claims It Can Triple the Power of Electric Engines 84
Toyota Unveils Its First All-Electric Car 103
Leaked Photo Shows Meta's Planned Competitor To Apple Watch 28
China's New Quantum Computer Has 1 Million Times the Power of Google's 143
AnandTech Reviews Apple's M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips 207
China To Cut Fossil Fuel Use To Below 20% By 2060 186
Argon Fluoride Laser Could Lead To Practical Fusion Reactors 55
CPU Benchmarks: Pre-Release Intel Alder Lake Chip Beats Apple's M1 Max 137
Mixed AR Headset Lynx R1 Gets Its First Third-Party Review 20
US Air Force Announces Plans for a Micro Nuclear Reactor in Alaska 103
Egyptian Security Forces Detain Humanoid Robot, Suspecting Espionage 36
Audio Tape Interface Revives Microcassettes As Storage Medium 78
Intel's Future Now Depends On Making Everyone Else's Chips 61
New 16-Inch MacBook Pro With M1 Max to Feature 'High Power Mode' for Intensive Workloads 88
Raspberry Pi Suffers First Ever Price Increase 72
Recycled Lithium Batteries As Good As Newly Mined, Study Finds 60
The New MacBook Pro Seems To Have an HDMI 2.0 Port, Not 2.1 107
Google Revamps Its Smartphone Line With the Pixel 6 50
Radiant Aims To Replace Diesel Generators With Small Nuclear Reactors 266
Apple's 3rd-Generation AirPods Arrives Next Week With a New Design, Spatial Audio 9
Apple Introduces M1 Pro and M1 Max 201
Canon Sued For $5 Million For Disabling Scanner When Printer Runs Out of Ink 146
Is It Time for Baseball to Adopt Robot Umpires? 100
They're Putting Guns on Robot Dogs Now 197
Modular Framework Laptop Gets Marketplace For All Those Modules 38
Palm Is Trying To Make a Comeback, Again 37
The Mega65: A Modernization of the Canceled Commodore 65 Computer From 1991 113
Acer Launches Bacteria-Resistant PCs 69
Biden Administration Plans For Massive Expansion of Wind Farms Off US Coasts 296
Solar Panels On Half the World's Roofs Would Power the Planet 287
Robotics Engineer Adds a Working USB-C Port To An iPhone 32
Best Buy's New $200/Yr Membership Locks PS5, Hot Holiday Items Behind Membership 50
Is Nuclear Energy Green Energy? 10 EU Countries Call On Brussels To Add It To the List 386
Sony To Join TSMC On New $7 Billion Chip Plant In Japan 18
Nintendo Throws Rare Bone To Modern EU Gamers Via N64 60 Hz Toggle 13
Could Bitcoin Mining Really Provide Crucial Demand For Nuclear Power? 154
With Fewer Chips, Automakers Are Prioritizing High-Markup Vehicles, Offering Fewer Deals 62
Lebanon's National Electricity Grid Collapses 129
3 Degrees Warmer, with Twice as Many 100-Degree Days: How Climate Change Will Affect Texas 218
Robots Take Over Italy's Vineyards as Wineries Struggle With Covid-19 Worker Shortages 49
Valve Opens Up a Steam Deck To Explain Why It Thinks You Shouldn't 107
D-Wave Announces New Hardware, Compiler, and Plans For Quantum Computing 23
Scientists Have Successfully Recorded Data To DNA In a Few Short Minutes 29
Oculus Quest Becomes a Paperweight When Facebook Goes Down 79
Why Chip-Constrained Carmakers Can't Just Transition To Newer Chips 256
Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers: the Most Polluting Machinery Still in Legal Use 362
Tesla Vehicle Deliveries Hit Another Record In Q3, Beats Analysts' Estimates 83
Chip Shortage Makes GM Scrap Its Hands-Free Highway Driving Feature 72
Cloudflare To Enter Infrastructure Services Market With New R2 Storage Product 19
Rolls-Royce Plans To Stop Making Gas-Powered Cars By 2030 76
Chromebook Demand is Plummeting as the Pandemic Eases 78
Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do 36
Amazon Just Revealed its First Home Robot 83
UK Electric Car Inquiries Soar During Fuel Supply Crisis 210
Why Does the iPhone Still Use Lightning? 300
A Tesla Big Battery Is Getting Sued Over Power Grid Failures In Australia 123
What It's Like To Spend 40-50 Hours In VR Every Week 62
As Environmental Criticism Mounts, Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power 158
Microsoft Joins a Linux Foundation Nonprofit's Effort to Decarbonize the Grid 50
US Military Seeks Comments on Its Plan to Build a Small, Transportable Nuclear Reactor 240
Samsung Engineers Propose 'Copying and Pasting' the Brain onto AI Chips 134
Chipmakers To Carmakers: Time To Get Out of the Semiconductor Stone Age 416
After 47 Years, US Power Company Abandons Still-Unfinished $6 Billion Nuclear Power Plant 206
Facing Post-Brexit Petrol Shortage, UK Issues Emergency Visas for EU Truck Drivers 354
The Semiconductor Shortage is Getting Worse 97
Engineers Figured Out How To Cook 3D-Printed Chicken With Lasers 71
Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure Is a Winged Microchip, Scientists Say 53
First RISC-V Computer Chip Lands At the European Processor Initiative 27
Scientists Develop the Next Generation of Reservoir Computing 48
China Vows End To Building Coal-Fired Power Plants Abroad 139
World's Largest Chip Foundry TSMC Sets 2050 Deadline To Go Carbon Neutral 59
NYT: Iran Nuclear Scientist Was Killed By an 'AI-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine' 353
What's the Best Ransomware Backup Solution: Disk or Tape? 165
Can the Computer Chip Industry Reduce Its Carbon Footprint? 25
Boston Dynamics' Spot Becomes a Robotic Watchdog for Hyundai 17
Global Computing's Carbon Footprint Is Bigger Than Previously Estimated 41
Despite 'Economic Distress', Two US Nuclear Power Plants Saved From Closing Through Subsidies 128
GM Tells Bolt Owners to Park 50 Feet Away From Other Cars 138
ITER Nuclear Fusion Reactor Hit By COVID Delay, Rising Costs 56
Rolls-Royce's All-Electric Aircraft Completes 15-Minute Maiden Voyage 55
Solar Power Could Become a Catalyst For a Major Synthetic Fuel Upgrade 144
Razer Says Its New Mechanical Keyboards Have 'Near-Zero' Input Latency 172
Lucid Air Electric Sedan Zips By Tesla With EPA-Rated 520-Mile Range 163
AMD: We Stand Ready To Make Arm Chips 95
Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul 52
Scientists Can Now Assemble Entire Genomes On Their Personal Computers In Minutes 44
Apple Watch Series 7 Delivers Larger Screens and More Durability 26
AMD Radeon Software Can Overclock Your Ryzen CPU Now, Too 25
Singapore Police Deploy Snitch Bots To Test Searching for 'Undesirable Social Behaviors' 155
Scientists Probe Whether Uranium Cubes in US Lab Were Produced by Nazis 215
Can the US Create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs With a Civilian Climate Corps? 129
New Battery Technologies Are Making Progress 77
Facebook Debuts Its Ray-Ban Stories Smart Sunglasses 118
MIT-Designed Project Achieves Major Advance Toward Fusion Energy 148
Astronauts In Space Will Soon Resurrect An AI Robot Friend Called CIMON 17
The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone 171
Automation Is Now Taking Service Jobs Once Thought Safe 286
The 'Dead Internet' Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI 147
Wildly Reinvented Wind Turbine Generates Five Times More Energy Than Its Competitors 217
New Technology Delivers Power To Electronic Devices in a Test Space 41
GM Suspends Production At North American Plants Amid Ongoing Chip Shortages 84
Apple's Upcoming AR/VR Headset To Require Connection To iPhone 60
ASUS Bets on OLED for All of Its New Creator Laptops 93
Wooden Floors Laced With Silicon Generate Electricity From Footsteps 110
Fired NY Credit Union Employee Nukes 21GB of Data In Revenge 123
VanMoof Raises $128 Million To Become 'Most Funded e-Bike Company In the World' 24
The US Added More New Energy Capacity From Wind Than Any Other Source Last Year 153
How Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World 174
Blue Origin's Stay of SpaceX's Moon Lander Contract Gets One-Week Extension Thanks to...PDF Files 80
So How Close Are We Now to Nuclear Fusion Energy? 180
Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Secretly Launched in Alberta, Tapping Dormant Gas Well 62
Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers 53
Tesla Files To Become an Electricity Provider in Texas 64
Scientists Reveal World's First 3D-Printed, Marbled Wagyu Beef 107
Western Digital Caught Bait-and-Switching Customers With Slow SSDs 92
TSMC Hikes Chip Prices Up To 20% Amid Supply Shortage 55
The World's First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge 40
US PC Market Grows 17% In Q2 2021 As Notebook Popularity Booms 17
Misaligned Factory Robot May Have Sparked Chevy Bolt Battery Fires 42
Western Digital in Advanced Talks To Merge With Japan's Kioxia Holdings 15
Dust-Sized Supercapacitor Packs the Same Voltage As a AAA Battery 135
Apple Wins Patent For Dual-Display MacBook With Virtual Keyboard, Wireless Charging Capabilities 69
Bosch Says the Semiconductor Supply Chains In the Car Industry No Longer Work 118
World's Biggest Wind Turbine Shows the Disproportionate Power of Scale 201
45 Teraflops: Intel Unveils Details of Its 100-Billion Transistor AI Chip 16
What Does It Take to Build the World's Largest Computer Chip? 23
Hydrogen Lobbyist Quits, Calls 'Blue Hydrogen' a Distraction Possibly Locking in Fossil Fuel Use 189
Samsung Surpasses Intel to Become Top Semiconductor Manufacturer 19
Could a Black Hole Surrounded by Energy-Harvesters Really Power a Civilization? 77
GM Recalls 73,000 More of Its Chevy 'Bolt' Electric Cars Over Fire Risk 97
Tesla Unveils Dojo Supercomputer: World's New Most Powerful AI Training Machine 32
The World's Largest Computer Chip 72
Elon Musk Reveals 'Tesla Bot', a Humanoid Robot Utilizing Tesla AI 128
Intel Previews Its Alder Lake Chip, Promises Hybrid CPUs for Desktops and Laptops 36
Google's Fuchsia OS Is Rolling Out Widely To 1st-Gen Nest Hubs 40
Intel Is Giving Up On Its AI-Powered RealSense Cameras 16
Laptop Shortage is Easing as Pandemic Demand Wanes 17
IKEA Starts Selling Renewable Energy To Households In Sweden 41
Boston Dynamics Teaches Atlas Robot Parkour 66
Gigabyte Will Replace 'Exploding' PSUs, Downplays Risk 72
World's Largest Solar-Powered Battery Is Now 75% Complete 204
Nokia's Smartphone: 25 Years Since it Changed the World 17
Samsung is Using AI to Design a Smartphone Chip. Will Others Follow? 60
Lamborghini Introduces Rare Hybrid-Electric Countach Sportscar 69
Sportscar Manufacturer Debuts World's First All-Electric High-Performance Hypercar 99
The Worst 5% of Power Plants Produce 73% of Their Emissions 154

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