Technology Stories for 2016

Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled In the Last 15 Months 263
Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans 455
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
Panasonic's New Shopping System Automatically Bags, Tallies Your Bill 88
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available 28
Xbox One Games Arrive On Oculus Rift With New Streaming App 16
Comcast Raises Controversial 'Broadcast TV' and 'Sports' Fees $48 Per Year 166
Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee 99
Google Makes Embedding Projector an Open Source Project 14
Microsoft Will Soon Start Bundling Drivers With Windows Store Games 102
Apple Introduces 'Report Junk' Option To Deal With iCloud Calendar Spam Invites 22
Latest Microsoft Skype Preview Adds Real-Time Voice Translation For Phone Calls 37
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account 470
Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers 414
Linux Kernel 4.9 Officially Released 80
Japanese City Tags Elderly Dementia Sufferers With Barcodes 115
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers 147
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test 309
Fedora-based Linux Distro Korora (Version 25) Now Available For Download 31
A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks 33
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder 150
New Bug In Windows 10 Anniversary Update Brings Wi-Fi Disconnects 191
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students 74
'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy 431
Silly Putty Makes For Super-Sensitive Sensors 43
Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast 139
Google Starts Using HTML5 By Default Instead of Flash For Some Chrome Users 40
Researchers Point Out 'Theoretical' Security Flaws In AMD's Upcoming Zen CPU 57
Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids 65
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results 11
Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report 436
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter 104
Alphabet Donated Its Employees' Holiday Gifts To Charity 399
Verizon Says It Will Not Push Samsung's Update That Disables Galaxy Note7 Because Of User Inconvenience 192
Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver 166
Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math 36
Magic Leap Used Fake Tech Demos and Is 'Years' Behind Schedule 114
Mars One Delayed Its Mars Mission -- Again 99
Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive 88
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39
US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 497
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls 103
Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses 71
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills 37
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 113
Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas 105
PowerShell Security Threats Greater Than Ever, Researchers Warn 129
Google Cloud Print Is Turning Off Epson Printers 73
Yahoo Fixes Flaw Allowing an Attacker To Read Any User's Emails 30
AMD's Major Radeon Software Graphics Driver Update Goes Live With Gameplay Capture, More 98
Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? 145
Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors 85
Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says 277
Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find 140
Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' 239
Adobe Flash Responsible For Six of the Top 10 Bugs Used By Exploit Kits In 2016 72
Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg 51
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Qualcomm Debuts 10nm Server Chip To Attack Intel Server Stronghold 110
Google, HTC, Oculus, Samsung, Sony Join Forces To Create Global VR Association 59
T-Mobile's 'Digits' Solution Lets You Use One Phone Number Across All Your Devices 46
Bluetooth 5 Is Here 114
Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism 74
Information Overload No Problem For Most Americans: Survey 75
YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry 220
Google Further Shrinks the Size of Android App Updates 50
Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year 172
Doyodo RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Classic Video Game Emulation Console 91
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft 38
'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google 77
Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning 102
Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism 588
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming 29
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels 207
Former Samsung Engineers Build Smart Umbrella That Tells If It's Going To Rain 89
Scientists Develop Robotic Hand For People With Quadriplegia 22
Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems 76
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
Google Says It Is About To Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy 176
HP Shutting Down Default FTP, Telnet Access To Network Printers 83
China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency 416
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' 113
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home 101
Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor 789
Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1 75
Google Preparing 'Invisible ReCAPTCHA' System For No User Interaction 57
Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED 103
Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire 289
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers 158
Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant 541
Apple Says It Is Working On Self-Driving Cars 133
Google's DeepMind is Opening Up Its Flagship Platform To AI Researchers Outside the Company 22
Netflix Keeping Bandwidth Usage Low By Encoding Its Video With VP9 and H.264/AVC Codecs 76
New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time 89
Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature 59
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors 368
Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes 56
Does Windows 10's Data Collection Trade Privacy For Microsoft's Security? 181
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' BETA Ubuntu-based Operating System Now Available For Download 137
Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images 47
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
How Microsoft Lost In Court Over Windows 10 Upgrades 121
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 338
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
VM-Neutral Node.js API Unveiled, As NodeSource Collaborates With Microsoft, Mozilla, Intel and IBM 28
Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default 98
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg 119
Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 243
Nikola Motor Company Reveals Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck With Range of 1,200 Miles 106
The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 243
Hackers Steal $31 Million at Russia's Central Bank 78
Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead 65
Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter 122
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs 468
Lawyer Sues 20-Year-Old Student Who Gave a Bad Yelp Review, Loses Badly 90
FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps 56
Facebook Commits Millions to Help Silicon Valley's Have-Nots 58
Fake Apple Chargers Fail Safety Tests 121
Facebook Knows What You're Streaming 100
Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images 103
UK Homes Lose Internet Access After Cyber-Attack 33
Multiple Vulnerabilities In AirDroid Opens At Least 10 Million Android Users To MITM Attacks, Hijackings 30
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91 40
Russian Supply Rocket Malfunctions, Breaks Up Over Siberia En Route To ISS 135
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps 44
'Fatal' Flaws Found in Medical Implant Software 38
Earthquake-Sensing Mobile App 'MyShake' Detects Over 200 Earthquakes Large and Small 25
Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways 75
Motorola Has No Plans For a New Smartwatch 38
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
Facebook Developing AI To Flag Offensive Live Videos 104
Microsoft Says Summer's Windows 10 Upgrade Fit For Business 119
UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon 71
Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' 110
AngelList Acquires Product Hunt 25
Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time 179
Fitbit Is Buying Smartwatch Maker Pebble For Around $40 Million, Says Report 94
ULA Unveils Website That Lets You Price Out a Rocket 'Like Building a Car' 58
Google Earth's Timelapses Offer a 32-Year Look At Earth's Changing Surface 85
British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear 124
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users 55
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' 233
No Man's Sky's Steam Page Didn't Mislead Gamers, Rules UK Ad Watchdog 76
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When You're Not Using the App, Here's Why 131
Wielding Their Windows Phones, Microsoft Shareholders Grill CEO Satya Nadella On Device Strategy 157
PC Market Shows Signs of Recovery 113
More Than 1 Million Android Devices Rooted By Gooligan Malware 42
Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV 220
Facebook Cuts Off Competitor Prisma's API Access 65
Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested 244
India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant 177
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds 228
Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker 138
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
Google Successfully Uses Machine Learning To Detect Diabetic Retinopathy 30
Europe Is Getting a Network of 'Ultra-Fast, High-Powered' EV Chargers 72
Microsoft Brings Collaborative Editing To PowerPoint On Desktop 38
Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' 98
Boot Camp Might Damage Speakers on 2016 MacBook Pro 116
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] 394
Uber Drivers Demand Higher Pay in Nationwide Protest 306
CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat 62
Spinal Fluid Changes In Space May Impair Astronauts' Vision, Study Finds 77
Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds 256
NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication In Deep Space 58
Great Barrier Reef Has Worst Coral Die-Off Ever, Report Finds 235
Japan Fukushima Nuclear Plant 'Clean-Up Costs Double,' Approaching $200 Billion 302
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries 156
Morgan Stanley: Pixel Phone Will Generate Google Almost $4 Billion In Revenue Next Year 66
'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away 147
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels 80
EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline 351
Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year 68
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics 19
Fearing Tighter US Visa Regime, Indian IT Firms Rush To Hire 184
Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 403
Amazon Puts New Limit On Customer Reviews: No More Than 5 a Week Except For Verified Purchases 95
Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop 177
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots 62
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways 178
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update 112
Samsung Places A Big Bet on Quantum-Dot TV, Acquires QD Vision 46
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button 46
False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads 158
Has The 'Hour of Code' Turned Into a Giant Corporate Infomercial? 88
Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech 434
Apple Is Working With LG On Next-Gen 3D Camera For 2017 iPhone, Says Report 29
An Underground Ice Deposit On Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico 113
6 Major Countries Have Recently Announced Plans To Phase-Out All Coal-Fired Power Plants 275
Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' 146
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Microsoft Is Working On a New Design Language For Windows 10 Codenamed Project NEON 66
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts 36
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe 106
Japan Eyes World's Fastest-Known Supercomputer, To Spend Over $150M On It 35
Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Telemetry Data With Third Parties 175
VLC Media Player Previews 360-degree Video Support 17
UK Revises Safe Flying Drone Code 32
Google's DeepMind Made an AI Watch Close To 5000 Videos So That It Surpasses Humans in Lip-Reading 80
Microsoft Set To Win EU Approval for LinkedIn Buy 24
Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors 69
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
ESA: European Mars Lander Crash Caused By 1-Second Glitch 110
Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days 230
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language 69
Microsoft Solitaire Collection From Windows 10 Now Available For Android and iOS 50
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors 20
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471

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