Slashdot Stories for 2019

Trump Signs Traced Act Into Law in Bid To Help Put an End To Robocalls 60
Sonos Gives a Lame Reason For Bricking Older Devices in 'Recycle Mode' 236
Major US Companies Breached, Robbed, and Spied on by Chinese Hackers 118
3D TV Tells You Everything About This Decade's Tech 196
Fireworks, Long a German New Year's Eve Tradition, Are Losing Their Luster 135
US Retailers Rush To Comply With California Privacy Law 54
Amazon is Opening the Largest Family Shelter in Washington State Right Inside Its Headquarters 198
Syd Mead, Visionary 'Blade Runner' Artist and Futurist, Dies at 86 28
ProtonMail Takes Aim at Google With an Encrypted Calendar 33
Huawei's Revenue Hits Record $122B in 2019 Despite U.S. Sanctions 130
Microsoft Takes Down 50 Domains Operated by North Korean Hackers 45
Uber, Postmates Sue California to Block Gig-Worker Law 218
China's Huawei Gets India Nod To Participate in 5G Trials 34
Chinese Scientist Who Edited Babies' Genes Sentenced To Prison 186
Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6 Million for Improper Sharing of User Data 38
French Court Clears Social Media Tracking Plan in Tax Crackdown 37
Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts 67
Tuvalu is a Tiny Island Nation of 11,000 People. Licensing of Its .tv Domain Contributes 1/12th To Its Annual Gross National Income 45
Unintended Perk of the Online Mattress Boom: Never-Ending Free Trials 270
NASA Showcases Its New Mars Rover, Calls It Precursor to Humans on Mars 71
CNBC Reports Open Source Software Has Essentially 'Taken Over the World' 103
Rector Says There Is a 50% Chance That Notre Dame Cathedral Will Not Be Saved 157
Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math 39
Washington Post Writer Calls 2019 'The Year of OK Boomer', Calls for Inter-Generational Kindness 515
New Amazon Scanner Can Identify Shoppers By The Veins In Their Hand 53
What Exactly Happened During Boeing's Starliner Mission to the ISS? 80
Russia Claims New Missile is 27 Times Faster Than Sound 189
Security Camera Startup Wyze Leaked Data on Millions of Customers 36
How Tech Companies Could Skirt California's Strict New Privacy Law 33
Why Is 'Rise of Skywalker' Dividing Critics and Fans? 192
Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal? 111
Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven't Happened (Yet) 39
Google/NASA/Maxar Images Reveal This Decade's Engineering Accomplishments As Seen From Space 18
CNET Releases '2019 Data Breach Hall of Shame' Dishonoring This Year's Biggest Data Breaches 19
Meet The Programmer Behind Atari's Legendarily Bad Videogame 'E.T.' 57
How Should Students Respond To Their School's Surveillance Systems? 138
How Apple -- and Millennials -- Stopped the Rise of eBooks 156
Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
In 1994 A 12-Year-Old Programmed a Videogame. It Turned Up on Twitch Monday 41
FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Forking OpenBSD, Citing 'User Freedom' Concerns 135
Los Angeles Is Considering Make Uber and Lyft Go All-Electric 108
UK Government Accidentally Doxxes Award Winners 27
Bill Gates Gives Reddit User An 81-Pound 'Secret Santa' Gift 42
Couple Reports 'Intruder' To 911. It Turns Out To Be Their Roomba Vacuum Cleaner 85
Stack Exchange Apologizes, Offers 'Possible Reinstatement' To Moderator Removed Over Pronouns Policy 277
Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Project Has Failed in its Current Form, says Swiss President 43
Debian Project Votes 'Systemd But We Support Exploring Alternatives' 203
Spotify Joins Twitter in Suspending Political Ads in 2020 54
Fast Retailing, the World's Third-Largest Retailer, Says It's Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation 93
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
China's Long March 5 Rocket Returns To Flight 20
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 21
Trump Could Mandate Free Access To Federally Funded Research Papers 194
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
Amazon, Ring Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Security Camera Hacks 35
'I Asked My Students To Turn In Their Cellphones and Write About Living Without Them' 77
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS 49
Shopify CEO Says Long Hours Aren't Necessary For Success 35
Turkey Unveils First Fully Homemade Car In $3.7 Billion Bet On Electric 39
Microsoft's Andrew Shuman on the Cortana App's Death, Natural Language, and Alexa 30
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Now Available For Download 39
The Story of the World's Loneliest Tree 24
Facebook Messenger Now Requires a Facebook Account To Join 42
Free Returns Come With an Environmental Cost 58
China To Complete Beidou Competitor To GPS With New Launches 23
Italy Follows France in Levying a Digital Tax 67
China Shows Its Dominance in Surveillance Technology 44
First Active Fault Zone Found on Mars 27
Information Teleported Between Two Computer Chips For the First Time 185
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 70
Wikimedia Says It is Deeply Concerned About India's Proposed Intermediary Liability Rules 50
Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us? 207
Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200 59
YouTube Goes To War With Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency 134
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
Electric Bikes and Scooters Will Stay Illegal In New York Thanks To Governor Cuomo 82
Mazda3 Bug Activates Emergency Brake System For No Reason 55
Baidu Has a New Trick For Teaching AI the Meaning of Language 12
How Amazon Sacrifices Safety For Speed For Its Delivery Network 65
Why Do 88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV? 138
Tesla Patents New Chemistry For Better, Longer-Lasting and Cheaper Batteries 26
Huawei Reportedly Got By With a Lot of Help From the Chinese Government 47
Google Brain's AI Achieves State-of-the-Art Text Summarization Performance 20
Researchers Want To Use Mega Man 2 To Evaluate AI 11
Amazon Researchers Use AI To Improve the Recognition of Curved Text 13
Washington's New Anti-Robocall Law Won't Stop the Calls. Here's Why. 88
Holiday Season Online Shopping Hit a New High in the US This Year 30
New Rule Would Make it Possible To Track and Identify Nearly All Drones Flying in the US 72
Ring's Security Woes Cause Some Tech Review Sites To Rethink Glowing Endorsements 38
Sony Can't Make Image Sensors Fast Enough To Keep Up With Demand 25
The State of JavaScript 2019 150
'Ring of Fire' Eclipse Enthrals Skywatchers in Middle East, Asia 10
Turkey's Wikipedia Ban Violates Rights, Top Court Rules 42
The US Government Has Approved Funds for Geoengineering Research 150
Electric Buses on London's 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence 148
'Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security' 772
Pentagon Wants Open-Source 5G Plan in Campaign Against Huawei 64
Iran Curbs Internet Before Possible New Protests 21
Colleges Are Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Machines, Tracking the Locations of Hundreds of Thousands 148
'The Rise of Skywalker' Is a Preview of Our DRM-Fueled Dystopian Future 78
Behind Samsung's $116 Billion Bid for Chip Supremacy 16
The Man Who Made Wolfenstein 19
Uniqlo's Tokyo Warehouse is 90% Robotic 34
The Snail-Mail Card is Taking on More Significance in the Age of Social Media 20
The French Cities Trying To Ban Public Adverts 113
Chinese Apps Are Losing Their Hold on India 7
If You Bought a Real Christmas Tree, You Paid 15 Cents To the Christmas Tree Promotion Board 109
Russia 'Successfully Tests' Its Unplugged Internet 41
Mysterious Drones Flying Nighttime Patterns Baffle Colorado Officials 82
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Podcast? 277
Watch Santa Travel Across 3D Globe Via NORAD's Santa Tracker 41
Google Chrome Impacted By New Magellan 2.0 Vulnerabilities 25
'My Business Card Runs Linux' 65
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
MIT Reveals First Ever Laser Ultrasound Pictures of a Human Body 15
Bushfires Release Over Half Australia's Annual Carbon Emissions 70
New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 21
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Travis Kalanick Severs All Ties With Uber, Departing Board and Selling All His Shares 46
Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny 11
Chinese Criminal Gangs Spreading African Swine Fever To Force Farmers To Sell Pigs Cheaply So They Can Profit 57
Ask Slashdot: Will Future TVs Be Able To DeepFake Actor Faces In Realtime? 65
Why the Wikimedia Foundation Has Not Signed on To the Contract for the Web 19
Baltimore Police Back Pilot Program for Surveillance Planes, Reviving Controversial Program 31
Why Your Brain Needs Exercise 47
Do You Protect Your iPhone? It's a Case Study That Divides Americans. 177
Malware Broker Behind US Hacks is Now Teaching Computer Skills in China 12
The Next Big Streaming Trend? Recommendations From Actual People 36
Randy Suess, Computer Bulletin Board Inventor, Dies at 74 28
A 22-Year-Old Was Convicted For Attempting To Blackmail Apple For $100,000 In iTunes Gift Cards 32
Uber Joins Forces With Joby Aviation To Launch An Air Taxi Service By 2023 22
Proposed CO2 Capture System Could Reduce Truck Emissions By 90 Percent 83
The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower 137
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster 167
Judge Strikes Down NYC Law Limiting Uber, Lyft Driver Cruising Time 27
Twitter Bans Animated PNG Files After Online Attackers Targeted Users With Epilepsy 78
T-Mobile/Sprint Deal Is Good Actually, Feds Tell Court In States' Lawsuit 17
Tesla Stock Hits 'Funding Secured' $420 Price 121
Boeing Fires CEO Dennis Muilenburg 103
California Gives a Green Light To Companies Testing Driverless Delivery Vehicles 46
IT Worker With Grudge Jailed 31
How Do Bullets Work in Video Games? 92
No, Spotify, You Shouldn't Have Sent Mysterious USB Drives To Journalists 53
Bringing Rocks Back From Mars 65
Board Games Are Getting Really, Really Popular 43
Amazon's Choice' Isn't the Endorsement It Appears 44
Chinese Hacker Group Caught Bypassing 2FA 27
Russia Plans To Cut Off Some Internet Access Today 48
Video Games Are Dividing South Korea 48
Popular Messaging App ToTok Reportedly an Emirati Spy Tool 19
Why So Many Japanese Children Refuse To Go To School 199
Ethiopia Has Launched its First Satellite Into Space 46
'Rise of Skywalker' Falls Short of Predecessors. Is the Future Streaming? 340
Two Top Scientists Warn That The Amazon, and Earth, Have Reached a Tipping Point 281
Ask Slashdot: Is There A Laptop That Uses Rechargeable 18650 Cell Batteries? 95
Microchip Pioneer Chuck Peddle, Lead Designer of the Historic 650x Microprocessors, Dies 56
'Cats' Director Rushes Visual Effects Update Into Theaters After Disastrous Opening 101
Code.org Boasts It's 'Served' an Hour of Code To 910+ Million Students 19
Mysterious Green Liquid Oozing Onto Highway Identified 74
Could Spacecraft Catch the Solar Winds With 'Electric Sails'? 62
Researcher Uses Focused Gallium Ions To Build A Microscopic Gingerbread House 17
Tech News Site 'The INQUIRER' Is Shutting Down 39
Many of Kubernetes 2,000 TODO Comments Appear to Be Forgotten 49
China Could Be Turning On Its 'Artificial Sun' Fusion Reactor Soon 109
Bloomberg Fined $7.6M For Re-Publishing Info From Fake Press Release 88
40% of Anti-Vaccine Group's Funding Came From Wealthy 'Alternative Health' Vendor 110
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
Are 'Advanced Driver Assistance Systems' Making Us Worse Drivers? 134
How a Fake Murder-For-Hire Site Led To Real Convictions 38
Ask Slashdot: At What Age Should Toddlers Get Screen Time? 101
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
How Much Are Cars Spying On Their Owners? 101
'We Tested Ring's Security. It's Awful' 48
The U.S. Navy Bans TikTok from Government-Issued Mobile Devices 26
Vox Media Fires Hundreds of Freelance Writers, Blaming California's 'Gig Economy' Law 178
YouTube's Top Earner For 2019? An 8-Year-Old Who Made $26M 43
Many Security-Critical Military Systems Are Now Using Linux 78
Good News For Climate Change: India Gets Out of Coal and Into Renewable Energy 196
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Changes Time Zones, Just Keeps Drifting 108
GM Car Executive Says Self-Driving Cars Are the Only Way Forward 147
President Trump Officially Adds a New Branch to the U.S. Military: Space Force 249
FDA Approves First-Ever Ebola Vaccine 34
Atari's Home Computers Turn 40 86
Twitter Removes Nearly 6,000 Saudi-Backed Accounts For Platform Manipulation 28
IBM Research Created a New Battery That May Outperform Lithium-Ion, Doesn't Use Conflict Minerals 139
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores 30
Motorola Delays Razr To Meet Unexpectedly High Demand 11
Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Declining, As CDC Confirms Vitamin E Acetate As Main Culprit 107
Volkswagen Has 'massive' Software Problems With New ID3 Electric Vehicles 107
Facebook, Twitter Shutter Pro-Trump Network That Used AI To Create Fake People and Push Conspiracies 136
New Boson Appears In Nuclear Decay, Breaks Standard Model 71
The Big Business of Being a Space Janitor 49
Amazon's AI Creates Synthesized Singers 19
State of Apple's Catalyst 16
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online 17
The Next Frontier in AI: Nothing 60
WeWork's Sudden Fall Reveals the Cracks in the Startup Economy 47
US Government Lists Fictional Nation Wakanda as Trade Partner 65
Cox Owes $1 Billion To Record Labels for Harboring Music Pirates, Jury Decides 87
Boeing Capsule Goes Off Course, Won't Dock at Space Station 158
Apple Begins Pulling Creepy, Unlicensed Disney and Nickelodeon Games from App Store 28
Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Official Rules 10
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites To Beam Data To Devices 46
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
The BBC's 1992 TV Show About VR, 3D TVs With Glasses, and Holographic 3D Screens 54
Enormous Methane Leak From Ohio Gas Well Was One of Worst In American History, Satellites Reveal 72
Multiple States Are Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Free File Marketing 36
Why the Second-Hand eBook Market May Never Take Off 55
Finland Is Making Its Online AI Crash Course Free To the World 18
Virginia Has Big Plans For Electric School Buses In 2020 59
SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon's Internet-Beaming Satellites 42
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Info of Over 3,000 Ring Users 40
Robocall Fines Rise To $10,000 Per Call Under Newly Passed Law 62
Severed Fiber Optic Cables Disrupted Internet Access In Parts of Eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey 44
Facebook Won't Use 2FA Numbers To Suggest Friends Anymore 20
Vivaldi To Change User-Agent String To Chrome Due To Unfair Blocking 88
Some Farmers Have Discovered That Online Stardom Can Be More Lucrative Than their Crops or Livestock 68
The New Payday Lender Looks a Lot Like the Old Payday Lender 78
Africa's Internet Management Body Mired Again by Corruption Allegations 25
Facebook is Building an Operating System So it Can Ditch Android 141
What's it Like To Install a Weather Station at the Top of the World? 21
Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be 99
How Classroom Technology is Holding Students Back 87
Airbnb is a Platform Not an Estate Agent, Says Europe's Top Court 52
TiVo, Xperi to Merge in $3 Billion Entertainment Tech Deal 21
An Investigation Into the Smartphone Tracking Industry 52
Depression and Suicide Linked To Air Pollution In New Global Study 64
Harvard CS50 Team: We 'Feel More Comfortable' About Harshly Punishing Cheaters 113
Missing Stars Could Point To Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say 289
Uber Settles Federal Investigation Into Workplace Culture 22
House Impeaches President Trump For Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress 1183
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments 49
Playing With Weapons Was a 'Normal' Part of Prehistoric Childhood, Study Finds 83
Tesla Is Nerfing Autopilot In Europe To Comply With New Regulations 110
Instagram, Facebook Bans Influencers From Getting Paid To Promote Vaping, Tobacco, and Weapons 32
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book 104
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
Samsung Chair Imprisoned and 24 Others Found Guilty In Union-Busting Case 40
UK To Create Regulator To Police Big Tech Companies 16
More than 38,000 People Will Stand in Line this Week To Get a New Password 46
Vladimir Putin 'Still Uses Obsolete Windows XP' Despite Hacking Risk 103
Russia Joins Race To Make Quantum Dreams a Reality 18
Walt Mossberg: Tim Cook's Apple Had a Great Decade But No New Blockbusters 59
Bitcoin Was the Best Investment of the Decade 139
Kramnik and AlphaZero: How To Rethink Chess 60
Facebook Is Still Prioritizing Scale Over Safety 21
Google, Amazon, and Apple Join Forces To Develop IP-based Smart Home Connectivity Standard 43
Hundreds of 'Pink Slime' Local News Outlets Are Distributing Algorithmic Stories and Conservative Talking Points, Investigation Finds 228
First-Run Movies at Home For the Ultra-Rich at Just $2,500 a Pop 101

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