Hardware Stories for 2011

How the Year Looked On Slashdot 161
Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? 126
Speculating On What a Microsoft Superphone Might Mean 371
Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound 53
Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 152
Transistor Made From Cotton Yarn 92
Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? 356
Russia Building World's Largest Li-Ion Battery Plant 128
Intel Ships New Atom Processors To PC Makers 59
HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices 133
Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies 435
Intel Medfield SoC Specs Leak 164
Experimenting With Robotic Movement 23
DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012 232
Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident 267
What If Babbage Had Succeeded? 212
Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? 355
Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? 375
Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab Won't Get Android 4.0 333
Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops 215
Major Australian Retailer Accused of Selling Infected Hard Drives 128
Raspberry Pi Beta Boards Unveiled 161
NRC Approves New Nuclear Reactor Design 299
Average Web Page Approaches 1MB 319
Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models 503
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested 281
Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker 99
Is Overclocking Over? 405
The Fjord-Cooled Data Center 195
Hack Your Holiday Decorations 48
Inductive Charging For EVs To Be Tested In Berlin 123
Liquid Metal Capsules Used To Make Self-Healing Electronics 135
Intel Demos Phone and Tablet In New Mobile Chip Push 99
Apple Buys Israeli Flash Manufacturer 114
Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access 275
Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides 155
Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel 360
IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years 219
Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties 445
Dell Ditches Netbooks 354
Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow 123
Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? 153
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi 161
Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored 86
Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother 191
Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown 201
JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer 210
How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit 200
Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? 514
Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House 175
In Nuclear Power, Size Matters 230
Russia Set To Extend Life of Nuclear Reactors Past Engineered Life Span 215
MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second 197
Quantum Dots Will Make Flexible Displays 83
Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage 198
World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip 156
Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak 161
PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives 353
HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th 121
Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor 467
Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware 196
GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity 241
Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip 133
Webhosting For A Large Art Project? 137
Researchers Build First Molybdenite Microchip 67
Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast 103
Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety 162
Hybrid Storage Solutions Compared 61
PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released 60
Dell Kills Streak 7, Bails On Android Tablets 232
An iPad Keyboard You Can Type On and Swipe Through 93
Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant 561
Discouraging Playstation Vita Details 275
IBM Makes First Racetrack Memory Chip 51
AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million 149
Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive? 167
Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? 848
First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed 218
Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's 91
Ask Slashdot: Parallel Cluster In a Box? 205
World of Commodore 2011 December 3rd In Toronto 142
RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken 63
OpenMoko's FreeRunner Rises From the Ashes 133
New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs 56
Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? 334
NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks 390
30 Years of the BBC Micro 208
Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? 462
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448-Core GPU 127
AMD Confirms Commitment To x86 163
Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? 311
Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records 186
Microsoft Working On Kinect 2 75
Printers Could Be the Next Attack Vector 175
Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? 253
A 3D Display You Can Touch 63
Tower To Be Built By Flying Robots 58
CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S 218
Good Disk Library Solutions? 371
Can Maintenance Make Data Centers Less Reliable? 185
Harvard Licenses Technology For Tiny Swarming Robot 38
QT 5 Will Be Available For Raspberry Pi 80
UK University Creates First Inkjet-Printed Graphene Circuit 60
Hard Drive Prices Up 150% In Less Than Two Months 304
Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? 569
Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops 324
Tiny Insect Cyborgs Could Act As First Responders 25
Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium 207
Robots To Patrol South Korean Prisons 113
Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material 180
3-Way Price War On Black Friday: iPad, Nook, and Kindle 230
Min7 Micromouse Robot Solves Maze In 3.921 Seconds 58
Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics 375
Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? 209
MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits 55
A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab 44
AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC 149
4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt 41
Ask Slashdot: Tablet With Root Access By Default? 168
Bulldozer Server Benchmarks Not Promising 235
Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius 282
Are Maker Spaces the Future of Public Libraries? 158
A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck 60
Microsoft To Back Kinect-Based Startups 200
The Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated 68
A Kindle Fire Review For Those Who Plan To Void the Warranty 103
Whither the Portable Optical Drive? 440
Controlling a Robot From a Smartphone's Headphone Jack 94
Inside Newegg's East Coast Distribution Center 112
Dual-Core Android PC Now Comes On a USB Stick 178
All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe 493
Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake 38
Microturbines Power, Cool Servers Simultaneously 58
Working On Man Made Lightning 67
Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets 151
Rambus Loses $4B Antitrust Case 112
Robot Controls Person's Arm To Manipulate Objects 77
Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity 378
MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses 220
Qualcomm's Butterfly Wing Display Gets Nearer 168
Raspberry Pi PCB Layout Revealed 112
Russia's MiG Aircraft Company Develops 3D Flight Simulator 62
Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turns 40 126
Ask Slashdot: Building an Assistive Reading Device? 134
Via Launches a New Mini-ITX System 162
First 16-Core Opteron Chips Arrive From AMD 189
Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag 381
Cray Replaces IBM To Build $188M Supercomputer 99
Intel Launches Sandy Bridge-E Series Processors 204
Startup Testing Mobile Farmbots 243
Chevy Volt Fire Prompts Safety Investigation For EV Batteries 225
Rise of the Ping Pong Robots 50
Ask Slashdot: Physical Input Devices For Developers? 147
The Transistor Wars 120
60 Years of Business Computing Started With Tea Shops 89
Linux Kernel Power Bug Is Fixed 145
ARM Claims PS3-Like Graphics On Upcoming Mobile GPU 217
Shanghai Government Proposes 100 Community Hackerspaces 76
Asus Unveils Quad-Core Transformer Prime Tablet 274
Polaroid: This Time It's Digital 176
New, More Autonomous Asimo Robot Unveiled By Honda 62
Tesla To Build a Rapid-Charging Station Between LA and SF 215
Fake Raspberry Pi Shops Pop Up 119
Experimental Virtual Graphics Port Support For Linux 74
Derek Deville Answers Your Questions on Rocketry 33
Fujitsu Announces 16-core SPARC64 IXfx (and the Supercomputer It Powers) 68
Bell Labs Builds Cheap Telepresence 'Robots' 65
Mixed-Reality 3D Volumetric Projector 112
GNOME Shell No Longer Requires GPU Acceleration 237
Dropbox Pursues Business Accounts, But Falls Short On Privacy Laws 122
Ask Slashdot: Touchscreen Device For the Elderly? 155
B&N Nook Tablet vs. Amazon Kindle Fire 138
Hardware Running Android Fails More Than iPhone, BlackBerry Hardware 357
Spanish Firm Wins Tablet Case Against Apple 151
Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4S Battery Problems 315
Spontaneous Fission In Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 266
3D Printed Bone Models Cut Cost of Surgery Operations 88
Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking 318
OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops 130
Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android 800
Gecko-Inspired Robot Rolls Up Walls 29
Nokia Hints At Windows 8 Tablets 82
10k Raspberry Pi Units Available In December 123
The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet 200
HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line 125
Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power 298
Is the Maker Movement Making It Cool For Kids To Be Nerds? 220
Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia 84
Blow-By-Blow Account of the Fukushima Accident 259
Hobby Inspired Electric Multicopter Makes Manned Flight 104
Rethinking the Nature of Files 369
ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks 207
Open Hardware Journal 103
Kinect For PCs Early Next Year, Microsoft Eyeing Business Apps 55
Boston Dynamics' PETMAN Humanoid On Video 70
China Builds 1-Petaflop Homegrown Supercomputer 185
Paper-Based Explosives Sensor Made Using an Inkjet 44
Apple Building Solar Farm In North Carolina 172
Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center? 41
$25 PC Prototype Gets Award At ARM TechCon 238
Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards Tested 171
Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists? 165
Is That an Android On Your Wrist? 119
Nokia Unveils OLED Phone You Control By Bending 110
HP Officially Out of TouchPads 127
Agile Quadruped Robot Unveiled By Italian Roboticists 45
Smarter Thread Scheduling Improves AMD Bulldozer Performance 196
'Invisible Glass' Solves Screen Reflection Problems 216
Highly Efficient Oxygen Catalyst Found 156
ARM Goes 64-Bit With Its New ARMv8 Chip Architecture 156
1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online 828
Making a Learning Thermostat 192
Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside 132
Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? 249
US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs 272
Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power 195
The Real Job Threat 990
Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? 196
Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? 708
Stanford Scientists Show Stretchable Skin-Like Sensor 19
Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC 120
Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up 232
Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile 357
Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook 258
Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System 76
Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h 114
Siri Envy? Iris Brings Some Voice-Assistant Features to Android 402
Kobo To Release Android Tablet E-Reader 80
DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones 186
Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices 282
How Open Source Hardware Is Kick-Starting Kickstarter 44
OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD 128
Open Source CPUs Coming To a Club Near You? 54
Ask Slashdot: Computer Test Lab Set-Up For Home? 142
Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared 182
Intel Z68 Motherboard Round-Up 74
Lego NXT Bot Beats Rubik's Cube Record 50
How Google's Autonomous Vehicles Work 295
Seeing Through Walls 163
Winged Robots Hint At the Origins of Flight 59
Microtouch: 8-bit Open Source Media Device 115
Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted 203
Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? 191
Installing Android On an HP TouchPad 96
CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere 81
Dell, EMC Divorce After 10-Year Reseller Relations 51
SF Authors Predict Computing's Future 258
Electrical Power From Humans 220
Hacking the Nissan Leaf EV 199

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