Hardware Stories for 2013

Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score 234
4 Tips For Your New Laptop 310
Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion 117
Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? 234
Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? 321
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. 396
Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes 293
What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? 804
Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy 579
Tesla Updates Model S Software As a Precaution Against Unsafe Charging 148
60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out 944
A Big Step Forward In Air Display and Interface Tech 65
Ask Slashdot: How Long Will the Internet Remember Us? 126
A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest 501
LinuxDevices Content Returns To the Web 15
Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display 333
Spacesuit Problems Delay ISS Repair Spacewalk 70
Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge 51
Throwable 36-Camera Ball Nearly Ready To Toss 68
Out-of-the-Box, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Support TRIM On SSDs 133
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands 175
How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam 153
Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps 47
Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data 108
Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power 87
Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure 253
Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop 340
One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots 56
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy 154
Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? 246
Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat 139
Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC 289
Fully Autonomous Flapping-wing MAV Is As Light As 4 Sheets of A4 Paper 79
Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone? 66
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security 280
US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month 1146
Google Acquires Boston Dynamics 104
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213
Oculus Raises $75 Million To Make VR Headset 114
NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design 210
Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd 191
Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building 296
Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown 49
Wearable Tech is Advancing, but Isn't for Everyone Quite Yet (Video) 32
Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End 148
AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs 62
Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? 321
AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' 86
Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap 199
Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers 184
The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128 179
Factory-In-a-Day Project Aims To Deploy Work-Ready Robots Within 24 Hours 157
Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating 299
Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy 345
In Three Years, Nearly 45% of All the Servers Will Ship To Cloud Providers 152
US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry 466
Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore 326
Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 183
German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent 192
Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi 88
Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed 239
Visual Guide – the Making of a DIY Space Capsule 40
Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO 267
Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) 129
Tesla Would Be Proud: Wireless Charging For Electric Cars Gets Closer To Reality 176
The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up 136
EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet 1010
For First Three Years, Consumer Hard Drives As Reliable As Enterprise Drives 270
Andy Rubin Is Heading a Secret Robotics Project At Google 162
Yota Phone Launches With Secondary E-Ink Display 72
The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! 453
AMD A10 Kaveri APU Details Emerge, Combining Steamroller and Graphics Core Next 105
IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected 393
Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production 109
Harvesting Power When Freshwater Meets Salty 151
Solar Pressure May Help Kepler Return To Planet-Hunting Duties 46
How the LHC Is Reviving Magnetic Tape 267
R2-D2: Mall Cop 139
New Fujitsu Laptop Reads Your Palm, For Security 107
$39 Arduino Compatible Boardset Runs Linux On New x86 SoC 95
Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide 104
U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks 23
SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy 182
Google Launches Voice Search Hotword Extension For Chrome 54
The Science Behind the InfinitEye's Panoramic Virtual Reality Headset 42
Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions 88
Gift Review: Strandbeest Model Kit 28
Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro? 477
A Co-processor No More, Intel's Xeon Phi Will Be Its Own CPU As Well 53
Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark 188
Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night 424
Dual-Core Allwinner A20 Powered EOMA-68 Engineering Card Available 98
Company Wants To Put Power Plants In the Sky 223
DARPA's Atlas Walking Over Randomness 76
Intel Opens Doors To Rivals, Maybe 59
3D Systems and Motorola Team Up To Deliver Customizable 3D Printed Smartphones 12
The Art of Apple, In Pictures 47
Intel's 128MB L4 Cache May Be Coming To Broadwell and Other Future CPUs 110
Cloud Storage Comparison: Benchmarking From Afar 49
Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? 810
Another Casualty of Typhoon Haiyan: Geothermal Power 78
A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP 1030
Elevation Plays a Role In Memory Error Rates 190
Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149
Researcher Shows How GPUs Make Terrific Network Monitors 67
Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? 226
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
Google Nexus Gets Wireless Charger 223
Toyota Announces Plans For Fuel Cell Car By 2015 115
New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin 124
Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? 215
Not All USB Power Is Created Equal 240
Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop 206
Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default 135
AMD To Launch a Windows 8.1 Gaming Tablet 119
Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy 487
Valve To Demo Prototype VR Headset, "Steam to Support and Promote VR Games" 55
NVIDIA Announces Tesla K40 GPU Accelerator and IBM Partnership In Supercomputing 59
Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit 139
Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense 81
Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark 246
12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too 134
Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge 274
Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? 328
Dell's New Sputnik 3 Mates Touchscreen With Ubuntu 166
Google's Wind, Solar Power Investments Top $1B 74
Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops 363
Anki Is Not a Toy Company; Has iRobot, Others In Its Sights 19
Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements 190
U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium 172
Robots: a Working Breed At the Dairy 65
Military Robots Expected To Outnumber Troops By 2023 177
Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card 222
Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature 77
DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars 231
New Approach To Immersion Cooling Powers HPC In a High Rise 63
Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating 57
AMD Continues To Pressure NVIDIA With Lower Cost Radeon R9 270 and BF4 Bundle 142
Viruses Boost Performance of Lithium-Air Battery Used In Electric Cars 66
A Makerbot In Every Classroom 152
Demo of Prototype Virtual Retinal Head Mounted Display 93
AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor 130
Linux Kernel Running In JavaScript Emulator With Graphics and Network Support 177
25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last 277
Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power 181
Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors 243
NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? 63
LeVar Burton On Google Glass 211
There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking 236
Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Suspended 114
Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots 123
Construction Firm Balfour Beatty Considers Drone Workers 129
Ink-Jet Printing Custom-Designed Micro Circuits 37
Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar 282
CyanogenMod Powered Oppo N1 Will Be Released In December 82
Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks 310
Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging 216
AgriRover Brings Mars Rover Technology To the Farm 41
TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit 104
A Playstation 4 Teardown 254
Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire 104
Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins 243
Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans 104
AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less 183
Cold War Spoils: Amateur Builds Telescope With 70-Inch Lens 101
Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts 155
Robotic Surgery Complications Going Underreported 99
Japanese Researchers Build Rock-paper-scissors Robot That Wins 100% of the Time 114
Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon 108
6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight 297
Project Seeks To Build Inexpensive 9-inch Monitor For Raspberry Pi 176
Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix 326
Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes 103
Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? 285
RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch 154
Mind Control In Virtual Reality, Circa 2013 35
4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear 776
Ask Slashdot: Which Encrypted Cloud Storage Provider? 200
Surface Pro 2 Gets Significant Battery Boost 157
OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 111
Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign 207
The Mile Markers of Moore's Law Are Meaningless 156
GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell 291
Panasonic Announces an End To Plasma TVs In March 202
Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch 312
Lenovo Want Ashton Kutcher As More Than Just a Pretty Face 101
Google Nexus 5 Posts Best Gaming Benchmark Among Android Smartphones 78
Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine 133
Insect-Inspired Flying Robot Handles Collisions And Keeps Going 61
Drive With Google Glass: Get a Ticket 638
Welcome to the Goodwill Computer Museum (Video) 72
Dell Is Now a Private Company Again 151
A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? 230
210 Degrees of Heads-Up Display: Hands-On With the InfinitEye 80
Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned 365
Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones 112
Apple 27-inch iMac With Intel's Haswell Inside Tested 241
Hardware Is Now Open (sourced) For Business 42
Stung By Scandal, South Korea Weighs Up Cost of Curbing Nuclear Power 200
AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review 212
AMD's Radeon R9 290X Launched, Faster Than GeForce GTX 780 For Roughly $100 Less 157
Patent Filing Reveals Samsung's Designs For Google Glass Competitor 39
Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure 164
IZON IP Cameras Riddled With Security Flaws 55
4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television 559
Researchers Tout Electricity Storage Tech That Could Recharge Devices In Minutes 31
Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond 91
Silicon Supercapacitor Promises Built-in Energy Storage For Electronic Devices 95
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' 479
LG Launches Its Firefox OS Phone Fireweb for $200 91
Improved Image Quality For HMDs Like Oculus Rift 55
Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? 381
A Look Inside the 8K Theater Technology At the Newly Renovated Fiske Planetarium 44
Scenes from the Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire (Video) 16
USB Implementers Forum Won't Play Nice With Open Hardware 273
Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? 558
New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles 112
Freedreno Graphics Driver Gets PRIME, Render Node Support 14
Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux 192
Are We Socially Ready For Wearable Computing? 214
Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market 108
Carbon-Negative Energy Machines Catching On 228
OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs 292
Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide 164
Crossing the Divide From Software Dev To Hardware Dev 105
Communications Protocol Leaves Power Grid Vulnerable 68
NVIDIA's G-Sync Is VSync Designed For LCDs (not CRTs) 139
Barbarians At the Gateways 321
Predicting the Future of Electronics and IT by Watching Component Demand (Video) 41
Intel's 14nm Broadwell Delayed Because of Low Yield 96
Volvo Developing Nano-Battery Tech Built Into Car Body Panels 178
NVIDIA Demos "Digital Ira" With Faceworks On Next-Gen SoC, Under Ubuntu 45
How To Attend Next Week's Robotics Show Robotically 38
Uneven Enforcement Suspected At Nuclear Plants 93
ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 232
For Playstation 4 Owners, Bad News On USB, Bluetooth Headsets 292
Imagination Tech Announces MIPS-based 'Warrior P-Class' CPU Core 122
Why Small-Scale Biomass Energy Projects Aren't a Solution To Climate Change 178
Billion Year Storage Media 204
MIT Develops "Kinect of the Future" 76
Cadillac Unveils Pricier Alternative To Tesla Model S 196
Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops 182
UCSD Students Test Fire 3D-Printed Metal Rocket Engine 55
Vivante Mobile GPU Architecture Gains Traction 29
Team Austria Wins the 2013 Solar Decathlon With Their Net-Zero LISI House 50
People Trust Tech Companies Over Automakers For Self-Driving Cars 152

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