Hardware Stories for 2015

Nadine the Robot Receptionist 46
The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use 132
Dog With 3D-Printed Legs Gets an Upgrade 36
Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes 98
Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? 386
Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet 35
Physicists Figure Out How To Make Cleaner Fuel Cells 32
Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps 153
Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game 44
Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 72
The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem 154
Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable 71
HAMR Hard Disk Drives Postponed To 2018 122
Four Factors That Will Push VR Forward in 2016 64
Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard 401
Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? 122
Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? 481
Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions 100
Marc Andreessen Describes Vision of 'Ambient Computing' 106
Amazon Makes It Almost Impossible To Calculate Their "Virtual CPU" Equivalent 114
HTC Wants To Bring Vive VR Headset To 100M+ Chinese Internet Cafe Users 8
Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics 169
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer 78
USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems 62
ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 129
DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative 143
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks 129
Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 107
The Data Center Density Debate: Generational Change Brings Higher Densities 45
Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time 58
Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion 151
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? 94
EE Recalls All Power Bar Chargers Over Fire Safety Risk 27
As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? 302
British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm 421
North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back 336
Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth 285
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' 133
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? 69
Microsoft Backs Down, Lets OneDrive Users Keep Their Free 15GB of Storage 80
Lenovo ThinkPad Stack, a New Take On Modular Mobile Peripherals 72
Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers 54
Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update 89
Low Redundancy Data Centers? Providers Adapt As Tenants Seek Options 57
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model 201
The Ups and Downs of AMD 225
$5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer 99
HTC Delays Vive VR Launch Until April 2016 18
Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing 157
Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Charges In Europe 33
Radeon Graphics Cards To Support HDR Displays and FreeSync Over HDMI In 2016 37
The Death of Electronic Surplus 138
Remix Mini Review: a $70 Android Desktop PC 82
Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor 254
Take a Visual Tour of CyberKnife Radiosurgery 36
Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers 115
Racing a Real Car While Wearing an Oculus VR Headset 74
Greener Colo: Service Providers Get Serious About Renewable Energy 33
If Climate Change Is a Problem Then Lunar Helium-3 Fueled Fusion Is the Solution 267
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Nokia's $60,000 Virtual Reality Camera Goes On a Drone Test Flight 24
Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students 190
Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users 81
Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive 145
SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs 272
Father of Robotics, Joseph F. Engelberger, Dies At Age 90 20
Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs 143
Researchers Create Sodium Battery In Industry Standard "18650" Format 209
Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop 207
Swarm Robotics Breakthrough Brings Pheromone Communication To AI 31
What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) 299
Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? 325
C.H.I.P. vs Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better? 122
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs 72
Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products 108
Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1 37
Russians Build Nuclear-Powered Data Center 58
900 Embedded Devices Share Hard-Coded Certs, SSH Host Keys 48
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
Raspberry Pi Unveils New $5 Mini-computer 243
The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube 109
What Is the Future of the Television? 235
The Tamagochi Singularity Made Real: Infinite Tamagochi Living On the Internet 84
On iFixit and the Right To Repair 250
Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism 75
Sabotage Blacks Out Millions In Crimea 156
Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms 313
Telemedicine: The State of Telepresence In Healthcare 34
Intel Broadwell-E, Apollo Lake, and Kaby Lake Details Emerge In Leaked Roadmap 117
Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? 375
TrueCrypt Safer Than Previously Thought 42
600,000 Arris Cable Modems Have 'Backdoors In Backdoors,' Researcher Claims 76
Hands-On With the Voltera V-One PCB Printer 37
French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned 193
Silent Ear and Tongue-Tracking Tech Can Control Wearables 10
NASA Selects Universities To Develop Humanoid Robot Astronauts 21
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X, Fastest GPU Under $250 110
MIT Helping NASA Build Valkyrie Robots For Space Missions 35
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years 109
Adding Eye Control To Wheelchairs for Quadriplegics 15
The Next Gold Rush Will Be 5,000 Feet Under the Sea, With Robot Drones 129
Tape Disintegration Threatens Historical Records, But Chemistry Can Help 76
Daimler Builds Massive Industrial Energy Storage Systems From Used EV Batteries 73
Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches 60
Intel Launches 72-Core Knight's Landing Xeon Phi Supercomputer Chip 179
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Performance Shines For GPU Computing 22
737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet 366
China To Spend $47 Billion In Bid To Become 3rd-Largest Global Chip Manufacturer 53
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
The Intel 4004 Microprocessor Turns 44 60
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware 100
Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices 75
BadBarcode Attack Forces Host System To Carry Out Commands 79
Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption 73
Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92 78
Quantum Dots Made From Fool's Gold Boost Battery Performance 18
Ask Slashdot: What's Out There For Poor Vision? 197
Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs 291
Hacked Amazon Echo Controls a Wheelchair 23
Getting Started With GNU Radio 42
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
Even the CEO's Job Is Susceptible To Automation, McKinsey Report Says 176
NVIDIA Releases JTX1 ARM Board That Competes With Intel's Skylake i7-6700K 84
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year 103
In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered 108
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? 118
The Dawn of the Robotic Chef 50
Ask Slashdot: Tiny PCs To Drive Dozens of NOC Monitors? 197
Google's Robotics Group Lacks Leadership 43
ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season 37
Intel Skylake-U For Laptops Posts Solid Gains In Testing, Especially Graphics 104
Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation 51
Jack McCauley's Next Challenge: the Perfect Head-Tracker For VR 25
Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips 90
Surry Nuclear Reactors To Extend Lifespan To 80 Years 148
Paris Data Center Not Too Noisy, After All 77
Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue 21
Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables 206
Ask Slashdot: Secure, Yet Accessible E-mail Archive Storage? 74
Lytro Announces World's First Light Field VR Camera 30
Cloud Growth Spurs Data Center Land Grab In Northern Virginia 20
Intel Offers More Insight On Its 3D Memory 115
Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds 63
Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 98
Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse 330
Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? 151
Hacking Jules Coaxes Android Wear To Run Nintendo 64 and PSP Emulators 37
Cambridge Researchers Present Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough 100
Farmer Coalition Offers $250K Prize For Blueberry Picking Robot 112
Getting Small: Modular Data Center Designs Play Large Role In Edge Growth 5
Robots Teach Each Other New Tricks 27
Batman Demands 12GB RAM For Windows 10 309
Solar Energy in Space is not Necessarily Easy to Harvest (Video) 85
Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop 139
Universities, Gov't Testing Magnetic Resonance Charging For EVs In Transit 77
Oracle Bakes Security Into New Chips 99
Immersion Cooling Drives Server Power Densities To Insane New Heights 80
MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine 33
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
Morocco's Solar Power Mega-Project 102
ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? 102
First New US Nuclear Reactor In Two Decades Gets Permission To Begin Fueling 167
A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset 139
Compromised CCTV and NAS Devices Found Participating In DDoS Attacks 64
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone 107
The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research 223
Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s 36
Looking At the Hardware and Software of JAXA's Hayabusa-2 16
Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers 151
3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria 120
Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS 88
Should Japan Restart More Nuclear Power Plants? 313
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book Reviews 152
Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center 157
Western Digital To Buy SanDisk 99
'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar 621
Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack 74
Ultrasonic Power Transfer Investigated Using Data From uBeam Patent Filings 120
A Chat With the Author of 'Abacus to smartphone: The evolution of mobile and portable computing' (Video) 6
Why Aren't There Better Cybersecurity Regulations For Medical Devices? 99
Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer 276
Former Governor On Holding the Department of Energy Accountable In Idaho 120
Rod Logic Computers and Why We Don't Already Have Them 31
New Plastic For Old Amigas and Commodores 128
Deja Vu: Microsoft's 2015 Surface Book Ad and Apple's 2014 'Your Verse' iPad Ad 71
Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome 51
Learning To Fly, With a Full-Size Cockpit Simulator 77
Point-And-Shoot Weapon Stops Drones Without Destroying Them 116
China Looks To Deep Space Missions, Including More Lunar Landings and Robot Ants 65
Data Centers Coming To a City Near You 39
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data 49
China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming 67
Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers 177
USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers 229
Orange County Developer To Install Tesla Batteries In Two Dozen Buildings 89
Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages 312
Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees 328
Ask Slashdot: Is There Space For Open Hardware In Networking? 121
Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle 136
DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles 70
"E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails 127
Ion-Based Data Allows Atom-Sized Storage Cells Similar To Brain Structure 19
Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California 554
Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion 116
Replacement of Writers Leads Gartner's Predictions 113
ARM Processor On a Breadboard 94
Amazon: a Single Disaster Made Us Rethink Our Cloud Supply Chain 37
Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' 182
Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail 94
Barnes & Noble Has Been Quietly Refreshing Its Nook Hardware 31
Dell Brings 4K InfinityEdge Display To XPS 15 Line, GeForce GPU, Under 4 Pounds 94
Not All iPhone 6s Processors Are Created Equal 262
Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks 97
Wealth of Personal Data Found On Used Electronics Purchased Online 70
Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument 55
Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed 421
Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows 209
Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers 92
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
Software Defined Smart Battery Arrays Extend Laptop Life 42
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? 251
On-Chip Liquid Cooling Permits Smaller Devices With No Heatsinks Or Fans 45
Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers 91
Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine 140
Japan Display Squeezes 8K Resolution Into 17-inch LCD, Cracks 510 PPI At 120Hz 178
Desktop Turing-Welchman Bombe Build 69
Ask Slashdot: Best Country For Secure Online Hosting? 113
Some Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Smartphones Mysteriously Powering Down 59
Ask Slashdot: Is the Gap Between Data Access Speeds Widening Or Narrowing? 92
SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel 184
$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card 145
NASA Targets Venus, Asteroids With Potential Missions 47
Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" 174
EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores 93
IBM Scientists Find New Way To Shrink Transistors 100
Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown 366
Advance In Super/Ultra Capacitor Tech: High Voltage and High Capacity 147
Google Shows Off 2 New Nexus Phones, a New Pixel, and More 208
Ask Slashdot: Advanced KVM Switch? 128
ALS Patients Use a Brain Implant To Type 6 Words Per Minute 26
How Amazon's Robots Move Everything Around 177
Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit 308

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