Hardware Stories for 2016

Microsoft Patent Suggests HoloLens Could Keep Track of Your Small Items 62
Foxconn and Sharp Team Up To Build $8.8 Billion LCD Plant In China 66
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert 163
Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10%: Nikkei 113
Sonos Alarms Are Waking Users a Day Early 38
Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China 71
Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro 268
Toshiba Is 'Burning Cash At An Alarming Rate' 103
Mining Companies Are Using Autonomous Trucks, Drills and Trains To Boost Efficiency, Reduce Employees 94
Amazon Patents Floating Airship Warehouse For Its Delivery Drones 94
OpenELEC 7.0 Linux Distribution Now Available For PC and Raspberry Pi 28
Android Users Are So Committed that Exploding Note 7 Did Little To Help Apple: NPD 191
Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack 164
Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down At 30% Battery 130
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls AirPods 'a Runaway Success' 214
Lenovo Switches To Windows 10 Signature Edition Image For Its Future ThinkPad Laptops 99
Overclocker Pushes Intel Core i7-7700K Past 7GHz Using Liquid Nitrogen 139
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Apple Tops Holiday Sales With 44 Percent of All New Device Activations 188
Avatar-Style Manned Robot Takes First Steps In South Korea 42
Panasonic To Invest Over $256 Million In Tesla's US Plant For Solar Cells 30
Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation 168
Fitbit Drops Lawsuit Against Jawbone 4
Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming 366
Unannounced ASUS C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook Hits Newegg, and It Looks Great 109
Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue 254
GM Partners With Boston Startup WiTricity To Develop Wireless Charging Technology 61
Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light 56
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers 162
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service 61
NVIDIA Quadro P6000 and P5000 Pascal Pro Graphics Powerhouses Put To the Test 21
UK Hits Clean Energy Milestone: 50% of Electricity From Low Carbon Sources 111
Stanford Built a Humanoid Submarine Robot To Explore a 17th-Century Shipwreck 47
World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France 277
Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona 150
2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports 212
Tesla Updates Autopilot To Make It Follow the Speed Limit On Roads 162
Pokemon Go Arrives On the Apple Watch 35
Google Isn't Giving Up On Smartwatches; Two Flagship Android Wear 2.0 Watches Launching Early Next Year 61
Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report 76
The Loyalty To AMD's GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing 157
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Human Cells Naturally 'Eat' Silicon Nanowires 42
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail 45
Apple In Talks With India To Manufacture Locally 118
At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof 230
Tim Cook Assures Employees That It Is Committed To Mac and 'Great Desktops' Are Coming 307
Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves 118
Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 192
Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant 100
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers 351
Samsung Could Look To LG For Phone Batteries After Note 7 Debacle 50
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
Scientific American Column: 'It's Not Cold Fusion...But It's Something' 188
Netgear Releases 'Beta' Patches For Additional Routers Found With Root Vulnerability 26
Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations 304
Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel 158
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind 220
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords 88
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
Google May Prevent Samsung From Adding Viv AI Assistant To Galaxy S8 60
Verizon Changes Its Mind and Will Kill Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on January 5th 96
Fitbit Won't Kill Off Pebble Services At Least Until 2018 33
Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source 160
California To Adopt First US Energy-Saving Rules For Computers 171
150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption 229
First Offshore Wind Farm In US Waters Delivers Power To Rhode Island 196
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down, Will Now Lead PC-Focused VR Team Within Facebook 12
AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU 113
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update 164
Android Things Is Google's New OS For Smart Devices 30
Apple Warns Of Counterfeit Power Adapters and Batteries Following Lawsuit 101
Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists 293
Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled In the Last 15 Months 263
Panasonic's New Shopping System Automatically Bags, Tallies Your Bill 88
Xbox One Games Arrive On Oculus Rift With New Streaming App 16
Microsoft Says More People Are Switching From Macs To Surface Than Ever Before 376
Bill Gates Announces A New $1 Billion Clean Energy Fund 121
Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers 414
Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers 147
Magic Leap CEO Promises Production Tests Have Begun For 'Mixed Reality' Headsets 54
Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China 124
'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy 431
Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids 65
Verizon Says It Will Not Push Samsung's Update That Disables Galaxy Note7 Because Of User Inconvenience 192
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
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
Google Cloud Print Is Turning Off Epson Printers 73
Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones 106
Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors 85
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
Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs 324
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
Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning 102
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming 29
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
Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says 77
Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S8 Flagship Smartphone Won't Have a Headphone Jack: Report 360
Google Says It Is About To Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy 176
HP Shutting Down Default FTP, Telnet Access To Network Printers 83
Apple, Which Doesn't Reveal Watch Sales Data, Says Watch Sales Are Great 112
Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home 101
Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED 103
Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire 289
Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant 541
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis 119
Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution 274
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? 288
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
Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead 65
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91 40
Russian Supply Rocket Malfunctions, Breaks Up Over Siberia En Route To ISS 135
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
Motorola Has No Plans For a New Smartwatch 38
Nokia Dials Back Time To Sell Mobile Phones Again 128
Fitbit Is Buying Smartwatch Maker Pebble For Around $40 Million, Says Report 94
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Wielding Their Windows Phones, Microsoft Shareholders Grill CEO Satya Nadella On Device Strategy 157
PC Market Shows Signs of Recovery 113
India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant 177
Europe Is Getting a Network of 'Ultra-Fast, High-Powered' EV Chargers 72
Boot Camp Might Damage Speakers on 2016 MacBook Pro 116
Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen 84
NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication In Deep Space 58
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
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways 178
Samsung Places A Big Bet on Quantum-Dot TV, Acquires QD Vision 46
New 'Doom 3' Mod Successfully Ports It Into Virtual Reality 42
Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller 101
Open-Source Hardware Makers Unite To Start Certifying Products 57
Apple Is Working With LG On Next-Gen 3D Camera For 2017 iPhone, Says Report 29
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
Japan Eyes World's Fastest-Known Supercomputer, To Spend Over $150M On It 35
Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? 278
Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy 249
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days 230
Microsoft Solitaire Collection From Windows 10 Now Available For Android and iOS 50
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
Google Quietly Phases Out 'Google Cast' Branding for TVs, Speakers 9
Sony Accused of Censoring Negative Feedback On Its Bravia TVs Ahead of Black Fri 40
US Regulators Seek To Reduce Road Deaths With Smartphone 'Driving Mode' 291
US Navy's High-Tech Ship Loses Power In Panama Canal 143
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze 53
Tesla Runs an Entire Island on Solar Power 191
China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone 87
US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers 59
Canada Plans To Phase Out Coal-Powered Electricity By 2030 147
Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot 139
Apple To Swap Faulty iPhone 6S Batteries 29
Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers, To Focus On Products That Return More Profit 238
Why Automation Won't Displace Human Workers 540
Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turns 45 74
Barnes & Noble Announces A New $50 Android Tablet 41
The Next iPhone Will Feature An OLED Display, Says Bloomberg 67
Intel Lays Roadmap For 100-Fold AI Performance Boost With Nervana and Knights 44
Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? 315
Apple's Chip Choices May Leave Some iPhone Users in Slow Lane 35
Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof 428
iOS Devices Failed More Often Than Android Units During Q3, Says Report 95
Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus 176
Tesla and SolarCity Merger Gets Approval From Shareholders 36
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 is Its First 10-Nanometer SoC 70
Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei 472
iPhones Secretly Send Call History To Apple, Security Firm Says 124
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
Office Depot Allegedly Diagnosing Computers With Nonexistent Viruses To Meet Sales Goals 161
Samsung Launches SSD 960 EVO NVMe Drive At 3GB/Sec and Under .50 Per Gigabyte 108
Richard Branson Reveals Prototype For Supersonic Passenger Aircraft 202
Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board 478
Apple Releases $300 Book Containing 450 Photos of Apple Products 146
DJI Unveils Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire 2 Drones 20
OnePlus 3T Smartphone Featuring Snapdragon 821 Launched 55
Chinese Consumer Group Has Asked Apple To Investigate 'a Considerable Number' of iPhone Shutdowns 73
Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology 52
Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say 80
Apple Considering Expansion Into Wearable Glasses, Says Report 121
VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior 157
US Finalizes Rules That Require Quiet Hyrbid and Electric Cars To Make Noise At Low Speeds 361
New MacBook Pro's Dedicated AMD Graphics Chips Are 'Significantly' Faster and Support Dual 5K Displays 170
Las Vegas Gets "Kinetic Tiles" That Power Lights With Foot Traffic 86
'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 182
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
Atlas V Rocket Launches Sharp-Eyed Earth-Observing Satellite 19
A USB Stick Can Show HIV Test Results In Under 30 Minutes 52
Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second 54
Researchers Set To Work On Malware-Detecting CPUs 40
BlackBerry's Keyboard is Coming Back for One Last Dance 37
Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives 196
Dungeons & Dragons Inducted Into Toy Hall of Fame 51
Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World 259
Google Says There Are Now 2 Billion Active Chrome Installs 48
Google 'Strongly' Recommends Against Third-Party Fast Charging Technology On Android 90
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win 1368
Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves 74
Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Monkeys To Walk 50
New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year 209
Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone 31
Microsoft is Adding a Virtual Trackpad To Windows 10 15
Apple Now Sells Refurbished iPhones 26
Alphabet's 'Project Wing' Drone Service Nixes Starbucks Partnership 20
The First Hyperloop System Will Connect Passengers From Dubai To Abu Dhabi In Twelve Minutes 75
The Sega Genesis Is Officially Back In Production 117
Leaked NASA Paper Suggests The 'Impossible' EM Drive Really Does Work 711
New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers 174
Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP 92
Samsung To Launch AI Digital Assistant Service For Galaxy S8 67
Elon Musk Predicts Automation Will Lead To A Universal Basic Income 426
How I Freed My Android Tablet: A Journey in Reverse Engineering 79
Researchers Create An Undetectable Rootkit That Targets Industrial Equipment 59
The NES Classic is a $60 Single Board Computer Running Linux 121
A New Process Turns Sewage Into Crude Oil 181
New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed 117
Tesla Adds An All-Glass Roof Option For Its Model S 76
Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones 94
Apple Cuts USB-C Adapter Prices In Response To MacBook Pro Complaints 212
Samsung Is Cutting the Note 7's Access To Mobile Networks In New Zealand 63
Apple Takes 104 Percent of All Smartphone Profits Following Galaxy Note 7 Recall 171
Meet VoCore2 Lite, a $4 Coin-Sized, Open Source Linux Computer 106
Samsung Washing Machines Recalled For Risk of 'Impact Injuries' 96
Scientists Develop Magnetic Ink That Can Self-Heal Gadgets When They Break 52
The Secretive $4.5 Billion Startup 'Magic Leap' Is Gearing Up To Release A Consumer Version of Its Tech 130
White House, 35 States To Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations 72
Future iPhones Could Fold In Half 95
Design For the Present 299
Samsung Galaxy S8 Screen-To-Body Ratio Could Surpass 90%, Near Bezel-Less Design 159
Researchers Make a High-Performance Battery From Junkyard Scraps 117
Nearly 9 Out of 10 Smartphones Shipped Run On Android 220
Chipmaker Broadcom To Buy Network Gear Maker Brocade For $5.5 Billion 33

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