Hardware Stories for 2016

Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot 675
Why Tesla's New Solar Roof Tiles and Home Battery Are Such a Big Deal 280
Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone 173
Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace 56
Mobile Browsing Just Overtook the Desktop For the First Time 80
Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers 275
You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now 106
President Obama Announces Semiconductor Industry Working Group To Review US Competitiveness 111
Tablet Shipments Decline For Eighth Straight Quarter, No Company Surpassed 10 Million Units 127
Foxconn Testing Wireless Charging For iPhone 8 81
China's New Policing Computer Is Frontend Cattle Prod, Backend Supercomputer 69
MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux 535
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
Mines May Eliminate More Than Half Their Human Workers Within 10 Years 231
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Cheap Linux-Friendly Netbook? 187
Microsoft Offers $650 To MacBook Users Who Switch To A Surface Tablet 130
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Last Bit of Data From 2015 Pluto Flyby 60
Tesla Unveils Residential 'Solar Roof' With Updated Battery Storage System 231
Why Apple and Microsoft Are Using Last Year's Skylake Processors In Their New Computers 136
Harvard Scientists Invent Cigarette-Smoking Robot For Better Lung Disease Research 46
Apple Says It's Out of the Standalone Display Business 108
Amazon Launches Prime In China 28
New MacBook Pros Max Out At 16GB RAM Due To Battery Life Concerns 319
Apple's New MacBook Pro Requires a $25 Dongle To Charge Your iOS Device 347
Apple Debuts New 'TV' Guide and Watchlist App For Apple TV, iPhone and iPad 20
Apple Unveils New MacBook Pro Featuring OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID - Powered By Intel Skylake Processor 361
Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study 259
Delta Now Lets You Track Your Baggage In Real-Time 74
Apple Delays AirPods Beyond Original 'Late October' Window 77
In China, Some Apple Users Opt For iPhone Makeover Rather Than Buy New 106
Intel Announces Atom E3900 Series - Goldmont for the Internet of Things 68
Renewables Overtake Coal As World's Largest Source of Power Capacity 340
Apple's Annual Sales Fall For First Time Since 2001 232
The Phone Hackers At Cellebrite Have Had Their Firmware Leaked Online 29
Samsung is Hoping To Rekindle Note Brand Name Next Year 85
Wi-Fi Alliance Begins Certification Process For Short-Range Wireless Standard WiGig (802.11ad) 69
Satya Nadella: 'We Clearly Missed the Mobile Phone' 245
Rowhammer Attack Can Now Root Android Devices 100
Harvard Researchers Print World's First Heart-On-A-Chip 20
Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability 144
No One Is Buying Smartwatches Anymore 330
Seth's Blog: Hardware is Sexy, But It's Software that Matters 78
Apple Releases iOS 10.1 With New Portrait Mode For iPhone 7 Plus 50
Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? 351
US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns 163
Researchers Predict Next-Gen Batteries Will Last 10 Times Longer 171
VeraCrypt Security Audit Reveals Many Flaws, Some Already Patched 75
Will Tesla Install Home Solar Panels To Charge Cars? 81
Mirai and Bashlight Join Forces Against DNS Provider Dyn 56
Prosecutors Say NSA Contractor Could Flee To Foreign Power 44
First New US Nuclear Reactor In 20 Years Goes Live 344
iPhone 7 Plus Qualcomm LTE Modem Significantly Outperforms Intel LTE Modem, Study Finds 44
Higher-End Smartphones Make You Happier, Says JD Power Study 126
Target Passes Walmart As Top US Corporate Installer of Solar Power 57
Mark Cerny, Chief PlayStation Architect, Explains the PS4 Pro 71
US Army 'Will Have More Robot Soldiers Than Humans' By 2025, Says Former British Spy 114
Samsung Forced YouTube To Pull GTA 5 Mod Video Because It Showed Galaxy Note 7 As Bomb 219
32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model 159
Nintendo NX Will Be Officially Revealed Tomorrow 35
Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection On Intel Haswell CPUs 72
BBC Micro Bit Mini-Computer To Expand Internationally With New Hardware 40
All Tesla Vehicles Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware 186
Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro 316
LeEco Who? Chinese Tech Giant Tries Its Luck In the US With 'More Products Than You've Ever Seen' 59
Samsung Tried to Bribe Chinese Man To Keep Exploding Phone Video Private 122
Why Your Devices Are Probably Eroding Your Productivity 99
Samsung Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Exploding Galaxy Note 7 42
Patriots Coach Bill Belichick on Microsoft Surface: 'I Just Can't Take It Anymore' 187
Report: Apple To Unveil New Macs At An October 27th Event In Cupertino 142
Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President 171
CO2 To Ethanol In One Step With Cheap Catalyst 228
Samsung is Setting Up Note 7 Exchange Booths at Airports Around the World 46
1 In 2 Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Owners To Switch To iPhone 7, Says Analyst 212
Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income? 917
Razer Acquires THX, the Audio Pioneer That George Lucas Started 44
Samsung Announces 10nm SoC In Mass-Production 49
Cyber Attackers Have Successfully Hit A Nuclear Power Plant And A Lab 55
More Lithium Battery Product Recalls Predicted 99
Will The iPhone 8 Include Augmented Reality? 55
Proud Cyborg Athletes Compete In The World's First Cybathlon 19
US Issues Emergency Ban On Flying With Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Offenders May Face Criminal Prosecution 103
DHS Warns of Mirai Botnet Threat To Cellular Modems 21
President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather' 169
Samsung Will Credit You $100 If You Exchange Your Note 7 For Another Samsung Phone 123
HP Plans To Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs Over Next 3 Years Amid PC Slump 116
Android Devices That Contain Foxconn Firmware May Have a Secret Backdoor 95
Evernote Confirms a Serious Bug Caused Data Loss For Some Mac Users 31
Apple MacBook Refresh Could Bring E-Ink Enabled Keyboard 159
ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters 221
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is an Environmental Travesty 145
Pokemon Go Could Add 2.83 Million Years To Users' Lives, Says Study 156
Samsung Ships Flameproof Boxes For Note 7 Returns 88
PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide 310
Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices 65
Samsung Permanently Discontinues Galaxy Note 7 251
UK Is Banning Apple Watch From Cabinet Meetings Over Russian Hacking Fears 106
Samsung Orders the Global Shutdown of Both Sales and Exchanges of Galaxy Note 7 126
Cyanogen Gets a New CEO, Shifts Away From Selling a Full Mobile Operating System 49
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable 38
Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul 145
Physically-Secure 'ORWL' Computer Expands Its Open Source Policy 68
Tesla's Sales Increase - But Next Will We Need Smart Roads? 168
Is Britain Secretly Funding Its Nuclear Submarine Program? 108
Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production Temporarily 121
Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM 150
Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 296
Samsung Knew a Third Replacement Note 7 Caught Fire On Tuesday and Said Nothing 110
Can We Really Stop Climate Change By 'Capturing' Carbon? 275
MITRE Dangles $50,000 Prize For Spotting Rogue Internet of Things Devices 51
AT&T Considers Stopping All Samsung Note 7 Sales 54
Poland Builds a Solar-Powered Bike Path That Glows Blue At Night 104
Baltimore Police Took 1 Million Surveillance Photos of City 74
Law-Defying Transistor Smashes Industry 'Limit', Measures Just 1nm 66
Sharp Unveils 27-inch 8K 120Hz IGZO Monitor With HDR 105
Microsoft Likely To Launch All-in-One Surface At its October 26 Event 49
Samsung Could Face Second Recall As US Probes Burnt Phone 150
Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad 294
New York To Test Facial Recognition Cameras At 'Crossing Points' 96
Google Canceled the Launch of a Robotic Arm After it Failed the 'Toothbrush Test' 97
Smartphone Reseller Cheated Customers Out of Millions, Feds Say 66
Google Releases Open Source 'Cartographer' 26
Android 7.1 Nougat's Changelog Reveals Pixel-Exclusive Features Not Available To Nexus Devices 116
Nokia Makes a Play For 5G With Purchase of US Startup Eta Devices 10
Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane 266
Apple's Use Of 'Sapphire' in iPhone Camera Lens Questioned in New Tests 111
Google Gets Serious About Home Automation: Unveils Google Home, Actions on Google and Google Wifi 91
Johnson & Johnson Discloses That Its Insulin Pump Is Hackable 79
Google Refreshes Its Streaming Dongle: Unveils $69 Chromecast Ultra With 4K and HDR Capabilities 51
Google Unveils Pixel and Pixel XL, the First Phones It 'Designed Inside and Out' 197
Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music 127
Toyota's Kirobo Mini Companion Robot To Sell For $400 62
Researchers Develop System To Send Passwords, Keys Through Users' Bodies 61
Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack 446
The Microsoft Band Is Dead 58
FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say 500
Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation 163
Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge 348
India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement 130
Scientists Identify Another Source of Dangerous Greenhouse Gases: Reservoirs 159
With HDDs On The Ropes, Samsung Predicts SSD Price Collisions As NVMe Takes Over 161
Ask Slashdot: Should An Open Source Hardware Project Support Clones? 117
The Arduino Split is Over, New Non-Profit Formed 73
Linux Mint Unveils New 'Mintbox Mini Pro' Desktop 70
Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries 27
LastPass On Mobile Is Now Free 10
USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications 135
New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack 377
IBM Buys Promontory Financial Group 20
Raspberry Pi Foundation Unveils New LXDE-Based Desktop For Raspbian Called PIXEL 47
The Slashdot Interview With Raspberry Pi Founder and CEO Eben Upton 47
Commodore C64 Survives Over 25 Years Balancing Drive Shafts In Auto Repair Shop 290
D-Wave's 2,000-Qubit Quantum Annealing Computer Now 1,000x Faster Than Previous Generation 119
Verizon Technician Is Accused of Selling Customers' Call Records and Location Data To Private Investigator 50
HP To Issue 'Optional Firmware Update' Allowing 3rd-Party Ink 81
US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports 164
'Safe' Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes in China 86
Nissan Debuts 'ProPILOT' Self-Driving Chair 48
DJI Unveils the Mavic Pro, a Foldable and Ultra-Portable Camera Drone 55
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices 116
EFF Calls On HP To Disable Printer Ink Self-Destruct Sequence 250
Japanese To Pay Utility Bills Using Bitcoin 36
Plex Cloud Means Saying Goodbye To the Always-On PC 173
Google Is Planning a 'Pixel 3' Laptop Running 'Andromeda' OS For Release in Q3 2017 56
Amazon Pursues More Renewable Energy, Following Google, Apple, And Facebook 85
'Transformer' BMW Turns Into A Giant Robot 45
US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit 259
From Bicycles To Washing Machines: Sweden To Give Tax Breaks For Repairs 146
People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' 201
Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th 51
Amazon Is Killing Off Its $12/Year Plan For Unlimited Photo Storage 50
Jawbone Fails To Pay Key Business Partners and Has Almost No Inventory In Stock: Sources 67
Computers Decipher Burnt Scroll Found In Ancient Holy Ark 235
Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban 261
Google Play Starts Bringing Android Apps To Chromebooks 14
SolidRun x86 Braswell MicroSoM Runs Linux and Full Windows 10, Destroys Raspberry Pi 205
Elon Musk To Unveil Solar Roof With Storage, Charger Next Month 79
Germany Unveils a Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train 199
At Least 26 Claimed Galaxy Note 7 Fire Reports Were Untrue, Samsung Says 106
TV Manufacturers Accused of Gaming Energy Usage Tests 86
Lenovo Denies Claims It Plotted With Microsoft To Block Linux Installs 181
Samsung's 960 Pro and 960 Evo SSDs Marry Crazy-Fast Speeds With Roomy Capacity 38
Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports 491
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable 189
A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham 166
Microsoft Unveils $37 Nokia 216 Feature Phone 57
SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems 98
US Regulators Issue Comprehensive Policy On Self-Driving Cars 239
UK Standards Body Issues Official Guidance On Robot Ethics 68
4K UHD TVs Are Being Adopted Faster Than HDTVs 207
GoPro Launches Karma Drone and Voice-Controlled Hero5 Cameras 14
iPhone 7 Plus Makes Hissing Sound Under Load, Some Users Complain 196
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? 275
Robot Handcuffed and Arrested At Moscow Rally 46
Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff 129
HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges 387
Florida Man Sues Samsung, Says Galaxy Note 7 Exploded 102
The World's Most Secure Home Computer Reaches Crowdfunding Goal 126
GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 114
23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update 81
NYPD Says Talking About Its IMSI Catchers Would Make Them Vulnerable To Hacking 53
Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill 248
Windows 10 Haters: Try Linux On Kaby Lake Chips With Dell's New XPS 13 234
Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time: 'Touch Disease' 204
Samsung Formally Recalls The Galaxy Note 7 48
Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any App On Your Android Phone Using A Backdoor 97
Why The FCC Chair Says Set-Top Box Reform Proposal Could Change 33
Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches 117
Apple Explores the Idea Of Killing Headphone Jack On the MacBook Pro 495
FBI Director James Comey: Cover Up Your Webcam 168
Samsung Stops Airing Galaxy Note 7 Commercials, Preps Early Launch of Galaxy S8 86
Hacker George Hotz Unveils $999 Self-Driving Add-On 80
NYC Threatens To Sue Verizon Over FiOS Shortfalls 44
Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report 400
Samsung To Push Software Upgrade Which Will Cap Galaxy Note 7 Battery Charging at 60 Percent 120
Apple's Next Year iPhone Won't Have the Home Button: NYTimes 217
Microsoft To Kill The Lumia Brand In Favor of a New Surface Phone, Says Report 177
MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books 92
HP To Buy Samsung's Printer Business For $1.05 Billion 111
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes In New York, Burns Six-Year-Old Boy 202
Nvidia's New GeForce Experience 3.0 Requires Mandatory Registration 129
'Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple' 579
Steve Wozniak May Swap His Tesla For A Chevy Bolt 286
Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives, Earns $86,400 98
Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space? 209
Intel Breaks Qualcomm's Hold On Apple's Baseband Chips 84
Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong 324
CPSC: Stop Using The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 42
Apple Removed Headphone Jack From New iPhones Because It Owns Largest Bluetooth Headphone Company 311
Smartphones Can Steal 3D Printing Plans By Listening To The Printer 45
The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs 308
Norway's Largest Newspaper Accuses Mark Zuckerberg of Abusing Power After Facebook Deletes 'Napalm Girl' Post 273
Amazon Launches Updated Fire HD 8 Tablet Now With Alexa Voice Services 61
Alphabet Partners With Chipotle To Deliver Burritos Using Drones 105
Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity 226
Australian Airlines Ban Use of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phones After Battery Fires 67
Microsoft To Launch At Least One Surface All-In-One PC Next Month 67
Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark 102
Super Mario Is Coming To The iPhone 108
Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack 761
HP Enterprise Reaches $8.8 Billion Deal With Micro Focus For Software Assets 31
Intel Selling Majority Stake In Intel Security, 'New' Company To Be Called McAfee 30
FAA May Ban Galaxy Note 7 On Flights Due To Exploding Batteries 63
Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 2 With GPS, Water-Resistance and Faster Performance 88
Apple Launches the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus; Feature Water-Resistance, Lack Headphone Jack 551
Million More Devices Sharing Known Private Keys For HTTPS, SSH Admin 54
Many Looking Past iPhone 7 to Next Year's iPhone 8 105
Google Uses Surface Books To Show Off Chrome Battery Improvements 37
Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip 274
Why Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Zen Will Only Be Optimized On Windows 10 276
LG Introduces The V20, The First Android Nougat Smartphone 75

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