Hardware Stories for 2017

Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea 141
Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? 177
Apple Apologizes For iPhone Slowdown Drama, Will Offer $29 Battery Replacements 254
Google Stops Selling the Pixel C Android Tablet 48
HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does 133
UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 72
The Year in Crowdfunded PCs: Who Succeeded? Who Failed? 52
Nintendo Delaying 64GB Game Cards For Switch Until 2019, Says Report 54
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
Some Sonos and Bose Speakers Are Being Hijacked To Play Ghostly Sounds 41
FCC Approves First Wireless 'Power-At-A-Distance' Charging System 138
Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season 262
Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' 200
Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand 168
Is Google Home Fit For Elderly and Disabled Users? 93
People Still Aren't Buying Smartwatches -- and It's Only Going To Get Worse 331
Estimates of Bitcoin's Soaring Energy Use Are Likely Overstating the Electric Power Required To Mine the Cryptocurrency 115
China Is Building a Solar Power Highway 131
Samsung Could Make $22 Billion Off Next Year's iPhones 43
Amazon Acquires Connected Camera and Doorbell Startup 'Blink' 18
Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems 92
Wind Power Is Now The Cheapest Energy In India 54
Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones 244
California Poised To Hit 50 Percent Renewable Target a Full Decade Ahead of Schedule 247
Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws 158
Wearables Still Slow To Catch On in the United States 127
Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles 79
Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? 216
Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance 172
Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks' 129
'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge 55
Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips 347
Geekbench Results Visualize Possible Link Between iPhone Slowdowns and Degraded Batteries 135
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
Plexamp, Plex's Spin on the Classic Winamp Player, Is the First Project From New Incubator Plex Labs 209
Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations 282
Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister 192
China Will Spend $3.3 Billion to Research Molten Salt Nuclear-Powered Drones 194
Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns 344
Google Is Shutting Down Project Tango 37
NVIDIA Titan V Benchmarks Show Volta GPU Compute, Mining and Gaming Strength 51
China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market 44
Samsung Targets First Half of 2018 for Smart Speaker 64
Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production 182
Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco 422
AT&T Begins Testing High-Speed Internet Over Power Lines 119
Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Considered Anything But 150
AMD Is Open-Sourcing Their Official Vulkan Linux Driver 75
Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th 278
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers 234
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? 254
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age 439
Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure 75
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Dedicated Chips For Autopilot 32
Amazon Bringing Echo and Alexa To 80 Additional Countries in Major Global Expansion 38
Nvidia Announces 'Nvidia Titan V' Video Card: GV100 for $3000 51
GE Cuts 12,000 Jobs In Response To Falling Demand For Fossil Fuel Energy 146
Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report 159
Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate 101
Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries 108
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Boosts CPU and GPU Performance, Delivers 4K HDR Capture, 3x Faster AI Processing 48
'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' 468
Qualcomm Announces Latest Snapdragon 845 Processor 38
The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years 243
Dell Begins Offering Laptops With Intel's 'Management Engine' Disabled 140
R.I.P., Cape Wind 228
Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset 58
Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study 474
Every iPhone X Is Not Created Equal 74
Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid 173
CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video 163
Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots 132
375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests 236
Physicists Made An Unprecedented 53 Qubit Quantum Simulator 70
EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles 283
Samsung Develops 'Graphene Ball' Battery With 5x Faster Charging Speed 137
Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations 141
Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks 113
Scientists Have Built Robot Muscles That Can Lift 1,000 Times Their Own Weight 119
Intel Core i9 Mobile And 9th Gen Coffee Lake Processors Detailed In AIDA64 Update 49
Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace 52
Computer Pioneer Geoff Tootill Passed Away 36
Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million 64
There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab 128
Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology? 266
Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? 42
First AMD Ryzen Mobile Laptop Tested Shows Strong Zen-Vega Performance 85
Tesla Completes World's Largest Battery Project In Half the Time Promised 150
Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind 277
Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report 41
Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Can't Stay Charged During Gaming Sessions 138
Why Apple's HomePod Is Three Years Behind Amazon's Echo 96
Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions 207
UCLA Researchers Use Solar To Create and Store Hydrogen 61
Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos 176
iMac Pro Will Have An A10 Fusion Coprocessor For 'Hey, Siri' Support and More Secure Booting, Says Report 164
Amazon Launches a Cloud Service For US Intelligence Agencies 55
The Secret to Tech's Next Big Breakthroughs? Stacking Chips 116
Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel 220
Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones 252
Could a Helium-Resistant Material Usher In an Age of Nuclear Fusion? 128
Study of 500,000 Teens Suggests Association Between Excessive Screen Time and Depression 128
Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks 179
'Robots Are Not Taking Over,' Says Head of UN Body of Autonomous Weapons 77
NVIDIA Launches Modded Collector's Edition Star Wars Titan Xp Graphics Card 45
Apple's HomePod Gets Delayed Until 2018 49
Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips 111
Bluetooth Hack Affects 20 Million Amazon Echo, Google Home Devices 40
OnePlus 5T Featuring 6-inch AMOLED Display, 3.5mm Headphone Jack Launched 54
Consumers Are Holding Off On Buying Smart-Home Gadgets Due To Security, Privacy Fears 143
All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux 288
Apple Is Back To Being the World's Top Wearable Maker 48
Investigation Finds Security Flaws In 'Connected' Toys 32
Apple Could Launch Two New Full-Screen iPhones Next Year 117
Ask Slashdot: Which Software/Devices Are Unusable Without Connecting to the Internet? 201
China Overtakes US In Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List 110
Solar Companies Are Scrambling to Find a Critical Raw Material 134
Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? 300
Researchers Run Unsigned Code on Intel ME By Exploiting USB Ports 171
Study Finds Robot Surgeons Are Actually Slower and More Expensive 44
Crowdfunded 'PowerWatch' Runs on Body Heat, Never Needs Charging 81
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses As Much Energy As Your House In a Week 227
Nintendo Reportedly Plans To Double Switch Production In 2018 42
Ford Pilots a New Exoskeleton To Lessen Worker Fatigue 48
Some iPhone X Displays Plagued By Mysterious 'Green Line of Death' 76
Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? 449
Self-Driving Shuttle Involved In Crash Two Hours After Debut 204
Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs 108
Intel Recruits AMD RTG Exec Raja Koduri To Head New Visual Computing Group 58
Logitech To Shut Down 'Service and Support' For Harmony Link Devices In 2018 131
'Quark Fusion' Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion 173
Israeli Company Sues Apple Over Dual-Lens Cameras In iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus 56
iPhone X Has the 'Most Innovative and High Performance' Smartphone Display Ever Tested 233
A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling 276
3D Printing Doubles the Strength of Stainless Steel 96
iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board 89
Four Automakers Team Up To Create an Electric Car Charging Network Across Europe 62
Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia 106
Broadcom Explores Buying Qualcomm 69
Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit 481
Xbox One X is the Perfect Representation of the Tech Industry's Existential Crisis 190
Some Google Pixel 2 XL Units Shipped Without an Operating System 34
Google Explains Tuesday's Drive, Docs Bug That Marked Some Files As Violating Terms of Service 97
Trump Says Broadcom Is Moving Headquarters To US From Singapore 122
App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts 71
The International Space Station Is Getting Its First Printer Upgrade in 17 Years 174
Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? 153
Razer Unveils Gaming Smartphone With 120Hz UltraMotion Display, 8GB RAM and No Headphone Jack 168
CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library 125
Fewer Than 1 in 100,000 New Surface Devices Go Wrong, Microsoft Says 119
We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand 341
Colorado Taking Steps To Get Its Own Hyperloop 98
New VibWrite System Uses Finger Vibrations To Authenticate Users 44
Apple Is Designing iPhones, iPads That Would Drop Qualcomm Components 131
Is the Optical Cable Dying? 299
Seagate's New 'SkyHawk AI' Disk Drive Is Just a Slightly Higher Speced Version of Its Predecessor 57
SLAC Uses Nobel Prize-Winning Technique To Investigate Battery Fires 17
Purism Now Offers Laptops with Intel's 'Management Engine' Disabled 151
MakerBot Launches New 'MakerBot Labs' Platform 42
Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s 73
Wall Street's Research Jobs Are the Most Likely To Be Upended By AI 66
PSA: Apple's iPhone X Screen Repair Will Cost You $279 144
Google Addresses Pixel 2 XL Display Issues, Pixel 2 Clicking Sounds With Software Updates 103
Microsoft Is Working On a Foldable Device With a Focus On Pen and Digital Ink 87
Critical Flaws In Maritime Communications System Could Endanger Entire Ships 41
US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped 431
Walmart Tests Shelf-Scanning Robots In Over 50 Stores 76
PCIe 4.0 Specs Revealed: 16GTps Rate and Not Just For Graphics Cards Anymore 62
AMD Unveils Ryzen Mobile Processors Combining Zen Cores and Vega Graphics 41
Roku Wants To Start Streaming To Third-Party Devices 25
Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds 239
Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico 203
Microsoft Has Stopped Manufacturing The Kinect 61
Why We Must Fight For the Right To Repair Our Electronics 224
Some Pixel 2 Users Are Complaining About A High-Pitched Whine and Clicking Noises 105
Italy Proposes Phasing Out Coal Power Plants By 2025 123
Sony Reportedly Announcing New Robot Dog Next Month 45
Computer Parts Site Newegg Is Being Sued For Allegedly Engaging In Massive Fraud 165
Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long 62
Snapchat Reportedly Stuck With 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Unsold Spectacles 63
Google Might Need To Recall the Pixel 2 XL Because of Defective Screens 71
The Factory Where Robots Build Robots 59
US Government Warns Of 'Ongoing' Hacks Targeting Nuclear and Power Industries 101
Amazon Patents Drones That Recharge Electric Vehicles 58
See Giant Robots Fight. US vs Japan Match On YouTube 50
Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead 191
The US Government Keeps Spectacularly Underestimating Solar Energy Installation 151
Body Camera Study Shows No Effect On Police Use of Force Or Citizen Complaints 155
Consumer Reports Refuses To Recommend Microsoft Surface Book 2 106
First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled 123
Apple Watch's LTE Suspended In China Possibly Due To Government Security Concerns 18
Amazon Battles Google for Renewable Energy Crown 51
Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts 183
First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity 81
CNN Gets a First-Of-Its-Kind Waiver To Fly Drones Over Crowds 60
Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices 72
ZTE Launches Axon M, a Foldable, Dual-Screened Smartphone 61
Android Oreo Helps Google's Pixel 2 Smartphones Outperform Other Android Flagships 91
Microsoft Surface Book 2 Puts Desktop Brains in a Laptop Body 141
Essential Is Getting Sued For Allegedly Stealing Wireless Connector Technology 43
What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? 302
Toshiba's Fast-Charging Battery Could Triple the Range of Electric Vehicles 119
Google Slashes Prices of Its USB-C Headphone Dongle Following Minor Outrage 198
Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In the Near Future 151
Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software To Break Phones Repaired By Independent Shops 128
Samsung Electronics CEO Resigns Over 'Unprecedented Crisis' 16
Apple To Ditch Touch ID Altogether For All of Next Year's iPhones 137
Why China is Winning the Clean Energy Race 213
Researcher Turns HDD Into Rudimentary Microphone 65
The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed 261
Google Is Really Good At Design 187
Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache 208
Alphabet's Waymo Demanded $1 Billion In Settlement Talks With Uber 11
Google Permanently Disables Touch Function On All Home Minis Due To Privacy Concerns 48
Google Will Hit 100 Percent Renewable Energy This Year 130
Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? 182
Amazon Finally Makes a Waterproof Kindle 67
Facebook Announces $199 Oculus Go Standalone VR Headset 86
Dutch Government Confirms Plan To Ban New Petrol, Diesel Cars By 2030 349
How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? 223
Tokyo Preparing For Floods 'Beyond Anything We've Seen' 98
Alphabet's Waymo and Intel Are Launching Public Campaigns To Build Trust In Self-Driving Cars 191
Face ID Is Coming To the iPad Pro Next Year, Says Report 73
EPA Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule 316
Microsoft Exec Says Windows 10 Mobile is No Longer a 'Focus' 135
Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor 161
42 Solar-Powered Cars Race in 31st Annual 'Solar Challenge' Race 48
CNN Skeptical of Elon Musk's 'Big Promises' 206
Clever Hack Fakes A Sleep Timer For Google Home 50
100K Lose Power As America Faces Its Third Hurricane In Three Weeks 119
Anticipating Samsung's AMOLED Mixed Reality Headset 36
New Open Source 3D Printer Can Print Without Human Intervention 49
Apple Doesn't Deliberately Slow Down Older Devices According To Benchmark Analysis 163
Elon Musk Says Tesla Could Rebuild Puerto Rico's Power Grid With Batteries, Solar 337
Facebook To Build $1 Billion Data Center In Virginia 44
Tesla Still On Top In US Electric Vehicle Sales, GM Close Behind 105
Intel's Just Launched 8th Gen 'Coffee Lake' Processors Bring the Heat To AMD's Ryzen 137
Boeing-Backed, Hybrid-Electric Commuter Plane To Hit Market In 2022 55
Toymaker Mattel Cancels AI Babysitter After Privacy Complaints 45
Mattel's New Baby Monitor Uses AI To Soothe Babies and Lawmakers Aren't Happy About It 131
The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens 150
Rice University Adds Asphalt To Speed Lithium Metal Battery Charging By 20 Times 131
Google Debuts Its $400 Google Home Max Speaker To Rival Apple's HomePod 60
US Senate Panel Approves Self-Driving Car Legislation 123
Google Wants Its New Pixelbook to Win the Laptop and Tablet Battle 104
HP's Spectre x360 13 Promises Up To 16 Hours of Battery Life in a Faster, Cooler Design 45

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