Hardware Stories for 2020

Google's 'Cloud Print' Service is Shutting Down Soon 60
Edmund Clarke, 2007 Winner of the Turing Award, Dies of Covid-19 65
Due to Popular Demand, GM May Build More of Its 'Hummer EV' Electric Pickups 96
The Site of Hawaii's First Tesla Supercharger? Probably Larry Ellison's 3,400-Person Island 31
Korean Artificial Sun Sets the New World Record of 20-Sec-Long Operation At 100 Million Degrees 52
Laptops, Desktop Sales See 'Renaissance;' Shortages Won't Ease Until 2022 61
KFC Launches 4K, 240FPS Gaming Console With a Built-In Chicken Warmer 98
Apple Targets Car Production By 2024 and Eyes 'Next Level' Battery Technology 110
Firefox 84 Claims Speed Boost from Apple Silicon, Vows to End Flash Support 40
Could Nuclear Power Be Used For Carbon Capture? 197
Battery Prices Have Fallen 88 Percent Over the Last Decade 159
Fujifilm and IBM Set World Record With 580TB Magnetic Tapes 53
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
Microsoft Is Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs 94
Global Chip Shortage Threatens Production of Laptops, Smartphones and More 29
Microsoft Office Is Now Updated For M1 Macs 61
Scientists Just Set a New World Record In Solar Cell Efficiency 105
GameStop Employees Surprised By New Shipment of PS5, Xbox Series X Consoles 28
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles the Future of Autos? 350
A History of the American Energy System In One Chart 64
Hyundai Motor Buys 80% of Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics 40
'This Is a Bad Time to Build a High-End Gaming PC' 177
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
Samsung Plans To Ditch Power Adapters Just 3 Months After Mocking Apple Over the Same 134
France To Build New Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier 244
Toyota Announces New All-Electric SUV, Says It's Their 'First Step' For Battery-Electric Cars 104
Apple Launches $549 AirPods Max Over-Ear Headphones 118
Electric-Car Companies Now Comprise Half the Worth of the World's 10 Most Valuable Automakers 159
LG Developing Sliding Doors Made of Transparent OLED Displays 53
Urban Explorers Discover A Treasure Trove Of Soviet Computing Power 65
Should Qualcomm Feel Threatened By Apple's M1 Macs? 257
China Turns On Nuclear-Powered 'Artificial Sun' 108
New RISC-V CPU Claims Recordbreaking Performance Per Watt 74
This Robot Can Rap 29
Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers 60
UK Seeks Site For World's First Fusion Power Station 47
New Electric Cars Have Problems In Latest Consumer Reports Survey 140
Hector Martin Promises To Bring Linux To the M1 Chip 139
Amazon To Roll Out Tools To Monitor Factory Workers and Machines 35
NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Sets a New Gaming Performance Bar At $399 70
Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Case Fan To Prevent Overheating 118
Tasmania Is Now 100% Powered By Renewable Electricity 133
Is Apple Silicon Ready? 132
Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But... 246
EU Says It Could Be Self-Sufficient In Electric Vehicle Batteries By 2025 87
Elon Musk Talks New Tesla Model In Europe 102
Memory vs. Disk vs. CPU: How 35 Years Has Changed the Trade-Offs 103
Tesla Model 3 Crash Hurls Battery Cells Into Nearby Home 232
Flash Animations Live Forever At the Internet Archive 29
Cerebras' Wafer-Size Chip Is 10,000 Times Faster Than a GPU 123
Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT Performance Marks AMD's Return To High-End Graphics 62
EU Plans To Increase Offshore Windfarm Capacity By 250% 111
China Built the First Electric Car Designed Exclusively For Ride-Hailing 15
Apple's M1 Is Exceeding Expectations 274
Japan's ARM-Based Supercomputer Leads World In Top500 List; Exascale Expected In 2021 25
Ask Slashdot: What's the Ultimate Backup System? Cloud? Local? Sync? Dupes? Tape...? 289
Celebrate Intel's 4004 Microprocessor Turning 49 Today 29
Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test As Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel 103
Google Is Reportedly Working On Linking Up Nest Audio Speakers With Chromecast Streaming Devices 16
GM Recalling Nearly 69,000 Bolt EVs For Fire Risks 73
Amazon Begins Shifting Alexa's Cloud AI To Its Own Silicon 19
Samsung Announces Exynos 1080 -- 5nm Premium-Range SoC with A78 Cores 15
Researchers 3-D Print Biomedical Parts With Supersonic Speed 14
Rolls Royce Plans 16 Mini-Nuclear Plants For UK 213
A Self-Taught Garage Inventor Sees His Liquid Air Storage Idea Make the Big Time 129
Western Digital's Ultrastar DC ZN540 Is the World's First ZNS SSD 30
Raspberry Pi 4 Can Be Safely Overclocked To 2.15 GHz 16
Come June 1, All of Your New Photos Will Count Against Your Free Google Storage 63
Hyundai Reportedly In Talks To Buy Softbank-Owned Boston Dynamics 15
Dish To Shut Down Slingbox, Devices Will Become 'Inoperable' In 2022 52
SSDs Are Primed To Get Bigger and Faster With Micron's New NAND Memory Tech 48
Apple Introduces M1 Chip To Power Its New Arm-Based Macs 155
Scientists 3D Print Microscopic Star Trek Spaceship That Moves On Its Own 52
As UK Military Begins Mass Coronavirus Testing, Head of Armed Forces Ponders Robot Soldiers 47
HP Replaces 'Free Ink for Life' Plan With '99 Cents a Month Or Your Printer Stops Working' 193
The Verdict After Hackaday's Teardown of a Raspberry Pi 400: 'Very, Very Slick' 71
A Biden Victory Positions America For a 180-Degree Turn On Climate Change 251
Tesla Project To Install Another Giant Battery In Australia 63
Bentley Will Ditch Internal Combustion Engines By 2030 114
A14X Bionic Allegedly Benchmarked Days Before Apple Silicon Mac Event 88
Several US Utilities Back Out of Deal To Build Novel Nuclear Power Plant 207
Volvo Trucks To Launch Full Range of Electric Trucks In Europe In 2021 48
Why Do Printers Still Suck? 287
Razer's First Mainstream Laptop Still Has an RGB Keyboard 46
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux 46
Intel Enters the Laptop Discrete GPU Market With Xe Max 32
Apple Glasses Will Reportedly Use Sony's 'Cutting-Edge' OLED Micro-Displays To Deliver 'Real AR Experience' 32
Intel Contemplates Outsourcing Advanced Production, Upending Oregon's Central Role 108
SiFive Unveils Plan For Linux PCs With RISC-V Processors 42
Walmart Ends Contract With Robotics Company, Opts For Human Workers Instead 46
The Raspberry Pi 400 is a Compact Keyboard With a Built-in Computer 151
New Huawei Chip Factory May Help It Avoid US Trade Ban 22
Could RISC-V Processors Compete With Intel, ARM, and AMD? 112
New Chinese Laptop Appears With 14nm Loongsoon Quad-Core 3A4000 CPU 75
Apple Added a Secret Button To Your iPhone 50
Seagate Says 20 TB HAMR Drives Will Arrive in December, 50 TB Capacities in 2026 83
Honeywell Announces its H1 Quantum Computer with 10 Qubits 14
Some Google One Plans Now Come With a Complimentary VPN 16
TikTok-parent ByteDance Launches Its First Gadget, a Smart Lamp With Camera and Display 14
World's First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves Into Energy 39
Apple's iPhone 12 Seems To Have a Secret Reverse Wireless Charging Feature 28
Folding@Home Exascale Supercomputer Finds Potential Targets For COVID-19 Cure 38
US Grid-Battery Costs Dropped 70% Over 3 Years 92
Study Shows Which Messengers Leak Your Data, Drain Your Battery, and More 28
The Explosive Problem of 'Zombie' Batteries 120
Samsung, Stanford Make a 10,000 PPI Display That Could Lead To 'Flawless' VR 62
In World First, 100% of South Australia's Power Supplied By Solar Panels 281
The Battle Over Chips is About to Get Uglier 74
Greenpeace Claims Fukushima Water Release Could Change Human DNA 200
NVIDIA Cancels GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB: Report 44
GM Sells Out First Year of Electric Hummer Production 115
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity In History 325
Print These Electronic Circuits Directly Onto Skin 13
IT'S INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY 62
GMC Hummer EV vs. Tesla Cybertruck, Bollinger and Rivian 133
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 37
A Group of Materials Called Perovskites Could Be a Game-Changer For Solar Power 62
Google Confirms the Nest Secure Has Been Discontinued 26
Tesla Powerwall Rival Seeks To Bring Hydrogen Into Your Home 133
Motley Fool: AMD 'Isn't Done Hammering Intel Yet' 42
Has Apple Abandoned CUPS, Linux's Widely Used Open-Source Printing System? Seems So 120
Spinach Gives Fuel Cells a Power Up 17
Google Is Killing Unlimited Drive Storage For Non-Enterprise Users 50
Apple Announces Smaller HomePod Mini For $99 13
Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy 49
Electric Car Sales Triple In Race To Meet Europe CO2 Rules 167
PC Market Shipments Grow a Stellar 13% in Q3 2020 To Break Ten-Year Record 38
One Solar/Wind Energy Company Is Now More Valuable Than Exxon Mobil 69
How Robots, Some Autonomous, Are Helping Our Response to COVID-19 17
Renewable Player NextEra Overtakes ExxonMobil In Market Value 45
Tesla Co-Founder Aims To Build World's Top Battery Recycler 18
Mercedes-Benz Teases 'Highest-Efficiency Electric Car In the World' With Over 750 Miles of Range 154
AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU 57
Intel's 11th-gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Will Debut in Q1 2021 27
'World's Fastest Electrodes' Triple the Density of Lithium Batteries 81
Qualcomm To Launch Its Own Premium Snapdragon Branded Phones 24
PS5 Teardown Video Confirms Faster Wi-Fi and USB Ports Than Xbox Series X 56
Nvidia CEO Anticipates Supply Shortages For the RTX 3080 and 3090 To Last Until 2021 98
Study Shows Renewables Are Kicking Natural Gas To the Curb 267
Nvidia Unveils Jetson Nano 2GB, a Single Board Computer 35
Hydrogen-Powered Train Makes Its First Trip in the UK 18
'Green Hydrogen' From Renewables Could Become the Cheapest 'Transformative Fuel' 130
How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market 26
Microsoft Testing Windows 10 Feature That'll Detect If Your SSD Is Failing 39
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model 14
IKEA Is Saying Goodbye To Non-Rechargeable Batteries 106
Mercedes-Benz's Newest Electric City Bus Uses Solid-State Batteries 61
Developers Try Again To Upstream Motorola 68000 Series Support In LLVM 69
The World's First Foldable PC Is Now Available To Order From Lenovo 26
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is 'Very Likely To Work,' Studies Suggest 118
Xen Project Officially Ports Its Hypervisor To Raspberry Pi 4 19
A Week With the Xbox Series X: Load Times, Game Performance, and More 25
Seagate Unveils CORTX Object Storage Software with Lyve Drive Rack Hardware Reference Design 18
Giant Gundam Robot In Japan Makes Its First Moves 68
GeForce RTX 3090 Launched: NVIDIA's Biggest, Fastest Gaming GPU Tested 62
3D Printing Inside the Body Could Patch Stomach Ulcers 34
Researchers Found the Manual For the World's Oldest Surviving Computer 74
Intel Details Chips Designed For IoT and Edge Workloads 14
The Fairphone 3+ Is a Repairable Dream That Takes Beautiful Photos 73
Tesla Announces 'Tabless' Battery Cells That Will Improve Range of Its Electric Cars 117
Shell Reportedly To Slash Oil and Gas Production Costs To Focus More On Renewables 61
Samsung's Fast, PCIe 4.0-ready 980 Pro SSD Can Future-Proof Your PC Build 78
Airbus Reveals Plans For Zero-Emission Aircraft Fueled By Hydrogen 223
'Huang's Law Is the New Moore's Law' 55
Daimler Shows Off Long-Range Hydrogen Semi, New Battery Truck 75
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Tested: a Huge Leap Forward In Gaming Performance 43
Apple Researching Apple Watch Bands That Can Provide Information In Braille 41
Apple Introduces Redesigned iPad Air With A14 Chip, All-Screen Design, TouchID and USB-C 64
Apple is Removing the USB Power Adapter From Upcoming Apple Watch Boxes 109
Apple One Bundles iCloud, Music, TV+, Arcade, News+ and Fitness+ for $30 a Month 35
What To Expect At Apple's 'Time Flies' Event 34
Boston Dynamics CEO Talks Profitability and the Company's Next Robots 24
Nikola Admits Prototype Was Rolling Downhill In Promo Video 100
ARM Co-Founder Starts 'Save Arm' Campaign To Keep Independence Amid $40 Billion Nvidia Deal 61
Pandemic May Permanently Replace Some Human Jobs With Machines 98
Microsoft's Underwater Data Centre Resurfaces After Two Years 71
Another Source of Greenhouse Gas: Abandoned Oil Wells 123
Nvidia Reportedly Acquiring ARM For $40 Billion 138
Energy 'Scavenger' Could Turn Waste Heat From Devices Like Refrigerators Into Electricity 101
Security Researchers Detail New 'BlindSide' Speculative Execution Attack 33
US Company Faces Backlash After Belarus Uses Its Tech To Block Internet 52
The Gateway PC Brand Returns With New Laptops 55
Huawei Closing Enterprise Hardware Division In the UK 13
GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly -- and Remotely 72
Researchers Demonstrate In-Chip Watercooling 42
Marc Levoy on the Balance of Camera Hardware, Software, and Artistic Expression 35
Researchers Use Supercomputer to Design New Molecule That Captures Solar Energy 36
How Tesla Improves the Range of Its Electric Cars 67
Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies at Age 65 23
Arm's New Linux-Capable Cortex-R82 Processor Will Enable Drives That Both Store and Process Data 98
Facebook Halts Oculus Quest Sales In Germany Amid Privacy Concerns 27
Lenovo Releases First Fedora Linux ThinkPad Laptop 80
Auto Industry TV Ads Claim Right To Repair Benefits 'Sexual Predators' 139
Intel: 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs Will Be in 50 New Laptops Coming This Fall 45
Silicon 'Sandwiches' Make For Lightweight, High-Capacity Batteries 31
NuScale's Small Nuclear Reactor Gets US Safety Approval 168
Meet the $3,300 Edition of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 59
Lenovo Yoga 9i Gets Rid of a Traditional Touchpad and Slaps Leather on Its Lid 56
ARM Not Just For Macs: Might Make Weather Forecasting Cheaper Too 41
'The Largest Nuclear Bomb Ever Detonated' Explored in Declassified Russian Footage 210
Tesla, Intel, and Others Urge America's FTC to Oppose Qualcomm Ruling 44
Can This Company Build Self-Charging Batteries From Radioactive Nuclear Waste? 92
Thin-Skinned Solar Panels Printed With Inkjet 28
A Closer Look At Elon Musk's Neuralink Surgical Robot 44
Elon Musk Shows Neuralink Brain Link Working In a Pig 87
Fairphone Users Can Buy New Camera Without Replacing the Phone Itself 32
Bill Gates' Nuclear Venture Plans Reactor To Complement Solar, Wind Power Boom 124
Elon Musk Promises Demo of a Working Neuralink Device On Friday 51
The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us 251
Bird Deaths Down 70 Percent After Painting Wind Turbine Blades 95
Facebook Begins Ghosting the 'Oculus' Moniker In Its VR Division 59
After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform 385
Will Your Code Run Ten Years From Now? 219
Amazon Go's Cashierless Tech May Come To Whole Foods As Soon As Next Year 77
Nintendo Copyright Infringement Threats Shut Down Switch Payload Injector 40
Foxconn, Other Asian Firms Consider Mexico Factories As China Risks Grow 84
How a Decision by Apple 15 Years Ago Hurts Intel Now 127
Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash 270
Strange Bacteria Can Build Electricity-Carrying Cables in Mud 11
Intel Defends AVX-512 Against Critics Who Hope It 'Dies a Painful Death' 132
Dounreay Nuclear Power Site Available For Reuse In the Year 2333 76
Electric Trucks Could Make a 'Significant Dent' In Carbon Emissions 118
Synology Launches DiskStation DS1520+ 55
With Ultralight Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Electric Airplanes Could Finally Take Off 103
Transparent Solar Panels For Windows Hit Record 8% Efficiency 60
Rolling Blackouts in California Have Power Experts Stumped 260
CIA Declassifies Cold War-Era Plans for a 'Nuclear Bird Drone' 64
Did A Chinese State-Sponsored Group Breach Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry? 15
Intel Says New Transistor Technology Could Boost Chip Performance 20% 94
Scientists Turn Normal Red Bricks into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors 94
Dropbox Launches Password Manager, Computer Backup, and Secure 'Vaults' Out of Beta 19
Xbox Series X Launching In November, But Halo Infinite Is Delayed Until 2021 35
Should the U.K. Government Form a Coalition to Buy ARM? 124
WSJ: Qualcomm Asks US Government to Let it Sell Chips to Huawei 38
Researcher Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Ethanol 190
Could Spacecraft of the Future Be Powered By 'Lattice Confinement' Nuclear Fusion? 62
Researchers Build a Low-Power Radar on a CMOS ChIp 35
Last Fall a Drone Swarm Surveilled America's Largest Nuclear Reactor -- Twice 114
Toshiba Formally and Finally Exits Laptop Business 40
The Next Step In SSD Evolution: NVMe Zoned Namespaces Explained 8
Microsoft Isn't Renaming Xbox Live and Has 'No Plans' To Discontinue Xbox Live Gold 20
Ryzen 4000 Notebooks Delayed By At Least Two Months Due To Shortage of Processors 66
Japan Is Running Diagnostic Tests On Its First Real Gundam 108
Here's Exactly How Inefficient Wireless Charging Is 190
Hackers Could Use IoT Botnets To Manipulate Energy Markets 39
Amazon's Engineers Are Building Robots In Their Garages 10
Will Elon Musk License Tesla's Technology To Other Automakers? 128
Arm China Goes Rogue, Ex-CEO Accused of Blocking the Business 102
William English, Engineer Behind 'The Mother of All Demos', Dies at 91 18
Qualcomm Hints That the 5G iPhone Might Not Arrive In September 17

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