News Stories for 2018

Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment 256
FCC To Suspend Most Operations Thursday if the Partial Government Shutdown Continues 398
Severn Bridge, a Main Route Between England and Wales, Shuts as Drone Flown From Tower 162
Scientists Drill Into 3,500 Feet of Ice To Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake 88
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 65
Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. 296
Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares 346
Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry 302
Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet's Precursor, Dies at 81 46
World's Rarest Bird, Madagascar Pochard, Gets New Home 29
Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans 143
NYPD Deploying Drone for First Time To Secure New Year's Party 87
As More Retailers Ban Paper Money, It's Making Things Awkward For Customers Without Plastic 698
As China Option Fades, Bill Gates Urges US To Take the Lead in Nuclear Power, For the Good of the Planet 257
Computer Virus Hits Newspapers Coast-to-Coast, Affects Printing 57
Microsoft Says Edge is Still More Power Efficient than Chrome and Firefox 90
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? 497
Could You Live Without Your Smartphone? 157
YouTube Apologizes For Tweeting Somebody Else's Video 107
Chinese Schools Are Using 'Smart Uniforms' To Track Their Students' Locations 95
Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely 187
EU Offers Big Bug Bounties On 14 Open Source Software Projects 78
How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site 62
EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution 400
Netflix Permanently Pulls iTunes Billing For New and Returning Users 108
Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive 271
HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years 76
FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage 143
'The Language of Capitalism Isn't Just Annoying, It's Dangerous' 510
New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion 148
'Beware Silicon Valley's Gifts To Our Schools' 140
There's A Lot At Stake In The Weekly US Drought Map 100
In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment 272
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis 271
No More Paperwork: Estonia Edges Toward Digital Government 93
Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US 382
Banana Pi 24-Core ARM Server Running Ubuntu Breaks Cover 88
A Man Spent $5,000 of His Own Money To Put Zimbabwe on Street View 73
Colin O'Brady Completes Historic Antarctic Crossing 85
NYPL's Chief Digital Officer Says Public is Better off When Libraries Are 'Risk Averse' About Tech 78
Top Amazon Boss Privately Advised US Government on Web Portal Worth Billions To Tech Firm 56
Japan Announces Withdrawal From International Whaling Commission, To Resume Commercial Whaling 274
UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones 129
'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' 267
US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown 370
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun 371
50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever 92
The Top Free Online University Courses of 2018, Ranked by Popularity 33
Congress Approves Act that Opens US Government Data To the Public; Requires Federal Agencies To Publish 'Non-Sensitive' Info in 'Machine-Readable' Format 89
Trump Signs Legislation To Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 billion 120
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' 196
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? 255
The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 232
The GPS Wars Have Begun 210
Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry 87
Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers 520
Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment 117
Price Of Bitcoin Rises 27%, While Price of Bitcoin Cash Triples 83
Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
Big Ben Brought Back To Life Through Snapchat AR Lens 29
YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked 187
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and UK Accuse China of APT10 Hacking Spree 61
How Do Universities Prepare Graduates For Jobs That Don't Yet Exist? 164
Lubuntu, a Popular Ubuntu Flavor, To Stop Providing 32-Bit Releases 111
Fortnite Teen Hackers 'Earning Thousands of Dollars a Week' 42
Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says 44
Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia 91
China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
Amazon's Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase 132
Uber Resumes Testing Self-Driving Cars Nine Months After Deadly Crash 32
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
China Hacked HPE, IBM and Then Attacked Clients, Report Finds 59
Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations 43
US Slams China For Corporate Cyber Espionage, Indicts Two Spies 54
Over 110,000 Passengers on 760 Flights Disrupted by Drones Flying Over One of the UK's Busiest Airports 196
US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling 129
All Copyrighted Works First Published In the US In 1923 Will Enter Public Domain On January 1st 276
Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working 199
Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US 75
Burnout, Stress Lead More Companies To Try a Four-Day Work Week 147
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure 594
Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge 135
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled 162
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network 31
Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast 114
UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week 91
AT&T Opens 5G Network in 12 US Cities, Announces Pricing For First 5G Mobile Device and Service 59
France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year 138
The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered 79
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number 157
MIPS Goes Open Source 70
Cement is the Source of About 8% of the World's Carbon Dioxide Emissions 185
Norway is Entering a New Era of Climate-Conscious Architecture 119
California Requires New City Buses To Be Electric by 2029 142
More than Half of Americans Say They Didn't Get a Pay Raise this Year 325
Google To Invest $1 Billion in New Campus in New York City 35
The Decline of American Peyote 81
A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries 111
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War 337
Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse 194
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
How Microsoft Embraced Python 163
People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles 262
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
Do Alternative Software Licenses Represent Open Source's 'Midlife Crisis'? 87
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' 281
Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu 87
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers 479
Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy 79
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need, an Analysis Finds 367
Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform 113
Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami 131
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses 151
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
Sting on Amazon Booksellers Aims To Weed Out Counterfeit Textbooks, But Small Sellers Getting Hurt 87
ASUS CEO Resigns as Company Shifts Mobile Focus To Power Users 100
The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules 304
Ranks of Crypto Users Swelled in 2018 Even as Bitcoin Tumbled 49
Ethereum Thinks it Can Change the World. It's Running Out of Time To Prove It. 150
Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion 189
Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage 90
Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says 207
'Cryptocurrencies Are Like Lottery Tickets That Might Pay Off in Future' 122
FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs 243
President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip 351
California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents 244
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages 107
Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers 141
South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency 71
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says 48
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition 234
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown 100
Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 328
New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web 199
Evelyn Berezin, Who Built the First True Word Processor, Has Died at 93 93
Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs 335
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot 78
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China 91
Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company 80
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions of Micro-organisms 87
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore 164
UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines 111
Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube 115
Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 399
Scientists Say Most Diverse Coral Site Ever Seen on Great Barrier Reef Discovered 38
'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' 372
Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? 255
Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? 256
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old 78
Were Those Strange Waves Rippling Across Earth Caused By Magma Shfits? 55
Bitcoin Options Purchased for $1 Million Will Soon Be Worthless 59
Cryptocurrencies Tumble Even More, While One Asset Manager Proclaims 'Bitcoin is Dead' 165
'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says 210
Amazon Targets Airports For Checkout-Free Store Expansion 66
FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data 57
Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint 121
'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' 83
Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years 120
DHS Looking Into Tracking Monero and Zcash Transactions 38
California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses 563
The FTC's Top Consumer Protection Official Can't Go After Facebook -- or 100 Other Companies 75
Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It. 410
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities 143
Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium 186
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt 282
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy 346
Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai 104
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers 134
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 For Windows and Mac; Open-Sources WPF, Forms and WinUI 72
House GOP Campaign Committee Says Its Emails Were Hacked During 2018 Campaign 163
'YouTube Music is a Bad Product in Desperate Need of Improvement Before Anyone Will Care To Use It' 72
Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? 84
Two iOS Fitness Apps Were Caught Using Touch ID To Trick Users Into Payments of $120 64
AT&T Will Keep Your Money If You Cancel TV Or Internet In Middle of Billing Cycle 99
Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables 481
Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You 86
Blockchain Study Finds 0% Success Rate and Vendors Don't Call Back When Asked For Evidence 145
Who'd Go To University Today? 500
Italian Bioengineer Develops 3D-Printed Vegan Steak From Plant-Based Proteins 297
Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel 94
Amazon Tests Its Cashierless Technology for Bigger Stores 25
Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude 100
Trump Agrees Not To Raise Tariff Levels on Chinese Goods; China Agrees To US Purchases. Two Sides To Start Broader Negotiations. 322
Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' 402
Node.js Event-Stream Hack Reveals Open Source 'Developer Infrastructure' Exploit 82
RISC-V and Linux Foundations Partner to Promote Open Source CPU 92
Bitcoin Miners Bail, While Cryptocurrency Capitalization Drops 83% Since January 148
More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report 281
George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 408
DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019 23
Shocking Maps Show How Humans Have Reshaped Earth Since 1992 88
Airbnb Will Start Designing Houses In 2019 30
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally 252
NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants 636
In China, Your Car Could Be Talking To the Government 73
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
US Life Expectancy Falls Further 336
Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled Charged For Illegally Touting Crypto Offerings 89
Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps 163
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
Microsoft Wins $480 Million Military Contract To Bring HoloLens To Battlefield 59
US iOS Users Targeted by Massive Malvertising Campaign 61
At an All-Hands Meeting, Uber CEO Said The Company Deserves Some Fault After Its Self-Driving Car Killed a Pedestrian 122
Bloomberg is Still Reporting on Challenged Story Regarding China Hardware Hack 71
Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer 344
How Restaurants Got So Loud 233
DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public 105
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
Amazon Will Be Off All Oracle Databases By End of 2019, Says AWS Chief 61
Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit 277
After 12 Draws and a Day of Tiebreakers, Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana To Win World Chess Championship 89
The FTC Says It Will Investigate Loot Boxes 153
Microsoft's Stock Market Value Pulls Ahead of Apple's 119

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