News Stories for 2018

Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures 58
EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 205
The App Destroying Iran's Currency 83
Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking 203
Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business 119
Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records 84
Uber Fined Nearly $1.2 Million By Dutch, UK Over 2016 Data Breach 30
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students 93
YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 91
CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years 317
A UK Commons Committee Chair Says He's Seen Evidence a Facebook Engineer Flagged Russian Entities Pulling Billions of Points of Data Every Day in 2014 127
The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens 170
'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' 554
Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low 673
Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract 128
Dictionary.com Picks 'Misinformation' As Word of the Year 48
Amazon Opens Up Its Internal Machine Learning Training To Everyone 30
Trump Suggests US Could Slap 10 Percent Tax On iPhones, Laptops From China 387
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform 19
The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website To Unmask a Cybercriminal 82
Cyber Monday Is Set To Be a $7.8 Billion Day, Breaking Online Records 46
Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping 153
The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin 149
US Top Court Leans Toward Allowing Apple App Store Antitrust Suit 163
YouTube To Make New Originals Available for Free, Ad-Supported Viewing With 'Single Slate' Strategy 9
China's Cashless Economy Threatens To Leave Its Elderly -- and Their Money -- Behind 105
Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative 289
Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws 66
Scientists Discover Rare Giant Viruses Lurking In Harvard Forest Soil 94
UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers 225
Bitcoin Loses 32% of Its Value This Week, Falls Below $4,000 201
Many of the Climate Impacts Predicted in the Last National Climate Assessment, in 2014, Are No Longer Theoretical 346
Science Journals Are Laughing All the Way To the Bank, Locking the Results of Publicly Funded Research Behind Exorbitant Paywalls. This Must Be Stopped. 140
What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us 87
How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop 192
Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company 54
Amazon Rainforest Deforestation 'Worst in 10 Years', Says Brazil 90
Your Credit Score Isn't a Reflection of Your Moral Character. But the Department of Homeland Security Seems To Think It Is. 336
Influencers Are Being Paid Big Sums To Pitch Products and Thrash Rivals on Instagram and YouTube 124
Google, Mozilla Working on Letting Web Apps Edit Files Despite Warning That it Could Be Abused 112
Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes 314
India-Based Zapr Has Developed Tech That Listens To Ambient Sounds Around Users To Build Targeted Ad Profiles, Several Popular Local Services Use Its Tech 51
Square Enix Pulls Three Games From Belgium After Loot Box Ban 102
Leaning Tower of Pisa is Leaning Less Than Before, Say Experts 77
Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days 225
US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei 185
High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification 134
YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back 181
Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players 123
The Mystery Font That Took Over New York 72
A Look at the Growing Popularity Of Closed and Secret Groups on Facebook and How Some Media Outlets Have Built an Engaging Audience There 46
CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice 194
In an Open Letter To EU's Competition Commissioner, 14 European Shopping Comparison Services Say Google is Not Making the Search For Products Fairer 113
Most Americans Don't Think Social Networks Are Good For the World, Survey Finds 98
Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts 85
'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds 85
Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For 53
Google News May Shut in Some Countries Over EU Plans To Charge Tax For Links 134
NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say 456
Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX 225
US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth 107
Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps 135
Ford Eyes Use of Customers' Personal Data To Boost Profits 79
Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress 407
The Forgotten Legend of Silicon Valley's Flying Saucer Man 44
'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data' 109
Canada Has 'No Plan' To Bring Broadband To Rural and Remote Communities, Watchdog Says 182
Department of Commerce Could Be the First US Entity To Broadly Regulate an Aspect of AI 51
Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds 354
Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers 25
Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish 103
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 180
Southeast Asia's Digital Economy To Triple To $240 Billion By 2025, Says Google Report 26
NASA Considers Selling Seats on the Spacecraft Used For International Space Station 75
Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach 144
Apple CEO Explains How a Few Billion Dollars From Google Changes His Views on the Company's 'Unsettling' User Data Mining Activities 112
Michael Bloomberg Donates Record $1.8 Billion To Johns Hopkins University; Donation Will Be Devoted Exclusively To Undergraduate Financial Aid 134
YouTube Now Streams Free Ad-Supported Movies -- Including 'The Terminator' and 'Hackers' 86
Compelling New Suspect For DB Cooper Skyjacking Found By Army Data Analyst 111
Man Spoofs GPS To Fake Shop Visits For Profit, Gets Caught 97
Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan 110
Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal 165
BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion 34
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
A New Senate Bill Would Hit Robocallers With Up To a $10,000 Fine For Every Call 180
Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says 75
Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency 72
Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars 204
Amazon Has Everything it Needs To Make Massively Popular Algorithm-Driven Fiction 79
Jeff Bezos To Employees: 'One Day, Amazon Will Fail' But Our Job is To Delay it as Long as Possible 129
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa 190
Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award 129
Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 452
Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' 64
Uber Joins Linux Foundation Cementing Commitment To Open Source Tools 30
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking 234
The US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely 35
How Podcasts Became a Seductive -- and Sometimes Slippery -- Mode of Storytelling 35
YouTube King PewDiePie Surrenders Crown To Indian Record Label T-Series 92
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland's Ice Sheet 172
Facebook Reportedly Hired a PR Firm That Wrote Negative Articles About Rivals, Pushed George Soros Conspiracy Theory 149
Indiegogo 'Guaranteed Shipping' Will Ensure Refunds If Campaigns Fail 45
Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing 80
Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees 87
Bitcoin Plummets Under $6,000 To a New Low For the Year 132
Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds 212
'Jeff Bezos is Wrong, Tech Workers Are Not Bullies' 337
Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming 280
Google Is Absorbing DeepMind's Health Care Unit To Create An 'AI Assistant For Nurses and Doctors' 27
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million 160
Amazon Is Getting More Than $2 Billion For NYC, Virginia Expansions 105
Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] 224
Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? 103
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
US Chip Cards Are Being Compromised In the Millions 106
More Than 50 Nations Launch 'Paris Call' To Fix Hate Speech and Cyberattacks; China and Russia Not Among Signatories, Trump Administration Reluctant To Sign 313
YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible 142
Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 199
Firefox Debuts Price Wise, an Experimental Price-Tracking Feature To Help Users Score Top Shopping Deals 101
US Overtakes China in Top Supercomputer List 74
'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' 346
The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear 126
Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says 391
When No One Retires 414
Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters 234
The World is Running Out of Sand, and People Are Dying as a Result 180
Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? 189
Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? 240
The Free Software Foundation Releases New Comments About Licenses 57
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 48
The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights 158
Strategy Guide Company Prima Games Is Shutting Down 50
'Amazon's HQ2 Was a Con, Not a Contest' 147
Dyson May Make Wearable Air Purifiers That Double as Headphones, Says Report 39
The New York Times Digitizes Millions of Photos Going Back To 19th Century 29
How YouTube's Algorithm Really Works 62
Wildfire Devastates California Town of Paradise 169
US Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS's Mail Scanning Service 80
Microsoft Aims To Bring Internet To Rural Tribal Lands In Washington, Montana 53
Chinese News Agency Adds AI Anchors To Its Broadcast Team 79
Google Pledges To Overhaul Its Sexual Harassment Policy After Global Protests 295
Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? 332
A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs 162
Amazon's AbeBooks Backs Down After Booksellers Stage Global Protest 26
UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time 147
Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters 452
Gates Foundation Spent $200 Million Funding Toilet Research 123
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App 122
California Voters Embrace Year-Round Daylight-Saving Time 279
Apple Not in Settlement Talks 'at Any Level' With Qualcomm, Report Says 31
In a First, Amazon Begins Mailing 70-page Printed Holiday Toy Catalog To US Homes 108
San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless 528
Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament 209
A New Method To Produce Steel Could Cut 5 Percent of CO2 Emissions 121
Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection 118
United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing 142
Facebook's GraphQL Gets Its Own Open-Source Foundation 33
Blockchain-Based Elections Would Be a Disaster For Democracy 168
Foxconn Denies Looking To Transfer Chinese Workers To Incoming Wisconsin Factory 61
'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says 23
Three European Countries Block Tax On Tech Giants 56
Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know 344
In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center 230
Ask Slashdot: How To Fix an Outdated College Tech Curriculum? 128
Energy Cost of 'Mining' Bitcoin More Than Twice That of Copper Or Gold 165
SpaceX's Helipad-Equipped Boat Will Bring Astronauts Safely Home 29
Voting Machine Manual Instructed Election Officials To Use Weak Passwords 197
US Regulator Demands Companies Take Action To Halt Robocalls 161
Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic 70
Amazon Is Hiring Fewer Workers This Holiday Season, a Sign That Robots Are Replacing Them 94
7-Eleven Tests Cashier-Free Shopping In 14 Stores 90
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, Two of the World's Largest Biomedical Research Funders, Back Europe's Ambitious Open-Access Plan 22
Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules 56
Daylight Saving Time is Super Unpopular. Here Are the Countries Trying To Ditch It. 355
Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel 217
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Chinese Chip Firm Fujian Jinhua Denies Stealing IP From Micron 58
Amazon In 'Advanced Talks' To Open Headquarters In Washington DC Area 101
Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead 135
Researchers Explore New Batteries To Power Electric Planes 141
Is Data Science For All the New Computer Science For All? 51
How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code 370
Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion 185
Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting 177
Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? 86
Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. 205
NASA, ESA Release First 8K Video From Space 21
Apple Will No Longer Reveal How Many iPhones, iPads, and Macs It Sells 158
Tesla Says Justice Department, SEC Are Investigating Model 3 Production Targets 116
Researchers Launch Plan To Sequence 66,000 Species In the UK 13
A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada 116
Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads 31
Chinese Video Sensation TikTok Surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in Downloads Last Month 33
Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide' 318
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says His Creation Can't Succeed Unless He Takes a Step Back 18
English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now 241
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
'Hologram' Lecturers To Teach Students at Imperial College London 57
Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt 117
Google Employees Stage Protest Over Handling of Sexual Harassment 271
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Send CEOs To Jail For Violating Consumer Privacy 104
AT&T Blacks Out HBO, Cinemax For Dish, Sling TV Users Over Carriage Dispute 107
US Accuses China, Taiwan Firms With Stealing Secrets From Chip Giant Micron 99
US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings 153
Apple, Amazon, Google and More Than 50 Other Companies Sign Letter Against Trump Administration's Proposed Gender Definition Changes 769
CIA Vault7 Leaker To Be Charged For Leaking More Classified Data While in Prison 94
Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up 145
Can a Robot Learn a Language the Way a Child Does? 86
The Average Cable Bill Has Increased More Than 50 Percent Since 2010 193
Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment 342
Scientists Warn That World's Wilderness Areas Are Disappearing 72
Lime Recalls 2,000 Scooters After Reports of Some Catching Fire 49
Startling New Research Finds Large Buildup of Heat in the Oceans, Suggesting a Faster Rate of Global Warming [Update] 407
The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State 202
'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' 236
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
US Indicts Chinese Hacker-Spies In Conspiracy To Steal Aerospace Secrets 80
How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility 290
Waymo Gets the Green Light To Test Fully Driverless Cars In California 63
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
Facebook Reports Slowing Revenue and User Growth 30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released 53
Fedora 29 Released 31
How Much Does a Cable Box Really Cost? The Industry Would Prefer You Don't Ask 219
Reporters Posed as 100 Senators To Run Ads on Facebook. Facebook Approved All of Them. 83
Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice 58
Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? 141
Samsung Open-Source Group Reportedly Shuts Down 50
Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 303
Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak 180
Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments 116
Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO 161
Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind 83
US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk 101
Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle 183
FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' 313
Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 287
UK Announces Digital Services Tax on Tech Giants 90
Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History 46
FCC Leaders Say We Need a 'National Mission' To Fix Rural Broadband 176
New Zealand Chooses Google Chromebooks Over Microsoft Windows 10 For Education 165
In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In 535

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