Index Stories for 2016

Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps 37
Let's Raise A Glass To The Many Tech Pioneers Who Died In 2016 64
Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories 211
Pull Requests Are Accepted At About The Same Rate, Regardless of Gender 94
Astronomers Detect Mysterious Radio Signals Coming From Outside Our Galaxy 205
'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Died On Christmas Eve At Age 96 46
Microsoft Patent Suggests HoloLens Could Keep Track of Your Small Items 62
Foxconn and Sharp Team Up To Build $8.8 Billion LCD Plant In China 66
NASA Designs 'Ice Dome' For Astronauts On Mars 126
How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar 236
China Says It Will Shut Down Ivory Trade By End of 2017 67
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse 295
Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert 163
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Some Great Games Panned and Some Inferior Games Praised? 145
Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10%: Nikkei 113
Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source 66
Microsoft Is No Longer Selling Any Lumia Windows Phones On Its US Store 85
Sonos Alarms Are Waking Users a Day Early 38
Bad Year For Piracy: 2016 Was The Year Torrent Giants Fell 116
Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China 71
Consumer Reports Stands By Its Verdict, Won't Recommend Apple's MacBook Pro 268
Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? 207
Checking Email as Soon as You Wake up Could be Ruining Your Day 111
Seattle Region Home To 10 of Nation's 30 Most Competitive Neighborhoods For House Hunters 84
Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser 81
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 34
China's Cash-Strapped LeEco in Talks To Gain $1.4 Billion From Investor 15
Microsoft Foresees AR Tracking Your Keys, Milk, Entire Life 84
FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report 404
Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica 296
Paintings Reveal Signs of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's In Famous Artists 24
Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles 116
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change 371
Toshiba Is 'Burning Cash At An Alarming Rate' 103
Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Mining Companies Are Using Autonomous Trucks, Drills and Trains To Boost Efficiency, Reduce Employees 94
Facebook Developing Copyright ID System To Stem Music Rights Infringement 42
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
Snowden Doc Shows NSA Blamed Russia For Hack of Murdered Journalist 110
Amazon Patents Floating Airship Warehouse For Its Delivery Drones 94
Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function 75
OpenELEC 7.0 Linux Distribution Now Available For PC and Raspberry Pi 28
US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] 821
Google Mobile Search Shows Recipe Suggestions When You Look For Food 26
Nintendo's Super Mario Run For Android is Coming Soon 44
Music Streaming Hailed as Industry's Saviour as Labels Enjoy Profit Surge 87
Android Users Are So Committed that Exploding Note 7 Did Little To Help Apple: NPD 191
8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions 267
Microsoft Tests New 'Green Screen of Death' On Latest Windows 10 Builds 142
Singapore Will Add Iris Scans As Identifier For Citizens And Permanent Residents Starting January 1 57
Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads 20
Automatic Brakes Stopped Berlin Truck During Christmas Market Attack 164
Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverless Cars In Florida 131
Chinese Rocket Fails To Put Two Satellites Into Correct Orbits 113
Scientists Develop a Breathalyzer That Detects 17 Diseases With One Breath From a Patient 99
More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley 504
Some Google Pixel Devices Are Shutting Down At 30% Battery 130
Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat 119
Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware 56
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
Windows 10 Getting a Game Mode That Would Improve Game Performance - Report 164
Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens 186
China's Alibaba Poised To Invest $7.2 Billion in Entertainment and Media 14
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls AirPods 'a Runaway Success' 214
Bigger Than Mirai: Leet Botnet Delivers 650 Gbps DDoS Attack 74
Frequent Flyer Points Put at Risk By Website Flaws 19
Android Ransomware Infects LG Smart TV, Company 'Refuses' To Help 295
Toshiba Shares Plummet After Warning of 'Billions' in Losses 100
Chinese Traders Charged With Insider Trading on Hacked Information 28
Qualcomm Fined $865 Million By South Korean Antitrust Regulator 14
Lenovo Switches To Windows 10 Signature Edition Image For Its Future ThinkPad Laptops 99
FDA Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines For Medical Devices 40
Overclocker Pushes Intel Core i7-7700K Past 7GHz Using Liquid Nitrogen 139
China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 115
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Apple Tops Holiday Sales With 44 Percent of All New Device Activations 188
Vera Rubin, Pioneering Astronomer Who Confirmed Existence of Dark Matter, Dies At 88 162
Avatar-Style Manned Robot Takes First Steps In South Korea 42
Uber Launches 'Uber Freight' Website To Prepare the World For Autonomous Delivery Trucks 92
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
Panasonic To Invest Over $256 Million In Tesla's US Plant For Solar Cells 30
Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation 168
Fitbit Drops Lawsuit Against Jawbone 4
T-Mobile Is Killing the Remaining Galaxy Note7 Units Today 109
Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 456
Torrent Website ExtraTorrent Under DDoS Attacks; Pirate Bay Also Down 80
Facebook's Safety Check Activated For Fake Bangkok Bombing 24
The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming 131
China Renews Calls For Tighter Cyberspace Security 23
With Cyanogen Dead, Google's Control Over Android Is Tighter Than Ever 212
Amazon Prime Video's Global Launch Looks Soft, But It's Just a First Step 19
Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users 83
Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming 366
Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes 120
Unannounced ASUS C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook Hits Newegg, and It Looks Great 109
Sony Music Apologises To Britney Spears, Fans After Fake RIP Tweet Sent 52
Top Spotify Lawyer: Attracting Pirates is in Our DNA 79
The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband 157
Apple Publishes Its First AI Research Paper 35
Microsoft Could Be First Tech Company To Reach Trillion-Dollar Market Value: Analyst 232
Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue 254
The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned 85
Apple's Beef With Nokia Gets Intense, All Withings Products Pulled From Online Store 118
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development 143
What's the Best Book You Read This Year? 338
Uber Says App Doesn't Keep Track of Location; iOS Maps Extension to Blame 38
Windows 10 For PCs Build 14997 Leaks Online 102
Power Surge: Chinese Electric Car Battery Maker Charges For Global Market 28
Some Pixels Have Problems 69
VidAngel Keeps Streaming Videos, Defying Movie Studios and a US Judge 163
After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland 442
Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? 147
You're An Adult, But Your Brain Might Not Be, Researchers Say 261
Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer 531
FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released 146
Flickering Lights May Illuminate A Path To Alzheimer's Treatment 30
The Recent Changes In Earth's Magnetic Field 170
Did Google.org Steal the Christmas Spirit? 103
China 'Smart Restaurant' Uses Facial Recognition To Make Meal Suggestions 61
Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It 229
Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? 313
'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack 120
Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones 186
US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration 48
How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? 108
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down 113
Twitter Admits It Recently Overcharged For Ads 24
GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress 511
Python 3.6 Released 187
World's Largest Hedge Fund To Replace Managers With Artificial Intelligence 209
GM Partners With Boston Startup WiTricity To Develop Wireless Charging Technology 61
Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light 56
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us 297
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers 162
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service 61
Mozilla Will Support Firefox For XP and Vista Until At Least September 2017 73
YouTube Views Are Down Across the Board, Analysis Says 122
Nintendo Plans To Release 2 or 3 Mobile Games a Year After Super Mario Run's Success 46
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
NVIDIA Quadro P6000 and P5000 Pascal Pro Graphics Powerhouses Put To the Test 21
Russian Authorities Are Trying To Unlock iPhone 4S From Russian Ambassador's Killer 106
Ebola Vaccine Gives 100 Percent Protection, Could Be Readily Available By 2018 72
IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 34
Google and Amazon Will Let You Rent a Movie for $0.99 During the Holiday 63
Amazon Starts Flexing Muscle in New Space 70
Steam Is Down 183
US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' 82
Uber Lawsuit Alleges Employees Were Misled On Equity Compensation 39
Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates 254
Steam Fined $3 Million For Refusing Refunds 160
UK Hits Clean Energy Milestone: 50% of Electricity From Low Carbon Sources 111
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
Stanford Built a Humanoid Submarine Robot To Explore a 17th-Century Shipwreck 47
New Test Spots Human Form of Mad Cow Disease With 100-Percent Accuracy 133
Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016 78
World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France 277
Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona 150
2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports 212
Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report 101
Tesla Updates Autopilot To Make It Follow the Speed Limit On Roads 162
Pokemon Go Arrives On the Apple Watch 35
Norway Aims To Allow Testing Of Self-Driving Cars in 2017 16
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
China Opens Door For Tesla and Other Foreign Automakers To Produce Electric Vehicles 84
Google Isn't Giving Up On Smartwatches; Two Flagship Android Wear 2.0 Watches Launching Early Next Year 61
Google's Free Wi-Fi in India Now Live in 100 Railway Stations; 15,000 New Users Connect to Web Everyday 46
Bitcoin Circulation Hits Record High Of $14 Billion 153
Apple Delays App Store Security Deadline For Developers 25
Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google To Bypass Censorship 87
A Record High of 455 Scripted TV Shows Aired in 2016 189
Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 364
Raspberry Pi's Linux-Based PIXEL Desktop Now Available For PC and Mac 50
After Insisting For Years That Facebook Is Not a Media Company, Zuckerberg Says Just Not a 'Traditional' One 52
Uber Stops Self-Driving Car Pilot In San Francisco After The DMV Steps In 151
Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report 76
China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful 470
NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography 138
Firefox Takes the Next Step Towards Rolling Out Multi-Process To Everyone 154
7-Eleven Beats Google, Amazon To First Commercial Drone Delivery Service In US 42
Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine 70
Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service 48
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
A Ham Radio Software Company Has Been Blacklisting Users For Leaving Negative Reviews 177
Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas 338
The Loyalty To AMD's GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing 157
White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts 27
Government Requests For Facebook User Data Up 27 Percent in First Half of 2016 19
Nokia Sues Apple, Claims Patent Infringement in iPhone and Other Devices 77
Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? 766
Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies 102
Twitter Is 'Toast' and the Stock Is Not Even Worth $10, Says Analyst 284
Nintendo's Mobile Mario Game Sets Download Record But Pricing Proves Sticking Point 92
LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI 173
Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support 137
EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter 156
Samsung Note 7 User Base Still Larger Than LG V20, OnePlus 3T Combined 29
Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters 86
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Japan Successfully Launches Solid Fuel Rocket 107
Crytek Closing Five Studios, Will Refocus On 'Premium IPs' and CryEngine 54
Using Multiple Social Networks May Lead To Depression and Anxiety, Says Study 119
Human Cells Naturally 'Eat' Silicon Nanowires 42
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Morgan Freeman To Voice Mark Zuckerberg's Jarvis 93
AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls 66
Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites 93
France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail 45
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
Egypt Has Blocked Encrypted Messaging App Signal 44
Aircraft Entertainment Systems Hacks Are Back 56
Apple In Talks With India To Manufacture Locally 118
Uber Admits To Self-driving Car 'Problem' in Bike Lanes As Safety Concerns Mount 383
At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof 230
Nintendo Switch Uses Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC, Clock Speeds Outed 105
Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results 332
Tim Cook Assures Employees That It Is Committed To Mac and 'Great Desktops' Are Coming 307
EU Accuses Facebook Of Giving Misleading Information During WhatsApp Takeover 27
Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter 156
Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' 280
Filmmaker Installed Security Software On a Decoy Phone To Spy On Smartphone Thieves 118
Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time 115
Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 192
Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant 100
Alphabet's Waymo Reveals Its Self-Driving Chrysler Pacifica Minivans 25
Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President 1069
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers 351
Google Releases Tool To Find Common Crypto Bugs 22
Facebook Messenger Launches 6-Screen Group Video Chat 16
China Chokes On Smog So Bad That Planes Can't Land 166
IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump 600
Adobe Releases Flash Player 24 For Linux Four Years After the Last Major Update 88
House Committee Urges Congress To Pass Stingray Surveillance Legislation 25
Nigerian Man Charged in Hacking of Los Angeles County Emails 44
Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income 441
Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 210
Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' 184
Samsung Could Look To LG For Phone Batteries After Note 7 Debacle 50
Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network 74
Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling 221
Apple Appeals EU Tax Ruling, Says It Was a 'Convenient Target' 122
Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? 295
BlackBerry Unveils Autonomous Vehicle Hub In Canada 37

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