Technology Stories for 2011

How the Year Looked On Slashdot 161
Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson 473
Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers 469
Speculating On What a Microsoft Superphone Might Mean 371
Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo 38
Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License 647
EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support 204
Transforming Any Flat Surface Into a Control Panel With Sound 53
Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969
Soyuz Lifts Off Again, Delivers Globalstar Satellites 40
Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 152
Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? 315
Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet 192
Doctorow: the Coming War On General-Purpose Computing 439
2011: Record Year For Airline Safety 144
New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary 249
Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court 156
Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs 224
Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99% 451
UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation 102
What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? 225
Stephen Hawking Looking For Personal Techie 289
TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas 338
Wikipedia To Dump GoDaddy Over SOPA 197
No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 233
Researchers Demo New GSM Attacks at Chaos Communications Congress 17
How a Gesture Could Get Your Google+ Profile Picture Yanked 262
Sun Storms May Affect Radios, Cell Phones Today 50
Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online 562
Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy 279
Free Wi-Fi Coming To Japanese Vending Machines 81
HP TouchPad Go: $99? 146
Did Microsoft Make Google Pay Triple Rate To Mozilla? 248
Rackspace: SOPA "Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legislation" 213
Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps 523
Summary of the M-Edge Vs. Amazon Lawsuit 61
Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S 192
Prospects Darken For Solar Energy Companies 435
Passive Optical Diode Created At Purdue University 92
New WiFi Setup Flaw Allows Easy Router PIN Guessing 86
PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade 419
Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted 240
Charlie Kindel On Why Windows Phone Still Hasn't Taken Off 397
2012 and the Technology Blahs 130
China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites 168
More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network 84
Ask Slashdot: Geek-Centric Magazines Still Published On Paper? 125
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
The GoDaddy Saga Continues 203
Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling? 301
Boxee 1.5 Will Be the Last Supported Desktop Version 113
Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? 783
China's Parallel Online Universe 173
What If Babbage Had Succeeded? 212
Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection 81
Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? 349
New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End 126
Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? 355
The Looming Library Lending Battle 390
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
Go Daddy Loses Over 21,000 Domains In One Day 356
Google and Mozilla: Partners, Not Competitors 151
Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors 201
The Bitcoin Strikes Back 344
Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users 348
What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? 361
Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley 328
Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding 215
Dell and Baidu Introduce a Smartphone With Forked Version of Android 146
Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity 294
Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? 375
Mozilla's 3 Big Bets To Keep the Web Open 88
The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Recreated In Lego 80
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA 330
Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax 294
Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater 256
Volkswagen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours 377
How the Tevatron Influenced Computing 66
Why 2012 Will Be the Year of the Android Tablet 584
GoDaddy Backs SOPA 353
NRC Approves New Nuclear Reactor Design 299
The Problem With Windows 8's Picture Password 206
Solar Cells Made From a Spreadable Nanoparticle Paste 66
KDE 4.8 RC 1 Now Available 140
Average Web Page Approaches 1MB 319
ORNL's Newest Petaflop Climate Computer To Come Online For NOAA 66
Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models 503
AMD Radeon HD 7970 Launched, Fastest GPU Tested 281
Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? 357
Reinventing Xerox PARC As a Money Maker 99
Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com 630
Twitter To Open Source Android Security Tech 164
EU Shipping Sector Cyber Security Awareness "Non-Existent" 55
Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling 159
Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3 314
Inductive Charging For EVs To Be Tested In Berlin 123
Troops In Afghanistan Supplied By Robot Helicopter 140
Microsoft Says Goodbye To CES 79
Ask Gaming [Designer, Professor, Gadfly] Ian Bogost 57
Kindle Fire and Nook Upgrades Kill Root Access 275
QuakeForge 0.6.0 Released In Time For Christmas 30
Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google 315
Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship 449
In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar 72
Gaining a Remote Shell On Android 124
Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure 120
Sony Sued Over PSN 'No Suing' Provision 384
Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor 379
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement For Default Search 103
X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence 341
Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel 360
IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years 219
Kim Jong-Il Was an "Internet Expert" 238
Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety 433
High School Reunions — Facebook's Newest Victim? 168
Ready For Your Payroll Software Update? 105
New Qt Based Desktop Environment 241
Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved 330
Victory For Irish File Sharers Dashed By Government Report 77
Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive 603
Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? 601
NFL: National Football Luddites? 257
Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet 283
IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate 216
BT Sues Google Over Android 214
In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public 71
MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data 29
Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts 228
Examining the Usability of Gnome, Unity and KDE 228
Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos 68
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet , Telecomix Restores 156
Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot 507
Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking 80
Innovative Use of Plastics Could Cheaply Double Solar Cell Output 141
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast 808
YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video 220
Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored 86
Belgium Anti-Piracy Group Expands Attack On Access To the Pirate Bay 159
Google Rolls Out Official Android 4.0 ICS Update 92
DynDNS Cuts Back Free DNS Options 223
Novell's WordPerfect Antitrust Suit Ends In Mistrial 98
No SOPA Vote Until 2012 181
Ask Slashdot: Technical Advice For a (Fictional) Space Mission? 203
FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner 15
Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House 123
New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates 62
Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers 255
Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny 477
The Future of Battle Tech 122
Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own 392
US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads 383
Judge Dismisses Twitter Stalking Case 51
Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text 213
Nightingale Media Player Preview Released 79
JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer 210
Running Tor On Your TV 80
Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android 614
US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing 647
Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones 1003
Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier 449
Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE 476
How 3D Printing Could Help Keep the ISS In Orbit 200
Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House 175
Taking a Look At Kindle Format 8 76
Qt 4.8.0 Released 90
Should Social Media Affect Your Creditworthiness? 344
A Quarter of the EU Has Never Used the Web 392
Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos 200
Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent 121
Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off 309
Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery 302
Atlantic Crossing By Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon 51
KDE Releases Plasma Active Two 49
Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android 532
Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog 590
24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs 291
Chinese Government Ramps Up Weather Control Efforts 139
Paul Allen Launches Commercial Spaceship Project 152
UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER 398
NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers 938
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
Facebook Launches Suicide-Prevention Effort 159
Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? 352
Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads 247
EU Regulators Delay Google's Motorola Buy, Seeking More Info 45
MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second 197
Million Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Dupes Social Networks 170
Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence 264
Quantum Dots Will Make Flexible Displays 83
Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers 214
Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps 333
Site Offers History of Torrent Downloads By IP 340
Scientists Create World's Smallest Steam Engine 84
The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels 448
Linux Mint Diverting Banshee Revenue 178
Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar 86
The Ups and Downs of Being a Twitter Fraudster 101
Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network 260
The Condescending UI 980
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' 318
Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict 423
Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security 225
Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced 108
GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award 378
Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers 187
Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare 157
Google Demonstrates Chrome Native Client With Bastion 154
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
HP Making webOS Open Source 169
Why Android Upgrades Take So Long 226
Tycho Deep Space: a DIY, Open Source, Manned Spacecraft 85
Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps 282
Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet 99
Android Market Hits 10 Billion Downloads, Games Dominate 178
Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model 471
Microsoft Can Remotely Kill Purchased Apps 389
Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa 102
Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets 125
Feds Return Mistakenly Seized Domain 243
GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales 344
Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone 612
Researchers Expanding Diff, Grep Unix Tools 276
OpenDNS Releases DNS Encryption Tool 94
Another Dutch CA Hacked 152
Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions 65
Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law 516
DARPA Seeks App Developers For War App Store 174
Library of Congress To Receive Entire Twitter Archive 106
EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices 278
New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way 41
Will Windows 8 Be Ready For Release In 2012? 504
US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life 301
AT&T Repeats As Lowest-Rated Wireless Carrier 201
Ocean Energy Tech To Be Tested Off Australian Coast 103
Adobe Warns of Critical Zero Day Vulnerability 236
Lawmaker Proposes Cyberthreat Sharing Group 41
India Moves To Censor Social Media 171
Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety 162
Reverse Robocall Turns Tables On Politicians 252
US Launches Virtual Embassy For Iran 174
Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess? 424
Indian Minister Seeks To Censor User-Generated Content Online 82
Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software 228
Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support 140
Google To Seek Dismissal of Suit Against Google Books 240
Digital Face-Swapping Getting Cheaper 62

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