Technology Stories for 2013

The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96
A Year With Google Glass 292
Ask Slashdot: Life Organization With Free Software? 133
4 Tips For Your New Laptop 310
If UNIX Were a Religion 392
The Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013? 162
US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions 228
Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) 211
Feds Announce Test Sites For Drone Aircraft 78
Ask Slashdot: Effective, Reasonably Priced Conferencing Speech-to-Text? 81
USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs 252
World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved 49
Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion 117
The Rise of Hoax News 181
Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
PC Plus Packs Windows and Android Into Same Machine 319
Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship 188
Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora 341
Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? 321
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze 139
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
X.Org Server 1.15 Brings DRI3, Lacks XWayland Support 340
Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users 457
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
Next Carsharing Advance: Electric Cars From a Vending Machine 62
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
NASA's LLCD Tests Confirm Laser Communication Capabilities In Space 107
CSI Style Zoom Sees Faces Reflected In Subjects' Eyes 103
Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads 139
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review 116
PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES 564
Internet Commenting Growing Away From Anonymity 384
Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck 521
First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 67
Metamaterials Developed To Bend Sound Waves, Deflect Tsunamis 110
Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault 271
How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? 606
Tesla Updates Model S Software As a Precaution Against Unsafe Charging 148
Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries 378
Ask Slashdot: How To Build a Morse Code Audio Library For Machine Learning? 79
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland 137
Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? 210
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year 71
The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O. 75
Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android 150
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Ask Slashdot: How Long Will the Internet Remember Us? 126
Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind 262
Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers 64
How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation 118
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? 382
Alek Komarnitsky's Huge Christmas Light Display Still Going Strong (Video) 29
Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob 399
Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 283
Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? 117
MIT Study: Only 3.1% of USA Used Electronics "e-Waste" Were Exported 58
Apple Forges Agreement With China Mobile 79
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
Run Netflix On OpenSUSE 128
Asm.js Gets Faster 289
UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites 148
Evad3rs Announce iOS 7 Jailbreak For Latest Apple Devices 110
Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge 51
Throwable 36-Camera Ball Nearly Ready To Toss 68
Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP 829
Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support 62
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club 37
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control 112
Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo 102
Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump 90
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found 85
French Team Implants First Long-Term Artificial Heart 106
Belgian Telecom Becomes First To Accept Bitcoin 65
Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split 489
DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years 183
Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands 175
Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California 653
How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam 153
Open Source Add-on Rewrites the User Interface of IE11 86
Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps 47
Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' 157
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware 149
Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims 168
Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? 308
Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' 339
Web Surfing Improves Motor Skills 33
It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car 201
Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 182
BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' 111
KDE Releases Applications and Development Platform 4.12 44
Life-Sized, Drivable 500,000 Piece Lego Car Runs On Air 73
Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power 87
Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? 159
After 22 Years, Walt Mossberg Writes Final WSJ Column 100
Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure 253
Virtuix Omni is a Step Toward True Virtual Reality Gaming (Video) 87
Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards 192
One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots 56
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Using Supercomputers To Find a Bacterial "Off" Switch 30
UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn 227
Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU 264
Scientists Print Retinal Cells 41
Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars 238
'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy 154
Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests 562
The Software Inferno 109
Google Joins the Open Invention Network Board 22
Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart 110
Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use 547
Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? 328
Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA 312
Chat with Microsoft Beat Journalist Preston Gralla (Video) 29
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate 314
Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL 277
Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect 94
Interview: Ask Forrest Mims About Rockets, Electronics, and Engineering 120
Fedora 20 Released 147
Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat 139
Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time 348
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit 70
Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network 107
Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines 413
Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test 173
Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech 237
Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry 261
NZ Developers Win 'Koha' Trademark Case 26
Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone? 66
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security 280
Graphene-based Nanoantennas Could Allow WLANs of Nanodevices 45
Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data 195
Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee To Run US Patent Office 91
Under the Hood of SteamOS 201
Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart 190
GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language 575
Google Acquires Boston Dynamics 104
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto 122
UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game 598
Valve Releases Debian-Based SteamOS Beta 211
Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber 184
North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet 276
NASA's Next Mars Mission Will Join the Interplanetary Internet 53
Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes 513
Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded 122
Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional 324
Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft. 207
Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million 586
Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic 124
JetBlue Launches Satellite-Based Inflight Wi-Fi 79
Cybercrime Marketplace Mastermind Faces 18 Years In Prison 59
Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug 145
Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer 127
ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 153
Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation 157
Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building 296
Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland 83
Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn 192
New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding 65
SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 211
Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery 226
Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center 208
OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein 140
Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T 291
Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India 75
Smart Cars: Too Distracting? 180
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race 137
Ask Slashdot: To Publish Change Logs Or Not? 162
Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone 134
Private Mars One Mission Contracts Lockheed For Exploratory Mission 35
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network 308
Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins 208
Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber 61
AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' 86
British Police Censor the Global Internet 228
KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 93
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120
US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors 425
Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec 129
CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption 118
New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button 290
Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas 54
Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper 157
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA 293
eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy 189
Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating 299
New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering 92
Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy 345
Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances 87
Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights 40
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities 45
How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works 174
DARPA Makes Finding Software Flaws Fun 46
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider 97
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
US Navy Launches Drone From Submerged Submarine 55
Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed 239
Supreme Court To Review Software Patents 115
Opus 1.1 Released 62
FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App 187
Visual Guide – the Making of a DIY Space Capsule 40
Mozilla Organizes Game Creating Contest, Prizes Worth $45,000 55
Australia's $44B Broadband Network May Settle For Fiber Near the Home 229
Barcelona Will Be a Big Test For HotSpot 2.0 Wi-Fi Connections 18
Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work 406
Microsoft's NSA 'Transparency' Push Remains Pretty Opaque 90
Tesla Would Be Proud: Wireless Charging For Electric Cars Gets Closer To Reality 176
Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling 198
World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time 166
China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading 333
Crowdfunded Afrimakers To Bring Arduinos, Raspberry Pis To African Tech Hubs 61
Medical Radioactive Material Truck Stolen In Mexico 98
Nissan Leaf Prototype Becomes First Autonomous Car On Japanese Highways 140
In Letter To 20 Automakers, Senator Demands Answers On Cybersecurity 80
FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic 365
Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So 462
Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do? 310
Retail Radeon R9 290X Graphics Cards Slower Than AMD's Press Samples 111
EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet 1010
Andy Rubin Is Heading a Secret Robotics Project At Google 162
The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! 453
FLOSS 2013: the Survey For Open Source Contributors, a Decade Later 27
Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii 123
Epson Tries to One-up Google Glass with Moverio-Goggles (Video) 65
RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse 549
Patent Battle May Loom Over 'Copenhagen Wheel' Electric Bike 152
Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio 214
Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? 250
Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? 961
Bursting the Filter Bubble 136
Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013 117
Volvo Plans To Have Self-Driving Cars In Swedish City of Gothenburg By 2017 134
Google Glass Making Its Way Into Operating Rooms 120
Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone 397
The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes 332
Telefonica To Shut Down VoIP Provider Jajah On January 31, 2014 39
Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump 174
Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World 306
270 Million Android Users In China 44

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