Technology Stories for 2013

How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed 236
Sailfish Can Officially Be Installed To Android Devices 118
Google Supercomputers Tackle Giant Drug-Interaction Data Crunch 50
Intel Linux Driver Now Nearly As Fast As Windows OpenGL Driver 113
Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA 194
Reverse Engineering the Technical and Artistic Genius of Painter Jan Vermeer 70
AI Reality Check In Online Dating 192
The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? 582
Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation 135
Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users 162
Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court 249
New Windows XP Zero-Day Under Attack 241
French Court Orders Search Engines, ISPs To Block Pirate Sites 75
Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor 123
Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records 784
Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria 78
Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You 163
US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M 127
UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs 208
Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide 104
CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store 255
BlackBerry Launches Twitter-Like BBM Channels 49
U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks 23
With Burning Teslas In the News Ford Recalls Almost 140,000 Escapes 293
Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health 151
Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture 293
Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? 189
A Real-Time Map of Travelers Suffering From the Thanksgiving Storm 88
Google Launches Voice Search Hotword Extension For Chrome 54
Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? 629
NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving 319
Ask Slashdot: What Review Sites Do You Consult For IT Equipment? 129
Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions 88
Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards 196
Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought 445
Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font 312
Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows 132
Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images 151
DragonFlyBSD 3.6 Brings AMD/Intel Graphics Drivers & Better SMP Scaling 48
Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night 424
Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" 292
LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers 144
The New York Times Has Lessons For Others Making the Slow Transition To Digital 67
Company Wants To Put Power Plants In the Sky 223
Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries 730
San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros 109
Single-Atom Layer of Tin May Be a New Wonder Conductor 126
Singapore & South Korea Help NSA Tap Undersea Cables 137
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing 138
China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands, Issues War Threat 519
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? 497
Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition 194
Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays 75
The Double Life of Memory Exposed With Automata Processor 32
DARPA's Atlas Walking Over Randomness 76
Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic 85
Digital Taste Interface 47
Japan Aims To Win Exascale Race 51
Detecting Chemicals Through Bone 23
Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK 195
Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? 810
Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE 209
Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service 125
The US Now Faces the Same Dilemma Over Drones As It Did Over Nuclear Weapons 211
Study Finds Digital Activism Is Effective, Mostly Non-Violent 69
Tor Now Comes In a Box 150
Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt 141
Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian 495
Researcher Shows How GPUs Make Terrific Network Monitors 67
Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling 249
Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google 278
FCC To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes 183
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating 284
Google Nexus Gets Wireless Charger 223
Building a (Virtual) Roman Emperor's Villa 50
Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls 201
MATE To Make It Into Debian Repositories 152
Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament 178
Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel 270
Online Car Retailer Launching Nation's First Car "Vending Machine" 99
World's Smallest FM Radio Transmitter Created With Graphene 60
Toyota Announces Plans For Fuel Cell Car By 2015 115
3D-Printed Dinosaur Bones "Like Gutenberg's Printing Press" For Paleontologists 39
New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin 124
BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments 263
Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly 145
Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 400
Warning At SC13 That Supercomputing Will Plateau Without a Disruptive Technology 118
Google Patents Fooling Friends With Snooping, Chatbots 128
Mir Won't Ship Even In Ubuntu 14.04 111
Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons 153
Google Maps, Lasers Reveal Vatican Catacombs 84
Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood 783
OpenSUSE 13.1 Released and Reviewed 113
Google Extends Its Patch Reward Program To Include Android 33
How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source 294
Contiki 2.7 Released 21
Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy 487
Chinese Gov't To Tighten Internet Controls Even Further 162
Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case 109
Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations 137
Fuel Rod Removal Operation Begins At Tsunami-hit Fukushima 101
NVIDIA Announces Tesla K40 GPU Accelerator and IBM Partnership In Supercomputing 59
Two Sailors Injured When Drone Crashes Into US Navy Guided Missile Cruiser 109
Google and Microsoft To Block Child-Abuse Search Terms 308
Reports: Apple To Buy Israeli 3D Sensing Company PrimeSense 81
Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer 143
Rigging Up Baby 117
12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too 134
Time For a Warrant Canary Metatag? 332
Your Phone Number Is Going To Get a Reputation Score 136
Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires 91
Yearly FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Campaign Is On 83
How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure 153
Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? 330
Google's Wind, Solar Power Investments Top $1B 74
How Your Coffee Table Could Pass Your Coffee 55
Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops 363
Google Patenting Less Noble Use of Project Loon Tech 87
Object Lessons: Evan Booth's Post-Checkpoint Airport Weapons 208
Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements 190
U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium 172
FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed 93
Ask Slashdot: What Makes You Uninstall Apps? 243
Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing 567
How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy 330
MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 372
Military Robots Expected To Outnumber Troops By 2023 177
TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance 337
Tesla Planning an Electric Pickup Truck, Says Elon Musk 293
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Google Books Case Dismissed On Fair Use Grounds 124
Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature 77
DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars 231
POV-Ray Is Now FLOSS 121
EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes 106
Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' 228
Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA? 188
Dart 1.0 Released 121
Google Halts Sales of HP's USB-Charging Chromebook 11 Over Overheating 57
Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario 258
Viruses Boost Performance of Lithium-Air Battery Used In Electric Cars 66
Building an 'Invisibility Cloak' With Electromagnetic Fields 71
Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving 365
HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only 320
Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services 222
1.21 PetaFLOPS (RPeak) Supercomputer Created With EC2 54
Demo of Prototype Virtual Retinal Head Mounted Display 93
The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone 352
The Operations of a Cyber Arms Dealer 18
Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 92
Google Chrome 31 Is Out: Web Payments, Portable Native Client 123
Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware 151
Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World 445
Apple II DOS Source Code Released 211
Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking 204
AMD Confirms Kaveri APU Is a 512-GPU Core Integrated Processor 130
Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? 361
Linux Kernel Running In JavaScript Emulator With Graphics and Network Support 177
The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement 208
NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone 68
Netflix, Youtube Surpass 50% Mark of Internet Traffic 249
WxWidgets 3.0: First Major Release in Several Years 147
Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down 222
IE Zero-Day Exploit Disappears On Reboot 103
US Postal Service To Make Sunday Deliveries For Amazon 258
World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast 211
Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened 526
NASA's Robonaut Gets Its Legs; Could a Moonwalk Be In Its Future? 63
LeVar Burton On Google Glass 211
Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War 166
First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights 241
Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Suspended 114
Brazil Orders Google To Hand Over Street View Data 130
British Operator EE Offers £8 Million Petabyte 4G Data Bundle 53
New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides 96
Motorola Patent Uses Neck Tattoo As Microphone 51
Google Starts Tracking Retail Store Visits On Android and iOS 157
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review: GK110, Fully Unlocked 88
Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers 177
Ninth Anniversary of Firefox 1.0 Release 153
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks 310
Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles 251
Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math 264
OSHA Wants To Post All Workplace Injury Reports Online 100
Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive 141
Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol 333
UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians 111
Google Is Testing a Program That Tracks Your Purchases In the Real World 160
Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review 375
GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads 336
A Chat with Kristian von Bengtson, co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals (Video) 26
Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January 260
French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley 180
Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire 104
Protect Your Android Phone By Killing All Its Crapware 201
Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked 116
North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons 191
Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations 224
Monkeys Use Minds To Control Avatar Arms 43
Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates 449
Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties 304
Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations 419
The Silk Road Is Back 261
Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser 164
Google Ends Internet Explorer 9 Support In Google Apps 199
Mozilla Backtracks On Third-Party Cookie Blocking 173
The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority 195
High-Gain Patch Antennas Boost Wi-Fi Capacity In Crowded Lecture Halls 104
Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks 165
AMD's Radeon R9 290 Delivers 290X Performance For $150 Less 183
Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks 156
The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex 92
As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? 73
Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators 545
Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn 410
Limo Company Hack Exposes Juicy Targets, 850k Credit Card Numbers 43
Google Relying On People Power For 'Helpouts' 57
Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. 218
Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts 155
Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? 175
Speed Test: Comparing Intel C++, GNU C++, and LLVM Clang Compilers 196
Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird 160
Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising 212
Swiss Government Backs Privacy Oriented ISP 109
TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint 603
Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden 504
Linux 3.12 Released, Linus Proposes Bug Fix-Only 4.0 274
Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix 326
Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes 103
Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? 285
RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch 154
You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles 195
Ask Slashdot: Which Encrypted Cloud Storage Provider? 200
EU Considering Sensors In Sewers To Detect Bomb-Makers 219
SkyRunner Car Goes Off-Road and Off-Ground 26
GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance 145
CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Released 65
Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice 178
OpenBSD 5.4 Released 102
A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones 545
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then 51
Google's Barge Is a Marketing Showroom 59
A MathML Progress Report: More Light Than Shadow 84
Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds 206
Microsoft To Can Skype API; Third-Party Products Will Not Work 330
DoD News Aggregation Service "The Early Bird" Dead After 65 Years 25

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