Technology 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
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
Microsoft Is No Longer Selling Any Lumia Windows Phones On Its US Store 85
Sonos Alarms Are Waking Users a Day Early 38
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
Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser 81
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 34
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
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
Google Mobile Search Shows Recipe Suggestions When You Look For Food 26
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
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
Frequent Flyer Points Put at Risk By Website Flaws 19
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
Facebook's Safety Check Activated For Fake Bangkok Bombing 24
With Cyanogen Dead, Google's Control Over Android Is Tighter Than Ever 212
Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users 83
Unannounced ASUS C302CA-DHM4 Chromebook Hits Newegg, and It Looks Great 109
The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband 157
Microsoft Could Be First Tech Company To Reach Trillion-Dollar Market Value: Analyst 232
The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned 85
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development 143
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
Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? 147
FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released 146
Did Google.org Steal the Christmas Spirit? 103
Are Airlines Intentionally Overbooking Their Flights? 313
US Court Demands Documents On AT&T/Police Collaboration 48
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
Twitter Admits It Recently Overcharged For Ads 24
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
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
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
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
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
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
Encrypted Messaging App Signal Uses Google To Bypass Censorship 87
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
White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts 27
Government Requests For Facebook User Data Up 27 Percent in First Half of 2016 19
Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? 766
Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies 102
Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support 137
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
Uber Admits To Self-driving Car 'Problem' in Bike Lanes As Safety Concerns Mount 383
Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results 332
EU Accuses Facebook Of Giving Misleading Information During WhatsApp Takeover 27
Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter 156
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
Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant 100
Alphabet's Waymo Reveals Its Self-Driving Chrysler Pacifica Minivans 25
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
Adobe Releases Flash Player 24 For Linux Four Years After the Last Major Update 88
Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 210
Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' 184
Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network 74
BlackBerry Unveils Autonomous Vehicle Hub In Canada 37
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices 181
The Linux Foundation Offers 50% Discounts On Training 39
LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach 35
Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? 153
Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? 250
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor 149
U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards 134
GoboLinux 016 Released With Its Own Filesystem Virtualization Tool 47
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
Netgear Releases 'Beta' Patches For Additional Routers Found With Root Vulnerability 26
Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations 304
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments 143
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say 128
Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel 158
Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation 6
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel 55
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints 102
T-Mobile Exempts AT&T's DirecTV Now Service From Data Caps 22
Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea 406
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' Is Here For Christmas 62
Amazon Is Secretly Building an 'Uber For Trucking' App, Setting Its Sights On a Massive $800 Billion Market 97
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind 220
Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT 71
Evernote Reverses Course On Opt-out Privacy Policy That Would've Exposed Users' Content To Employees 52
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt 164
Aging Process May Be Reversable, Scientists Claim 253
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords 88
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan 31
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
Google May Prevent Samsung From Adding Viv AI Assistant To Galaxy S8 60
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
Verizon Changes Its Mind and Will Kill Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on January 5th 96
Microsoft Taps Here and TomTom To Expand Into Connected Data 25
Fitbit Won't Kill Off Pebble Services At Least Until 2018 33
Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories 415
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal 52
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content 60
Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars 357
Instagram Has Doubled Its Monthly Active User Base in Two Years 18
Twitter Built a Messaging App But Never Released It 31
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
Another One Bites the Dust: Cisco Discontinues Its $1B Cloud Initiative as AWS, Azure and Others Expand 34
Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source 160
The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules 112
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser 137
Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds 69
Microsoft Xbox One and Windows 10 Getting Dolby Atmos Surround Sound 37
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts 71
India Just Flew Past Us In the Race To E-Cash 216
AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts 42
Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge 72
Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone 90
Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet 256
Uber Self-Driving Cars Hit the Streets of San Francisco 47
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data 157
First Offshore Wind Farm In US Waters Delivers Power To Rhode Island 196
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot 56
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down, Will Now Lead PC-Focused VR Team Within Facebook 12
AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU 113
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters 63
A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report 274
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders 40
Android Things Is Google's New OS For Smart Devices 30
Android Chief Squashes Rumors of Android Merging With Chrome OS 43
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Malware Found In the Firmware of 26 Low-Cost Android Models 60
Google Has Stopped Developing Its Own Self-Driving Car - Report 255
Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year 65
PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw 188
Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked 69
Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists 293
Google, Cuba Sign Deal Allowing Faster Access To Company's Data 42

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