Technology Stories for 2018

Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment 256
Google is Working on a Fix For Laggy Tablet Mode on Chrome OS Devices 41
China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet 86
Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. 296
Why Huawei Gives the US and Its Allies Security Nightmares 346
Under Current Policies, Residential Batteries Increase Emissions In Most Cases 182
Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet's Precursor, Dies at 81 46
Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent 146
How Much Internet Traffic Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. 130
How Facebook Keeps Messenger From Crashing On New Year's Eve 69
Could You Live Without Your Smartphone? 157
How One Merchandiser Lost $1M Trying to Monetize the 'Hamster Dance' Site 62
FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam 37
Google Chrome's New UI is Ugly, And People Are Very Angry 294
Samsung Wants To Bring Web Browsing, Office Work To the TV 54
Google Helps AI Learn To Book Flights on the Web 38
Everything We Knew About Fuchsia's UI, Armadillo, Is Gone 86
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise 184
HMV, One of UK's Largest Retailers of CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, Calls in Administrators For Second Time in Six Years 76
FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage 143
Google Erases Kurdistan From Maps in Compliance With Turkish Government 203
Google Will Launch the Pixel 3 and 3 XL 'Lite' on Verizon in Spring 2019, Report Says 30
'Beware Silicon Valley's Gifts To Our Schools' 140
Users Report of Nationwide CenturyLink Internet Outage 87
Tech Firm Sigfox Develops Tiny Tracker To Help Fight Rhino Poaching 46
Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET 142
Tech is Killing Street Food 141
Android TV Now Claiming Over 100 Pay TV Operator Partners Worldwide 34
A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds 483
How Google Software Won 2018 75
Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable 165
Fortnite Was 2018's Most Important Social Network 79
iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data 154
UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones 129
Why One Tiny Island is Still a Domain Name Giant 52
Domain Registrar Can be Held Liable for Pirate Site, Court Rules 95
Huawei Had a Deal To Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In 113
Tokyo Wants People To Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator 161
Linux 4.20 Released in Time for Christmas 47
Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record 26
SpaceX Launches Air Force's Most Powerful GPS Satellite Ever Built 48
Starting in 2019, Oslo Will Restrict the Use of Vehicles in its City Center 159
NVIDIA 'GeForce NOW Recommended Routers' Program Helps Gamers Choose Networking Gear 126
Chrome OS To Block USB Access While the Screen is Locked 91
Google Hit With FTC Complaint Over 'Inappropriate' Kids Apps 23
Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers 520
Self-Driving Car Company Zoox Is Now Allowed to Carry Passengers 33
Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
Logitech Will Restore Third-Party Harmony Home Automation 42
FCC Fines Swarm $900,000 For Unauthorized Satellite Launch 119
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem 87
Big Ben Brought Back To Life Through Snapchat AR Lens 29
AT&T Will Put a Fake 5G Logo On Its 4G LTE Phones 81
Annual Smart Speaker IQ Test 129
Can You Really Sue Fortnite For 'Stealing' Your Dance Moves? 141
Google Has a New Review Process For Handling Controversial Projects After Backlash Over Censored Search Product For China 43
Lubuntu, a Popular Ubuntu Flavor, To Stop Providing 32-Bit Releases 111
Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says 44
Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia 91
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Apple Confirms Some iPad Pros Ship Slightly Bent, But Says It's Normal 181
China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
Uber Resumes Testing Self-Driving Cars Nine Months After Deadly Crash 32
Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites 95
Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites 49
Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem 156
Business Communication Service Slack, in Compliance With US Regulations, Broadens Ban on Users in Sanctioned Nations 43
Forget Dot Com, 2019 Will Finally be the Year of Weird Domain Names 93
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' 73
Google Lens Can Now Recognize a Billion Items 40
Elon Musk Unveils 1.14-Mile Boring Company Tunnel 186
Apple Tweaks iOS Animation In China In Attempt To Avoid Sales Ban 47
Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US 75
Some 2017 iPad Pro Displays Suffering From Bright Spot Above Home Button 55
Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems 151
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge 135
Microsoft's New Office App for Windows 10 is Coming To All Office Users For Free 68
DC Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Alleged Privacy Violations From Cambridge Analytica Scandal 70
India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018 48
Hackers Swipe Card Numbers From Local Government Payment Portals 15
UK Chip-Maker Arm is Working on an AI-Powered Smart Chip That Can Tell if You Smell 107
Microsoft Announces Windows Sandbox, a Desktop Environment For Running Applications in Isolation 116
Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome 152
Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge 204
Facebook Gave More Than 150 Companies, Including Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Yahoo, Unprecedented Access To Users' Personal Data: NYT 114
Researchers Demonstrate Teleportation Using On-Demand Photons From Quantum Dots 76
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed 35
T-Mobile Denies Lying To FCC About Size of Its 4G Network 31
Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast 114
Kroger Begins Autonomous Grocery Deliveries 20
Researchers Make RAM From a Phase Change We Don't Entirely Understand 104
Remove.bg is a Website That Removes Backgrounds from Portraits in Seconds 107
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
Google Opens Document Editing To Users Without a Google Account 25
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS 253
AT&T Opens 5G Network in 12 US Cities, Announces Pricing For First 5G Mobile Device and Service 59
Taiwan To Shut Down 3G Networks By Year End 38
Spam Calls Jumped Over 300% Globally in 2018 80
Hyped AR Tech Firm Blippar Collapses Into Administration 65
France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year 138
'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' 331
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today 209
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
Swedish ISP Bahnhof Fights Sci-Hub Blocking Order 53
Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence 127
FCC Forces California To Drop Plan For Government Fees On Text Messages 79
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise 124
Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number 157
Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser 427
Twitter Warns of Suspicious Traffic Coming From China and Russia 72
MIPS Goes Open Source 70
CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad 198
Google's Secret China Project 'Effectively Ended' After Internal Confrontation: Report 82
California Requires New City Buses To Be Electric by 2029 142
Google To Invest $1 Billion in New Campus in New York City 35
Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 45
Cydia's App Store For Jailbroken iPhones Shuts Down Purchases 40
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War 337
Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters 94
Facebook Disbands Secretive Research Lab Amid Reorganization 25
Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose 98
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding 73
Study Reveals The Most Googled 'Should I' Questions In Each State 102
Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? 147
People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles 262
Ask Slashdot: Is There An Open Source Tool Measuring The Sharpness of Streaming Video? 101
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? 179
Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu 87
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites 98
Porn Sites Collect More User Data Than Netflix Or Hulu 70
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
Apple Will Update iPhones In China To Avoid a Ban On Sales 33
Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles 90
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
Regular Windows 10 Users Who Manually Look For Updates May End Up Downloading Beta Code, Microsoft Says 115
Boeing 737 Passenger Jet Damaged in Possible Midair Drone Hit 122
A New Engine Could Bring Back Supersonic Air-Travel 127
Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users 51
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords 32
Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform 113
Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle 92
Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR 53
Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail 59
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses 151
Google Pledges To Hold Off On Selling Facial Recognition Technology 46
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
Quantum Network Joins Four People Together For Encrypted Messaging 60
Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion 189
Russian State TV Shows Off 'Robot' That's Actually a Man In a Robot Suit 120
Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms 132
FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs 243
Google Training Document Reveals How Temps, Vendors, and Contractors Are Treated 136
President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip 351
Apple Is Making Its Own Modem To Compete With Qualcomm, Report Says 80
California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents 244
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages 107
Intel Reveals 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Cores That Go Deeper, Wider, and Faster 90
FreeBSD 12 Released 132
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support 202
Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, But Accidentally Locates Secret Ones 129
South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency 71
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? 143
Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition 234
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown 100
Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead 311
Facebook is Starting To Test Search Ads in its Search Results and Marketplace 20
Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 328
New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web 199
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs 335
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme 117
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot 78
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China 91
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak 53
Qualcomm Says It Won Case Banning Sale of Older iPhones in China 67
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret 98
The Electric Airplane Revolution May Come Sooner Than You Think 336
Alibaba Already Has a Voice Assistant Way Better Than Google's 109
Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? 255
Google Just Can't Get the Message 135
As We Forge the Web of Tomorrow, We Need a Set of Guiding Principles That Can Define the Kind of Web We Want, Says Tim Berners-Lee 145
The Friendship That Made Google Huge 57
Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked 62
Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories 145
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal 209
12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees 83
Rust 1.31 Released As 'Rust 2018' In Major Push For Backwards Compatibility 81
FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data 57
Google Play Services Drops Support For Android Ice Cream Sandwich 85
'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' 83
After 23 Years, IBM Sells Off Lotus Notes 105
Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years 120
China's Chang'e-4 Launches On Mission To the Moon's Far Side 41
If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone 49
UPS Tries Delivery Tricycles As Seattle's Traffic Doom Looms 95
AI as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay 58
EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence 19
Millions of Smartphones in 11 Countries Were Taken Offline Yesterday by an Expired Certificate 34
Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says 130
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities 143
Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium 186
Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test 83
DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help 124
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias 150
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG, Irregular Heart Rate Features Are Now Available 39
Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Saved $40 Million During Its First Year, Report Says 213
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet 38
Facebook Will Bring Political Ad Transparency Tools To India Ahead of 2019 Elections 52
Microsoft's Designers Are Now Working Together on the Future of Windows, Office and Surface 115
Opinion: 5G Has an Exciting Future When It Comes To Dedicated Mobile Apps But Will Do Little To Improve Our General Browsing Experiences. 95
Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other 224
Microsoft's New Study Finds 162.8 Million People in the US Do Not Use the Internet at Broadband Speeds, Up From FCC's 24.7 Million Estimate 132
Cuba Offers 3G Mobile Internet Access To Citizens 42
24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray 221
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
A Quarter of Tumblr's Users Are There To Consume Porn, Data Scientists Estimate 119
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report 62
SpaceX Sends Dragon To ISS But Falcon 9 Rocket Misses Landing Pad 133
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269

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