Technology Stories for 2019

Trump Signs Traced Act Into Law in Bid To Help Put an End To Robocalls 60
Sonos Gives a Lame Reason For Bricking Older Devices in 'Recycle Mode' 236
Major US Companies Breached, Robbed, and Spied on by Chinese Hackers 118
3D TV Tells You Everything About This Decade's Tech 196
Brazil Fines Facebook $1.6 Million for Improper Sharing of User Data 38
French Court Clears Social Media Tracking Plan in Tax Crackdown 37
Tuvalu is a Tiny Island Nation of 11,000 People. Licensing of Its .tv Domain Contributes 1/12th To Its Annual Gross National Income 45
Washington Post Writer Calls 2019 'The Year of OK Boomer', Calls for Inter-Generational Kindness 515
Russia Claims New Missile is 27 Times Faster Than Sound 189
Are Government Shutdowns of the Internet Becoming The World's New Normal? 111
Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven't Happened (Yet) 39
Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
Los Angeles Is Considering Make Uber and Lyft Go All-Electric 108
Stack Exchange Apologizes, Offers 'Possible Reinstatement' To Moderator Removed Over Pronouns Policy 277
Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Project Has Failed in its Current Form, says Swiss President 43
Fast Retailing, the World's Third-Largest Retailer, Says It's Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation 93
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 21
New Law Finally Bans Bullshit Cable TV Fees 49
Amazon, Ring Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Security Camera Hacks 35
'I Asked My Students To Turn In Their Cellphones and Write About Living Without Them' 77
Apple News No Longer Supports RSS 49
Shopify CEO Says Long Hours Aren't Necessary For Success 35
Turkey Unveils First Fully Homemade Car In $3.7 Billion Bet On Electric 39
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Now Available For Download 39
Facebook Messenger Now Requires a Facebook Account To Join 42
Information Teleported Between Two Computer Chips For the First Time 185
Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us? 207
Worker Fired For Declining a Face Scan Awarded $23,200 59
YouTube Goes To War With Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency 134
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
Electric Bikes and Scooters Will Stay Illegal In New York Thanks To Governor Cuomo 82
Mazda3 Bug Activates Emergency Brake System For No Reason 55
Baidu Has a New Trick For Teaching AI the Meaning of Language 12
How Amazon Sacrifices Safety For Speed For Its Delivery Network 65
Why Do 88% of Americans Use a Second Screen While Watching TV? 138
Tesla Patents New Chemistry For Better, Longer-Lasting and Cheaper Batteries 26
Huawei Reportedly Got By With a Lot of Help From the Chinese Government 47
Google Brain's AI Achieves State-of-the-Art Text Summarization Performance 20
Washington's New Anti-Robocall Law Won't Stop the Calls. Here's Why. 88
New Rule Would Make it Possible To Track and Identify Nearly All Drones Flying in the US 72
Electric Buses on London's 100 Route Will Play a Soundtrack To Alert Pedestrians To Their Presence 148
Iran Curbs Internet Before Possible New Protests 21
The Snail-Mail Card is Taking on More Significance in the Age of Social Media 20
Russia 'Successfully Tests' Its Unplugged Internet 41
Mysterious Drones Flying Nighttime Patterns Baffle Colorado Officials 82
Google Chrome Impacted By New Magellan 2.0 Vulnerabilities 25
'My Business Card Runs Linux' 65
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
MIT Reveals First Ever Laser Ultrasound Pictures of a Human Body 15
New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 21
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Travis Kalanick Severs All Ties With Uber, Departing Board and Selling All His Shares 46
Ask Slashdot: Will Future TVs Be Able To DeepFake Actor Faces In Realtime? 65
Why the Wikimedia Foundation Has Not Signed on To the Contract for the Web 19
A 22-Year-Old Was Convicted For Attempting To Blackmail Apple For $100,000 In iTunes Gift Cards 32
Uber Joins Forces With Joby Aviation To Launch An Air Taxi Service By 2023 22
Proposed CO2 Capture System Could Reduce Truck Emissions By 90 Percent 83
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster 167
Judge Strikes Down NYC Law Limiting Uber, Lyft Driver Cruising Time 27
Twitter Bans Animated PNG Files After Online Attackers Targeted Users With Epilepsy 78
T-Mobile/Sprint Deal Is Good Actually, Feds Tell Court In States' Lawsuit 17
California Gives a Green Light To Companies Testing Driverless Delivery Vehicles 46
IT Worker With Grudge Jailed 31
Board Games Are Getting Really, Really Popular 43
Russia Plans To Cut Off Some Internet Access Today 48
Popular Messaging App ToTok Reportedly an Emirati Spy Tool 19
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
Are 'Advanced Driver Assistance Systems' Making Us Worse Drivers? 134
DNS Over HTTPS: Not As Private As Some Think? 83
How Much Are Cars Spying On Their Owners? 101
The U.S. Navy Bans TikTok from Government-Issued Mobile Devices 26
Many Security-Critical Military Systems Are Now Using Linux 78
GM Car Executive Says Self-Driving Cars Are the Only Way Forward 147
President Trump Officially Adds a New Branch to the U.S. Military: Space Force 249
Atari's Home Computers Turn 40 86
Twitter Removes Nearly 6,000 Saudi-Backed Accounts For Platform Manipulation 28
IBM Research Created a New Battery That May Outperform Lithium-Ion, Doesn't Use Conflict Minerals 139
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance 32
Motorola Delays Razr To Meet Unexpectedly High Demand 11
Volkswagen Has 'massive' Software Problems With New ID3 Electric Vehicles 107
Facebook, Twitter Shutter Pro-Trump Network That Used AI To Create Fake People and Push Conspiracies 136
Amazon's AI Creates Synthesized Singers 19
State of Apple's Catalyst 16
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online 17
The Next Frontier in AI: Nothing 60
Boeing Capsule Goes Off Course, Won't Dock at Space Station 158
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites To Beam Data To Devices 46
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
The BBC's 1992 TV Show About VR, 3D TVs With Glasses, and Holographic 3D Screens 54
Multiple States Are Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Free File Marketing 36
Finland Is Making Its Online AI Crash Course Free To the World 18
Virginia Has Big Plans For Electric School Buses In 2020 59
SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon's Internet-Beaming Satellites 42
A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Info of Over 3,000 Ring Users 40
Severed Fiber Optic Cables Disrupted Internet Access In Parts of Eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey 44
Facebook Won't Use 2FA Numbers To Suggest Friends Anymore 20
Vivaldi To Change User-Agent String To Chrome Due To Unfair Blocking 88
Africa's Internet Management Body Mired Again by Corruption Allegations 25
Facebook is Building an Operating System So it Can Ditch Android 141
What's it Like To Install a Weather Station at the Top of the World? 21
Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be 99
Airbnb is a Platform Not an Estate Agent, Says Europe's Top Court 52
An Investigation Into the Smartphone Tracking Industry 52
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments 49
Tesla Is Nerfing Autopilot In Europe To Comply With New Regulations 110
Instagram, Facebook Bans Influencers From Getting Paid To Promote Vaping, Tobacco, and Weapons 32
Facebook Fails To Convince Lawmakers It Needs To Track Your Location At All Times 25
UK To Create Regulator To Police Big Tech Companies 16
Facebook Is Still Prioritizing Scale Over Safety 21
Google, Amazon, and Apple Join Forces To Develop IP-based Smart Home Connectivity Standard 43
Former NASA Engineer Thwarts Porch Pirates Again With 'Glitter Bomb 2.0' 94
Over 100 PBS Local Stations Start Streaming Today On YouTube TV 35
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
DNA From 'Chewing Gum' Provides Clues To Life 5,700 Years Ago 34
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math 36
Microsoft Starts Showing Non-Removable Ads In Windows 10 Mail, Calendar Apps 176
Engineer Says Google Fired Her For Browser Pop-Up About Worker Rights 129
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Upgradable Storage and Memory When Buying a New Computer? 183
Night Mode Could Actually Be Worse For Your Sleep Pattern, Study Finds 41
LogMeIn Acquired By Private-Equity Firms 29
Google Execs Debated Getting Out of Cloud Computing Last Year, But Instead Set a Goal of Being a Top-Two Player By 2023 74
Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox 67
UK Proposes Plan To Ban Sales of Locked Mobile Phones 36
Microsoft Details Its Migration Plans for the New Microsoft Edge 57
Facebook Owns The 4 Most Downloaded Apps Of The Decade 69
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
Apple Pulls App That Let You Turn Your Phone Into a Virtual iPod With Click Wheel 39
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Nuclear Fusion Startup Raises $100 Million To Design and Build a Demo Power Plant 141
Ask Slashdot: Who Is Most Likely To Challenge Microsoft In the Office? 147
Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground For Prime Shipments 48
Controversial Sale of .Org Domain Manager Faces Review At ICANN 13
Boeing To Suspend Production of Their 737 Max Aircraft [Update] 188
Mark Cuban Sells Sports-Technology Company To Dodgers Owners 6
Google Warns Turkish Partners Over New Android Phones Amid Dispute 16
Fake Princesses, Pulled Teeth, and a Whole Lot of IP Infringement 104
ICANN Delays .Org Sale Approval, Calls For More Transparency 21
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
Google Halts Chrome 79 Rollout After It Breaks Some Android Apps 19
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
Bank Employee Steals Cash, Then Posts Pics of It On Facebook and Instagram 78
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Facebook Pledges $130 Million For Its Independent 'Content Oversight Board' 27
37-Year-Old Mom Finds Instagram's Sex Predators By Pretending To Be 11 123
Google Has $100 For Teachers Who Steer 20+ Children To 'Google CS First' 25
Researchers Fooled Chinese Facial Recognition Terminals With Just a Mask 24
Emotion Recognition Tech Should Be Banned, Says an AI Research Institute 65
Reputation Management Firms Bury Google Results By Placing Flattering Content 53
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Billboard Is Changing Its Albums Chart To Count Video Plays From YouTube 16
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees 29
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends To Watch in 2020 15
Turkey is Getting Military Drones Armed With Machine Guns 93
Google Maps Has Now Photographed 10 Million Miles in Street View 18
City Planners Zero in on Cyclists Through Exercise App 80
Windows 10 Mobile Reaches End of Support 55
Cigna Uses AI To Check If Patients Are Taking Their Medications 32
Microsoft's Next Xbox Is Xbox Series X, Coming Holiday 2020 78
Lawsuit Forces CenturyLink To Stop Charging 'Internet Cost Recovery Fee' 43
Less Than 10 Percent of Americans Are Buying $1,000 Smartphones, Report Says 126
Cisco Outlines Silicon, Software Roadmap For Next Generation Internet 21
Microsoft Reveals New Windows Logo, Office Icons 52
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
Samsung Has Sold 1 Million Galaxy Fold Smartphones 34
FTC May Try To Delay Facebook's Plan To Integrate its Apps 9
Google Adds Spam Detection and Verified Business SMS To Messages 14
'Link in Bio' is a Slow Knife 63
Russian Police Raid NGINX Moscow Office 138
AI R&D is Booming, But General Intelligence is Still Out of Reach 96
Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever 165
Google Assistant Can Now Interpret 44 Languages on Smartphones 20
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
Two of China's Largest Tech Firms Are Uniting To Create a New 'Domestic OS' 93
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
Verizon Lays Off More Yahoo/AOL Employees 44
Low-Risk Ultrasound Procedure Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers In One-Year Study 78
The World's First Village of Affordable 3D-Printed Homes Is Now Complete 102
Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 'Best Places To Work' List 54
Ask Slashdot: Will We Ever Be Able To Make Our Own Computer Hardware At Home? 117
If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 36
Maze Ransomware Was Behind Pensacola 'Cyber Event,' Florida Officials Say 5
Microsoft is About To Start Aggressively Advertising Windows 10 To Windows 7 Stragglers 266
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key 66
World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Takes Flight in Canada 208
YouTube Unveils a Stricter Harassment Policy 152
Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 MAX Crashes 38
India Proposes New Rules To Access Its Citizens' Data 14
Twitter Is Funding Independent Effort To Develop an Open and Decentralized Standard For Social Media 58
'Learning at Work is Work, and We Must Make Space For It' 123
George Laurer, Co-Inventor of the Barcode, Dies At 94 21
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Researchers Report Breakthrough In 'Distributed Deep Learning' 16
Nikon Is Killing Its Authorized Repair Program 109
Vietnam's Richest Man Bets $2 Billion To Sell Cars To Americans 77
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
New Plundervolt Attack Impacts Intel Desktop, Server, and Mobile CPUs 74
Iran's Internet Freedom is On Life Support 60
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching 29
Google Built Its Own Tiny HDMI 2.1 Box To Jump-Start 'the Next Generation of Android TV' 23
Facebook Tells US Attorney General It's Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger 109
Investigation Reveals It's Possible For Anyone To Find Geographic Coordinates of Ring Devices Using Post from Amazon's Neighbors App 66
A Social Media Influencer Will Serve 14 Years in Prison After His Plot To Take Over a Website at Gunpoint Backfired 70
Five Cities Account For Vast Majority of Growth In Tech Jobs, Study Finds 110
Apple To Speak At CES Conference For First Time In Decades 16
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
Cyberattack Hits City of Pensacola After Shooting At Naval Air Station 13
E-Scooter Company 'Unicorn' Goes Bust After Spending Big On Facebook Ads 65
Oculus Quest Becomes First VR Set With Native Hand Tracking 16
Google Under Investigation For 'Thanksgiving Four' Firings, Allegedly Discouraging Unions 29
The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand's Lungs 51
African Countries Are Struggling To Build Robust Identity Systems 72
Verizon Kills Email Accounts of Archivists Trying To Save Yahoo Groups History 100
China Tells Government Offices To Remove All Foreign Computer Equipment 127
20 Low-End VPS Providers Suddenly Shutting Down In a 'Deadpooling' Scam 41
Tesla Wants To Clean Windshields With Laser Beams 98
Uber Loses $1.4 Billion in Value After Acknowledging Thousands of Sexual Assaults 76
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
Volkswagen Headquarters Raided Again After They Disclosed New Diesel Filtering 'Issue' 24
Why Is Russia's Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship In the Mid-Atlantic? 107
Hospitals' New Issue: A 'Glut' of Machines Making Alarm Sounds 77
How Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook's Fact-Checking Systems 80
Scientists Propose Using Mountains To Build a New Type of Battery For Long-Term Energy Storage 200
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How To Use AI To Judge Who Is 'Awesome' Or Not 42
Qualcomm To Offer GPU Driver Updates On Google Play Store For Some Snapdragon Chips 8
Deepfake Porn Is Evolving To Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies 301
Social Media Platforms Leave 95 Percent of Reported Fake Accounts Up, Study Finds 32
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users 11
Apple May Use Carbon-Free Aluminum In New iPhones 43
Keep Your IoT Devices on a Separate Network, FBI Says 111
GM And LG Chem Plan $2.3 Billion Electric Battery Venture In Ohio 54
W3C Recommends WebAssembly To Push the Limits For Speed, Efficiency and Responsiveness 128
Bernie Sanders Unveils $150 Billion Plan To Expand High-Speed Internet Access 275
Keybase Moves To Stop Onslaught of Spammers on Encrypted Message Platform 13
The Case For Portland-To-Vancouver High-Speed Rail 153
Snapdragon XR2 Chip To Enable Standalone Headsets With 3K x 3K Resolution, 7 Cameras 34
Apple Will Reportedly Release An iPhone Without Any Ports In 2021 91
The US Is Suspected of Killing a Terrorist In Syria Using Missile With Knife Warhead 227
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
China Resurrects Great Cannon For DDoS Attacks On Hong Kong Forum 15
44 Million Microsoft Users Reused Passwords in the First Three Months of 2019 34
Advocates Call For FTC Probe of 'Kidtech' 2
Facebook Sues Chinese Malware Operator For Abusing Its Ad Platform 9
The Rise Of Restaurants With No Diners As Apps Take Orders 134
Lawmakers Are Ready To Crack Down on Robocalls 87

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