Technology Stories for 2021

A Program for Cheaper Internet for Low-Income Americans Launches Today 101
Ask Slashdot: New Year's Resolution For Tech Companies? 52
How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook 61
Canon's Flagship DSLR Line Will End With the EOS-1D X Mark III, Eventually 128
Fireworks Could Fizzle Out As Drones Rise In Popularity For New Year 68
Mexico's Central Bank Will Launch Digital Currency by 2024 6
South Korea Pushes Google, Apple To Pull Play-to-Earn Games From App Stores 8
China's New AI Policy Doesn't Prevent It From Building Autonomous Weapons 46
BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022 67
Federal Court Ruling Will Make Wifi 6E a Reality 52
Omicron May Be Causing Negative Amazon Reviews for Some Brands 71
CES 2022 Will Introduce HDMI 2.1a, Another Confusing New Spec 35
Hyundai Shuts Down Its Engine Development Team Amid Focus On Electric Cars 215
WTF Is .xyz? 65
Google's Pichai Ordered To Answer Queries About 'Incognito' Mode 42
Japan Aims To Put a Person on the Moon by Late 2020s 34
LastPass Says It Didn't Leak Your Password 25
Messy NFT Drop Angers Infosec Pioneers With Unauthorized Portraits 65
Google is Just Letting the Pixelbook Rot 42
Why the Air Force Wants To Put Lidar On Robot Dogs 18
Nintendo Had Plans To Bring Email, Internet Searching, and Live Streams To the Game Boy Color 17
Apple Reportedly Hires Away Meta's AR Public Relations Head 19
Big Tech Split Leads To Demise of Internet Association 8
Microsoft, Salesforce Battle To Revitalize Customer Service 18
A New Motorola Razr Foldable is Coming 27
Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs 14
California is Suing Walmart Over Alleged Improper Disposal of E-waste and Other Hazardous Materials 39
Pandemic Tech Darlings Turned To Duds in 2021 38
Top CEO Worry for 2022: Job Security 49
Baidu's Jidu Auto To Mass Produce Its 'Robot' Electric Vehicles in 2023 43
E.O. Wilson, Naturalist Dubbed a Modern-day Darwin, Dies at 92 32
Concerns About Big Tech's Next Potential Monopoly: Connected Cars 102
Google Scans Gmail and Drive For Cartoons of Child Sexual Abuse 146
Nearly 5,000 Flights Canceled Globally As Omicron Infects Airline Employees 153
Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer? 164
'Quite OK Image' Format (QOI) Coming To a Graphics Program Near You? 103
Nasa's X-ray Boom Arm for Black Hole Studies Extends in Orbit 6
Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers 143
Russia Steps Up Pressure on Google, Meta With Record Fines 57
The US Car Rental Market is Crying Out for Disruption 117
Potential DOJ Suits Against Apple and Google Delayed Amid Budget Woes 27
Public Agencies Are Buying Up AI-Driven Hiring Tools and 'Bossware' 28
Toyota 'Reviewing' Key Fob Remote Start Subscription Plan After Massive Blowback 154
Virtual Guns in Videogames Could Soon Be Worth Real Money 93
Tech Execs and Engineers Are Quitting Large Companies For 'Once-in-Generation' Opportunity With Crypto 116
Amazon's Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show 135
Seconds Before a 6.2 Earthquake Rattled California, Phones Got a Vital Warning 32
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID, SARS Variants 248
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
In South Korea, Big Tech's Power Struggle With Regulators is Way Ahead of the US 28
EV Startup Nikola Agrees To $125 Million Settlement 41
US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault 39
In 2021, the Internet Went for TikTok, Space and Beyond 32
"Merry Christmas": First SMS Sells for Over 100,000 Euros in Paris Auction 55
Google Pushes Developers To Adapt Android Apps for Chromebooks 12
Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists' Plaything 90
Cuttlefish-Like Robots Are Far More Efficient Than Propeller-Powered Machines 49
Philadelphia Woman Gives Birth in Front Seat of Tesla on Autopilot 80
Google OnHub Router Support Ending In 2022 29
Despite EU Court Rulings, Facebook Says US Is Safe To Receive Europeans' Data 32
More Than 35,000 Java Packages Impacted by Log4j Vulnerabilities, Google Says 39
Meta Shareholders Call for Oversight Audit 16
Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows 129
Is the Cloud Making Internet Services More Fragile? 119
Amazon Driver Was Warned She'd Be Fired For Returning With Packages During a Tornado 179
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
Facebook Bans 7 'Surveillance-For-Hire' Companies That Spied On 50,000 Users 9
Google Drive Could Soon Start Locking Your Files 76
Adobe Stock Plummets 10%, Its Second-Worst Day In Past Decade 32
Schools Across US Cancel Classes Over Unconfirmed TikTok Threats 44
This USB 'Kill Cord' Can Instantly Wipe Your Laptop if Snatched or Stolen 67
Boeing Wants To Build Its Next Airplane in the 'Metaverse' 81
Microsoft Moves More Settings Away from the Control Panel on Windows 11 115
Apple Is Rebuilding Apple Music As a Full Native App 38
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
TikTok Is Testing a Desktop Streaming Software Called TikTok Live Studio 13
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click 'Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen' 106
Reddit Files To Go Public 33
Comcast Will Keep Data Caps Out of the Northeast In 2022 26
Google Faces Huge Fines in Russia as Putin Ally Wins Lawsuit 48
Sidewalk Labs Products Will Be Folded Into Google Proper 4
Federal Court Blocks Texas' Unconstitutional Social Media Law 292
Biometrics Company Clear Is Bringing Its Airport Scanners To Retail Stores 30
US Airlines Warn 5G Wireless Could Cause Havoc With Flights 89
Coinbase Mistakenly Told Some Customers They Were Billionaires 31
Silicon Valley's Voice in Washington Dissolves 14
Apple Removes All References To Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature From Its Child Safety Webpage 36
Why Google Has Sat on the Web3 Sidelines 56
Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS 20
What Is Web3 and Why Should You Care? 113
Intel's Mystery Linux Muckabout is a Dangerous Ploy at a Dangerous Time 80
Her Instagram Handle Was 'Metaverse.' Last Month, It Vanished. 249
Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones 10
CISA Tells Federal Agencies To Patch Log4Shell Before Christmas 57
Apple and Google's Mobile Duopoly Likely To Face UK Antitrust Action 53
Don't Buy a Monitor or TV Just for HDMI 2.1 -- Read the Fine Print or You Might Get Fooled 91
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory 110
Researchers Are Hoping To 'Hear' Dark Matter Using a Super-Cooled Experiment 16
Facebook Exec Blames Society for COVID Misinformation 149
Mozilla Expects To Generate More Than $500M in Revenue This Year 21
Toyota is Going To Make You Pay To Start Your Car With Your Key Fob 272
An Experimental Target-Recognition AI Mistakenly Thought It Was Succeeding 90% of the Time 65
Google Finally Killed Its Internet Explorer Plugin, 'Google Toolbar' 13
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Remember About Windows ME? 269
Is the Internet Changing the Way We Remember? 54
Judges Read Capitol Rioters' Social Media Posts, Gave Them Stricter Sentences 424
Two US Senators Urge Federal Investigations Into Facebook About Safety - and Ad Reach 6
What's Behind the 'Birds Aren't Real' Protests? 169
Chicago Public Schools Partners With Google Instead of Code.org For CSEdWeek 7
Android Games Are Coming To Windows PCs In 2022 19
Samsung Submits Patent Application On a Rollable Smartwatch With a Camera 7
Volvo Discloses Security Breach Leading To Data Theft 14
New Social Media Transparency Bill Would Force Facebook To Open Up To Researchers 22
What Will Happen To Arm Now? 46
Trump Got Free Speech Wrong in Suit Over Ban, Twitter Says 272
Citing Fires, London's Transport Agency Bans E-scooters on Public Transit Network 47
Mercedes Beats Tesla To Hands-Free Driving On the Autobahn 161
Revisiting the 'Tsar Bomba' Nuclear Test 143
Microsoft Tempts Software Pirates With 50 Percent Discount On Office 76
Meta's WhatsApp Will Allow Crypto Payments Through Novi Wallet in US 10
Meta Opens Up Access To Its VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds 22
Gig Economy Workers To Get Employee Rights Under EU Proposals 89
Retail CEOs Press Congress To Toughen Rules for Online Sellers 42
Boss Says Sorry For 'Blundered' Zoom Firing of 900 Staff 138
Alexa.com Is 'Retiring' 37
Microsoft Rolls Out Revamped Notepad App To Windows 11 Insiders 123
Instagram's Boss Faces Congress' Questions on Harm To Teens 22
Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass 144
UAE To Shift To Saturday-Sunday Weekend in Line With Global Markets 11
Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Would-Be Slack Rival Quill 14
Intel Is Taking Its Self-Driving Company Mobileye Public In 2022 9
Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions 14
Airplane Landings at Risk of Delays on FAA Move To Ease 5G Risk 42
An Amazon Server Outage is Causing Problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and Others 99
Over 200 Papers Quietly Sue Big Tech 44
Google Sues Two Russians for Alleged Organized Crime Scheme 9
Even in the Metaverse, Not All Identities Are Created Equal 64
Meta Has a 'Moral Obligation' To Make Its Mental Health Research Transparent, Scientists Say 46
Eurostar Tests Facial Recognition System On London Train Station 24
Verizon Might Be Collecting Your Browsing History 36
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users 32
Small Group of Insiders Reaping Most of the Gains on NFTs, Study Shows 43
Earth is Getting a Black Box To Record Events that Lead To the Downfall of Civilization 120
Activision's Call of Duty Game Testers Plan Walkout Over Job Cuts 44
Firefox 95 Will Include RLBox Sandboxing for Added Security 35
Executive at Swiss Tech Company Said to Operate Secret Surveillance Operation 10
Activist Facebook Group Shuts Down Marketers Selling Dangerous 'Magic Dirt' on Facebook 204
The US Military Has Taken Action Against Ransomware Groups and 'Imposed Costs' 124
2021 'Web Almanac' Research Finds Lots of CSS, JavaScript, jQuery - and Not Much WebAssembly 67
Comcast Reduced 'Working Latency' By 90% with AQM. Is This the Future? 119
Those Cute Cats Online? They Help Spread Misinformation 171
Fake Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates Are Being Advertised On the Dark Web 207
A Mysterious Threat Actor Is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays 44
Debt Collectors Can Now Text, Email and DM You On Social Media 66
How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced? 13
Musk Says Tesla's Cybertruck Will Have Four-motor Variant 105
Microsoft Backtracks on Windows 11's Controversial Default Browser Changes 39
New Blockchain Tech Promises To Ease Ethereum's Growing Pains 17
US Satellites Are Being Attacked Every Day According To Space Force General 171
Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based On Mastodon 228
Google Readies 'Pixel Watch' For 2022 Launch 25
Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results Citing Dutch Court Order 56
White House To Unveil Alliance To Curb Human Rights Abuse of Tech 39
Meta Builds Tool To Stop the Spread of 'Revenge Porn' 94
SiFive's New RISC-V Chip Challenges Decades-old Computing Designs 33
Tesla is Now Selling a $1,900 Electric Cyberquad ATV for Kids 66
Microsoft's New Windows Prompts Try To Stop People Downloading Chrome 224
Meta Allows More Cryptocurrency Ads 32
Apple Loses Key Autos Engineer To Electric Aviation Startup Archer 20
More Than a Third of World's Population Have Never Used Internet, Says UN 55
Reddit Introduces New Real-Time Features To Keep Users Engaged 32
Twitch Unleashes AI Tool To Spot Banned Users 10
Windows 11 is Getting Some Much-needed Taskbar and Start Menu Improvements 134
China To Close Loophole Used by Tech Firms for Foreign IPOs 20
Browser Extension Shows How Many Brands On Amazon Are Actually Just Amazon 37
The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts 22
Microsoft Adds Buy Now, Pay Later Financing Option To Edge -- And Everyone Hates It 76
Cyber Monday Online Sales Fall For the First Time Ever 95
FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps 23
SpaceX's Starlink Is Testing Internet Service for Aircraft 46
Facebook's David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, To Leave Company 16
Twitter Expands Safety Policy, Bans Posting Images of People Without Their Consent 126
UK Regulators Order Facebook-owner Meta To Sell Giphy 27
Finnish Researchers Say Their First Quantum Computer Is Up and Running 21
Finland Battles 'Exceptional' Malware Attack Spread by Phones 27
'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say 89
Airbus A340 Plane Lands On Antarctica For First Time 92
Intel Is Stockpiling Legacy Technology For Security Research 43
South Korea Will Use VR To Determine If the Elderly Can Keep Driving 30
Big Tech Firms Should Pay ISPs To Upgrade Networks, Telcos In Europe Claim 87
AMD Allegedly Jacking Up RX 6000 GPU Prices by 10 Percent 51
Nissan Lays Out $17.6 Billion Plan To Electrify Its Future 101
Fired Employees Sue Google For Breaching 'Don't Be Evil' Part of Contract 120
Stamping Bar Codes on Cells To Solve Medical Mysteries 14
Vitalik Buterin Proposes New EIP To Tackle Ethereum's Sky-High Gas Fees 65
UK Regulator Expected To Block Meta's Giphy Deal 14
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Steps Down 49
'Malicious Actors' are Compromising Google Cloud Accounts, Installing Cryptocurrency Miners 26
Researchers Claim Locally-Testable-Code Breakthrough With Exotic Multi-Dimensional Graph 62
California Port Truckers 'Drowning' in Supply Chain Inefficiencies 96
Google Makes Pledges on Browser Cookies To Appease UK Regulator 29
Apple's AR Headset Coming Next Year With 'Mac-level' Power, Report Says 63
Notifications Are Driving Us Crazy. 111
Huge Fines and a Ban on Default Passwords in New UK Law 110
FIFA To Test Automatic Offside Technology Next Week in Preparation for Qatar World Cup 26
Israel Restricts Cyberweapons Export List By Two-thirds, From 102 To 37 Countries 89
Verizon and AT&T To Temporarily Turn Down 5G Power To Address FAA Worries 24
The World Needs To Crack Battery Recycling, Fast 97
The Head of Instagram Agrees To Testify as Congress Probes the App's Effects on Young People 13
Next Windows 11 Update Brings Back Clippy 124
Survey Shows Europeans Not Done Quitting Jobs 108
A Third of All Dark Web Domains Are Now V3 Onion Sites 20
Mozilla Is Ending Support For Its Firefox Password Manager Sync App 26
New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin 57
China's New Privacy Law Leaves US Behind 67
Microsoft's Qualcomm Exclusivity Deal for Windows on Arm Reportedly Ending Soon 13
EU Lawmakers Pass Strict New Rules Affecting Big US Tech 99
Rolls-Royce's All-Electric Airplane Reached a Record 387.4 MPH Top Speed 82
Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM 49
Gizmodo Is Making the Facebook Papers Public 45
Attackers Don't Bother Brute-forcing Long Passwords, Microsoft Engineer Says 100
Crypto.com Naming Agreement 'Paid for Itself' After Coin Surges 35
Meta Delays Encrypted Messages on Facebook and Instagram To 2023 34
Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars To Tax 290
The Metaverse, Crypto and EVs Are Among 2021's Big Tech Winners 28
FAA Memo Reveals More New Boeing 787 Manufacturing Defects 77
How Facebook and Google Actually Fund the Creation of Misinformation 196
Why Colleges are Giving Up on Remote Education 111
Can We Fight Carbon Emissions With Roundabout Intersections? 303
Visualizations Show the Extensive Cloud of Debris Russia's Anti-Satellite Test Created 77
First Electric Autonomous Cargo Ship Launched In Norway 72
Ford Plans To Produce 600,000 EVs a Year By the End of 2023 117
Alphabet Puts Prototype Robots To Work Cleaning Up Google's Offices 31
Facebook Tells LA Police To Stop Spying on Users With Fake Accounts 60
Pentagon Asks Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for Bids on New Cloud Contracts 14
Visions of a US Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling 41
Singapore's Tech-utopia Dream is Turning Into a Surveillance State Nightmare 52
Tor Project Sees Decline in Server Numbers, Will Offer Rewards for New Bridge Operators 33
Winamp Prepares a Relaunch 84
Steve Wozniak's Startup Privateer Plans To Launch Hundreds of Satellites To Study Space Debris 42
Programmer Restores YouTube Dislike Counts With Browser Extension 72
US Government Seizes $56 Million in Crypto from BitConnect's 'Number One Promoter' 14
US State Attorneys General Open Probe into Instagram's Effect on Kids 16
Twitter Rolls Back AMP Support, No Longer Sends Users To AMP Pages 34
Apple Accelerates Work on Car Project, Aiming for Fully Autonomous Vehicle 71
OpenAI's GPT-3 Gets a Little Bit More Open 20
Advisor To EU's Top Court Suggests German Bulk Data Retention Law Isn't Legal 15
During COP26, Facebook Served Ads With Climate Falsehoods, Skepticism 175
Japan's Fugaku Retains Title As World's Fastest Supercomputer 13
YouTube Co-Founder Predicts 'Decline' of the Platform Following Removal of Dislikes 125

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