Hardware Stories for 2017

Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early 148
Man Blames Tesla Autopilot System For Rollover Crash, Then Recants 126
Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy 507
Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD Ride Cryptocurrency Wave -- For Now 57
Atari Is Back In the Hardware Business, Unveils Ataribox 110
Y Combinator Announces Funding For UBI-Supporting Political Candidates 195
Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? 484
Microsoft 'Cuts The Cord' With A Local Power Utility To Pursue Greener Energy 62
Scrap Dealer Finds Apollo-Era NASA Computers In Dead Engineer's Basement 104
Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA 87
Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas 304
Border Patrol Says It's Barred From Searching Cloud Data On Phones 74
PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade 202
AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core and 1920X 12-Core Specs and Pricing 85
Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts 166
'World's First Robot Lawyer' Now Available In All 50 States 79
Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom 247
Western Digital Gets US Court Order To Access Toshiba Databases, Chip Samples 12
24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug 352
Intel Launches Xeon Scalable CPUs: Dual Xeon Platinum 8176, 112 Threads Tested 54
Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? 561
The Oculus Rift Still Isn't Selling, In a Worrying Sign For VR 413
World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years 474
Researchers Have Developed A Battery-Free Mobile Phone 83
Survey Finds Most Popular Linux Laptop Distros: Ubuntu and Arch 141
Google's New Startup Heats Your Home With Energy From Your Lawn 168
Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists 43
Enthusiast Resurrects IBM's Legendary 'Model F' Keyboard 184
Microsoft Makes 'Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino' Open Source 65
Elon Musk Promises World's Biggest Lithium Ion Battery To Australia 272
France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 375
RED Launches a $1,200 Smartphone With a 'Hydrogen Holographic Display' 76
OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives 130
NASA Seeks Nuclear Power For Mars 165
EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products 397
Amazon's Alexa Passes 15,000 skills, Up From 10,000 in February 90
Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 121
'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' 597
Samsung Reportedly Developing a Voice-Controlled Speaker To Compete With Amazon Echo 65
Norway To Ban the Use of Oil For Heating Buildings By 2020 164
China Suspects Its 'Car-Eating,' Traffic-Straddling Bus Is a Total Scam 59
Apple Tests 3-D Face Scanning To Unlock Next iPhone: Bloomberg 74
15 Devices (Including 6 Laptops) Awarded FSF's 'Respects Your Freedom' Certification 85
California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It 324
HP Answers The Question: Moore's Law Is Ending. Now What? 95
Central Bankers Warned Of Possible Economic 'Robocalypse' 238
Study Claims Discarded Solar Panels Create More Toxic Waste Than Nuclear Plants 376
AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs: Enhanced Security, Longer Warranty, Better Quality 50
Raspberry Pi Wins UK's Top Engineering Award 54
New Study Finds How Much Sleep Fitbit Users Really Get 75
There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid 494
$7.5 Billion Kemper Power Plant Suspends Coal Gasification 154
Elon Musk's Boring Machine Completes the First Section of An LA Tunnel 139
The iPhone Turns 10 278
US Imposes Stricter Security Screenings At Foreign Airports, But Won't Expand Laptop Ban Yet 64
NVIDIA To Launch Graphics Cards Specifically Designed For Digital Currency Mining 105
Samsung To Launch Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 in South Korea On July 7 60
Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses 97
Google Home Is 6 Times More Likely To Answer Your Question Than Amazon Alexa 64
New HyperThreading Flaw Affects Intel 6th And 7th Generation Skylake and Kaby Lake-Based Processors 135
Survey Says: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, But X86 SBCs Have Made Gains 82
Phoronix Announces '2017 Linux Laptop Survey' 66
Tesla Is 'In Talks' To Build a Factory In China 55
WikiLeaks Doc Dump Reveals CIA Tools For Hacking Air-Gapped PCs 74
Samsung Begins Production For Its First Internet of Things-optimised Exynos Processor 50
Home Improvement Chains Accused of False Advertising Over Lumber Dimensions 548
McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks 632
The US Government Wants To Permanently Legalize the Right To Repair 153
Domestic Appliances Guzzle Far More Energy Than Advertised, Says EU Survey 205
Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars 73
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Isolate a Network And Allow Data Transfer? 237
South Korea Signs On To Build Full-Scale Hyperloop System 133
Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria 175
Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week 472
Top UK Supermarket Laser Prints Labels On Avocados To Reduce Waste 219
Sweden Passes Bill To Become Carbon Neutral By 2045 229
Driver Killed In a Tesla Crash Using Autopilot Ignored At Least 7 Safety Warnings 516
Microsoft Now Lets Surface Laptop Owners Revert Back To Windows 10 S 81
Steve Jobs Wanted the First iPhone To Have a Permanent Back Button Like Android 208
Swiss Supercomputer Edges US Out of Top Spot 64
Dropbox Is Rolling Out a Private Network to Speed Up File Access 40
Intel Quietly Discontinues Galileo, Joule, and Edison Development Boards 95
Xerox Alto Designer, Co-Inventor Of Ethernet, Dies at 74 96
You Can Hack Some Mazda Cars With a USB Flash Drive 52
Coal Market Set To Collapse Worldwide By 2040 As Solar, Wind Dominate 375
You Can't Open the Microsoft Surface Laptop Without Literally Destroying It 313
Google Adds Android App Support To Additional Chromebooks 13
Amazon Says It Won't Replace Whole Foods Cashiers With Computers... Yet 109
Six Companies Awarded $258 Million From US Government To Build Exascale Supercomputers 40
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier 263
Wind, Solar Surpassed 10 Percent of US Electricity In March, Says EIA 179
The Next iPhone Will Have Wireless Charging, Says Apple Supplier 124
Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer 188
Roomba Inventor Launches 'Tertill', a Weed-Killing Robot For Your Garden 116
11 States Sue Trump Administration's Energy Department After Weeks of No Movement On Efficiency Standards 219
Play Store Downloads Show Google Pixel Sales Limited To 1 Million Units 70
Google Hires Key Apple Chip Architect To Build Custom Chips For Pixel Phones 52
Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule 55
Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? 181
US Banks Launching Answer To Peer-To-Peer Payment App Venmo 43
Researchers Reveal Malware Designed To 'Power Down' Electric Grid 42
Logitech Reveals Mouse Mat That Is a Giant Wireless Charging Pad 62
How Lego Clicked: The Super Brand That Reinvented Itself 191
Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job 418
Researcher Wants To Protect Whistleblowers Against Hidden Printer Dots 218
Tesla Plans To Disconnect 'Almost All' Superchargers From the Grid In Favor of Solar and Battery Power 230
DARPA Funds Development of New Type of Processor 84
Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' 78
Microsoft To Shut Down Its Docs.com File-Sharing Site December 15 37
Home Blood Pressure Monitors Are Wrong 70 Percent of the Time, Says Study 90
Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? 367
Google Has Finally Found a Buyer For Its Scary Robot Companies Boston Dynamics and Schaft: SoftBank 50
Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation 197
Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM 205
Boeing Studies Planes Without Pilots, Plans Experiments Next Year 128
Amazon Kills Off Unlimited Cloud Storage Option For Amazon Drive 76
It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative 217
Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 332
TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights 456
Malware Uses Router LEDs To Steal Data From Secure Networks 105
GPU and Motherboard OEMs Readying Components Optimized For Cryptocurrency Mining 77
How a Few Yellow Dots Burned the Intercept's NSA Leaker 308
Apple Announces New 10.5-Inch iPad Pro With Narrower Side Bezels, 120Hz Refresh Rate Display 93
Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 63
Apple Announces Native HEVC Support In MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11 136
Apple Announces Its 'Next Breakthrough' Product: the HomePod 198
Apple Announces New iMacs With Better Screens And Modern Processors; Refreshes MacBook Lineup 134
What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global 344
'Our Streets Are Made For People': San Francisco Mulls Ban On Delivery Robots 219
'Instantly Rechargeable' Battery Could Change the Future of Electric Cars 150
Microsoft Accidentally Released Internal Windows 10 Development Builds 76
VR Sports? It Can Be a Billion Dollar Business, Says Intel CEO 43
Denmark Is Killing Tesla and Other Electric Cars 172
EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea 128
Intel Predicts a $7 Trillion Self-Driving Future Where Over a Million Lives Will Be Part of the 'Passenger Economy' 142
China's Unprecedented Cyber Law Signals Its Intent To Protect a Precious Commodity: Data 27
Qualcomm Announces Quick Charge 4+ Standard That's 15 Percent Faster Than Quick Charge 4 30
Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This 145
EFF Sues FBI For Records About Paid Best Buy Geek Squad Informants 147
Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs With Gigabit LTE 102
Apple Is Manufacturing a Siri Speaker To Compete Against Google Home, Amazon Echo 70
British Airways Says IT Collapse Came After Servers Damaged By Power Problem 189
Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan 64
Google Chrome Bug Lets Sites Record Audio and Video Without a Visual Indicator 36
Windows XP Computers Were Mostly Immune To WannaCry 58
Intel's Super Portable Compute Card Could Be Your Real Pocket PC 61
Essential Home is an Amazon Echo Competitor That 'Puts Privacy First' 68
Uber Fires Executive Accused of Stealing Google's Self-Driving Car Secrets 57
Microsoft's Looking To Reboot Mobile with New Software and Hardware: Sources 114
US Supreme Court Protects Consumers' Right To Refill Ink Cartridges In Precedent-Setting Lexmark vs Impression Case 259
Intel's Massive 18-core Core i9 Chip Starts a Bloody Battle For Enthusiast PCs 324
Android Creator Andy Rubin Launches Top-of-the-line Essential Phone 193
Get Real, Microsoft: If the New Surface Pro Is a Laptop, Bundle It With a Type Cover 158
ARM's New Processors Are Designed To Power the Machine-Learning Machines 27
Asus Goes Big On Slim Laptops at Computex 53
US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country 498
Walt Mossberg's Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws 96
New Privacy Vulnerability In IOT Devices: Traffic Rate Metadata 24
Ask Slashdot: Is There A Screen-Less, Keyboard-Less, Battery-Powered Computer? 181
New Solar Plane Plans Non-Stop Flight Around The World 35
SSD Drives Vulnerable To Rowhammer-Like Attacks That Corrupt User Data 93
A New Amiga Arrives On the Scene -- the A-EON Amiga X5000 118
UCF Research Could Bring 'Drastically' Higher Resolution To Your Phone and TV 108
Facebook Bans Sale of Piracy-Enabling Set-Top Boxes 61
Apple Is Working On a Dedicated Chip To Power AI On Devices 49
Scientists Develop Technology That Burns Natural Gas With No CO2 Emissions 163
Chinese Company Offers Free Training For US Coal Miners To Become Wind Farmers 203
T-Mobile's 'Digits' Program Revamps the Phone Number 51
Robot Police Officer Goes On Duty In Dubai 49
Consumers Trust Robots For Surgery Over Savings, Research Finds 70
Intel Drops Thunderbolt 3 Royalty, Adds CPU Integration and Works Closely With Microsoft 107
DEFCON Conference To Target Voting Machines 105
Renewable Energy Powers Jobs For Almost 10 Million People 132
Open19 Launches Open Hardware Project Targeting Edge Computing 15
DJI Threatens To 'Brick' Its Copters Unless Owners Agree To Share Their Details 192
'Sony Needs a Fresh Hit' 123
Chinese Giant Huawei Gets Serious About PC Business, Announces Plans For Global Expansion 53
Microsoft's New Surface Pro Features Faster Intel Kaby Lake Processor, 13.5 Hours of Battery Life 66
Samsung's Galaxy S8 Active Looks Like a Rugged LG G6 31
Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage 50
Switzerland Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power In Favor of Renewables 383
Vint Cerf Reflects On The Last 60 Years 66
New Battery Technology Draws Energy Directly From The Human Body 98
Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications 95
Possible Radioactive Leak Investigated At Washington Nuclear Site 94
New Evidence of a Decline In Electricity Use By U.S. Households 318
Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs 280
China Successfully Mines Gas From Methane Hydrate In Production Run 132
Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right To Repair iPhones, New York State Records Confirm 235
Researchers Create a T-Shirt That Monitors the Wearer's Breathing Rate In Real Time 38
US and EU Reject Expanding Laptop Ban To Flights From Europe 87
Drone Pilots In China Have to Register With the Government 58
How the Lights Have Gone Out For the People of Syria 126
Google Home Gets Notifications, Hands-Free Calling, a TV Interface and More 37
Amazon Refreshes Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 Tablets 28
Apple Starts Assembling iPhones In India 56
Google Takes Another Shot At Making Android Great On Low-Budget Smartphones 55
Google's Android Now Powers More Than 2 Billion Devices 30
Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade 335
Qualcomm Sues Apple Contract Manufacturers 56
Apple Receives Patents For Bezel-Free Display, Touch ID Button Embedded In Screen 176
AMD Unveils 'EPYC' Server CPUs, Ryzen Mobile, Threadripper CPU and Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPU 76
Scientists 3D-Print Ovaries To Allow Infertile Mice To Mate and Give Birth 64
HPE Unveils The Machine, a Single-Memory Computer Capable of Addressing 160 Terabytes 150
All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study 1058
HTC Launches 'U11' Squeezable Smartphone With Snapdragon 835 CPU, No Headphone Jack 69
Apple To Refresh Entire MacBook Lineup Next Month, Air and Pro To Feature Kaby Lake 234
38,000 People a Year Die Early Because of Diesel Emissions Testing Failures 194
ZeniMax Is Suing Samsung After Winning Its Case Against Oculus 78
A Lowe's Hardware Store Is Trialling Exoskeletons To Give Workers a Helping Hand 48
Motorola Looks at Dirt-Cheap Smartphones Again, Launches Moto C and Moto C Plus 55
Google Owns the Classroom 114
EFF Warns Most Of Intel's Chipsets Contain 'A Security Hazard' 158
WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs 389
Elon Musk Posts New Video of 'Boring' Equipment and Company's First Tunnel 118
Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.3 Million Ram Pickups For Fatal Software Problem 101
Intel's Itanium CPUs, Once a Play For 64-bit Servers And Desktops, Are Dead 138
Germany Sets New National Record With 85 Percent of Its Electricity Sourced From Renewables 404
Apple Watch Can Detect An Abnormal Heart Rhythm With 97 Percent Accuracy, UCSF Study Says 102
NVIDIA Unveils Tesla V100 AI Accelerator Powered By 5120 CUDA Core Volta GPU 37
Tesla's Highly-Anticipated Solar Roofs Go Up For Pre-Order Today 143
Researchers Devise New Printing Technique To Produce High-Resolution Color Images Without Using Ink 55
The Intelligent Intersection Could Banish Traffic Lights Forever 305
Qualcomm Announces New Snapdragon 630, 660 Midrange Chips 23
Microsoft Thinks USB-C Isn't Ready For the Mainstream 293
Apple Becomes First US Company To Top $800 Billion Value 75
Microsoft Wants You To Care For Your Surface Like a 'Luxury' Handbag 83
Tunnel Collapses At Nuclear Facility Once Called 'An Underground Chernobyl Waiting To Happen' 188
Microsoft Is Planning To Turn Windows 10 PCs Into Amazon Echo Competitors 82
Repair Shops Are Stoked That the Samsung Galaxy S8 Is the Most Fragile Phone Ever Made 161
Amazon Just Announced the Touchscreen Echo Nobody Asked For 95
T-Mobile No Longer Offering 'Free Data For Life' Offer For New Tablets 40
Researchers Create Touchpads With a Can of Spray Paint 31
Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast? 326
Intel's Remote Hijacking Flaw Was 'Worse Than Anyone Thought' 200
Facebook Closes Its Oculus VR Studio 72
Startup Offers A Chip Based On The Open Source RISC-V Architecture 73
Fedora Will Get Full Mp3 Support, As IIS Fraunhofer Terminates Mp3 Licensing Program 133
Amazon Leak Exposes Echo AI Device With Touch Display and FireOS 36
The Apple Watch Outsold Every Other Wearable Last Quarter 109
BlackBerry KeyOne Review By The Verge: Part Productivity, Part Nostalgia 34
10 Percent of Harvard's Popular 'Introduction To Computer Science' Class Accused of Cheating 131
Walmart Wants To Put Sensors On Everything So It Can Automatically Order You Stuff 106
AMD and Nvidia Silicon Manufacturing Secrets Allegedly Stolen, Sold To China 103
Intel Announces Xeon Scalable Processor Family 52
Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi Voice Kit Hardware 31
'This Isn't AI' 138
The Parts of America Most Susceptible To Automation 267
Qualcomm Is Seeking US Import Ban For iPhones 104
Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017 56

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