Hardware Stories for 2011

Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters 118
Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant 664
Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade 436
Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? 405
Google Storage Is Now Available To All Developers 62
Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface 138
Consumer Device With Open CPU Out of Beta Soon 99
Vintage Collection of Tech Failures 160
24 Rooms in 344sq Feet 178
A Sticky Touch Screen Lets You Feel the Buttons 72
World's Servers Process 9.57ZB of Data a Year 170
Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima 234
AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors 134
Peugeot EX1 Sets Electric Car Lap Record At Nuerburgring 241
Students Invent Revolutionary Solar Sterilizer 98
Micro-SD Card Slot Abused As VGA-Port 77
White House Explains Transport-Energy Future 358
Writing Linux Kernel Functions In CUDA With KGPU 101
A $25 PC On a USB Stick 352
Hewlett Packard's Cult Calculator Turns 30 318
New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water 179
Gitbrew Releases OtherOS++ PS3 Linux Dual Boot 240
Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon 351
AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980 207
Intel Designs Faster, 3D Transistor 141
Robots 'Evolve' Altruism 360
The World's Smallest Video Camera 78
Triple Monitor Gaming: Dual GPU GeForce Vs. Radeon 136
AppleCrate II: Apple II-Based Parallel Computer 126
Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet 136
More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power 88
Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? 371
Help Build the World's First Community-Funded CPU ASIC 140
On-Screen Keyboard Maliit Demoed With Gnome 3 66
German Aerospace Robot Plays Catch With Two Balls 60
The Fight Against Dark Silicon 137
Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets 451
AMD Gives ARM License a Miss, Will Stick To x86 67
Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part 205
80% Improvement In Solar Cell Efficiency 204
If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It 245
Nvidia and AMD Hug It Out, SLI Coming To AMD Mobos 120
Google Docs' OCR Quality Tested 99
Nikon's Image Authentication Insecure 106
Inside Google's Secret Employee Hackerspace 84
ARM VP To Keynote AMD Developer Conference 70
The iPad's Progenitor — 123 Years Ago 123
Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors 249
Chernobyl 25th Anniversary 235
NYC Resistor: DIY Hackers Doing Awesome Things 134
What Happens To Data When a Cloud Provider Dies? 262
Razer Hydra Brings Motion Control To PC Gamers 111
US Funding Five Game-Changing Energy Projects 529
What Kinect Could Be, But Probably Won't 143
Japanese Robots Await Call To Action 50
Solar Panels Increase Home Value 352
EV Fast-Charging Standards In Flux 122
Linux Kernel Suffering Power Management Regression? 186
Greenpeace Says the Internet Emits Too Much CO2 370
RIM BlackBerry PlayBook: Unfinished, Unusable 260
Games: Sony Confirms PSPGo Gone; New Consoles Expected 2014 116
Working Model Factory Made With Lego Robots 63
Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game 92
Physical Rehab Device Built From Wii Balance Boards 30
Microsoft: No Tablets Until It's Distinctive 203
Scientist Creates 3D Scanner App For iPhone 118
Facebook's Server Room, Penthouse Cooling Caught On Video 47
Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity 242
Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? 1162
The 'Three Ton' Hard Drive Destroyer 206
Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate 153
TEPCO Unveils Plan To Deal With Fukushima Crisis 238
Can Open Source Hardware Feed the World? 231
Walking HECTOR Robot Inspired By Stick Insect 46
GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee 251
Hacker Claims He Broke Into Wind Turbine Systems 105
Robots Enter Fukushima Reactor Building 244
Apple Wants To Store Your History In the Cloud 99
Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set? 177
Photo Tour of Facebook's Open Source Datacenter 70
Cheaper, More Powerful Alternative To FPGAs 108
Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells 223
Computer Factories Are the Energy Hogs 208
New Nintendo HD Console Rumors Abound 154
High Schoolers Push Down Price of Near-Space Photography 88
Google Invests In World's Largest Solar Power Tower Plant 387
Microsoft's Kinect SDK Can Track and Listen 85
Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba 268
A5: All Apple, Part Mystery 124
A Closer Look At Immersion Cooling For the Data Center 213
Windows Already Up and Running On ARM Architecture 348
Cisco Ditches Flip and $590 Million 121
Fellow Hackers Blast Geohot For Sony Settlement 310
Glasses-Free 3D On iPad (Sorta) 96
Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 673
Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done 370
Researchers Build Wearable Generators 84
Free Software Helps Disabled Use Mouse 46
The Awesome Button 80
Magical Chinese Hard Drive 347
30 Years To Clean Up Fukushima Dai-Ichi 342
Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? 336
92,000 LEGO Robots To Take Over Peruvian Schools Alongside OLPC 56
Which Comic Character Is the Greatest Engineer? 316
Facebook Opens Their Data Center Infrastructure 90
Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony 347
Mono Comes To Android 257
The New Commodore 64 339
Smithsonian Gets Tiny Robots 23
Intel Unveils 10-Core Xeon Processors 128
Tobii Releases Eye-Controlled Mouse For PCs 67
Osborne 1 vs. IPad 2 249
XBMC Gets a Dedicated Remote 87
Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" 288
Texas Instruments Buys National Semiconductor For $6.5B 121
AMD Bulldozer Will Bring Socket Shift To PCs 219
Robots Find Wreckage of AF447 148
A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 203
New Quantum Record: 14 Entangled Bits 101
Sony CEO Lets Slip That iPhone 5 Will Have 8MP Camera 176
CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator 204
Google's Driverless Car and the Logic of Safety 510
USC Researchers Demonstrate Real-Life Gmail Motion 32
Ask Slashdot: Advice On a DIY Neutron Beam? 117
MakerBot Introduces Printable Vinyl Records 89
Toshiba Develops 3-D Monocle 69
Google Gmail Motion Beta 104
'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season 228
Robots Dive Deep To Solve Airliner Crash Mystery 156
San Francisco Opening Computer & Video Game Museum 56
It's World Backup Day 135
After Japan's Quake, Taiwan Helps Fill iPad 2 Supply-Chain Gaps 98
US To Send Radiation-Hardened Robots To Japan 183
MIT Drone Finds Its Way Using Kinect Vision 77
Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent 91
Does 3D Make Your Head Happy Or Ache? 281
Browser Power Consumption Compared 274
Things Get Worse at Fukushima 1122
Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy 326
Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD 165
Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings 442
Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support 73
Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors 964
Flying Robot Bird Unveiled 152
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? 898
Turning Your E-Reader Into a Cheap Tablet 193
Artificial Clouds To Cool Qatar World Cup Stadiums 154
Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained 97
A Late Adopter's Guide To USB 3.0 185
Inside a Verizon Wireless Superswitch 107
The First Plastic Computer Processor 73
Improving Productivity (With Science) 208
Kinect Used To Help the Visually Impaired 29
Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide 148
Oracle Claims Intel Is Looking To Sink the Itanic 235
Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Android For Development? 203
University Switches To DC Workstations 468
Experimental Batteries Charge In Minutes 335
Getting Closer To Using Graphene For Electronics 35
A New Class of Nuclear Reactors 560
Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion 86
Chicago's Willis Tower To Become Vertical Solar Farm 227
Nintendo 3DS Battery Is Quick To Die and Slow To Charge 183
Using Kinect With Your PS3 79
2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load 501
Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law 347
'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient 127
Getting Past Censorship With Unorthodox Links To the Internet 82
Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark 322
Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job 349
Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011 172
Tesla CEO Says Model S Will Support Third-Party Apps 103
US Alarmed Over Japan's Nuclear Crisis 580
EvoMouse Turns Your Digits Digital 110
No Contactless Payment System In Next iPhone 239
Advance In PCM Memory Could Dramatically Reduce Power Consumption 74
3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else 160
Microsoft Reportedly Ends Zune Hardware Development 276
Solar Powered Table That Wirelessly Charges Your Gadgets 56
ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers 132
Electricity Rationing Starting Monday In Tokyo 286
Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown 769
China Switching To Home-Grown Chips For Supercomputers 198
Should Public Libraries Become Hacker Spaces? 164
New Hardware Needed For Future Computational Brain 143
How Do People Respond To Being Touched By a Robot? 137
DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts 284
Town Expands To Boost Cooling For NSA Data Center 112
How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date 568
A Bittersweet Finale For Discovery Space Shuttle 205
Animated Series Uses Kinect For Motion Capture 36
Getting Computers To Recognize Facial Expressions 56
Gameduino Project Aims To Game-ify the Arduino 83
Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson 241
Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future 237
Intel's New Core I7-990X Extreme Edition Tested 149
Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled 147
Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators 245
Taiwanese OEMs Consider ARM Products For Windows 8 167
Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy 314
Researchers Develop Super Batteries From Aerogel 182
Budget Triple-Screen Gaming 133
35,000 Linux Benchmarks In a Week 65
Most IPv6-certified Home Network Gear Buggy 174
Intel SSD 510 Series 6Gbps SATA Drives Tested 79
Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human 177
Japanese Build Pocket Robot-Cellphone Hybrid 81
Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving? 368
Making Data Centers More People-Friendly 137
Asus Motherboard Box Doubles As PC Case 243
Boxee Scores $16.5M Investment 77
SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics 491
Eye-controlled Laptop Presented At CeBit 43
Multi-Core Voltage Regulators To Increase Processor Efficiency 64
Intel Unveils SSDs With 6Gbit/Sec Throughput 197
New Apple MacBook Pro Reviewed 627
Atomic Antennae Transmit Quantum Information 57
Boxee Box Matures; Another Look At the Platform 56
AMD Open Sources Their Linux Video API 64
First Two-Legged Robot Marathon is Under Way In Osaka, Japan 28
AMD's Fusion APU Pitted Against 21 Desktop CPUs 93
The World's First Flexible Organic Microprocessor 53
Sony's War On Makers, Hackers, and Innovators 317
Intel Announces a BIOS Implementation Test Suite 66
Researchers Create Computer That Fits On a Pen Tip 110
NASA Readies Discovery Shuttle For Final Flight 153
MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 368
New Video Game Controlled By Kissing 72
Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data 175
Motorola Xoom Won't Have Flash Support At Launch 187
Laptop Design For Disassembly 188
Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones 85
Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source 215
Oil Companies Patent Trolling Biofuel Production 183
Geohot To Turn Over Computers To Neutral Third Party 117
Hummingbird-Size Wing-Flapping Drone Unveiled 108
X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On 189
Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) 198
Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks 376
Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All 225
Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU 109
TiVo To Brick All Remaining UK PVRs On June 1 286
Facebook-Direct Phones — and Facebook Right On the SIM 113
Toy Converted Into an Enigma Machine 39
Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark 121
Harvard Professor Creates Paper Accelerometer 87
Samsung Unveils Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy S II 161
Kinect Tangible Table Prototype 47
File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? 356
Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material 88

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