Hardware Stories for 2019

Superphones, Hyperloops, and Other Tech Predictions That Haven't Happened (Yet) 39
Couple Reports 'Intruder' To 911. It Turns Out To Be Their Roomba Vacuum Cleaner 85
Fast Retailing, the World's Third-Largest Retailer, Says It's Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation 93
Turkey Unveils First Fully Homemade Car In $3.7 Billion Bet On Electric 39
Ask Slashdot: What Will the 2020s Bring Us? 207
Electric Bikes and Scooters Will Stay Illegal In New York Thanks To Governor Cuomo 82
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
Uniqlo's Tokyo Warehouse is 90% Robotic 34
'My Business Card Runs Linux' 65
Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny 11
Ask Slashdot: Is There A Laptop That Uses Rechargeable 18650 Cell Batteries? 95
Microchip Pioneer Chuck Peddle, Lead Designer of the Historic 650x Microprocessors, Dies 56
China Could Be Turning On Its 'Artificial Sun' Fusion Reactor Soon 109
Good News For Climate Change: India Gets Out of Coal and Into Renewable Energy 196
Atari's Home Computers Turn 40 86
IBM Research Created a New Battery That May Outperform Lithium-Ion, Doesn't Use Conflict Minerals 139
Motorola Delays Razr To Meet Unexpectedly High Demand 11
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
Virginia Has Big Plans For Electric School Buses In 2020 59
Russia Joins Race To Make Quantum Dreams a Reality 18
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Upgradable Storage and Memory When Buying a New Computer? 183
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
Nuclear Fusion Startup Raises $100 Million To Design and Build a Demo Power Plant 141
Are California's Utilities Undermining Rooftop Solar Installations? 255
'The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer' 244
Will Tesla's Rooftop Solar Panels Revolutionize the Power Industry? 192
Building Your Own Open Source, Privacy-Protecting Voice Assistant With A Raspberry Pi 42
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees 29
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
Microsoft's Next Xbox Is Xbox Series X, Coming Holiday 2020 78
Spin's San Francisco Staff Becomes First E-Scooter Workforce To Unionize 24
The World's First Village of Affordable 3D-Printed Homes Is Now Complete 102
Ask Slashdot: Will We Ever Be Able To Make Our Own Computer Hardware At Home? 117
New Plundervolt Attack Impacts Intel Desktop, Server, and Mobile CPUs 74
Intel CEO Blames Company's Obsessive Focus on Capturing 90% CPU Market Share For Missing Out on Other Opportunities 101
Will Robots Wipe Out Wall Street's Highest-Paying Jobs? 71
Will Plunging Battery Prices Start a Boom In Electric Power? 222
Scientists Propose Using Mountains To Build a New Type of Battery For Long-Term Energy Storage 200
Apple May Use Carbon-Free Aluminum In New iPhones 43
Magic Leap, a Startup That Has Raised Over $2.3 Billion, Has Sold Just 6,000 Units of Its $2,300 VR Headset -- Far Below 1 Million Units Its CEO Initially Hoped 115
Fukushima Melted Fuel Removal Begins 2021, End State Unknown 113
Snapdragon XR2 Chip To Enable Standalone Headsets With 3K x 3K Resolution, 7 Cameras 34
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765 Chip Could Usher In the First Affordable 5G Phones 39
Rivers Could Generate 2,000 Nuclear Power Plants Worth of Energy With 'Blue' Membrane 129
Apple's Activation Lock Will Make It Very Difficult To Refurbish Macs 178
Study That Argued EVs Aren't Cleaner Gets an Update 86
Amazon Proposes a Home Robot that Asks You Questions When It's Confused 30
In a First, Amazon Launches a Battery-powered Portable Echo Speaker in India 25
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips 123
The Rise and Fall of the PlayStation Supercomputers 50
Amazon Unveils New Server Chip To Compete With Intel's Product 40
Qualcomm's Next-gen Snapdragon 865 Mobile Chip Focuses on 5G 6
Coal Power Becoming 'Uninsurable' As Firms Refuse Cover 270
FedEx Warned Not To 'Invade' New York City With Sidewalk Robots 49
Earth is Getting Windier -- Which Helps Wind Turbines Generate More Green Energy 63
Amazon's Cloud Unit Has Designed a More Powerful Datacenter Chip 13
Valve's Steam Controller Is Dead 48
MediaTek and Intel Team Up To Bring 5G Networking To Laptops and PCs 17
Right-to-Repair Groups Don't Buy Apple's Answers To Congress 110
Audi To Cut 9,500 German Jobs In Switch To Electrification 77
Ford Says It Has Nothing To Prove To Tesla In F-150 Vs Cybertruck Tow Battle 273
Ask Slashdot: How Much Faster Is an ASIC Than a Programmable GPU? 63
Some HPE SSDs Fail After 3 Years and 9 Months, Company Warns 113
US Police Already Using 'Spot' Robot From Boston Dynamics In the Real World 36
AMD Launches Threadripper 3970X, 3960X and Smokes Intel's New 18-Core CPU 44
Ask Slashdot: When Robots Are Ultra-Lifelike Will It Be Murder To Switch One Off? 226
Intel and MediaTek Partner on 5G Laptops for 2021 9
Can You Use Modern Displays With Vintage Computing Hardware? 61
Tesla's Cybertruck Will Have Solar Charging Options 183
A Real-Life Tesla Study Shows Durability of EV Batteries 124
Why the Electric-Car Revolution May Take a Lot Longer Than Expected 254
Russia Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software 78
Google Is Terminating Google Cloud Print 64
One Reason the US Military Can't Fix Its Own Equipment 85
System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020 24
Valve Announces Half-Life: Alyx, Its First Flagship VR Game 111
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Holographic Data Storage? 86
Secretive Energy Startup Backed By Bill Gates Achieves Solar Breakthrough 156
Intel Unveils 7nm Ponte Vecchio GPU Architecture For Supercomputers and AI 28
Ford Introduces Mustang Mach-E Electric Crossover 194
The World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds Than Ever With Linux 124
Wind Farms Are Sending Giant Turbine Blades To Landfills 334
You Can Now Buy Pretend Food for Your $2,900 Sony Robot Dog 40
Boeing Fires Its Fuselage-Assembling Robots, Goes Back To Using Humans 100
Lessons From the Cyberattack On India's Largest Nuclear Power Plant 113
New Micro 3D Printing Technology Wins Prestigious NZ Engineering Award 18
Germany Forces Apple To Let Other Mobile Wallet Services Use iPhone's NFC Chip 56
MacBook Pro Teardown Confirms the New Keyboard Is Basically Just the Old, Good Keyboard 43
AMD Launches 16-Core Ryzen 9 3950X At $750, Beating Intel's $2K 18-Core Chip 67
Public Cloud Providers' Network Performance Wildly Varies 14
Motorola Resurrects the Razr As a Foldable Android Smartphone 77
Apple Is Finally Willing To Make Gadgets Thicker So They Work Better 75
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
Boston Dynamics CEO on the Company's Top 3 Robots, AI, and Viral Videos 6
Dell Unveils Subscription Model To Counter Amazon, Microsoft 29
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab 26
Intel Fixes a Security Flaw It Said Was Repaired 6 Months Ago 27
Intel's Cascade Lake CPUs Impacted By New Zombieload v2 Attack 43
American Robots Lose Jobs To Asian Robots as Adidas Shifts Manufacturing 85
Honda Works On Second EV, Quits Diesel, and Puts Hydrogen On Hold 148
How Tech From Australia Could Prevent California Wildfires and PG&E Blackouts 106
'Bring Back the Replaceable Laptop Battery' 216
AMD Unveils the World's Most Powerful Desktop CPUs 187
Ask Slashdot: Are There Storage Devices With Hardware Compression Built In? 120
Intel Performance Strategy Team Publishing Intentionally Misleading Benchmarks 42
Screen Time Might Be Physically Changing Kids' Brains 56
An Energy Breakthrough Could Store Solar Power For Decades 92
Buying Fitbit Won't Save Google's Failing Wear OS 27
Microsoft and Warner Bros. Archived the Original 'Superman' Movie on a Futuristic Glass Disc 93
Does California Need A More Decentralized Energy System? 198
Germany's Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular 287
Medium Investigates The Secret Supply Chain Behind AmazonBasics 100
New Clean-Combustion 'Ducted Fuel Injection' Could Eliminate Soot From Diesel Engines 102
AirPods Pro Teardown Confirms That They're Just As Disposable As Ever 120
New Electric Battery Design Can Charge an Electric Vehicle In 10 Minutes 175
Intel Launches Core i9-9900KS 8-Core CPU At 5GHz Across All Cores 89
Nvidia Launches GeForce GTX 1660 Super For Faster 1080p Gaming 14
Microsoft To Deliver Azure Sphere, a Linux-based Chip and Cloud Security Service, in February 2020 29
Gartner Predictions Reveal How AI Will Change Our World 47
Researchers Transmit Energy With A Laser In 'Historic' Power-Beaming Demonstration 109
'Ocean Cleanup' Project Unveils New Solar-Powered Robot That Collects Plastic From Rivers 27
Does The Green Economy Create More Jobs Than The Fossil Fuel Industry? 206
Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways' 139
Google: Stadia Exclusives To Have Features 'Not Possible' On Home Hardware 64
The Pixel 4's 90Hz Display Only Works At High Brightness Levels 29
EU Data Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Microsoft Contracts 13
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills For Moving Data 64
An Interview With Former Purism CTO Zlatan Todoric Hints At Chaos At Purism 8
Japanese Hotel Chain Sorry That Hackers May Have Watched Guests Through Bedside Robots 21
Company Offers To Pay You $130,000 To Put Your Face On a Robot 35
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery In His Garage 212
'How I Compiled My Own SPARC CPU In a Cheap FPGA Board' 83
Nissan's Next Electric Car Could Also Provide Power To Your Home 154
Is Andrew Yang Wrong About Robots Taking Our Jobs? 159
Apple Hid a Lightning Connector For Debugging In the Apple TV 4K's Ethernet Port 60
Google Hardware Chief Says He Does Not Know Why Pixel 4 Smartphone With Snapdragon 855 Processor Can't Support 4K Video Recording at 60FPS 78
Volvo To Roll Out a New Electric Vehicle Every Year Through 2025 102
Google Chief: I'd Disclose Smart Speakers Before Guests Enter My Home 102
Robot War Breaks Out As Roomba Maker Sues Upstart SharkNinja 59
OpenAI's AI-Powered Robot Learned How To Solve a Rubik's Cube One-Handed 21
PG&E Should Compensate Customers For Power Shutoffs, California Governor Says 174
Harley-Davidson Stops Electric Motorcycle Production Due To Charging Problem 52
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 37
NVIDIA's Job Listings Reveal 'Game Remastering' Studio, New Interest In RISC-V 40
Invisible Hardware Hacks Allowing Full Remote Access Cost Pennies 84
Microsoft's New Keyboards Have Dedicated Keys For 'Office' and Emojis 122
'There's an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It's Just Mostly Invisible' 159
US Navy Files Patent For Compact Fusion Reactor 172
Her iPhone Died. It Led To Her Being Charged As a Criminal 211
Google's Next Pixelbook Is Basically a MacBook That Runs Chrome OS 44
Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous 81
Rwanda Releases First Smartphone Made Entirely In Africa 45
System76 Will Begin Shipping 2 Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open Source Firmware 29
Worker Pay is Stagnant -- Economists Blame Robots 182
Utility Giant PG&E Voluntarily Shuts Off Power, Could Impact 800,000 Californians 210
Lithium-Ion Batteries Win Nobel Prize for Chemistry 28
You Can Now Overclock a Raspberry Pi 4 For Some Nice Performance Gains 93
Intel Announces Price Cut for 9th Generation F and KF Processors 30
Wells Fargo Prediction: American Banks Will Automate Away 200,000 Jobs By 2030 124
To Fight Spectre-Like Attacks, Intel Suggests a New Kind of Memory 77
TSMC Accuses GlobalFoundries of Infringing 25 Patents For Node Processes 11
Researchers Repurpose Failed Cancer Drug Into Printable Semiconductor 9
NASA Will Soon Start Testing Its First All-Electric X-Plane 21
Florida Man Arrested For Cutting Electric Scooter Brakes 87
AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 Series Desktop CPUs Will Offer Full RAM Encryption 53
Microsoft Unveils Surface Pro 7 and Surface Pro X 41
Microsoft Unveils Surface Laptop 3 With AMD Processor 48
Startup That Aims To 3D-Print Rockets Says It's Fully Funded For Its First Commercial Missions 73
Seattle Startup 'Picnic' Unveils Pizza-Making Robot That Makes 300 Pies/Hour 70
'Almost No One Out There Thinks That Isaac Asimov's Three Laws Could Work For Truly Intelligent AI' 250
EU Brings In 'Right To Repair' Rules For Appliances 62
Apple's New iPhones Will Warn You If They Can't Verify a Replaced Screen 36
Microsoft Stops Trusting SSD Makers 56
Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks Grants For Ambitious Expansion 21
'My Galaxy Fold Display Is Damaged After a Day' 66
Amazon To Sell Limited-Edition Alexa-Equipped Glasses, Ring 11
Amazon Announces New Echo Dot With Digital Clock 86
Nuclear Energy Too Slow, Too Expensive To Save Climate, Says Report 409
Xiaomi's Mi Mix Alpha Has a Display On the Front, Sides, and Back 55
New Research Promises Electric Car Batteries That Last For a Million Miles 159
Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings 107
Does America's First Commercial Offshore Wind Farm Portend a Clean Energy Revolution? 175
Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered On Mars 54
Latest Lakka Release On Raspberry Pi 4 Showcases Great Retro Gaming 11
Google Reportedly Attains 'Quantum Supremacy' 93
Egypt's Massive 1.8-Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion 122
HP Printers Try To Send Data Back To HP About Your Devices and What You Print 143
Drivers May Choose Electric Car Alert Sounds, US Proposal Says 144
MIT Unveils the World's Most Advance Carbon Nanotube Chip 37
Pine64 Confirms $25 'PineTime' Smartwatch for Linux Smartphones 43
The Next Energy-Efficient Architecture Revolution: A House Built By Robots 54
Ten Drones Attack Saudi Arabia's Oil and Gas Facilities 293
London's Hidden Cable Tunnels Could Warm Thousands of Homes 57
Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't Geothermal Energy Getting As Much Attention As Solar and Wind? 152
iPhone 11 Lineup Said To Include Two-Way Charging Hardware, But Software Disabled 16
New Device Harvests Energy In Darkness 42
ASUS ROG Phone II Proves To Be the Fastest Android Phone On the Market Currently 36
Google One Now Backs Up Texts, 'Original Quality' Photos, and Videos on Android 28
McDonald's Is To Replace Human Workers With Voice-Based Tech In US Drive-Throughs 345
Fukushima To Possibly Dump Radioactive Water Back Into Ocean 314
VW Announces Its 'ID.3' Electric Car For the Masses, Praises Elon Musk 63
Gas Plants Will Get Crushed By Wind, Solar By 2035, Study Says 261
NYC Mayor and Presidential Hopeful Bill De Blasio Wants a Tax On Robots 88
Biohackers Use a Raspberry Pi to Implant a Networked Hard Drive 118
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Limit the Charging Range of Your Batteries? 129
Spring Cyberattack on US Power Grid 'Probably Just Some Script Kiddie' 62
Tesla Battery Researcher Unveils New Cell That Could Last 1 Million Miles 152
First Long-Distance Heart Surgery Performed Via Robot 25
Huawei Announces Kirin 990 and Kirin 990 5G: Dual SoC Approach, Integrated 5G Modem 7
Qualcomm's 5G Modem is Coming To Midrange Phones Next Year 10
Connecticut Governor Calls For 100 Percent Carbon-Free Power By 2040 192
Samsung Announces Standards-Compliant Key-Value SSD Prototype 74
The Next Hot Job: Pretending To Be a Robot 44
Electric Car Charge Posts To Be Installed In Every New Home In England 185
Up Close With the Taycan, Porsche's First Electric Car 112
Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Rules Requiring More Energy-Efficient Bulbs 391
Scottish Developers Announce Subsidy-Free Onshore Wind Farm 101
'Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard' 183
Ask Slashdot: What Would Computing Look Like Today If the Amiga Had Survived? 221
E-Bikes Are Now Allowed In US National Parks 72
Apple Patents Watch Band That Could ID You From Your Wrist Skin 23
'The 2018 MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy' 302
New Stats Suggest Strong Sales For AMD 32
Should We Be Allowed To Kick Robots? 126
Why We Should Teach Kids to Call the Robot 'It' 111
Robot Pilot That Can Grab the Flight Controls Gets Its Plane Licence 30
Apple Reverses Stance on iPhone Repairs and Will Supply Parts To Independent Shops For the First Time 77
More Airlines Ban MacBook Pros In Checked Luggage 98
16-Bit RISC-V Processor Made With Carbon Nanotubes 50
TV Manufacturers Unite To Tackle the Scourge of Motion Smoothing 152
Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source 119
Microsoft Announces Surface Event On October 2nd, Could Launch New Dual-Screen Tablet/Laptop Hybrid 16
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Monitor For Development Work? 216
Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins 2,650-Mile Sea Voyage 115
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Estimate the Cost of an Algorithm Turned Into an ASIC? 97
ITER: 'Where the Sun Will Be Re-Born on Earth' 89
Tesla Working To Resolve Dispute With Walmart Over Solar Panel Fires 22
HP Names Head of Printer Division As New CEO 27
Electric Dump Truck Produces More Energy Than It Uses 99
Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake 27
Intel's Line of Notebook CPUs Gets More Confusing With 14nm Comet Lake 62
YouTube Removes Videos of Robots Fighting For 'Animal Cruelty' 94
Walmart Sues Tesla Over Fires At Stores Fitted With Its Solar Panels 79
Solar Power Is Now As Inexpensive As Grid Electricity In China 195
Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail To Dent Tesla's Electric-Car Dominance 215
Cerebras Systems Unveils a Record 1.2 Trillion Transistor Chip For AI 67
An Ode To Microsoft Encarta 81

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