News Stories for 2016

Nikola Motor Company Reveals Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck With Range of 1,200 Miles 106
Hackers Steal $31 Million at Russia's Central Bank 78
Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter 122
Foxconn Employee Faces 10-Year Prison Sentence For Stealing 5,700 iPhones Worth $1.5 Million 45
Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs 468
FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps 56
Climate Change Will Stir 'Unimaginable' Refugee Crisis, Says Military 333
Facebook Commits Millions to Help Silicon Valley's Have-Nots 58
Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images 103
UK Homes Lose Internet Access After Cyber-Attack 33
US Economy Added 178,000 Jobs in November; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.6 Percent 533
Russian Supply Rocket Malfunctions, Breaks Up Over Siberia En Route To ISS 135
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Earthquake-Sensing Mobile App 'MyShake' Detects Over 200 Earthquakes Large and Small 25
South Korea To Kill the Coin in Path Towards 'Cashless Society' 258
Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump 184
Cyanogen Inc and CyanogenMod Creator Steve Kondik Part Ways 75
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon 71
Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' 110
Plex Media Player Now Doesn't Require a Subscription; Pass Users Get Kodi Plug-in 84
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is Being Emergency Evacuated From the South Pole 192
Fitbit Is Buying Smartwatch Maker Pebble For Around $40 Million, Says Report 94
FDA Approves Large Clinical Trial For Ecstasy As Relief For PTSD Patients 151
ULA Unveils Website That Lets You Price Out a Rocket 'Like Building a Car' 58
Google Earth's Timelapses Offer a 32-Year Look At Earth's Changing Surface 85
British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear 124
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users 55
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' 233
No Man's Sky's Steam Page Didn't Mislead Gamers, Rules UK Ad Watchdog 76
FBI To Gain Expanded Hacking Powers as Senate Effort To Block Fails 153
Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans 555
Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV 220
Netflix Finally Gets Download Option 105
Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested 244
San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space 242
India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant 177
Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability 30
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
Google Successfully Uses Machine Learning To Detect Diabetic Retinopathy 30
The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump 590
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] 394
Russia Falls Behind In Annual Space Launches For First Time Ever 93
This Cyber Monday Was the Biggest Online Shopping Day, Ever 56
CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat 62
Spinal Fluid Changes In Space May Impair Astronauts' Vision, Study Finds 77
Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds 256
NASA X-Ray Tech Could Enable Superfast Communication In Deep Space 58
Great Barrier Reef Has Worst Coral Die-Off Ever, Report Finds 235
Japan Fukushima Nuclear Plant 'Clean-Up Costs Double,' Approaching $200 Billion 302
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries 156
Morgan Stanley: Pixel Phone Will Generate Google Almost $4 Billion In Revenue Next Year 66
'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away 147
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels 80
EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline 351
Fearing Tighter US Visa Regime, Indian IT Firms Rush To Hire 184
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways 178
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? 400
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse 165
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump 1430
Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller 101
Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda 89
Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases 66
Open-Source Hardware Makers Unite To Start Certifying Products 57
Science Journals Caught Publishing Fake Research For Cash 137
False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads 158
O'Reilly Discounts Every eBook By 50% 47
Has The 'Hour of Code' Turned Into a Giant Corporate Infomercial? 88
Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech 434
An Underground Ice Deposit On Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico 113
6 Major Countries Have Recently Announced Plans To Phase-Out All Coal-Fired Power Plants 275
Consumer Reports: Tesla's Model X Is 'Fast and Flawed' 146
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case 73
For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds 87
Police in UK Warn About Dating Apps After Serial Killer Conviction 40
UK Revises Safe Flying Drone Code 32
Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk 736
Apple Releases macOS 10.12 Sierra Open Source Darwin Code 134
Russian Hacker Conspiracy Theory is Weak, But the Case For Paper Ballots is Strong 286
Amazon Makes Good On Its Promise To Delete 'Incentivized' Reviews 106
Personal Data For More Than 130,000 Sailors Hacked: U.S. Navy 57
Google Sends State-Sponsored Hack Warnings To Journalists and Professors 69
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
ESA: European Mars Lander Crash Caused By 1-Second Glitch 110
Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' 667
Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] 1321
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language 69
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
Samsung Group Offices Raided By Korean Prosecutors 20
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
China Breaks Patent Application Record 28
UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts 135
US Navy's High-Tech Ship Loses Power In Panama Canal 143
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity 559
Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze 53
Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds 385
Tor-Enabled Smartphone Is Antidote To Google 'Hostility' Over Android, Says Developer 39
Surveillance Firm 'Geofeedia' Cuts Half of Staff After Losing Access To Twitter, Facebook 31
Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots 32
Fedora 25 Now Available -- Makes It Easier To Switch From Windows 10 Or Mac 154
Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News 403
ATM Hacks in 'More Than a Dozen' European Countries in 2016 22
Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency 600
Amazon Wants To Include Live Sports as Part of Prime Membership 77
Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? 280
'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior 74
US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds 105
Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year 313
US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers 59
Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team 395
Canada Plans To Phase Out Coal-Powered Electricity By 2030 147
Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot 139
Instagram Launches Disappearing Live Video and Messages 18
4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser 126
China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs 143
Google Plans To Remove 'In the News' Section From Its Desktop Search Following 'Fake News' Criticism 154
President Obama Says He Can't Pardon Snowden 534
'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' 186
Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls 109
2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition 24
One Third of California's Trees Are Dead 393
Google Opens Real-World 'Google Shops' in Canada 43
Humble Bundle Supports The EFF With A LEGO eBook Sale 17
London's Mayor Wants Volkswagen To Pay $3 Million In Lost Tolls 214
A Windows 10 Alternative: Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS Linux Distro 191
Google Bans Hundreds Of Pixel Phone Resellers From Their Google Accounts 171
Red Hat CEO Predicts Open Source Infrastructures With Proprietary Business Functionality 53
Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem 624
Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions 283
Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles 136
cURL Author Is Getting Tech Support Emails From Car Owners 141
Is Google's AI-Driven Image-Resizing Algorithm Dishonest? 79
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Will Fight Fake News -- Next To An Ad With Fake News 149
New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption 215
Privacy Group Sues The FBI, Demanding Details About Biometric Database Sharing 16
Amazon Now Sells Cars 59
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
When a City Has Gigabit Internet, Prices For Slower Speed Tiers Drop: Study 42
Antivirus Firm Kaspersky Launches Its Own Hackproof OS, Based On Microkernel 108
The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham 297
Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is 'Safer' 123
President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' 531
Data Breach at Three Mobile, Customer Details of Millions Exposed 14
Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof 428
France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 328
New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts 62
Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down 86
Mozilla Launches Firefox Focus, a Stripped-Down Private Browser For iOS 35
AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video 60
German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform 117
NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election 667
Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth 522
Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei 472
Britain Has Passed the 'Most Extreme Surveillance Law Ever Passed in a Democracy' 359
SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites 121
Pluto's 'Icy Heart' May Have Tilted the Dwarf Planet Over 52
Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat 432
Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' 805
Google Launches Earth VR For Free On HTC Vive 32
FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda 119
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 212
Office Depot Allegedly Diagnosing Computers With Nonexistent Viruses To Meet Sales Goals 161
Schneier: We Need a New Agency For IoT Security 165
Facebook Finds More Ad-Metric Errors, Vows Clarity About Fixes 11
'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV 227
Chinese Scientists Become First To Use CRISPR Gene-Editing On Humans 114
Snapchat Files For IPO 55
Comcast Takes $70 Gigabit Offer Away From Cities Near Chicago 79
Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems 89
Apple Releases $300 Book Containing 450 Photos of Apple Products 146
DJI Unveils Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire 2 Drones 20
2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says 284
Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 127
US Navy Denies Pirating Software on 550K Computers, Says It Had Bought Licenses For 38 Machines 170
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
Chemical Traces On Your Phone Reveal Your Lifestyle, Scientists Say 80
Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software 294
Apple Considering Expansion Into Wearable Glasses, Says Report 121
US Finalizes Rules That Require Quiet Hyrbid and Electric Cars To Make Noise At Low Speeds 361
Charter Customer Sues Over Hidden Fees, Claims 'Massive Billing Fraud' 96
Facebook Disputes Gizmodo Report, Says It Never Built and Withheld Any News Feed Changes Based on Their Political Impact 68
Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results 243
Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash 470
The NHS's 1.2 Million Employees Are Trapped in a 'Reply-All' Email Thread 302
China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War 742
Another Study Finds Earth's CO2 Emissions Have Flattened Over The Last Three Years 201
Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? 430
Debian GNU/Linux 9 'Stretch' Installer Gets GNU Screen, Linux Kernel 4.7 Support 58
'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 182
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback 140
US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados 90
Java's Open Sourcing Still Controversial Ten Years Later 89
President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership 355
Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? 412
Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change 345
German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers 88
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released 17
'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison 94
Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found 107
The Internet Association, Whose Members Include Amazon, Facebook and Google, Writes Open Letter To Donald Trump 19
A Computer Program Has Ranked the Most Influential Brain Scientists of the Modern Era 39
Atlas V Rocket Launches Sharp-Eyed Earth-Observing Satellite 19
Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team 820
Earth's Plants Are Countering Some of the Effects of Climate Change 186
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them 176
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks 108
University Bans BitTorrent To Stop Flood of Infringement Notices 123
AT&T Will Offer a Lower-Quality Video Option But Without a Discount 48
China Launches World's First Pulsar Navigation Satellite 46
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition 1066
November 14th Supermoon Will Be Biggest In 68 Years 53
Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World 259
How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality 235
Instagram Brings Mentions, Links, and Boomerang To Stories 4
Google Says There Are Now 2 Billion Active Chrome Installs 48
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win 160
Facebook on its Fake News Problem: 'There's So Much More We Need To Do' 284
Just in Time for Daydream, YouTube Launches Its Standalone VR App 18
Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election 469
iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes 22
Increased Smartphone Screen-Time Is Associated With Lower Sleep Quality, Says Study 61
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win 1368
New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year 209
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Samsung's Latest Patent Is a Foldable Phone 31
Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? 1081
Open Source Pioneer Munich Debates Report That Suggests Abandoning Linux for Windows 10 176
General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants 320
Donald Trump Wins US Presidency 2837
Google Searches For 'President Impeachment', 'Canada Immigration', 'Nuclear Shelter' Skyrocket After Trump's Victory 332
Bitcoin Boosted by Safe-Haven Demand After Trump Victory 45
What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science 382
Apple Now Sells Refurbished iPhones 26
New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter 164
Sea Levels Will Rise Faster Than Ever If Earth's Warming Continues, Says Study 140

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