Index Stories for 2016

T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says 77
Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week 188
Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S8 Flagship Smartphone Won't Have a Headphone Jack: Report 360
YouTube Pays Music Industry $1 Billion From Ads 76
Supreme Court Rules For Samsung in Smartphone Fight With Apple 100
Supreme Court Considers When US Patent Violations Are 'Induced' Abroad 31
Google Says It Is About To Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy 176
HP Shutting Down Default FTP, Telnet Access To Network Printers 83
China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency 416
Netflix Says People Watch Same Amount of Movies Regardless of Perceived Quality or Depth 162
Apple, Which Doesn't Reveal Watch Sales Data, Says Watch Sales Are Great 112
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' 113
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home 101
Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor 789
Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1 75
Google Preparing 'Invisible ReCAPTCHA' System For No User Interaction 57
Panasonic Announces 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio LCD Panel To Rival OLED 103
Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire 289
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Dailymotion Hack Exposes Millions of Accounts 23
Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers 158
Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant 541
Most DVR Owners Are Recording Live Sports, Survey Says 137
Apple Says It Is Working On Self-Driving Cars 133
Google's DeepMind is Opening Up Its Flagship Platform To AI Researchers Outside the Company 22
Netflix Keeping Bandwidth Usage Low By Encoding Its Video With VP9 and H.264/AVC Codecs 76
New Google Trusted Contacts Service Shares User Location In Real Time 89
Amazon Unveils 'Self-driving' Brick-and-Mortar Convenience Store 123
Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature 59
Embedding Isn't Copyright Infringement, Says Italian Court 25
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors 368
Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes 56
Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? 381
Does Windows 10's Data Collection Trade Privacy For Microsoft's Security? 181
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' BETA Ubuntu-based Operating System Now Available For Download 137
Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images 47
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
How Microsoft Lost In Court Over Windows 10 Upgrades 121
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis 119
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
Crooks Need Just Six Seconds To Guess A Credit Card Number 110
Why MakerBot Didn't Kickstart A 3D Printing Revolution 274
Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 338
iOS's 'Activation Lock' For Stolen iPads And iPhones Can Be Easily Bypassed 54
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Laptop? 288
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
Our Brains Use Binary Logic, Say Neuroscientists 69
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
VM-Neutral Node.js API Unveiled, As NodeSource Collaborates With Microsoft, Mozilla, Intel and IBM 28
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251
China's New 'Social Credit Score' Law Means Full Access To Customer Data 83
Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default 98
Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law 137
Perl Advent Calendar Enters Its 17th Year 37
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg 119
Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars 67
Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 243
Nikola Motor Company Reveals Hydrogen Fuel Cell Truck With Range of 1,200 Miles 106
The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 243
Hackers Steal $31 Million at Russia's Central Bank 78
Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead 65
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
Lawyer Sues 20-Year-Old Student Who Gave a Bad Yelp Review, Loses Badly 90
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
Free TV-Show Streaming Hurts Online Sales, Research Finds 67
Fake Apple Chargers Fail Safety Tests 121
Russia Says Foreign Spies Plan Cyber Attack On Banking System 88
Facebook Knows What You're Streaming 100
Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images 103
UK Homes Lose Internet Access After Cyber-Attack 33
Four New Elements Finally Get Their Official Names, Added To Periodic Table 102
US Economy Added 178,000 Jobs in November; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.6 Percent 533
Multiple Vulnerabilities In AirDroid Opens At Least 10 Million Android Users To MITM Attacks, Hijackings 30
China Is Censoring People's Chats Without Them Even Knowing About It 76
Erich Bloch, Who Helped Develop IBM Mainframe, Dies At 91 40
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
Nestle Discovers 'Breakthrough' Method To Cut Sugar In Chocolate By 40% Without Affecting Taste 328
Apple Will Use Drones To Improve the Quality of Apple Maps 44
'Fatal' Flaws Found in Medical Implant Software 38
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
Motorola Has No Plans For a New Smartwatch 38
Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users 203
Facebook Developing AI To Flag Offensive Live Videos 104
Microsoft Says Summer's Windows 10 Upgrade Fit For Business 119
UK ISPs To Start Sending 'Piracy Alerts' Soon 71
Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' 110
AngelList Acquires Product Hunt 25
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
Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time 179
Nokia Dials Back Time To Sell Mobile Phones Again 128
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
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When You're Not Using the App, Here's Why 131
Wielding Their Windows Phones, Microsoft Shareholders Grill CEO Satya Nadella On Device Strategy 157
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
PC Market Shows Signs of Recovery 113
SourceForge Introduces HTTPS Support For Project Websites 44
More Than 1 Million Android Devices Rooted By Gooligan Malware 42
Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV 220
Facebook Cuts Off Competitor Prisma's API Access 65
China Pilots a System That Rates Citizens on 'Social Credit Score' To Determine Eligibility For Jobs, Travel 204
Netflix Finally Gets Download Option 105
GoPro Slashes 15% of Workforce, Shuts Down Entertainment Division 94
New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain 560
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
Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds 228
Holding Shift + F10 During Windows 10 Updates Opens Root CLI, Bypasses BitLocker 138
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
Europe Is Getting a Network of 'Ultra-Fast, High-Powered' EV Chargers 72
Microsoft Brings Collaborative Editing To PowerPoint On Desktop 38
Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' 98
The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump 590
Boot Camp Might Damage Speakers on 2016 MacBook Pro 116
Samsung Electronics Considers Split as Investor Pressure Builds 20
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] 394
It's Not Just You, iCloud Calendar Spam is On the Rise 28
Russia Falls Behind In Annual Space Launches For First Time Ever 93
Uber Drivers Demand Higher Pay in Nationwide Protest 306
This Cyber Monday Was the Biggest Online Shopping Day, Ever 56
Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note 392
Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen 84
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
Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year 68
Some MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Mini Models Will Become Obsolete Next Month, Lose Apple Repair Support 142
Microsoft Confirms Its Chinese-Language Chatbot Filters Certain Topics 19
Amazon and eBay Sellers' VAT Fraud Rife Despite Crackdown 81
Fearing Tighter US Visa Regime, Indian IT Firms Rush To Hire 184
Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 403
Microsoft Update Servers Left All Azure RHEL Instances Hackable 35
Apple's Next iPhone Could Have a Curved Screen, Says WSJ 155
Amazon Puts New Limit On Customer Reviews: No More Than 5 a Week Except For Verified Purchases 95
Buying Stuff On Your Phone Still Sucks 102
The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams 117
Deutsche Telekom Says 900,000 Fixed-Line Customers Suffer Outages 27
iOS 10.1.1 Is Causing Battery Issues For Many iPhone Users 91
Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop 177
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? 332
Ron Glass, Firefly's Shepherd Book, Has Died 67
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead 145
You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots 62
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Real-World Tests on Ohio's Highways 178
Sugar-Free Products Might Actually Stop Us From Getting Slimmer 172
Researchers Successfully Achieve Suspended Animation With Mouse Embryos 28
Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System 141
'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update 112
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? 400
Brain Cancer Patients Live Longer By Sending Electric Fields Through Their Heads 74
Samsung Places A Big Bet on Quantum-Dot TV, Acquires QD Vision 46
New 'Doom 3' Mod Successfully Ports It Into Virtual Reality 42
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold 193
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
Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button 46
Fidel Castro Is Dead 279
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
Apple Is Working With LG On Next-Gen 3D Camera For 2017 iPhone, Says Report 29
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
Microsoft Is Working On a New Design Language For Windows 10 Codenamed Project NEON 66
Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say 272
Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts 36
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case 73
Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name 102
Uber Is About to Face a Landmark Battle in Europe 106
Toyota's Battery 'Breakthrough' Can Lead To More Range, Longer Life 29
Japan Eyes World's Fastest-Known Supercomputer, To Spend Over $150M On It 35
$1 Billion Getty Images Public Domain Photograph Dispute is Over 99
For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds 87
Microsoft Shares Windows 10 Telemetry Data With Third Parties 175
VLC Media Player Previews 360-degree Video Support 17
Police in UK Warn About Dating Apps After Serial Killer Conviction 40
UK Revises Safe Flying Drone Code 32
IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail 60
China Travel Firm Ctrip To Buy Skyscanner For $2.5 Billion 5
Google's DeepMind Made an AI Watch Close To 5000 Videos So That It Surpasses Humans in Lip-Reading 80
Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car 118
Virtual Reality is Pushing Gaming Into Another 'Golden Age': Xbox Co-founder 114
Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? 278
Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk 736
Finland Set To Become First Country To Ban Coal Use For Energy 249
Faraday Future's Factory Construction Paused; Shipping Timelines at Risk 25
Microsoft Set To Win EU Approval for LinkedIn Buy 24
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
Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey 254
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
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230

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