Technology Stories for 2014

How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations 148
Using OwnCloud To Integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and More In Gnome 30
A Backhanded Defense of Las Vegas' Taxi Regulation 93
Windows 10 Adds Battery Saver Feature 96
The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS 238
UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts 70
Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software 133
Google Confirms That It's Designing Kid-Friendly Versions of Its Services 52
How High-Tech Temporary Tattoos Will Hack Your Skin 57
Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox 239
Kiva Systems Co-Founder: Drone Delivery Could Be As Low As 20 Cents Per Package 92
The Fastest Camera Ever Made Captures 100 Billion Frames Per Second 122
Dragon Age: Inquisition Reviewed and Benchmarked 91
What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality 80
Pizza Hut Tests New "Subconscious Menu" That Reads Your Mind 186
Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay 73
Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware 96
IoT Is the Third Big Technology 'Wave' In the Last 50 Years, Says Harvard 196
UK Announces 'Google Tax' 602
Valve Rolls Out Game Broadcasting Service For Steam 92
Practical Magnetic Levitating Transmission Gear System Loses Its Teeth 103
You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South 327
Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile 130
Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) 37
18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices 446
Big Banks Will Vie For Your Attention With Cardless ATMs and VR 76
A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? 274
Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market 193
Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More 110
The Life of an ATLAS Physicist At CERN 34
CoreOS Announces Competitor To Docker 71
Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? 488
Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default 237
The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming 375
South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales 111
BlackBerry Clears Hurdle For Voice Crypto Acquisition 27
How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems 74
How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything 216
Intel Processor Could Be In Next-Gen Google Glass 73
Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates 525
Probe Into NSA Activity Reveals Germany Spying On Germans 83
Breath Test For Pot Being Developed At WSU 342
DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github 323
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech 436
The Driverless Future: Buses, Not Taxis 257
Graphene May Top Kevlar As a Bullet-Stopping Material 129
SKA Telescope To Offer Neighbors Cheap Broadband 63
Taxi Medallion Prices Plummet Under Pressure From Uber 329
FAA Report Says Near Collisions With Drones On the Rise 115
Hackers Breach Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator 38
New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism 62
Single Pixel Camera Takes Images Through Breast Tissue 81
Ask Slashdot: Objective C Vs. Swift For a New iOS Developer? 211
France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel 395
Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? 138
Security Experts Believe the Internet of Things Will Be Used To Kill Someone 165
Ask Slashdot: Best Drone For $100-$150? 116
Scientists Develop "Paint" To Help Cool the Planet 145
Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs 237
Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing 37
Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission 234
Google Told To Expand Right To Be Forgotten 193
Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC 313
Wikipedia's "Complicated" Relationship With Net Neutrality 134
Australia Elaborates On a New Drift Model To Find MH370 154
BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? 80
Consortium Roadmap Shows 100TB Hard Drives Possible By 2025 215
Voting Machines Malfunction: 5,000 Votes Not Counted In Kansas County 127
Jackie Chan Discs Help Boost Solar Panel Efficiency 194
Fly With the Brooklyn Aerodrome (Video) 22
Auto Industry Teams Up With Military To Stop Car Hacking 114
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run 433
NSF Commits $16M To Build Cloud-Based and Data-Intensive Supercomputers 29
New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps 90
Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines 101
How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap 126
Samsung Shows 'Eye Mouse' For People With Disabilities 17
About 40% of World Population Online, 90% of Offliners In Developing Countries 45
A Toolbox That Helps Keep You From Losing Tools (Video) 82
The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God 452
Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives 88
Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change 652
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
"Advanced Life Support" Ambulances May Lead To More Deaths 112
Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist 454
Slack Now Letting Employers Tap Workers' Private Chats 79
Here's What Your Car Could Look Like In 2030 144
How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War 117
Raspberry Pi-Powered Body Illusion Lets You Experience Parkinson's 38
Big IT Vendors Mostly Mum On Commercial Drone Plans 22
Google Chrome Will Block All NPAPI Plugins By Default In January 107
Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her 189
Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food 145
Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation 106
Ohio College Building Indoor Drone Pavilion 42
Class-Action Suit Claims Copyright Enforcement Company Made Harassing Robo-calls 67
Multiple Manufacturers Push Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, But Can They Catch Tesla? 293
Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba 455
Elon Musk Talks "X-Wing" Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones 96
Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" 376
Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones 203
DreamWorks Reveals Glimpse of "Super Cinema" Format For VR Films 39
In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars 454
How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development 92
Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected 128
Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market 93
Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Starting and Running a Software Shop? 176
Upgrading the Turing Test: Lovelace 2.0 68
Ukraine's IT Brigade Supports the Troops 140
Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer 116
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Startup Assembly Banks On Paid, Open-Source Style Development 33
Mozilla's 2013 Report: Revenue Up 1% To $314M; 90% From Google 161
The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google 334
Top NSA Official Raised Alarm About Metadata Program In 2009 110
Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More 186
Windows Kernel Version Bumped To 10.0 171
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car? 195
Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions 319
Leaked Documents Show EU Council Presidency Wants To Impair Net Neutrality 76
Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas 143
The Man Who Made Tetris 37
Google Announces Image Recognition Advance 29
Amnesty International Releases Tool To Combat Government Spyware 95
Does Being First Still Matter In America? 247
Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? 267
Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases 103
Google Maps Crunches Data, Tells You When To Drive On Thanksgiving 62
Lessons Learned From Google's Green Energy Bust 222
WhatsApp To Offer End-to-End Encryption 93
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
BitTorrent Unveils Sync 2.0 60
What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? 523
Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit 114
Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine 400
The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" 110
Nielsen Will Start Tracking Netflix and Amazon Video 55
Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications 55
Bicycle Bottle System Condenses Humidity From Air Into Drinkable Water 167
Three-Way Comparison Shows PCs Slaying Consoles In Dragon Age Inquisition 227
Halting Problem Proves That Lethal Robots Cannot Correctly Decide To Kill Humans 335
Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund 107
Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe 167
How Facebook Is Influencing Who Will Win the Next Election 72
Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet 109
City of Toronto Files Court Injunction Against Uber 169
Collin Graver and his Wooden Bicycle (Video) 71
Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features 67
Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web 212
Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Patch For Windows 178
Uber Threatens To Do 'Opposition Research' On Journalists 299
Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech 137
HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile 133
NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 106
Robots Put To Work On E-Waste 39
Toyota Names Upcoming Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car 194
Fascinating Rosetta Image Captures Philae's Comet Bounce 69
Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative" 226
What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy 144
The New-ish Technologies That Will Alter Your Career 66
Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable 150
Facebook Planning Office Version To Rival LinkedIn, Google 91
Preview Jaunt's Made-for-VR 360 Degree, 3D Short Films 26
Scientists Discover Diamond Nanothreads 79
A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body 200
Ars Dissects Android's Problems With Big Screens -- Including In Lollipop 103
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? 159
GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support 89
Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? 135
For Some Would-Be Google Glass Buyers and Devs, Delays May Mean Giving Up 154
Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides 74
3D Printed Art Smaller Than an Ant's Forehead 35
US DOE Sets Sights On 300 Petaflop Supercomputer 127
Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 340
Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph 419
New Trial Brings Skype to (Some) Browsers 55
Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality 258
The Downside to Low Gas Prices 554
Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias 77
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77
FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics 60
FreeBSD 10.1 Released 123
Maker Joe is a 'Maker' Sculptor (Video) 16
An Applied Investigation Into Graphics Card Coil Whine 111
Facebook Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries For Backup Power 41
Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button 316
81% of Tor Users Can Be De-anonymized By Analysing Router Information 136
Researchers Develop $60 Sonar Watch To Aid the Visually Impaired 30
Boeing Readies For First Ever Conjoined Satellite Launch 67
Google Wallet API For Digital Goods Will Be Retired On March 2, 2015 105
Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach 203
Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education 134
Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes 223
Sony To Take On Netflix With Playstation Vue 130
Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes 202
Google Quadruples A.M. Turing Award To $1M 42
Will Lyft and Uber's Shared-Ride Service Hurt Public Transit? 237
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
Ask Slashdot: Getting Around Terrible Geolocation? 100
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules 120
Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? 405
Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever 178
Five Years of the Go Programming Language 82
Carmakers Promise Not To Abuse Drivers' Privacy 98
Comet Probe Philae Unanchored But Stable — And Sending Back Images 132
Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising 223
How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music 105
European Parliament Considers Sharing Passenger Information By Default 58
Drone Sightings Near Other Aircraft Up Dramatically 132
Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks 219
Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills 70
AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled 308
Google's Lease of NASA Airfield Criticized By Consumer Group 138
How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth 48
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress 257
US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System 698
U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal 285
After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly 86
Researchers Demonstrate Electrically Activated Micro-Muscles 19
Groupon Backs Down On Gnome 114
ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption 245
FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 127
Microsoft Patches OLE Zero-Day Vulnerability 37
Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation 301
Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon' 181
Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech 459
AT&T Won't Do In-Flight Wi-Fi After All 35
333 Km/h Rocket-Powered Bicycle Sets New Speed Record 51
Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration 89
GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon 268
How To End Online Harassment 834
German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks 59
Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads 327
Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites 135
Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94 67
The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles 176
Apple Releases iMessage Deregistration Utility 136
NASA Tests Aircraft With Shape Shifting Wings 55
Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet 231
President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility 706
Mozilla Launches Browser Built For Developers 74
How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day 115
Google "Evicted" the Berlin Wall From Property It Bought 59
New Facebook Update Lets You Choose News Feed Content 54
The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change 163
Researchers Develop Remote-Controlled Cyber-Roaches 35
Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database 79
Researchers Simulate Monster EF5 Tornado 61
There's No Such Thing As a General-Purpose Processor 181

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