Technology Stories for 2019

SpaceX Sends Dragon Soaring To the ISS 31
The One-Traffic-Light Town With Some of the Fastest Internet in the US 95
World's Most-Isolated City Lures NASA Talent in Hunt for Resources Tech 17
FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time 54
Even 50-Year-Old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming 407
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765 Chip Could Usher In the First Affordable 5G Phones 39
New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies 37
TikTok's Parent Company Sued For Collecting Data On Kids 23
Ford Will Turn McDonald's Used Coffee Bean Husks Into Car Parts 47
Apple's Activation Lock Will Make It Very Difficult To Refurbish Macs 178
Google Halts Political Ads In Singapore As Election Looms 12
Study That Argued EVs Aren't Cleaner Gets an Update 86
Google Fiber Eliminates 100Mbps Plan For New Customers 52
The Curse of Outdated DRM Claims Another Vicim, 'Tron: Evolution' 162
Hyperscale Data Center Spending Hits Record $31B In Q3 4
Plex Launches Free, Ad-Supported Video Service in 200-Plus Countries, Territories 35
He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk In North Korea. The US Arrested Him. 244
Brother of Drug Lord Pablo Escobar Launches 'Unbreakable' Foldable Smartphone 107
Huawei Manages To Make Smartphones Without American Chips 123
Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map 102
FBI Asked Sony For Data On User Who Used PlayStation Network To Sell Cocaine 39
A Bug In Microsoft's Login System Put Users At Risk of Account Hijacks 20
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
The Rise and Fall of the PlayStation Supercomputers 50
Amazon Unveils New Server Chip To Compete With Intel's Product 40
Google Founders Resign From Alphabet Leadership, Sundar Pichai Becomes CEO 49
Amazon Introduces Fraud Detector and CodeGuru 19
Genius Sues Google For 'No Less Than $50M', Alleging 'Anticompetitive Practices' Over Lyrics 69
Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle 79
Google Photos Adds a Chat Feature To Its App 20
Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet Are Producing Massive Waterfalls, Raising Scientists' Concerns For Sea Level Rise 176
Den Automation Raised Millions To 'Reinvent' the Light Switch. Now It's Lights Out For Startup 115
Mozilla Removes Avast and AVG Extensions From Add-on Portal Over Snooping Claims 26
elementary OS 5.1 'Hera' Linux Distro is Here 42
Firefox 71 Arrives With Better Lockwise and Tracker Blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows 53
People Worldwide Have Received More Than 26 Billion Spam Calls This Year 113
DHS Wants Airport Face Recognition Scans To Include US Citizens 104
Microsoft is Creating a New Rust-Based Programming Language For Secure Coding 69
Vulnerability In Fully Patched Android Phones Under Active Attack By Bank Thieves 98
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
Google, Facebook In EU Probe Over User Data 14
Prominent Tech Execs Sign Renewed Commitment To Paris Agreement 131
AWS Brings Quantum Computing To the Cloud 21
All New Cellphone Users In China Must Now Have Their Face Scanned 69
Portland Plans To Propose the Strictest Facial Recognition Ban in the Country 54
T-Mobile Shows Why It's Still Too Early To Buy a 5G Phone 45
iOS Apps Could Really Benefit From the Newly Proposed Security.plist Standard 13
Amazon Lets Doctors Record Your Conversations and Put Them in Your Medical Files 66
'Massive Issues' Reported For Google's Indexing of JavaScript Content 53
Should Twitter Delete the Accounts of Dead People? 113
Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10 44
Rust-Based Redox OS Is Nearly Self-Hosting After Four Years 62
The Rise and Fall of a Teenager's Massive Meme Empire 179
Facebook Bows to Singapore's 'Fake News' Law, Posts 'Correction' 37
Jimmy Wales' New Social Network Skyrockets To 345,000 Members, Will Hire Journalists 132
The Bonkers, Bristly Story of How Big Toothbrush Took Over the World 117
HSBC Swaps Paper Records For Blockchain To Track $20 Billion Worth of Assets 45
SMS Replacement is Exposing Users To Text, Call Interception Thanks To Sloppy Telecos 32
Black Friday Shoppers: Beware of Fake Five-Star Reviews 71
10 Years In, WhatsApp Still Needs True Multi-Device Support 22
Scientists Turn Undersea Fiber Optic Cables Into Seismographs 12
The Great .ORG Heist 80
Some Uber Drivers Use Bogus Identities and Shared Accounts 83
Chinese Online Streaming Service iQiyi Says AI Has Enhanced Efficiency Throughout Its Business 39
Mystery Sounds From Storms Could Help Predict Tornadoes 34
'Why I Voted To Sell .ORG' 70
Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act 16
The World May Already Have Crossed a Series of Climate Tipping Points 341
High-Paid, Well-Educated White Collar Workers Will Be Heavily Affected By AI, Says New Report 147
Dubai Is Adding Tesla Cybertrucks To Its Police Car Fleet 73
AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices 15
Cable Execs Now Falsely Claiming Cord Cutting Is Slowing Down 59
RISC-V Foundation Moving To Switzerland Over Trade Curb Fears 76
MediaTek and Intel Team Up To Bring 5G Networking To Laptops and PCs 17
Alexa's Voice Can Now Express Disappointment and Excitement 36
Democrats Propose Sweeping Online Privacy Laws 118
Go Master Lee Se-Dol Quits Because AI 'Cannot Be Defeated' 106
Researchers Train AI To Map a Person's Facial Movements To Any Target Headshot 15
Solid State Battery Breakthrough Could Double the Density of Lithium-ion Cells 107
A Firmware Update Removed the Noise-Cancelling Function From Bose's Noise-Cancelling Headphones. No Word From Bose if It Plans To Fix It 138
Consumers are Confused by 5G 150
Right-to-Repair Groups Don't Buy Apple's Answers To Congress 110
Twitter Prepares For Huge Cull of Inactive Users 47
Microsoft Starts Talking Up Its Progressive Web App Plans 27
It's Way Too Easy To Get a .gov Domain Name 42
Audi To Cut 9,500 German Jobs In Switch To Electrification 77
Facebook Was Mystery Firm Bidding Against Google To Buy Fitbit, Report Says 27
NSO Employees Take Legal Action Against Facebook For Banning Their Accounts 53
Ford Says It Has Nothing To Prove To Tesla In F-150 Vs Cybertruck Tow Battle 273
Transport Canada Official Says 737 MAX MCAS System 'Has To Go' 130
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition 68
Ask Slashdot: How Much Faster Is an ASIC Than a Programmable GPU? 63
Cows Wearing VR Headsets Might Produce Better Milk 88
Amazon To Kill AI Program That Sent Shoppers Free Items Based on Prior Purchases 28
Some Fortinet Products Shipped With Hardcoded Encryption Keys 21
Zuckerberg's Quest to Explore Future Featured Mostly White Men 217
Some HPE SSDs Fail After 3 Years and 9 Months, Company Warns 113
Google Fires 4 Workers Active In Labor Organizing 125
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
The Filmmaking Tech Behind 'The Mandalorian' Is Straight Out of the Star Wars Universe 90
US Tech Sector Skews Younger Than the Workforce As a Whole, Study Finds 118
Elon Musk Explains Why Tesla's Cybertruck Windows Smashed During Presentation 145
Google Addresses Complaints of Sub-4K Image Quality On Stadia 44
Smartphone Videos Can Now Be Analyzed To Locate a Shooter 40
AMD Launches Threadripper 3970X, 3960X and Smokes Intel's New 18-Core CPU 44
YouTube Needs To Chill With Its Annoying Premium Spam 117
Linux 5.4 Released 35
The RIPE NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses 172
Facebook's Viewpoints Research App Pays Users To Take Surveys 16
Zorin OS 15 Lite Linux Distro Can Rejuvenate Your Aging Windows PC 69
Slack's New Rich Text Editor Shows That Markdown Still Scares People 45
Uber Loses License To Operate in London, One of Its Biggest Markets 109
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Launches Plan To 'Fix' the Internet 109
Analysts, Gamers, and Blade Runner's Artistic Director React To The Look of Tesla's Cybertruck 293
Mozilla's Annual Buyer's Guide Rates Amazon and Google Security Cameras 'Very Creepy' 40
New Tracking Prevention in Microsoft's Edge Will Hit Google the Hardest 64
Tesla's Cybertruck Will Have Solar Charging Options 183
Microsoft Releases a List of Deprecated Windows 10 Features 107
Japanese Hotel Room Costs $1 a Night -- If You'll Livestream Yourself 46
Brian Kantor, Internet and AMPRNet Pioneer, WB6CYT, Dies 24
A Real-Life Tesla Study Shows Durability of EV Batteries 124
What Caused Uber's Fatal 2018 Crash? NTSB Reveals Its Findings 82
New Linux/Windows Malware Allows Arbitrary Execution of Shell Commands 80
Facebook Teams With Microsoft On Visual Studio Code's Remote Extensions 38
Volkswagen Axes All Non-Electric Racing Programs Worldwide 63
Alphabet's Loon Balloons Will Provide Internet To Remote Parts of the Amazon Next Year 20
Physicists Have Finally Seen Traces of the Long-Sought 'Axion' Particle 40
Court Rules Apple Doesn't Owe Patent Troll $503 Million 29
Why the Electric-Car Revolution May Take a Lot Longer Than Expected 254
NYC Creates a High-Level Position To Oversee Ethics In AI 58
Anonymous Hacker Gets Six Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks 76
Federal Court Approves First 'Pirate' Site Blockade In Canada 24
OnePlus Notifies Customers of Data Breach Impacting Users of Its Online Store 7
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks To GPS 33
Sacha Baron Cohen Gave the Greatest Speech on Why Social Networks Need To Be Put On Check 194
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App That Let Employees Identify People By Pointing a Phone at Them 27
1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server 17
Astronomers Detect Water Vapor Around Jupiter's Moon Europa 30
AT&T Promises Low-Band 5G for 5 Cities in Weeks, 15 by Early 2020 35
'The Ducks Have Won': French Court Says They May Keep on Quacking 124
Elon Musk Unveils 'Cybertruck' Electric Pickup Truck 509
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
Scientists Can Now Identify Someone From a Single Strand of Hair 76
Russia Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software 78
Google Is Terminating Google Cloud Print 64
Apple Pulls All Customer Reviews From Online Apple Store 25
T-Mobile Reveals Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Customers 15
Half Life Alyx Hits PC VR Headsets In March 2020 67
Google Shakes Up Its 'TGIF' -- and Ends Its Culture of Openness 102
Twitter Says It Will Let All Users Hide Replies To Tweets 49
One Reason the US Military Can't Fix Its Own Equipment 85
Google Will Pay Bug Hunters Up To $1.5M if They Can Hack Its Titan M Chip 21
Inside Apple's iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut 55
Bill Gates Says Open Research Beats Erecting Borders in AI 57
Uber Embraces Videotaping Rides, Raising Privacy Concerns 80
Ride-Hailing Apps Have Allowed More Binging and Increased Demand For Bartenders 110
Google To Limit Targeting of Political Ads 76
System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020 24
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Teach Inventing To Kids? 137
Amazon's Cloud Gaming Service Could Arrive Next Year With Twitch Integration 19
Uber To Allow Audio Recording of Rides, Aiming To Launch Feature In US 26
PayPal To Acquire Shopping and Rewards Program Honey For $4 Billion 13
Google Earth Gets Content Creation Tools For Geography-Focused Presentations 6
Ctrl-labs CEO: We'll Have Neural Interfaces In Less Than 5 Years 53
Google Wants Android To Use Regular Linux Kernel 87
EverQuest and Pantheon Developer Brad McQuaid Has Died 52
Password Data For About 2.2 Million Users of Currency, Gaming Sites Dumped Online 25
Justice Department To Abolish Movie Distribution Rules Dating To 1949 141
FCC Chairman Wants Public Auction To Repurpose Satellite Bands For 5G 65
Valve Announces Half-Life: Alyx, Its First Flagship VR Game 111
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Holographic Data Storage? 86
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Block US Companies From Storing Data In China 49
Disney+ Fans Without Answers After Thousands Hacked 46
Google Is Putting An Algorithmic Audio News Feed On Its Assistant 22
Cops Put GPS Tracker On Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft For Removing It 286
Senators Ask Zuckerberg To Explain Why Facebook Still Tracks Users' Location Even When They Have Asked it Not To 39
Google and Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw. Other Makers May Still Be Vulnerable 10
People Are Having Sex With 3D Avatars of Their Exes and Celebrities 161
Google Stadia Review: Gaming's Streaming Future Isn't Here Yet 70
Some Fitbit Users Say They're Getting Rid of the Devices Because They Don't Trust Google 64
MIT Teaches Autonomous Cars How To Deal With Selfish Drivers 117
'Royalty-Free' Music Supplied By YouTube Results In Mass Video Demonetization 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
John Legere To Step Down As T-Mobile CEO Next Year 9
Apple Announces Special App-Focused Event For December 2nd 5
Google Maps Tests a Social Networking Feature 32
The Men Who Try to Hack Tinder To Score Hotter Women 172
Microsoft Announces Plan To Support DoH In Windows 97
New York City Ride-Hailing Upstart Juno Shuts Down 15
US Firms Get 90-Day Extension To Work With Huawei On Rural Networks 37
Intel To Remove Old Drivers and BIOS Updates From Its Site 130
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
Iran Shuts Down Country's Internet In the Wake of Fuel Protests 46
Why Firefox Fights for the Future of the Web 57
Leaked Russian Interference Report Raises Questions About Brexit, UK Election Security 174
Will Electric Cars Last Longer Than Combustion-Engine Cars? 393
UK's Labor Party Promises Free Fiber Broadband For All, Paid For By Taxing Tech Companies 139
Boeing Fires Its Fuselage-Assembling Robots, Goes Back To Using Humans 100
Consumer Reports Restores 'Recommended' Ratings to Both Tesla's Model 3 and Model S 50
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results 115
Ancestry Taps AI To Sift Through Millions of Obituaries 27
Web Summit Cancels Next Year's Rise, One of Asia's Largest Tech Conferences, Over Tension in Hong Kong 14
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
Ghost Ships, Crop Circles, and Soft Gold: A GPS Mystery in Shanghai 47
Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing 31
Germany Forces Apple To Let Other Mobile Wallet Services Use iPhone's NFC Chip 56
Google Cancels Weekly All-Hands Meetings Amid Growing Workplace Tensions 57
MacBook Pro Teardown Confirms the New Keyboard Is Basically Just the Old, Good Keyboard 43
Supreme Court Will Hear Long-Running Google and Oracle Copyright Lawsuit 60
The Org That Doles Out .Org Websites Just Sold Itself To a For-Profit Company 36
Google Almost Made 100,000 Chest X-rays Public -- Until it Realized Personal Data Could Be Exposed 49
Apple To Remove Vaping Apps From Store 128
A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders For Facebook 90
Physicists Irreversibly Split Photons By Freezing Them In a Bose-Einstein Condensate 50
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network 79
SpaceX Successfully Tests Crewed Dragon Launch Abort Engines 31
AMD Launches 16-Core Ryzen 9 3950X At $750, Beating Intel's $2K 18-Core Chip 67
FCC Sued By Dozens of Cities After Voting To Kill Local Fees and Rules 106
Google's Rollout of RCS Chat for all Android Users in the US Begins Today 84
The USPTO Wants To Know if Artificial Intelligence Can Own the Content it Creates 186
Windows and Linux Get Options To Disable Intel TSX To Prevent Zombieload v2 Attacks 67
Instagram Tests Hiding Like Counts Globally 21
Apple Is Considering Bundling Digital Subscriptions as Soon as 2020 35
Public Cloud Providers' Network Performance Wildly Varies 14
Motorola Resurrects the Razr As a Foldable Android Smartphone 77
Hologram-Like Device Animates Objects Using Ultrasound Waves 53
John Carmack Stepping Down As CTO of Oculus To Work On AI 41
Apple Is Finally Willing To Make Gadgets Thicker So They Work Better 75
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
YouTube's New Kids' Content System Has Creators Scrambling 97
Stadia Launch Developer Says Game Makers Are Worried 'Google Is Just Going To Cancel It' 67
Facebook Says Government Demands For User Data Are at a Record High 31
Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon 22
Boston Dynamics CEO on the Company's Top 3 Robots, AI, and Viral Videos 6
TPM-FAIL Vulnerabilities Impact TPM Chips In Desktops, Laptops, Servers 32
Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking 91
Dutch Court Orders Facebook To Ban Celebrity Crypto Scam Ads 23
Dell Unveils Subscription Model To Counter Amazon, Microsoft 29
Are We Living In a Blade Runner World? 223
Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces a Previously Unseen Phase of Matter 42
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab 26
A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying To Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter 62
IBM's 200,000 Macs Have Made a Happier and More Productive Workforce, Study Finds 169
Tesla's European Gigafactory Will Be Built In Berlin 101
Intel Fixes a Security Flaw It Said Was Repaired 6 Months Ago 27

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