Technology Stories for 2016

Google Quietly Phases Out 'Google Cast' Branding for TVs, Speakers 9
UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts 135
Opera Browser Asked to Blacklist Pirate Sites in 'Turbo Mode' 39
Apple Captures Record 91 Percent of Global Smartphone Profits: Research 196
China's NextEV NIO EP9 Claims To Be 'World's Fastest' Electric Supercar 56
US Regulators Seek To Reduce Road Deaths With Smartphone 'Driving Mode' 291
Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law 85
WordPress Auto-Update Server Had Flaw Allowing Persistent Backdoors In Websites 33
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
Google Will Tell You How Crowded Places Are In Real Time 64
Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze 53
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
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
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
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
Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency 600
Facebook's Solar-Powered Drone Under Investigation After 'Accident' 45
Almost Half the World Will be Online by End of 2016 19
Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? 280
'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior 74
China To Build a Solar Plant In Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone 87
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
Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature 123
'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' 186
Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions 41
EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook 75
Android User Locked Out Of Google Accounts After Moving To A New City 236
Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? 230
Google Opens Real-World 'Google Shops' in Canada 43
Spammers Compromised Popular Twitter Accounts Including Viacom And Microsoft Xbox 23
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
Flying Robot Ambulance Finally Takes Its First Flight 43
Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem 624
Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles 136
Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? 241
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
Barnes & Noble Announces A New $50 Android Tablet 41
The Next iPhone Will Feature An OLED Display, Says Bloomberg 67
Intel Lays Roadmap For 100-Fold AI Performance Boost With Nervana and Knights 44
Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results 477
WHO: Zika No Longer a World Health Emergency 54
Scientists Discover Antibody That Neutralizes 98% of HIV Strains 90
Amazon Now Sells Cars 59
Major Cyberlocker EX.UA To Shut Down Amid Police Crackdown 12
Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? 315
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
Internet of Things Set To Change the Face of Dementia Care 58
Antivirus Firm Kaspersky Launches Its Own Hackproof OS, Based On Microkernel 108
Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is 'Safer' 123
Apple's Chip Choices May Leave Some iPhone Users in Slow Lane 35
LinkedIn-Russia: US Says Concerned Over Decision to Block Professional Networking Site 95
Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? 260
Data Breach at Three Mobile, Customer Details of Millions Exposed 14
Volkswagen Plans 30,000 Job Cuts Worldwide 82
Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build 280
Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof 428
iOS Devices Failed More Often Than Android Units During Q3, Says Report 95
ESA Launches Four Galileo Satellites 68
Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus 176
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
Tesla and SolarCity Merger Gets Approval From Shareholders 36
German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform 117
LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government 68
Facebook Stops Collecting WhatsApp User Data in Europe After Government Pressure 24
Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster 247
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
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
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
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint 60
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
Microsoft Offers Concessions To EU Regulators Eyeing Its $26.2 Billion LinkedIn Bid 16
Smaller ISPs Have Happier Customers, UK Based Study Says 54
Google Cloud Will Add GPU Services in Early 2017 19
Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts 978
Google Joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation 93
In 5 Years, Games Experience Will Move From Discrete To Indiscrete, Says EA CEO 182
Facebook Finds More Ad-Metric Errors, Vows Clarity About Fixes 11
'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV 227
Samsung Launches SSD 960 EVO NVMe Drive At 3GB/Sec and Under .50 Per Gigabyte 108
Richard Branson Reveals Prototype For Supersonic Passenger Aircraft 202
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
Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board 478
Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook 497
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
Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 127
The FBI Got Its Hands on Data That Twitter Wouldn't Give the CIA 76
US Navy Denies Pirating Software on 550K Computers, Says It Had Bought Licenses For 38 Machines 170
WhatsApp, Used By Over One Billion People, Gets Video Calling Feature 56
Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech 427
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
Samsung Patent Describes Holographic TV Technology 52
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
VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior 157
Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off 126
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
New MacBook Pro's Dedicated AMD Graphics Chips Are 'Significantly' Faster and Support Dual 5K Displays 170
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
Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps 60
Samsung Really, Really Wants Developers To Build Tizen Apps 122
Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash 470
SteamVR To Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within 'a Few Months' 64
Microsoft Says Windows 10 Version 1607 is The Most Secure Windows Ever 194
Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? 430
Las Vegas Gets "Kinetic Tiles" That Power Lights With Foot Traffic 86
More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden 73
Are Tesla Crashes Balanced Out By The Lives That They Save? 198
Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites 78
Microsoft Survey Shows Negative Online Interactions Affect People In Real Life 60
1 Billion Mobile Apps Exposed To Account Hijacking Through OAuth 2.0 Flaw 77
Ethernet Consortia Wants To Unlock a More Time-Sensitive Network 110
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released 17
Scammers Bite Chrome Users With Forgotten 2014 Bug 35
Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found 107
'Lurking Malice' Study Finds Malware Hiding In The Cloud 45
Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's 181
The Internet Association, Whose Members Include Amazon, Facebook and Google, Writes Open Letter To Donald Trump 19
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
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
A USB Stick Can Show HIV Test Results In Under 30 Minutes 52
Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second 54
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them 176
Researchers Set To Work On Malware-Detecting CPUs 40
IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages 68
Computer Issue Affecting Some Airlines Resolved: American Airlines 17
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks 108
AT&T Will Offer a Lower-Quality Video Option But Without a Discount 48
Tesla Tells Germany that 98% of Drivers Don't Find the Term 'Autopilot' Misleading 168
Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a 'Crazy Idea' 232
Facebook To Stop Ads that Target, Exclude Races 143
Kaspersky Lab Files Complaint Against Microsoft for Giving Unfair Advantage To Windows Defender 100
Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives 196
Dungeons & Dragons Inducted Into Toy Hall of Fame 51
China Launches World's First Pulsar Navigation Satellite 46
Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World 259
Browser Use On Mobile Devices Exceeds PC Browsing Worldwide: StatCounter 34
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
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
Facebook Achieves 20Gbps Data Rate Over MMW Radio Spectrum 61
Trump Victory Clouds Outlook for Time Warner-AT&T, Other Mergers 117
Some Within Yahoo Knew of Massive Breach in 2014 30
iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes 22
Google 'Strongly' Recommends Against Third-Party Fast Charging Technology On Android 90
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
Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves 74
Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Monkeys To Walk 50
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
Google Safe Browsing Adds 'Repeat Offender' Category 18
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
IBM's Project Intu brings Watson's Capabilities To Any Device 17
Microsoft is Adding a Virtual Trackpad To Windows 10 15
Telco CEO: Consumers Have 'Double Standards' Over Data Privacy 67
Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump 106
Google Searches For 'President Impeachment', 'Canada Immigration', 'Nuclear Shelter' Skyrocket After Trump's Victory 332
GoPro Recalls Karma Drone 41
Android's Latest Update Doesn't Patch Major Security Flaw 'Dirty COW' 23
What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science 382
Apple Now Sells Refurbished iPhones 26
Google Is Making Android Auto Available In Any Car 50
New Theory of Gravity Might Explain Dark Matter 164
Sea Levels Will Rise Faster Than Ever If Earth's Warming Continues, Says Study 140
Researchers Hack Philips Hue Smart Bulbs Using a Drone 50
Alphabet's 'Project Wing' Drone Service Nixes Starbucks Partnership 20
Ubuntu Budgie Is Now An Official Ubuntu Flavor 49
4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day 99
The First Hyperloop System Will Connect Passengers From Dubai To Abu Dhabi In Twelve Minutes 75
After Protest, Lenovo Releases BIOS For Loading Linux on Yoga 900, IdeaPad 710S 74
Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? 240
Web of Trust, Downloaded 140M Times, Pulled From Extension Stores After Revelations That It Sells Users' Data 115
Tesla Crash Won't Stop Driverless Car Progress: Renault-Nissan CEO 96
DRM is Used to Lock in, Control and Spy on Users, Says Free Software Foundation 72
Facebook Puts Deep Learning in the Palm of Your Hand 46
Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it 62
US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories 436
Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? 598
Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot 303
The Sega Genesis Is Officially Back In Production 117
Leaked NASA Paper Suggests The 'Impossible' EM Drive Really Does Work 711
Facebook Threatens LinkedIn With Job Opening Features 38
Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like 'A Grenade' 59
Uber, Lyft, Zipcar Offer Free Or Discounted Rides To Polls On Election Day 65
Gmail's iPhone App Now Has 'Undo Send' and Faster Search 29
Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads 177
New Tesla Buyers Will Have To Pay To Use Superchargers 174
Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close 174
UK Privacy Watchdog Says Facebook Agrees To Suspend Using WhatsApp Users' Data 18
DirecTV Now Leak Reveals Channels, Promotions of AT&T's Upcoming TV Service 45
Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers 243
Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing 113
Windows 10's Store Locks 'Call of Duty' Purchasers Into Windows-10-Only Battles 174
User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked 166
Mythbuntu Linux Has Been Discontinued 49
Blizzard Launches A Professional Sports League For 'Overwatch' 64
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Browse the Web Anonymously? 177
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist 134
First Color Images Produced By an Electron Microscope 46
New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed 117
Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money 142
Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco 18
Face Electrodes Let You Taste and Chew In Virtual Reality 41
Google's DeepMind AI Plans To Take On StarCraft II 75
Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote 304
Tesla Adds An All-Glass Roof Option For Its Model S 76
Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor 99
Intel Wants To Replace Fireworks With Drones 94
Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred 179

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