Slashdot Stories for 2015

Volvo Wants To Use Holograms To Sell Cars 1
Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border 600
Disney IT Workers Prepare To Sue Over Foreign Replacements 262
Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email 328
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
Gene Drive Turns Mosquitoes Into Malaria Fighters 69
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism 75
Cuban Talks Trash At Intel Extreme Masters, Drops $30K of F-Bombs For Charity 53
Patreon Users Threatened By Ashley Madison Scammers 76
Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use 152
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
Can Full-Time Tech Workers Survive the Gig Economy? 169
FAA To Drone Owners: Get Ready To Register To Fly 195
NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines 70
Dell Accused of Installing 'Superfish-Like' Rogue Certificates On Laptops 92
Review: Apple's New IPad Pro
"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages 818
What the Sony Hack Looked Like To Employees 51
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? 508
Sabotage Blacks Out Millions In Crimea 156
Stack Overflow and the Zeitgeist of Computer Programming 171
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 108
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs 195
Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms 313
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
How To Buy a Productivity Tablet
Drone Buying Guide 2015
Awesome Gift Ideas For Android Users
How Close Are We To a Mars Mission? 173
The Best Gifts For Creating a Smart Home
How To Pick the Best IPad
Telemedicine: The State of Telepresence In Healthcare 34
CIOs Spend a Third of Their Time On Security 110
Intel Broadwell-E, Apollo Lake, and Kaby Lake Details Emerge In Leaked Roadmap 117
The Moon's Two Sides Look So Different Thanks To 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Physics 96
Pesticides Turn Bumblebees Into Poor Pollinators 93
20 Years of GIMP 352
George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" 424
The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away 193
Amazon Screenplay-Writing Software Submits Work To Amazon Studios 33
Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form 49
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History 119
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
Zuckerberg To Take 2 Months Paternity Leave To Give His Kid a Better Outcome 164
A Post-Antibiotic Future Is Looming 137
Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox 316
New Spectroscope Perfect For Asteroid Mining, Planetary Research 56
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Netflix Remaking Lost In Space 169
Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue 118
MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback 53
Ask Slashdot: Xbox One Or PlayStation 4? 375
Satellite Wars 98
Now We Know Why the Hobbit Movies Were So Awful 175
Sued Freelancer Allegedly Turns Over Contractee Source Code In Settlement 130
And the Pulitzer Prize For SQL Reporting Goes To... 27
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name 462
Researchers Create Plant-Circuit Hybrid 39
TrueCrypt Safer Than Previously Thought 42
Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi Discloses Customer Names and Addresses 49
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers 48
Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks 486
600,000 Arris Cable Modems Have 'Backdoors In Backdoors,' Researcher Claims 76
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! 249
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission To International Space Station 69
Meet Mårten Mickos, Serial Open Source CEO (Video) 23
Hands-On With the Voltera V-One PCB Printer 37
Tesla To Voluntarily Recall Every Model S Because One Seat Belt Came Apart 207
Coinbase Issues Bitcoin-Based Debit Card 52
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website 18
Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring 46
You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems 143
File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program 93
First Images Ever Taken of a Planet Being Formed, 450 Light-Years From Earth 36
Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 151
TGV Accident Caused By Excessive Speed 96
Nation-backed Hackers Using Evercookie and Web Analytics To Profile Targets 47
Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling 181
Exploit Vendor Publishes Prices For Zero-Day Vulnerabilities 21
5 Awesome High-tech Toys Your Kids Will Love
French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned 193
EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack 275
FliteTest Interviews FPV's Top Pilots
The Information Theory of Life 90
FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling 514
ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon 330
EFF launches Site To Track Censored Content On Social Media 39
Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format 206
Silent Ear and Tongue-Tracking Tech Can Control Wearables 10
YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse 56
Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? 192
Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops 93
NASA Selects Universities To Develop Humanoid Robot Astronauts 21
ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks 145
Survey: Tech Pros Ignoring Work-Life Balance Is a Myth 242
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
Volvo Unveils Autonomous Concept Car, WIth Retracting Wheel, 25" Display 154
Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home 222
New Anti-Piracy Law In Australia Already Being Abused 73
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X, Fastest GPU Under $250 110
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks 337
Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine 110
The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital 399
UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service 91
Citrix Spinning Off GoTo Collaboration Business, Laying Off 1,000 People 43
MIT Helping NASA Build Valkyrie Robots For Space Missions 35
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Scientists Grow Working Vocal Cord Tissue In the Lab 25
Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal 210
Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS 204
Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction 211
How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" 387
Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation 106
Facebook Can Block Content Without Explanation, Says US Court 147
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
Interviews: Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Your Questions 42
Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses 211
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji 151
Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code 160
First Liquid-Cooling Laser Could Advance Biological Research 55
Star Wars Battlefront Released 126
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years 109
AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs 305
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
Terrorism Case Challenges FISA Spying 108
The Best High-tech Music Gadgets For the Holidays
The Best High-tech Music Gadgets For the Holidays
Drone Makers Add Geofencing To Keep Drones Out of Restricted Airspace 91
Adding Eye Control To Wheelchairs for Quadriplegics 15
7 Wireless Charging Solutions
Python Is On the Rise, While PHP Falls 232
The Next Gold Rush Will Be 5,000 Feet Under the Sea, With Robot Drones 129
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
Tape Disintegration Threatens Historical Records, But Chemistry Can Help 76
Google+ Redesigned 91
Daimler Builds Massive Industrial Energy Storage Systems From Used EV Batteries 73
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy 80
Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? 291
Inside the Mission To Europa 106
Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day 320
Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches 60
Microsoft's Plan To Port Android Apps To Windows Proves Too Complex 131
Fire Takes Azerbaijan Offline 57
Being Effective and Having Fun at Your Company's Trade Show Booth (video) 20
Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? 168
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? 371
This October Was the Hottest Ever Measured 369
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 38
Journalist: NASA Administrator Has Short Memory on Changing Space Policy 87
Mr. Steele: Masters of Freestyle Finalist
Final Glide AUS: Masters of Freestyle Finalist
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
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Intel Launches 72-Core Knight's Landing Xeon Phi Supercomputer Chip 179
Value of University Degree Continues To Decline 393
How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds 67
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive 381
Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector 85
World's First "Porous Liquid" Could Be Used For CO2 Sequestration 91
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet 184
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Performance Shines For GPU Computing 22
Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Comes To VR Through Partnership With AltspaceVR 40
737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet 366
Leaked Documents Confirm Polygraph Operators Can't Detect Countermeasures 125
'Shrinking Bull's-eye' Algorithm Speeds Up Complex Modeling From Days To Hours 48
Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad 337
ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy 175
Social Media and the Age of Microcomplaints 119
China To Spend $47 Billion In Bid To Become 3rd-Largest Global Chip Manufacturer 53
Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' 519
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
Chinese Researchers Reveal Active Stealthy Material 138
7 Wireless Charging Solutions
Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support 67
Experimental Drug Targeting Alzheimer's Disease Shows Anti-Aging Effects 101
Averaging Inanimate Objects Together Produces a Very Human Face 103
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488
The Intel 4004 Microprocessor Turns 44 60
Microsoft Kills Off Zune Music Service 66
Why Free Services From Telecoms Can Be a Problem On the Internet 89
Spaghetti Strainer Helmet Driver's License Photo Approved On Religious Grounds 518
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Intel Flagship Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E To Offer 10-Cores, 20-Threads, 25MB L3 167
GPS Always Overestimates Distances 131
Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware 100
'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday 146
Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon 152
Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices 75
Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 202
An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs 75
Chrome V8 JavaScript Exploit Leaves All Android Devices Ripe For Attack 107
Experiment On Public Pre-reviewing and Discussion of Workshop Paper Submissions 41
Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? 464
In France, TGV Test Train Catches Fire, Derails, Killing 10 129
Neurons Can Be Changed From One Type To Another, Communication Paths Rewired 31
Dubai Buys Commercial Jetpacks For Firefighters 91
Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games 34
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 728
Freeciv Founded 20 Years Ago Today 37
Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 61
Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit 15
Earth May Have Kept Its Own Water Rather Than Getting It From Asteroids 45
Team Flite Test's Specialized Drones
Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices 223
BadBarcode Attack Forces Host System To Carry Out Commands 79
Lunar Scientist Proposes Dozens of Impact Probes To Map Moon's Water 35
Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket 199
Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 181
Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages 965
Star Trek: Renegades Working On Episodes 2 and 3 35
Space Exploration Politics -- and an Explanation of the Apollo Flag 'Mystery' (Video) 39
Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency 161
Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? 352
Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? 156
SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows 184
Hands On: Ricoh Theta S
Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption 73
Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking 137
Windows 3.1 Glitch Causes Problems At French Airport -- Wait, 3.1? 406
Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92 78
UK May Blacklist Homeopathy 287
It's Way Too Easy To Hack the Hospital 116
Quantum Dots Made From Fool's Gold Boost Battery Performance 18
Ask Slashdot: What's Out There For Poor Vision? 197
Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs 291
Mac App Store Apps 'Damaged' Following Security Certificate Bug 66
Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech 196
Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket 350
Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women 214
Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players 262
Hacked Amazon Echo Controls a Wheelchair 23
PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query 83
Apple Apparently Planning Mobile Peer-To-Peer Payment Service 69
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? 400
Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes 267
New Android Phones Hijackable With Chrome Exploit 45
Ask Slashdot: Automated Verification For Uploaded Files? 74
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