Slashdot Stories for 2014

India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket 56
Cause and Effect: How a Revolutionary New Statistical Test Can Tease Them Apart 137
Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? 144
After 40 Years As a Double Amputee, Man Gains Two Bionic Arms 66
Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have 89
Hackers Compromise ICANN, Access Zone File Data System 110
Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' 580
To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games 160
Who's To Blame For Rules That Block Tesla Sales In Most US States? 141
Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC 68
US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking 182
Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget 21
RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft 110
Terrestrial Gamma Ray Bursts Very Common 70
Over 9,000 PCs In Australia Infected By TorrentLocker Ransomware 83
Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites 396
Startup Magic Leap Hires Sci-Fi Writer Neal Stephenson As Chief Futurist 48
Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance 45
Google Strikes Deal With Verizon To Reduce Patent Troll Suits 20
Top Five Theaters Won't Show "The Interview" Sony Cancels Release 589
NASA Tests Feasibility of 3D Printing on the Moon and Other Planets 58
Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress 31
Research Highlights How AI Sees and How It Knows What It's Looking At 130
Manufacturer's Backdoor Found On Popular Chinese Android Smartphone 82
What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? 217
The Joys and Hype of Hadoop 55
In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations 435
Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland 177
Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off 173
New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long 116
Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS 388
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration 200
New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible 208
A New Law For Superconductors 53
SpaceX To Attempt Falcon 9 Landing On Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship 81
Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates 688
Spacecraft Spots Probable Waves On Titan's Seas 82
Researchers Accidentally Discover How To Turn Off Skin Aging Gene 175
ODF Support In Google Drive 40
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
A Domain Registrar Is Starting a Fiber ISP To Compete With Comcast 65
11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought 330
Brain Stimulation For Entertainment? 88
Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor 170
Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End 156
Attorney Yasir Billoo Explains NDA Law (Video) 38
Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars 68
Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? 280
In IT, Beware of Fad Versus Functional 153
Apple Wins iTunes DRM Case 191
Uber Limits 'God View' To Improve Rider Privacy 76
Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies 448
Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection 42
Microsoft Gets Industry Support Against US Search Of Data In Ireland 137
Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance 440
Godot Engine Reaches 1.0, First Stable Release 54
Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator 99
Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography 191
NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower 200
The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax 100
Webcast Funerals Growing More Popular 70
BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion 39
Mysterious Martian Gouges Carved By Sand-surfing Dry Ice 26
Telepresence Store Staffed Remotely Using Robots 52
Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use 187
Snowden Leaks Prompt Internet Users Worldwide To Protect Their Data 53
Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak 150
Jaguar and Land Rover Just Created Transparent Pillars For Cars 191
The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid 302
The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain 115
Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do 222
Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents 250
Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents 611
Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny 138
Interviews: Ask Jonty Hurwitz About Art and Engineering 31
The GPLv2 Goes To Court 173
Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor 114
Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks 74
How Birds Lost Their Teeth 138
Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? 190
Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future 156
Sir Richard Branson Quietly Shelves Virgin Submarine Plan 47
Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services 281
Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents 130
SpaceX Set To Create 300 New US Jobs and Expand Facilities 43
9th Circuit Will Revisit "Innocence of Muslims" Takedown Order 158
How Identifiable Are You On the Web? 160
Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney 880
Microsoft To Open Source Cloud Framework Behind Halo 4 Services 50
Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain 191
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? 259
French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber 295
Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware 230
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber 38
Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever 187
Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand 433
Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices 307
Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine 266
Facebook Drops Bing Search Results 33
Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display 80
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse 401
Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" 299
Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS 62
California's Hydrogen Highway Adds Another Station 87
Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems 122
No More Foamy Beer, Thanks To Magnets 130
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors 161
Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX 168
Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive 219
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site 465
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 75
Apple Antitrust Case Finds New Consumer Plaintiff 39
Deflating Claims That ESA Craft Has Spotted Dark Matter 85
Doctors Replace Patient's Thoracic Vertebrae With 3D-Printed Replica 55
Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source 55
Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die 269
Tour the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum - Part Two (Video) 14
'Revolving Door' Spins Between AT&T, Government 61
Hollywood's Secret War With Google 176
BGP Hijacking Continues, Despite the Ability To Prevent It 57
IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay 116
Possible Dark Matter Signal Spotted 66
2014 Geek Gift Guide 113
Is Enterprise IT More Difficult To Manage Now Than Ever? 241
3D Printer Owner's Network Puts Together Buyer's Guide 62
Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0 81
Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK 68
Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? 1051
Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX 233
Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them 515
Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia 157
LG To Show Off New 55-Inch 8K Display at CES 179
Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts 134
"Lax" Crossdomain Policy Puts Yahoo Mail At Risk 50
New Compilation of Banned Chinese Search-Terms Reveals Curiosities 43
Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times 113
Lenovo Recalls LS-15 Power Cords 71
Sony Reportedly Is Using Cyber-Attacks To Keep Leaked Files From Spreading 190
Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself 171
Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary? 184
"Fat-Burning Pill" Inches Closer To Reality 153
Bank Security Software EULA Allows Spying On Users 135
How Your In-Store Shopping Affects the Ads You See On Facebook 69
Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications 379
U.S. Passenger Vehicle Fleet Dirtier After 2008 Recession 176
Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability 270
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin 416
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Study of Massive Preprint Archive Hints At the Geography of Plagiarism 53
The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait 567
Army Building an Airport Just For Drones 48
Microsoft Quietly Starts Accepting Bitcoin As Payment Method 107
Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th 183
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: The Science of Misheard Song Lyrics 244
FreeNAS 9.3 Released 115
California Sues Uber Over Practices 139
Rosetta Results: Comets "Did Not Bring Water To Earth" 135
Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG 377
Apple, IBM Partnership Yields First Results: 10 Mobile Apps 53
Report: Big Issues Remain Before Drones Can Safely Access National Airspace 129
Why Open Source Matters For Sensitive Email 73
Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight 100
Court Bans Sale of Xiaomi Smartphones In India 40
NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget 121
Liquid Cooling On the Rise As Data Centers Crunch Bigger Data 25
Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order 222
US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat 225
BitTorrent Launches Project Maelstrom, the First Torrent-Based Browser 67
Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion 190
LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings 178
James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him 235
A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals 100
An Algorithm To Prevent Twitter Hashtag Degeneration 162
Buy the best PC laptop: 5 gotchas to avoid
AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us 417
Apple DRM Lawsuit Loses Last Plaintiff, but Judge Rules Against Dismissal 71
Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down 251
Photoswitch Therapy Restores Vision To Blind Lab Animals 17
Robots Modeled On Ancient Fish Help Researchers Study Origins of Extinct Species 29
Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend 24
$35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O 140
Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans 209
New Destover Malware Signed By Stolen Sony Certificate 80
AMD Offers a Performance Boost, Over 20 New Features With Catalyst Omega Drivers 73
How to annotate your documents with Mail's Markup feature
NetHack: Still One of the Greatest Games Ever Written 186
Titan's Dunes Took Tens of Thousands of Years To Form 12
Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane 329
Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots 291
Monochromatic Light As a Species-selective Insecticide 44
Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools 105
Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables 280
Ubuntu Gets Container-Friendly "Snappy" Core 149
Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking 192
Fedora 21 Released 106
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again 184
Tour the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum (Video) 19
CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations 772
Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service 59
High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride 80
Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 172
Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' 415
Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain 280
Material Possiblities: A Flying Drone Built From Fungus 52
Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices 125
Berkeley Lab Builds World Record Tabletop-Size Particle Accelerator 90
AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads 285
Stealthy Linux Trojan May Have Infected Victims For Years 129
How Relevant is C in 2014? 641
POODLE Flaw Returns, This Time Hitting TLS Protocol 54
2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past 107
Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality 127
Bluetooth Gains Direct Internet Access, Security Enhancements 47
China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability 86
Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? 317
The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons 205
Asteroid Impacts May Have Formed Life's Building Blocks 46
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
The Rise of the Global Surveillance Profiteers 33
Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software 268
Linux 3.18 Released, Lockup Bug Still Present 106
FISA Court Extends Section 215 Bulk Surveillance For 90 Days 83
Book Review: Spam Nation 82
Curiosity's Mars Crater Was Once a Vast Lake 42
Interviews: Rachel Sussman Answers Your Questions 24
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested 127
French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus 699
Robot speeds up mosaic artwork production
Civil Case Uses Fitbit Data To Disprove Insurance Fraud 99
Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act 129
Road to DARPA's Robotics Finals: Episode 5
Sony Hacks Continue: PlayStation Hit By Lizard Squad Attack 170
Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced 398
Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape 180
Ralph H. Baer, a Father of Video Gaming, Dies At 92 47
Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone 325
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot 54
North Korea Denies Involvement In "Righteous" Sony Hack 85
How One Man Changed the Ecology of the Great Lakes With Salmon 118
Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened 137
Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past 110
Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter 46
Cisco Slaps Arista Networks With Suit For "Brazen" Patent Infringement 96
James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million 201
Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media 47

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