Hardware Stories for 2011

Hackers' Flying Drone Now Eavesdrops On GSM Phones 90
Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates 149
TN BlueCross Encrypts All Data After 57 Disks Stolen 140
Australian ALDIs Sell Conficker-Infected Hard Drives 75
3D Nausea Solved By Eye-Tracking 116
Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours 674
GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage 159
Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US 410
Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created 91
Car Window Touchscreens 125
DIY Dropbox Alternatives 188
The Uncanny Valley Explained 172
Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything 135
Sharing Electronic Schematics 70
Massive Solar Tower Planned For Arizona 407
Iran Forced To Replace Centrifuges To Stop Stuxnet 204
IBM's Morphing Touchscreen Keyboard Interface 45
Intel Details Handling Anti-Aliasing On CPUs 190
Today's Lighter TVs Mean Much Less E-Waste 197
Team Sonia Takes Prize at RoboSub 2011 22
3D Hurts Your Eyes 244
Why Waste Servers' Heat? 204
IBM Speeds Storage With Flash: 10B Files In 43 Min 76
Obama Administration Tests the Waters With Ocean Power Startups 144
Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack 272
GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon 179
Apple Adopts Bluetooth 4.0. Could It Reject NFC? 250
Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? 262
NAND Flash Better Than DRAM For PC Performance 205
Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? 397
Dismantling a Nuclear Reactor 102
Gov't Funded Electric Car Company Goes Out of Business 195
Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash 79
iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket 233
How To Jailbreak and Upgrade Old Android Phones 138
Inside Las Vegas' Biggest Data Centre 106
Stanford Students Build "JediBot" 157
Apple IOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update 121
Robot Helps Quadriplegic Scratch an Itch 27
Japanese Military Invents Tumbling, Flying Sphere 156
Apple Hopes To Drop Samsung As Chip Supplier 107
Banks' Big Upgrade: Meet Real-Time Processing 89
AMD Bulldozer Information and Benchmarks Leaked 126
Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping 354
Amazon Plans iPad Competitor (and 2 New Kindles) 145
Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 208
Researchers Build "Squishy" Memory Device 84
NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center 60
New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled 244
Samsung Chromebook Series 5 Review 136
Bitcoin Mining Tests On 16 NVIDIA and AMD GPUs 403
MIT Researchers Printing Solar Cells On Fold-able Sheets 44
Last NASA Spacewalk Marks End of Era 80
Watch Ben Heck Hack a 360 and a Sega CDX 28
Six-Drive SATA III SSD Round-Up Shows Big Gains 129
Robot Film Festival Hits New York 20
How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? 422
Wearable Computers and Portable Power 25
The Fanless Spinning Heatsink 380
Exercise Your Thumbs and Eyeballs With a Tiny Space Invaders Cabinet 24
Belgrade Hosts First Public Solar-Powered Cell Charging Station 106
Ask Slashdot: An Open Handheld Terminal For Retail Stores? 114
Ask Slashdot: Large-Scale DIY Outdoor Cooling of Cairo's Tahrir Square? 259
DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing 417
LG Cinema 3D TV Get Full HD Certification From VDE 71
In Robot Soccer, US Team RoMeLa Dominates Robocup 2011 60
Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications 321
Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors 280
Playdough For Fun and Profit 70
Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman 191
Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' 509
Novel Drive Wheel System Based On Spinning Sphere 104
Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards? 247
Nexus S To Serve As Brain For 3 Robots Aboard the ISS 82
CERN Launches Open Hardware Initiative 29
German Parliament Backs Nuclear Exit By 2022 364
Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese 588
SKA Telescope Set To Generate More Data Than Current Net 73
Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches 505
Dropbox Releases Revised TOS 90
Ask Slashdot: Open Patent Licenses? 96
NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink 182
HTC To Buy S3 Graphics From VIA 90
A Million Node Supercomputer 116
Bill Gates On Energy 474
Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers 118
How Apple Came To Control the Component Market 350
3D Chocolate Printer 91
The Uzebox: an Open Source Hardware Games Console 104
Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US 452
US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer 196
Realistic Robot Designed For Dental Students 59
China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change 464
Kinect-Based AI System Watches What You're Up To 87
Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 344
Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding 48
Natural Interaction With Flying Robots Via Kinect 28
Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License 213
Linaro 11.06 Release Brings Unity 3D Port To ARM 54
Controlling Wi-Fi Radio 'Nap-Time' Saves Power 43
First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market 259
Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau 162
Solar Impulse Airplane Makes Public Debut In Paris 26
UAV Hoisted Tower Powered By Laser Over Fiberoptic 103
Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop 120
IBM Creates Multi-Bit Phase Change Memory 82
Electronic Skin Gives Robots a Sense of Touch 22
Inkjet Printing Solar Cells 72
Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation 130
Ubuntu 11.10 & 11.04 To Support Apple AirPrint 67
Can Ubuntu Linux Consume Less Power Than Windows? 225
Silver Pen Allows For Hand-Written Circuits 161
Oracle Shuts Older Servers Out of Solaris 11 203
How Printed Circuit Boards Are Made 88
A Solar-Powered 3D Printer Prints Glass From Sand 139
France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power 308
'Digital Universe' To Add 1.8 Zettabyte In 2011 60
One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard 364
Video Games Expected To Drive 3D Mobile Phone Sales 39
Forty-Five Mile Wireless Tech For the Smart Grid 77
New Technology Turns Windows Into Solar Panels 86
DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs 324
Nailing the Cause of Recent Linux Power Issues 156
AMD Gains In the TOP500 List 77
Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant 417
Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand 114
Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash 140
New Process Allows Fuel Cells To Run On Coal 125
UK Sticks With Nuclear Power 334
Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks 439
Fingertip Mouse Fits On a Ring 45
Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flood Defenses Tested 168
Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems 220
Volkswagon Shows Off Self-Driving Auto-Pilot For Cars 140
Who Killed the Netbook? 398
There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies 482
Apple To Start Making TVs? 313
Decoding the Inscrutable Logos On Your Electronics 140
USB Foot Controls 123
New Apple Multi-Touch Patent Is Too Broad 310
Intel Aims For Exaflops Supercomputer By 2018 66
Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? 98
Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours 185
Analog Designer Bob Pease Dies In Car Crash 187
Robots Draw Faces and Doodle For London Gallery Goers 13
The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux 94
Brute-Force Password Cracking With GPUs 128
AP Investigation Concludes US Nuke Regulators Weakening Safety Rules 199
Kilobots — Cheap Swarm Robots Out of Harvard 121
Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie 147
Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' 302
IBM Did Not Invent the Personal Computer 293
The 8-Bit Computer That's Been Built By Hand 161
GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt 113
AMD Fusion System Architecture Detailed 121
New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs 146
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity? 123
Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK For Windows 137
HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support 153
Wii U Faster Than 360 Or PS3, No Blu-ray Or DVD Support 332
Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit 187
US Pays $2B To Develop Concentrating Solar Power Projects 219
Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys 310
Italy Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power 848
Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers 236
Ubiquitous Computing Gadget To Teach Coding 107
White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid 320
Now You Can Use the Nook Touch ... As a Kindle 99
How One Man Helps Keep Game Controllers Accessible 130
FitBot Lets You Try Clothes Before You Buy 58
A Deep-Dive Look At Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 264
Apple Now World's Largest Semiconductor Buyer 92
IBM Builds First Graphene Integrated Circuit 77
Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?' 241
Arduino Music Controllers With Horns, Finally 19
Making a Real Batcopter, With Parts From the Hardware Store 50
Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default 198
Could the US Phase Out Nuclear Power? 657
Cloud-Based, Ray-Traced Games On Intel Tablets 91
Officials Agree On Global Nuclear Stress Tests 122
Sony's Solution To Split-Screen Multiplayer 157
Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? 254
Foxconn International Removed From Hang Seng Index 91
Patented Gestures Detailed 87
GPL'd Driver and Linux Support For New H.264 Capture Card 119
MIT Develops Fast Charging Liquid Flow Batteries 135
Kogan Beats Samsung and Acer With World's First Chrome OS Laptop 103
Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless 615
Integrating Capacitors Into Car Frames 189
Students Win NASA Moon Robot Competition 28
Mars Rover Opportunity Surpasses 30km Driving 86
Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? 260
Microsoft and Nvidia Have Acquisition Pact 136
Google Files First Solar Patent, Builds R&D Team 118
Phase Change Memory Points To Future of Storage 70
Too Much Data? Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough 56
AMD Opens Israeli R&D Center, Hints At ARM Link 95
Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands 325
Microsoft Said To Limit Device Makers' Partners 200
OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card 201
Pixel Qi Demos 10" 1280x800 Pixel Screens 74
Bringing Old Arcade Machines Into the Internet Age 95
Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 520
Samsung Launches Exynos-Based Origen Dev Board 79
Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 822
NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 560M and GT 520MX Mobile GPUs 62
Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle 160
RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots 413
Lockheed Martin Purchases First Commercial Quantum Computer 189
Tom's Hardware Benchmarks Inkjet Printer Paper 160
Tunny Code-Breaker Rebuilt At Bletchley Park 47
Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost 662
Experts Say Gestural Interfaces Are a Step Backwards In Usability 254
Are Streaming Media Players a Passing Fad 367
Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000 124
After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle 84
Robots Retrieve Your Books At U. Chicago's $81 Million Library 202
Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer 76
Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners 411
Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant To Be Built in Nevada 475
AMD Releases FirePro V5900 and V7900 Workstation GPUs 55
Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate 666
Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation 89
Lego Super-8 Video Projector 66
Swiss To End Use of Nuclear Power 470
ARM-Based Arduino Competitor At SparkFun 106
Implant Restores Paralyzed Man's Leg Movement 65
XBMC4XBOX 3.0.1 Stable Released 57
Inside NVIDIA's Massive Hardware Emulation Lab 51
Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software 381
An Apple TV-Based Webserver 45
Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? 585
Apple Proposes Smaller SIM Card Design 198
Intel Shifts Might To Mobile 79
Man Demonstrates His New Bionic Hand 124
Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language 159
From Austria, the World's Smallest 3D Printer 120
Capturing Solar Power With Antennae 190
The Challenges of Tapping Blood Flow For Power 143
Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls 193
Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? 1002
HP Advances Next-Gen Memory Technology 70
Dropbox Accused of Lying About Security 265
The Rules of Thumb For Tech Purchasing 401
Aldebaran Robotics To Open Source Nao Robot Control Software 26
Confessions of a Computer Repairman 387
HDMI Brands Don't Matter 399
The Arduino Project Gets a Core Memory Accessory 46
Samsung Unveils New 10" Retina Display 155
This Robot Needs a Hug 38

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