Hardware Stories for 2014

The Coming Decline of 'Made In China' 327
Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It 304
Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes 328
Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi 67
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless LED Light Setup for 2015? 68
6 Terabyte Hard Drive Round-Up: WD Red, WD Green and Seagate Enterprise 6TB 190
Know Your Type: Five Mechanical Keyboards Compared 190
Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 44
An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture 39
Bill Gates Sponsoring Palladium-Based LENR Technology 183
Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 60
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Many DDR3 Modules Vulnerable To Bit Rot By a Simple Program 138
Samsung Announces Production of 20nm Mobile LPDDR4, Faster Than Desktop DDR4 42
Quadcopter Drone Packs First All-Linux Autopilot 31
An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM 190
Texas Instruments Builds New Energy Technology For the Internet of Things 54
"Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars 123
What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? 628
The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots 391
Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band 51
Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? 232
After 40 Years As a Double Amputee, Man Gains Two Bionic Arms 66
Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off 173
Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates 688
Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection 42
The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax 100
Telepresence Store Staffed Remotely Using Robots 52
The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain 115
Apple and Samsung Already Working On A9 Processor 114
Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware 230
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive 219
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die 269
LG To Show Off New 55-Inch 8K Display at CES 179
The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait 567
Liquid Cooling On the Rise As Data Centers Crunch Bigger Data 25
Robots Modeled On Ancient Fish Help Researchers Study Origins of Extinct Species 29
$35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O 140
Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables 280
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested 127
Using Discarded Laptop Batteries To Power Lights 143
With Eyes on China, Intel Invests Billions In Mobile Ambitions 33
Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies 461
Ocean-Going Robot Fleet Completes Fish Tracking Mission 10
Consumer-Grade SSDs Survive Two Petabytes of Writes 125
Using OwnCloud To Integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and More In Gnome 30
Windows 10 Adds Battery Saver Feature 96
Kiva Systems Co-Founder: Drone Delivery Could Be As Low As 20 Cents Per Package 92
You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South 327
Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Is Free and Open-source 56
Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market 193
Intel Processor Could Be In Next-Gen Google Glass 73
Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition 101
Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? 720
New Analysis Pushes Back Possible Origin For Antikythera Mechanism 62
Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? 138
Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source 235
Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War 43
Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing 37
Consortium Roadmap Shows 100TB Hard Drives Possible By 2025 215
Jackie Chan Discs Help Boost Solar Panel Efficiency 194
WaveNET – the Floating, Flexible Wave Energy Generator 90
Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? 516
Is LTO Tape On Its Way Out? 284
How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap 126
Samsung Shows 'Eye Mouse' For People With Disabilities 17
How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive 438
How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War 117
Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones 203
Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market 93
Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio 330
Linux On a Motorola 68000 Solder-less Breadboard 147
Molecular Clusters That Can Retain Charge Could Revolutionize Computer Memory 36
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car? 195
Microsoft Rolls Out Robot Security Guards 140
Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year 101
CMI Director Alex King Talks About Rare Earth Supplies (Video 2) 11
Lessons Learned From Google's Green Energy Bust 222
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? 523
CMI Director Alex King Talks About Rare Earth Supplies (Video) 27
Halting Problem Proves That Lethal Robots Cannot Correctly Decide To Kill Humans 335
Nokia's N1 Android Tablet Is Actually a Foxconn Tablet 109
Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 516
NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Android Lollipop Update Performance Explored 57
Intel Announces Major Reorg To Combine Mobile and PC Divisions 75
Robots Put To Work On E-Waste 39
A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body 200
Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X 327
For Some Would-Be Google Glass Buyers and Devs, Delays May Mean Giving Up 154
Low Cost Ground Robot Chassis That Can Traverse Challenging Obstacles 38
US DOE Sets Sights On 300 Petaflop Supercomputer 127
Real Steampunk Computer Brought Back To Life 81
Ask Slashdot: Is Non-USB Flash Direct From China Safe? 178
An Applied Investigation Into Graphics Card Coil Whine 111
Facebook Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries For Backup Power 41
Window Washing a Skyscraper Is Beyond a Robot's Reach 203
Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes 223
Nvidia Shield Tablet Gets Android Lollipop Update, Half Life 2 EP1 and GRID 58
Comet Probe Philae Unanchored But Stable — And Sending Back Images 132
Intel Claims Chip Suppliers Will Flock To Its Mobile Tech 91
Data Center Study Reveals Top 5 SMART Stats That Correlate To Drive Failures 142
Amazon Goes After Oracle (Again) With New Aurora Database 102
Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy 488
Fukushima Radiation Nears California Coast, Judged Harmless 114
Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud 148
Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming 265
Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign 107
Raspberry Pi A+ Details Leaked 141
There's No Such Thing As a General-Purpose Processor 181
Amazon's Echo Chamber 112
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Data Warehouse Server System? 147
Robot Makes People Feel Like a Ghost Is Nearby 140
Amazon's Echo: a $200, Multi-Function, Audio-Centric Device 129
Ask Slashdot: Minimizing Oil and Gas Dependency In a Central European City? 250
French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children 99
PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud 208
Enzymes Make Electricity From Jet Fuel Without Ignition 78
Pacific Northwest Lab's Sensor-Packed Fish Gauges Hydropower Facilities 28
Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again 214
LHC Data Generation Expected To Scale Up To 400PB a Year 99
Intel To Expand Core M Broadwell Line With Faster Dual-Core Processors 52
China Plans To Build a Domestic Robotics Industry 67
Scotland Builds Power Farms of the Future Under the Sea 216
Japan's Annual Nuclear Drill Highlights Problems 43
Will HP's $200 Stream 11 Make People Forget About Chromebooks? 232
LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest 63
Qualcomm Begins Contributing To Reverse-Engineered Freedreno Linux Driver 19
Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google 82
Microsoft Enters the Wearables Market With 'Band' 135
Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years 332
France Investigating Mysterious Drone Activity Over 7 Nuclear Power Plant Sites 128
How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking 415
Lenovo Completes Motorola Deal 59
HP Unveils Industrial 3D Printer 10X Faster, 50% Cheaper Than Current Systems 111
16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office 125
XYZPrinting Releases All-In-One 3D Printer With Internal Laser Scanner 46
Microsoft Works On Windows For ARM-Based Servers 113
Alienware's Triangular Area-51 Re-Design With Tri-SLI GeForce GTX 980, Tested 138
OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers 145
Haier Plans To Embed Area Wireless Chargers In Home Appliances 61
Apple A8X IPad Air 2 Processor Packs Triple-Core CPU, Hefty Graphics Punch 130
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? 202
New Oculus SDK Adds Experimental Linux Support and Unity Free For Rift Headset 24
Microsoft Now Makes Money From Surface Line, Q1 Sales Reach Almost $1 Billion 117
Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes 720
FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips 572
Ask Slashdot: Smarter Disk Space Monitoring In the Age of Cheap Storage? 170
Apple 1 Sells At Auction For $905,000 81
Sale of IBM's Chip-Making Business To GlobalFoundries To Get US Security Review 95
BitTorrent Performance Test: Sync Is Faster Than Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox 124
FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. 700
Raspberry Pi Founder Demos Touchscreen Display For DIY Kits 81
Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public 121
Samsung Acknowledges and Fixes Bug On 840 EVO SSDs 101
Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? 108
Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own 172
IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division 84
iFixit Tears Apart Apple's Shiny New Retina iMac 109
Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You 82
Apple's Next Hit Could Be a Microsoft Surface Pro Clone 252
Researchers Scrambling To Build Ebola-Fighting Robots 87
Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign 76
High-Tech Walkers Could Help Japan's Elderly Stay Independent 34
Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly 218
Making Best Use of Data Center Space: Density Vs. Isolation 56
Android On Intel x86 Tablet Performance Explored: Things Are Improving 97
After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} 183
Lockheed Claims Breakthrough On Fusion Energy Project 571
If Your Cloud Vendor Goes Out of Business, Are You Ready? 150
Battery Breakthrough: Researchers Claim 70% Charge In 2 Minutes, 20-Year Life 395
Can the Sun Realistically Power Datacenters? 237
Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity 68
Wind Power Is Cheaper Than Coal, Leaked Report Shows 610
Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode 97
Raspberry Pi Sales Approach 4 Million 146
Microsoft Develops Analog Keyboard For Wearables, Solves Small Display Dilemma 100
ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards 345
Oculus Hiring Programmers, Hardware Engineers, and More For VR Research Division 16
Liking Analog Meters Doesn't Make You a Luddite (Video) 155
Where Intel Processors Fail At Math (Again) 239
AnandTech's Intro To Semiconductor Tech 21
Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015 106
Axiom Open Source Camera Handily Tops 100,000 Euro Fundraising Goal 31
Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles 338
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2's Positional Tracking Tech 26
Startup's Open Source Device Promises Gamers "Surround Sound For Your Eyes" 43
Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal 315
The Greatest Keyboard Ever Made 304
NVIDIA Launches Mobile Maxwell GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M Notebook Graphics 29
Sharp Developing LCD Screens In Almost Any Shape 60
One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner 405
Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? 652
WSJ: Google X Display Team Works Toward Bezel-Free Modular Displays 56
A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud 174
Experiment Shows Stylized Rendering Enhances Presence In Immersive AR 75
Hacking USB Firmware 97
How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI 67
Bangladesh Considers Building World's 5th-largest Data Center In Earthquake Zone 65
DARPA Technology Could Uncover Counterfeit Microchips 35
The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine 651
Arducorder, Next Open Source Science Tricorder-like Device, Nears Completion 56
Joey Hudy: From High School Kid to Celebrity Maker to Intel Intern (Video) 32
HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet 182
Matchstick and Mozilla Take On Google's Chromecast With $25 Firefox OS Dongle 106
Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power 488
Microsoft Revives Its Hardware Conference 47
Marines Put Microsoft Kinect To Work For 3D Mapping 37
Lenovo Set To Close $2.1 Billion Server Deal With IBM 49
Kano Ships 18,000 Learn-To-Code Computer Kits 53
Exxon and Russian Operation Discovers Oil Field Larger Than the Gulf of Mexico 201
From the Maker of Arduboy: Tetris On a Bracelet 15
Why the Z-80's Data Pins Are Scrambled 167
NVIDIA Begins Requiring Signed GPU Firmware Images 192
Acer Launches First 4K Panel With NVIDIA G-Sync Technology On Board 64
NSF Awards $10 Million To Protect America's Processors 48
John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing 88
IBM Solar Concentrator Can Produce12kW/day, Clean Water, and AC 268
Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed 71
South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early 169
Fukushima Radiation Still Poisoning Insects 119
Now That It's Private, Dell Targets High-End PCs, Tablets 167
Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 277
New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects 38
Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light 275
Vrvana's Totem HMD Puts a Camera Over Each Eye 25
New "Crescent Bay" VR Headset Revealed and Demo'd At Oculus Connect 65
Ask Slashdot: Alternate Software For Use On Smartboards? 96
Video Released, Crowdfunding Underway For Axiom Open Source Cinema Camera 52
Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple 408
NVIDIA Launches Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 GPUs 125
Data Archiving Standards Need To Be Future-Proofed 113
SteadyServ Helps Keep the Draft Beer Flowing (Video) 48
Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? 287
Use of Forced Labor "Systemic" In Malaysian IT Manufacturing 183
Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise 198
The Case For a Federal Robotics Commission 70
Micron Releases 16nm-Process SSDs With Dynamic Flash Programming 66
Developing the First Law of Robotics 165
MIT's Cheetah Robot Runs Untethered 90
SparkFun Works to Build the Edison Ecosystem (Video) 75
New Data Center Protects Against Solar Storm and Nuclear EMPs 59
Oculus Rift CEO Says Classrooms of the Future Will Be In VR Goggles 182
Solar Powered Technology Enhances Oil Recovery 82

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