Hardware Stories for 2014

Robot Operating System To Officially Support ARM Processors 33
The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading 120
Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 208
SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card 210
Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water 113
Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla 149
If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? 444
The State of ZFS On Linux 370
First Intel 14nm Broadwell Core M Benchmarks Unveiled 51
To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars 491
WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives 296
Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip 47
Under the Apple Hype Machine, Amazon Drops Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents 134
Intel Launches Xeon E5 V3 Series Server CPUs With Up To 18 Cores 105
Ask Slashdot: Robotics or Electronic Kits For Wounded Veterans? 115
Tesla Plans To Power Its Gigafactory With Renewables Alone 260
Fedora To Get a New Partition Manager 170
Some Core I7 5960X + X99 Motherboards Mysteriously Burning Up 102
FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters 222
Intel Discloses Core M Broadwell Speeds, Feeds and Performance Expectations 60
Dell Demos 5K Display 204
How the Outdated TI-84 Plus Still Holds a Monopoly On Classrooms 359
Ireland To Host Robotic Sailing Championships 14
Japanese Firm Showcases "Touchable" 3-D Technology 41
Reno Selected For Tesla Motors Battery Factory 157
Samsung Launches Virtual Reality Headset For Galaxy Note 4 24
CPU's Heat Output to Amplify DNA Could Make Drastically Cheaper Tests 27
Robot Dramas: Autonomous Machines In the Limelight On Stage and In Society 31
Finland's Nuclear Plant Start Delayed Again 130
Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? 294
Power Grids: The Huge Battery Market You Never Knew Existed 245
Feds Want Nuclear Waste Train, But Don't Know Where It Would Go 258
Update: Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Cancelled 165
Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From AnandTech 152
Wi-Fi Router Attack Only Requires a Single PIN Guess 84
MIPS Tempts Hackers With Raspbery Pi-like Dev Board 88
Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating 149
Robot Printer Brings Documents To Your Desk 64
Intel's Haswell-E Desktop CPU Debuts With Eight Cores, DDR4 Memory 181
How the World's Fastest Electric Car Is Pushing Wireless Charging Tech 49
Research Shows RISC vs. CISC Doesn't Matter 161
Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards Show Up In Germany 76
Old Doesn't Have To Mean Ugly: Squeezing Better Graphics From Classic Consoles 167
New NRC Rule Supports Indefinite Storage of Nuclear Waste 191
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? 355
Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) 36
Scientists Craft Seamless 2D Semiconductor Junctions 49
Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive 316
IBM Gearing Up Mega Power 8 Servers For October Launch 113
NRC Analyst Calls To Close Diablo Canyon, CA's Last Remaining Nuclear Plant 216
Securing the US Electrical Grid 117
Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind 108
Princeton Nuclear Fusion Reactor Will Run Again 147
Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google 275
Major Delays, Revamped Beta For Credit-Card Consolidating Gadget Coin 78
Slashdot Asks: Cheap But Reasonable Telescopes for Kids? 187
Facebook Experimenting With Blu-ray As a Storage Medium 193
The Tech Fixes the PS3 Still Needs, Eight Years On 99
Google Announces a New Processor For Project Ara 36
New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W 338
Virtual Machine Brings X86 Linux Apps To ARMv7 Devices 61
Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Good Replacement Batteries? 131
A Better Way To Make Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Limbs 28
What's After Big Data? 87
How Does Tesla Build a Supercharger Charging Site? 190
Interviews: Andrew "bunnie" Huang Answers Your Questions 32
How Argonne National Lab Will Make Electric Cars Cheaper 143
World's First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York 108
Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead 521
If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly 305
FarmBot: an Open Source Automated Farming Machine 133
New HP Laptop Would Mean Windows at Chromebook Prices 215
AMD Launches Radeon R7 Series Solid State Drives With OCZ 64
The Data Dome: A Server Farm In a Geodesic Dome 62
The Cost of Caring For Elderly Nuclear Plants Expected To Rise 249
Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? 442
Is Dolby Atmos a Flop For Home Theater Like 3DTV Was? 197
Delays For SC Nuclear Plant Put Pressure On the Industry 142
Fukushima's Biological Legacy 116
Processors and the Limits of Physics 168
Not Just For ThinkPads Anymore: Lenovo Gets OK To Buy IBM Server Line 93
60,000 Oculus Rift DK2 Orders, 20,000+ Units Shipped, New Orders Ship In October 67
Project Aims To Build a Fully Open SoC and Dev Board 47
Humans Need Not Apply: a Video About the Robot Revolution and Jobs 304
Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM 107
A Thousand Kilobots Self-Assemble Into Complex Shapes 56
Ryan Lackey, Marc Rogers Reveal Inexpensive Tor Router Project At Def Con 38
Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding 126
Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched 183
Scientists Who Smuggle Radioactive Materials 66
Reversible Type-C USB Connector Ready For Production 191
Type 225 Words per Minute with a Stenographic Keyboard (Video) 109
Errata Prompts Intel To Disable TSX In Haswell, Early Broadwell CPUs 131
Microsoft Research Brings Kinect-Style Depth Perception to Ordinary Cameras 31
NVIDIAs 64-bit Tegra K1: The Ghost of Transmeta Rides Again, Out of Order 125
Gas Cooled Reactors Shut Down In UK 120
Intel's 14-nm Broadwell CPU Primed For Slim Tablets 96
Microsoft Surface Drowning? 337
Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s 219
NVIDIA Tegra K1: First Mobile Chip With Hardware-Accelerated OpenCL 52
Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces 137
Enthusiast Opts For $2200 Laser Eye Surgery To Enhance Oculus Rift Experience 109
Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) 81
How Facebook Is Saving Power By 10-15% Through Better Load Balancing 54
Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? 427
AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs 110
The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router 224
Parallax Completes Open Hardware Vision With Open Source CPU 136
Transatomic Power Receives Seed Funding From Founders Fund Science 143
Ask Slashdot: Datacenter HDD Wipe Policy? 116
Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company 502
T-Mobile Smartphones Outlast Competitors' Identical Models 127
Interviews: Ask Tim O'Reilly About a Life Steeped In Technology 39
Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk 150
Harvesting Wi-Fi Backscatter To Power Internet of Things Sensors 138
Sony Tosses the Sony Reader On the Scrap Heap 172
San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years 343
Ask Slashdot: Bulletproof Video Conferencing For Alzheimers Home? 194
Driverless Buses Ruled Out For London, For Now 84
Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can 163
AMD Launches New Higher-End Kaveri APUs A10-7800 and A6-7400K 117
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload 109
Unboxing a Cray XC30 'Magnus' Petaflops Supercomputer 71
New Display Technology Corrects For Vision Defects 28
Why TiVo's Founders Crashed and Burned With Qplay 50
Peter Hoddie Talks About His Internet of Things Construction Kit (Video) 53
iFixit Takes Apart the Oculus Rift DK2, Finds Galaxy Note 3 Display Inside 57
Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative To $1,000 Air Purifiers In Smoggy China 182
"BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" 205
Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Released 47
Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink 171
University of Michigan Solar Car Wins Fifth Straight National Title 25
A Look At the Firepick Delta Circuit Board Assembler (Video) 43
Ask Slashdot: Open Hardware/Software-Based Security Token? 113
Better Living Through Data 38
$299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed 65
Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline 868
New Findings On Graphene As a Conductor With IC Components 34
A Credit Card-Sized, Arduino-Based Game Device (Video) 33
Ask Slashdot: Preparing an Android Tablet For Resale? 113
Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? 544
Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs 97
Stanford Team Creates Stable Lithium Anode Using Honeycomb Film 119
The Oculus Rift DK2: In-Depth Review (and Comparison To DK1) 54
A Router-Based Dev Board That Isn't a Router 54
Report: Nuclear Plants Should Focus On Risks Posed By External Events 133
Greenpeace: Amazon Fire Burns More Coal and Gas Than It Should 288
Household Robot Jibo Nets Over $1 Million On Indiegogo 61
Day One With the Brand New Oculus Rift DK2: the Good, the Ugly and the Games 48
"Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery 184
A Warm-Feeling Wooden Keyboard (Video) 82
Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy 176
Intel Launches Self-Encrypting SSD 91
Autonomous Sea-Robot Survives Massive Typhoon 47
Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper 78
Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In Under 2 Minutes 69
Privacy Lawsuit Against Google Rests On Battery Drain Claims 175
Google Offers a Million Bucks For a Better Inverter 260
Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size 52
Linux Needs Resource Management For Complex Workloads 161
EPA Mulling Relaxed Radiation Protections For Nuclear Power 230
Wearable Robot Adds Two Fingers To Your Hand 77
Lenovo Halts Sales of Small-Screen Windows 8.1 Tablets Due To "Lack of Interest" 125
Nearly 25 Years Ago, IBM Helped Save Macintosh 236
SRI/Cambridge Opens CHERI Secure Processor Design 59
Harvesting Energy From Humidity 89
People Who Claim To Worry About Climate Change Don't Cut Energy Use 710
Coming Soon(ish) From LG: Transparent, Rollup Display 64
Phase-Changing Material Created For Robots 35
New Raspberry Pi Model B+ 202
Nano-Pixels Hold Potential For Screens Far Denser Than Today's Best 129
Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? 381
Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App 41
Sand-Based Anode Triples Lithium-Ion Battery Performance 60
Ode To Sound Blaster: Are Discrete Audio Cards Still Worth the Investment? 502
Apple Gets Its First Batch of iPhone Chips From TSMC 45
Hacking a Tesla Model S Could Net $10,000 Prize 77
IBM To Invest $3 Billion For Semiconductor Research 68
Ask Slashdot: Best Dedicated Low Power Embedded Dev System Choice? 183
Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis 389
How Japan Lost Track of 640kg of Plutonium 104
BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones 139
All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) 60
Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots 530
Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3D Virtual Reality Worlds 65
TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes 702
Study: Global Warming Solvable If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Given To Clean Energy 385
Are Tethers the Answer To the Safety Issues of Follow-Me Drone Technology? 88
New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory 122
By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' and That Could Be a Problem 564
3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy 49
In Düsseldorf, A Robot Valet Will Park Your Car 120
Hacking Internet Connected Light Bulbs 63
Researchers Create Walking, Muscle-Powered Biobots 33
Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned 299
ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Developers 69
Renewable Energy Saves Fortune 100 Companies $1.1B Annually 116
Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch 242
Improv Project, Vivaldi Tablet Officially Dead 71
Samsung Release First SSD With 3D NAND 85
Boston Trying Out Solar-Powered "Smart Benches" In Parks 119
Ars Takes an Early Look At the Privacy-Centric Blackphone 67
Researchers Claim Wind Turbine Energy Payback In Less Than a Year 441
EDSAC Diagrams Rediscovered 37
Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing 198
On the Significance of Google's New Cardboard: An Idea Worth Recycling 42
How Apple Can Take Its Headphones To the Next Level 196
Tom's Hardware: Microsoft Smartband Coming In October With 11 Sensors 70
2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine's Future In Limbo 59
The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses 58
New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel 380
Ask Slashdot: Is It Feasible To Revive an Old Linux PC Setup? 176
Intel Offering 3-D Printed Robot Kits 26
Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March 216
Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly 461
Programming On a Piano Keyboard 57
Venture-Backed Bitcoin Miner Startup Can't Deliver On Time, Gets Sued 120
How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law 183
World's First Large-Scale Waste-to-Biofuels Facility Opens In Canada 96
Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3 365
Microsoft's Cloud Storage Service OneDrive Now Offers 15GB For Free 99
Researchers Unveil Experimental 36-Core Chip 143
How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President 97
Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox OS-powered Streaming Stick 89
Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors 340
The EPA Carbon Plan: Coal Loses, But Who Wins? 268
Modular Science is Building Hardware and Software for Lab Automation (Video) 6
Continuous System For Converting Waste Plastics Into Crude Oil 139
Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? 142
Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle 345
Intel To Offer Custom Xeons With Embedded FPGAs For the Data Center 80
1958 Integrated Circuit Prototypes From Jack Kilby's TI Lab Up For Sale 76
Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' 192
Elon Musk's Solar City Is Ramping Up Solar Panel Production 262
Unisys Phasing Out Decades-Old Mainframe Processor For x86 113
4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon 186
Privacy Worries For 'Smart' Smoke Alarms 90
Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews 289
Cable Boxes Are the 2nd Biggest Energy Users In Many Homes 394
Endurance Experiment Writes One Petabyte To Six Consumer SSDs 164
BMW, Mazda Keen To Meet With Tesla About Charging Technology 137
Amazon's 3D Smartphone As a (Useful) Gimmick 68
Civilians Try to Lure an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth 53
SteamBoy Machine Team Promises a Portable Console for Valve's Steam Games 75
Despite Project's Demise, Amazon Web Services Continues To Use TrueCrypt 75
One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ 396
Dell Exec Calls HP's New 'Machine' Architecture 'Laughable' 173
Saurabh Narain and His Homemade Lego-Based Rubik's Cube Solver (Video) 43
European iPhone Chargers Prone To Overheating 128
Samsung Debuts Thin Galaxy Tab S With Super AMOLED 2560X1600 Display 176

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