Hardware Stories for 2017

Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power 398
Google Is Latest Company To Ditch Headphone Jack In Its Newest Smartphones 391
AMD Unveils E9170 Embedded GPU 49
Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini Dies At 66 48
NASA Images of Puerto Rico Reveal How Maria Wiped Out Power On the Island 180
Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals 244
Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? 495
General Motors Plans 20 All-Electric Cars By 2023 135
Tesla Is Shipping Hundreds of Powerwall Batteries To Puerto Rico 167
High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks 135
Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? 487
How Cisco Fixed An Undocumented SSH Support Tunnel In Umbrella 24
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Open Source Hardware to Tinker With? 134
Google Plans Upgrade of Two-Factor Authentication For Politicians and CEOs 92
Meet The Next Major Operating System: Amazon's Alexa 168
Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm 117
Solar Powered Smartwatch Successfully Crowdfunded on Kickstarter 69
Chip Reprograms Cells To Regenerate Damaged Tissue 16
Apple Investigating Reports of iPhone 8 Plus Devices 'Splitting Open' 106
California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals 503
Amazon's Echo Spot Is a Sneaky Way To Get a Camera Into Your Bedroom 155
Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X 120
Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case 199
The World's First Blockchain Smartphone Is In Development 95
Vacuum Company Dyson To Build 'Radically Different' Electric Car 177
Russia Threatens To Shut Down Facebook Over Local Data Storage Laws 90
Intel Launches 16 and 18-Core Core i9 Desktop Chips To Take On AMD Threadripper 119
Tesla Model 3 Owners Share More Info On Model 177
Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs 409
ARM TrustZone Hacked By Abusing Power Management 60
Inside Amazon's Warehouses: Thousands of Senior Citizens and the Occasional Robot Mishap 147
Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair 305
Super-Accurate GPS Chips Coming To Smartphones In 2018 112
Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing 364
A New Zealand Company Built An AI Baby That Plays the Piano 87
Ford Is Using Microsoft's HoloLens To Design Cars In Augmented Reality 31
Tesla Is Working With AMD To Develop Its Own AI Chip For Self-Driving Cars 50
Scientists Create World's First 'Molecular Robot' Capable of Building Molecules 86
Google Buys Part of HTC's Smartphone Team For $1.1 Billion 92
China Arms Upgraded Tianhe-2A Hybrid Supercomputer 23
Amazon Is Reportedly Working On Alexa-Enabled Smart Glasses 32
AMD Opteron Vs EPYC: How AMD Server Performance Evolved Over 10 Years 34
Hurricane Maria Knocks Out Power To Entire Island of Puerto Rico 72
Is the World Ready For Flying Cars? 251
Electric Bus Sets Record With 1,101-Mile Trip On a Single Charge 156
Google, Bing, Yahoo Data Retention Doesn't Improve Search Quality, Study Claims 38
iOS 11 Released 139
Apple File System in macOS High Sierra Won't Work With Fusion Drives 123
Navy Plans To Use Xbox 360 Controllers For New Periscope Systems Aboard Its Submarines 121
Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed 90
Samsung Finally Lets You Disable the Bixby Button Without a Third-Party App 55
Typing By Brain Arrives: No Surgery Necessary 93
'Bodega' CEO Apologizes, Insists They'll Create More Jobs 155
Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' 151
Apple's A11 Bionic Chip In iPhone 8 and iPhone X Smokes Android Handsets In Early Benchmarks 332
PSA: Google Will Delete Your Android Backups If Your Device Is Inactive For Two Months 166
You Are Already Living Inside a Computer 82
Target's Sales Floors Are Switching From Apple To Android Devices 137
iPhone 8 and iPhone X Will Support Fast Charging, But Only If You Buy a New USB-C Charger 144
Samsung Unveils New Electric Car Batteries For Up To 430 Miles of Range 90
Apple's 'Shoddy' Beats Headphones Get Slammed In Lawsuit 190
French Company Plans To Heat Homes, Offices With AMD Ryzen Pro Processors 181
Department of Energy Invests $50 Million To Improve Critical Energy Infrastructure Security 51
Intel Cuts Cord On Its Current Cord-Cutting WiGig Products 30
Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button 570
The New Apple Watch Series 3 Has Cellular Built-In 55
Virginia Scraps Electronic Voting Machines Hackers Destroyed At DefCon 194
Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 168
China Joins the Growing Movement To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Cars 126
As Robots Move Into Amazon's Warehouses, What's Happening To Its Human Workers? 237
Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma 328
Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data 60
Can We Surpass Moore's Law With Reversible Computing? 118
Hobbyist Gives iPhone 7 the Headphone Jack We've Always Wanted 194
AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo 350
India Aims To Put One Million Electric Vehicles On the Road By Mid-2019 76
Galaxy Note 8 Sets New Pre-Order Record For Samsung Despite Last Year's Disaster 39
UN Aviation Agency To Call For Global Drone Registry 47
The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March 92
iPhone's Summer Production Glitches Create Holiday Jitters 48
Google Drive Faces Outage, Users Report [Update] 75
Google's Street View Cars Are Now Giant, Mobile 3D Scanners 42
Hackers Have Penetrated Energy Grid, Symantec Warns 69
Researchers Find New Way To Build Quantum Computers 53
TrustZone Downgrade Attack Opens Android Devices To Old Vulnerabilities 45
Lenovo Looks To Commemorate 25th Anniversary of IBM's Notebook Brand With Thinkpad 25 132
How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder 195
Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows 267
Microsoft Extends Free Windows 10 S-To-Pro Upgrade Deadline 93
Power Company Kills Nuclear Plant, Plans $6 Billion In Solar, Battery Investment 390
Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? 188
ReactOS 0.4.6 Released 97
Huawei Unveils AI Mobile Chipset Said To Rival A11 Processor In Upcoming iPhones 77
The Solar Eclipse of 2017 Destroyed Lots of Rental Camera Gear 140
Finland To Introduce Law Next Year Phasing Out Coal 176
AT&T Uverse Modems Found To Have Several Serious Security Vulnerabilities 75
Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K 285
Germany Unveils World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser 49
Slashdot Asks: How Do You Navigate Your Smartphone? 66
New Qualcomm Auto Chipset Advances Vehicle-To-Everything Communications 24
SanDisk Breaks Storage Record With 400GB MicroSD Card 70
LG Announces V30 Smartphone With 'FullVision' OLED Display, Dual Cameras 45
AMD Releases Ryzen PRO Processors Worldwide, 8-Core Ryzen Threadripper 1900X 94
Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla 264
New T-Shirt Sewing Robot Can Make As Many Shirts Per Hour As 17 Factory Workers 409
Google Assistant Coming Soon To More Speakers, Appliances and Other Devices 50
Best Buy Will Now Send a Salesperson To Your House To Sell You Things 144
APFS Is Not Optional 330
South Korea Moves Towards The World's First 'Robot Tax' 83
Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car 145
BackBlaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 99
Tech Firms Team Up To Take Down 'WireX' Android DDoS Botnet 29
Nintendo Faces Supply Issues Ahead of Holiday Season 100
New York City Cops Will Replace Their 36,000 Windows Phones With iPhones 215
The Next iPhone Is Going To Be Unveiled On Sept. 12, Report Says 77
Lawsuit Filed Against Logitech For Delaying Warranty Claims, Hiding EOL 83
A Game You Control With Your Mind 56
Elon Musk's Neuralink Gets $27 Million To Build Brain Computers 76
Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? 320
Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box 63
Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge 322
A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage 233
Engineers Discover How To Make Antennas For Wireless Communication 100x Smaller Than Their Current Size 129
Roku Is the Top Streaming Device In the US and Still Growing, Report Finds 96
Google Unveils a New, Cheaper Networking Option For Cloud Customers: the Public Internet 20
Samsung Says It's Working on an Amazon Echo Competitor 53
Samsung Unveils Galaxy Note8 With 6.3-inch Infinity Display, Dual Rear Cameras 95
Sony Blocks Yet Another Game From Cross-Console Play With Xbox One 151
Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Android Oreo Features? 277
Autonomous Forklift May Eat Up Warehouse Jobs 122
Sony Loses Class Action Lawsuit In Waterproof Claims For Original Xperia Z Line 23
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? 241
Code42 Says Crashplan Backup Service Will Discontinue All Personal Backup Plans 137
People Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries To Power Their Homes 157
Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry 228
iPhone 8's 3D Face Scanner Will Work In 'Millionths of a Second' 154
DJI Spark Owners Must Update Firmware By September, Or Their Machines Will Be Bricked 182
Scientists Create Smart Labels To Tell You When To Throw Away Expired Food and Makeup 74
Microsoft Outlines the Upgrade Procedures For Xbox One X 48
Elon Musk Backs Call For A Global Ban On Killer Robots 214
How Hackers Can Use Pop Songs To 'Watch' You 33
Hyundai To Build a 300-Mile-Per-Charge Electric Car 177
The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future 55
Secret Chips in Replacement Parts Can Completely Hijack Your Phone's Security 62
iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID 138
The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies 432
Motorola Patents a Display That Can Heal Its Own Cracked Screen With Heat 41
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Batteries Are Being Recalled For Overheating Risk 77
Essential Phone Will Ship Next Week, Shortly After Breaking $1 Billion Valuation 88
Australian Scientists Figure Out How Zinc-Air Batteries Can Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries 118
Amazon Will Pay Developers With the Most Engaging Alexa Skills 41
Intel Officially Reveals Post-8th Generation Core Architecture Code Name: Ice Lake, Built On 10nm+ 95
Toyota Patents Cloaking Device To Make Car Pillars Appear Transparent 105
'Biggest Data Center' To Be Built in Arctic 41
We're Not Walking Away From Continuum, Says HP 44
Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council 263
Snap Sold Fewer Than 42K Spectacles, Down 35% In Q2 50
Google Pays Apple $3 Billion Per Year To Remain On the iPhone, Analyst Says 101
AMD Launches Radeon RX Vega 64 and Vega 56, Taking On GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 84
Andy Rubin's Essential Is Now Valued at Over a Billion Dollars Without Shipping a Single Phone 75
Samsung Pushes Its 4K/HDR TV Service in Europe 55
Microsoft Blamed Intel For Its Own Bad Surface Drivers 169
Intel Unveils One-Petabyte Storage Servers For Data Centers 58
Microsoft Dismisses Consumer Reports' Surface Complaints, But Doesn't Offer Much Evidence 66
Hearing Loss of US Diplomats In Cuba Is Blamed On Covert Device 224
US Product Safety Commission Warns That Some Fidget Spinners Explode 97
Scientists Create DNA-Based Exploit of a Computer System 43
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Launched: Performance Benchmarks Vs Intel Skylake-X 122
Consumer Reports Pulls Microsoft Laptop Recommendation 126
Researchers Build True Random Number Generator From Carbon Nanotubes 144
T-Mobile To Launch Its Own Branded Budget Smartphone 17
Disney Sued For Allegedly Spying On Children Through 42 Gaming Apps 40
Mass Market Hopes For Battery-free Cell Phone Technology 102
AI Factory Boss Will Tell Workers and Robots How To Work Together 54
You Can Trick Self-Driving Cars By Defacing Street Signs 272
Intel's 8th-Gen 'Coffee Lake' Core CPUs Will Be Revealed During the Great American Eclipse 98
Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered 257
Preview of AMD Ryzen Threadripper Shows Chip Handily Out-Pacing Intel Core i9 180
Tesla Seeks $1.5 Billion Junk Bonds Issue To Fund Model 3 Production 159
AMD Confirms Linux 'Performance Marginality Problem' On Ryzen 120
Android 8.0's 'Streaming OS Updates' Will Work Even If Your Phone Is Full 40
Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? 270
Intel Releases Final Core i9 Specs and Release Dates -- And Threadripper Is Faster (Sometimes) 91
Amazon Owns a Whole Collection of Secret Brands 110
New Catalyst Is Better At Splitting Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen 133
It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 301
Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries 137
Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens 307
MegaBots Is Finally Going To Take On Japan In the World's First Giant Robot Duel 38
BLU Claims Innocence, Gets Phones Reinstated On Amazon 43
Apple Plans To Release a Cellular-Capable Watch To Break iPhone Ties 92
Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones 80
Intel's Upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs Won't Work With Today's Motherboards 240
Uber Knowingly Leased Unsafe Cars To Drivers, Says Report 35
Tests Show Workers At Hanford Nuclear Facility Inhaled Radioactive Plutonium 158
WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Tool For Hacking Webcams, Microphones 107
Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing 107
Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test 249
IBM and Sony Cram Up To 330 Terabytes Into Tiny Tape Cartridge 71
Are App Sizes Out of Control? 386
Facebook Is Working On a Video Chat Device 86
US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned 389
Apple's Shares Rise On Better-Than-Expected iPhone Sales 60
Hackers Can Turn Amazon Echo Into a Covert Listening Device 114
New iPhone To Have Tap to Wake, Attention Detection, and Virtual Home Button, Says Report 59
NVIDIA Announces Quadro And TITAN xP External GPU Solutions, OptiX 5.0 SDK 36
Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? 408
BrickerBot Dev Claims Cyber-Attack That Affected Over 60,000 Indian Modems 32
Bluetooth Battery Level Indicators May Soon Be Coming To Android 28
AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 91
FCC Says Its Specific Plan To Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret 88
Football-Playing Robots Compete At RoboCup 2017 38
A Robot At DEFCON Cracked A Safe Within 30 Minutes 128
Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? 384
US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON 171
100x Faster, 10x Cheaper: 3D Metal Printing Is About To Go Mainstream 119
Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips 117
Researchers Discover Critical Security Flaws Found In Nuke Plant Radiation Monitors 43
AMD Launches Ryzen 3 Series Low Cost Processors Starting At $109 80
The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse 141
Qualcomm Opens Its Mobile Chip Deep Learning Framework To All 13
Travelers' Electronics At US Airports To Get Enhanced Screening, TSA Says 151
Upcoming USB 3.2 Specification Will Double Data Rates Using Existing Cables 159
US Defense Budget May Help Fund 'Hacking For Defense' Classes At Universities 34
Google Enters Race For Nuclear Fusion Technology 150
Toyota's New Solid-State Battery Could Make Its Way To Cars By 2020 69
China Forces Muslim Minority To Install Spyware On Their Phones 389
Motorola Unveils the Moto Z2 Force, a Smartphone With Double the Cameras and a Shatterproof Screen 47
India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs 142
Intel Exits the Maker Movement 84
Global Network of Labs Will Test Security of Medical Devices 50
World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland 252
Wisconsin Company Will Let Employees Use Microchip Implants To Buy Snacks, Open Doors 112
Quest for AI Leadership Pushes Microsoft Further Into Chip Development 34
Top US General Warns Against Rogue Killer Robots 164
Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire 166
A New Sampling Algorithm Could Eliminate Sensor Saturation 135
Linus Torvalds Now Reviews Gadgets On Google+ 51
Intel Launches Movidius Neural Compute Stick: 'Deep Learning and AI' On a $79 USB Stick 59
US Ends Controversial Laptop Ban On Flights From Middle East 79
US House Panel Approves Broad Proposal On Self-Driving Cars 191
SpaceX Pulls the Plug On Its Red Dragon Plans 161
Dadbot: How a Son Made a Chatbot of His Dying Dad 114
India is Rolling Out Trains With Solar-powered Coaches That'll Save Thousands of Litres of Diesel 136
Android Backdoor 'GhostCtrl' Can Silently Record Your Audio, Video and More 69
Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 100
Some OnePlus 5s Are Reportedly Rebooting After Dialing 911 59
Flaw In IoT Security Cameras Leaves Millions of Devices Open To Hackers 53
Apple's Risky Balancing Act With the Next iPhone 136
Google Glass Makes an Official Return 106

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