Hardware Stories for 2018

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Prosecutors Request Prison Time For Executives 138
Artist Proposes Small Robots with 3D-Printed Faces of Dead Relatives 55
Banana Pi 24-Core ARM Server Running Ubuntu Breaks Cover 88
A Christmas Menu Dreamed Up by a Robot 42
Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record 26
Intel Vows Better Communication With Partners About CPU Shortage 34
A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames 57
Apple Confirms Some iPad Pros Ship Slightly Bent, But Says It's Normal 181
Apple To Pull Some iPhones In Germany Following Ruling In Qualcomm Patent Case 18
This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began 207
Researchers Use AI To Map Every Solar Panel In the US 75
Some 2017 iPad Pro Displays Suffering From Bright Spot Above Home Button 55
Researchers Make RAM From a Phase Change We Don't Entirely Understand 104
Samsung Kills Headphone Jack After Mocking Apple 353
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles 262
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
Russian State TV Shows Off 'Robot' That's Actually a Man In a Robot Suit 120
Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms 132
Apple Is Making Its Own Modem To Compete With Qualcomm, Report Says 80
New LG Gram is the Lightest 17-inch Laptop Ever at Just 3 Pounds 139
Intel Unveils Roadmaps For Core Architecture and Atom Architecture 60
Intel Reveals 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Cores That Go Deeper, Wider, and Faster 90
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? 143
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us 358
Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards 95
Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs 335
Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot 78
GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China 91
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities 143
Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Saved $40 Million During Its First Year, Report Says 213
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet 38
24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray 221
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
We're No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We're in the Smartphone Decline. 205
Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays 47
VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last 502
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
Japan's Final Pager Provider To End Its Service In 2019 45
Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac 208
Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 855 and Its New Under-display Fingerprint Sensor 31
Madrid's Ban On Polluting Vehicles Cuts Traffic By Nearly 32 Percent In Some Areas 80
Trump Administration Wants To End Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewables 481
Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You 86
Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel 94
By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says 45
Intel Sues Ex-Engineer For Trying To Steal 3D XPoint Technology On His Way To Micron 33
Can New Metal-Air Transistors Replace Semiconductors and Continue Moore's Law? 153
Intel Discloses Its Forthcoming Discrete GPU Strategy and Design Efforts (hothardware.com) 92
RISC-V and Linux Foundations Partner to Promote Open Source CPU 92
More Than 40 Percent of World Coal Plants Are Unprofitable, Says Report 281
DHL To Invest $300 Million To Quadruple Robots In Warehouses In 2019 23
Automakers Give the Chinese Government Access To Location Data of Electric Cars 32
Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China 75
Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 193
Microsoft's Surface Roadmap Reportedly Includes Ambient Computing and a Modular All-in-One PC 41
Amazon Web Services Introduces its Own Custom-Designed ARM Server Processor, Promises 45 Percent Lower Costs For Some Workloads 65
Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business 119
France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 387
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform 19
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days 225
New Web App Uses Machine Learning To Analyze, Repair Your Technical Resume 48
First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight 264
Paralyzed Individuals Operate Tablet With Brain Implant 61
IBM: Chip Making is Hitting Its Limits, But Our Techniques Could Solve That 50
Valve Quietly Discontinues Steam Link Hardware Production 74
Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish 103
How I Got Locked Out of the Chip Implanted In My Hand 106
Bill Godbout, Early S-100 Bus Pioneer, Perished In the Camp Wildfire 124
Mid-Range Google 'Pixel 3 Lite' Leaks With Snapdragon 670, Headphone Jack 94
Google Is Closing Its Schaft Robotics Unit 77
Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award 129
A New Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ Has Arrived With Bluetooth 4.2 and Dual-Band Wi-Fi For $25 69
China's Fusion Reactor Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius 261
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
The British Army is Carrying Out a Massive Test of Military Robots and Drones 56
Intel Launches New Core i9-9980XE 18-Core CPU With 4.5GHz Boost Clock 192
Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 330
Apple Confirms Its T2 Security Chip Blocks Some Third-Party Repairs of New Macs 179
'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' 346
Apple Blocks Linux From Booting On New Hardware With T2 Security Chip 373
Mac Mini Teardown Reveals User-Upgradable RAM, But Soldered Down CPU and Storage 242
Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12Gb DRAM Chips 52
To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' 130
UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time 147
Google Is Adding Android Support For Foldable Screens 22
A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials To Advance Computing 41
Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones 125
Samsung Shows Off a Foldable Prototype That Merges Phone and Tablet 53
A New Method To Produce Steel Could Cut 5 Percent of CO2 Emissions 121
AMD Reveals Zen 2 Processor Architecture in Bid To Stay Ahead of Intel 100
Energy Cost of 'Mining' Bitcoin More Than Twice That of Copper Or Gold 165
Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? 221
Amazon Is Hiring Fewer Workers This Holiday Season, a Sign That Robots Are Replacing Them 94
7-Eleven Tests Cashier-Free Shopping In 14 Stores 90
Intel Cascade Lake-AP Xeon CPUs Embrace the Multi-Chip Module 72
It's Not Your Imagination: Smartphone Battery Life Is Getting Worse 160
SpiNNaker Powers Up World's Largest Supercomputer That Emulates a Human Brain 164
Tablet Shipments Decline For 16th Straight Quarter 195
GM Is Getting Into the Electric Bike Business 98
Researchers Explore New Batteries To Power Electric Planes 141
Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion 185
Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. 205
Apple Will No Longer Reveal How Many iPhones, iPads, and Macs It Sells 158
Russia Blames a Bad Sensor For Its Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch 57
Study of Cellphone Risks Finds 'Some Evidence' of Link To Cancer, At Least In Male Rats 153
Apple Launches Program To Repair Old Devices Like the iPhone 4S 115
System76 Thelio Computer is Open Source, Linux-Powered, and Made in the USA 139
Can a Robot Learn a Language the Way a Child Does? 86
Flex Logix Says It's Solved Deep Learning's DRAM Problem 40
How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility 290
Apple's New T2 Security Chip Will Prevent Hackers From Eavesdropping On Your Microphone 145
Mac Mini Receives First Overhaul in Four Years; New iPad Pro With No Home Button Announced 257
Apple Investigates Claim That Illegal Student Labor Was Used To Assemble Apple Watch 69
AMD Launches Lower Cost 12- and 24-Core 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper Chips 151
Google Pixel 3 XL Bug Adds Second Notch To Side of the Screen 44
Chinese Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Completes Its 2018 Goal of Shipping 100 Million Units of Phones 81
In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In 535
Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work 226
China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? 240
Apple Expected To Announce iPad Pro With USB-C Next Week 130
Intel Mum On When Entry-Level CPU, IoT Supply Will Improve 52
Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says 294
Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal 124
Samsung Says It's Working On Foldable Laptop Displays 30
Thousands of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin 193
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers 124
Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Company To Sell DIY Repair Kits To Its Customers 78
Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users' Knowledge 110
Intel Says They Aren't Abandoning 10nm Chips, Despite Report Saying They're Canceled 107
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story 111
Chinese Company Oppo is the Latest To Be Caught Cheating on Phone Benchmarks 82
Intel Has Killed off the 10nm Process, Report Says 116
New Material Could Up Efficiency of Concentrated Solar Power 80
Intel Launches 9th Generation Core Processors; Core i9-9900K Benchmarked 130
Steam VR Introduces 'Motion Smoothing' So Low-End PCs Can Run Games More Smoothly 33
3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study 139
Buggy Software in Popular Connected Storage Drives Can Let Hackers Read Private Data 44
Is Repair As Important As Innovation? 171
IBM Finally Proves That Quantum Systems Are Faster Than Classical Systems 79
Automation is Democratizing Experimental Science 52
Samsung Announces Galaxy Book 2, a 2-in-1 Windows 10 S Hybrid With Gigabit LTE and 20-Hour Battery Life 78
The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape 164
Researchers 3D Print Custom-Sized Lithium-Ion Batteries 18
Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data 35
GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards 60
Some Electric Car Drivers Might Spew More CO2 Than Diesel Cars, New Research Shows 469
Palm Is Back With a Mini Companion Android Phone That's Exclusive To Verizon 101
Google Maps Adds EV Charging Station Info 34
Chinese Phone Maker Huawei Launches Mate 20 Pro Featuring In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Two-Way Wireless Charging, 3 Rear Cameras and 4,200mAh Battery 68
Medtronic Locks Down Vulnerable Pacemaker Programming Kit Due To Cybersecurity Concerns 40
The Full Photoshop CC Is Coming To the iPad In 2019 101
Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' 202
The New and Improved MacBook Keyboards Have the Same Old Problems 99
Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors 172
Patent Filings Reveal New Details About Microsoft's Vision For a Foldable, Dual-Screen Surface Device 26
Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? 303
America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel 127
It Was Flat Sales That Helped Microsoft Become America's #5 PC Maker 51
Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket 38
The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention 18
Boston Dynamics' Robot Went From a Drunk Baby To a Nimble Ninja in a Matter of Years 115
Razer Phone 2 Launches With Notch-less Display, Wireless Charging, and RGB Lighting 72
Google Home Hub Is Nothing Like Other Google Smart Displays 44
Microsoft Passes Acer To Become Top 5 PC Vendors In the US 49
Magic Leap Expands Shipments of Its AR Headset To 48 US States 23
Automated Warehouse In Tokyo Managed To Replace 90 Percent of Its Staff With Robots 73
The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks 397
Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature 116
Google Announces 'Home Hub' Smart Display With 7-Inch Screen, No Camera 35
Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug 79
Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL Announced With Bigger Screens and Best Cameras Yet 74
Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1 With Fixes For Wi-Fi 2.4GHz Bug, Lightning Charging Issue 84
IBM Pushes Beyond 7 Nanometers, Uses Graphene To Place Nanomaterials on Wafers 52
Intel Debuts 9th-Gen Core Chips, Including Core i9 and X-Series Parts, With a Few Twists 160
iFixit Confirms You Can Still Repair Your Own iMac Pro Or MacBook Pro -- At Least For Now 44
Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project 137
NASA Switches Curiosity Rover To Backup Computer Following Glitch 78
Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries 121
Ask Slashdot: Which Motherboard Manufacturer Provides the Best Support? 154
Robot Pioneer Rethink Shuts Down 30
Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair On New MacBook Pros 442
D-Wave Launches Free 'Leap' Quantum Computing Service 33
Nintendo Plans New Version of Switch Next Year 98
Honda Will Use GM's Self-Driving Technology, Invest $750 Million In Cruise Startup 27
New Autonomous Farm Wants To Produce Food Without Human Workers 92
Microsoft Now Has the Best Device Lineup in the Industry 219
Microsoft Unveils Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6 62
Ex-Apple Engineers Unveil a Next-Generation Sensor For Self-Driving Cars 32
A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip 36
Saudi Arabia Puts World's Biggest Solar Power Project On Hold 120
Some iPhone XS, XS Max Devices Are Experiencing Charging Issues 50
Use of Internet, Social Media and Digital Devices Plateaus In US, Pew Research Center Finds 22
Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology 65
System76's Much-Anticipated Open Source 'Thelio' Linux Computer Will Be Available To Pre-Order Starting Next Month, But Shipping Date and Specs Remain Unclear 80
What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked? 157
Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery Nears Commercial Release 64
Arrays of Atoms Emerge As Dark Horse Candidate To Power Quantum Computers 34
Scientists Formulate New Method To Create Low-Cost High Efficiency Solar Cells 35
International Energy Agency Predicts Wind Will Dominate Europe's Grid By 2027 69
iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos 23
Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s 118
BitTorrent and Tron Hope Other Clients Will Embrace Blockchain-Powered 'Paid' Seeding 42
Intel Addresses CPU Shortage: 'Supply Is Undoubtedly Tight' 163
Carmack Compares Oculus Quest Hardware Power To Last-Gen Game Consoles 73
Apple Watch ECG Feature Could Take Years To Be Approved In UK 87
Consumer Reports Gives Its Recommendation Back To Microsoft's Surface Laptops 36
Panasonic Completing 3 New Cell Production Lines At Tesla's Gigafactory 68
Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs 215
Facebook Announces $399 Oculus Quest Standalone VR Headset 68
A 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right To Repair Advocate 79
How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel 106
Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu 76
Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher 183
MIT Develops New Type of Battery That Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide 59
Cody Wilson, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer, Arrested In Taiwan 476
Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? 175
iPhone XS Teardown Shows Few Changes Aside From the Battery 61
First Hydrogen-Powered Train Hits the Tracks In Germany 222
In a World of Robots, Carmakers Persist in Hiring More Humans 44
Alibaba To Set Up New Chip Company Amid Fear of US Tech Dependency 60
Google's Android OS To Power Dashboard Displays 77
iPhone XS, XS Max Are World's Fastest Phones (Again) 130
A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor 114
Apple's AirPower Wireless Charger Is Facing Overheating Issues, Says Reports 120
US Congress Passes Bill To Help Advanced Nuclear Power 333
New Trump Tariffs Won't Include Fitness Trackers Or the Apple Watch 81
AMD's Vega Graphics Are Coming To Gaming Laptops 62
Machines Are Going To Perform More Tasks Than Humans By 2025 145
Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots 134
To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' 308
Nvidia Scanner Brings One-Click Overclocking To Its GeForce RTX Graphics Cards 39
What Cardiologists Think About the Apple Watch's Heart-Tracking Feature 90
Native Support For Windows File Sharing Coming To Chrome OS 51
OnePlus 6T Trades the Headphone Jack For Better Battery Life 254
MIT Is Building a Health-Tracking Sensor That Can See Through Walls 49
Is Apple's 3D Touch a 'Huge Waste' of Engineering Talent? 99
Apple Tries To Wipe AirPower From the History Books 91
Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs 204
Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7nm Smartphone Chips 91
Tesla Issues Software Update To Extend Some Cars' Batteries Due To Hurricane Florence 242
Apple Discontinues iPhone X, No Longer Sells iPhones With Headphone Jacks 131
European Parliament Passes Resolution Calling For An International Ban On Killer Robots 115

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