Idle Stories for 2019

Google/NASA/Maxar Images Reveal This Decade's Engineering Accomplishments As Seen From Space 18
Bill Gates Gives Reddit User An 81-Pound 'Secret Santa' Gift 42
Couple Reports 'Intruder' To 911. It Turns Out To Be Their Roomba Vacuum Cleaner 85
How Pranksters Tricked Twitter-Scraping Sites Into Copyright Infringement 63
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts 11
Remembering The Home Computer Christmas Wars of 1983 165
Silicon Valley's Newest Health Fad: Dopamine Fasting 89
You Can Now Buy Pretend Food for Your $2,900 Sony Robot Dog 40
70% of Americans Dislike Daylight Saving Time 269
World Pinball-Playing Record Broken During Gamers' Livestreaming-for-Charity Event 31
Did a Poker Pro Use RFID Tags To Cheat? 158
US Military Apologizes For Joking about Bombing 'Millennials' Who Might Storm Area 51 95
Ask Slashdot: How Will 2019 Look To People 20 Years From Now? 338
Inspired By Harry Potter, 150 Colleges Now Have Quidditch Teams 91
The 'World's Safest' Bike Helmet Has A Built-in Airbag 148
2019's 'Ig Nobel' Prizes Honor Strange, Unusual, and Hilarious Research 17
Two Penetration Testers Arrested For Attempted Burglary 63
MIT's Epstein-Funded Media Lab Accused of Faking Hydroponic Plant Experiments 62
150 Microsoft Employees Release a New Music Video: 'Microsoft: The Musical' 53
Two College Students Nearly Grabbed Donald Trump's Tax Returns Online 247
Optimism Increases Lifespan By 11-15%, New Study Finds 76
Here's What Would Happen If You Tried to Storm Area 51 202
Some of the Best Video Game Streamers Are Senior Citizens 38
'The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter' 68
Three Smart Ovens Turned On Overnight, Then Preheated To 400 Degrees 182
XKCD Author Challenges Serena Williams To Attack A Drone 87
'I Want a Super-Smart Chair!' 155
Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of 'Sealand' 43
'Mining Bitcoin On a 1983 Apple II: a Highly Impractical Guide' 42
A Wearable Robotic Tail Could Improve Your Balance 69
Vintage 30-Year-Old Mac Resurrected As a Web Server 66
$7,000 Contest Seeks Better Stock Images For 'Cybersecurity' 82
Marty the Grocery Store Robot Called 'Ominous', 'Mostly Useless' 137
John McAfee Released From Jail in the Dominican Republic 117
It's So Hot in Nebraska, You Can Bake Biscuits in Your Car 189
Are Millennials Spending Too Much Money On Coffee? 532
Chess Grandmaster Caught Cheating in Tournament With Hidden Cellphone in Bathroom 97
Meet The Community That Always Seem To Win Online Sweepstakes 128
Can You Beat The World's Worst User Interface? 168
How The Advance Weather Forecast Got Good 80
Does Monopoly's Cash-Free AI Banker Teach the Wrong Lessons? 160
Remembering The Retiree Who Became America's Worst Counterfeiter 98
Star Trek Logo Spotted On Mars 46
How to Get XKCD Author Randall Munroe To Visit Your City 61
New Hampshire Unveils a Historical Highway Marker For The BASIC Programming Language 68
Caterpillar Takes Tiny 'Cat & Cloud' Coffee Shop To Court Over Trademark 140
Bizarre New Theories Emerge About Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto 133
The Lost History of Sodium Wiring 111
Bezos HQ2: Amazon CEO Pays $80 Million For Three NYC Apartments 59
YouTube Star Who Gave Man Toothpaste-Filled Oreos Sentenced To Prison 259
How a Professor Beat Roulette, Crediting a Non-Existent Supercomputer 156
Email Addresses and Passwords Leaked For 113,000 Users Of Account Hijacking Forum 36
When an AI Tries to Name Racehorses 42
The Incredibly Stupid Plot To Hijack a Domain By Breaking Into Its Owner's House With A Gun 294
More Than 23 Million People Use the Password '123456' 155
Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space 151
New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans 77
14-Year-Old Earned $200,000 Playing Fortnite on YouTube 171
Elon Musk Continues To Amuse Himself On Twitter, Sharing Song, Duck Emoji 101
Devuan.org Now Points To 'Pwned' Page With Gopher URLs 119
Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying 323
Continuing Progress On Babbage Analytical Engine 27
When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk 30
Major League Baseball Finally Begins Experimenting With Robot Umpires 51
Microsoft's Cloud Evangelist Adds 'Clippy' To Their Business Card 49
Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral 'Boiling Water Challenge' 151