Technology Stories for 2015

The Power of Crowds and "Human Computation" 155
Nadine the Robot Receptionist 46
The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use 132
Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? 325
Dog With 3D-Printed Legs Gets an Upgrade 36
Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes 98
The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech 124
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
Exploding Munitions Caught On Seismometer 20
New York Begins Public Gigabit Wi-Fi Rollout 107
Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet 35
Human Brain Still Beats Computers At Finding Messages and Meaning Within Noise 64
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display 108
Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' 492
List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
Open Source Roles: Starters vs. Maintainers 77
Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket 142
Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs 215
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps 153
Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game 44
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business 31
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 314
Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? 225
TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel 428
Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable 71
Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack 125
On the Coming Chatbot Revolution 94
Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education 152
The AI Anxiety 207
FAA's Drone Laws Clash With Local Regulations 115
Four Factors That Will Push VR Forward in 2016 64
Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months 292
Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone 165
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Mesa's Highlights Reel: An Impressive Year For Open Source 3-D Drivers 27
The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? 235
Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls 214
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost 162
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Seattle's Behemoth Boring Machine, Idle Since 2013, Makes Some Progress 111
Arca Space Corp Unveils Functional Turbine Powered Hoverboard 48
Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer! 200
Marc Andreessen Describes Vision of 'Ambient Computing' 106
Does the Internet Spur Social Change, Or Lazy Activism? 98
UCLA Creates Super-Strong, Super-Light Metal 70
A Silicon Valley For Drones, In North Dakota 31
HTC Wants To Bring Vive VR Headset To 100M+ Chinese Internet Cafe Users 8
Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation 61
Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics 169
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? 100
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer 78
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion 165
Drone Crashes, Missing Champion Skier By Inches 148
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities 82
Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India 75
Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands 167
Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company 143
Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time 166
Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies 123
The Trials and Tribulations of America's Chief Internet Defender 22
Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early 211
German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner 263
TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed 278
Google Planning New Messaging App With AI Chatbots 52
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? 265
Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars In Just Two Years, Elon Musk Boldly Declares 172
Google Tests Signing Into Accounts Using Your Phone, No Password Required 108
Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier 32
Sketchable, Stretchable Circuits 34
Report: Google Partners With Ford To Make Self-Driving Cars 143
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff 115
A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet 177
Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years 116
SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral 373
Microsoft Buys Talko, Another Ray Ozzie Company 10
NASA Is Creating a Virtual Reality Mission To Mars 24
BBC Launches Machine-Translated Synthetic Voiceovers 24
Can Electric Signals In Earth's Atmosphere Predict Earthquakes? 71
US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers 223
FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress 226
Software-Defined Vehicles Will Dominate At CES 112
HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages 141
Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 107
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos 76
Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans 92
Smallest Color Picture Ever Printed Fits Inside a Human Hair 52
Facebook, Google Top Year-End App List 30
ICANN's Ex CEO Fronts Chinese Initiative On Running the Internet 55
Femto Fairy Lights - Touchable Holograms 57
The Data Center Density Debate: Generational Change Brings Higher Densities 45
Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels 313
Internet Archive Hosts 24-Hour Fund-Raising Telethon 32
Wine 1.8 Released 119
Miniature Flying Car Receives US Airspace Approval For Testing 95
New Outlook Bug Doesn't Require Users To Interact With Emails To Be Compromised 102
Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion 151
Khronos Delays Vulkan Graphics API To 2016 Release 50
Swedish Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Quantum Cryptography 101
How Long Until the Cyborg Olympics Are Better Than the Traditional Games? 60
Microsoft Extends SmartScreen To Foil Malvertising and Exploit Kits 48
Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? 388
Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access 313
The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw 748
Netflix Creates DIY Smart Socks That Pause Your Show When You Fall Asleep 76
Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure 31
Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber 90
Cox Is Liable For Pirating Subscribers, Ordered To Pay $25 Million 166
New WTO Trade Deal Will Exempt IT-Related Products From Import Tariffs 22
Unity Benchmarks Browser WebGL Performance 38
Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage 124
Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) 132
CA DMV Releases Draft Requirements For Autonomous Vehicles On Public Streets 139
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
'Hybrid' Logic Gate For Quantum Computers Demonstrated 13
Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? 181
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers 268
Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil 134
FOIA'd Documents Give Tour of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 85
Facebook Tweaks Its "Real Names" Policy 114
Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II 82
North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back 336
iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI 98
Facebook, Google and Twitter Agree To Delete Hate Speech In Germany 259
Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies 95
Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea 563
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
EU Rules Would Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media 161
Breakthrough In Automatic Handwritten Character Recognition Sans Deep Learning 66
Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection 105
MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection 72
Firefox 43 Arrives With 64-bit Version For Windows, Android Tab Audio Indicators 188
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem? 167
Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online 67
Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? 177
Universal Remote Desktop Coming To Windows 10 Soon 125
Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law 180
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services 96
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Oculus Founder Says Rift Can Match Valve's 'Room-Scale' VR 36
Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions 159
Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype 44
NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds 99
Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress 184
$7 Million Xprize For Deep Ocean Exploration 37
FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February 533
Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development 82
Twitter Users Warned About Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks 43
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace 124
Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices 116
Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs 220
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars 236
Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? 136
Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos 105
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
In Nevada, the World's First "Droneport" 12
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? 69
Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates 84
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack 147
FTTH Coming To Lincoln, Nebraska 45
No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net 216
Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards 44
Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers 54
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites 146
Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development 181
AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists 91
Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory 110
Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity 19
Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest 44
Samsung Enters Auto Industry To Make Electronics For Autonomous Cars 31
Facebook Open Sources AI Hardware Design 56
Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US 89
Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor 186
Quantum Computer Security? NASA Doesn't Want To Talk About It 86
AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug 132
Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy 76
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
Baidu Speeds Up Driverless Race With First Full Test On Beijing Roads 37
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model 201
WordPress 4.4 Arrives 39
Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket 114
Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer 44
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects 251
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
Samsung Launches Business Unit To Focus On Driverless Cars 37
Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected 84
Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo 210
Google Fiber Targets Chicago and Los Angeles 37
Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong 166
HTC Delays Vive VR Launch Until April 2016 18
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones 174
Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing 157
Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content 305
Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 30
Twitter Testing Non-Chronological Timelines 83
In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You 94
Radeon Graphics Cards To Support HDR Displays and FreeSync Over HDMI In 2016 37
Spotting And Culling Terrorist Groups On Social Media: Pipe Dream, or Possibility? 69
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die 290
Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input 60
Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use 89
A New Technique For Creating Diamonds Discovered 119
Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops 423
Facebook Shuts Down Creative Labs 62
Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing 331
The Death of Electronic Surplus 138
US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All 81
Verizon Creates Minecraft Mod To Let Players Video Chat On an In-Game Smartphone 36
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 665
Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets 61
Fan Lists Himself As a Band's Family Member On Wikipedia To Sneak Backstage 91
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch 86
Google Santa Tracker Is Back 68
Google 360 VR Patriots Experience Puts You In the Pocket With Brady 36
Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock 174
Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots 150
India Wins Contract To Launch Private Weather Satellites 34
Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood 91
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive 131
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing 288
Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor 254
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands 238
How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? 211
Iran's Military Nuclear Program Lasted Longer Than We Thought 134
Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser 114
Nokia Completes Sale of HERE Mapping Services 15
Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released 109

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