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It's a Pivotal moment: Dell's cloudy soft limb hits the stock market
And so it begins: Veritas lays off UK workers, R&D bods hit hardest
BOFH
: We know where the bodies are buried
Google kills off domain fronting – and so secure comms just got tougher
Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...
Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...
Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates for you to install each summer
Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
Oh, baby! Newborn-care website leaves database of medics wide open
No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure
British Crackas With Attitude chief gets two years in the cooler for CIA spymaster hack
Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking
Apple unleashes FoundationDB as an open source project
Kubernetes? Just automate it….
Build a serverless framework at home: Go on, bit of open sourcey hijinx won't hurt
Docker enterprise kit gets cozy with Kubernetes
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Facebook privacy audit by auditors finds everything is awesome!
Kaspersky Lab loses the privilege of giving Twitter ad money
Creaky NHS digital infrastructure risks holding back gene boffinry, say MPs
Government demands for people's personal info from Microsoft reach all-time low
Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit
Two's company, Three's unbowed: You Brits will pay more for MMS snaps
LESTER gets ready to trundle:
The Register
's beer-bot has a name
Motorola Z
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Force: This one's for the butterfingered Android lovers
Geek's Guide
Here's another headline where NASA is dragged through the mud for cheap Mars wise cracks
Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy times
Musk: I want to retrieve rockets with big Falcon party balloons
SpaceX finally Falcon flings NASA's TESS into orbit
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
How much do AI gurus really get paid? And is NIPS such a great name for a conference?
Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient
Samsung-backed gizmo may soon juice up your smartphone over the air
Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error
Verity Stob
Drama brews on high seas as Playmobil ship running out of steam
Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?
There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick
Size does matter, chaps: Oversized todgers an evolutionary handicap
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Curiosity looks up, spies Martian double-mooning
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As Curiosity trundles across the Martian surface, the bulk of NASA's interest has been focused downwards at the ground, but the rover has also been looking up and has captured some remarkable video of the two moons of Mars overlapping each other overhead.
Iain Thomson
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17 Aug 2013
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WTF is... backend-as-a-service?
It was only a matter of time until a company like Firebase appeared, saw some success, and went into general availability, but that isn't helping with the nauseous term for its tech: backend-as-a-service.
Jack Clark
,
17 Aug 2013
206
Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic
You can all relax now. The near-unprecedented outage that seemingly affected all of Google's services for a brief time on Friday is over.
Neil McAllister
,
17 Aug 2013
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BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone network
There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick
Facebook puts 1.5bn users on a boat from Ireland to California
CEO insisted his email was on server that had been offline for years
SpaceX finally Falcon flings NASA's TESS into orbit
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