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Hardware

Redflow's home batteries to start shipping in June

El Reg talks to Simon Hackett about the 'not a PowerWall-killer' home battery
Richard Chirgwin, 31 Mar 22:29

Gartner: RIP double-digit smartphone growth. 2016 has killed you

Microsoft can stop worrying about smartphone non-strategy
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Gavin Clarke, 31 Mar 11:24

Facebook throws BlackBerry an HTML bone

Native apps are soooooo 2015, says BlackBerry, and web apps are the new black
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Simon Sharwood, 31 Mar 07:29

Amazon plans drones with talking propellors

Counter-rotating propellors to cancel noise, simulate speech or flash lights to warn of landing
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Simon Sharwood, 31 Mar 02:02

Got a Toshiba laptop? Get it off your lap, then read this recall notice

Battery packs in 39 models vulnerable to combusting, warns CPSC
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Shaun Nichols, 30 Mar 21:12

Amazon to bad cable slingers: USB-C yourself out

Retailer bans sales of dangerous connectors
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Shaun Nichols, 30 Mar 19:18

COLUMNISTS

Nokia old-school diddy phone

Let’s re-invent small phones! Small screens! And rubber buttons!

Something for the Weekend, Sir? What do I press for 'self-destruct'?
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A rather dusty old Dell, pictured by Tim Massey

Building a fanless PC is now realistic. But it still ain't cheap

Here's a few pointers if you wanted to get cracking
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Sensors, not CPUs, are the tech that swings the smartphone market

The more your phone knows about the world, the more useful - and invasive - it becomes
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REVIEWS

Huawei gold Honor 5X with fingerprint sensor

Huawei Honor 5X: Swishy fingerprint tech for the mid-range

Review Good luck buying it, though
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Lumia 950 XL

Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950XL: Clear thoughts of Continuum with a snazzy camera

Review Sadly, these are for the collectors and diehards only
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Lights, power, action! Smartplugs with a twist

Review Zuli pushes past the competition - but how useful is it really?
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BlackBerry Priv. Press pic

BlackBerry Priv: Enterprise Android in a snazzy but functional package

Review A phone for grown-ups that doesn't suck
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NEWS

Here's a great idea: Let's make a gun that looks like a mobile phone

Dial M for murder
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Kieren McCarthy, 29 Mar 22:27

Surface Hub: A Howard Hughes folly, or a cunning Post It Note killer?

Analysis Behold, a new platform from Microsoft
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Andrew Orlowski, 29 Mar 15:56

Whatever happened to ... Nest?

Egos, bean counters and being Larry Page's buddy have stalled Google's consumer IoT plans
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Andrew Orlowski, 29 Mar 09:27

Amazon ports Alexa voice assistant to Raspberry Pi

Oi, Siri? You there: Cortana! Why can't you run on my Pi?
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Simon Sharwood, 29 Mar 08:29

Three-bit quantum gate a step closer to universal quantum computer

Photons as building blocks for AND, OR, XOR and NOT
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Richard Chirgwin, 29 Mar 06:31

Oculus Rift review-gasm round-up: The QT on VR

We read what people had to say, so you don't have to
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Kieren McCarthy, 29 Mar 06:04

FEATURES

Charis Tsevis's icon montage of Steve Jobs

Done making the big stuff better? The path to Apple's mid-life crisis

Apple at 40 IoT, VR, AI... cars? Let the other guy take the hit first
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Robots, image via Shutterstock

AI no longer needs to fake it. Just don't try talking to your robots

Mankind's creations are almost better than the real thing
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I have you now! Star Wars stocking fillers from another age

The light and the dark side of the gaming Force explored
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Huawei_sign

Huawei who? We probe the sleeping storage dragon's brains

Part I China's massive telecoms giant flexes its enterprise IT muscles
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