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PAH! Four decades of Star Wars: No lightsabers, no palm-sized video calls

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Sort of. Leia's a New Hope

Google wants to track your phone and credit card through meatspace

World's biggest advertising company needs to prove ads are worth the money

Britain's on the brink of a small-scale nuclear reactor revolution

Sure, there are hurdles, but no £18bn hole on the other side like Hinkley Point

EU ministers approve anti-hate speech video rules

Security

Feeling Locky, punk? Ransomware grew eight-fold last year

Days of future past
24 May 21:04
Science

Schiaparelli probe crash caused by excessive spin, report concludes

Lander exercise was 'very close' to a success
24 May 20:49
Personal Tech

Intel pitches a Thunderbolt 3-for-all

Chipzilla says USB standard will be open to the world
24 May 20:47
DevOps

Twilio packages code boilerplate to woo devs

Call proxy service aims to appeal to businesses with mobile workers
24 May 19:59
Business

Costs v sales agent? Not just yet, judge tells Retro Computers Ltd

ZX Spectrum-themed game console firm didn't quite win court order, either
24 May 18:36
Storage

HPE flashes out 3PAR, Nimble and MSA kit

Joins Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure to upgrade all-flash arrays
24 May 17:33

Don't miss Huawei Honor 8 Pro: Makes iPhone 7 Plus look a bit crap

Servers

Hitachi exits mainframe hardware but will collab with IBM on z Systems

Big Blue's big iron to be loaded with Hitachi's OS software
24 May 16:04
Personal Tech

Huawei missed memo that PC's dead – so here are three new notebooks

Hands OnTouchscreens? Who needs 'em?
19 Comments
24 May 15:33
Storage

HPE's Nimble Secondary Flash Array uses... disk?

AnalysisWhat are they banging on about?
24 May 15:16
Emergent Tech

Google now mingles everything you've bought with everywhere you've been

(And everything you've seen) Welcome to 'Closing the Loop'
35 Comments
24 May 15:03
Internet of Things
Man winces in terror and shock after something unexpectedly horrible happens to him. Photo by Shutterstock

Are telcos' customers expecting too much of IoT connectivity techs?

Also, here's why LTE-M gained ground over NB-IoT in Europe
24 May 14:38
Business
A crying child

Dixons Carphone: Brexit not a factor as Brits' gadget lust holds strong

Gloom and doom? Consumers still shopping with us, trills CEO
24 May 14:06
Storage
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WDC flashes the cash in in Tosh Memory biz bid: 2 treeellion yen

+CommentPartners with state-backed Japanese funds
24 May 13:49
Security

64-bit malware threat may be itty-bitty now, but it's only set to grow

Upgrade and they will come
24 May 13:00
Bootnotes

'Odour' from AnalTech ramming leads to hazmat team callout

Some might say this is fake news. It isn't
32 Comments
24 May 12:34
Artificial Intelligence

AI-powered dynamic pricing turns its gaze to the fuel pumps

AnalysisShopping as a constant poker game
41 Comments
24 May 12:03
Security

Speaking in Tech: Depressing WannaCrypt postmortem edition

PodcastAt least we'll always have #catsinteslas
24 May 11:34
Artificial Intelligence

8 out of 10 cats fear statistics – AI doesn't have this problem

Use and abuse of figures
28 Comments
24 May 11:01
Emergent Tech

PAH! Four decades of Star Wars: No lightsabers, no palm-sized video calls

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Sort of. Leia's a New Hope
37 Comments
24 May 10:31
DevOps

Facebook shares own tools to trap bugs before they break code

Test management and debugging at scale become a bit less daunting
24 May 10:02
Business

Channel luvvie Martin Hellawell set to check out of Softcat. Sort of

IPO? Ticked. 1,079% growth in 11 years? Ticked. Lost the tightness? Nah
24 May 09:33
Science

Britain's on the brink of a small-scale nuclear reactor revolution

Sure, there are hurdles, but no £18bn hole on the other side like Hinkley Point
150 Comments
24 May 09:02
Security
threats image

Network-sniffing, automation, machine learning: How to get better threat intel

When two 'innocent' events on the network are anything but
24 May 08:39
HPC
Matrix kung fu

GPU-flingers' bash: Forget the Matrix, Neo needs his tensors

HPC blogWhat's a tensor? Glad you asked...
13 Comments
24 May 08:01
Policy

EU ministers approve anti-hate speech video rules

Facebook, Google, Twitter and friends face clampdown
60 Comments
24 May 07:30
Software

Google starts enterprise support for Chrome, including top SaaS apps

Lobs deployment tools at sysadmins, complete with Silverlight and ActiveX support
16 Comments
24 May 06:59
Transformation

LinkedIn finds friends to join its 'Open19' data centre standards effort

Stacks up against Open Compute with one design for data centres of all sizes plan
24 May 06:15
Policy

India makes biometrics mandatory for all e-gov projects

Cloud's just 'recommended', for now, as local industry plans 50 per cent growth by 2025
24 May 04:58
Business

Google wants to track your phone and credit card through meatspace

World's biggest advertising company needs to prove ads are worth the money
146 Comments
24 May 04:49
Policy

Dodge this: Fiat-Chrysler gets diesel-fuelled sueball from DoJ

Emissions software scandal flares anew
41 Comments
24 May 04:02
DevOps

Bluemix gives users two months to adopt new rolling deployment tool

Active Deploy binned in favour of Kubernetes and/or Cloud Foundry
24 May 02:59
Security

What's got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows
43 Comments
24 May 01:58
Security

How good are selfies these days? Good enough to fool Samsung Galaxy S8 biometrics

Iris-scanner defeated with a camera in night mode, a contact lens, and a printer
57 Comments
24 May 01:32
Cloud

Java Daddy James Gosling goes to work for Amazon Web Services

He left Oracle years ago so this is no biggie, but clearly cloud is where big brains want to roost
24 May 00:58
Security

Last week: 'OpenVPN client is secure!'
This week: 'Unpatched bug in OpenVPN server'

And it's a nasty one if the user you crack has admin rights
11 Comments
24 May 00:44
Bootnotes

Armstrong's moon-purse set for $4m bid-off

One small bag for a man, one giant check for Sotheby's
23 May 23:53
Security

Target inks $18.5m deal with US states to settle 2013 data breach

Fines equal around 8 hours of profit, that'll teach them
23 May 23:25
Science

Particle boffins calculate new constraints for probability of finding dark matter

Axions still a no-show over at CERN Axion Telescope
15 Comments
23 May 23:13
Business
LeEco car

Bloodbath at LeEco US as Chinese tech upstart implodes with layoffs

Kiss goodbye to that Android bike and Transformers car
11 Comments
23 May 22:17
Business
An unhappy driver

Uber found to be doing something awful? Yep, it's Tuesday

Dial-a-ride house admits underpaying New York drivers
16 Comments
23 May 21:49
Policy

Republicans' net neutrality attack written by… you guessed it, the cable lobby

Metadata confirms what we all suspected
25 Comments
23 May 21:13
Networks

NSA takes one-two punch to the face

Two sets of judges rule for citizens and against government
23 Comments
23 May 20:24
Networks

Comcast accused of siccing lawyers on net neutrality foe

Activists say they got cease and desist threat for pointing out astroturfing
12 Comments
23 May 19:28

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