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IBM HR made me lie to US govt, says axed VP in age-discrim legal row: I was ordered to cover up layoffs of older workers

Veritas bowls two for Tooley, not out: Northern Europe role split

WD you like to know the damage? Analyst predicts sales dip ahead for Western Digital

Black Horse slowed down: Lloyds Banking Group confirms problem with 'Faster' payments

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license

It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

DDoS sueball, felonious fonts, leaky Android file manager, blundering building security, etc etc

The Iceman cometh, his smartwatch told the cops: Hitman jailed after gizmo links him to Brit gangland slayings

US midterms barely over when Russians came knocking on our servers (again), Democrats claim

Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today

Atlassian barges into the billion dollar club with a cheery G'Day!

The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men

Non-profit? Into DevOps, CI/CD, Containers? There’s a CLL ticket with your name on it

Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda to kick off our Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Protestors beg Google not to build censored Project Dragonfly search engine

Say GDP-aaaRrrgh, streamers: Max Schrems is coming for you, Netflix and Amazon

Vodafone signs $550m deal with IBM to offload cloud biz

Tech giant to spend $500m dealing with housing crisis caused by tech giants

Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong

FCC's answer to scandal of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US selling people's location data: Burying its head in the ground

Geek's Guide

Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...

The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

Amazon shareholders revolt on Rekognition, Nvidia opens robotics lab, and hot AI chips on Google Cloud

DNAaaahahaha: Twins' 23andMe, Ancestry, etc genetic tests vary wildly, surprising no one

Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

Verity Stob

Oracle boss's Brexit Britain trip shutdown due to US government shutdown

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

Smartphones gateway drug to the Antichrist, says leader of Russian Orthodox Church

Reg Standards Bureau introduces the Devon fatberg as coastal town menaced by oily blob

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon shareholders revolt on Rekognition, Nvidia opens robotics lab, and hot AI chips on Google Cloud

RoundupThe week's other stories in AI

Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister Carly

DNAaaahahaha: Twins' 23andMe, Ancestry, etc genetic tests vary wildly, surprising no one

UpdatedIdentical sisters with same genetic makeup get different results from test kits

18 Jan 21:33 | 56

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Artificial Intelligence

Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around

VidWhy can't robots just learn to do things without being told?

18 Jan 07:32 | 8

Artificial Intelligence

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

ColumnIt's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin

17 Jan 09:15 | 77

McKinsey’s blockchain warning irks crypto hipsters

Reverse ferret by reassuringly expensive consultant

16 Jan 09:52 | 23

Bipartisan Kumbaya: President Trump turns Obama's open govt data policy into law

AnalysisEvidence-based policy? What a novel idea...

16 Jan 02:58 | 18

Artificial Intelligence

Ahem, Amazon, Google, Microsoft... Selling face-snooping tech to the Feds is bad, mmm'kay?

Government facial surveillance harms civil liberties, advocacy groups warn

15 Jan 21:51 | 18

Artificial Intelligence

World's first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff

Rise of the Machines™'You're fired'

15 Jan 19:00 | 79

HSBC suggests it might have found a... use for blockchain?

Says it used tech to settle 3 million forex transactions, $250bn in payments last year

15 Jan 12:47 | 26

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Artificial Intelligence

Forget Finding Nemo: This AI can identify a single zebrafish out of a 100-strong shoal

Sounds fishy, yet it works for fruit flies, too. So take that, fish/fly-spotting humans

15 Jan 07:01 | 17

Handwritten note on keyboard saying sorry with sad face

What a cheep shot: Bird sorry after legal eagles fire DMCA takedown at scooter unlock blog

EFF slams bad eggs for trying to censor instructions on how to unlock gizmos from app

14 Jan 20:40 | 50

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Artificial Intelligence

Huawei and Intel hype up AI hardware, TensorFlow tidbits, and more

RoundupA light snack of machine-learning news

13 Jan 11:56 | 62

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Internet of Things

Germany has a problem with the entire point of Amazon's daft Dash buttons – and bans them

Sour Krauts aren't wrong: Tap-to-order gizmo is really dumb

11 Jan 19:53 | 121

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Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend

Why? For science!

11 Jan 08:19 | 52

Artificial Intelligence

Americans are just fine with facial recognition technology – as long as they get shorter queues

The younger generation leads the fight against face matching

11 Jan 02:58 | 40

Real-time OS: Ordnance Survey gets snuggly with Intel's Mobileye

Noticed a missing bollard? Mappy partnership may help

09 Jan 11:03 | 30

Artificial Intelligence

Y'know how you might look at someone and can't help but wonder if they have a genetic disorder? We've taught AI to do the same

More suggestive assistant than robo-doc, boffins say

09 Jan 07:05 | 37

If you've been dying to run some math on a dinky toy quantum computer, IBM may have something for you

Well, we all have to start somewhere: Rentable Q machine has just 20 qubits

08 Jan 21:52 | 16

Drone goal! Quadcopter menace alert freezes flights from London Heathrow Airport

Alleged sighting of annoying flying gizmo torments second UK air travel nerve-center

08 Jan 19:29 | 92

AT&T (sucks) upgrades folks to 5G (Evolution) that isn't actually 5G

Job numbers, coverage ... is there anything US telco giant hasn't been accused of inflating?

07 Jan 23:17 | 23

Until now, if Canadian Uber drivers wanted to battle the tech giant, they had to do it in the Netherlands – for real

Yes, taxi app biz has managed the impossible – angering the good folks of Canada

04 Jan 01:44 | 44

MOST READ

IBM HR made me lie to US govt, says axed VP in age-discrim legal row: I was ordered to cover up layoffs of older workers

I used to be a dull John Doe. Thanks to Huawei, I'm now James Bond!

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Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today

Black Horse slowed down: Lloyds Banking Group confirms problem with 'Faster' payments

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It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

FeatureYesterday's sci-fi has become today's crappy kit, apart from space colonies and AI

01 Jan 11:48 | 200

Internet of Things

It's a Christmas miracle: Logitech backs down from Harmony home hub API armageddon

It was The Reg wot won it?

21 Dec 21:58 | 37

A few reasons why cops haven't immediately shot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

CommentRisk of causing even more embuggerance is high, we repeat: high

20 Dec 17:57 | 457

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Internet of Things

A year after Logitech screwed over Harmony users, it, um, screws over Harmony users: Device API killed off

UpdatedYou know that Hub that we forced you to buy? Yeah, we've messed with that one, too

19 Dec 22:23 | 112

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Artificial Intelligence

Brit startup Graphcore tossed a £200m early Christmas pressie for machine learning CPU

Bristol firm says it will 'triple' headcount

18 Dec 16:57 | 8

smart city concept drawing - self-driving cars, wifi hotspots etc - but no people

It's beginning to look a lot like multi-threaded CPUs, everywhere you go... Arm teases SMT Cortex-A65AE car brains

Robo-ride processor core acts a lot like Intel Hyper-Threading

18 Dec 14:00 | 14

KiwiBot

Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames

Kiwibot snack shuttle snuffed by thermal runaway

17 Dec 20:41 | 55

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon's creepy facial recog doorbell, Facebook open sources machine learning code and much more

RoundupPlus: Listen to some new classical piano generated by an algorithm

15 Dec 13:01 | 30

Artificial Intelligence

An AI system has just created the most realistic looking photos ever

Computers are getting better at generating pictures of humans. This will go down well.

14 Dec 21:59 | 31

Artificial Intelligence

Forget your deepest, darkest secrets, smart speakers will soon listen for sniffles and farts too

All the better to sell you stuff

14 Dec 15:00 | 103

Artificial Intelligence

When it comes to AI research the West is winning, the East is rising and women are being left behind

Annual AI Index report shows competitive times ahead

13 Dec 06:01 | 15

waymo

Artificial Intelligence

Waymo presents ChauffeurNet, a neural net designed to copy human driving

TL;DR: The engineers realize that human data isn't enough to teach robots how to drive

12 Dec 00:54 | 79

Man drinks Beer. Photo by shutterstock

LG's beer-making bot singlehandedly sucks all fun, boffinry from home brewing

Water + capsule + 2 weeks = 5 litres of beer

11 Dec 13:10 | 127

ISS

NASA names the date for the first commercial crew demo flight

But will there be any 'nauts left on the ISS after AI bot CIMON has finished with them?

11 Dec 09:13 | 33

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Artificial Intelligence

US Homeland Security installs AI cameras at the White House, Google tries to make translation less sexist

RoundupPlus: European AI researchers to create a new lab

08 Dec 14:01 | 36

Artificial Intelligence

Forget ripping off brains for AI. Butterflies and worms could lead us to self-repairing intelligent robots, says prof

'It’s clear that intelligent behavior doesn’t always require a brain'

07 Dec 06:29 | 18

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft says it's time to get serious about facial recognition rules: 'Laws and regulations are indispensable'

Really, you all, stop it! Hey, Amazon, what's going on back there? Enough! Cut that out!

07 Dec 05:26 | 16

Artificial Intelligence

Get real! Microsoft CTO of AI quits Redmond for real estate biz

Joseph Sirosh has left the building

06 Dec 17:30 | 6

Artificial Intelligence

MCubed '19: Call for papers is open now

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