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Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK

Checkmate, Qualcomm: Apple in billion-dollar bid to gobble Intel’s 5G modem blueprints, staff – new claim

Hi. Sorry, we're still grinding Huawei at this: UK govt once again puts off decision to ban Chinese giant from 5G

Google settles a four-year age-discrimination battle with 227 engineers by dishing out... $11m

I don't know but I've been told: IBM slurps AU$95.5m ERP delivery contract from Aussie DoD

SUSE taps SAP exec Melissa Di Donato to become open-source biz's first female CEO

TypeScript is now a 'top 10' language – just in time for the 'feature complete' 3.6 beta

npm uninstall co-founder --global: Laurie Voss rides off into the sunset waving goodbye

Lancaster Uni data breach hits at least 12,500 wannabe students

It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

Equifax to world+dog: If we give you this $700m, can you pleeeeease stop suing us about that mega-hack thing?

Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech

Share your story: Continuous Lifecycle 2020 call for papers is open NOW – what are you waiting for?

IBM drags Websphere devs towards Kubernetes with Kabanero package

Amazon brings serverless pie to Visual Studio Code party

Want to get deep into AWS Lambda or Azure Functions? Spend the day with us...

How does UK.gov fsck up IT projects? Let us count the ways

Microsoft breaks out checkbook, turns Hungarian 'bribe' charge into a mere 'settlement'

BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

Ofcom 'fair deal' action: UK mobile networks agree to slash contract charges when lock-in ends – except Three

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

The pro-privacy Browser Act has re-appeared in US Congress. But why does everyone except right-wing trolls hate it?

Geek's Guide

Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago

Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag

Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data from crime victims' phones

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

There are dozens of fantastic reasons why you should join us at our AI conference – and here's yet another one

Microsoft bungs a billion bucks at biz developing AI that will take our jobs 'for the benefit of all'

Verity Stob

Braking bad? Van with £112m worth of crystal meth in back hits cop car at police station

'Cockwomble' is off the menu: Uncle Bulgaria issues edict against using name in vain

France seeks science-fiction writers to help futureproof its military against science-fact

Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle

Emergent Tech

UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data from crime victims' phones

Report claims forces trawl through data 'indiscriminately'

23 Jul 10:51 | 10

Emergent Tech

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

FeatureOnly fools rush into mobile payments and cryptocurrencies

23 Jul 09:00 | 32

Artificial Intelligence

There are dozens of fantastic reasons why you should join us at our AI conference – and here's yet another one

EventSnap up an early-bird MCubed ticket today, save £££s, attend almost 40 top talks and workshops

23 Jul 07:02 |

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft bungs a billion bucks at biz developing AI that will take our jobs 'for the benefit of all'

Ours too, though OpenAI says GPT-2 model won't be released

22 Jul 17:00 | 25

Artificial Intelligence

Pair programming? That's so 2017. Try out this deep-learning AI bot that autocompletes lines of source code for you

OpenAI's GPT-2 language model has been tweaked to help you code faster

22 Jul 09:15 | 65

Emergent Tech

You don't have to drown in data. Extract insight from your info using advanced IT analytics

Sponsored webcastTune in today to hear from Sumo Logic on real-time monitoring and app stack troubleshooting

22 Jul 06:00 |

Artificial Intelligence

It's a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it

RoundupWatching us, watching you

21 Jul 20:03 | 13

Artificial Intelligence

Literally braking news: Two people hurt as not one but two self-driving space-age buses go awry

One hit by robo-ride, another injured in US, Austrian trials

19 Jul 20:30 | 90

Internet of Things

You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)

America. Fsck yeah

19 Jul 19:00 | 54

Artificial Intelligence

You totally need VMs to do AI, nods VMware as Bitfusion dissolves in its vSphere of influence

Virty GPU upstart joins the fold

19 Jul 13:15 | 4

Artificial Intelligence

Don't miss out: Learn essential AI skills from dozens of top-notch speakers, sessions and workshops at this year's MCubed conference

EventGet your early-bird tickets for talks ranging from technical deep-dives to advice on ethics and the law

19 Jul 06:00 |

Artificial Intelligence

Arrested development: Cops dump Amazon's facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly

15 months of wrangling and Orlando couldn't even begin testing AI cloud tech for population surveillance

19 Jul 00:38 | 18

Internet of Things

We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers

You can monitor your child – and their bowels – 24 hours a day! Which is… great?

18 Jul 19:09 | 132

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk's new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?

AnalysisWe ask top boffins if the plan is good enough for skull drilling

18 Jul 09:30 | 123

Emergent Tech

Don't give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs

AnalysisInstead of enriching Google, try making a market for click work

18 Jul 05:34 | 22

Artificial Intelligence

Well I'm looking to AI to save me, looking 'cos it's my design: Could you make my drone learn to fly hybrid?

Pssst. You don't need to manually code it, neural networks will do it for you

17 Jul 09:50 | 2

Emergent Tech

Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...)

Take a RISC, not a RISC-V, with us, says Softbank's processor design house

16 Jul 14:00 | 16

Emergent Tech

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

It records everything, even when someone didn't want to be overheard? And it's in your house? Was zum Teufel!

16 Jul 07:04 | 59

Artificial Intelligence

AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)

Even so, human nerds are left in the dust and this neural net can be used for other tricks

16 Jul 05:07 | 30

Emergent Tech

Facebook's Libra is a terrorist's best friend, thunders US Treasury: Crypto-coins dubbed 'national security risk'

But Zuck Inc got in first and announced it was delaying its unwelcome electronic currency

15 Jul 20:23 | 39

Artificial Intelligence

Good luck deleting someone's private info from a trained neural network – it's likely to bork the whole thing

Researchers show limited success in getting rid of data

15 Jul 09:04 | 68

Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK

Checkmate, Qualcomm: Apple in billion-dollar bid to gobble Intel’s 5G modem blueprints, staff – new claim

Hi. Sorry, we're still grinding Huawei at this: UK govt once again puts off decision to ban Chinese giant from 5G

Google settles a four-year age-discrimination battle with 227 engineers by dishing out... $11m

I don't know but I've been told: IBM slurps AU$95.5m ERP delivery contract from Aussie DoD

SUSE taps SAP exec Melissa Di Donato to become open-source biz's first female CEO

TypeScript is now a 'top 10' language – just in time for the 'feature complete' 3.6 beta

npm uninstall co-founder --global: Laurie Voss rides off into the sunset waving goodbye

Lancaster Uni data breach hits at least 12,500 wannabe students

It's 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

Equifax to world+dog: If we give you this $700m, can you pleeeeease stop suing us about that mega-hack thing?

Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech

Share your story: Continuous Lifecycle 2020 call for papers is open NOW – what are you waiting for?

IBM drags Websphere devs towards Kubernetes with Kabanero package

Amazon brings serverless pie to Visual Studio Code party

Want to get deep into AWS Lambda or Azure Functions? Spend the day with us...

How does UK.gov fsck up IT projects? Let us count the ways

Microsoft breaks out checkbook, turns Hungarian 'bribe' charge into a mere 'settlement'

BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

Ofcom 'fair deal' action: UK mobile networks agree to slash contract charges when lock-in ends – except Three

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

The pro-privacy Browser Act has re-appeared in US Congress. But why does everyone except right-wing trolls hate it?

Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago

Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag

Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data from crime victims' phones

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

There are dozens of fantastic reasons why you should join us at our AI conference – and here's yet another one

Microsoft bungs a billion bucks at biz developing AI that will take our jobs 'for the benefit of all'

Braking bad? Van with £112m worth of crystal meth in back hits cop car at police station

'Cockwomble' is off the menu: Uncle Bulgaria issues edict against using name in vain

France seeks science-fiction writers to help futureproof its military against science-fact

Incognito mode won't stop smut sites sharing your pervy preferences with Facebook, Google and, er, Oracle

Emergent Tech

UK cops blasted over 'disproportionate' slurp of years of data from crime victims' phones

Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin

There are dozens of fantastic reasons why you should join us at our AI conference – and here's yet another one

Microsoft bungs a billion bucks at biz developing AI that will take our jobs 'for the benefit of all'

Pair programming? That's so 2017. Try out this deep-learning AI bot that autocompletes lines of source code for you

You don't have to drown in data. Extract insight from your info using advanced IT analytics

It's a facial-recognition bonanza: Oakland bans it, activists track it, and pics taken from dating-site OkCupid feed it

Literally braking news: Two people hurt as not one but two self-driving space-age buses go awry

You'll never guess what US mad lads Throwflame have strapped to a drone (clue: it does exactly what it says on the tin)

You totally need VMs to do AI, nods VMware as Bitfusion dissolves in its vSphere of influence

Don't miss out: Learn essential AI skills from dozens of top-notch speakers, sessions and workshops at this year's MCubed conference

Arrested development: Cops dump Amazon's facial-recognition API after struggling to make the thing work properly

We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers

Elon Musk's new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?

Don't give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs

Well I'm looking to AI to save me, looking 'cos it's my design: Could you make my drone learn to fly hybrid?

Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...)

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)

Facebook's Libra is a terrorist's best friend, thunders US Treasury: Crypto-coins dubbed 'national security risk'

Good luck deleting someone's private info from a trained neural network – it's likely to bork the whole thing

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BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

Pair programming? That's so 2017. Try out this deep-learning AI bot that autocompletes lines of source code for you

Gamers get a chance to battle an AI on the QT. Plus: Robo-marines, and fisticuffs over facial recognition in Detroit

Congrats, Nvidia and Google: You're still the best (out of five) at training neural networks

Loose tongues and oily seamen: Lost in machine translation yet again

It's 2019. Network and application performance management ought to be married. But how? Hear us out – what about.. AI?

How an ace-hole AI bot built by Facebook, CMU boffins whipped a table of human poker pros

'It’s not a surveillance program'... US govt isn't going all Beijing on us with border face-recog, official tells Congress

Tesla’s Autopilot losing track of devs crashing out of 'leccy car maker

No DeepNudes please, we're GitHub: Code repo deep-sixed as Discord bans netizens who sought out vile AI app

AWS's upgraded DeepLens AI camera zooms in on Europe

The ISS Experience: Not visiting any time soon? Through a VR glass darkly may be next best thing

Chinese government has got it 'spot on' when it comes to face-recog tech says, er, London's Met cops' top rep

Got an 'old' Tesla? Musk promises 'self-driving' upgrade chip ship by end of 2019

Facebook outage a peep at platform's ML tagging conventions, Baidu links up with Intel and Huawei on AI chips, and more

Surrey Uni boffins take us a step closer to the cyberpunk future with cell-scanning nanotech

Was this quake AI a little too artificial? Nature-published research accused of boosting accuracy by mixing training, testing data

DeepNude's makers tried to deep-six their pervy AI app. Web creeps have other ideas: Cracked copies shared online as code decompiled

Politicos freak out over facial recognition and deepfakes, Apple saves Drive.AI, and more