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It's springtime for Springtown as Seagate rains nearly £50m on Northern Ireland plant

Customers furious over days-long outage as A2 Hosting scores a D- in Windows uptime

BOFH: It's not just an awesome app, it'll look great on my Insta. . a. a. AAAARRRRRGGH

Is that a stiffy disk in your drive... or something else entirely?

Turn on, tune in, cash out: Hipster chat plat Slack whacks beardie millennials with features

Microsoft's Edge on Apple's macOS? It's more likely than you think for new browser

Now Ponder Mistakes: NPM's heavy-handed management prompts JS code registry challenger

QEMU 4 arrives with toys for Arm admirers, RISC-V revolutionaries, POWER patriots... you get the idea

Thank you, your DNA data will help secure your… oh dear, we've lost that too

There's NordVPN odd about this, right? Infosec types concerned over strange app traffic

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more

What happens when your legacy platforms meet DevOps, Containers and CD?

DevOps grandpa Electric Cloud absorbed into youthful CloudBees

We can help you get on top of DevOps, CI/CD and containers, all in one month's time...

What exactly is everyone doing with DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless?

A copy-paste of Europe and a '5G' hotel: El Reg's Adventures in Huawei Land were fairly wacky

Samsung to invest $115bn in logic chip biz over next 11 years as volatile memory mart cools

Clear Ventures does an Electric Boogaloo with sequel fund to splash $180m on 'Industry 4.0'

High Court confirms the way UK banned GSM gateways was illegal

Huawei P30: New No-Pro's cameras are flash ... but there are some curious bits

ood new, fanbys. Apple spds up n-str McBook latop kyboad rpairs, ccrding t hs leakd mmo

Facebook: Not saying we've done anything wrong but... we're just putting $3bn profit aside for an FTC privacy fine

5G is Chinese firms' foot in the door to Europe as Oppo launches flagship Reno mobe in Zurich

Geek's Guide

What are we more like to see? A smooth Windows 10 May release... or a xenon-124 decay? Oh dear, bad news, IT folks

Rising sea levels? How about the rising risk of someone using a nuke?

Thanks to the NASA InSight probe (and British tools), you can now listen to the sound of a Martian earthquake

It was that gosh-darn anomaly again, says SpaceX as smoke billows from Crew Dragon test site

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

Boffins bring home the bacon as AI-powered robo-medic performs heart surgery on pigs

Docker raises Arm to make itself handier for IoT edge data pushing

Baffling tale of Apple shops' 'non-facial' 'facial recognition', a stolen ID, and a $1bn lawsuit after a wrongful arrest

Verity Stob

Owner of Smuggler's Inn B&B ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross into Canada

Jocasta? Jocasta! Don't ram that trolley into the man: New tech promises an end to this scenario

Parents slapped with dress code after turning school grounds into a fashion crime scene

President Trump sits down with Twitter boss for crunch talks: Why am I losing followers?

Personal Tech

Huawei P30 Series

Huawei P30: New No-Pro's cameras are flash ... but there are some curious bits

ReviewAs solid as ever, but not such a bargain any more

26 Apr 08:15 | 6

A child with a butterfly, from shutterstock

ood new, fanbys. Apple spds up n-str McBook latop kyboad rpairs, ccrding t hs leakd mmo

Time for those geniuses to earn that job title

25 Apr 00:45 | 56

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Facebook: Not saying we've done anything wrong but... we're just putting $3bn profit aside for an FTC privacy fine

Net income halved as antisocial network preps for big slap

24 Apr 23:18 | 21

5G is Chinese firms' foot in the door to Europe as Oppo launches flagship Reno mobe in Zurich

Huawei was just the beginning

24 Apr 18:00 | 5

Behold, the insides of Samsung's Galaxy Fold: The phone that tears down all on its own

UpdatedMind the gap

24 Apr 16:30 | 37

The peelable, foldable phone has become the great white whale of tech

AnalysisNow Samsung wants its samples back

24 Apr 10:30 | 112

Cache in those chips: Intel emits more ninth-gen Core processors, Nvidia touts GPUs and swipes back at Tesla

RoundupQuick summary as your morning coffee brews

24 Apr 05:27 | 4

California's politicians rush to gut internet privacy law with pro-tech giant amendments

AnalysisMeanwhile, the only pro-privacy proposal gets quietly pulled

23 Apr 19:38 | 43

Now here's a Galaxy far, far away: Samsung stalls Fold rollout after fold-able screens break in hands of reviewers

You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run

22 Apr 18:59 | 135

Google rolls out Android Easter Egg for Europe – a Microsoft antitrust-style browser, search engine choice box

Now how about we forget these fines, eh, mes amies? Meine Freunde? Mis amigos?

18 Apr 20:56 | 50

Samsung Galaxy Fold launch PR handout

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

UpdatedBreaking news: Hacks hacked off by Galaxy Fold fail (at least the mobes haven't caught fire)

18 Apr 06:04 | 188

smut identity poster

Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age

You have three months left of unfettered self-love to enjoy

17 Apr 13:55 | 150

Woman tasting apple pie

Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie

CommentDeadline for 5G kit was perilously close

17 Apr 13:02 | 53

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Google readies Pixel for the masses, but are the masses ready for Pixel?

CommentScaling buggy hardware is easier than scaling software

17 Apr 08:03 | 48

That's the way the Cook, he crumbles: Apple, Qualcomm settle patent nuclear war – as Intel quits 5G phone race

UpdatediThings flogger, chip-licensing biz put differences aside, agree multi-year modem supply deal

16 Apr 21:01 | 26

Hey, remember that California privacy law? Big Tech is trying to ram a massive hole in it

AnalysisAmendment would exempt, um, Google and Facebook

16 Apr 20:30 | 38

iOS 13 leaks suggest Apple is finally about to unleash the iPad as a computer for grownups

Once you've wiped the progeny's paw prints from it

16 Apr 11:06 | 115

Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info

AnalysisIn the UK, it seems, someone is trying to think of the children

15 Apr 22:58 | 44

Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree

Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection

15 Apr 19:11 | 56

You're not our FRAND any more, Apple tells Qualcomm: iGiant and pals lob $30bn sueball

Juiciest mobile IP case since Apple battled Samsung over ownership of geometric shapes

15 Apr 18:01 | 24

Samsung's tricksy midrange teasers want your flagship catch

AnalysisGetting serious at last

11 Apr 15:45 | 23

MOST READ

A digitized fingerprint

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect's iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

Samsung Galaxy Fold iFixit teardown

Behold, the insides of Samsung's Galaxy Fold: The phone that tears down all on its own

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Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: 'Puters knackered by bad combo

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Gather round, friends. Listen close. It's time to list the five biggest lies about 5G

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Intel shortages, weak-ass consumer spending, 'peak' Win10 refresh. No, global PC market didn't grow in Q1

Down in EMEA, US, Latin America, APAC. Aw bless... Top 3 vendors profited from small fry's pain, though

11 Apr 10:25 | 21

Xiaomi 'rewards' CEO and founder with £736m worth of B-class shares

Almost as much as 4th biggest mobe maker made in 2018

10 Apr 19:00 | 4

Menu mischief and interface deceit targeted by US lawmakers

A bipartisan bill offers rules against dark patterns

10 Apr 01:26 | 17

father time

Apple disables iPad for 48 years after toddler runs amok

Three-year-old will have own kid disable it in 2067

09 Apr 22:39 | 165

Huawei Mate X foldable

Gartner squints into its crystal ball: A pholdable phuture is very far away

And they won't save the tanking device market in 2019

08 Apr 09:15 | 19

Huawei P30 Pro

Huawei P30 Pro: Nifty camera tricks haven't made mobe mandatory over last year's model

ReviewIt's a good, nearly great phone. But then so is the Mate 20 Pro

08 Apr 08:10 | 38

Get the smell out of here! Gaming tournament bans players who raise a literal stink

YuGiOh takes brave stance of requesting basic hygiene in competitions

05 Apr 21:50 | 22

Want to hang out with criminals but can't be bothered to download Tor? Try Facebook

Network that can't control ads or content turns out to have trouble with illegal activity

05 Apr 21:01 | 34

All's fair in love and war when tech treats you like an infant

Something for the Weekend, Sir?No way you're never gonna shake me... Ooh darlin' cause you'll always be my baby

05 Apr 09:21 | 176

Facebook ad platform discriminates all on its own, say boffins

Bigots, racists and haters rejoice! You are going to get bias out of the box

04 Apr 21:51 | 49

iFixit surgeons tut at iPad mini 5 X-ray: Looks like a mild case of pain-in-the-arse-to-repair

Screwdriver-botherers put the hurt on Apple's little tablet

03 Apr 10:52 | 17

Bit nippy, is it? Hive smart home users find themselves tweaking thermostat BY HAND

Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate

02 Apr 11:59 | 114

stadium

Good news, Man City fans: You can watch your team lose the title in on-demand 3D

Intel CapitalAnd from all different angles you want

02 Apr 05:58 | 19

Huawei P30 Series

Only one Huawei? We pitted the P30 Pro against Samsung and Apple's best – and this is what we found

Special Imaging ReportStunt photo sensation fails everyday people

01 Apr 10:15 | 138

Apple's cancelled AirPower mat

Apple redesigns wireless AirPower charger to be world's smallest, thinnest, lightest, cheapest, invisible... OK, it doesn't exist anymore

Gizmo axed because it wasn't good enough, ran too hot

30 Mar 00:14 | 89

Lip-reading smart speakers: Just what no one always wanted

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Enjoy the silence... while you still can

29 Mar 10:27 | 81

Xiaomi's Mi-too attempt at a pholdable: Not one, but TWO creases of fail

WTF? And the screen is on the outside...

28 Mar 15:10 | 35

Return of the Glassholes? Relax: Huawei's 'smart specs' aren't Google Glass 2.0

Maybe they're just smart enough...

28 Mar 11:30 | 26

Make America buy phones again! Smartphone doom 'n' gloom crosses Atlantic to cast shadow stateside

Analyst revises forecast ... further down

27 Mar 16:07 | 42

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