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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 S to Win 10 Pro upgrade offer

That Windows-Store-apps-only plan doesn't seem to be going down well with Surface buyers

The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

Cloud washes Dell off perch atop storage market

Cisco puts UCS director on death row, to be replaced by cloudy 'Intersight'

Red Hat pledges patent protection for 99 per cent of FOSS-ware

Ah, good ol' Windows update cycles... Wait, before anything else, check your hardware

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

More are paying to stream music, but YouTube still holds the value gap

Don’t fear the software shopkeeper: T&Cs banning bad reviews aren’t legal in America

Want to get around app whitelists by pretending to be Microsoft? Of course you can...

Aw, not you too, Verizon: US telco joins list of leaky AWS S3 buckets

NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet

HMRC scoops up Microsoft veep for CIO role

So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth

A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you

So much data, so little time: How to not flip your wig processing it

Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license

Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned

Puppet plays puppet master, gobbles up automation firm Distelli

GitLab freezes GraphQL project amid looming Facebook patent fears

For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly

UK.gov lays down rules for cross-Whitehall data slurps

Microsoft reveals details of flagship London store within spitting distance from Apple's

How Apple is taming the ad biz. Just don't expect Google or Zuck to follow

Super Cali goes ballistic, Gatorade app is bogus: Even the sound of it is something quite atrocious

If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck

Crap cracked fat-attack Pact app chaps slapped in pact backtrack infract

Attention adults working in the real world: Do not upgrade to iOS 11 if you use Outlook, Exchange

NASA, wait, wait lemme put my drink down... NASA, you need to be searching for vanadium

Ducks ding dongs in face of stiff competition

Boffins discover tightest black hole binary system – and it's supermassive

NASA Earthonauts emerge from eight-month isolation in simulated Mars visit

Silicon brains ready to plug into London

Has science gone too far, part 97: Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks, rate them on their violence

Chatbots: A load of hype or fancy lifehack for the lazy IT person?

Baidu-backed fund has a BEEELLION quid for 100 self-driving projects

Kebab and pizza shop owner jailed for hiding £179k from the taxman

You forgot that you hired me and now you're saying it's MY fault?

Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban

Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers

Personal Tech

Falling apart at the seamless: Inside Apple's LTE Watch fiasco

Register Lectures tackle war and power... in the digital world at least

GNOME Foundation backs 'freedom-oriented' smartphone

Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time

Mobe reception grief turns LTE Apple Watch 3 into – er, a dull watch

Amazon wants to be king of the nerd goggles

Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

Sprint, T-Mobile US reignite mega-merger talks (again)

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is hot, but not much more than the S8+

What do you call an all-in-one PC that isn't? 'Upgradeable', says HP

Noise-canceling headphones with a DO NOT DISTURB light can't silence your critics

Google sued by Gab over Play Store booting

Essential's Rubin coy on mysterious Plan to Take Over the Universe

Why the Apple Watch with LTE means a very Apple-y sort of freedom

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

Opinion

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

Sacre bleu! Apple's high price, marginal gain iPhone strategy leaves it stuck in the mud

Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV

No, Apple. A 4G Watch is a really bad idea

News

Facebook posts put Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli in prison as a danger to society

Apple's 'shoddy' Beats headphones get slammed in lawsuit

Sacre bleu! Apple's high price, marginal gain iPhone strategy leaves it stuck in the mud

Samsung mobile launches bug bounty program

Apple: Our stores are your 'town square' and a $1,000 iPhone is your 'future'

Mobile industry begrudgingly accepts impacts of Apple, Google et al

Five ways Apple can fix the iPhone, but won't

Massive iPhone X leak trashes Apple's 10th anniversary circus

The new, new Psion is getting near production. Here's what it looks like

RIP wireless laptop docks as Intel bins WiGig parts

London Tube tracking trial may make commuting less miserable

我的天啊! China gives Weibo users a week to use their real names

Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV

Google rushes to curb Oreo's massive appetite for your 4G mobile data

We don't need another hero: Huawei overtakes Apple – even without a big-hitter

FCC taps the brakes on fudging US broadband speed amid senator fury

Twitter is just randomly deleting people's lists – and no one knows why

Facebook's music plans mean you'll never leave Facebook