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Dell EMC refreshes its entry-level arrays

Hitachi Data Systems is no more! Arise the new 'Hitachi Vantara'

Oracle promises SLAs that halve Amazon's cloud costs

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

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

Google Cloud's API knows the sort of thing you like to look at

Chap tames Slack by piping it into Emacs

FedEx: TNT NotPetya infection blew a $300m hole in our numbers

IT fraudster facing four years' bird time for $10k blackmail

Manchester plod still running 1,500 Windows XP machines

Lloyds Bank payments glitch frustrates merchants

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

Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

The developers vs enterprise architects showdown: You shall know us by our trail of diagrams

WordPress has adverse reaction to Facebook's React.js licence

Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

UK Prime Minister calls on internet big beasts to ‘auto-takedown’ terror pages within 2 HOURS

EU watchdog: Govt bods are seeking ‘legal knockouts’ to dodge transparency

Toshiba said yes to the Bain-Capital-backed bunch – reports

Compsci degrees aren't returning on investment for coders – research

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)

Geek's Guide

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

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

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

You've been baffled by its smart thermostat. Now strap in for Nest's IoT doorbell, alarm gear

Say Hello to my little friend: Nest blasts IoT world with doorbell, home security gear

Ethereum just checked that part of a Zcash transaction was legit

AI slurps, learns millions of passwords to work out which ones you may use next

Verity Stob

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

RIP Stanislav Petrov: Russian colonel who saved world from all-out nuclear war

Jon Hamm of Mad Men to lend his lungs to bounty hunter Boba Fett

A todger, a 2.5kg dumbbell, the fire brigade... and the inevitable angle grinder

Personal Tech

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

The new LTE-enabled Apple Watch 3 appears to suffer from a bug that can keep the touch-screen wearable from connecting to cellular data networks.

Shaun Nichols, 20 Sep 2017

Amazon wants to be king of the nerd goggles

Something to quicken the pulses of middle-aged men in the shower, whose surname rhymes with "Noble"*.

Andrew Orlowski, 20 Sep 2017

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

Ears-on testJabra's Evolve 80 will hush your office, but the red warning ring is mere bling

73 Comments

18 Sep 02:48

Google sued by Gab over Play Store booting

'Free speech' Twitter alternative alleges antitrust foul

76 Comments

15 Sep 21:51

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

One home at a time

12 Comments

15 Sep 16:07

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

Caveat emptor: It's not what you think

59 Comments

15 Sep 13:25

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

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Sounds like a good idea but looks can be deceptive

96 Comments

15 Sep 09:02

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

Nope, not over the securities fraud, or the drug price hike

106 Comments

13 Sep 23:44

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

Claims of sweat resistance and durability are lies, litigious customers contend

55 Comments

13 Sep 19:49

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

CommentSamsung has little to fear

160 Comments

13 Sep 10:53

Samsung mobile launches bug bounty program

Crack a Galaxy or bash Bixby and score US$20K to $200K

13 Sep 04:58

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

Steve Jobs Theater fittingly opens with cult-like showcasing of overpriced gear

244 Comments

12 Sep 20:42

Mobile industry begrudgingly accepts impacts of Apple, Google et al

Mobile World CongressBut holds out hope that self-driving cars, smart homes and VR can change that

12 Comments

12 Sep 19:30

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

We've got a little listicle... of missing, must-have features

291 Comments

12 Sep 10:36

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

Any point turning up? Not now

114 Comments

11 Sep 11:29

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

World ExclusiveClamshell QWERTY has a few unique tricks

160 Comments

11 Sep 11:00

Opinion

News

RIP wireless laptop docks as Intel bins WiGig parts

Chipzilla thinks fast short-range wireless is good for VR, where desks are always tidy

11 Sep 05:31

London Tube tracking trial may make commuting less miserable

Fascinating detail on how people move around the system

94 Comments

09 Sep 07:25

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

Nothing at all wrong with this

29 Comments

08 Sep 20:58

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

Something for the Weekend, Sir?If someone filmed it, it must be real

61 Comments

08 Sep 08:11

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

Android 8.0 bug runs internet traffic over LTE rather than Wi-Fi

39 Comments

07 Sep 22:01

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

All we want is life beyond the iPhoneDome…

48 Comments

07 Sep 10:21

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

Tell me again why slower internet is a good thing?

15 Comments

06 Sep 21:24

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

UpdatedExciting new problem for microblogging giant to completely ignore

62 Comments

06 Sep 19:44

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

AnalysisRoach motel

41 Comments

06 Sep 12:37

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

73 Comments

06 Sep 06:57

Stealth, lightweight Android breaks cover

Google's new landfill strategy

19 Comments

05 Sep 16:15

It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild

Anniversary special brings back much-loved features

137 Comments

04 Sep 11:44

Don’t buy that Surface, plead Surface cloners

IFAJust don’t call us cloners

43 Comments

01 Sep 16:34

Memo to Microsoft: Keeping your promises is probably a good idea

CommentBlame SatNad, not NYPD, for the mobile blues

56 Comments

01 Sep 16:03

Samsung keeps the smartwatch alive. Just

IFA'Don't think of it as a watch'

28 Comments

31 Aug 16:01

Sony remembers it once made a great little phone

IFACompact revived with flagship CPU

42 Comments

31 Aug 14:01

LG teases us with svelte V30 but refuses to say if it's coming to Blighty

'Key European markets'? C'mon, just tell us already

24 Comments

31 Aug 12:33

Some positive news: LG, Hitachi, NEC charged $65m in li-ion battery price fixing shocker

L-ion kings to cough up profits – it's the circuit, er, circle of life

15 Comments

30 Aug 18:41

Dell EMC refreshes its entry-level arrays

Hitachi Data Systems is no more! Arise the new 'Hitachi Vantara'

Oracle promises SLAs that halve Amazon's cloud costs

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

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

Google Cloud's API knows the sort of thing you like to look at

Chap tames Slack by piping it into Emacs

FedEx: TNT NotPetya infection blew a $300m hole in our numbers

IT fraudster facing four years' bird time for $10k blackmail

Manchester plod still running 1,500 Windows XP machines

Lloyds Bank payments glitch frustrates merchants

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

Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

The developers vs enterprise architects showdown: You shall know us by our trail of diagrams

WordPress has adverse reaction to Facebook's React.js licence

Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

UK Prime Minister calls on internet big beasts to ‘auto-takedown’ terror pages within 2 HOURS

EU watchdog: Govt bods are seeking ‘legal knockouts’ to dodge transparency

Toshiba said yes to the Bain-Capital-backed bunch – reports

Compsci degrees aren't returning on investment for coders – research

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)

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

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

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

You've been baffled by its smart thermostat. Now strap in for Nest's IoT doorbell, alarm gear

Say Hello to my little friend: Nest blasts IoT world with doorbell, home security gear

Ethereum just checked that part of a Zcash transaction was legit

AI slurps, learns millions of passwords to work out which ones you may use next

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

RIP Stanislav Petrov: Russian colonel who saved world from all-out nuclear war

Jon Hamm of Mad Men to lend his lungs to bounty hunter Boba Fett

A todger, a 2.5kg dumbbell, the fire brigade... and the inevitable angle grinder

Personal Tech

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?

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

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

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

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

Stealth, lightweight Android breaks cover

It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild

Don’t buy that Surface, plead Surface cloners

Memo to Microsoft: Keeping your promises is probably a good idea

Samsung keeps the smartwatch alive. Just

Sony remembers it once made a great little phone

LG teases us with svelte V30 but refuses to say if it's coming to Blighty

Some positive news: LG, Hitachi, NEC charged $65m in li-ion battery price fixing shocker