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UK comms watchdog mulls 5G tweaks: Operators want moooooar power

Strong-willed field support op holds it together during painful customer call

We reveal what's inside Microsoft's Azure Govt Secret regions... wait, is that a black helico–

Cloud Atlas: Huawei's homegrown AI hardware hits shelves. Oh, and it's working on DNA storage

Hands off Brock! EFF pleads with Google not to kill its Privacy Badger with its Manifest destiny

Disco Dingo fever: Ubuntu 19.04 has an infrastructure bent, snappier GNOME and another stupid name

Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

Wannacry-slayer Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

Not one of the 12 steps: Rehab patients' details exposed in publicly visible database

Old-school cruel: Dodgy PDF email attachments enjoying a renaissance

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?

Chaos? We’ll show you how to make it work for your software org

Double trouble for Lyft after share price drop sparks class action lawsuits claiming hype

Yes, I may have advised 'some' investors to flog their Autonomy shares, analyst tells High Court

Supreme Court of UK gives Morrisons the go-ahead for mega data leak liability appeal

Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

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

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

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

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

Geek's Guide

Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans)

Three planets and two stars adds up to one research team made very happy by Kepler's unique discovery

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Last week in space: Giant aircraft, asteroid impacts and exploding satellites

IBM Watson Health cuts back Drug Discovery 'artificial intelligence' after lackluster sales

Speak your brains on AI platforms: They have been hyped to death... but what's your practical reality?

Microsoft president: We said no to Cali cops' face-recog tech – and we won't craft killer robots

We know you all want to shove AI where the sun doesn't shine. And that's exactly where it's going – detecting prostate cancer

Verity Stob

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it

Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years

So how'd this go again... A sea goddess told you in a dream to run for president of Taiwan? OK, Mr Foxconn boss

Personal Tech

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 | 24

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 | 183

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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 | 141

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

CommentDeadline for 5G kit was perilously close

17 Apr 13:02 | 51

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 | 112

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

Handwritten note on keyboard saying sorry with sad face

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

Friends look shocked watching TV. photo by Shutterstock

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

Galaxy A80

Samsung's tricksy midrange teasers want your flagship catch

AnalysisGetting serious at last

11 Apr 15:45 | 23

hole

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

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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

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

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: 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 | 175

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Donald Trump and Vlad Putin

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Computer says explode

Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it

mark zuckerberg facebook

Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!

Record scratch, freeze frame: You're probably wondering how I got here

Who's using Mueller Report Day to bury bad news? If you guessed Facebook, you're right: Millions more passwords stored in plaintext

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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 | 15

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

Guy with tape across his mouth

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

P30 pic pyrotechnics in Paris: That's one Huawei to set the smartphone world alight

CommentEvery new phone is a hard sell in 2019. Will photo stunts be enough?

27 Mar 09:21 | 37

The completely rational take you need on Europe approving Article 13: An ill-defined copyright regime to tame US tech

Confusing rules aim to spread the wealth... in two years' time

26 Mar 20:54 | 130

Huawei P30 Series

Huawei's 2019 flagship smartphones: 'Things nobody else can do' but baby I swear it's déjà vu

P30 uncannily similar to 2018's P20 bar imaging overhaul

26 Mar 15:47 | 23

NexDock 2

NexDock 2: Electric Boogaloo. Crowdfunded laptop shell sequel touts less plastic, more pixels

Hoping for an Empire Strikes Back rather than a Big Momma's House 2

25 Mar 10:28 | 45

A man with mad hair turns the page in a book

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher

22 Mar 19:29 | 62

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Hands-OnRift S adds some technology... but not enough

22 Mar 06:03 | 61

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow

21 Mar 06:54 | 29

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

Aussie media claims Silicon Valley giant used surveillance tool to torpedo competitor

21 Mar 00:40 | 14

Mobes 'n' mattresses flinger Xiaomi growing like the clappers – outside China, at least

The Last Emporium

20 Mar 17:15 | 12

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