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Chip flinger Micron reels in production, expenses as revenue growth comes to crashing halt

Sticking with one mobile provider gets you... Oh. Price rises, big exit fees, and lovely, lovely lock-in

Cloudflare speaks out amid allegations it safeguards banned terror gangs' websites

Ofcom: More spectrum for all the good boys and girls. Except you, EE. You've had your fill

Microsoft: Come and play in our Windows SandBox

Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites? Some insiders are confident it is

Microsoft flings untested Windows 10 updates to users! (Oh no it doesn't!)

Visual Studio Code's Python extension goes to Jupyter

Stop the credential thieves before they stop your business

Houston, we've had a problem: NASA fears internal server hacked, staff personal info swiped by miscreants

American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops 'cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport'

German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have any evidence of Huawei naughtiness?

CLL '19 to span DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and Serverless

Kubernetes has become 'boring' and that's good, Google tells devs

JFrog to open freebie central repository for Go fans in the new year

Need continuous Kubernetes satisfaction? CloudBees has just the thing

IBM: Co-Op Insurance talking direct to coding subcontractor helped collapse of £55m IT revamp project

Bonne année, Google, Facebook! France to tax tech giants from 1 Jan

Silent night, social fight: Is Instagram the new Facebook for pro-Trump Russian propagandists?

Spending watchdog points finger at Capita for 1,300 shortfall in British Army rookies

Suunto settles scary scuba screwup for $50m: 'Faulty' dive computer hardware and software put explorers in peril

Newsflash: Twitter still toxic place for women, particular those of color, Amnesty study finds

The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones

Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

Geek's Guide

Scrubtastic end to 2018 as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace all opt for another day on Earth

Brexit-dodging SCISYS Brits find Galileo joy in Dublin

Happy Christmas! Bloodhound SSC refuelled by Yorkshire business chap

Astroboffins spy a rare exoplanet evaporating before their eyes

Brit startup Graphcore tossed a £200m early Christmas pressie for machine learning CPU

It's beginning to look a lot like multi-threaded CPUs, everywhere you go... Arm teases SMT Cortex-A65AE car brains

Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames

Amazon's creepy facial recog doorbell, Facebook open sources machine learning code and much more

Verity Stob

Introducing 'Happy Quit', where Chinese smokers are text-spammed into nicotine abstinence

Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight

Oh Deer! Poacher sentenced to 12 months of regular Bambi screenings in the cooler

Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal

Personal Tech

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Suunto settles scary scuba screwup for $50m: 'Faulty' dive computer hardware and software put explorers in peril

Divers claimed biz knew of defective kit, failed to fix it

19 Dec 07:09 | 39

Oops I made the mistake of reading Twitter

Newsflash: Twitter still toxic place for women, particular those of color, Amnesty study finds

Journos, politicos trolled, abused 'once every 30 secs'

18 Dec 20:24 | 33

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The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones

ReviewA wearable crossed with a mobile? Sounds terrible, but it's lovely

18 Dec 12:00 | 81

Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

Complaint argues false pixels, notch, and measurements don't fit with ad claims

15 Dec 00:45 | 72

Razer offers freebies to gamers who descend into its coin mine

Generate made-up currency in exchange for a different made-up currency

14 Dec 07:01 | 26

Sidecar drags itself out the grave, sues Uber for putting it there

Cab hailing app accuses rival of predatory prices and fake bookings

14 Dec 01:09 | 8

Telcos enlist Google, Amazon to help protect Europe's data from Big Tech

CommentOrange, DT's plan to take on firms that create 'competitive asymmetries'

13 Dec 16:26 | 11

Oxford startup magics up metamaterials for next-gen charging

It doesn't make you invisible, but it could make powerups less painful

13 Dec 09:10 | 29

Microsoft to rule the biz chat roost – survey

Slack off, hipsters

11 Dec 15:30 | 23

Man types something into Mac while sipping a glass of lemon water. Not a brilliant idea. Photo by SHutterstock

College PRIMOS prankster wreaks havoc with sysadmin manuals

Who, Me?Claims it was all for the greater good

10 Dec 07:28 | 120

Android Nougat

Google: I don't know why you say Allo, I say goodbye

Sidelined messaging app given end-of-life date of March 2019

07 Dec 12:55 | 35

Sanjay Mehta, SVP Compute Products, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Shows Off The Company's Latest Flagship PC Platform, The Snapdragon 8cx

And the next 7nm laptop processor will be designed by In, er, AM, um, Qualcomm: The 64-bit Arm Snapdragon 8CX

UpdatedThe X is for extreme. Dude?

06 Dec 21:00 | 26

Bare knuckle fight, photo via Shutterstock

Wintel dust up: Intel supply woes vs Win10 demand

Sorry suits, PC sales set to slide this year despite OS excuse to refresh computer tin

06 Dec 10:17 | 9

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Do not adjust your set: Hats off to Apple, you struggle to shift iPhones 'cos you're oddly ethical

CommentHey, you forgot to build in some obsolescence

06 Dec 09:46 | 126

Qualcomm lifts lid on 7nm Arm-based octo-core Snapdragon 855 chip for next year's expensive 5G Androids

An NE555 this is not

05 Dec 23:02 | 22

Awkward... Revealed Facebook emails show plans for data slurping, selling access to addicts' info, crafty PR spinning

AnalysisBrit parliamentarians dump documents on the internet

05 Dec 21:09 | 121

For wearable analysts, the glass is always half full

IDC looks at stagnant US market ... and sees only joy

05 Dec 09:50 | 3

COPPA load of that AOL! $5m fine for targeting kids with ads

New York attorney general takes Oath of office

05 Dec 00:49 | 9

OM5G... Qualcomm teases next Snapdragon chip for phones: The 855 with a fingerprint Sonic Screwdriver, er, Sensor

AI acceleration, 5G next-gen mobe broadband, all the usual boxes ticked

04 Dec 21:04 | 47

Google: Psst, hey kid, want a new eSIM? Our Fi has one right here

Chocolate Factory starts chasing Apple

04 Dec 15:30 | 11

Surface Book 2 afflicted by mystery Blue Screen Of Death errors

Not so mysterious, say users, it was the update wot dunnit

03 Dec 19:00 | 33

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The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones

A cupcake made to look like a poo emoji

Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal

Tape over mouth, image via Shutterstock

Microsoft flings untested Windows 10 updates to users! (Oh no it doesn't!)

Desk beer - pint at a keyboard. Photo by shutterstock

Influential cypherpunk and crypto-anarchist Tim May dies aged 67

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OneDrive Skype integration goes live aaand... OneDrive falls over in Europe

InterviewChat platform chap: 'Probably not us'

30 Nov 14:35 | 30

Lenovo superdishes not-so-superdosh for Superfish superloss: $40 waiting for you if you bought adware laptop

Class-action lawsuit payouts adds another $7.3m to bill for software slip-up

30 Nov 00:28 | 6

Apple in another dust-up with its fans: iMacs, MacBooks lack filters, choke on grime – lawsuit

Pay dirt: Owners of knackered kit drag iGiant into court

29 Nov 20:19 | 49

Gartner to wearables biz: Through failure comes success!

Crystal-ball gazer claims market will treble in size in next three years

29 Nov 16:00 | 24

Wi-fi symbol made out of clouds. Photo by Shutterstock

Fee, Fi, bring your own one... Google opens up Project Fi to mobes built by Apple, LG, Samsung

Beware, some features are missing depending on which smartie you use

29 Nov 02:24 | 10

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NSW government finally released 'net vote system review, says everything's just fine

Including, wait for it, 'security through obscurity'. No, really

29 Nov 01:52 | 6

iPhone XR all colour group shot

Not a price cut! Apple perks up soggy iPhone demand with rebate boost

Calm down dears, it's only happening in the US

28 Nov 18:00 | 34

Australia to build a pirate-proof fence: Brace yourselves, Google

There'll be search engine injunctions aplenty once site-blocking law's approved

28 Nov 11:30 | 46

Huawei MateBook Pro X: PC makers look out, the phone guys are here

Hands OnA compact, grown-up machine

28 Nov 10:27 | 101

The antisocial network: 'Facebook has a black people problem,' claims staffer in exit salvo

Unfair content takedowns and workplace putdowns called out in internal memo

28 Nov 02:58 | 62

GTA gamer cuffed, charged after PS4 live mic allegedly overheard him raping teen girl

Fellow online player heard sex assault over game, it is claimed

28 Nov 00:05 | 28

Lots of photographers, paparazzi etc

LG: Fsck everything, we're doing 16 lenses in smartphones (probably)

How do we make mobes take better snaps? Throw a buttload of sensors at 'em, judging from this patent

26 Nov 19:33 | 44

Rows of washing machines in shop aisle

Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Judging by all the emails I'm getting, I think it is already

23 Nov 10:20 | 145

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Microsoft dropkicks Cortana with Skype functionality on Alexa

Plus: Cloud file-sharing on desktop and mobile clients

22 Nov 12:50 | 9

thanksgiving

Thanksgiving brings together Apple's Siri and Google Assistant

A divided tech nation embraces, uncomfortably

21 Nov 23:01 | 33

Flea market Xiaomi makes mad dash for growth

AnalysisPay no attention to the underpants. We ARE an internet company

21 Nov 22:00 | 9

Is Google's Pixel getting better, or just more expensive?

Chocolate Factory vows to fix camera glitch

21 Nov 14:00 | 39

Influential Valley gadfly and Intel 8051 architect John Wharton has died

ObitHe was there when Bill Gates tried to carve up tech

19 Nov 13:34 | 34

RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers

ObitSilicon Valley legend dies in firestorm that has killed scores while more than 1,000 are missing

18 Nov 10:30 | 44

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