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Mi 8 Pro: Xiaomi early buyers wait for modern firmware

Xiaomi your underpants: When will the UK market get its branded undies?
15 Nov 13:18

iPhone XS: Just another £300 for a better cam- Wait, come back!

Real world reviewDid we mention the worse battery?
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15 Nov 10:53

A new Raspberry Pi takes a bow with all of the speed but less of the RAM

A $10 saving cuts ports and memory from the Pi 3 Model A+ but keeps that quad core CPU
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15 Nov 09:30

Samsung unveils next-generation 8nm Exynos silicon

It's pop-AI but tailored, fans
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14 Nov 14:41

Scam or stunt? It's looking like the latter... Xiaomi so sorry for £1 smartphone 'promo'

When an offer looks too good to be true, it always is
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13 Nov 10:35

YouTube supremo says vid-streaming-slash-piracy giant can't afford EU's copyright overhaul

Editorial oversight contemplated by article 13 creates too much financial risk
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12 Nov 20:36

'Frontline workers' of the world, unite! And grab yourselves a Surface Go White Van Man edition

4G version of Microsoft's budget fondleslab road-ready
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12 Nov 18:13

Huawei Mate 20 Pro: If you can stomach the nagware and price, it may be Droid of the Year

ReviewScrap the HiCrap and UI, and we'd have a winner
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12 Nov 09:40

Upgraders rejoice! The 2018 Mac Mini heralds a return to memory slots!

Aw heck. Put away the party poppers. The storage is soldered to the board
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09 Nov 19:04

One UI to end gropes: Samsung facelift crowns your thumb the king

Everything within reach on oversized phones
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09 Nov 16:00

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal firm's original directors rejoin

And the chairman is Not Happy At All about that
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09 Nov 14:15

My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day

Something for the Weekend, Sir?But no more Bradford Exchange collector plates, I beg you
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09 Nov 10:20
Illustration: Man tries to catch winged bundles of money with a net as tehy fly away.

In news that will shock, er, actually a few of you, Amazon backs down in dispute with booksellers

Don't mess with second-hand tome peddlers
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09 Nov 00:42
2018 MacBook Air Teardown

This just in: What? No, I can't believe it. The 2018 MacBook Air still a huge pain to have repaired

Full teardown necessary should butterfly keyboard need service
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08 Nov 19:00
Mi 8 Pro

Xiaomi anarchy in the UK: Chinese tat-flinger wants to slip its cheapo flagships in Brit pockets

They're heeeeeeeeeeeeere
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08 Nov 16:19

Opinion

Skip full of rubbish outside an office building. Photo via SHUTTERSTOCK

My hoard of obsolete hardware might be useful… one day

Something for the Weekend, Sir?But no more Bradford Exchange collector plates, I beg you
Dabbsy holding a phone 1

Silent running: Computer sounds are so '90s

Something for the Weekend, Sir?'Do not disturb' mode isn't for you, it's for the rest of us
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19 Oct 09:15

Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID

Something for the Weekend, Sir?So says Alex... Graham... Dan...
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12 Oct 08:08
pixel slate (headphone-jack free) google october 2018

Does Google make hardware just so nobody buys it?

CommentPixel Slate: Nero for a Day
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11 Oct 13:26

News

Samsung 'reveals' what looks like a tablet that folds into a phone, but otherwise we're quite literally left in the dark

*squints* Well, it's flexible. It's a, er, thing. It's...
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08 Nov 12:17

Upset fat iOS gobbles up so much storage? Too bad, so sad, says judge: Apple lawsuit axed

AnalysisBut at what point do advertised capacity specs become misleading?
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08 Nov 01:13

Dell upping its margins again: Precision 5530 laptop will sting you for $13m. Yep, six zeroes

The monster workhorse with price tag to match
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07 Nov 17:31

Facebook quietly admits role in Myanmar killing fields – but fret not, it will do better next time

Social networks played key role in genocide says UN, Amnesty
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06 Nov 21:32

Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition

QA? We've heard of it
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06 Nov 17:00

iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe

ReviewMost of the bang of the XS for not so much of the bucks
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06 Nov 09:42

Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

CommentWhy can't we all go back to being nice to each other, like in the Usenet and IRC days, er, wait...
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05 Nov 23:09

Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites

Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz
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05 Nov 20:13

Supreme Court tells Big Cable to shut up for once: Net neutrality challenge shot down

Even America's top court is bored of 'open internet' legal shenanigans
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05 Nov 19:19

Planet Computers straps proper phone to its next Psion scion, Cosmo

Son of Gemini
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05 Nov 12:11

Smartphone industry is in 'recession'! Could it be possible we have *gasp* reached 'peak tech'?

Phone makers banking more revenue – but for how long?
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02 Nov 17:00

Boom! Just like that the eSIM market emerges – and jolly useful it is too

Thanks, Apple. Seriously
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02 Nov 12:59

Wow. Apple's only gone and killed off Mac, iPad, iPhone family... figures for units sold to fans

But it has nothing to do with shipments being down. Honest
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02 Nov 01:15
ORLANDO, FLORIDA - JANUARY 18, 2012: Inventor and founder of World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee delivers an address to IBM Lotusphere 2012 conference

Worldwide Web wizard Tim Berners-Lee sticks wellington boot into Worldwide Web's giants: Time to break 'em up?

Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, bashed by Sir Timothy OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS
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01 Nov 18:39
Apple Watch Series 4

5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles

We'll just take this one away
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01 Nov 11:38
Mac mini 2018 ports

Mourning Apple's war against sockets? The 2018 Mac mini should be your first port of call

AnalysisPhew, someone didn't get the plug-all-useful-holes memo
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01 Nov 09:36
iPad Pro 2018

Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned

AnalysisThe business appeal is mixed, but it's working
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31 Oct 12:05
A bloodhound following a scent

50 ways to leave your lover, but four to sniff browser history

Vulnerabilities that expose browsing history yet to be fixed
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31 Oct 00:19
Scooters strewn about beach

Bird, Lime, and Xiaomi face scooter sueball

Nine injured riders and pedestrians say scooters are shoddy and ill-maintained
woman hurls laptop across office

Apple's launch confirms one thing: It's determined to kill off the laptop for iPads

AnalysisCome join us all in our lovely walled garden
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30 Oct 20:21
girl helping an unconscious guy with mouth to mouth resuscitation

Apple breathes new life into MacBook Air with overhauled 2018 model

Bring a dongle, though. There are bugger all ports
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30 Oct 15:49
BlackBerry Key2 LE

BlackBerry KEY2 LE: The first budget Android QWERTY for years

ReviewA brutally functional work device
34 Comments
30 Oct 11:49
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