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Honor 9X Pro: Better specs can't save this smartphone from a barren app store
But hey, maybe a Google-free experience is a selling point for you
07 Apr 09:45 | 5
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Who, Me?
Real-time tragedy: Dumb deletion leaves librarian red-faced and fails to nix teenage kicks on the school network
Commanding & Conquering when nobody is looking
06 Apr 07:15 | 101
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Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones
But reverses its policy on downgrades anyway to quieten critics
06 Apr 05:07 | 60
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Motorola casually trots out third UK release in as many months: This time it's a 'Lite' take on the Moto G8 Power
No MWC, no problem
03 Apr 15:05 | 16
Personal Tech
Absolutely everyone loves video conferencing these days. Some perhaps a bit too much
On CallSaving Sales from a self-inflicted dirty deed
03 Apr 07:15 | 132
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Intel's 10th-gen Core family cracks 5GHz barrier with H-series laptop processors
New line-up includes first i9 part in this latest generation
03 Apr 05:01 | 24
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Philippines considers app to trace coronavirus carriers
Privacy perspective: President has also threatened quarantine-breaking troublemakers may be shot
03 Apr 02:59 | 9
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Huawei P40 pricing is in step with previous P-series efforts – but flagship lacks the apps punters have come to expect
£899 and no social media? That's going to be a big ask
02 Apr 15:29 | 52
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ZX Spectrum prototype ROM is now available for download courtesy of boffins at the UK's Centre for Computing History
Lose yourself in a relic of simpler times
02 Apr 12:45 | 30
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Fitbit unfurls last new wearable before it's gobbled by Google, right on time for global pandemic lockdown
Track your jogs around the block – while those are still allowed
02 Apr 09:00 | 28
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Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection
Wow, how convenient
02 Apr 01:08 | 112
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Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed
Authors, publishers unimpressed
01 Apr 11:50 | 65
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Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc
Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan
31 Mar 23:19 | 17
Personal Tech
Xiaomi, phone home: Chinese everything shop currently making most sales on smartphones
For now. (Having mattresses and smartbogs to fall back on doesn't sound so nuts anymore)
31 Mar 20:27 | 6
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Uncle Sam turns the screws on VoIP providers allegedly used by coronavirus, tax, bogus tech support scammers
This being America, they weren't too hard on most of them
31 Mar 00:17 | 5
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Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support
Folds up just like a smartphone – if you ignore the size and weight
30 Mar 08:01 | 97
Personal Tech
What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name
Oh Ce-Celia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please to phone home
26 Mar 20:22 | 20
Personal Tech
Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight
Chocolate Factory's software souk still Trumped, so you'll have to make do with AppGallery
26 Mar 18:24 | 6
Personal Tech
2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch
Was 0.5mm of laptop really worth five years of pain, Tim?
26 Mar 16:00 | 51
Personal Tech
Huawei P40 Pro: Camera setup really captures the misery of an empty world foods aisle
Hands onFlagship's snappers would be great if we weren't under lockdown
26 Mar 14:33 | 11
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Real-time tragedy: Dumb deletion leaves librarian red-faced and fails to nix teenage kicks on the school network
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Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones
But reverses its policy on downgrades anyway to quieten critics
Science
NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet
The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch
Networks
From Amanda Holden to petrol-filled water guns: It has been a weird week for 5G
CommentGov.UK to ask social networks to do their part...
Networks
Minister slams 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories as 'dangerous nonsense' after phone towers torched in UK
Looks like Michael Gove has decided to listen to the experts for a change
Software
Already in final beta? That's Madagascar: Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' gets updated desktop, ZFS support
Long-term release with upgraded QEMU virtualization
Internet of Things
Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks
And you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet
Security
Mozilla plugs two Firefox browser holes exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack victims' computers
Update now before it's too late
Security
Pan-European group plans cross-border contact-tracing app – and promises GDPR compliance
As India joins the list of nations offering Bluetooth-enabled virus-visit-visualisers
Software
We're number two! Microsoft's Edge browser slips past Firefox in latest set of NetMarketShare figures
Though Statcounter puts Moz's finest second. Chrome still top dog
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Give us a reason... not to buy a new handset? Samsung back-ports Galaxy S20 photo features to Galaxy 10 range
Erm, guys, this is lovely. But isn't selling new kit pretty important?
26 Mar 13:00 | 10
Personal Tech
Stockholders, assemble. HP's latest argument: Do you really trust Xerox to take us over during a pandemic recession?
Execs make new plea to shareholders in hostile takeover battle
26 Mar 00:56 | 8
Personal Tech
Royole shows off sequel to world's first foldable phone – the panned Flexpai – with no Colombian coke lords in sight
We've already made that 'Royole with cheese' joke, right?
25 Mar 16:30 | 8
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Hong Kong coronavirus quarantine evaders collared by cops with the help of smartphone-tracking tech
Public also urged to report stay-at-home scofflaws
25 Mar 01:15 | 20
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Internet Archive opens National Emergency Library with unlimited lending of 1.4m books for stuck-at-home netizens amid virus pandemic
Global crisis necessitates extreme copyright flexibility, educators insist
24 Mar 21:23 | 34
Personal Tech
Taiwan collars coronavirus quarantine scofflaws with smartphone geo-fences. So, which nation will be next?
Just don't let your battery die or you'll have to explain it to the police
24 Mar 00:33 | 29
Personal Tech
UK enters almost-lockdown: Brits urged to keep calm and carry on – as long as it doesn't involve leaving the house
Use delivery services, PM urges, electronics shops shuttered amid coronavirus pandemic
23 Mar 22:27 | 185
Personal Tech
Analyst calls it: This is the 'biggest fall ever in the history of the worldwide smartphone market'
'We expect to see the supply side change dramatically over the next year or so'
23 Mar 19:19 | 11
Personal Tech
With its stores outside China shuttered, Apple ditches two-mobes-per-customer limit for online shoppers
Who wants 999 iPhones?
23 Mar 16:48 | 11
Personal Tech
TeamViewer is going to turn around and ignore what you're doing with its freebie licence to help new remote workers
No connection-checking while society crumbles, but corporate customers will have to keep paying
23 Mar 14:27 | 42
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Tech won't save you from lockdown disaster: How to manage family and free time while working from home
Tips from El Reg hack with two decades of WFH experience
21 Mar 10:30 | 121
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Nation's home workers hitting refresh on 7 April can buy... Honor's bargain-basement Ryzen ultrabook
Though hopefully the rush for kit will have subsided by then
20 Mar 15:37 | 14
Personal Tech
HMD Global pokes head out of quarantine to show off 3 new Nokia mobiles
Bet you never thought you'd see a 5G Nokia
19 Mar 20:00 | 26
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HMD Global revamps infamous commuter-botherer, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic
The budget feature phone that reminds you of Ministry of Sound sounds and football fighting Brits... maybe
19 Mar 17:00 | 20
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NHS websites will no longer burn up your mobile data allowance, say Brit telcos
Coronavirus advice to become free to view even if you're out of credit
19 Mar 16:17 | 15
Personal Tech
Look ma, no Intel Management Engine, ish: Purism lifts lid on the Librem Mini, a privacy-focused micro PC
Aimed at Facebook-eschewing free software types
19 Mar 10:00 | 29
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Official: Apple debugs MacBook Air of sucky Butterfly keyboard
Scissor switches in, plus a silicon upgrade
18 Mar 19:15 | 15
Personal Tech
Apple updates iPad Pro with a trackpad, faster processor. Is it a real computer now?
Ooh, check us out rivals, we've got a 'keyboard'.. well, not a real one. It's Magic, OK?
18 Mar 16:00 | 49
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Looming ventilator shortage amid pandemic sparks rise of open-source DIY medical kit. Good thinking – but safe?
Googler publishes plans for Arduino-based equipment to help hospitals
18 Mar 06:02 | 87
