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Cisco's made DNA Center open enough to out-run Amazon

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Submarine cables at risk from sea water, boffins warn. Wait, what?

Intel and Micron downgrade 3D Xpoint relationship from friends with benefits to partners

People forbidden from talking

Official probe into HPE’s Oz 3Par crashes would create 'further negative publicity' if revealed

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Exec-transcribing AI so you can click Like on their brainfarts. Oh Microsoft, you spoil us

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Microsoft's TextWorld gives AI a Zork-like challenge

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It walks, it talks, it falls over a bit. Windows 10 is three years old

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Apache Cassandra at 10: Making a community believe in NoSQL

Insider Threat

Revealed in detail: World powers stuff spyware kit, how-to guides in dodgy nations' pockets

Drugs on a table

Irish fella accused of being Silk Road admin 'Libertas' hauled to US

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Sad Nav: How a cheap GPS spoofer gizmo can tell drivers to get lost

Kremlin hacking crew went on a 'Roman Holiday' – researchers

Python creator Guido van Rossum sys.exit()s as language overlord

Making up

OK, so they sometimes push out insecure stuff, but software devs need our love and respect

Git365. Git for Teams. Quatermass and the Git Pit. GitHub simply won't do now Microsoft has it

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Azure storage adds static HTML website hosting

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Web regulation could push Silicon Valley startups away from UK, Parliament warned

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Privacy Shield under pressure as lawyers back MEPs' call for suspension

Tech team trapped in data centre as hypoxic gas flooded in. Again

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ZTE sends 400 million hostages, gets back in business stateside

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Sub-Prime: Amazon's big day marred by server crashes, staff strikes

From Apple website - screenshot of macbook pro july release

Apple gives MacBook Pro keyboard rubber pants

Woman talks into smartphone / cellphone with the device held flat

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

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PC shipments just rose, thanks to Windows 10

Geek's Guide

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Geoboffins spot hundreds of ghost dunes on Mars

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Astroboffins spy the brightest quasar that lit the universe's dark ages

Intel Unite London demo

Open plan offices flop – you talk less, IM more, if forced to flee a cubicle

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Spidey sense is literally tingling! Arachnids detect Earth's electric field, use it to fly away

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IoT search engine ZoomEye 'dumbs down' Dahua DVR hijackings by spewing passwords

Machine learning in business? How does that work again?

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Montezuma's Revenge still too tough for AI, new Google Brain office, and other bits and bytes

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Clean up this hot sticky facial-recog mess for us, Microsoft begs politicos

Verity Stob

People wearing biohazard suits after nuclear explosion

Crooks swipe plutonium, cesium from US govt nuke wranglers' car. And yes, it's still missing

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It's 2018 so, of course, climate.news is sold to climate change deniers

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Fix this faxing hell! NHS told to stop hanging onto archaic tech

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Adtech-for-sex biz tells blockchain consent app firm, 'hold my beer'

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Sub-Prime: Amazon's big day marred by server crashes, staff strikes

Amazon's 36-hour "Prime Day" marketing jamboree has kicked off with more than a few hiccups.

Iain Thomson, 16 Jul 2018

From Apple website - screenshot of macbook pro july release

Apple gives MacBook Pro keyboard rubber pants

Apple has applied a prophylactic to its butterfly MacBook Pro keyboard, teardown specialist iFixit discovered after taking apart a model from the refreshed line.

Andrew Orlowski, 16 Jul 2018

Woman talks into smartphone / cellphone with the device held flat

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Don't panic but you might just be French

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PC shipments just rose, thanks to Windows 10

No, this story didn’t come through a wormhole in time. Q2 2018 was the best since 2012

An American football player

Are you ready for some sueball?! NFL opens wallet, makes vid stream patent spat go away

We’re the lawyers your mom warned you about

Mastercard goes TITSUP in US, UK: There are some things money can't buy – like uptime

UpdatedTotal Inability to Support Usual Purchases

Crumbs. Apple has tweaked the MacBook Pro keyboard

They say it is 'quiet(er)'. Well, quite...

One two three... Go: Long Pig Microsoft avoids cannibalising Surface

It's an Office runtime, for students

Intune makes an appearance at the Android Enterprise Zero Touch party

Cloudy device management suite hoping to come to a kiosk near you

Dudes. Blockchain. In a phone. It's gonna smash the 'commoditization of humanity' or something

Strategy BoutiqueCrypto lush HTC claims gizmo will be an 'agent of decentralization'

UK privacy watchdog to fine Facebook 18 mins of profit (£500,000) for Cambridge Analytica

Wow, Mark Zuckerberg must be really, really terrified

Did you know? The word 'Taiwan' would crash iOS thanks to a buggy filter for the Chinese govt

蒂姆，我们告诉你谨慎！

PayPal, Google ordered to make suspected pirates walk the plank into freezing waters

Follow the money: Florida judge signs off on new IP attack

Boffin botheration as IET lifts axe on 20-year-old email alias service

IET phone home. Just don't email...

You're indestructible, always believe in 'cause you are Go! Microsoft reinvents netbook with US$399 ‘Surface Go’

Ten-inch Win 10 S Pentium tablet. Keyboard, pen $99 each

Sueball claims Apple broke hacking laws with iOS batt throttling code

30 per cent error fix was a violation of CFAA, claim scores of angry fans

No one wants new phones – it's chips that keep Samsung chugging

I'll keep the smartie I've got, thanks

No, it's not Intel's 5G chip Apple is ditching – it's the Sunny Peak Bluetooth, Wi-Fi part

Project axed after iGiant snubs Chipzilla's wireless silicon

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iPhone 8 now outsells X, and every other phone

You've really Notched it, Cook

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Gemini goes back to the '90s with Agenda, Data and mulls next steps

ExclusiveInvestment enables maker to push out more models

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Who fancies a six-core, 32GB RAM, 4TB NVME ... convertible tablet?

HP Ink refreshes its schleppable workstation range days after Dell did the same

We might be skimming the Surface, but it looks like Microsoft's readying a wallet-friendly device

Redmond filings hint at portable computer for the less flush

Hoping for Microsoft's mythical Andromeda in your Xmas stocking? Don't hold your breath

This whole business is starting to look like a cargo cult

ZX Spectrum reboot firm boss delays director vote date again

Vega+ scandal lingers as desperate board delays crunch-time vote again

Uh-oh. Boffins say most Android apps can slurp your screen – and you wouldn't even know it

Who fancies a six-core, 128GB RAM, 8TB NVMe … laptop?

Sorry. Not laptops. ‘Mobile workstations’

Dear Samsung mobe owners: It may leak your private pics to randoms

Bundled messages app caught emitting photo albums at 2am without permission, say punters

High Tech Concern: Struggling HTC to slash a quarter of workforce

Doesn't help that its latest phone – the U12+ – basically sucks

The Notch contagion is spreading slower than phone experts thought

You wouldn't think so

GPU fairy visits Huawei owners, leaves graphics boost under phones

Follows Google with in-place hardware upgrade – kinda

Giffgaff admits to billing faff, actually tells folk to turn it off and on again

Telefónica's hippy wing promises credit drain refunds

Apple fanbois ride to the aid of iGiant in patent spat with Qualcomm

Consumers attempt to block chip flinger's attempt to block sale of devices without their kit

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The butterfly defect: MacBook keys wrecked by single grain of sand

Presumably, you're all typing on it wrong

Google leaps on the platform formerly known as Firefox with $22m splurge for KaiOS

The great feature phone revival rolls on

Man and woman shake hands - business deal

Koh YEAH! Apple, Samsung finally settle iPhone patent crusade

Judge Lucy is rid of bickering billionaires... for perhaps a week or so, we guess

User interface whiteboarding

Facebook, Google, Microsoft scolded for tricking people into spilling their private info

Manipulative user interfaces lead netizens away from privacy

BLackBerry KEY2 Teaser

BlackBerry KEY2: Remember buttons? Boy, does this phone sure have them

ReviewBusy business device that puts you back in control

Surface Book

USB-C for Surface owners arrives in form of a massive dongle

$79.99 gets you a single USB-C port for your costly computer

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