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Boffins baffled: HUGE EYEBALL washes up on Florida beach

Does Cthulhu need an eyepatch?

12 Oct 00:24 | 67

Office 2013 hits RTM, will ship starting in November

Buy Office 2010 now, get a free upgrade

12 Oct 00:34 | 18

Harvey Weinstein wants US to adopt French piracy laws

Google and Apple get paid - not the actors

12 Oct 00:37 | 34

Japanese cubesat to flash Earth with Morse message

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's a small metal box

12 Oct 05:35 | 14

Asia skills shortages attract job-hunting IT project managers

Opportunities aplenty if you don't mind long hours

12 Oct 05:42 | 3

VR pioneer invents 'illumination-as-a-service'

VRML man Mark Pesce puts LAMP into lamps that REST at home

12 Oct 06:23 | 22

South Korea on top of the IT world

UK climbs to fifth as Australia, USA, also take big leaps up league table

12 Oct 06:45 | 19

Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight e-reader review

Backlit screen casts Kindle into the shade?

12 Oct 07:01 | 41

Regulator spanks quiz line with record £800k fine

Kept eldsters hanging on the line at premium rates

12 Oct 07:31 | 18

Inside the mind of a Bond supervillain: Psychotic, autistic - or neither?

Also - 007's Dr Who style differing personalities

12 Oct 08:00 | 46

Amazon prices up Kindle Paperwhite for Blighty

Always-on backlight, higher res display

12 Oct 08:11 | 30

Hands on with BB10: Strokey dokey

No time for 'Back' buttons - we're headed into the FUTURE

12 Oct 08:20 | 32

Flashboys: HEELLLP, we're trapped in a process size shrink crunch

How can we escape the dreaded NAND-woes?

12 Oct 08:37 | 17

Amazon's Bezos confirms content pays for Kindle

Finally admits hardware sold at cost

12 Oct 08:49 | 5

Vote NOW for the vilest Bond villain

I've been expecting you, 007

12 Oct 09:00 | 76

UK.gov tries to close site giving home addresses of badger cull figures

Animal libber reveals opponents' details, keeps his secret

12 Oct 09:18 | 54

Winston Churchill's personal papers digitised, available online

Madam, if I were your husband I should read them

12 Oct 09:37 | 11

Samsung shoots Galaxy S III with shrink ray, unveils 4in Mini

12 Oct 09:54 | 33

HP veep: 'Lenovo won't be No 1 in PCs... oh wait...'

Plus: 'Hackers used a spell they call Aura of God, I think'

12 Oct 10:00 | 6

Playmobil or It Didn't Happen

El Reg VULTURE logo FOUND ON MARS

This is how you do it, Red Hat

12 Oct 10:15 | 20

Dolly the Sheep creator scientist Keith Campbell dies

RIP cell biologist who first cloned a mammal

12 Oct 10:29 | 12

Metric versus imperial: Reg readers weigh in

Mostly in kilos: Hobbits and suchlike to be exterminated

12 Oct 10:44 | 158

Unrootable: Mash these bits together to get a CLASSIFIED spyphone

Someone kind of already has - but who?

12 Oct 11:01 | 53

MYSTERIOUS GREEN GLOW seen on iPhone 5s

'What can it mean?', wondering fanboys ask

12 Oct 11:22 | 80

And the latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is ... the EU?

Prevented Germans invading anyone for record period

12 Oct 11:39 | 70

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Why is solid-state storage so flimsy?

12 Oct 11:41 | 108

VMworld Barcelona

GreenBytes brandishes full-fat clone VDI pumper

'Focused on an enormous pain point'

12 Oct 11:59 | 2

'Mapsgate' fails to dislocate iPhone 5 demand

Widely reported geo-glitches 'not a problem', say buyers

12 Oct 12:02 | 44

Samsung, not Nokia, fans' most favoured WinPho brand

Survey suggests Microsoft could triple is market share

12 Oct 12:24 | 42

Take away bad drivers' mobile phones, they still crash their cars

Jalopy-jabber crackdown achieves diddly squat - study

12 Oct 13:02 | 96

Stone's veteran CEO Bird flies the nest

Board has shortlist of successors

12 Oct 13:09 | 2

Anonymous turns on 'one man Julian Assange show' Wikileaks

Bond of chumship between DDOSers and Assange™ broken

12 Oct 13:19 | 69

O2 network staggers across UK

Good job it's not really as vital as oxygen

12 Oct 13:19 | 50

British computing biz going stronger than Continent - Computacenter

Services-based economy?

Jimmy Wales: It was Wikipedia that ended the evil of SOPA

And we shall battle Blighty's snooper charter

12 Oct 13:38 | 10

Online mutterings foretell iPad Mini on October 23

BEHOLD ye fanboiyim, the Pocket Stroker™ cometh

12 Oct 14:01 | 15

'Stop-gap' way to get Linux on Windows 8 machines to be issued

You'll still be able to pick up a Penguin

12 Oct 14:19 | 147

Orally urinating turtle boffin in nominative-determinism classic case

Shit Fun Chew probes mouth-excreting chelonian

12 Oct 14:40 | 23

Microsoft sues Google directly in German Maps-on-Moto lawsuit

These manufacturers are only Mountain View pawns

12 Oct 14:58 | 32

Small biz scrappers urged to take the fight to hackers

Active defence in a hostile world

12 Oct 15:31 | 10

Kissane to mould NetApp: Time to turn off the tap on ONTAP

Stuck faucet? Force it

12 Oct 16:01 | 9

Tosh grabs 2.5-incher, heads for single platter party

500 gig spinner

12 Oct 17:03 | 3

Apple to drop chip-baking partnership with Samsung?

TSMC said to forge Apple's next-gen 20nm, quad-core ARM chips

12 Oct 18:31 | 51

Incompatible IT systems blamed for bank sale collapse

RBS £1.7bn branch sale to Santander is off

12 Oct 18:51 | 71

Windows 8 pricing details announced as preorders begin

Wacky retail packaging revealed

12 Oct 20:10 | 100

Apple pays up for stealing design from Swiss Railways

Cupertinian cash covers clock copyright cockup

12 Oct 20:11 | 83

Endeavour: donuts and a Toyota ease shuttle's drive through L.A.

Trundling to its final resting place at two miles per hour

12 Oct 21:13 | 32

FTC nearing decision in Google antitrust probe

Four out of five officials agree

12 Oct 23:04 | 10

Übertroll firm bags DRM patent for 3D printing

Patent hoarder Myhrvold & Co. could control nascent tech

12 Oct 23:25 | 54

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