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Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19

Geek's Guide to Britain No, not the title of an undiscovered Douglas Adams book, it's medical history in the UK

Geek's Guide10 Sep 2021 | 29

The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

Geek's Guide to Britain Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits

Geek's Guide05 May 2021 | 37

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

Geek's Guide to Britain Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury

Geek's Guide19 Sep 2019 | 61

GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?

Feature What we know, plus potential ways to make that data flow

Legal05 Sep 2019 | 115

Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter?

Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider

Networks10 Jul 2019 | 30

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Geek's Guide to Britain Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery

Geek's Guide18 Mar 2019 | 99

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

Geek's Guide to Britain The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon

Geek's Guide27 Sep 2018 | 27

National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office

Would they have prevented Windrush? The mind boggles

Databases19 Jun 2018 | 141

UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures

Still making it rain for MS

SaaS10 May 2018 | 25

Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Geek's Guide to Britain Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web

Geek's Guide15 Feb 2018 | 45

Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for

Not EVIL, not FIRST, but yes... it's your data and they're using it

Software07 Mar 2017 | 69

Cut off: Big government IT wallets snap shut on BT's fingers

Reg Whitehall spend analysis reveals cash flowing away

Networks07 Feb 2017 | 27

Facebook pimping for politicos despite fake news 'purge'

Social giant works both sides of news street

On-Prem17 Jan 2017 | 24

Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend

Victory for SMBs? Not quite, Reg research reveals

Legal13 Jan 2017 | 5

Meet the Loughborough 'emo' boffins who predicted Trump's victory

Social media tracking... yep, this is the future

Software24 Nov 2016 | 18

World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit

Papworth's timely backups saved the day

Security04 Nov 2016 | 113

Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

Geek's Guide to Britain From Acorns to bedrooms

Geek's Guide26 Sep 2016 | 54

Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options

Comment What now as the Aussie system dream lies in tatters?

Channel05 Sep 2016 | 110

Ireland's govt IT: Recession and job cuts forced us to adapt

The road from 2008 bust, bailout and 'no new staff'

OSes23 Aug 2016 | 25

What's Brexit? How Tech UK tore up its plans after June 23

EU workers, new markets: post-Brexit pressure on May & Co

Channel25 Jul 2016 | 152

UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

Middle-class terror of engineering also part of problem

Channel17 Jun 2016 | 130

Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

Geek's Guide to Britain Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat

Geek's Guide16 May 2016 | 185

US work visas for international tech talent? 'If Donald Trump is elected all bets are off'

Application costs up, lines longer... now this

On-Prem13 May 2016 | 137

Ireland's tech sector fears fallout of Brexit 'Yes' vote

Mad, bad and dangerous for trade

Channel29 Apr 2016 | 60

Tech biz bosses tell El Reg a Brexit will lead to a UK Techxit

Analysis If we vote to leave the EU we'll all become poor and unemployed, allegedly

Channel11 Mar 2016 | 165

Investigatory Powers Bill: Spooks willingly entering the light?

IPB Not quite the end of their prerogrative to pry

Channel01 Mar 2016 | 23

Higher US Fed interest rates will hit startups over the head

You don't need to risk your capital when banks start paying out again

Channel15 Feb 2016 | 11

Lovelace at 200: Celebrating the High Priestess to Babbage's machines

The ordinary heroine turned cultural and computing icon

AI + ML08 Jan 2016 | 71

Brits learning from the Continent? Authority, digi gov wheezes and the Autumn Statement

Analysis Scrap the dead trees and get it all on email

Legal26 Nov 2015 | 13

Shadow state? Scotland's IT independence creeps forth

National ID and police surveillance plans from our friends in the north

Security12 Nov 2015 | 62

Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret

Geek's Guide to Britain The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer

Geek's Guide18 Sep 2015 | 25

Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology

Geek's Guide to Britain Biomass and the pit

Geek's Guide21 Aug 2015 | 41

How British spies really spy: Information that didn't come from Snowden

Feature GCHQ days of form-filling and 'bulk' intercept

Legal23 Jul 2015 | 66

Are you a Tory-voting IT contractor? Congrats! Osborne is hiking your taxes

Measures sold as punishing big biz will hit SMEs for six

Legal21 Jul 2015 | 135

Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission

Geek's Guide to Britain Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys

Geek's Guide06 Jul 2015 | 22

Scot Nationalists' march on Westminster may be GOOD for UK IT

So long as you're not a defence contractor, anyway

Legal12 May 2015 | 130

Surveillance, broadband, zero hours: Tech policy in a UK hung Parliament

Election 2015 Mixing and matching the party manifesto promises

Channel24 Apr 2015 | 40

Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer

Geek's Guide to Britain A trip to the Lizard King's monument

Geek's Guide23 Feb 2015 | 81

Suffering satellites! Goonhilly's ARTHUR REBORN for SPAAAACE

Geek's Guide to Britain BT's sat comms site repurposed

Geek's Guide25 Nov 2014 | 48

Open source and the NHS: Two huge disorganised entities without central control

Nay dragons here, me lad - these be long lost lovers

Software19 Sep 2014 | 25

Scottish independence: Will it really TEAR the HEART from IT firms?

You keep the call centres, Hamish, we'll take the banks

Legal11 Sep 2014 | 196

GCHQ to share threat intel – and declassify SECRET inventions

IA14 Inspector Gadget watch? Nope, IP with no 'secret applications', sadly

Legal17 Jun 2014 | 14

Snowden's Big Brother isn't as Orwellian as you'd think

Snowden Anniversary Secrets & lies: Spies & GCHQ

SaaS11 Jun 2014 | 161

Big data? Internet of things? Sport of Kings inches into high tech

Britain got used to a woman leader quicker than horse racing picked up on IT

Software20 May 2014 | 7

Company selling you out? You've been TUPE-ed

A survivor's guide to being sold down the river...

On-Prem19 Nov 2013 | 40

Every man, woman and child in the UK paid HP £21 last year

Plus other fascinating nuggets we found when carving into UK.gov's IT spending pie

Channel12 Nov 2013 | 19

Thought you didn't need to show ID in the UK? Wrong

Your papers please. NOW

Legal06 Nov 2013 | 215

Why Bletchley Park could never happen today

Feature Can you keep a secret? No, course you can't

Legal25 Oct 2013 | 167

UK.gov's e-Borders zombie still lurks under the English Channel

Blighty just can't seem to get it right on entry and exit controls

Security24 Sep 2013 | 59

One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?

Get ready for Hadrian's partial firewall

Legal18 Sep 2013 | 162

UK gov's smart meter dream unplugged: A 'colossal waste of cash'

Analysis Everything you need to know about the kit that'll know everything about you

Legal19 Jul 2013 | 182

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Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19

The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?

Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter?

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office

UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures

Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

We already give up our privacy to use phones, why not with cars too?

Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms

Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland

Universal basic income is a great idea, which is also why it won't happen

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Pssst... wanna participate in a Google DeepMind AI pilot? Be careful

Tech can do a lot, Prime Minister, but it can't save the NHS

How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections

Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border

Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for

Cut off: Big government IT wallets snap shut on BT's fingers

Facebook pimping for politicos despite fake news 'purge'

Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend

Meet the Loughborough 'emo' boffins who predicted Trump's victory

World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit

Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options

Ireland's govt IT: Recession and job cuts forced us to adapt

What's Brexit? How Tech UK tore up its plans after June 23

UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

US work visas for international tech talent? 'If Donald Trump is elected all bets are off'

Ireland's tech sector fears fallout of Brexit 'Yes' vote

Tech biz bosses tell El Reg a Brexit will lead to a UK Techxit

Investigatory Powers Bill: Spooks willingly entering the light?

Higher US Fed interest rates will hit startups over the head

Lovelace at 200: Celebrating the High Priestess to Babbage's machines

Brits learning from the Continent? Authority, digi gov wheezes and the Autumn Statement

Shadow state? Scotland's IT independence creeps forth

Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret

Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology

How British spies really spy: Information that didn't come from Snowden

Are you a Tory-voting IT contractor? Congrats! Osborne is hiking your taxes

Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission

Scot Nationalists' march on Westminster may be GOOD for UK IT

Surveillance, broadband, zero hours: Tech policy in a UK hung Parliament

Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer

Suffering satellites! Goonhilly's ARTHUR REBORN for SPAAAACE

Open source and the NHS: Two huge disorganised entities without central control

Scottish independence: Will it really TEAR the HEART from IT firms?

GCHQ to share threat intel – and declassify SECRET inventions

Snowden's Big Brother isn't as Orwellian as you'd think

Big data? Internet of things? Sport of Kings inches into high tech

Company selling you out? You've been TUPE-ed

Every man, woman and child in the UK paid HP £21 last year

Thought you didn't need to show ID in the UK? Wrong

Why Bletchley Park could never happen today

UK.gov's e-Borders zombie still lurks under the English Channel

One year to go: Can Scotland really declare gov IT independence?

UK gov's smart meter dream unplugged: A 'colossal waste of cash'

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