Apple's Vision Pro costs big bucks to buy and repair ... just don't mention the box design Still, up to 180,000 units sold under pre-order and China gray market prepping locals Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 7
The week in weird: Check out the strangest CES tech of 2024 CES Cat flap fever, a streaming service for dogs, and other oddities on display in Vegas this week Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 27
PC 'price hike' coming as cost of memory soars – analysts Scores are on the doors for Q4, as after 2 years shipments grow again... by 0.3% Personal Tech11 Jan 2024 | 11
Avoiding AI-capable PCs will be impossible by 2027 Generative AI - huh - what is it good for? Premium priced PC sales, apparently says Canalys AI + ML08 Jan 2024 | 44
Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump? Pushing your buttons: Microsoft's AI assistant is going so well that it's going to have its very own spot OSes04 Jan 2024 | 84
Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital? Opinion From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no Personal Tech22 Dec 2023 | 168
Apple pulls Watch Series 9, Ultra 2 from shelves in US after Masimo patent brawl Get those holiday orders wrapped up now, because the bell tolls for iStrap Personal Tech18 Dec 2023 | 4
Logitech's Wave Keys tries to bend ergonomics without breaking tradition Review Or your wallet Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 46
Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices Helium tech to end up on $1-$2 SoCs claimed to bring big performance gains for ML workloads Systems22 Nov 2023 | 4
Right-to-repair fight going national as FTC asked to lay down the law Why shouldn't you be able to fix your own kit? Clue: Profit is involved Public Sector15 Nov 2023 | 21
AMD SEV OMG: Trusted execution in VMs undone by bad hypervisors' cache meddling Let's do the CacheWarp again Research14 Nov 2023 | 7
Intel emits patch to squash chip bug that lets any guest VM crash host servers Sapphire Rapids, Alder Lake, Raptor Lake chip families treated for 'Redundant Prefix' Patches14 Nov 2023 | 1
Downfall fallout: Intel knew AVX chips were insecure and did nothing, lawsuit claims Billions of data-leaking processors sold despite warnings and patch just made them slower, punters complain Research09 Nov 2023 | 29
World checks it's not April 1 as Apple signals support for full US right-to-repair rule But beware geeks bearing gifts Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 29
The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available ... if you pre-ordered Will there be tinkering under the Christmas tree? Personal Tech25 Oct 2023 | 44
Hot fuzz: Cascade finds dozens of RISC-V chip bugs using random data storm Video ETH Zurich boffins say they've devised a better CPU fuzzer to find flaws Security24 Oct 2023 | 5
India's AI vision calls for 80 exaFLOPS of infrastructure Or about half of China's recent compute upgrade plan On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 1
Your phone's cracked screen may one day heal itself, but try not to drop it for now Analysts 'put stake in the ground' to say tech will hit market in matter of years Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 18
BYOD should stand for bring your own disaster, according to Microsoft ransomware data Rising number of RaaS baddies drive global attack numbers up 200% CxO05 Oct 2023 | 9
$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list You can't bling out the inevitable Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 63
55-inch Jamboard and app ecosystem tossed into the Google graveyard Now have a look at these third-party alternatives from our partners, says Chocolate Factory Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 32
LG has its own folding PC now, but good luck getting your hands on one The 'Gram Fold' looks limited to LG's home of Korea Personal Tech27 Sep 2023 | 6
Marvell disputes claim Cavium backdoored chips for Uncle Sam Allegations date back a decade to leaked Snowden docs Research19 Sep 2023 | 8
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 3
Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics Science18 Sep 2023 | 7
Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion... Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 51
Lightning struck: Apple switches to USB-C for iPhone 15 lineup Video Thanks, Europe. Couldn't have done it without EU Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 104
Apple extends Qualcomm contract to 2026 as homebrew 5G chip dream still on snooze Chipmaker reigns supreme, at least until iGiant gets its house in order Systems12 Sep 2023 | 11
Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system Science07 Sep 2023 | 19
Microsoft maybe still dreams of bendy phones, judging from 360° folding screen patent Could a Surface mobe with one of these displays eliminate all that bad press from the Duo? Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 6
HP blames discounted PCs and China chill for Q3 revenue drop At least the cost-cutting scissors are still sharp Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 3
Getting meshy: BAE scores £89m deal with MoD to build new battlefield network It'll replace the old one, also built by BAE, on a very tight schedule: The old junk's due to be ripped out in 2026 Networks25 Aug 2023 | 17
After years of fighting Right to Repair, Apple U-turns-ish in California 'It feels like the Berlin Wall of tech repair monopolies is starting to crumble, brick by brick' Personal Tech24 Aug 2023 | 27
Why these cloud-connected 3D printers started making junk all by themselves Message brokering software blamed for dumping backed-up print jobs on idle devices Devops24 Aug 2023 | 68
Lockheed's ARRW hypersonic missile: Sometimes it flies, sometimes it just tries US Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test Science22 Aug 2023 | 16
US tech titans say a heads-up about India's PC import license would've been nice Trade org board members petitioning Uncle Sam are who's who of Big Tech Legal21 Aug 2023 | 7
Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs Drives are anything but solid, allegedly Storage17 Aug 2023 | 62
Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut Estimated payments of $65 can now be distributed to those who filed a claim in 2018 lawsuit Personal Tech15 Aug 2023 | 23
Tinker Tailor Soldier Pi? Asus's 'NUC-sized' SBC aims to out-Pi the Raspberry Updated Bigger, bolder, and brimming with ports for hobbyists and devs alike Personal Tech11 Aug 2023 | 24
Boffins say they can turn typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy Your neighbor's clacking keys aren't just annoying - they're also exploitable AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 47
Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It's utterly impractical Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit - but could take months or years to learn a useful secret Research01 Aug 2023 | 4
On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs From Norman Cook to Tim Cook Bootnotes28 Jul 2023 | 81
TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts Updated If it looks like a backdoor, walks like a backdoor, maybe it's ... export control Research24 Jul 2023 | 59
Google Cloud shores up log permissions for builder bot Infosec in brief ALSO: Amazon's child-sized COPPA fine, smart tech security labels coming to the US, and this week's critical vulns Security24 Jul 2023 | 2
US Air Force's Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare Hardware from a decade ago? More like grumpy old mog Offbeat21 Jul 2023 | 21
Framework starts taking orders for 16-inch repairable, upgradeable laptop Coming soon and looking very promising – if you like your models skinny, anyway Personal Tech21 Jul 2023 | 44
Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line Though chip giant is only referring to deal as a 'proposed agreement' for now Personal Tech19 Jul 2023 | 13
Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll? There's never been a fruit winder like this before Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 17
Chipotle welcomes you to the age of robot guacamole Avocado prep time could be cut in half, but it still won't change the price Bootnotes13 Jul 2023 | 15
Asus blames 'thermal stress' for fried SD card readers in Ally handhelds So much for that 'zero-gravity' cooling Personal Tech13 Jul 2023 | 13
MIT discovery suggests a new class of superconductors You who think superconductivity can't happen without spin polarization? Hold my FeSe Science23 Jun 2023 | 23
One person's trash is another's 'trashware' – the art of refurbing old computers Devconf.cz 'Changing the world one PC at a time' sounds good to us Personal Tech21 Jun 2023 | 70
Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine It has enough air to last until Thursday, but if it isn't already on the surface rescue operations could be impossible Science20 Jun 2023 | 206
Amazon confirms it locked Microsoft engineer out of his Echo gear over false claim Racist tirade at delivery driver never actually happened Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 246
Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier Replacement components available in US, Canada, France only for now Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 14
Logitech boss Bracken Darrell steps down, effective ASAP Like PCs, peripherals are on the decline – guaranteeing a tough slog for the next CEO Personal Tech15 Jun 2023 | 8
Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology 'The more important a thing is for the world, the less security it has' says inventor Security09 Jun 2023 | 21
Beijing proposes rules to stop Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks going rogue Local wireless network operators need to abide by "correct" political direction Networks08 Jun 2023 | 16
Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse WWDC iGiant's turn to roll the dice on VR next year after Facebook, Microsoft, Google blow billions on the unloved tech Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 174
The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023 Computex We crawled the gadget halls to save you the hassle Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 22
Minnesota governor OKs broad right-to-repair tech law Walz's war on walls stopping us from fixing our own stuff Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 17
Logitech, iFixit to offer parts to stop folks binning their computer mouse Stick with me and the mice live ... with pads, batteries and screws for two models Personal Tech17 May 2023 | 45