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LG debuts thin malleable screens made from contact lens material

The world may never be free of unsmashable ads

Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 33

LG makes a TV roughly the size of a queen-sized bed

Claims it has 'the world’s largest' OLED

Personal Tech29 Aug 2022 | 61

General Motors goes electric with $2.5b US government loan for battery plants

Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers

Science26 Jul 2022 | 17

LG promises to make home appliance software upgradeable to take on new tasks

Kids: empty the dishwasher! We can’t, Dad, it’s updating its OS to handle baked on grime from winter curries

Personal Tech25 Jan 2022 | 40

Bolt electric car battery recall might have hurt General Motors, but LG will pay $1.9bn to sooth troubled feelings

Two faults, around $2bn to pay

Personal Tech12 Oct 2021 | 1

LG opens open-source licence compliance tool source

Shine chaebol's FOSSlight on your projects, careful what you find

Software04 Jun 2021 |

LG intranet leaks suggest internal firesale of unsold, unreleased smartphones as biz exits the mobile market

Staff offered doomed handsets at knockdown prices in move reminiscent of HP's Palm episode

Personal Tech17 May 2021 | 15

LG Electronics finally gives up cellphone business

Lack of product enthusiasm in a stale market during a semiconductor drought finally killed it

Personal Tech05 Apr 2021 | 29

Slow your roll: LG reportedly puts new smartphone on ice as it mulls future in market

Display-tastic firm's work on flashy CES kit said to have been paused

Personal Tech22 Feb 2021 | 7

Leaked memo suggests LG is thinking about quitting the smartphone biz in 2021

'The employment will be maintained, so there is no need to worry,' says CEO

Personal Tech20 Jan 2021 | 11

Another week, another dual-screen phone, this time a T-shaped LG thingamy

‘Wing’ has one big screen and one little screen, no price or release date

Personal Tech15 Sep 2020 | 23

Let's roll the 3d6 dice on today's security drama: Ah, 15, that's LG allegedly hacked, source code stolen by Maze ransomware gang

Crooks threaten to leak swiped software blueprints

Security26 Jun 2020 | 22

Smart fridges are cool, but after a few short years you could be stuck with a big frosty brick in the kitchen

Updated You should check how long a vendor intends to support the kit, says Which?

Security08 Jun 2020 | 283

LCD woes and coronavirus help to send LG Display spiralling into its fifth consecutive quarter of loss

World slows down its smartphone buying for a bit

On-Prem23 Apr 2020 |

Amid coronavirus epidemic, LG, ZTE hang up on Mobile World Congress, organizers call for 'no-handshake' policy

Updated Can't we just get a pint and wait for it to all blow over? Is that asking too much?

Personal Tech05 Feb 2020 | 8

Stock market rewards LG's display limb for doing less terribly than expected

Glimmer of hope in OLED biz

Personal Tech31 Jan 2020 | 2

LG announces bold new plan for financial salvation: Trying to actually make phones people want to buy

Expect some wow factor in our newer phones, says company chief

Personal Tech09 Jan 2020 | 47

Sign of the times: Mirai botnet strain fine-tunes itself to infect digital signage, projectors

Notorious code puts on suit and tie, goes after business kit

Edge + IoT19 Mar 2019 | 13

LG's new gesture UI for mobes, while technically interesting, is still a little hand-wavy at the mo

MWC Hands On And it makes you look silly

Personal Tech26 Feb 2019 | 14

LG folds at prospect of launching bendy phone while Samsung flaunts its upcoming kit on telly

We need to get our house in order first, prez tells press

Personal Tech19 Feb 2019 | 26

LG's beer-making bot singlehandedly sucks all fun, boffinry from home brewing

Water + capsule + 2 weeks = 5 litres of beer

Science11 Dec 2018 | 126

Fee, Fi, bring your own one... Google opens up Project Fi to mobes built by Apple, LG, Samsung

Beware, some features are missing depending on which smartie you use

Personal Tech29 Nov 2018 | 10

LG: Fsck everything, we're doing 16 lenses in smartphones (probably)

How do we make mobes take better snaps? Throw a buttload of sensors at 'em, judging from this patent

Personal Tech26 Nov 2018 | 44

I've seen the future of consumer AI, and it doesn't have one

IFA Toddler-level interruptions and todo lists. Guys, try harder

AI + ML05 Sep 2018 | 141

BlackBerry, Sony, Honor and LG flash their new phones for all to see

IFA Hands-on with the latest mobe kit from Berlin show

Personal Tech31 Aug 2018 | 18

You want to know which is the best smartphone this season? Tbh, it's tricky to tell 'em apart

Calls? Check. Texts? Check. Internet? Check. Notch? Mostly. Camera? Check

Personal Tech30 Jul 2018 | 140

LG G7 ThinkQ: Ropey AI, but a feast for sore eyes and ears

Review Plus: Guess how much it costs.... oh, go on - have a guess!

Personal Tech17 Jul 2018 | 52

LG chairman Koo Bon-moo dies, aged 73

He turned LG into the global electronics brand we know today

On-Prem21 May 2018 | 22

LG's flagship arrives with ... G7 what now?

G7ThinQ. You don't make it easy to get an audiophile treat, LG

Personal Tech03 May 2018 | 25

What a time to be alive: LG and Italian furniture-maker build smart sofa

It knows you’ve sat down and then turns on the telly and adjusts the lights

Edge + IoT13 Apr 2018 | 54

Screw luxury fridges, you can now run webOS on your Raspberry Pi

Telly software goes open source (again)

Software20 Mar 2018 | 35

LG teases us with svelte V30 but refuses to say if it's coming to Blighty

'Key European markets'? C'mon, just tell us already

Personal Tech31 Aug 2017 | 24

Some positive news: LG, Hitachi, NEC charged $65m in li-ion battery price fixing shocker

L-ion kings to cough up profits – it's the circuit, er, circle of life

Personal Tech30 Aug 2017 | 16

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

Why not?

Personal Tech21 Aug 2017 | 18

Apple's zippy silicon leaves Android rivals choking on dust

It's all about how you spend that sweet R&D dollar

Personal Tech20 Apr 2017 | 89

Google opens patent pool for Android

Protects against trolls maybe. But not Google

Legal04 Apr 2017 | 1

LG, Huawei unwrap 'Samsung Galaxy-killers'

MWC While Samsung’s away, rivals try and sit in the Android King’s Chair

Personal Tech26 Feb 2017 | 35

'Leaky' LG returns to sanity for 2017 flagship

Opportunity knocks ahead of G6 unveiling

Personal Tech22 Feb 2017 | 23

AMD's daring new money-making strategy: Sue everyone! Mwahaha

Time to put these ol' ATI patents to use, mini-Chipzilla chuckles

On-Prem07 Feb 2017 | 19

LG's $1,300 5K monitor foiled by Wi-Fi: Screens go blank near hotspots

Splashed big bucks for a fancy display? Let's hope you have a big office too

Personal Tech31 Jan 2017 | 34

Modular dud drags LG to first loss in six years

Don’t panic. LG is betting on …. electric cars and Android smartwatches

Personal Tech25 Jan 2017 | 28

Uh-oh. LG to use AI to push home appliances to 'another dimension'

CES 2017 Deep learning, string theory and er ... kitchen gizmos?

Science03 Jan 2017 | 54

Could a robot vacuum cleaner monitor your data centre?

El Reg takes LG's webcam-and-WiFi equipped Roboking Turbo+Homeview for a spin

Personal Tech16 Dec 2016 | 24

LG’s V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the fsck can’t you buy it?

Reluctant to cash in on Samsung’s calamity

Personal Tech18 Oct 2016 | 55

Intel fabs to churn out 10nm ARM chips for LG smartphones next year

IDF16 2016 is just full of surprises, isn't it?

Personal Tech16 Aug 2016 | 32

Apple Watch craze over before it started: Wrist-puter drags market screaming off a cliff

Sir Jony ive's Waterloo

Personal Tech21 Jul 2016 | 81

LG: Stop focusing on Apple and Samsung. There's us. And our G5. Look at it. Look at it

Review The forgotten flagship

Personal Tech26 Apr 2016 | 22

California gets $5m pound of flesh from Samsung, LG, others in price-fix scandal

CRT payout world tour is here, line up for your $25

On-Prem31 Mar 2016 | 2

LG builds a DAB+ digital radio radio into a smartmobe

Not everyone has Spotify, or the download allowance to use it

Personal Tech14 Mar 2016 | 58

Big-screen Skype gets small farewell note

TV videocalls are so 2010

Legal09 Mar 2016 | 32

LG’s modular G5 stunner shuns the Lego aesthetic

MWC16 So are 'real' modular mobes just for hipsters?

Personal Tech22 Feb 2016 | 24

There’s a module for that: LG launches G5 smartphone complete with 'friends'

MWC16 Hands On We fondle the expandable smartie

Personal Tech22 Feb 2016 | 32

Built-in LG smartphone app created data hack risk

Oh, SNAP! Apply the patch

Security28 Jan 2016 | 12

LG picks up US smartphone crumbs, gains on Apple and Samsung

Cupertino's iPhone 6 bounce starts to wear off

Legal10 Nov 2015 | 23

LG uses sucky logic to force Dyson admission its vacuums suck badly

'Most powerful cordless vacuums' claim Hoovered up by Australian court

Legal29 Oct 2015 | 25

Roll up, roll up, as LG launches stealthy Bluetooth keyboard

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smuggle them on holiday

Personal Tech27 Aug 2015 | 23