Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified
Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed
CSO23 Mar 2023 | 20
Hardware
Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive
Now that's a flash bang
Cyber-crime22 Mar 2023 | 43
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped
You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 27
Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy
Shocking!
Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 113
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement
Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish
Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer
Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 7
NARROWER TOPICS
Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do
You want to take our place? Welcome to the real world, pal
AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 34
US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network
At a planned 25k square miles, it's said to be largest net of its kind yet
Networks07 Mar 2023 | 7
To explore caves on Mars and the Moon, take a hint from Hansel & Gretel, say boffins
Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected
Science03 Mar 2023 | 31
Find pushes back birth of Europe's steel hardware to about 3,000 years ago
Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool
Science02 Mar 2023 | 47
The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch
What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps
Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 21
ISS rescue Soyuz launches this week, won't return crew until September
Leaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong?
Science21 Feb 2023 | 5
Sick of smudges on your car's enormo touchscreen? GM patents potential cure
How about the inside of the windshield instead?
Personal Tech17 Feb 2023 | 75
Elon Musk's Neuralink probed over pathogen transport
Surely this is how at least one Michael Crichton novel starts
Science10 Feb 2023 | 30
American jailed for smuggling controlled tech to Iran
30 months in prison for providing, um... enterprise mobile banking software dev tool
Legal10 Feb 2023 | 12
Any iPad is foldable if you try hard enough but Apple guru says a hinged one is coming
Cupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions
Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 14
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator
MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life
Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 46
How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker
Miscreants could have tracked, modified, deleted digital plates
Research10 Jan 2023 | 90
Texts from your dog and brain-free astronomy: The best of the rest from CES
CES Is that a Google Home in your toilet?
Personal Tech09 Jan 2023 | 29
Pine64 takes another shot at an open tablet after chip shortages killed first PineTab
Updates for multiple devices including PinePhone Pro and keyboard incoming
Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 15
Raspberry Pi supply chain loosens just in time for the holiday season
100,000 units being sent to resellers as thanks for consumer patience, says CEO Eben Upton
Personal Tech12 Dec 2022 | 31
Look like Bane, spend like Batman with Dyson's $949 headphones
Mask apparently addresses urban pollution and noise, but doesn't even seal to the face
Offbeat09 Dec 2022 | 156
End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line
Boeing … Boeing … gone
Science08 Dec 2022 | 73
NASA's COLDArm robot limb can handle seriously cool science
Bofffins claim lunar manipulator is tougher than a Terminator
Science06 Dec 2022 | 3
Not all vendors' Arm-powered kit is created equally, benchmark fan finds
Shiny silicon plus Rusty drivers will eventually equal openly saucy happiness
Personal Tech06 Dec 2022 | 15
US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies
'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'
Security03 Dec 2022 | 185
AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors
Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation
PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |
FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract
But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware)
Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4
iFixit stabs batteries – for science – so you don't have to
The point? To demonstrate the safety of lithium-ion power packs when handled properly
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 67
Croatian EV maker Rimac claims 412km/h speed record
You can go (nearly) that fast too, if you have a spare €2 million lying around
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 64
Commercial repair shops caught snooping on customer data by canny Canadian research crew
Naming no names, but study finds trustworthy techs are hard to find
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 67
NTT claims it can stop the noise leaking from annoying people's headphones
Can't do anything about their musical taste though
Personal Tech10 Nov 2022 | 31
Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset
The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place
Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 32
AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000
They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter
Systems02 Nov 2022 | 10
Porsche wants to sell you a rusty tailpipe soundbar for $12k
Here's hoping it doesn't come with factory-installed rattling for added authenticity
Offbeat02 Nov 2022 | 55
Apple boosts bug bounties but may not fix some bugs in past operating systems
Where's your spirit of Ventura?
OSes28 Oct 2022 | 9
Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables
Flaming 'eck!
Personal Tech25 Oct 2022 | 97
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record
One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet
Science21 Oct 2022 | 45
Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions
Fix-it guides among changes mulled by FTC for home appliances and potentially other stuff
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 30
Now you can't even scale Mount Everest without a drone buzzing overhead
Video No chance of any peace, not even at 8,900 metres
Bootnotes14 Oct 2022 | 17
How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm
Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit
Cyber-crime12 Oct 2022 | 35
This maglev turntable costs more than an average luxury electric car
At $74k, this gear is an odd pitch for TEAC's time to shine again
Bootnotes11 Oct 2022 | 127
California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles
Which is great news for the single company that makes them
Offbeat11 Oct 2022 | 165
No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk
Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom
Science10 Oct 2022 | 27
Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids
Wait, wait, hear us out
Science01 Oct 2022 | 33
What's Microsoft been up to? A quick tour of Windows 11 22H2's security features
In brief And some requirements to be aware of
Security27 Sep 2022 | 21
Boffins build microphone safety kit to detect eavesdroppers
TickTock mic lock won't work on Apple
Security12 Sep 2022 | 20
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff
Comment Top tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice
Bootnotes09 Sep 2022 | 23
Apple debuts iPhone 14, Watch 8, other sparkly things
With Crash Detection (no, not that kind) and satellite-powered SOS when cell service is absent
Personal Tech07 Sep 2022 | 42
General Motors charges mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features
Don't want the services? You'll still have to pay for them, activated or not
Offbeat11 Aug 2022 | 195
President Biden signs CHIPS and Science Act into law
American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby!
Legal09 Aug 2022 | 17
APIC fail: Intel 'Sunny Cove' chips with SGX spill secrets
AMD Zen chips, meanwhile, are vulnerable to side-channel data scrying
Security09 Aug 2022 | 1
India to revisit hardware incentives after struggling to move manufacturers out of China
Minister laments Dell, HPE and pals have the market locked up and little incentive to change
Systems08 Aug 2022 | 10
Amazon to buy Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7b
Updated Bezos empire continues to clean up, but did it pick the proper postulates?
Personal Tech05 Aug 2022 | 65
Intel experiences another kind of meltdown
'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed
Systems29 Jul 2022 | 8
Dell and Ubuntu certify latest model of XPS 13 ultrabook
Computer giant's Project Sputnik extends to the 2022 model series
Columnists21 Jul 2022 | 19
Boffins release tool to decrypt Intel microcode. Have at it, x86 giant says
Peek behind the curtain to see SGX implemented, Spectre mitigated, and more
Research20 Jul 2022 | 18
Weird Flex, but OK: Now you can officially turn these PCs, Macs into Chromebooks
Just a feeeeew caveats to bear in mind, though
OSes14 Jul 2022 | 47
Linux laptop vendor Slimbook updates its ranges
Fresh lick of paint for KDE Slimbook, Slimbook ProX, and Slimbook Executive models
Personal Tech13 Jul 2022 | 15
Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal
You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots
Science06 Jul 2022 | 38
Logitech Zone Vibe 125: Weightless comfort on the ears that won't break the bank
Review Wireless headphones provide 18 hours of talk-time or 20 hours of listening time for the hybrid worker
Personal Tech05 Jul 2022 | 30
Startup rattles tin for e-paper monitor with display fast enough to play video
In grayscale, though. Optimistic plans for daylight-readable display and long-life laptop
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 13
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