Geek's Guide to Britain
Is it a bridge? Is it a ferry? No, it's the Newport Transporter
Industrial elegance on the Usk
01 Oct 09:28 | 63
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Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19
No, not the title of an undiscovered Douglas Adams book, it's medical history in the UK
10 Sep 10:03 | 27
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Western Approaches Museum: WRENs, wargames, and victory in the Atlantic
Anonymous Liverpudlian building was once home to the strategists who beat Germany's U-boats
12 Jul 10:45 | 57
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The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power
A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village
11 Jun 11:26 | 40
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The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different
Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits
05 May 10:03 | 37
Part two
Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day
It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13
14 Apr 03:08 | 22
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Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift
Give a Cheshire cheers to a true waterway wonder
04 Mar 10:00 | 75
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German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry
El Reg visits Westcott and the Isle of Wight in search of more of Britain's forgotten rocket centres
27 Jan 09:15 | 42
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Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment
Memories of missiles on the moors of Cumbria
27 Nov 10:07 | 98
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Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast
Shingle spit and you'll miss this science and history on t' beach gem
24 Sep 09:16 | 43
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The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly
Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury
19 Sep 08:16 | 61
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What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters
Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery
18 Mar 09:05 | 99
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Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it
Shock after accelerometers hacked, in the old-school sense, and rock density probed
01 Feb 06:03 | 22
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Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England
The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon
27 Sep 09:15 | 27
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Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl
The North East's Zeppelin warning system is largely forgotten
31 May 08:08 | 68
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Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain
Yet Filton display shows it's among the world's best-loved aircraft
01 May 08:50 | 242
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Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you
Myth, legend and the lucky escape of Bennerley
21 Mar 09:18 | 79
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Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs
Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web
15 Feb 09:05 | 45
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Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland
What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank
12 Jan 09:38 | 39
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Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham
A star performer producing fission-free plasma power
25 Sep 08:01 | 142
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Security
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser
A death by a thousand cuts
Security
You've heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?
Intel duo propose fresh use of, yes, SGX but also Arm's TrustZone and similar TEEs
Boatnotes II
Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation
Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
Poll
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas
Personal Tech
Allegations of favoring visa holders over US workers for jobs cost Facebook just 4 hours of annual profit
And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record
Security
NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event
It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day
Security
Crims target telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, which don't get enough infosec love
CrowdStrike says 'LightBasin' gang avoids Windows, and knows that telco networks run on badly-secured *nix
Updated
Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach
Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed
Science
Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death
Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue
Off-Prem
India's big four services giants wrestle with staff attrition amid COVID-19 pandemic
With high enough vax rates, HCL, Infosys and Wipro say hybrid work environment is the way of the future, while TCS is going to want you to come right on in.
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Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air
A hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum
15 Sep 22:58 | 100
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Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens
Plus: We take a sneak peek at London's other tube network, Mail Rail
28 Jul 12:00 | 20
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Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map of Britain
Too lazy to plug GPS co-ords into satnav? Fear not, gypsythief has saved you
21 Jul 09:27 | 36
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Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway
Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet
04 Jul 08:01 | 110
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Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway
Feats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal
03 Apr 09:02 | 52
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Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze
Uber cars, Amazon drones? Pah! Driverless deliveries from a different age
06 Dec 12:04 | 68
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Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground
From Acorns to bedrooms
26 Sep 09:59 | 54
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Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct
Barton Aqueduct – where heavy metal shifts H2O
28 Jul 13:57 | 75
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Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery
Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat
16 May 09:07 | 185
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The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher
Radio astronomy, sheds and high-explosive ordnance
12 Feb 14:15 | 34
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Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station
After oil, before shale: the future that never was
26 Jan 15:04 | 141
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Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman
Head of Hut Six 'a disastrous example to others' – GCHQ
27 Sep 11:00 | 78
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Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret
The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer
18 Sep 14:51 | 25
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Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology
Biomass and the pit
21 Aug 12:50 | 41
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Get thee behind me, Satanic mills! Robert Owen's Scottish legacy
Inside the works of Scotland's industrial revolutionary
11 Aug 09:03 | 30
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The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act
Waves against the machine
14 Jul 11:31 | 87
