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 | 64
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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 | 28
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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 | 244
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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
Popular
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
On Christmas night, a computer logs a call to say his user has stopped working…
Let’s take a look into the future cher-cher-cher…
Security
Fisher Price's Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw
‘Chatter’ can be bugged thanks to kindergarten-grade security
Networks
Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue
Firm admits problem and then tries to cash in from own screwup
12BoC
Not the kind of note you want to see fluttering from an ATM
This won't buy me beer
Security
Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j
Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong
Security
Four years: that’s how long Azure’s App Service had a source code leak bug
Firm that found the flaw also spotted ChaosDB and OMIGOD, confident this one’s been exploited
12BoC
Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going
I'll just pay the- OH MY GOD
On Call
Who you gonna call? Premium numbers, but a not-so-premium service
More 0898 than 0208 in 1998
Review
Can you get excited about the iPhone 13? We've tried
It’s brilliant and lovely. But it doesn't quite meet the moment with a new experience that satisfies
Personal Tech
Tesla disables in-car gaming feature that allowed play while MuskMobiles were in motion
Hey Elon, it's no secret that distracted driving is a major cause of US car fatalities
STORIES
Geeks' Guide to Britain
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
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Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission
Tunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys
06 Jul 13:37 | 22
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Taming the Thames – The place that plugged London's Great Stink
How Joseph Bazalgette flushed the capital into the modern age
30 May 11:00 | 74
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Bridge, ship 'n' tunnel – the Brunels' hidden Thames trip
Monument to a trio who left their mark on Blighty
04 May 13:29 | 50
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Saturn's rings, radio waves ... poetry? At home with Scotland's Mr Physics
James Clerk Maxwell's house
06 Apr 12:03 | 24
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Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer
A trip to the Lizard King's monument
23 Feb 12:02 | 81
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Suffering satellites! Goonhilly's ARTHUR REBORN for SPAAAACE
BT's sat comms site repurposed
25 Nov 11:01 | 48
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Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes
Sir Thomas Sopwith's suburban Surrey hub
24 Oct 09:03 | 58
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Measure for measure: We visit the most applied-physicist-rich building in the UK
Like an ass whose back with kilograms of Concorde bows...
12 Jun 09:01 | 42
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IBM Hursley Park: Where Big Blue buries the past, polishes family jewels
How the internet of things has deep roots in the English countryside
10 Apr 09:00 | 46
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Mosquitoes, Comets and Vampires: The de Havilland Museum
When the British aerospace industry was more than just British Aerospace
20 Dec 09:01 | 114
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How the UK's national memory lives in a ROBOT in Kew
El Reg visits the National Archives
11 Dec 11:21 | 52
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TAT-1: Call the cable guy, all I see is a beautiful beach
57 years on, Reg man visits scene of first transatlantic voice call
14 Oct 09:03 |
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Bletchley rebooted: The crypto factory time remembered
High commands and dirty words in German – the story retold
20 Sep 09:04 | 6
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Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk
When is a wheel not a wheel? When it's a lift
27 Aug 09:33 | 40
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Boffins, Tunnel Tigers and Scotland's world-first power mountain
The hollowing heroes who reversed nature
23 Jul 08:03 | 74
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Hanslope Park: Home of Britain’s ‘real-life Q division’
The Buckinghamshire haunt of spooks, BOFHs and boffins
05 Jul 09:04 | 32
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Love in an elevator.... testing mast: The National Lift Tower
El Reg shows where you can go and get truly shafted
04 Jul 10:23 | 55
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Rise of the machines, south of Milton Keynes
Computers make a noise at TNMOC
29 Jun 09:07 | 38
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INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham's cottage industry
'If this nerve centre didn't exist, neither would I' says Reg man
24 May 07:05 | 70
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The bunker at the end of the world - in Essex
Open for 40 years, pointless for 39 of them...
22 May 08:05 | 123
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BT Tower is just a relic? Wrong: It relays 18,000hrs of telly daily
Reg goes inside and up Blighty's telecoms spire
21 May 12:24 | 89
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Reg man bested in geek-to-geek combat - in World War 3 nerve centre
Dom Connor and the cool Cold Warriors
28 Mar 10:00 | 31
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Blighty's revolutionary Cold War teashop computer - and Nigella Lawson
Nuclear missile with your sponge finger, sir?
27 Mar 13:27 | 44
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Inside Adastral: BT's Belgium-sized broadband boffinry base
Drive-by bragging rights
26 Mar 10:28 | 73
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Reg man goes time travelling at iconic observatory
Jodrell Bank: The visitors' centre at the start of the universe
25 Mar 11:03 | 49
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Boffin road trip! The Reg presents Geek's Guide to Britain
Brains that made Britain exposed, mapped and viewed
21 Mar 12:26 | 56
