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For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies

Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown

24 Sep 21:51 | 10

Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit

Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional

23 Sep 21:57 | 159

One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it

Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it'

23 Sep 19:44 | 162

If you're Intel, self-driving cars look an awful lot like PCs

Hardware capabilities, latest feature updates? You'll get what you pay for

23 Sep 10:43 | 31

Microsoft wants you to know it hasn't forgotten about Surface

Laptops added or refreshed, and another go at making dual-screen phones a thing

23 Sep 01:44 | 9

Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time

Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically

23 Sep 00:37 | 17

Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones

25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day

22 Sep 16:32 | 14

Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon

Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently

22 Sep 02:50 | 25

Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard

Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom

21 Sep 21:23 | 3

Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink

Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'

21 Sep 12:15 | 10

Hybrid learning is a good thing – let’s make it a good thing for everyone

The pandemic has accelerated innovation and investment

Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit

Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors

20 Sep 22:34 | 4

Thanks, Sir Clive Sinclair, from Reg readers whose careers you created and lives you shaped

Former staff, kids who got their first taste of tech, a Reg hack, and even Linus Torvalds share what the electronics pioneer meant to them

19 Sep 11:01 | 49

Sir Clive Sinclair: Personal computing pioneer missed out on being Britain's Steve Jobs

Lifelong cost focus was his namesake company's corporate downfall

17 Sep 18:50 | 60

Relics from the early days of the Sinclair software scene rediscovered at museum during lockdown sort-out

Remember when a games developer could be one guy with a ZX Spectrum?

17 Sep 08:30 | 25

Apple's M1 MacBook screens are stunning – stunningly fragile and defective, that is, lawsuits allege

Latest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain

16 Sep 22:38 | 53

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond

16 Sep 19:46 | 216

Virtual reality means the future of education is right before our eyes

Keeping the headset clean is as important as keeping the content clean

Cryptocurrency world must protect itself from 'low-quality patents' says Square lawyer as biz joins Open Invention Network

'I think the legislative framework around patents needs a deep examination, and I don’t think I'm alone in saying that'

14 Sep 23:38 | 8

Activision Blizzard accused of union busting, intimidating staff in complaint to watchdog

CWA, employees file lawsuit on same day HR head ejects

14 Sep 22:17 | 15

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Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 after six-month wait

Security Bounty program slammed over 'broken promises'

'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport

Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing

Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on

High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon

Apple warns of arbitrary code execution zero-day being actively exploited on Macs

Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too

One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it

Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it'

CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)

Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though

Check your bits: What to do when Unix decides to make a hash of your bill printouts

Symbol shenanigans turned out to be the least of the government's problems

BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine

Flame purifies all

Dell bids adieu to the era of big acquisitions, concentrates on paying down debt and Michael's new book

Partnerships are our future, says tycoon

Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass

Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars

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Apple debuts iPhone 13 with 1TB option, two iPad models, Series 7 Watch

Come for superlatives and executive enthusiasm, stay for the photographic enhancements

14 Sep 20:35 | 59

Beijing orders Alibaba, Tencent, more Big Tech to stop blocking links to rivals

Play nice or else, Chinese government tells app, web giants in meeting without coffee

14 Sep 01:45 | 10

Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint

Minimum Margin Agreement policy is anticompetitive, it is claimed

13 Sep 22:10 | 6

Astro Pi 2: New Raspberry Pi hardware with updated camera, sensors to head to the ISS this year

This time it's... quite a bit faster

13 Sep 17:03 | 19

Off yer bike: Apple warns motorcycles could shake iPhone cameras out of focus forever

Claims they're 'designed for durability' but users report kit dies in months – even on mountain bikes

13 Sep 06:58 | 86

DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC for trying to permanently cap delivery fees

We'll just hike the prices for customers, otherwise. Happy now?

10 Sep 23:59 | 78

Lenovo blames 'firmware' issue for blank-screened Smart Displays, says Google's working on a fix – 6 months after complaints started

Home assistant little more than an expensive plastic brick for some owners

10 Sep 15:38 | 18

Not too bright, are you? Your laptop, I mean... Not you

Those knobs can be sensitive

10 Sep 08:30 | 109

Epic Games asks for Apple's help to put South Korea's alternative app payments law to work

Promises to offer App Store as an option, but needs its developer account to be reinstated to do that

10 Sep 04:59 | 18

Lenovo pops up tips on its tablets. And by tips, Lenovo means: Unacceptable ads

Amid customer fury, PC maker says it has 'no plans to add any further push notifications' to its stealth adware

03 Sep 22:32 | 122

Crypto-coin startup said its bot could generate huge profits from your Bitcoin. It was a scam, says SEC

Founder and promoter accused of running 'Ponzi-like scheme'

03 Sep 11:27 | 30

Google is designing its own Arm-based processors for 2023 Chromebooks – report

Why not if you've got the money for it?

02 Sep 06:27 | 19

Apple to let reader apps steer users towards out-of-App-Store purchasing following Japanese watchdog probe

Regulator says it's happy book, music, newspaper programs can now whisper of the universe beyond the iOS walled garden

02 Sep 02:14 | 8

Spring tears down math geek t-shirt listing because it dared to mention the trademarked word 'zeta'

Data scientist told he faces ban, biz insists otherwise after pushback

01 Sep 21:21 | 168

BrakTooth vulnerabilities put Bluetooth users at risk – and some devices are going unpatched

Qualcomm, Texas Instruments alleged to be leaving Bluetooth chips open to attack

01 Sep 15:41 | 12

Logitech Bolt devices support secure Bluetooth Low Energy – but forget the 'Unifying Receiver'

First experiences suggest connection strength less good than claimed

01 Sep 12:25 | 29

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