Analysis
As another vendor promises 3 years of Android updates, we ask: How long should mobile devices receive support?
Really, three years should be the bare minimum at this point
10 May 17:25 | 15
Personal Tech
Personal Tech
Hear that, Qualcomm? Analyst claims Apple's homegrown 5G modems to land in 2023 'at the earliest'
Securities advisor passes note setting potential date for snipping of Snapdragons to investors
10 May 13:49 | 4
Personal Tech
Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it
Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational
07 May 21:40 | 70
Personal Tech
Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices
'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'
07 May 01:49 | 46
Personal Tech
Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims
Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words
05 May 20:54 | 25
Personal Tech
As pandemic buying continues, Chromebook shipments soared 275% in Q1, says analyst
Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing
05 May 13:14 | 13
Personal Tech
Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500
Which is a lot of money for this crap
05 May 09:12 | 17
Personal Tech
Samsung stops providing security updates to the Galaxy S8 at grand old age of four years
Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on
04 May 16:47 | 72
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Vietnam thanks Samsung for all its help, asks for more to go beyond mere manufacturing
Samsung in turn asks for access to clean 'leccy at high-level love-in
04 May 06:57 |
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In China, the Smart TV watches you, shares IP address, Wi-Fi SSIDs, viewing habits, and more
Tellie-maker Skyworth says it was duped by analytics service
04 May 04:55 | 25
Personal Tech
Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ says famed investor Charlie Munger
Berkshire Hathaway’s annual Q&A also smashed Robinhood, tweaked Elon Musk, fawned over Apple
03 May 04:01 | 153
On Call
Can't get that printer to work? It's not you. It's that sodding cablin.... oh beautiful job with that cabling, boss
Goodbye, Mr Chips
30 Apr 07:30 | 169
Personal Tech
Appeals court nixes online blueprint sharing ban on 3D-printed 'ghost guns'
Biden administration rules expected in the next week or so
29 Apr 20:33 | 151
Personal Tech
Richer each day, home and Huawei: Apple's hunger for Snapdragon modems, smartphone recovery pays off for Qualcomm
A certain Chinese juggernaut's woes helped a bit, too
29 Apr 19:05 |
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Apple won't be sharing revenue guidance for rest of the year, but we can always guess what it'll look like
Cupertino brought in more for Q2 than HPE did for all of 2020 so go figure
29 Apr 13:49 | 9
Personal Tech
Major shift in smartphone market sees Chinese kit win the middle while Apple and Samsung skim the cream
Many owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’
29 Apr 10:45 | 1
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Samsung, Intel tease joint effort on new chip 'microarchitecture leveraging multiple types of XPU cores'
But for now, have some thin, light x86 Galaxy Pro laptops
29 Apr 02:32 | 6
Personal Tech
What is it with Facebook and screwing democracies? Now calls for Prime Minister Modi to resign censored in India
#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis
29 Apr 00:54 | 18
Personal Tech
Terror of the adtech industry iOS 14.5 has landed, and Siri can answer your calls ... though she/he can't hang up
Good news for users with disabilities, though there's room for improvement
27 Apr 14:24 | 25
Personal Tech
Toyota buys Lyft’s autonomous car group for $550m
Oh what a dealing
27 Apr 04:58 | 14
Popular
Updated
US declares emergency after ransomware shuts oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day
Oil transport by road allowed after Colonial Pipeline goes down, operator says recovery is under way but offers no recovery date
On-Prem
‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support
Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty
Software
When software depends on a project thanklessly maintained by a random guy in Nebraska, is open source sustainable?
Much of the OSS world is critically underfunded yet critically important
Who, Me?
Accidentally wiped an app's directory? Hey, just play the 'unscheduled maintenance' card. Now you're a hero
It soothed this raging roomful of wannabe lawyers anyway
Science
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
Long March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives
Updated
Namecheap hosted 25%+ of fake UK govt phishing sites last year – NCSC report
Also we fixed SS7 use by British telcos. How? Why? Not saying
Databases
Jaguar Land Rover reaches for graph database in search of supply chain knowledge during chip shortage
Top dog Neo4j just wouldn't scale, says car giant's data boss
Legal
China’s top three telcos advise of imminent delisting from New York Stock Exchange
Trump-era Executive Order gets China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile kicked off bourse
Servers
UK's competition watchdog sniffs around AMD's proposed $35bn all-stock buy of Xilinx
Will deal make goods, services less competitive? Regulator wants to hear from interested parties
Logowatch
Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’
Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment
STORIES
Personal Tech
PCs continue to sell like hot cakes and industry can barely keep up with demand – analyst
Retailers prep for what could be the biggest sales year on record
26 Apr 15:32 | 50
Personal Tech
From cash machines to commercial kitchen appliances, Doom really will run on almost anything
As long as the technical nous is there
23 Apr 08:30 | 20
Review
But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Blender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?
He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better
22 Apr 08:45 | 71
Personal Tech
Foxconn's showcase Wisconsin LCD factory becomes aspirational 'manufacturing ecosystem'
$10bn investment now $672m, jobs promised now 1,454 instead of 13,000
21 Apr 14:19 | 38
Personal Tech
We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple
Is there a back button for reality?
20 Apr 23:56 | 61
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iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat
Sulphorous stench was self-immolating Apple product
20 Apr 16:20 | 52
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Far-right internet haven Parler to be allowed back onto Apple's App Store with added content moderation
Social network for web outcasts can be downloaded again from next week for iThings, we're told
20 Apr 00:24 | 27
Personal Tech
Lock up your Peloton smart treadmills, watchdog warns families following one death, numerous injuries
Trendy exercise gear 'poses serious risks to children', says CPSC
19 Apr 23:36 | 54
Analysis
Google's FLoC flies into headwinds as internet ad industry braces for instability
Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult
17 Apr 08:07 | 67
Personal Tech
Will tech show IFA really return this year as a 'full-scale' shindig? Place your bets now
Announcement light on safety details and the world still doesn't look ready
16 Apr 13:47 | 2
On Call
To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user
Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity'
16 Apr 07:15 | 206
Personal Tech
Last chance to grab an iPhone Mini as savvy analyst reckons Apple will scrap it next year
Incoming iPhone 13 could be final slimline version
15 Apr 13:33 | 27
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Irish privacy watchdog sticks GDPR probe into Facebook after that online giveaway of 533 million profiles
Oh, you mean the 'features that make it easier for people to find and connect with friends on our services'?
15 Apr 07:26 | 38
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OMG! New free speech social network won’t allow members to take the Lord’s name in vain
‘Frank’ reckons it won’t follow Parler’s path to plug-pulling because it has its own servers and ‘the best security’. But it also uses Cloudflare …
15 Apr 06:17 | 80
Personal Tech
Got $10k to burn? Ultra-rare Piet Mondrian-esque Apple laptop is up for grabs on eBay
Colourful PowerBook 170 was a one-off for Japanese women's golf tournament
14 Apr 10:02 | 24
Personal Tech
After years of dragging its feet, FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge
New law implementation, cease-and-desist letters, and mobile companies asked to detail free blocking tools
13 Apr 22:34 | 47
