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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 | 27

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 | 42

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 | 21

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 | 49

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

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond

16 Sep 19:46 | 209

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

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 | 58

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 | 18

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 | 85

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

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Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter

In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine

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

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond

It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights

But that's what UN group has done

Yes, of course there's now malware for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Once dismissed proof-of-concept attack on Microsoft OS through WSL detected in the wild

WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job

Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself

If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this

Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start

De-identify, re-identify: Anonymised data's dirty little secret

Jeffrey Singh, stamp-collecting bachelor (35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – is that you?

Apple emergency patches fix zero-click iMessage bug used to inject NSO spyware

Separate flaw in WebKit also under attack squashed, too – and two zero-days in Chrome, as well

ExpressVPN bought for $1bn by Brit biz with an intriguing history in adware

'Kape has moved on from those times'

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

Latest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain

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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 | 167

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

World to make 1.37 billion smartphones in 2021 says IDC – about one for every six humans

Apple's growth outpaces Android's, and 5G shipments are surging despite hefty prices

01 Sep 07:00 | 16

Rumors of satellite-comms-capable iPhone abound. The truth could be rather boring

Meanwhile, Amazon gripes about SpaceX's constellation plans

31 Aug 03:28 | 49

Children of China, your state-sanctioned hour of gaming begins … now!

Beijing limits kids to three hours a week, suggests they use it to play Chess, Go or coding

31 Aug 01:57 | 75

Real world not giving you enough anxiety? Try being hunted down by the perfect organism in Alien: Isolation

2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day

28 Aug 10:37 | 21

'Totally driven by supply': Dell, HP talk of backlogs and shortages as big PC-makers turn in their numbers

Dell's results were upbeat, HP's flat, but investors still worried over supply chain

27 Aug 19:05 | 5

Apple wants to scan iCloud to protect kids, can't even keep them safe in its own App Store – report

Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety

26 Aug 19:46 | 13

Video game curfew for South Korean teens to be more permissive by end of 2021

Decade-old policy starting to look silly amid myriad of online late-night vices available to them

26 Aug 14:26 | 4

Bumble fumble: Dude divines definitive location of dating app users despite disguised distances

And it's a sequel to the Tinder stalking flaw

26 Aug 07:28 | 37

Smoking smartphone sparks emergency evacuation of Alaska Airlines jet, two taken to hospital

In battery containment bags we trust

24 Aug 23:58 | 36

Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse

Terminally dumb tellies now ... if they switch on the Wi-Fi

24 Aug 19:10 | 180

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Borking on the corner, watching the world go by

A Baltic bork in the Republic of Lithuania

24 Aug 18:03 | 3

Playdate handheld game system torn to pieces, crank and all

We never managed to fix our Game Boy, but maybe we could repair this?

24 Aug 12:16 | 14

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