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Guy who said women are 'soft, weak, cosseted, naive' lasted about a month at Apple until internal revolt

Ad tech engineer out after autobiography sparks protest – and what does this say about iGiant's hiring process?

13 May 21:35 | 21

Elon Musk hits the brakes on taking Bitcoin for Tesla purchases

CEO wakes up to BTC's connection to coal, holds onto the stash until mining becomes more eco friendly

13 May 01:03 | 96

Pentagon backs away from labeling smartphone maker Xiaomi a military org run by China's communist elite

Biz to be removed from naughty list following out-of-court settlement

12 May 22:29 | 4

IBM compiles dataset to teach software how software is made: 14m code samples, half of which actually work

Big Blue hopes to create the ImageNet of training resources for AI-powered programming tools

12 May 06:55 | 14

Google gets into the international money transfer business, one-way out of the USA

India and Singapore are first destinations, teams with Western Union and Wise to target 200 nations

12 May 06:31 | 15

WhatsApp: Share your data with Facebook, or we'll make our own app useless to you

Zuck gets tough just as Germany blocks privacy policy roll-out

11 May 21:41 | 69

Intel throws sand in the face of 'musclebooks' with 10nm Tiger Lake tech

11th-gen Core H has nice new touches, but pitch is usual 'a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter than an old PC' promise

11 May 11:30 | 29

China’s digital currency adds support for AliPay – the Alibaba payment app with over 700 million users

And just like that, the Digital Yuan has its route into the mainstream

11 May 05:58 | 7

Vietnam’s biggest industrial conglomerate quits smartphones and TV biz, bets on electric cars

No breakthroughs left to make in electronics, says CEO as company eyes off IPO-by-SPAC

11 May 04:58 | 5

Amazon says it destroyed two million knockoffs in 2020, a fraction of the amount it ships

Internet souk said it only approved 6% of new sellers

11 May 00:55 | 26

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 | 77

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 | 6

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 | 74

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

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

As pandemic buying continues, Chromebook shipments soared 275% in Q1, says analyst

Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing

05 May 13:14 | 13

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

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

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

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

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Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page

It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS

Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish

Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons

'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now

'More data, more breadth, more depth... it's the whole f&*king deal'

US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei

The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD

Water's wet, the Pope's Catholic, and iOS is designed to stop folk switching to Android, Epic trial judge told

Fortnite maker wheels out economist to explain how Apple works

Open-source JavaScript project Babel 'running out of money' after employing paid maintainers, sponsors pull out

Creator deletes posts alleging 'mismanagement' to blame

IBM compiles dataset to teach software how software is made: 14m code samples, half of which actually work

Big Blue hopes to create the ImageNet of training resources for AI-powered programming tools

Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move

Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum

On eve of national industrial ballot, BT, EE, Openreach agree to temporarily suspend compulsory redundancies

Well, the telco always said it's good to talk: Negotiations over jobs, pay, grading, and more set for this month

Apple's Find My network can be abused to leak secrets to the outside world via passing devices

You gotta work hard for those three-bytes-a-second transfers, though

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Toyota buys Lyft’s autonomous car group for $550m

Oh what a dealing

27 Apr 04:58 | 14

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

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

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

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

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

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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