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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 | 2

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 | 6

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 | 10

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 | 24

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

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 | 19

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Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch

'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources

Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware

File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative

EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico

Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship

Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response

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'

Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report

Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed

Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin

Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset

UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?

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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

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

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