Quest VR glasses back on sale in Germany – but watchdog has eye on Meta
Goggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse
Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 9
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Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market
Plenty of top tech CEOs graduated from the country's unis, which are seen as a ticket to prosperity
Personal Tech25 Nov 2022 | 1
Too soon? Amazon commissions FTX mini-series
Spoiler alert: court proceedings suggest crypto exchange was a mess and investors will be out of pocket
Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 27
China declares victory over teenage video game addiction
Suddenly discovers that game-adjacent tech has its uses – and it's a huge export industry
Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 26
San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots
Asimov would like a word
Personal Tech24 Nov 2022 | 62
Foxconn workers protest over pay and lockdowns at iPhone factory in China
Updated Contractor apologizes for 'technical error occurred during the onboarding process'
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 27
Tech companies in the crosshairs as China proposes antitrust law revisions
After a mysterious pause in crackdowns, it looks like the Beijing everyone knows is back
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 6
Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech
Comment Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed?
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 192
If Apple's environmental rhetoric is meaningful, Macs and iPads should converge
Opinion An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but too many might be a burden on the planet.
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 47
HP Inc to lay off up to 6,000 staff, cut costs by $1.4 billion
‘Portfolio optimization’ plan aims to cull some PCs, sell more pricey subscriptions
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 41
FTC urged to clamp down on businesses' voracious appetite for data
ACLU agrees that the only way to protect consumers is to control what can be collected
Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4
FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract
But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware)
Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4
Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust
'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly'
Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 30
Two arrested in massive $575m cryptocurrency 'Ponzi scheme'
Yet another cautionary tale of diving into crypto investment opps
Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 25
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot
This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit
Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 155
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison
Even in Club Fed, that's a long time
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 134
US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes
ACLU argues for the Fourth
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 103
iFixit stabs batteries – for science – so you don't have to
The point? To demonstrate the safety of lithium-ion power packs when handled properly
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 67
India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices
Move for consumer welfare and preventable e-waste as nation seeks to ramp up electronics production
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 70
IT manager's 'think outside the box' edict was, for once, not (only) a revolting cliché
on call Products tend to work best once removed from their packaging
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 92
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Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit
Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space
Elon Musk to abused Twitter users: Your tormentors are coming back
Promises restoration of suspended accounts, despite previous pledge to do no such thing
Boss broke servers with a careless bit of keyboarding, leaving techies to sort it out late on a Sunday
On-Call Keeping things tidy is a thankless but critical task
UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites
Agencies told to rip 'em off core networks and replace 'em whenever and wherever possible
Guess the most common password. Hint: We just told you
In brief Also, Another red team tool at risk of turning to the darkside, and Meta catches the US military behaving badly
Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users
'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'
Amazon quits India's frenzied edtech market
Plenty of top tech CEOs graduated from the country's unis, which are seen as a ticket to prosperity
Quest VR glasses back on sale in Germany – but watchdog has eye on Meta
Goggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse
French cloud operator OVHcloud gets datacenter funds from EU lending arm
Using loan for expansion as political bloc pursues tech autonomy strategy
ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall
23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew
STORIES
FTX disarray declared 'unprecedented' by exec who cleaned up after Enron
Corporate funds bought employee homes, no accounting department, uncertainty about who's an employee, and other baffling behavior
Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 111
Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader
Comment comes as CEO testifies in suit questioning $65b Tesla pay
Personal Tech17 Nov 2022 | 133
Only iPhone 15 Pro models will have higher data transfer speeds on USB-C – analyst
Ming-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again
Personal Tech17 Nov 2022 | 35
Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home
Comment Divisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 381
Croatian EV maker Rimac claims 412km/h speed record
You can go (nearly) that fast too, if you have a spare €2 million lying around
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 64
Arm shells Qualcomm's Snapdragon launch party with latest salvo in license war
Softbank's chip designer warns US giant may lose all of its CPU licenses at this rate
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 9
Qualcomm pushes latest Arm-powered Snapdragon chip amid bitter license fight
Wi-Fi 7, TSMC 4nm, faster GPU, INT4 and AI everywhere – and a rocky relationship with its CPU designer
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 2
What do the US midterm election results mean for a federal privacy law?
Analysis Spoiler: it may hinge on California's voting block
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 11
Starlink purchases 'Twitter takeover' ad package, Musk dismisses it as 'tiny'
Well, which one is it, then?
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 33
Commercial repair shops caught snooping on customer data by canny Canadian research crew
Naming no names, but study finds trustworthy techs are hard to find
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 66
Google agrees to $391.5m settlement in privacy lawsuit
US states threw privacy challenge at web giant
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 11
FTX collapse prompts other cryptocurrency firms to suspend withdrawals
Bankruptcy filing for $32 billion firm follows inability to give customers their money
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 90
Amazon reportedly considers laying off 10k employees
Updated Alexa, do I have a job? Staff in corporate and technology positions in line of fire
Personal Tech14 Nov 2022 | 12
Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better
Opinion We must immunize the Mastodon
Personal Tech14 Nov 2022 | 198
Google’s resistance to third party Play store payments eases further with US tests
Tune in to hear how it works on Spotify, or hook up with choice on Bumble
Personal Tech14 Nov 2022 | 2
Twitter, Musk, and a week of bad decisions it seems
Lost among the Twitter chaos? We'll try to sort it out for you, so far
Personal Tech11 Nov 2022 | 106
Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands
Comment Alleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH
Personal Tech11 Nov 2022 | 202
Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7b, with worse to come
Taps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment?
Personal Tech10 Nov 2022 | 24
NTT claims it can stop the noise leaking from annoying people's headphones
Can't do anything about their musical taste though
Personal Tech10 Nov 2022 | 30
Musk sows more Twitter chaos, now with Official policy snafu
Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things
Personal Tech10 Nov 2022 | 31
Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter
Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining
Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 62
Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce
Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand
Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 89
LG debuts thin malleable screens made from contact lens material
The world may never be free of unsmashable ads
Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 33
Intel's top-spec Raptor Canyon NUC can double as a 700+W space heater
Stay warm this winter by fragging some baddies
Personal Tech08 Nov 2022 | 30
Heavy, man: Tuxedo puts out 2.2kg Stellaris AMD Gen 4
Review Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel
Personal Tech08 Nov 2022 | 21
Foxconn fears Q4 flop due to COVID complications
Other than that, results are some of the least bad news about hardware sales we've read in weeks
Personal Tech08 Nov 2022 | 1
Twitter begs some staff to come back, says they were laid off accidentally
Meanwhile, India workers in reported 90% purge
Personal Tech07 Nov 2022 | 89
Twitter layoffs were bad but Meta's mass ejections could take the cake
Just in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew
Personal Tech07 Nov 2022 | 34
Apple warns of slow iPhone 14 Pro shipments as COVID hurts production in China
Buyers told of longer wait times for shiny new phones that don't do a lot more than last year’s model
Personal Tech07 Nov 2022 | 5
Vonage to pay $100m for making it nearly impossible to cancel internet phone services
Ericsson's VoIP biz used 'a panoply of hurdles' to keep customers on the hook
Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 39
Twitter employees sue over lack of 60-day layoff notice
Musk-owned companies have now faced 3 WARN Act lawsuits alleging the same thing
Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 123
Dell hit with Oz court case for misleading prices on monitors
Watchdog claims add-ons to computer purchases appeared to be discounted but did not reflect the standalone RRP
Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 4
Xiaomi reveals bonkers phone with bolted-on Leica lens that will make you look like a dork
A weighty lens, placed off-centre on a lightweight smartphone – what could possibly go wrong?
Personal Tech04 Nov 2022 | 50
AMD’s latest, greatest Radeon graphics card $600 cheaper than Nvidia’s top RTX 4090
Chiplet-based RNDA 3 GPU fans have been waiting for
Personal Tech03 Nov 2022 | 20
Qualcomm predicts 2024 is the year Windows on Arm goes large
For now, have a hiring freeze to preserve fat profits
Personal Tech03 Nov 2022 | 20
Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs
Want a low-cost machine? Agree to be bombarded and the Windows giant could have a solution for you
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 87
Big brands urged to pause Twitter ads until Elon's learned how this all works
Let's just go get a pint and wait for it to blow over
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 80
Tablet, Chromebook shipments come crashing down
Device sales hit the floor as vendors look to Windows PCs
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 11
Minecraft's 'first luxury goods collection' features real-world $3,000 Burberry coat
Surely only a blockhead would pay these prices?
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 22
iPhone factory workers bussed home to avoid COVID, Foxconn urges them to stay
Don't the factory workers of China know that the season of huge shopping sprees starts next week?
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 4
Hong Kong wants to be the world’s home for virtual assets
The Capital of VA? Virtual assets have to live somewhere and HK thinks it has the regulation for it
Personal Tech31 Oct 2022 | 14
The boss worked in a fishbowl, so office tricks were a treat
Who, Me? Phones weren't made to fly
Personal Tech31 Oct 2022 | 105
Elon Musk shows what being Chief Twit is all about across weird weekend
Shares misinformation, re-litigates takeover trial, complains about on-boarding process, and more
Personal Tech31 Oct 2022 | 161
Meta fined record-breaking $24.6m for deliberately ignoring political ad law
Pocket change for troubled Facebook giant, plus more US election news
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 30
Macs still growing as Apple sidesteps dark clouds over big tech
Ducks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 3
Party like it's 2014, if you can – that's the last time smartphone sales were this low
If not for Apple, this addition to this week's orgy of bad economic indicators would be even less pleasant
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 17
Ubuntu continues expanding RISC-V support – now, the $17 Sipeed LicheeRV
As progress revealed on Android port to the open ISA
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 11
Thinking smart inside the box
Set-top boxes are reclaiming their status as primary home entertainment access gateways
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Your new career plan: Go to jail for bribery, get busted taking drugs, be appointed chair of Samsung
It worked for Lee Jae-yong, who now gets to handle a nasty profit plunge
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 9
Amazon CEO accused of trampling labor laws with anti-union comments
Surely staff organizing is Bias for Action and Think Big on those blasted leadership principles?
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 16
You're Shipt outta luck: App sued for treating delivery workers as contractors
'No, no, they're shoppers, not employees' ain't gonna fly with DC AG
Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 47
US orders safety recall of Tesla Cyberquad-for-kids ATV
Won't somebody please think of the Cyberquad children?
Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 26
Apple exec confirms iPhones will switch to USB-C because 'we have no choice'
Sure you have a choice. You could abandon the European market
Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 136
It's 2023, let's check in with the metaverse... Nope, still doesn't exist
You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on
Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 71
Your next PC should be a desktop – maybe even this Chinese mini machine
Desktop Tourism They're tidy, speedy, small – and wall off your working life
Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 113
Google settles with Uncle Sam over data that vanished during cryptocurrency biz probe
Search giant says changes already made since prosecutors showed up with a warrant years ago
Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 10
Foxconn's largest iPhone factory back under COVID lockdown
Bad news for Apple maybe; bad news for China's tech sector definitely
Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 2
Finance watchdog warns of long-term risk Big Tech poses to competition
FAGA's interest in payments and lending services has UK's Financial Conduct Authority's attention
Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 12
Logitech, that canary in PC coal mine, just fell off its perch
Pandemic gold rush for hardware slingers is over?
Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 35
Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables
Flaming 'eck!
Personal Tech25 Oct 2022 | 95
Philips axes thousands amid financial loss
Warns of class action lawsuits and personal injury claims in wake of health product recall
Personal Tech25 Oct 2022 | 20
Microsoft ships non-Surface PC: a cheap Arm box for devs
Windows Dev Kit 2023 packs Qualcomm's AI toys and an all-Arm environment for Windows coding
Personal Tech25 Oct 2022 | 21
Shareholders slam Zuckerberg's 'terrifying' $100b+ Metaverse experiment
Start with dumping a fifth of staff, capping that VR capex, firm urges
Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 35
Don't believe the hype: HP CEO says 3D printing hasn't met early hopes
Canalys Channels Forum Now, who talked up that market to begin with?
Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 24
Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025
Canalys Channels Forum McKinsey forecasts market value of $5 trillion by 2030, Citi says up to $13 trillion, but Canalys doesn't agree
Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 71
TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move
China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 16
Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason
Canalys Channels Forum Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 62
Musk reportedly wants to gut Twitter workforce by up to 75%
Twitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 85
Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs
Canalys Channels Forum Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 57
Amazon hit with $1bn claim that secretive Buy Box algorithm screws shoppers
Internet mega-souk thinks allegations are a waste of Prime
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 29
Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data
You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 16
DisplayPort standards bods school USB standards bods with latest revision
Video Electronics Standards Association shows the USB Implementers Forum how it's done
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 38
Musk grumbles about 'overpaying' for Twitter but says he's excited
Tick tick tick ... just 8 days to go
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 41
Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards
Canalys Channels Forum Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 20
Amid losses, Uber driven to become advertising network
Don't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 22
DuckDuckGo's macOS browser hits public beta
Remember, remember, the Microsoft trackers
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 4
Next-gen Thunderbolt capable of 120Gbps for 8K displays
Oh snap. It's not going to work with existing passive cables if they're longer than a meter
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 24
Global smartphone sales come tumbling down as reality bites
Inflation and energy prices force consumers to prioritize household bills over shiny electronic devices
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 17
Lenovo reveals rollable laptop and smartphone screens
Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 15
India to lead drive for global crypto regulations to bust money laundering
As president of the G20, it will have the platform to make it happen
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 6
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