Personal Tech
Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform
€1.7bn Estonian company is first on store to have a global presence
03 Jul 11:22 | 3
Personal Tech
On Call
Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds
Thinking in binary, dreaming in hexadecimal, and this is what they'll remember you for
03 Jul 07:15 | 126
Special report
'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam
Is that listed phone number going direct to a professional or a call center?
02 Jul 23:25 | 19
Personal Tech
Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches
Privacy-focused Librem 14 laptop available for pre-order
02 Jul 15:15 | 25
Personal Tech
Last chance to grab a Pixel 3A off Google's UK store with 4A successor around the corner
Plus: Apple declares first-gen Retina MacBook Pro 'obsolete'
02 Jul 14:31 | 5
Personal Tech
UN warns of global e-waste wave as amount of gadgets dumped jumps 21% in 5 years
Record 53.6 million tonnes produced last year - that's 7.3kg per person on the planet
02 Jul 14:01 | 39
Updated
Consumer orgs ask world's competition watchdogs: Are you really going to let Google walk off with all Fitbit's data?
It's like the Chocolate Factory isn't dominant enough already
02 Jul 12:15 | 30
Personal Tech
Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release
Still outstanding issues but gaining ground faster than previous efforts
01 Jul 17:59 | 45
Personal Tech
Chinese mobe flinger OPPO aims £219 A72 handset at penny-pinching Brit youth
Please, sir. I want some more TikTok
01 Jul 09:03 | 5
Personal Tech
MediaTek trumpets cheap gaming chipsets for strange subset of people who enjoy PUBG on their smartphone
With devices packing Helios G25/G35 coming in at £60-£80 and £1,000+ for a desktop PC, we see the appeal
30 Jun 17:33 | 4
Personal Tech
Leaked benchmarks from developer kit for Apple's home-baked silicon appear to give Microsoft a run for its money
Before you get too excited 1) They're benchmarks 2) New consumer Arm-based Macs might use something else
30 Jun 13:11 | 17
Personal Tech
Apple said to be removing charger, headphones from upcoming iPhone 12 series
Trying to reduce waste or funnelling punters into investing in AirPods?
29 Jun 11:58 | 113
Personal Tech
It's now safe to turn off your computer shop: Microsoft to shutter its bricks-and-mortar retail locations worldwide
'Reimagined' flagships to endure, but that place you used to go to when the Apple Store was too busy is going away
26 Jun 14:29 | 66
Personal Tech
White elephants in the mist: Google's upcoming Pixel 4A may ship without Soli motion recognition, per FCC filing
Stripping radar-based tech would cut price and allow phone's sale in markets where 60GHz spectrum is restricted
26 Jun 12:06 | 31
On Call
Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth
There's a rat in my system, what am I gonna do?
26 Jun 07:16 | 188
Personal Tech
After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good
Oh, snap
26 Jun 05:27 | 101
Personal Tech
Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law
Look, we wrote it! You're all wrong!
25 Jun 01:58 | 27
Personal Tech
Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016
Triumphant F#-major to return with upcoming macOS Big Sur
24 Jun 18:30 | 12
Updated
GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset
3DoF bad, 6DoF good
24 Jun 15:30 | 1
Review
CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck
High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty?
24 Jun 09:15 | 26
Popular
Emergent Tech
If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free
Plus: IBM emits BlueGene/Q CPU blueprints – and 'fastest' open-source RISC-V core emerges
Security
Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a 'CDN' for some Javascript
Tight-lipped bank has fixed the weirdness - but not said why it happened
Networks
Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future
Great problem of our time solved: Classic FM won't have to rebrand as Classic DAB
Exclusive
Capita Consulting ditching more than a quarter of its workforce 45 days after consultations with consultants
100 people have lost their jobs, COVID-19 blamed
Cloud
AWS attempts to woo devs with new tool aimed at porting .NET applications to Linux
Bezos' bunch beats Microsoft to the punch, though it has limited use for now
Storage
It's not a Windows 10 release without something breaking so here's a troubleshooter for your OneDrive woes
Microsoft emits a fix for those fearful of Registry tinkering
Networks
The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry
Tech stands on own two feet rather than 4G infrastructure
Science
UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb
Whitehall buddies up with Bharti to complete constellation
Job Alert
Your industry needs you: Database engineers, sysadmins and developer vacancies revealed
Something for everyone this week, including wannabe Vultures
Bootnotes
E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial
Tees Valley mayor expresses his love for two-wheelers
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Personal Tech
China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism
Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people'
24 Jun 07:28 | 26
Personal Tech
Coming live from Next@Acer in Taipei: Hardware refreshes, new ruggedised line – and, er, an energy drink
A plan to inject life into the flagging PC industry? Meet the Predator Shot: putting the spin in spinach
23 Jun 19:15 | 3
Personal Tech
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests
23 Jun 10:46 | 70
WWDC
Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps
We take a look at Cupertino's one-Arm bandit gambit
23 Jun 00:42 | 172
WWDC
What's the Arm? First Apple laptop to ditch Intel will be 13.3" MacBook Pro, proclaims reliable soothsayer
We'll find out as WWDC rolls on
22 Jun 13:18 | 81
Personal Tech
Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends
Shipments soared 86% in Q1, 200 million expected to be shifted this year
22 Jun 10:00 | 41
Personal Tech
Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag
£499 nabs early birds 5G, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage
19 Jun 15:25 | 5
On Call
PC printer problems and enraged execs: When the answer to 'Hand over that floppy disk' is 'No'
Time for the Windows pantomime: 'Oh yes it does...' 'Oh no it doesn't'
19 Jun 07:29 | 143
Personal Tech
Xiaomi and NXP ride a bus to Moscow with a wearable Mastercard
Threesome now plan to march East and conquer Europe
19 Jun 06:56 | 2
Updated
Health Sec Hancock says UK will use Apple-Google API for virus contact-tracing app after all (even though Apple were right rotters)
It's The Reg wot warned it
19 Jun 06:34 | 209
Personal Tech
By emptying offices, coronavirus has hastened the paperless office
Analyst predicts seven-football-fields-per-minute printing plunge
19 Jun 05:03 | 95
Personal Tech
The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references
We wanted flying cars and space travel for 2020 but instead we got re-runs of fascist propaganda
18 Jun 20:29 | 156
Personal Tech
Ryzen shine, kids: Huawei buries AMD silicon in latest laptop, hopes to lure 'young professionals'
By which it means people who can’t afford a Macbook, right?
18 Jun 19:57 | 11
Personal Tech
Smartwatches win the consumer tech sector for Q1 2020 as locked-down folk take up fight against corona-carbs
Shipments up 12%, says Canalys
18 Jun 11:05 | 10
Comment
If Fairphone can support a 5-year-old handset, the other vendors could too. Right?
Biz model isn't good for consumers or the environment, but Google holds all the cards for Android
18 Jun 09:15 | 63
Sponsored
Bad Audio Dynamite: How poor sound and vision messes up the working day
Removing the emote from remote
18 Jun 07:00 |
Personal Tech
Google’s Fitbit lift strains competition laws says Australian regulator
Worries that wearable and web combo makes for unbeatable diagnostics duo
18 Jun 02:57 | 3
Analysis
For years, the internet giants have held on dear to their get-out-of-jail-free card. Here are those trying to take that away
Soon it'll be known as Section 230 because there are 230 suggested solutions to overhaul it
18 Jun 01:47 | 35
Personal Tech
Huawei's EMUI 10.1 update shows Chinese mobile giant hunkering down for the long haul without Google wares
Software rollout confirmed, with new voice assistant Celia along for the ride
17 Jun 15:15 | 10
