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VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams ‘dirty’ America's ‘clean network’ plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Geek's Guide

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

Verity Stob

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History

Personal Tech

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Doesn't matter if design was perfected at dawn of humankind, you still have to pay Cupertino tax

07 Aug 09:24 | 8

Personal Tech

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

The Middle Kingdom is thought to be a few months further down the road to economic recovery and smartmobes are discretionary purchases

07 Aug 06:29 | 1

Personal Tech

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp

07 Aug 05:05 | 7

Personal Tech

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Drop the heat gun, pal: minimal glue means there's hope for brave butterfingers among you

06 Aug 16:00 | 11

Personal Tech

Well, that was quick: Google brutally culls Pixel 4 and 4 XL before successor hits market

They didn't even make it a year

06 Aug 14:35 | 12

Personal Tech

Call of duty, modem warfare: Taiwanese Qualcomm rival MediaTek teams up with Intel for first stab at 5G laptop chipset

Reminding Chipzilla of days gone by...

06 Aug 11:47 | 9

Review

Oppo Find X2 Neo: We're not getting any slimmer through lockdown, but phones are

Lovely-to-hold blower sadly missing some features for the price

06 Aug 09:54 | 9

Personal Tech

We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard

Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun

06 Aug 04:15 | 22

Personal Tech

Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC

It's good at taking notes. Plus: Tablet-sized foldable, ear beans, and more

05 Aug 14:01 | 12

Personal Tech

Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music

Phased shutdown ends December, and subs will be shunted to other platform

05 Aug 12:15 | 81

Personal Tech

Apple re-arms the iMac with 10th-gen Intel Core silicon

Now with $500 option for very special glass that makes monitors sparkle, but no home-grown CPUs

05 Aug 08:00 | 56

Personal Tech

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard

04 Aug 20:58 | 35

Personal Tech

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home

Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it?

04 Aug 12:17 | 8

Personal Tech

Google reveals washable phone case, plus the new midrange Pixel 4a that goes inside it

Also teases 5G handsets, but says they won't reach India or Singapore

04 Aug 05:04 | 15

Personal Tech

Alarming news: ADT to flog Nest smart home kit after Google ploughs $450m into corporate security dinosaur

Resell agreement set up amid plans to build next gen of home automation and security gear

03 Aug 16:15 | 5

Review

Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard

But otherwise a capable machine for the road warrior

03 Aug 09:24 | 24

Personal Tech

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

Doug Engelbart had the idea. Bill English did the engineering and made the first ever mouse

03 Aug 07:33 | 31

Personal Tech

World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%

Apple leads in shipments, but also records the slowest growth among branded fondleslab-flingers

03 Aug 02:56 | 9

Personal Tech

All the way to Reno: Oppo's latest mid-ranger going global but lacks 5G compared to similarly specced models

It'll be a tough sell against the OnePluses and Motorolas around

31 Jul 15:00 | 8

Personal Tech

For Apple's latest trick, the iCockroach – allowing it to survive while the smartphone sector faces a nuclear winter

Total vendor shipments down 88.5 million year-on-year in first half of 2020

31 Jul 13:30 | 19

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams ‘dirty’ America's ‘clean network’ plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History

Personal Tech

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Well, that was quick: Google brutally culls Pixel 4 and 4 XL before successor hits market

Call of duty, modem warfare: Taiwanese Qualcomm rival MediaTek teams up with Intel for first stab at 5G laptop chipset

Oppo Find X2 Neo: We're not getting any slimmer through lockdown, but phones are

We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard

Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC

Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music

Apple re-arms the iMac with 10th-gen Intel Core silicon

Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home

Google reveals washable phone case, plus the new midrange Pixel 4a that goes inside it

Alarming news: ADT to flog Nest smart home kit after Google ploughs $450m into corporate security dinosaur

Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%

All the way to Reno: Oppo's latest mid-ranger going global but lacks 5G compared to similarly specced models

For Apple's latest trick, the iCockroach – allowing it to survive while the smartphone sector faces a nuclear winter

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Intel NDA blueprints – 20GB of source code, schematics, specs, docs – spill onto web from partners-only vault

Google catches up to AWS and steals a march on Azure with introduction of cloudy Certificate Authority Service

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community

USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

EY to outsource compute function, sending 800 staff into the loving arms of... IBM

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad

Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation

When you're stuck at home in a pandemic, what do you do? Watch TV, play music, use apps, buy laptops, gadgets... Stuff that Apple touts

No Google Play, no problem: Huawei pinches global phone sales crown off Samsung

Samsung cops COVID-19 coronavirus crunch and gets run over by Huawei in handsets for first time

At historic Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google CEOs hearing, congressmen ramble, congresswomen home in on tech market abuse

Huawei claims its alternative ecosystem to Google Mobile Services has 1.6 million devs, 73 million Euro users

With the US election coming up, when better to petition regulators for a controversial way to chill online speech?

Irony isn't dead... Facebook sues EU on data privacy grounds for requesting too much personal data

Get ready to try virtual-reality goggles, er, virtually: Another in-person event bites the dust as CES 2021 hauled online

Google allowed to remember search results to news articles it was asked to forget. Good

Gone in 15 minutes: Qualcomm claims new chargers will fill your smartmobe in a flash