Review
Huawei Matebook X Pro 2020: Nothing too crazy but at least it's more fixable and cheaper than comparable Apple wares
Which might help convince your stingy purchase manager
11 Aug 08:30 | 15
Personal Tech
Personal Tech
Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax
And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come
11 Aug 04:03 | 3
Personal Tech
Publishers signed up to Apple's premium News may be less than 'appy to discover the iGiant snatching readers
Safari links redirected by default into Cupertino's walled garden
10 Aug 22:11 | 20
Personal Tech
We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses
Gutted Sears, JC Penney locations could become 'fulfillment centers'
10 Aug 20:19 | 31
Personal Tech
Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite
Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind
10 Aug 05:02 | 20
Personal Tech
Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS
Zuck, Google, Microsoft platforms barred from Apple's iOS software souk
07 Aug 19:54 | 25
Personal Tech
Apple faces further iPhone 12 supply chain woes, per famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
Taiwanese optics suppliers in the frame, reportedly
07 Aug 16:30 | 4
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 | 65
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 | 8
Personal Tech
Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business
Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp
07 Aug 05:05 | 42
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 | 13
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 | 13
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 | 24
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 | 23
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 | 63
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 | 36
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
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DEF CON
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec
Who, Me?
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
You're so BASIC
Software
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel
If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android
Data Centre
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
No new orders, limited support options and a very sketchy roadmap
Business
Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo
It's all in the 'right-angled leaf', people
In brief
Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs
Plus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users
Personal Tech
Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite
Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind
Software
Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow
Software
India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives
And bans future imports of much military tech
DEF CON
Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear
In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants
STORIES
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 | 25
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
On Call
'I'm telling you, I haven't got an iPad!' – Sent from my iPad
Careless autoreplies cripple email at the heart of local government
31 Jul 07:02 | 235
Personal Tech
Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea's SK Innovation
Won't degrade. Won't catch fire. Will be a fine fit for electric vehicles
31 Jul 05:03 | 16
Personal Tech
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
And stuff that Cupertino just banked billions from
31 Jul 02:11 | 2
Personal Tech
No Google Play, no problem: Huawei pinches global phone sales crown off Samsung
Despite America but because of China, vendor came out on top
30 Jul 13:30 | 26
Personal Tech
Samsung cops COVID-19 coronavirus crunch and gets run over by Huawei in handsets for first time
Between football, new gaming consoles, Indian low-end-handsets and cloud computing, life is complex for Korean giant right now
30 Jul 07:58 | 4
Analysis
At historic Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google CEOs hearing, congressmen ramble, congresswomen home in on tech market abuse
We watched six hours of congressional hearings so you didn’t have to
30 Jul 01:20 | 48
Personal Tech
Huawei claims its alternative ecosystem to Google Mobile Services has 1.6 million devs, 73 million Euro users
Could it be? Something approaching, dare we say, viability?
29 Jul 12:37 | 12
Personal Tech
With the US election coming up, when better to petition regulators for a controversial way to chill online speech?
Guess what? Literally everyone thinks this is a terrible idea
28 Jul 23:41 | 46
Personal Tech
Irony isn't dead... Facebook sues EU on data privacy grounds for requesting too much personal data
'Exceptionally broad' demands reveal too much about our staff!
28 Jul 18:11 | 26
Personal Tech
Get ready to try virtual-reality goggles, er, virtually: Another in-person event bites the dust as CES 2021 hauled online
Put away your Hawaiian shirts, no post-lockdown Vegas January for you
28 Jul 16:34 | 7
Personal Tech
Google allowed to remember search results to news articles it was asked to forget. Good
High court won't nix links to accurate, fair journalism about director of financially rocked charity
28 Jul 08:54 | 54
Personal Tech
Gone in 15 minutes: Qualcomm claims new chargers will fill your smartmobe in a flash
Not so fast - Quick Charge 5 does its best when using new dual-battery tech
28 Jul 07:28 | 35
