Personal Tech
OnePlus 8T review: Solid performance and a great screen make this 5G sub-flagship a delight
Do you really need so much RAM, though?
23 Oct 10:28 | 35
Personal Tech
On Call
The engineer lurking behind the curtain: Musical monitors on a meagre IT budget
The 'S' in SX, stands for 'Sporty', ok?
23 Oct 07:15 | 56
Personal Tech
Love Minecraft: Java? You'll have to learn to love your Microsoft account as well – it will be required next year
Mojang bows to the inevita... oh, look – a free cape!
22 Oct 19:28 | 69
Personal Tech
Out to launch: Huawei rolls out speedy charging Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro flagships
Mate 40 family could be the company’s ‘last hurrah’ in smartphones outside China - analyst
22 Oct 16:23 | 9
Personal Tech
Congrats, Meg Whitman, another multi-billion-dollar write-off for the CV: Her web vid upstart Quibi implodes
$2bn Alt-Netflix for those with short attention spans closes after short lifespan
22 Oct 00:22 | 98
Personal Tech
Vivo Las Blowers: Chinese smartphone brand hops into Europe's crowded mobe market
Well, there's a Huawei-shaped opening thanks to Mr Trump and co
21 Oct 09:15 | 8
Personal Tech
Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks
In case you've forgotten: Google sends Mozilla about $400m a year
21 Oct 08:02 | 35
Personal Tech
Is Google fudging search rankings to benefit pages that embed YouTube vids? Or is this just another ‘bug’?
Websites featuring get super-fast rating despite slower reality
21 Oct 06:56 | 29
Analysis
What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo
Some state AGs feel US govt lawsuit is limited, tech groups worry about implications
20 Oct 22:45 | 48
Analysis
Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn
Search engine giant has officially become 1990s Microsoft
20 Oct 18:31 | 104
Personal Tech
Oh Mi: Xiaomi shows off 80W wireless charging, claims battery fully fat again in under 20 minutes
Commercially available? Er.... not yet
20 Oct 11:39 | 58
Personal Tech
Pakistan restores TikTok, says it needs to crack down on video nasties, and anything else outside 'societal norms'
App promises to curb behaviour but this might be about control than morals
20 Oct 02:29 | 1
Personal Tech
2020 hasn't been all bad – a new Raspberry Pi Compute Module is here
Farewell to the old form factor, hello to extra HDMI and speedier silicon
19 Oct 14:01 | 34
Personal Tech
Samsung aims boot at Apple's decision not to bundle a charger in with the iPhone 12, foot ends up in mouth
Come on Sammy, you've got form here so don't make the same mistakes again
16 Oct 19:15 | 79
Personal Tech
Need a new computer for homeschooling? You can do worse than a sub-£30 2007 MacBook off eBay
The look on their wickle faces as they scream: 'Mum, what the heck is Linux?'
16 Oct 16:01 | 56
Personal Tech
TikTok says Trump administration ban is based on fake news about the app and its back end
Claims code and infrastructure aren't shared with China or very scary. Also reveals Oracle will win biz from AWS, Azure, Alibaba and Google!
16 Oct 08:02 | 14
Personal Tech
So many Unis run eSports teams that Lenovo’s built a business unit for ‘em
To flog workstations and 'maintain and optimize the experience for esports student athletes'
16 Oct 04:28 | 10
Personal Tech
Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan
Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter
16 Oct 02:30 | 1
Personal Tech
After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too
Pai says he wants to 'clarify' Section 230's 26 words even though he probably can't do anything about it
16 Oct 00:08 | 58
Updated
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
And the world breathed a sigh of relief?
15 Oct 22:00 | 54
Popular
Updated
If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed
Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too
Software
Ubuntu 20.10 goes full Raspberry Pi, from desktop to micro clouds: Full fat desktop on a Pi is usable
But company also has its eye on Kubernetes at the edge
On Call
The engineer lurking behind the curtain: Musical monitors on a meagre IT budget
The 'S' in SX, stands for 'Sporty', ok?
Security
Palo Alto Networks threatens to sue security startup for comparison review, says it breaks software EULA
'I'm not going to be bullied by someone with deeper pockets' vows Orca boss
Interview
'This was bigger than GNOME and bigger than just this case.' GNOME Foundation exec director talks patent trolls and much, much more
Snaps vs Flatpaks, losing in mobile, Microsoft and Linux, and avoiding another GNOME 2 to 3 disaster
Security
Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more
Immigration reforms allowing more skilled workers to stay seem to have resulted in permanent residency
Security
After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'
It's saying something when it's easy to believe the US President's passphrase was maga2020!
Software
RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music
Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?
Artificial Intelligence
IBM: Our AI correctly predicts onset of Alzheimer’s 71% of the time, better than standard clinical tests
IBM: Our AI correctly predicts onset of Alzheimer’s 71% of the time, better than standard clinical tests
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Ho hum: If you're so artificially intelligent, name this song while my videos go viral
My careful plan to save the economy
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Personal Tech
China watches 170,000 years’ worth of short videos every day
Which goes a long way towards explaining why Tencent just engineered a mega-merger of streaming services
15 Oct 04:05 | 9
Analysis
US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content
Clarence Thomas reckons web giants need to do more to curb abuse
14 Oct 22:29 | 43
Personal Tech
A point of Honor: Huawei in talks to sell its youth-focused smartphone business – report
Digital China Group, TCL and Xiaomi said to be among suitors in deal potentially worth £2.8bn
14 Oct 15:36 | 7
Personal Tech
Sailfish floats v3.4 'Pallas-Yllästunturi', its latest Jolla good reason for itchy-fingered Android and Apple swervers
Tops Ubuntu for catchy release names
14 Oct 13:05 | 20
Personal Tech
It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead
Small and large models with 5nm system-on-chip touted
13 Oct 23:15 | 116
Personal Tech
Pump up the volume: Online sales help Samsung's phone division weather a brutal year
Chaebol's e-commerce efforts surged compared to 2019
13 Oct 18:15 | 1
Personal Tech
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE goes from 'nearly dead' to full in an hour, but you might not be a 'Fan' of some of the shortcuts
Less-hardy touchscreen, less-impressive snapper
13 Oct 12:00 | 9
Personal Tech
BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month
16KB RAM becomes 128KB as the Beeb gets down with the kids again
13 Oct 08:30 | 54
Personal Tech
Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets
Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity
13 Oct 05:31 | 32
Personal Tech
Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!
After nearly 20 years, it's time to say goodbye to venerable messageboard
13 Oct 00:59 | 26
Personal Tech
California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data
Sorry not sorry, Facebook
13 Oct 00:17 | 21
Personal Tech
Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing
And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide
12 Oct 20:35 | 125
Personal Tech
Need next-gen connectivity but don't want to break the bank? Samsung's Galaxy A42 5G is a bin-raking £349
Now, just to wait for some signal...
12 Oct 15:35 | 8
Review
BBK mixed-grill realness: Realme's pair of 7s are two more reasons not to spend over £300 on a smartphone
Not a steak, but if you're going midrange there's enough to chew on
12 Oct 12:12 | 14
Personal Tech
Microsoft tells staff work-from-home is now ‘standard’ – with caveats galore
Boss has to agree, home time not to exceed 50 percent and let’s talk about salary if you leave town
12 Oct 07:55 | 51
Personal Tech
Pakistan bans TikTok because of its users not its owners
Warnings to clean up its act went unheeded, but door remains open for a return
12 Oct 01:03 | 11
Personal Tech
What is your 'intent'? Google Assistant opens door to chatting with third-party apps
But as ever, users, you don't need to yell into the phone... it's not the 1970s
09 Oct 19:33 | 8
On Call
IT Marie Kondo asks: Does this noisy PC spark joy? Alas, no. So under the desk it goes
Powerful computers need powerful fans, after all
09 Oct 07:15 | 78
Personal Tech
Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board
What are the chances?
09 Oct 00:24 | 44
