ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

T-Systems and Google Cloud building 'sovereign cloud services' for Germany

(2021/09/10)

Sovereign according to Google's definition, that is



Music festivals are back in the UK. So is the background bork

(2021/09/10)

Stage fright? Or the knowledge that Windows is lurking behind you



BOFH: Pass the sugar, Asmodeus, and let the meeting of the Fellowship of Bastards... commence

(2021/09/10)

Stacy? Stacy of the industry-wide Crazy Frog ringtone VoIP software update? Good work



Spot the dog? No, we couldn't either because Spot is a robot employed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

(2021/09/10)

Plans to send remote devices to work at 70-year-old decommissioned nuclear power station may not be so barking



Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19

(2021/09/10)

No, not the title of an undiscovered Douglas Adams book, it's medical history in the UK



You walk in with a plan. You leave with GPS-tracking Nordic hiking poles. The same old story, eh?

(2021/09/10)

Please hold me back from the discount aisle in case I buy a USB desk fan



Not too bright, are you? Your laptop, I mean... Not you

(2021/09/10)

Those knobs can be sensitive



When it comes to moving information at the edge, sometimes your best bet is a card

(2021/09/10)

If you’re big on data, short on time, here’s an SD Memory Card workshop just for you



Big iron is out of fashion as server market shifts to low-end single-socket machines

(2021/09/10)

IDC says AsiaPac market growing, rest of world isn't, Dell wins on volume, and IBM on sale price



Epic Games asks for Apple's help to put South Korea's alternative app payments law to work

(2021/09/10)

Promises to offer App Store as an option, but needs its developer account to be reinstated to do that



Big Blue's quantum rainmaker jumps to room-temp diamond quantum accelerator company

(2021/09/10)

German-Australian outfit Quantum Brilliance thinks it can deliver product that runs on your desk in five years, for DBAs and boffins alike



Amazon Elasticsearch Service is so flexible it wants to be called by a new name

(2021/09/10)

Meet Amazon OpenSearch Service, more or less the same code, without the trademark infringement



Google’s made-for-India cut of Android and the one phone that runs it delayed by chip shortages, testing

(2021/09/10)

Devices were supposed to arrive Friday, November is new target



'This is the new normal,' Microsoft tells US workers: Work from home until further notice

(2021/09/10)

Plus: President Biden wants businesses with 100+ staff to get vaccinated or test weekly



Amazon to cover 100%* of college* tuition* for hourly employees* in the US

(2021/09/09)

* Terms and conditions apply. See in store for caveats. No purchase necessary



Orolia inks €70m deal to provide atomic clocks for second generation of EU's Galileo navigation satellites

(2021/09/09)

Time to hit the road



Tennessee agrees to pay Oracle $65m for Nashville relocation plan

(2021/09/09)

There’s room for you and your cowboy boots, we’ll even get you a rhinestone suit



Biggest takeaway from pandemic lockdowns for Microsoft? Teams stopped talking to each other

(2021/09/09)

Maybe they were using, you know, Microsoft's collaboration service



Improve your business resiliency with disaster recovery in a hybrid cloud infrastructure

(2021/09/09)

No need to be so DRaaStic?



Dozy ISS cosmonauts woken by smoke alarm on eve of 5-hour spacewalk

(2021/09/09)

Air purified, everyone back to bed, says Roscosmos, studiously ignoring smoke, burning smell



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