How embarrassing: Xiaomi and Motorola show up to high school prom both wearing remote-charging tech
(2021/01/29)
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
European Commission redacts AstraZeneca vaccine contract – but forgets to wipe the bookmarks tab
(2021/01/29)
Open that little box and bingo, clear text of the whole PDF
Troubling news for JSON tinkerers? Windows Terminal unveils The Settings
(2021/01/29)
A fresh preview as the management cards receive a shuffle
Subnautica and Below Zero: Nurture your inner MacGyver and Kevin Costner on an ocean-planet holiday
(2021/01/29)
Yes, survival games can tell great stories too
SAP's lift-and-shift-to-the-cloud plan will need more than CGI to convince users it has a clear vision for ERP
(2021/01/29)
At the end of the day, biz customers will buy the product they want
It didn't (sob)... even make it (sniff)... to GA: Microsoft to pull the plug on Azure Service Fabric Mesh
(2021/01/29)
A sad-faced engineer leads it round the back of the barn. A single shot rings out
Completed Netflix? Indulge your inner nerd with a virtual talk from a computer museum
(2021/01/29)
Shuttered celebrations of computing heritage need your support
The Fat iPhone, 11 years on: The iPad's over a decade old and we're still not sure what it's for
(2021/01/29)
World+dog continues to swallow this tablet, though
A dedicated licence for open-source hardware: CERN OHL approved by OSI
(2021/01/29)
How do you license open-source hardware? Existing software licences will not do, says CERN
Very little helps: Tesco serves up 3-for-1 borkage special to self-scanning Tesco shoppers
(2021/01/29)
Windows puts on a surprise show at UK retailer
Transcribe-my-thoughts app would prevent everyone knowing what I actually said during meetings
(2021/01/29)
Welcome to another edition of Just A Minute, live from Scunthorpe
Takes from the taxpayer, gives to the old – by squishing a bug in Thatcherite benefits system
(2021/01/29)
IT's Robin Hoooooood, Robin Hoooooood, Robin Hoooooood
Microsoft's Gooseberry is a dish best served really, really cold: Progress made on silicon quantum computing
(2021/01/29)
None of that nuclear-magnetic-resonance garbage, ha
Oracle exhumes ‘Older, Still Useful Content’ penned by Solaris and SPARC veterans
(2021/01/29)
Posts look to have evaporated along with employee privileges
Google allows 15 more nations to offer gambling in the Play store
(2021/01/29)
India gets special attention with new rules for apps that tie loyalty and prize draws to payments
Biden administration pauses ban on Chinese tech companies suspected of military entanglements
(2021/01/29)
Top telcos still designated as stooges, but they've perked up a bit
Taiwan scores Google’s first hardware engineering lab outside the US of A
(2021/01/29)
Job ads call for silicon designers, ASIC engineers, display wonks and folks to build data centre and home kit
Nvidia accused of cheating in big-data performance test by benchmark's umpires: Workloads 'tweaked' to beat rivals in TPCx-BB
(2021/01/29)
GPU giant says it'll play ball soon
Robinhood plays Sheriff of Nottingham as it pauses GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry etc stock sales, gets sued
(2021/01/28)
He steals from the rich, and gives to the... wait, which side is the poor side now?
Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain
(2021/01/28)
Got a few (thousand) dollars to spare?
For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
-- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to powerfail recovery.]