Get ready to try virtual-reality goggles, er, virtually: Another in-person event bites the dust as CES 2021 hauled online
(2020/07/28)
Put away your Hawaiian shirts, no post-lockdown Vegas January for you
UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)
(2020/07/28)
'Equity-backed' DB-'n'-services biz hooks up tenants with vetted local repair shops
IDE like an update, please: JetBrains freshens IntelliJ, adds improved GitHub integration, Java support
(2020/07/28)
Issues? Visit the website or use Visual Studio Code
It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle
(2020/07/28)
Propositions database land with a 'real-time' system
Spending on 5G to double despite the pandemic while legacy network infrastructure sector suffers – Gartner
(2020/07/28)
Also, half of the world's 5G investment currently is spent by China
MI6 tried to intervene in independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers – but they said sorry, so it's OK
(2020/07/28)
Just another day for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
Face masks hamper the spread of coronavirus. Know what else they hamper? Facial-recognition systems (except China's)
(2020/07/28)
Uncle Sam tests AI models with pics of immigrants, travelers. Wait, what?
Find out this week: How to build a cyber threat intelligence program while cutting through the noise
(2020/07/28)
Tune in online to get a handle on separating good data from clutter
Google allowed to remember search results to news articles it was asked to forget. Good
(2020/07/28)
High court won't nix links to accurate, fair journalism about director of financially rocked charity
Rackspace reveals retirement plan behind decision to go public by selling 17% of itself
(2020/07/28)
We can't call it an initial public offering given this is its second time around on the share market
Brave takes step closer to sensible business model by building subscription VPN into the iOS version of its browser
(2020/07/28)
Relying on ads in software designed to block ads is an uphill struggle
Gone in 15 minutes: Qualcomm claims new chargers will fill your smartmobe in a flash
(2020/07/28)
Not so fast - Quick Charge 5 does its best when using new dual-battery tech
Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest
(2020/07/28)
Rust enters the top 20, and yes, JavaScript is still number one
Microsoft runs a data centre on hydrogen for 48 whole hours, reckons it could kick hydrocarbon habit by 2030
(2020/07/28)
Now to figure out how to make and store the gas, and fit fuel cells into bit barns
Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current
(2020/07/28)
Holy sheet...
Green with NVMe: AWS adds more Arm-powered instance types
(2020/07/28)
Local SSD block-level storage comes to EC2 instances powered by home-brew Graviton2 CPUs
Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor
(2020/07/28)
Half a billion users for $3.5bn - bargain!
New Zealand government to explain its algorithms to stop robo-bias warping policy
(2020/07/28)
But won’t reveal the actual algorithms – or even define what an algorithm is
Google extends homeworking until this time next year – as Microsoft finds WFH is terrific... for Microsoft
(2020/07/28)
You see, there is a COVID-19 silver lining. For employers. For the rest of us, welcome to the machine
Battle for 6GHz heats up in America: Broadcasters sue FCC to kill effort to open spectrum for private Wi-Fi
(2020/07/28)
Big Tech pushes back, says band use Hertz no one
It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution.