Google extends e-commerce platform to help people in India find nearby food during lockdown
(2020/04/14)
Google Pay is about to get really useful in India's biggest cities
PC shipments went over a cliff in Q1, which may be only moderately terrifying
(2020/04/14)
Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities
Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted
(2020/04/14)
A rogue pulsational pair-instability nova from a heavy star measuring over 100 times the mass of the Sun
India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone
(2020/04/14)
Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize
Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China
(2020/04/14)
As Microsoft gives Teams a Brady Bunch upgrade
Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!
(2020/04/14)
As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool
Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day
(2020/04/14)
Part two It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13
So how do the coronavirus smartphone tracking apps actually work and should you download one to help?
(2020/04/14)
Bluetooth, GPS, cell towers, code scanning: what’s the best way?
We lost another good one: Mathematician John Conway loses Game of Life, taken by coronavirus at 82
(2020/04/14)
British mathematician checks out
You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks'
(2020/04/14)
Data center snafu borks site because of...something
ICANN suffers split-personality disorder as deadline for .org sale decision draws close
(2020/04/13)
Staff trying to strike a deal; Board worried about corporate shell structure
All your jobs are belong to us... Amazon is hiring 75,000 people but if you want US home groceries, tough luck
(2020/04/13)
Nice to see Jeff Bezos catching a break
How to make a stranger's insecure 3D printer halt-and-catch-fire – plus more alerts from infosec world
(2020/04/13)
Roundup San Francisco Airport websites hacked, VMware patches emitted, etc
Google Cloud's AI recog code 'biased' against black people – and more from ML land
(2020/04/13)
Roundup Including: Yes, that nightmare smart toilet that photographs you mid... er, process
Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme: This website tracks which shares US senators are unloading mid-pandemic
(2020/04/13)
Just in case any one else decides to do a Burr or Feinstein
Animal crossing? Nah! Farmyard frolics, courtesy of Novell and pals
(2020/04/13)
Who, Me? Giving students network messaging in the '90s. What could possibly go wrong? MY EYES!
Taiwan may turn traffic advice app into massive tracking system
(2020/04/13)
To offer social distancing advice when people head out to play on a looming long weekend
Linux kernel technical advisory board asks if any maintainers need coronavirus relief
(2020/04/13)
As Linus Torvalds relieves the USA of his favorite Finnish Easter dessert
BepiColombo probe swings by Earth on way to Mercury – the Solar System's must-visit coronavirus-free resort
(2020/04/13)
Check out this plucky Euro-Japanese spacecraft and its seven-year trip to innermost planet
Apollo 13 set off into space 50 years ago today. An ignored change order ensured it did not make it to the Moon...
(2020/04/11)
Part one A liquid-oxygen tank, 65 volts across a 28-volt thermostat, and a two-inch tumble all led to this 'successful failure'
The more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain.