Science Microsoft's new 'Adam' AI trounces Google ... and beats HUMANS Asynchronous design crucial in giving 120-machine cluster the edge in neural-network wars 15 Jul 00:26 | 23
Science Can it be true? That I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of PUREST ... BLACK? Brit boffins stumble on wonder material while down the pub 15 Jul 00:48 | 68
Channel New leaked 'Windows 8 screenshot': The Start Menu strikes back Revamped launcher could arrive in update this year 15 Jul 01:28 | 93
Science D-Wave to bust 1,000-qubit barrier with new quantum compute device Bags $30m in funding as it preps quantum-as-a-service thing 15 Jul 01:31 | 11
SaaS IBM to drop SoftLayer pod in Melbourne Big Blue joins the race to cloudify Australian business 15 Jul 01:32 |
SaaS VMware launches vCHS in Japan and reveals China Telecom partnership SoftBank scores in Japan as 'CT E-surfing Hybrid Cloud Services' name picked for Middle Kingdom ops 15 Jul 02:37 |
Networks French telco vendors line up with government on 5G Alca-Lu leads 'Club France' to take battle back to Asia 15 Jul 02:58 | 2
Science Diary note: Pluto's close-up is a year from … now! New Horizons is less than a year from the dwarf planet 15 Jul 03:31 | 19
Legal BitTorrent not to blame for movie revenues, says economist Movie futures traders provide better data than Hollywood sockpuppets 15 Jul 03:58 | 76
Security Flaw in Google's Dropcam sees it turned into SPYCAM Researchers find Heartbleed vuln and plenty more holes in Google's IoT eyes 15 Jul 04:31 | 8
Networks Verizon, Ericsson, Qualcomm plot spectrum-sharing test When the lads in khaki leave the 3.5 GHz band alone, telcos plan to borrow it for your mobe 15 Jul 05:02 |
Science Get an EYEFUL OF CURRY for the sake of your brain These boffins tested turmeric: you won't REMEMBER what happens next 15 Jul 05:29 | 33
Bootnotes DRONE WARS: Killers, spies? Nah, they're IDEAL for snapping pics of hot models Face, face... Give beauty, face, face! 15 Jul 06:04 | 9
Personal Tech Child diagnosed as allergic to iPad Apple's fondleslab is the tablet dermatitis sufferers won't want to take 15 Jul 06:29 | 42
On-Prem YES: Scotland declares independence ... from the dot co dot uk empire You can take our hard drives, but they will never take our freedom 15 Jul 07:03 | 110
Security 'Father of Zeus' banking trojan appears at very reasonable price Kingpin daddy skips sandboxes, ducks AV and pops browsers 15 Jul 07:27 | 5
Channel Samsung threatens to cut ties with supplier over child labour allegations Vows to uphold 'zero tolerance' policy on underage workers 15 Jul 08:02 | 15
On-Prem Barclays Bank counter staff to become iPad-toting 'community bankers' They shall walk amongst you 15 Jul 08:31 | 47
Comment Mobile, cloud, social? Data? Nadella strings sexy words together Long-winded memo makes us miss Steve Ballmer 15 Jul 09:02 | 17
Bootnotes Delaware pair nabbed for getting saucy atop Mexican eatery Burrito meets soft taco in alleged rooftop romp outrage 15 Jul 09:31 | 49
OSes Do YOU work at Microsoft? Um. Are you SURE about that? Nokia and marketing types first to get the bullet, says report 15 Jul 09:56 | 42
Exclusive BT: Whew, we've been cleared of major privacy breach. Oh SNAP, another webmail blunder Complaint dismissed. Prepare for different complaints 15 Jul 10:28 | 19
Storage What do we want? Swift storage policies! OpenStack: Yeah, fine Not many though, it seems 15 Jul 11:01 |
Channel Brit enterprises still wolfing down PCs post-XP support death Lenovo closing in on HP as PCs continue to clamber out bog 15 Jul 11:18 | 2
WPC Microsoft takes on Chromebook with low-cost Windows laptops Redmond's chief salesman: We're taking 'hard' decisions 15 Jul 11:33 | 68
NSFW Japanese artist cuffed for disseminating 3D ladyparts files Printable genitalia fall foul of 'obscene material' laws 15 Jul 11:46 | 73
Databases Oracle: You wanted SQL on Hadoop? How about SQL on Hadoop and SQL ON NOSQL? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? 15 Jul 12:00 | 6
Science NASA: ALIENS and NEW EARTHS will be ours inside 20 years ETs, habitable planets will soon pop up with our new 'scopes 15 Jul 12:24 | 152
Review BMW i8 plug-in hybrid: It's a supercar, Jim, but not as we know it Vroom-vroom, sort of 15 Jul 12:55 | 84
Legal Google's Pankhurst doodle doo-doo shows the perils of using Google to find stuff out El Reg DOES do Google Doodle 'stories' sometimes 15 Jul 13:27 | 45
Storage Hybrid upstart Tintri: Legacy vendors? We're eating their lunch Claims VM-aware hybrid biz is growing... 15 Jul 13:54 | 10
Legal UK Parliament rubber-stamps EMERGENCY data grab 'n' keep bill Just 49 MPs oppose Drip's rushed timetable 15 Jul 14:15 | 64
Channel SHARE your big data scientist. They're too costly and rare to keep a whole one – HP exec Pool the, er, 'shared resource' across channel partner base 15 Jul 14:42 | 5
Channel Virty server bones thrown: Gartner mages see Microsoft rising What a shock, VMware in the lead 15 Jul 15:02 | 8
Channel British data cops: We need greater powers and more money You want data butt kicking, we need bigger boots - ICO 15 Jul 15:16 | 10
Science Native Americans KILLED AND ATE DUMBO, say archaeologists Yum, trunk meat, my favourite 15 Jul 15:19 | 46
Networks Google Nest, ARM, Samsung pull out Thread to strangle ZigBee But there's a flaw in Google's IP-based IoT system 15 Jul 15:57 | 31
On-Prem Piece of Apple close to smashing CRAZY 2012 share price record Is an equally massive share plunge in the offing? 15 Jul 16:26 | 13
SaaS Smashing, groovy, baby – yay, capitalism! Digital Ocean flogs Brit VMs Plucky Linux cloud startup floats where Amazon fears to tread: Slough 15 Jul 17:30 | 3
Audio Listen: WORST EVER customer service call – Comcast is 'very embarrassed' Embarrassed it was caught on tape 15 Jul 17:54 | 151
Security Hamas hacks Israeli TV sat channel to broadcast pics of Gaza wounded Tells viewers: 'Prepare yourself for an extended stay in shelters' 15 Jul 18:15 | 31
+Comment You don't need a HERO, you need a ZERO. From Google Crack unit to rid internet of zero-day vulns 15 Jul 19:09 | 17
Software Microsoft's anti-bug breakthrough: Wire devs to BRAIN SCANNERS Clippy: It looks your hands are shaking, are you sure you want to commit this code? 15 Jul 20:05 | 34
Personal Tech Nokia emits Windows Phone 8.1 'Cyan' upgrade for Lumia gear Finnish phones get bonus features on top of OS upgrade 15 Jul 20:22 | 30
Legal 'Two-speed internet' storm turns FCC.gov into zero-speed website Deadline for comments on net neutrality shake-up extended to Friday 15 Jul 20:51 | 13
Channel HP chairman Ralph Whitworth steps down immediately Activist investor cites health concerns in leaving post 15 Jul 21:32 | 3
Legal Interview: Michael Cordover, voteware freedom-of-information crusader Barrister offers pro bono help to uncover the source code of Australian democracy 15 Jul 22:02 | 5
On-Prem Don't mention ZE WAR: Battling Box touts unlimited storage to biz Having a hard time being profitable? Quick - give every byte away 15 Jul 22:16 |
Channel Can nothing trip up the runaway cash monster that is Intel? Well... Most divisions show modest growth, with one big exception – that damn mobile tech 15 Jul 23:26 | 12
On-Prem Big Blue Apple: IBM to sell iPads, iPhones to enterprises iOS/2 gear loaded with apps for big biz ... uh oh BlackBerry 15 Jul 23:59 | 26