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Samsung aims boot at Apple's decision not to bundle a charger in with the iPhone 12, foot ends up in mouth

Come on Sammy, you've got form here so don't make the same mistakes again

16 Oct 19:15 | 7

Need a new computer for homeschooling? You can do worse than a sub-￡30 2007 MacBook off eBay

The look on their wickle faces as they scream: 'Mum, what the heck is Linux?'

16 Oct 16:01 | 27

TikTok says Trump administration ban is based on fake news about the app and its back end

Claims code and infrastructure aren't shared with China or very scary. Also reveals Oracle will win biz from AWS, Azure, Alibaba and Google!

16 Oct 08:02 | 12

So many Unis run eSports teams that Lenovo’s built a business unit for ‘em

To flog workstations and 'maintain and optimize the experience for esports student athletes'

16 Oct 04:28 | 8

Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan

Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter

After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too

Pai says he wants to 'clarify' Section 230's 26 words

16 Oct 00:08 | 32

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

And the world breathed a sigh of relief?

15 Oct 22:00 | 45

China watches 170,000 years’ worth of short videos every day

Which goes a long way towards explaining why Tencent just engineered a mega-merger of streaming services

15 Oct 04:05 | 9

US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content

Clarence Thomas reckons web giants need to do more to curb abuse

14 Oct 22:29 | 40

A point of Honor: Huawei in talks to sell its youth-focused smartphone business – report

Digital China Group, TCL and Xiaomi said to be among suitors in deal potentially worth ￡2.8bn

14 Oct 15:36 | 7

Sailfish floats v3.4 'Pallas-Yll?stunturi', its latest Jolla good reason for itchy-fingered Android and Apple swervers

Tops Ubuntu for catchy release names

14 Oct 13:05 | 20

It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead

Small and large models with 5nm system-on-chip touted

13 Oct 23:15 | 115

Pump up the volume: Online sales help Samsung's phone division weather a brutal year

Chaebol's e-commerce efforts surged compared to 2019

13 Oct 18:15 | 1

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE goes from 'nearly dead' to full in an hour, but you might not be a 'Fan' of some of the shortcuts

Less-hardy touchscreen, less-impressive snapper

13 Oct 12:00 | 9

BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month

16KB RAM becomes 128KB as the Beeb gets down with the kids again

13 Oct 08:30 | 54

Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets

Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity

13 Oct 05:31 | 32

Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!

After nearly 20 years, it's time to say goodbye to venerable messageboard

13 Oct 00:59 | 26

California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data

Sorry not sorry, Facebook

13 Oct 00:17 | 21

Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing

And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide

12 Oct 20:35 | 122

Need next-gen connectivity but don't want to break the bank? Samsung's Galaxy A42 5G is a bin-raking ￡349

Now, just to wait for some signal...

12 Oct 15:35 | 8

Popular

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die

And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta

We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to

Master builder or vastly inferior?

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again

Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so

After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino

BBK mixed-grill realness: Realme's pair of 7s are two more reasons not to spend over ￡300 on a smartphone

Not a steak, but if you're going midrange there's enough to chew on

12 Oct 12:12 | 14

Microsoft tells staff work-from-home is now ‘standard’ – with caveats galore

Boss has to agree, home time not to exceed 50 percent and let’s talk about salary if you leave town

12 Oct 07:55 | 51

Pakistan bans TikTok because of its users not its owners

Warnings to clean up its act went unheeded, but door remains open for a return

12 Oct 01:03 | 11

What is your 'intent'? Google Assistant opens door to chatting with third-party apps

But as ever, users, you don't need to yell into the phone... it's not the 1970s

09 Oct 19:33 | 8

IT Marie Kondo asks: Does this noisy PC spark joy? Alas, no. So under the desk it goes

Powerful computers need powerful fans, after all

09 Oct 07:15 | 77

Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board

What are the chances?

09 Oct 00:24 | 44

Third time's still the charm: AMD touts Zen-3-based Ryzen 5000 line, says it will 'deliver absolute leadership in x86'

Cache me if you can, Intel

08 Oct 20:26 | 58

UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?

Sure, millions of profile pages slurped via dodgy Facebook API though it didn't actually affect anything, it seems

08 Oct 04:46 | 24

Amazon tells ISPs: I can be your Eero, baby. I can ease your Wi-Fi pain. I will block bad sites forever...

Sorry, EnrEcho Ringlesias couldn't come up with a suitable last line

07 Oct 19:06 | 18

Teracube whips out cheap, fixable phone with removable battery and four-year warranty

Crowdsourced firm will be hoping you repair it yourself rather than rely on its incredibly generous policy

07 Oct 18:03 | 34

Reno4 Pro 5G: At this price point, OPPO's latest phone for the UK market ought to feel better than a mid-ranger

A few things conspicuous by their absence at ￡700

07 Oct 10:30 | 5

Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner

Cops charge suspect with theft as audit claims this gear definitely wasn't on loan

06 Oct 22:37 | 32

China takes TikTok-WeChat ding-dong to World Trade Organization, accuses US, India of breaking global rules

One person still believes forced sale is a good idea. Hint: He’s in hospital

05 Oct 23:03 | 20

Apple seeks damages from recycling firm that didn't damage its devices: 100,000 iThings 'resold' rather than broken up as expected

iGiant 'would rather shred stuff than let it hit the used market'

05 Oct 21:56 | 83

Suffering silicon: Benchmarks for Apple's A14 chip are in, but post-Intel Macs, when they arrive, will tell the real story

It's crunch time

05 Oct 14:30 | 21

Hasta la vista, Ola: TfL bans ridesharing startup, claiming unlicensed drivers picked up passengers

Softbank-backed firm may yet appeal London transport authority decision

05 Oct 10:15 | 18

Something to consider in case Dell freezes over: HP unfolds 2-in-1 laptop with Intel Tiger Lake brains, bigger screen

Refresh dukes it out with gear from rival

03 Oct 07:03 | 20

If the Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition doesn't make you a fan, we don't know what will

Why buy the full-fat version when you can have this?

02 Oct 12:15 | 77

Google adopts ‘value-neutral’ language to make selfies less about ‘beauty’

Kids are being horrible about photo filters, so developers are being asked to help protect mental health

02 Oct 06:29 | 32

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