Google sued for $10 BEEELION after refusal to advertise 'divine cure for cancer'

Former IBM software engineer decries feeble-minded scientific rules Shajar Abid, a former senior engineer at IBM and presently the "chief visionary officer" at Nubius Technologies LLC, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the online ad …

Printer blown to bits by compressed air

Tech support planned to clean gunk with canned air. But the user had an industrial-strength compressor ... twice ON-CALL  Welcome again to On-Call, El Reg's regular Friday feature in which readers share their recollections of being asked to fix foll…

These earbuds can be controlled with a smile

First details emerge about Microsoft's Surface Pro 5

Disney-patent: computerspelletjes spelen op eettafel met bord als stuurwiel

Disney werkt aan een systeem om van eettafels een systeem te maken voor augmented reality. Gebruikers zouden op tafel geprojecteerde spelletjes kunnen spelen en daarbij fysieke objecten kunnen gebruiken als controller, zoals een bord om de koers van…

Twitter klaagt staat VS aan vanwege opvragen data account met kritiek op Trump

Twitter heeft een aanklacht ingediend tegen de Amerikaanse staat vanwege het opvragen van data van een anoniem account. Dat account, met meer dan 100.000 volgers, post geregeld kritische berichten over president Donald Trump en zijn regering.

Boffin counts the calories in human cannibalism

All in the name of archeology, he says Imagine this: You’re trapped on a desert island. You’ve eaten nothing for 20 days and as you grow increasingly delirious, your friend who is also stuck in this godforsaken place begins to look appetizing... whi…

The brains behind Microsoft's stunning IllumiRoom concept are bringing it to life

Google’s Chief Game Designer leaves the company so he can actually design games

Adidas reveals the first 3D-printed shoe it’ll mass produce

Microsoft's new hardware: eight x86 cores, 40 GPU cores

Damn. It's the next XBOX, not a Surface and it's going to 4k things up nicely Microsoft's revealed the specs for some forthcoming hardware and the tale of the tape is impressive.…

Reversible head transplants coming back to Windows Server 2016

Sysadmins miss Windows Server 2012's GUI-or-no-GUI-and-back-again option Microsoft says it might bring back Windows Server 2012's option to run with or without a GUI.…

Reversible head transplants coming back to Windows Server 2016

Sysadmins miss Windows Server 2012's GUI-or-no-GUI-and-back-again option Microsoft says it might bring back Windows Server 2012's option to run with or without a GUI.…

Google adds fact-check findings to search and news results

Germany gives social networks 24 hours to delete criminal content

Schnell! Designated complaint handlers could cop €5m Euro fine, networks could wear €50m Germany has followed through on its proposal to make social networks remove slanderous hate speech and fake news or face massive fines.…

Wisdom of crowds plus a splash of AI give Australia new national analytical map data

It's nice to know where a lake lies. It's better if you know how fast rain can get into it Australia's Public Sector Mapping Agency (PSMA) and US satellite constellation operator DigitalGlobe have joined together to come up with a whole-of-continent…

Twitter cofounder to sell chunk of his stock for personal reasons

Better do it quickly before the price falls further Ev Williams, the cofounder of Twitter and Medium, has revealed that he'll be selling a large chunk of his stock in the microblogging site to fund other activities.…

Samsung predicts record-breaking profit for Q1 2017

Twitter sues US govt to protect 'Department of Immigration employee' who doesn't like Trump

Because it's 2017 and nothing really makes sense any more Twitter has sued the US Department of Homeland Security over its demands that the microblogging site unmask an anonymous anti-Trump account.…

Democrats draft laws in futile attempt to protect US internet privacy

In non-snowball-in-Hell's-chance news: New York joins states' revolt on ISP rules Less than a week after President Trump signed the law allowing ISPs to sell customers' browsing habits to advertisers, Democratic politicians are introducing bills to …

Roll up, sysadmins, now you can join Windows Insider for businesses

Preview builds aimed at IT dept guinea pigs Microsoft is opening up a new Windows Insider program for IT departments looking to test out new features in advance.…