CIA puts almost 12 million declassified files online for the first time

Australia's Department of Social Services pushing ahead with data-matching plans

Midyear data release hopes to crowd source academic data-matching brainpower The Centrelink “robo-debt” debacle hasn't dimmed the Australian government's enthusiasm for data-matching as a policy tool.…

HPE gobbles SimpliVity for US$650m – well below recent valuations

Hyperconverged unicorn loses its horn As predicted by The Register last September, HPE has announced it will acquire hyperconverged contender SimpliVity for US$650m in cash.…

US watchdog sues Qualcomm for bribing Apple to swallow chips

Snapdragon biz broke monopoly laws, FTC claims in bombshell lawsuit America's trade watchdog the FTC has sued Qualcomm, alleging the California-based biz trampled over US laws on fair competition.…

HPE gobbles SimpliVity for US$650m – well below recent valuations

Hyperconverged unicorn loses its horn As predicted by The Register last September, HPE has announced it will acquire hyperconverged contender SimpliVity for US$650m in cash.…

Obama slashes Chelsea Manning's sentence: She'll be freed in May

Pack your bags Julian, you're off to America, right? In the final days of his administration, President Barack Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's remaining sentence, meaning she'll be free on May 17, or shortly afterwards.…

Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls

Li-ion tamers: Boffins build battery with built-in fire extinguisher

Can we just go ahead and call it 'the Samsung device' now? Researchers at Stanford University say they have developed a method for building fire-extinguishing materials into standard lithium-ion batteries.…

Microsoft neemt bedrijf over dat gespecialiseerd is in optimaliseren van 3d-data

Microsoft heeft de makers van Simplygon overgenomen. Simplygon is software voor het optimaliseren van 3d-data. Met de Simplygon-techniek kan een geavanceerd 3d-model automatisch aangepast worden voor weergave op verschillende apparaten.

Valley techies to protest outside Palantir – Trump adviser's creepy citizen database biz

Thiel's upstart has the info needed for a Muslim registry Silicon Valley engineers will protest outside the headquarters of data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Wednesday, demanding greater transparency over how its databases may be used by the…

Low-cost Android One phones reportedly coming to the US

Ubisoft brengt tijdelijke demo van Watch Dogs 2 uit op PlayStation 4

Twee maanden na de release van de volledige game heeft Ubisoft een demo van Watch Dogs 2 voor de PS4 uitgebracht. De gratis versie is tot uiterijk 7 februari drie uur lang te spelen. Vanaf 24 januari komt de demo ook naar de Xbox One.

Microsoft gaat e-books verkopen in Windows Store

Microsoft gaat een sectie toevoegen aan zijn Windows Store waarin e-books worden verkocht. De boekenwinkel komt waarschijnlijk in april samen met de Creators Update naar Windows. Op screenshots uit een interne build is de functie al te zien.

Top tip: Boost your supercomputing powers at ISC 2017

If you work in any HPC field, don't miss the Frankfurt conference Promo  Catch up with the latest developments in high-performance computing at the five-day 2017 ISC conference and exhibition in Frankfurt June 18-22. The theme is high-performance co…

Top tip: Boost your supercomputing powers at ISC 2017

If you work in any HPC field, don't miss the Frankfurt conference Promo  Catch up with the latest developments in high-performance computing at the five-day 2017 ISC conference and exhibition in Frankfurt June 18-22. The theme is high-performance co…

Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is leaving Crackle for Netflix

'LG kondigt 9 februari samen met Google twee Android Wear 2.0-smartwatches aan'

Google kondigt op 9 februari Android Wear 2.0 aan en zal op die dag samen met LG twee smarwatches presenteren die gebruikmaken van de nieuwe software. Dat zegt Evan Blass, die promotiemateriaal heeft ingezien van de nieuwe producten.

Veeam vaunts its va-va-voom as 2016 revenues unveiled

As if backup competition happens to someone else It's news but kind of expected; Veeam has seen almost 30 per cent year-on-year growth in its final 2016 quarter, and full-year revenues of $607.4m. Veeam on.…

Veeam vaunts its va-va-voom as 2016 revenues unveiled

As if backup competition happens to someone else It's news but kind of expected; Veeam has seen almost 30 per cent year-on-year growth in its final 2016 quarter, and full-year revenues of $607.4m. Veeam on.…

Verizon still has ‘thousands’ of customers using the recalled Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Jawbone’s CFO has left the company