Christmas cheer for KCL staffers with gift of extra holiday after IT disaster

And no, it won't be possible to take pay in lieu Exclusive  'Tis the season to be jolly at King's College London, where staff have been offered extra holiday in recognition of their response to the university's IT disaster.…

Question Club: We throw down over Rogue One’s CGI characters, choppy first act, and that damn blue milk

The Darth Vader choke fetish meme is now canon

AT&T made a chatbot for lonely TV binge watchers

Amerikaanse defensie maakt kleine zenders voor ultra-low-frequency-communicatie

Darpa, het onderzoeksinstituut van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie, werkt aan kleine zenders voor ultra-low-frequency-communicatie. Daarmee moet communicatie mogelijk worden op plekken waar dit tot nu toe moeilijk is, zoals onder water, in t…

Kodi 17.0 bèta 7

De zevende en naar aller waarschijnlijkheid laatste bètaversie van Kodi 17.0 is uitgekomen. Deze crossplatform-mediacentersoftware wordt ontwikkeld voor Windows, macOS, Linux, Android en iOS. In versie 17.0 is de mogelijkheid voor het afspelen van 1…

Bayrob: Romanian auction fraud suspects extradited to the US

Going, going ... Three suspected cybercriminals have been arrested and extradited from Romania to the US over a suspected multi-million dollar malware-facilitated scams.…

Startup grind is over: Now Primary Data must compete with storage giants

Might sound crazy but it ain't no lie... they need 'em to buy buy buy Analysis  Startups arrive with fanfares of new tech and product surprise and then face the long grind to grow their business to newsworthy market status while adding bells and whi…

Startup grind is over: Now Primary Data must compete with storage giants

Might sound crazy but it ain't no lie... they need 'em to buy buy buy Analysis  Startups arrive with fanfares of new tech and product surprise and then face the long grind to grow their business to newsworthy market status while adding bells and whi…

AirPods are now available in some Apple Stores, if you can find them

How an emoji goes from pitch to product

Airbnb is working on a new way to book flights

Nvidia introduceert upgradekit om computer 'gamewaardig' te maken

Nvidia heeft een set geïntroduceerd om een computer te verbouwen naar een systeem dat nieuwe games kan draaien. De set is voorzien van een GTX 1060, een 240GB ssd en een 450-wattvoeding en is alleen in Zuid Amerika verkrijgbaar.

View from a Reg reader: My take on the Basic Income

What happens when Few things are more divisive than ideas that are perceived as radical; ideas that push against what we consider to be normal, against the social or political boundaries that we have grown up and lived within.…

Watch a teaser trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049

IT ops doesn't matter. Really?

Get real – it's not all about developers and DevOps Listen to some DevOps evangelists talk, and you would get the impression that IT operations teams exist only to serve the needs of developers. Don't get me wrong, software development is a good com…

Grab an ARMful: OpenIO's Scale-out storage with disk drive feel

Object storage networked drive JBOD with direct access OpenIO has launched its SLS-4U96 product, a box of 96 directly addressed drives offering an object-storage interface and per-drive scale-out granularity.…

Grab an ARMful: OpenIO's Scale-out storage with disk drive feel

Object storage networked drive JBOD with direct access OpenIO has launched its SLS-4U96 product, a box of 96 directly addressed drives offering an object-storage interface and per-drive scale-out granularity.…

You can't trust news on Facebook – and (once again) you can't trust its web ad metrics

Another recount in America: Cockup sends publishers back to their abacuses Amid its efforts to get out of the business of fake news distribution and to identify the fake accounts said to represent 2 per cent of its 1.79 billion monthly active users,…

European Patent Office supremo rapped on knuckles by nation reps

States seek to limit Napoleon-like tendencies of Benoit Battistelli The Administrative Council of the European Patent Office (EPO) has rapped its rampaging president on the knuckles at a two-day meeting in Munich but failed to take any public action…

'Samsung overweegt accu's van LG af te nemen'

Samsung is naar verluidt in gesprek met LG Chem voor de levering van accu's die dan onder andere in de opvolger van de teruggeroepen Galaxy Note 7 komen. De fabrikant zou met zijn rivaal onderhandelen om minder afhankelijk te zijn van enkele aanbied…