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Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues

Ridiculous! Personal transportation should be becoming smaller, lighter & more efficient

We're so, so, sorry you're not able to get PC chips, says Intel to everyone who hasn't gone with AMD yet

If AMD's latest CPUs supported Windows XP, I'd upgrade my i7 3700 in a flash

Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware

This is f*cking absurd! The propensity of tech manufacturers to deny access to drivers should be illegal. They all seem to be at it. Will they save any money? Unlikely.

Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

...want...free...broad...band...

NASA spanks $34bn on a disposable rocket – likely to top $50bn by 2024 moon landing

Disposables should always be discarded after a trip to Uranus

If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is: Nobody can decrypt the Dharma ransomware

Now if Google's Quantum "Revolution" could do more than generate random numbers...

BT launches all-singing converged 5G product for... oof... £58 a month

Yes but do they allow mobile hotspot/tethering?

Bloodhound rocket car target of 550mph put on ice after engine overheat

Re: How about this idea for an additional publicity stunt?

He'll need yet another Irish passport

Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction

Origin of Species

The very beginnings are not sufficiently defined, non-linear systems are understood somewhat later

OPPO's Reno 2, aka 'Baby Shark', joins the deepening pool of high-spec midranger mobes

Re: Two things to note

WTF? And who TF is that photo for? Time to gaffer tape the front camera

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

'Tis

FTFY

Xiaomi the way to go phone: That would be with a 108MP camera by the looks of things

Re: Android ?

Xiaomi the updates, the quality of which is poor enough to render old models obsolete, when they can be bothered to assassinate their old phones

Samsung sadly sings of memory, all alone in the moonlight, as downturn slashes profits by 56%

Samsung should patch and update as well and as often as OnePlus

Boffins blow hot and cold over li-ion battery that can cut leccy car recharging to '10 mins'

Phones could utilise the heating element to become handwarmers, when not charging

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

REBIRTH, FLASH! AAARRRGGGHH!

Why can't Adobe secure Flash? It can do so much more than JavaScript+CSS+HTML5 in visual terms with less device resources and I for one would like to see Flash reborn!

USAF spaceplane back on Earth after mystery 2-year jaunt in orbit. Jeepers creepers, what has it been doing up here?

Telltale whiffs of methane and brown streaks reveal it's been in Uranus

Slow down, ice-on-Mars fans: Those 'streams' on Red Planet may be caused by landslides

Landslides can't cause streams out of Uranus

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

Uranus is visible during a full moon

Cosmo Communicator: More phone than the Gemini, more pocket computer than phone

Re: "completely impossible to edit anything [...] unless you have cursor keys"

The Tytn 2 was just the right size and a very useful device indeed... until the permanent and inexplicable RED LIGHT OF DEATH bug shone it's baleful glow

Microsoft has made an Android phone. Repeat, Microsoft has made an Android phone. A dual-screen foldable mobe not due until late 2020

WHY THE F*CK didn't they do this when they owned Nokia?

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

...oh no... there will be fewer jobs for foreigners

Psst. Wanna brush up your supervillain creds? Get a load of this mini submarine

...yes but how much cocaine can it carry?

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

A

...just that

Now it's Terrance Dicks' turn to regenerate: Golden-age Doctor Who mainstay dies aged 84

Re: I have fond memories of those books

The books were always better

Behind time and way over budget, but the James Webb Space Telescope has finally been put together

Taking Uranus's temperature will be less fun

It will see much deeper into Uranus

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

...he'll be dealing weed in lockup from now on

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Re: Or people.

No, it's like planting a trillion trees QUICKLY using tech - one drone operator can control 100 tree planting drones

Re: Hydrogen? Seriously?

Hydrogen destroys ozone really fast - all those trillions of little "Puffts"/leaks when you fill a fuel tank add up to accelerate global death

Re: 2023!

You could probably afford to convert your car to electric - In India they do this cheaply to seriously old, ugly rolling deathtraps and this approach of chucking together old bits from trash heaps should be the focus instead of mostly unaffordable Tesla-type vehicles

A trillion trees would fix the climate

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/23244/20190721/planting-trees-will-help-save-planet.htm

...and it could be done quickly using using drones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAq7e4EyJs

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Sound alternative...

remote controlled solenoid driving a nail into the lithium battery

Don't panic! Don't panic! UK IT job ads plummet as Brexit uncertainty grabs UK tech sector by the short and curlies

Re: Part-time jobs seem to have disappeared altogether

As we age, personal contact becomes much more important when approaching agencies - you don't fit their ideal job cadidate photofit therefore your emailed CV will be discarded almost immediately. But... recruiters are out to make money, they get bonuses and the agencies get a hefty set of fees for positions filled. All you need is to meet the right recruiter who believes they can make money out of you. Play the odds, there are hundreds of agencies within a 50 mile radius of most cities, a few fair will specialise in IT. Having your references to hand means they can make money faster (no need to wait for snail mail, a quick confirmatory phone call is all that's needed). I'm sorry to say, the CV you leave with the receptionist will be thrown in the bin as soon as they see your age, always ask to speak to a recruiter directly.

Huawei goes all Art of War on us: Switches on 'battle mode' and vows to 'dominate the world'

Unintended consequences...

He's ushering in a third mass market phone OS with significant market share

Microsoft shares twin previews of Windows 10 with Insiders: Toys for some, coal for others

...and this is why I still use Windows XP

Dry patch? Have you considered peppering your flirts with emojis?

Re: Why can't we use emojis when...

...nobody on The Reg is ever going to get laid

Looming US immigration crackdown aims to weed out pre-crime of poverty. And that may be bad news for techie families

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

Microsoft blocked TSO Host's email IPs from Hotmail, Outlook inboxes and no one seems to care

Furthermore, many emails sent via small web hosts often end up in the spam folder for no good reason... Microsoft, Gmail and others should recognise that many small businesses use the smaller web hosting providers - not just email spammers

Xbox daddy bakes bread with 4,000-year-old Egyptian yeast

Just like Mummy used to make

That's bang out of order: Threesome hookup app 3Fun leaked lovers' data, locations, pix – report

Re: Mind bleach

Oh no... it's not the bed that's creaking

Rocket Lab CEO tucks into hat as company shares plans to reuse Electron first stage

They could land on a long line of progressively smaller trampolines, and finish with a flourish

FBI, NSA to hackers: Let us be blunt. Weed need your help. We'll hire you even if you've smoked a little pot in the past

Sometimes speed is the only way to crack a tough nut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

Hack-age delivery! Wardialing, wardriving... Now warshipping: Wi-Fi-spying gizmos may lurk in future parcels

My postie will hate having to carry a faraday cage

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's personal MiG-29 fighter jet goes under the hammer

I have leprosy. She can keep the tip

Take two cornerstones of British life, booze and queues, then squirt them with face scans: AI Bar

A sign language translating AI would be a much better idea < 1990 Hacienda in Manchester with bleeding ears

OK, Google. We've got just the gesture for you: Hand-tracking Project Soli coming to Pixel 4

Great... they will be watching us having sex now too: penis movements misinterpreted as gestures causing all sorts of havoc

New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for an end to end-to-end encryption

Her tune will change once Facebook lobbyists secretly pay her off