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Blighty's machine learning and robotics strategy lags behind other countries, say experts AI is at the forefront of the UK government’s digital strategy, and believed to be crucial to the nation's future post-Brexit.…

Poultry peddler pleads Page's peeps: Precision, please A restaurant owner feared for her business's future this week after it was mistakenly listed as closed down on Google Maps – and the ad giant wouldn't correct the error.…

Batt inventor John is back – and says his latest design charges fast, holds more energy A team led by John Goodenough, the man who played a key role in creating the lithium-ion battery, thinks it has cracked a replacement.…

Tech Preview 3 lands, with offline mode and promises of Blockchain services to come Microsoft's revealed Technical Preview 3 of Azure Stack, its forthcoming on-premises Azure-in-a-box effort, adding some new features, promising a continuous stream of other additions before final release and hinting at the pricing scheme.…

Uni bods hit bell where it hertz Vibrations emitted by Britain’s most famous bell have been mapped for the first time by engineers from the University of Leicester.…

The only data you want on your wrist describes your pulse Sales of wearables did okay in the Christmas quarter, but sales of apps for wearables are in the doldrums.…

Sales superheroes promoted into management and suddenly next quarter looks tricky Nutanix posted excellent quarterly revenue results – but its outlook for next quarter is so comparatively low that its shares took a hammering.…

If you like retro tech, dictator chic and paying far too much for stuff, this is for you! Hot on the heels of the resurrected Nokia 3310 comes news of Russian outfit “Caviar” creating a Vladimir-Putin-Themed mod for the retro handset.…

Just imagine what you could do with twenty-one million dollars Secondary storage consolidating software startup Hedvig has gained $21.5m in a VC‑round of funding, with HPE putting in some of the cash.…

Ex-Sun bloke earns promotion at virty database biz A reliable source tells us that Delphix, the database copy virtualizer, has promoted engineering VP Eric Schrock into its chief technology officer role, finally replacing the somewhat long-ago departed Adam Leventhal.…

Top-level VCDX now costs $3,995 and vAdmins aren't impressed VMware's bumped up the price of its certification exams, with the price of the MBA-grade VCDX certification more than tripling.…

No immediate danger, but Microsoft wants you to deprecate old certs When Google revealed last week that it had destroyed the SHA-1 algorithm, it hammered another nail into the venerable algo's coffin.…

Lawsuit claims streaming giant hushed up viewer growth drop that sparked stock plummet Netflix is facing a class-action lawsuit from one of its investors, who claims executives withheld bad news from shareholders – and cost them billions of dollars in losses.…

NSA: It's hard to tell. Now could you reauthorize our authority to keep doing it? If there is one piece of information that would fatally undermine the NSA's argument that it doesn't abuse Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), it would be the number of American citizens whose personal information it has "incidentally" hoovered up.…

And no, you can't use Stackoverflow and Google Analysis Amid the Trump administration's tough talk on immigration and executive orders calling for border barriers and immigration bans, recent anecdotes describing a more confrontational entry process among travelers arriving in the US appear to confirm expectations set by the President's rhetoric.…

Tough year for big box shifters as shipments, revenues, hopes, dreams fail Analysis HPE, IBM and Lenovo each lost their market-share footing in the server box shifting world at the end of 2016, according to Gartner and IDC. Server sales revenues also dropped in the final three months of the year.…

Army baffled as Shadow goes invisible Vid The US Army is investigating how one of its drones took an unplanned 623-mile excursion and ended up stuck in a tree two states away.…

Blueprints and staff shifted to different projects after EMC spent '$1bn' on tech +Comment A year after first shipping the DSSD D5 array, Dell Technologies is axing the standalone product.…

Basically, Team Bezos pulled a GitLab Amazon has provided the postmortem for Tuesday's AWS S3 meltdown, shedding light on what caused one of its largest cloud facilities to bring a chunk of the web down.…

Regulator publishes draft guidance, opens consultation The UK Information Commissioner's Office has published draft guidance for data controllers on what it's actually going to mean for users to consent to their data being collected and shared under the European Union's looming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

IT-business misalignment woes When IT teams and their colleagues within the business get along, life is good for everyone.…

Incumbent Oracle: 'We'll aggressively compete too. It's what we do' Software biz SAP is eyeing up BT's business following its acquisition of the firm's existing customer EE for £12.5bn last year, with the former state monopoly having already set aside £550m for integration costs.…

When Machines Won’t Learn Facebook has revamped its Messenger bot platform that allows businesses to engage with the app's massive audience – and the story is a lesson for anyone looking for practical applications of the AI and machine learning hype.…

We're talking revenues. Positive cash flow ... haha. Maybe later As Pure’s quarterly results show revenue growth continuing, CEO Scott Dietzen is leading the company out on a highwire towards the billion dollars/year revenue goal, with the FlashBlade sales ramp essential to them not falling off.…

VoIP kitmakers probed IoT devices from a Chinese vendor contain a hidden backdoor that the vendor is refusing to fix, according to security researchers.…

Bet both of those cloud customers are angry now Oracle DBAs who weren't so eager to trial 12cR2 in the cloud can now check it out on their own premises.…

Did we say tears...sorry, meant cheers. Profits crash to blame Capita chief Andy Parker is stepping off the executive merry-go-round after the little loved outsourcing company today reported financial results that showed a crash in profits - the worst in its corporate history.…

Steering a path from Docker to Kubernetes Events Continuous delivery and DevOps mean continuous change, and one of the biggest changes over the last year has been the explosion in interest in containers.…

Doorstepped by the 'inspectors' Exclusive Two-thirds of TV Licensing prosecutions in a London court were brought against women, according to an exclusive analysis of court data by The Register.…

We'll try and sort it out by the end of the day, it says An unspecified technical infrastructure issue has left GoDaddy customers with serious DNS issues this morning.…

Three weeks later, and no word Sigaint, one of the largest dark web email providers, is approaching its third week of unavailability with still no clear signs about what's happening to the service.…

But reorgs yet to translate to growth across biz MWC Interview On the basis of its first quarter results last week, HPE still seems to be in troubled waters. Despite numerous major reorgs to dramatically shrink the biz, revenue still fell 10 per cent in the last three months to $11.4bn (£9.3bn).…

Forget gigabit phones – what do we do with all that lovely bandwidth? MWC Two "gigabit" phones are being shown off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.…

18 months to change a chip? Better believe it Exclusive EDMI, the UK maker of residential smart meter comms hubs, is seeking approval for a major modification to its kit - a process it had expected to take 18 months and cost £7m, leaked internal documents show.…

This'll all end in tiers It's purely coincidental that GitHub is now offering a 99.95 per cent uptime guarantee after the downtime experienced by Amazon Web Services customers on Tuesday.…

Lessons learned from Tuesday's cloud, er, fog storage mega-failure Analysis With Amazon now recovered from a four-hour outage that brought a large portion of the internet to a grinding halt, analysts are looking back to see what lessons companies can learn from the ordeal.…

Our comics and games should flow. But no hacking, terrorism or US hegemony please China has issued a “International Strategy of Cooperation on Cyberspace” in which it outlines rules it think should govern nations' online conduct.…

Microsoft responds to 'explicit' demands to fix update process If you're fed up with Windows 10 downloading updates, installing them, and rebooting at awkward times all by itself, you're not alone.…

Dog houses to cruise ships, Gopman is running a little rich No one doubts that San Francisco has a homeless problem.…

Hay, Erik Sch;midt, you sukc!1 Google's Perspective API, created in conjunction with Alphabet incubee Jigsaw, is supposed to provide an automated way to detect "toxic" language in social media.…

Decent effort, but it is hard to see why Redmond is bothering Skype's original peer-to-peer architecture has been bidding the world a long farewell since last year, and another peer just waved goodbye, with the latest Skype for Linux client graduating from Alpha to Beta status.…

XML and cross-site scripting bug-fixes Aruba AirWave systems need patching against multiple bugs in their control interface.…

Investigation reveals 32 million accounts were attacked with forged cookies, costing CEO Marissa Mayer her bonus Yahoo!'s board has decided CEO Marissa Mayer should not be paid her bonus, after investigating the 2014 hack that has so besmirched the company's reputation and finding the company knew about the gravity of the situation but failed to act properly to address the situation. Mayer has also decided to forego an award of equity due to her this year.…

Also patched today: Cisco Prime Infrastructure Cisco has disclosed a denial-of-service bug in its NetFlow Generation appliances that remote attackers can attack with a bad packet.…

The nuclear option for troubled Toshiba Foxconn has confirmed speculation that it is one of the companies bidding for a slice of Toshiba's silicon business.…

Anyone? Bueller? Asking because Microsoft, Google, have just offered free migration tools Today might not be the best day to contemplate migrating to the cloud, given that yesterday's epic Amazon Web Services outage. But that hasn't stopped Google and Microsoft from issuing new offers to help you take on-premises workloads into their clouds.…

The plan is to infill HFC-rich areas to create homogenous service zones nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, is installing new hybrid-fibre coax cables in some suburbs.…

'We were silenced by the Feds!' Shoppers of 40 online stores have had their bank card numbers and addresses slurped by a malware infection at backend provider Aptos.…

Spies given carte blanche thanks to Trump order The critical transatlantic data agreement, named Privacy Shield, is worthless, gives intelligence agencies complete free reign, and should be discarded, according to Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.…