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Georgia team kick up some dirt Video Last month, Google, Ford and Uber started a lobbying group called the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets to promote autonomous vehicles on safety grounds, but boffins in Georgia are having far more fun with their hardware.…

There's your version of competition and ours. We make more money with ours Analysis Telco lobbying group US Telecom has fired another broadside at their erstwhile friendly regulator, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), saying the billions telcos make each month isn't enough.…

Automaker and Segway daddy revive wheelchair project Inventor Dean Kamen has inked a deal with Toyota to revive his iBot smart wheelchair, which has been out of production since 2009.…

Outsourced staffers in Lincolnshire control room were formerly police employees Five former Lincolnshire police employees have been suspended today from their jobs at G4S after allegedly calling 999 during quiet periods to improve their performance ratings.…

Met also conducts interviews about 'swatting' A Surrey man has been charged with hacking offences related to the attack on the Mumsnet website last year.…

CMA says it'll create a private monopoly Government plans to flog off the Land Registry have been heavily criticised by the Competition and Markets Authority, which warns it will create a private monopoly hold over public data.…

Seriously, what are you hiding in there? Repository management vendor JFrog has hopped into the container and binary scanning market with the launch of Xray.…

Ensure regs don't 'constitute a barrier to development' Ministers from half of the European Union's 28 member states have signed a letter asking the EU Commission to drop its “barriers to the free flow of data”.…

£10m appeal to buy 'Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I' for the nation Royal Museums Greenwich has launched an appeal to save for the nation a fine reminder of when England's dealings with Europe involved not referendums but hostile navies at the receiving end of righteous storm and cannon fire.…

Biz tab sales stakes - the winner and the iPad Pro Microsoft won bragging rights over Apple in Britain’s biz slab sales stakes following the first full quarter the two rivals went head to head with their Pro devices.…

Things that make you go hmmm.. GCHQ’s CESG assurance arm was behind the report of an OS X bug to Apple that the consumer electronics giant patched last week.…

How well do your tools, skills and processes stack up? Study More businesses than ever depend on IT systems to keep things rolling, deliver services to customers and keep the cash flowing in. But the desire to add ever faster responsiveness to business needs is placing a strain on IT – legacy internal platforms, systems running virtual machines, never mind "cloud" based solutions and everything else that's in today’s IT kitbag.…

Meanwhile Americans enjoy a modest 20% price rise. Eh? British Salesforce customers have been disproportionately hit by a price hike of the cloudy business' enterprise CRM system.…

Satellites 13 and 14 launch tomorrow from French Guiana Europe's home-grown Galileo satnav system will take another step towards a full constellation tomorrow when satellites 13 and 14 head heavenwards from Kourou in French Guiana.…

Technical Support Services staffers form Employee Consultation Comittee IBM has told foot soldiers in the Global Technology Services operation to brace themselves for a second round of redundancies in the UK.…

Want your news crud-free and open? There is hope Facebook recently opened up its Instant Articles platform to all publishers after an early test run with an anointed few publishers. In a nutshell, it strips out everything a publisher has festooned across their site.…

Should you be worried when the drinks tray rattles? If you have ever travelled on an aeroplane, the chances are you have experienced some form of turbulence. For those of us who fly infrequently, it can be alarming and unnerving, but rest assured that for the pilots and crew who experience turbulence every day, it is business as usual.…

Later pulls out of Cabinet Office scheme, but reckons will still save money The department for Business, Innovation and Skills has sunk £14m in consolidating its legacy kit as part of a cross-government shared services plan that it later pulled out of.…

100 frothing fraudsters smash convenience stores in early morning raids Carders have made off with US$12.7 million (£8.7 million, A$17.5 million) ripping through 1400 ATMs in a mere two hours last week.…

First 'Reusable Launch Vehicle' test flight goes off without a hitch, three more to come India has successfully launched a scaled-down model of a planned “Reusable Launch Vehicle” (RLV).…

And if it runs Unix or a non-x86 chip, you'll need a good excuse Servers are about to devolve into bespoke collections of compute and storage, says Gartner veep and distinguished analyst Andrew Butler.…

Archimedes would be proud A troubled heliostatic power station is set to hit the anti-renewables meme-factories, after misaligned mirrors set the tower on fire.…

Open Homelab Project promises to help you build the test rig your boss won't fund London's VMware user group (VMUG) has spawned a new community dedicated to the design, construction and operation of home labs.…

Phone numbers exposed in borked verification portal Security consultant Arne Swinnen says Instagram has shuttered brute force authentication holes that allowed hijacking of some 20 million accounts.…

Let's just declare 'free data year' and be done with it Australia's dominant carrier, Telstra, is enduring more customer fury after extended outages stretched across its ADSL, NBN, and mobile networks.…

NSA nemesis says Australia's surveillance state is even nastier than the USA's National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden has opined that last week's National Broadband Network (NBN) raids in Australia last week are a misuse of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) power.…

Older versions on deprecation schedule Developers using Google's Safe Browsing API: get ready for an upgrade. The Chocolate Factory's announced v4 of the API, and is deprecating prior versions.…

Photoplethysmography algo error could be nasty for those who target their training Scientists have tested a pair of wearable fitness gadgets from Fitbit and found they get heart rates wrong by as much as 25 beats per minute.…

Your replicant isn't, quite Replicating computer-simulated science is harder than you think, as a group of aerospace researchers from George Washington University have found.…

Don't get excited about shorter passenger flights just yet, but do celebrate a successful test Australia's venerable Woomera rocket range last week hosted a successful hypersonic test in which the experimental HiFiRE rocket hit Mach 7.5 and an apogee of 278 km.…

Colvin's Keystone Cops okayed outsider's photos during raid The Australian Federal Police's (AFP's) raid on Australian parliamentarians and their staffers over leaked documents on delays to the National Broadband Network (NBN) leaked-documents raid had more fallout over the weekend, with the AFP criticised for allowing an nbn staffer to photograph documents seized in Thursday night's raid, and the communications minister acknowledging he knew about the investigation.…

Redmond vows to pull terror content from services Microsoft is enacting a new policy to remove terrorist content from its consumer services.…

'cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack The team behind the SWIFT financial transaction network is taking another look at its security after several hacking attempts against its customers.…

More than just another Google tease A modular phone that will let you snap on and pull off different components as you wish will finally launch this fall, Google has announced.…

Purple Palace getting lowballed on buyout offers Yahoo!'s planned sell-off of its core business may not end up bringing the cash return investors had hoped for.…

Spying a no-no. Unless you're a media company You can't use drones to check whether your employee really is sick, or to take pictures of your neighbors, unless you're a news organization in which case the sky is the limit - or more accurately not the limit.…

When we said we don't care if they mod our games, we actually meant we will prevent them VR headset company Oculus has backtracked on a promise not to lock down its software to its hardware.…

Harvard study blames state groups for 488m comments A new study claims to have unmasked a state-sponsored social media campaign in China that's responsible for nearly a half-billion social media comments.…

Seriously, what are you hiding in there? Repository management vendor JFrog has hopped into the container and binary scanning market with the launch of Xray.…

Goldman Sachs-backed business preps iOS version of secure browser service Entering an already crowded market, Symphony has announced it will produce an iOS app for its cloud-based messaging service.…

Judge throws out Choc Factory's bid to have sueball dismissed Analysis An attempt by Google to get a competition case against it thrown out on free speech grounds was itself thrown out this week.…

Invalid product key scam on the up Cybercrooks have put together a new scam that falls halfway between ransomware and old school browser lockup ruses.…

Tucci, IBM UK, Microsoft UK and more put pen to paper American storage seller EMC is the latest tech tanker to tell the good burghers of Britain it wants the country to remain in the EU, and it even did so without mentioning Hitler or ISIS.…

General storage sales weakness exposed Brocade reported second quarter revenue of $523m, down 4 per cent year-over-year from $547m, and a 9 per cent quarter-over-quarter decline from $574m, as general storage networking sales weakness impacted its results.…

Direful Manchester United vid It's Friday, and if you need a solid excuse to run screaming from your PC in search of a pint, look no further than this direful Manchester United plug for X-Men: Apocalypse:…

Yes, it really said that From next month Three customers are advised to be more selective when sending pics of their food, cats or drunken escapades - as the mobile operator is more than doubling its pricing. Or, you know, you could just use an OTT app.…

UK.gov minister may eventually agree to meet with Tony Porter Presumably after finally reading his report*, the government has thanked the Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC) for "clarifying" after he explained that he had not asked for the "enforcement powers" it had refused to give him.…

Watch the keynotes, view the slides Video If you ever wondered what would happen when some of the leading lights of the software development world came together with a couple of hundred very real world users, you really should have been at Continuous Lifecycle London earlier this month.…

Production house on how acceleration sped up FX Cache me if you can Special effects for season 6 of Game of Thrones were created by Spanish video special effects (VFX) house El Ranchito, which explains how it solved its classic scaling problem below.…

Caught short in TV van on smoked mutt assignment, say Arizona cops An Arizona TV journalist on assignment covering the alleged sacrifice and smoking of a family poodle was arrested earlier this week for allegedly dropping his pants and dumping a load in public.…