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Time team comes closest it ever has to magical zero result A team at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has used a range of atomic clocks from around the globe to test the equivalence principle* of Einstein's theory of general relativity.…

Just days left to save £100s on AI, ML and data analytics conference We’re going to be announcing the speaker lineup for MCubed London this Friday, which means you’ve got just a few days left to snap up conference tickets for just £500 plus VAT.…

Manx government keeps poker face, aims to add another arm to its tech biz offering The Isle of Man – a largely unassuming island in the Irish Sea measuring just 52km (32 miles) long and 22km (14 miles) wide – fancies itself as a technology centre and is looking to hitch its wagon to both Brexit and data protection.…

That's what you get for selling unlocked phones Analysis UK mobile networks will be eyeing Carphone Warehouse's current woes with some glee.…

You might think it's a laugh, maybe you'll baaaarf, but yes, it's imminent “So, let me ask you,” he said, smoothing out his goatee with one hand. “Five planes have been circling for hours, delayed. You can land one.” A long pause. “How do you choose?”…

One has a screen on the touchpad, the other’s a no-real-keyboard clamshell ASUS has staged its annual Computex keynote and shown off laptops with dual screens.…

One-watt displays promised, plus new Optane-for-PC and a 5.0 GHz CPU Intel’s staged its annual keynote at Taiwan’s Computex tech-fest and revealed a new “Low Power Display Technology” that the company said can halve the power consumption of a laptop’s screen.…

He's heard of security but groks the cloud at scale and that's what matters Palo Alto Networks has named a CEO and chairman: former Google and Softbank executive Nikesh Arora.…

Curiosity Rover's drill is mostly working again after 'percussive maintenance' The percussive maintenance NASA carried out on the Curiosity Rover's drilling machinery has worked, and the robot has started analysing Martian rock samples again.…

HPC types offered density, carriers get roll-your-own customer-premises kit Cavium’s made two new attempts to find an audience for Arm-powered servers.…

Crypto-libertarian will form his own party, but first to launch his paper-based cryptocurrency John McAfee will run for US president again.…

Snapdragon 850 is latest attempt to lure PC makers, buyers from the x86 realm Like a lawman in an old-timey Western movie running while firing his pistol at escaping bandits, Qualcomm is running through PC land shooting out Snapdragon system-on-chips at computer manufacturers.…

How to expand a cloud platform without building data centres? Get partners to run 'em Microsoft has doubled the number of countries in which its Azure Stack hybrid cloud kit will operate, effectively extending Azure's reach with minimal capital expenditure .…

Phone makers agreed to behave when we handed them your friend lists, social info dispensary sniffs Facebook on Sunday said an arrangement that gave some 60 mobile device makers access to data about device users' Facebook friends is not at all like the deal it made with app developers that gave rise to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…

Dodgy outer orbits all down to asteroids and gravity The mysterious, so-called Planet Nine, may not be a planet after all but just gravitational trickery, according to a new study.…

American broadband bossman's ban plan panned Chinese telco giant Huawei is hitting back at America's comms watchdog, the FCC, over its proposal to ban the telco from key US markets.…

Using your service as advertised? How dare you! Gamers are the enemy of fixed wireless connections on Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).…

Patent battle looms again for iGiant in wake of ruling Apple has been pulled back into a patent-infringement lawsuit in the US over its touchscreen iPhones – after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling, and complained about its sloppy analysis.…

Panel slaps down colleague for buying Cupertino arguments Apple has been pulled back into a patent-infringement lawsuit in the US over its touchscreen iPhones – after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling and complained about its sloppy analysis.…

We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality Video Machine-learning experts have built a neural network that can manipulate facial movements in videos to create fake footage – in which people appear to say something they never actually said.…

We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality Video A group of researchers have built a neural network that can control the facial movements in a video to create fake footage.…

But try running these iThing apps now on your Mac Apple held its annual developer prep rally in San Jose, California, on Monday to discuss additions and improvements to its software but not its hardware.…

Everything will remain open, along with lots of Microsoft 'opportunities' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is at pains to reassure developers that its $7.5bn purchase of GitHub won't turn the code repository into an Azure-only space.…

Not enough time to even call Bruce Willis and Armageddonoutofhere Video Scientists at NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office have made a rare sighting – an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.…

Worker time-keeping system at center of biometric privacy legal battle in the US A former employee at a nursing home is alleging the company and its equipment provider violated the US state of Illinois' biometric privacy laws with a fingerprint-scanning time clock system.…

Hip-hip, array! Analysis Artificial Intelligence (AI) is assuredly one of the hot topics of the moment, even rather overhyped, some might add.…

Server/networking revenues receive a 41% bump Dell revenues grew almost 20 per cent in its first fiscal 2019 quarter, with losses down two-thirds and server income leaping 41 per cent.…

People are suffering in Amazon... I mean THE Amazon UK Foreign Secretary and Beano* character wrought in flesh, Boris Johnson, put tech boffins and conservationists in a room together today and asked them to come up with a way of combating illegal wildlife trade.…

Let's praise the cosy mobile duopoly working so hard to make things so much better Comment When several "leaked" reports appear to show that Apple is focusing on quality, not features, it's reasonable to conclude that Apple is concerned the world perceives a quality problem.…

Pure Storage's AIRI reference architecture probably a bit jelly NetApp and Nvidia have introduced a combined AI reference architecture system to rival the Pure Storage-Nvidia AIRI system.…

GitHub 365, anyone? Guys? Microsoft has agreed to acquire development platform GitHub in a deal worth $7.5bn, sending developers scurrying for cover.…

More opportunities to get to punters in crowded market Mobile operator Three is launching an MVNO with health and beauty business Superdrug – the latest such deal aimed at boosting operators' presence in an increasingly challenging market.…

Download our strange-smelling storage broth here Exudence of Toshiba, scrapings of Sphere3D and essence of NGD make a foul-smelling storage broth this week. We invite you to dip in a ladle and get a taste of what the storage industry got up to in the past week.…

All the info, none of the food and drink If you didn’t get along to Continuous Lifecycle London last month, we’ve got the next best thing: most of the conference sessions are now available to view at your leisure.…

Meanwhile, Russia brings three ISS crew safely home yet again SpaceX finally got the SES-12 comms satellite into orbit this morning while a trio of International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned in a trusty Soyuz capsule after 168 days in the black.…

Trio says their V2X flavour totally dunks on 802.11p radio Qualcomm, amid all of its corporate wranglings with Broadcom, is branching out into silicon for connected cars thanks to a three-way tie-up with Panasonic and Ford.…

It's about an impeached commander-in-chief... and infosec. Get your popcorn Pop murder mystery scribe James Patterson has teamed up with former US President Bill Clinton to co-author novel about a commander-in-chief going undercover to prevent a catastrophic cyber attack.…

Cambridge Uni powwow broods on Facebook, Wannacry Privacy of medical data and the machinations of surveillance capitalism were under the spotlight at a Cambridge University symposium last week.…

Thankfully, now there are data integration platforms for that Data integration has been an IT challenge for decades. Long before cloud, even before client server. Back then, though, it was relatively simple – you were working with systems of record, desktop databases and business systems.…

In Putin's Russia, battery life outlive YOU Russian boffins at the Moscow Institute of Physics (MIPT) have emitted a prototype nuclear battery packing 3,300 milliwatt hours of energy per gram.…

When everything's smart, the potential for dumb mistakes becomes enormous Earlier this year I lamented the inevitable death of Moore's Law - crushed between process node failures and exploits attacking execution efficiencies. Yet that top line failure of Moore's Law hides the fact that chips in general are now cheap.…

Crossed wires, a Commodore 64 clone and bankruptcy beckoning Who, me? Welcome again to “Who, me?”, The Register’s Monday mess – because it tells readers tales of breaking things.…

The manual is confusing, to be fair, but a third of users read it wrong and are dangling data If you're sysadmin of an organisation using Google Groups and G Suite, you need to revisit your configuration to make sure you aren't leaking internal information.…

What a time to be alive Brace yourself, world: the Unicode Consortium unleashes version 11.0 of its Emoji and general standard on Tuesday June 5th, and will right the terrible wrong that is the absence of red-headed emoji.…

Crypto chat Cooks an update Under attack from Russian regulators, embattled encrypted chat app Telegram has apparently resolved a side-spat with Apple.…

Virtualisation is creating traffic handoffs that don't depend on physical ports Virtualization changes everything – and in the case of the routers that keep the Internet working, it's not always in a good way.…

Authorities start rounding up ride share drivers, passengers Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that Uber is “finished” in the nation and not long afterwards local authorities started finding ride-sharing operators.…

Champagne on ice, but MiniBooNE's 15-year hunt has produced promising results It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle, the sterile neutrino.…

But he’s released a new kernel anyway and called it 4.17 Linus Torvalds has decided the world’s not ready for version 5.0 of the Linux Kernel, so he’s given us version 4.17 instead.…

Network news covering cloud, a breach at Netgear's spin-out, plus Red Hat wraps Ribbon and more ROUNDUP FireEye has borrowed from the credit card industry to try and detect malicious logins.…