Microsoft rang in the new year with a cutesy tweet in C#. Just one problem: The code sucked [Wed Jan 5 2022]

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Telcos miffed, pilots are fine with it

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AMD claims up to 24 hours of laptop battery life with its latest Ryzen 6000 silicon

Lisa Su tells CES her biz has cracked the daily power cord issue

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RISC-V CTO: We're not chip dictators like Arm or x86

Mark Himelstein talks about the open ISA's future and challenges

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Intel rolls out new Alder Lake chips for laptops, desktops

CPUs will compete with AMD's Ryzen and Apple's Arm-based M1

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Chip manufacturing equipment vendor ASML reports fire at Berlin factory

'Too early to make any statement on the damage'

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Nationwide Building Society's Faster Payments turn into Slower Payments for 2022

Processing goes a bit TITSUP* at UK finance outfit

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ASUS recalls motherboards that flame out thanks to backwards capacitors

Z690 Hero motherboards recalled because batch is borked, design itself is fine

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Samsung adds non fungible token trading app to its tellies

Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art

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A moment of tension as the James Webb Space Telescope stretches sunshield on way to L2 destination

Engineers on Earth have five and a half months more of this

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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of fraud: Blood-testing machines were vapourware after all

Fallen Silicon Valley darling defrauded investors, says jury

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Offering Patreon subs in sterling or euros means you can be sued under GDPR, says Court of Appeal

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France loves open source so much, even its cinema borks have Linux behind the scenes

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The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it

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