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Russian computer failure on ISS is nothing to to worry about - they're just going to turn it off and on again

Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future

Steel roller with fiber optic cables for the installation of data cables on a construction site.

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Heron Tower (110 Bishopsgate) in the City of London - salesforce is a tenant

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Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019

Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate bitcoin theft scheme

HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

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ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000

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Serverless Computing: From functions to complex applications

Illustration of developer writing code at desk with three monitors

Streamline delivery with open source, they said. It's perfectly safe, they said

GitHub lost a network link for 43 seconds, went TITSUP for a day

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Foxconn denies it will import Chinese workers to Wisconsin factory

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UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections

Facebook admits role in Myanmar killing fields, will do better next time

Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition

iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe

Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

Geek's Guide

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Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany

Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention

Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

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machine arm attempts to crush questionmark

Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea

Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos

Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do

Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more

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Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop as he confesses deep love for talking about toilets

Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier

A ZX Spectrum Vega Plus V2 by Retro Computers Ltd

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal man sits on Steve Bannon design tech shindig committee

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Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Great breaking gravitational waves - upgraded. LIGO's next cosmic act

Re-discovering the final frontier with Professor Mark Hannam

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Thu, 27 Sep 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saving the internet, fake news warts and all

Tired of trolls? You won't win by controlling the internet, argues senior lecturer Paul Bernal

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A tractor beam from NASA space documentary: Star Trek, The Next Generation

Wed, 23 May 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

Bristol's Dr Asier Marzo on acoustic levitation

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Register Lecture tackles Existential Risk

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 / 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

AI turning on us? Let's talk existential risk

Dr Adrian Currie talks diaster, technology, AI, and human extinction

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Tue, 20 Mar 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Secret Spitfires

The amazing story of the UK's WW2 underground plane building programme

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Detecting Deception

Profs Coral Dando and Thomas Ormerod discuss a new approach

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies

The NPL's Dr Gareth Hinds discusses the electric car dream and reality

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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The secrets of Power in the digital age

Carl Miller explores the new players reshaping politics and society

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Tue, 17 Oct 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Platform wars and the enemy in geek and hacker culture

Bryan Alleyne on why geeks will never, ever, ever get along

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Jamie Bartlett delivering Register Summer Lecture

Tue, 23 May 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jamie Bartlett: The radicals intent on remaking your society

Radicals introduces us to the most secretive and influential movements today

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Wed, 19 Apr 2017 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dr Kate Devlin: Sex, AI, Robots and You

The history and the state of the art of love droids

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Tue, 05 Jul 2016 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The internet of things: why your home will be the first to succumb

IoT pioneer Andy Stanford Clarke on his wired home, and world

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Tue, 28 Jun 2016 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Prof. Murray Shanahan: What does Cognitive Robotics mean to me?

Top academic on robots, AI and Go

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Wed, 22 Jun 2016 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Prof. Chris Welch: Making Money in Space

Leaving the planet may be about to get much easier

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Iraq hostage and SQL programmer Peter Moore in still from a Reg Christmas lecture he gave in 2015

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Peter Moore: I went to work as an SQL programmer and left as a hostage

The techie who became a hostage in Iraq

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Anders Sandberg Register Lecture Opening

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Anders Sandberg: We can programme you to live forever

Top academic on transhumanism for all

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Wed, 24 Jun 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Computing: From Cutting Edge to Museum Piece

The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley

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Tim Worstall victory dance at his Reg lecture

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tim Worstall: How the economics of rare metails really add up

The economics of resources and why you won't find a Ferrari in a scrap yard

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Thu, 21 May 2015 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jamie Bartlett: Light and Dark on the Internet

Author of the Dark Net dives deep into Internet sub-cultures

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Tue, 09 Dec 2014 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dr Geraint Jones: What planet should we be on?

The UK's space scene and our chances of a new planetary home

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Tue, 02 Dec 2014 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me

A unique insight into what makes him, and the surveillance state, tick

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Tue, 25 Nov 2014 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Mark Whitehorn: Big Data, Big Problems

The nature of data, Darwin, and Henslow

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Russian computer failure on ISS is nothing to to worry about - they're just going to turn it off and on again

Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future

British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey

SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman

Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS

The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch

Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype

Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019

Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate bitcoin theft scheme

HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000

Android fans get fat November security patch bundle – if the networks or mobe makers are kind enough to let 'em have it

Serverless Computing: From functions to complex applications

Streamline delivery with open source, they said. It's perfectly safe, they said

GitHub lost a network link for 43 seconds, went TITSUP for a day

How do you make a connected car Serverless?

Foxconn denies it will import Chinese workers to Wisconsin factory

Lloyds Banking Group: We're firing 6,240 to hire 8,240

GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual

UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections

Facebook admits role in Myanmar killing fields, will do better next time

Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition

iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe

Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany

Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention

Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too

Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip

Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea

Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos

Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do

Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more

Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop as he confesses deep love for talking about toilets

Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal man sits on Steve Bannon design tech shindig committee

Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students

Great breaking gravitational waves - upgraded. LIGO's next cosmic act

Saving the internet, fake news warts and all

The Register Lecture: How to build your own tractor beam

AI turning on us? Let's talk existential risk

The Secret Spitfires

Detecting Deception

What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies

The secrets of Power in the digital age

Platform wars and the enemy in geek and hacker culture

Jamie Bartlett: The radicals intent on remaking your society

Dr Kate Devlin: Sex, AI, Robots and You

The internet of things: why your home will be the first to succumb

Prof. Murray Shanahan: What does Cognitive Robotics mean to me?

Prof. Chris Welch: Making Money in Space

Peter Moore: I went to work as an SQL programmer and left as a hostage

Anders Sandberg: We can programme you to live forever

Computing: From Cutting Edge to Museum Piece

Tim Worstall: How the economics of rare metails really add up

Jamie Bartlett: Light and Dark on the Internet

Dr Geraint Jones: What planet should we be on?

Duncan Campbell: GCHQ and me

Mark Whitehorn: Big Data, Big Problems

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