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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

Burning 5G against dark background

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.

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

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

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

Penguin

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

Crying baby in autumn. Photo by shutterstock

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

Penguins in Antarctica

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

bank robbery

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

50 of your British pounds. Photo by Shutterstock

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

Shutterstock image of Android mascot on a laptop

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

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

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

teenager GCSE study exams

GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual

A polling station in the UK

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

Rohingya protesting

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

Apple Watch Series 4

Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition

iPhone XR

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

hippies

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

Geek's Guide

Orion service module (credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak)

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

alien_laser

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

scientists

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

dawn_spacecraft

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

machine arm attempts to crush questionmark

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

man holds magnifying glass

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

lime peel

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

Verity Stob

Toilet with smiling loo paper

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

various cheese

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

Students in their twenties sit in a lecture hall in front of open laptops. Photo by Shutterstock

Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students

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Shrewsbury Flax Mill at work: Image Historic England

Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England

Geek's Guide to BritainThe top of Flaxmill Maltings' Jubilee Tower makes you feel like you're standing on the highest turret of a massive castle built to command Shropshire. You can look down on suburbia and ahead to the centre of Shrewsbury, while in other directions the Wrekin is to the east and the Welsh hills are to the west.

SA Mathieson, 27 Sep 2018

Fulwell sound mirror photo by Alun Taylor

Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl

Geek's Guide to BritainMention the development of air raid early warning systems in the UK and thoughts will most likely jump to the Chain Home radar network of the 1930s.

Alun Taylor, 31 May 2018

Geeks Guide book on coffee table, photo The_Register

Presto chango, crypto buyo: You're travelling like El Reg's gang of nerds

Fancy micropaying for the great Geek's Guide eBook?

Six parked concordes photo British Airways

Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain

Geek's Guide to BritainYet Filton display shows it's among the world's best-loved aircraft

Bennerley viaduct from drone photo Sustrans

Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you

Geek's Guide to BritainMyth, legend and the lucky escape of Bennerley

Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Geek's Guide to BritainInside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web

Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland

Geek's Guide to BritainWhat Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Geek's Guide to BritainA star performer producing fission-free plasma power

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Geeks' Guide to BritainA hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum

Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens

Plus: We take a sneak peek at London's other tube network, Mail Rail

Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map of Britain

Too lazy to plug GPS co-ords into satnav? Fear not, gypsythief has saved you

Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway

Geek's Guide to BritainTibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet

Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway

GEEK'S GUIDE TO BRITAINFeats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal

Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze

Geek's Guide to BritainUber cars, Amazon drones? Pah! Driverless deliveries from a different age

Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

Geek's Guide to BritainFrom Acorns to bedrooms

Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct

Geek's Guide to BritainBarton Aqueduct – where heavy metal shifts H₂O

Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery

Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat

Pulsar, image via Shutterstock

The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher

Geek's Guide to BritainRadio astronomy, sheds and high-explosive ordnance

Inside the reactor copyright, Dounreay Site Restoration LTD and Nuclear Decommission Authority

Come on kids, let's go play in the abandoned nuclear power station

Geek's Guide to BritainAfter oil, before shale: the future that never was

Welchman’s book and a portrait of him painted by his second wife, cubist painter Fannie Hillsmith. ©ShaunArmstrong/mubsta.com

Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman

Head of Hut Six 'a disastrous example to others' – GCHQ

Bookworms' Weston mecca: The Oxford institution with a Swindon secret

Geek's Guide to BritainThe 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer

Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology

Geek's Guide to BritainBiomass and the pit

Get thee behind me, Satanic mills! Robert Owen's Scottish legacy

Geek's Guide to BritainInside the works of Scotland's industrial revolutionary

The Great Barrier Relief – Inside London's heavy metal and concrete defence act

Geek's Guide to BritainWaves against the machine

Planet killer: Ex-army officer's Welsh space-rock mission

Geek's Guide to BritainTunguska, Chelyabinsk... Powys

Taming the Thames – The place that plugged London's Great Stink

Geek's Guide to BritainHow Joseph Bazalgette flushed the capital into the modern age

Bridge, ship 'n' tunnel – the Brunels' hidden Thames trip

Geek's Guide to BritainMonument to a trio who left their mark on Blighty

Saturn's rings, radio waves ... poetry? At home with Scotland's Mr Physics

Geek's Guide to BritainJames Clerk Maxwell's house

Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer

Geek's Guide to BritainA trip to the Lizard King's monument

Suffering satellites! Goonhilly's ARTHUR REBORN for SPAAAACE

Geek's Guide to BritainBT's sat comms site repurposed

Kingston's aviation empire: From industry firsts to Airfix heroes

Geek's Guide to BritainSir Thomas Sopwith's suburban Surrey hub

Measure for measure: We visit the most applied-physicist-rich building in the UK

Geek's Guide to BritainLike an ass whose back with kilograms of Concorde bows...

IBM mainframe engineer's portable toolkit

IBM Hursley Park: Where Big Blue buries the past, polishes family jewels

Geek's Guide to BritainHow the internet of things has deep roots in the English countryside

de Havilland Sea Vixen

Mosquitoes, Comets and Vampires: The de Havilland Museum

Geek's Guide to BritainWhen the British aerospace industry was more than just British Aerospace

The tape robot at the National Archive

How the UK's national memory lives in a ROBOT in Kew

Geek's Guide to BritainEl Reg visits the National Archives

The bay

TAT-1: Call the cable guy, all I see is a beautiful beach

Geek's Guide to Britain57 years on, Reg man visits scene of first transatlantic voice call

Rebuilt Bombe Bletchley Park, photo copyrighted mubsta.com

Bletchley rebooted: The crypto factory time remembered

Geek's Guide to BritainHigh commands and dirty words in German – the story retold

The Falkirk Wheel

Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk

Geek's Guide to BritainWhen is a wheel not a wheel? When it's a lift

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