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  • Captain Cyborg: Computers are alive, like bats or cows

    Self-harming attention-seeker Kevin Warwick has admitted to snooping on the public in a previous life. Warwick made the creepy confession on Radio 4, recalling an earlier job as a GPO engineer: “I remember taking ten different calls and plugging them all together; one call would continue, the other nine would listen in. Then I’d patch…

  • HP vs Oracle: IT’s nastiest ever row?

    It has never been smooth sailing on the good ship Itanic, but now the processor is at the centre of a poisonous row, one that’s as nasty as any I can recall in years of tech reporting Read more at The Register

  • Button it, Bob

    More hysterical shrieking reaches us about Apple’s new music feature, I’m afraid. Earlier this week a lone lawyer said that iTunes Match, which populates an online store with songs you already have, encourages infringement. Well, this one is even nuttier. It’s actually so spectacularly muddle-headed, I thought it might be is a good time to…

  • Google hands millions to ‘independent’ watchdogs

    What do you do when a global corporation pays out millions to the watchdogs that we expect to protect us against it? It’s a fair question to ask in light of the Chocolate Factory’s legal settlement this week, over Google Buzz. The privacy class action suit has landed a windfall of millions of dollars to…