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There were manufacturing problems! Oh, no there weren't! Oh, yes there were!

The great flagship hope of Windows Mixed Reality, the HP Reverb, has finally stumbled its way out the UK gate a month behind schedule.…

Customer delay purchaes amid uncertainty, claims CEO

HPE has blamed "trade tensions" between the US and China on customers delaying purchases amid the uncertainty as the company reported yet another quarter of declining sales.…

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Trial starts in London borough with £25 fine for crap parking

From today folk in Islington, London, can hire an electric bike off Uber rather than a cab.…

Could have been a million times (or pounds) worse

A Murdoch-backed adtech startup that sued Google for anticompetitive behaviour has abandoned its lawsuit – and been landed with a £200,000 legal bill for its troubles.…

Civil servants hauled before spending watchdog again

The UK Home Office has had to once again explain the ongoing Emergency Services Network farrago as part of an inquiry by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…

One category to rule them all? Er, maybe not...

Administrators dealing with the rollout of Microsoft's latest and greatest Windows 10 were warned last night that some tinkering of their finely tuned setups would be required.…

Comms regulator demands BT sub lets more fibre cable layers access its poles and ducts

Ofcom has ordered BT's Openreach to open its telegraph poles and underground ducts to more companies wishing to lay their own fibre networks aimed at business customers.…

Small comfort to Oracle's Larry Ellison, who's $420m *weyyy* poorer after ill-timed punt

A "leaked" email from Tesla boss Elon Musk to all employees claims the company is now making 900 Model 3 vehicles a day – a whisker (well, 10 per cent) away from its 1,000-a-day target.…

PC maker's chief bean counter warns Wall Street moneymen of 'constraints' until at least calendar Q3

Intel was wrong, it seems. HP Inc, the world's second-largest PC maker, has forecast that Chipzilla's CPU shortages won't be over by anytime soon – not until at least the third quarter.…

Come on, guys, get a half-life

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Its international reputation trashed by Brexit shenanigans, the UK government has been desperately trying to distract its citizens with a promise to extend the ban on single-use plastic products. It all began with disposable carrier bags. But now they're clutching at straws.…

DreamWorks picks Gremlin to create digital dreams

DataStax Accelerate Family favourite DreamWorks Animation has built a cloud platform powered by microservices that uses a graph database and Gremlin query language to guide the production of its films.…

We're a strong, independent company

"GitHub has to be both independent and neutral," CEO Nat Friedman said at the company's Satellite event in Berlin - despite its acquisition by Microsoft in October 2018.…

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Employees kicking down the doors? Happens all the time, guv

On Call It's Friday! And Friday means beer, bacon and basking in the glow of another's misfortune thanks to The Register's regular On Call column.…

At 13,620 kilograms, it's the heaviest payload yet for the Elon Musk-run biz

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket could be lobbing 60 Starlink satellites, the company's heaviest payload yet, this Thursday evening.…

Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details

Exclusive The maker of vehicle license plate readers used extensively by the US government and cities to identify and track citizens and immigrants has been hacked. Its internal files were pilfered, and are presently being offered for free on the dark web to download.…

Warning: It's creepy AF – and your pic is next

Video AI code can breathe life into portrait paintings, photos of dead celebrities, and your Facebook selfies, transforming single still images into moving and talking heads.…

Social ad biz details effort to cleanse community

Analysis Just as the US Environmental Protection Agency allows up to 9 mg of rodent waste per kilogram of wheat and 0.15 μg/m3 of lead in the air over three months, Facebook expects toxic content will always be a part of its service.…

Prosecutors try to paint a line between journos and internet dump lord in case with significant free speech implications

Julian Assange has been indicted by the US government on 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act, expanding the legal case against him and raising significant free speech issues.…