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Good chance a phone you buy this year will use this photography tech

Samsung today announced its latest smartphone sensor tech, the ISOCELL GN2. Already in production, this image sensor promises improved low-light performance over its predecessors, despite supporting a high (50MP) megapixel count.…

An end to dongle hell in sight?

This year's crop of MacBook Pro laptops are expected to include dedicated HDMI ports and an integrated SD card reader, says an analyst with the inside track on the twists and turns in Apple's roadmap.…

More women in tech workforce too, and salaries staying firm or going up

The number of UK tech jobs has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and the sector now employs more individuals than at any time in its history, according to official data released today.…

Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?

SpaceX has ambitions for its Starlink constellation beyond annoying stargazers if the pre-order agreement for its satellite-based internet service is anything to go by.…

Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane

Xilinx will today launch a network card that not only offloads acceleration to an FPGA but also to an on-board NXP chip containing 16 Arm CPU cores.…

Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder

Linux Mint founder Clem Lefebvre has complained that too many users are slow to apply updates or run unsupported versions of the operating system.…

Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs

The UK's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) needs first aid with IT service management as it implements the cloud-first technology programme, and has £25m set aside to pay to bring in external help.…

Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems

An IT contractor has agreed to pay back $6m to the US federal government for charging expert IT rates while sending newbies.…

The last attempt to resume your country failed. Would you like to try again?

Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork is back with a bang this week as Windows disgraces itself not on a mere kiosk, but on a billboard glaring balefully out over Manchester Piccadilly.…

Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning

Cassandra database slinger DataStax has "paused" its AIops project, Vector, while it figures out what exactly AIops is.…

Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged

The .uk registry operator Nominet has opened voting on an extraordinary measure that would see its CEO fired and non-elected members booted off its board.…

GSMA chief offers new burgers-per-year benchmark for techno-impact

GSMA Director General Mats Granryd has opened the Shanghai edition of the Mobile World Congress by saying the world “demanded global mobility around the clock” during 2020, that smartphones delivered, and by doing so showed how technology can be a force for good.…

Already interest from MEPs, one body tells us

Microsoft and four European press industry trade groups on Monday urged the European Union to introduce new laws that would require websites like Google and Facebook to pay publishers for linking to news content on their platforms.…

Relationship status changes from ‘Separated’ to somewhere between 'In a Domestic Partnership’ and 'It's Complicated'

ANALYSIS Facebook and Australia have done a deal that will see news links returned to The Social Network™ Down Under.…

See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world

Video NASA successfully landed its fifth robotic rover on the surface of Mars just five metres from its target, the American space agency said after releasing footage of the historic landing.…

‘We are only insanely paid vs ludicrously paid at Google or Netflix’

If you need to talk to someone at Microsoft in a hurry over the next day or three, they may be a little slow to reply as the Windows giant has rolled out its annual internal poll for employees.…

Even kit from 2019 is covered and so are the modestly priced A-and-M series

Samsung has announced that all its Galaxy devices will now receive security updates for four years after initial release.…

ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing'

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has removed Marko Rodriguez from the TinkerPop project he co-founded because his provocative Twitter posts were said to have violated the ASF Code of Conduct.…

Check Point says Beijing 'reconstructed' Equation Group's hacking tool long before leak

A zero-day exploit said to have been developed by the NSA was cloned and used by Chinese government hackers on Windows systems years before the cyber-weapon was leaked online, it is claimed.…

It's not a bug, it's a feature you need to put in a change request to alter, says developer

Prison inmates in Arizona who should be eligible for release remain incarcerated because the state's inmate management software can't handle sentence adjustments.…