Oregan and Utah work out how to make electric vehicles a bad idea
Increased road user fees and tracking your movements
US states Oregon and Utah are working on ways to screw income lost from petrol taxes from electric car users and the results do not look good.
Sir Clive Sinclair is dead
Home computing pioneer ends era
Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair who created the ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness. He was 81.
Wikimedia admits some of its “editors” were persecuting others
Bans six and cancel sysop privileges for another dozen
The Wikimedia Foundation appears to have woken up to the fact that a number of its editors are out of control bullies.
AMD ready to make ARM chips
But only if it has to
AMD's CFO Devinder Kumar has commented that AMD stands ready to manufacture ARM chips if needed.
Apple faces another charge of employee hassling
Jobs’ Mob’s war on women and transparency
The fruity cargo cult appears to have dumped its “right on” image in favour of something a little more misogynistic.
Time names Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang “most influential” human
Alongside Musk and Cook
Time magazine has named Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as one of the world “most influential” humans.
Samsung starts flogging OLED displays
We got the customers now
Samsung says it has the customers ready and now is mass-producing laptop OLED panels.
Microsoft kicks out passwords
You just need your mobile to open your PC
Software King of the World Microsoft won’t require you, or your password manager, to come up with strings of letters, numbers, and special characters to access the Windows giant’s services.
Oracle makes JDK free
Free is not a good deal
Oracle this week made Oracle JDK “available for free,” for personal, commercial and production use, including quarterly security updates, for a limited time.
Microsoft faces headhunting charge from Amazon
Thou shalt not poach
Microsoft said it has hired a former Amazon cloud executive to run its cybersecurity operations, potentially setting in motion a legal battle between the two tech giants.