Let down by its global technology services unit

Big Blue disappointed the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with its quarterly revenue announcements.

Spends $27 million on it

Chipzilla has just bought shedloads of 5G software, despite closing down its own 5G modem business.

Nationwide age verification system dropped

Plans to introduce a nationwide age verification system for online pornography have been abandoned by the government after years of technical troubles and concerns from privacy campaigners.

Breaks kiddie porn ring

Federal authorities in the US have unsealed charges against the South Korean operator of a child porn ring that's been billed as the world's "largest dark web child porn marketplace."

Turns out it was not all users' fault after all

UK Mobile network Three has acknowledged it is experiencing "technical difficulties with voice, text and data" which have left many customers offline.

Research projects suffer

Hopes that the UK would become a worldwide technological powerhouse after Brexit got rid of its Polish plumbers have been dashed after figures show that research projects are plummetting, as Blighty's brightest brains move out and research funding has fallen by nearly a third since 2015.

Targeted money in the wrong place

The UK Government has been throwing money at driverless cars but has allocated it to the wrong place.

Snowden warns of the new battleground

Security whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that the world is facing its biggest security crisis in history as governments attempt to undermine encryption.

A chocolate teapot for customers and more for PR

Google's new privacy tools do very little to protect user privacy, even if they make the search engine outfit look good in the eyes of regulators.

Somehow robot versus shark is a little disappointing

Roomba robotic vacuum maker IRobot Corp is suing rival SharkNinja for copying a device of theirs and selling it at "half the price".