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Tony Brooker logs off
Published in News
Monday, 16 December 2019 10:53

Tony Brooker logs off


Designed programming language for world's first commercial computer

Tony Brooker, the mathematician and computer scientist who designed the programming language for the world's first commercial computer has died. He was 94.

AI can predict when you die
Published in AI
Monday, 01 April 2019 09:47

AI can predict when you die


...can't do Keith Richards of course

Boffins from the University of Nottingham believe their AI and Machine Learning can predict premature death.

Death breaks Paypal rules
Published in News
Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:42

Death breaks Paypal rules


Spooky breach of credit rules

PayPal wrote to a woman who had died of cancer saying her death had breached its rules and that it might take legal action as a consequence.

Apple fanboy tries to sleep with his iPhone
Published in News


And it nearly kills him


An Apple fanboy from Alabama is regretting his decision to take his iPhone to bed with him.

HTC suffers in the fourth quarter
Published in News
Wednesday, 15 February 2017 12:11

HTC suffers in the fourth quarter


Is the End near?

HTC’s bottom line is getting a thorough kicking and it is hard to see if the outfit is going to pull out any rabbits from hats to save itself before it is too late.

Ericsson borks 3,000 Swedish jobs
Published in News
Tuesday, 04 October 2016 14:17

Ericsson borks 3,000 Swedish jobs


Swedish double decimation job death

The Swedish phone maker Ericsson has taken the axe to 3,000 jobs or nearly 20 percent of its local workforce.

Tablet sales dead
Published in Mobiles
Friday, 29 April 2016 13:13

Tablet sales dead


The death of the "game changer"

There more evidence that tablets were never the game-changer that Steve Jobs tried to peddle them as, and were just the keyboardless netbooks we said they were. 

Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:40

CDs might be difficult to kill

y disc

Gamers already in revolt

Tuesday, 11 October 2011 13:27

Man attacks wife over Facebook status

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Did not like his update