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On an ordinary workday in mid-2016, a handful of Facebook engineers were sitting on the couches in a corner of the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters when one of them tossed out a wacky idea. He suggested doing something that had never been done before and...

Samsung is set to unveil a new kind of flexible OLED display for smartphones and tablets that can be stretched, bent, rolled and even dented up to 12mm - but won't break. The display will be shown off at the Society for Information Display (SID) show in Los Angeles,...

British telco O2 is the first to publicly confirm that it will be trialling 3GPP-compliant Internet of Things connectivity tech in the UK later this year. Although the telco would not be drawn on specifics, it told The Register it would be trialling "3GPP cellular IoT...

Conduct proper and timely backups of your data so it can be used to restore original files after a data loss event Use a security solution (Kaspersky is an excellent example) with behaviour based detection technologies. These technologies can catch malware, including...

Aimed at small businesses, Microsoft Outlook Customer Manager makes it easy to track and grow customer relationships from within Outlook. It is now generally available to Office 365 Business Premium subscribers worldwide. This solution currently supports Outlook 2016...

Amazon has launched two new low-priced Fire tablets, which will integrate its Alexa personal assistant. The devices will come with either a 7 inch or 8 inch display. The Fire 7 boasts an in-plane switching (IPS) display in a package that is thinner and lighter than...

The Yahoo Mail app for Windows 10 is shutting down and will stop working next week. The company is already notifying users of the app that it will no longer function after Monday, 22nd May. The message says, “Your Windows 10 app will stop working after May 22. Thank...

Microsoft are not happy that leaked NSA exploits led to the WannaCrypt ransomware causing havoc computers worldwide. Company President Brad Smith posted a response to the attack that roasts the NSA CIA and other intelligence agencies for hogging security...

Due to the WanaCrypt severity Microsoft have developed a fix for out-of-date versions of its Windows operating systems. Although the fix can’t reverse the effects of an infected system, it does prevent vulnerable versions of Windows from getting infected by WanaCrypt...

Mac OS X is by its nature a very secure operating system however with Apple’s growing popularity it is a target for cyber criminals. An example is the ‘KeRanger’ ransomware which hit OS X users in 2016. ‘KeRanger’ was distributed with the legitimate software...