Tech

Women Could Be Owed 'lottery-winning' Pension Sums

Up to 5,000 female pensioners could be entitled to huge refunds under a little-known-rule, the BBC has learned. Read more

DoorDash Delivery Drivers Try To Manipulate The Food Biz's Payment Algorithm To Earn A Living Wage In Gig Economy

The trick is to get buddies to decline low-paying jobs and check old code DoorDash drivers are encouraging one another ... Read more

Are Pay-by-the-minute Booths The Future Of Work?

A Singapore-based firm has come up with a useful alternative when working from home is inconvenient. Read more

US National Parks To Be Smothered Under Blanket Of Liquid-hot Magma. Yes, The Open-source 5G Software

Now sulky teens can TikTok while you marvel at boring nature stuff AccessParks, broadband provider to the US National P... Read more

UK Government Launches New Tech Watchdog – Because The Digital Sales Tax Went So Well

Digital Markets Unit takes aim at giants' conduct with users and advertisers The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, ... Read more

Google Putting Its Trust In Rust To Weed Out Memory Bugs In Android Development

Not rewriting the whole OS, of course, but using the language going forward Google has signalled support for the Rust p... Read more

How Big Might IT Spending Get In 2021? Gartner: How About $4 Trillion. And No, You Can't Have A New MacBook

Ball gazers don't see devices flying off shelves in 2022. Do they know something we don't? Analysts are forecasting wor... Read more

What Chipageddon? Samsung Says Sales And Profits Soared In Q1

Looks like the Galaxy S21 did well, and Texas storm shutdown blew over Samsung has pre-announced its Q1 2021 earnings a... Read more

Seagate Claims It Shipped Its Third Zettabyte Of Storage In Record Time

36 years to hit 1 ZB. Then, like buses, none for ages, then 2 ZB almost at once Disk-maker Seagate claims to have becom... Read more

Taiwans PC-fest COMPUTEX Cancels Real-world Edition – Three Months After Promising In-person Gathering

If you can’t guess why, how’s life under that rock? The organisers of COMPUTEX, Taiwan’s annual PC-tech-fest, hav... Read more

Imagine Your Data Center Backup Generator Kicks In During Power Outage ... And Catches Fire. Well, It Happened

WebNX facility falls offline in blaze, takes customers down with it A power outage kicked off a fire in web hosting biz... Read more

Sitting Idle While Global Chips Fry: US Car Industry Asks Biden To Earmark Cash For Automotive Semiconductors

Forget smartphones – whaddabout motors? The US automotive industry has warned it faces a bleak six months of disrupti... Read more

Ice Lake, Baby: Intel's 10nm 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Server Processors To Arrive At Last

Stop, collaborate and listen, Chipzilla's back with its brand new invention Intel on Tuesday announced the availability... Read more

'Why Do I Feel Pressure To Be An Entrepreneur?'

Having a side hustle isn't for everyone. Read more