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Downtime
Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
May 2016
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Norway live-streams Facebook's terms of service
- Security Editor 24 May 2016 -
Google foolishly searches internet for inspiration about what to call Android N
- Senior Editor, UK 19 May 2016 -
PR incompetence mirth accidentally reveals nihilist view of the futility of the human condition
13 May 2016
If you're at a loose end following last night's episode of Game of Thrones - and who would have thought Ned Stark turned out to.... [watch it. Ed.] - then for the next few hours at least, you can ...
After spending months toiling over the next release of the Android mobile operating system (OS), the brilliant and creative minds within Google’s development team can’t even be bothered to give it ...
There was much merriment at Downtime Towers last week as the PR – usually such an intuitively adept profession – of a famous search-engine (driverless car, cartography, Illuminati etc) company ...
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- Managing Editor 06 May 2016 -
US TV network HBO branches out into tech journalism
- Senior Editor, UK 06 May 2016
Yes it was World Password Day on 5th May and nonagenarian actress Betty White finds that passwords annoy the "f" "beep" out of you. Perhaps that's why the UK director general for cyber security at ...
HBO has started publishing fictional tech news on Google; a move set to cause headaches for IT journos used to trawling the search giant’s news pages (or Computer Weekly, ahem) for their daily ...