Who me? Greetings and greetings, dear readers, and welcome to the sunny spot on the interwebs that we like to call Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their stories of failed engineering tasks. Apologies if that cheerful, upbeat attitude is off-putting to you. Your correspondent is experimenting with being a ‘Monday person’ and it … Read more
Are you forced to switch? Email elizabeth.haigh@mailonline.co.uk BT has scrapped its timetable to move all landline customers from traditional copper wired phones to digital, internet-based services, after months of campaigning by groups representing vulnerable customers and MailOnline. In a long-awaited move, the group, which is also responsible for EE customers, has abandoned the sector’s previous … Read more
The detailed mechanisms of how matter from beyond the event horizon falls into a black hole have been revealed in a new paper. As predicted by Einstein’s theory of gravity, there is a point at which material stops circling the black hole and falls straight down, suddenly plunging beyond the point of no return. Now … Read more
On Saturday, revelers across Spain and Portugal ventured out into the temperate spring evening, hoping for an evening to remember. No one expected a visitor from space to explode over their heads. At 11:46 p.m., a fireball shot through the sky in Portugal, leaving a smoldering trail of glowing graffiti. Images shared on social media … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Dearbail Jordan Role, Business reporter, BBC News 6 hours ago Shareholders of some of Britain’s biggest water companies have withdrawn tens of billions of pounds but failed to invest, new research shows, as companies plan to increase household bills to fund future spending. Investors have withdrawn £85.2 billion … Read more
Ghost of Tsushima Credit: Sony Updated 5/17/24 and 5/19/24 — See updates below. Not long ago I wrote about how Sony wasted players’ goodwill with the Hell divers 2 debacle. The game publisher announced that this would be necessary Hell divers 2 players on PC can link their PSN accounts to Steam to continue playing … Read more
May 19, 2024 It was a big week in terms of announcements. Sony kicked things off with the announcements of the Xperia 1 VI and the Xperia 10 VI. The Xperia 1 VI does away with the 4K display, but makes up for it with a brighter and smarter 1080p panel and increases the zoom … Read more
If we discovered that a business leader had made his fortune not only by making a large profit on the goods or services he sold, but also by stealing the incomes and savings of innocent members of the public – people who had no connection whatsoever their company – we would be outraged. Demands would … Read more
Apple is about to unveil an automatic notification summary feature as part of a suite of new artificial intelligence features in iOS 18, Apple said. Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In today’s edition of his “Power On” newsletter, Gurman provided more details on what to expect from Apple’s first big push into generative AI at the upcoming … Read more
According to reports, second class mail will be reduced to just three days a week when billionaire Daniel Kretinsky completes his £3.5 billion takeover of Royal Mail. The businessman, nicknamed the ‘Czech Sphinx’ because of his inscrutable nature, plans to take Britain’s 500-year-old postal service fully into foreign hands for the first time. But the … Read more