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he source of the battery draining bug that sucked the life out of iPhones, sucked up 3G data and strained national telco networks has been identified by Apple as a miscommunication between Microsoft Exchange servers and the iOS calendar app. … Continue reading →

The transistor, the ubiquitous building block of all electronic circuits, will be 65 years old on Sunday. The device is jointly credited to William Shockley (1910-1989), John Bardeen (1908-1991) and Walter Brattain (1902-1987), and it was Bardeen and Brattain who … Continue reading →

Google has reportedly forced Acer to cancel the launch of a phone that used an Android rival as its operating system. In an embarrassing U-turn, Acer cancelled a launch event for the smartphone so late that journalists were left milling … Continue reading →

This week sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a man regarded as one of the most influential British scientists of the 20th Century. He is best known for his work as a cryptographer, cracking the Germans’ … Continue reading →