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Robot vacuum cleaners - now with grenade launchers

450lb battle droids will clean out troublesome buildings with grappling hooks, machine guns and fragmentation grenades

Apple to 'ditch' Intel for Nvidia in standard MacBooks

Chipset reshuffle?

PCs & Chips 13 Oct 12:37

Seagoing slime-skimmer snail ships punted

Ooze cruisers suggested for US Navy

Biology 13 Oct 12:29

Sony exec pours cold water on PS3 price-cut hopes

Not budging despite Xbox 360 reductions

Reg Hardware 13 Oct 12:24

BTLondon and Wales to get fast fibre

BT pushes 40Mbit/s

Bill Gates teaser picGates dethroned as tech's richest get thumped

Larry Ellison searches sofa for change

Samsung Omnia 16GB smartphone

Review As good a phone as it is a media player

Reg Hardware 13 Oct 11:33

World Bank denies hackers pwned key systems

'They never got in'

Enterprise Security 13 Oct 11:18

New Jersey flying deer floors Hippo

Old timer survives airborne cervine impact

Bootnotes 13 Oct 11:16

Parliament's take on Freedom of Information

We'll tell you - if you promise not to tell anyone else

Government 13 Oct 11:15

OLO promises Foleo-style iPhone-Air laptop combo

Just as doomed as Palm's product?

Reg Hardware 13 Oct 10:50

Blackswift hypersonic plane cancelled

Budget bigshots bin bleeding-edge barrelroll bid

Science 13 Oct 10:45

Prince Charles declines Doctor Who cameo

'He turned us down, the miserable swine'

Entertainment 13 Oct 10:12

Citroën sparks electric C-Cactus production plan

'Leccy Tech Which powertrain do punters want?

Reg Hardware 13 Oct 09:59

Euro judges strengthen protections for database creators

Sides with University of Freiburg in poem row

Law 13 Oct 09:56

Wal-Mart punts industrial strength feminine deodorant

Canada - where men are men, and so are the women

Bootnotes 13 Oct 09:24

Court of Appeal backs EPO against UK patent office

Upholds Symbian software patent

Small Biz 13 Oct 09:24

Infosys cuts forecasts

And backs out of Axon bid

Channel Register 13 Oct 08:29

Vendors tout protection and performance at SNW

SNW And hope someone else can protect the economy

Storage 13 Oct 07:26

Compellent adopts solid state

SNW Adds remote site replication and cut-over to roadmap

Storage 13 Oct 07:25

Phishers adapt old scams to exploit bank turmoil

Mergers spawn malicious emails

Crime 12 Oct 09:02

Revo Pico RadioStation DAB+ radio

Review Ready for the revamped-DAB revolution

Reg Hardware 11 Oct 07:02

SpringSource regains footing with support change

Inclusive, not exclusive

Developer 10 Oct 23:39

Sprint execs named 'most overpaid' in 2007

$74m in CEO pay, $29bn in losses

Financial News 10 Oct 23:34

Organized crime tampers with European card swipe devices

Customer data beamed overseas

Crime 10 Oct 21:21

Wal-Mart pressured into tune keys life support

DRM servers open 'for the present time'

Music and Media 10 Oct 19:49

New Google bugs empower phishermen

Domain vuln + frame injection = dead ringer spoof pages

Security 10 Oct 19:19

Scotland Mountain Rescue turns on Ofcom

Volunteers asked to put anger into words

Government 10 Oct 18:10

Imation backpedals in Q3

Blames The Meltdown

Storage 10 Oct 18:04

Merrill Lynch buys IBM's iDataPlex blades

But with whose cash?

Servers 10 Oct 15:24

Agile Development’s Secret Sauce

Reg Reader Workshop It’s all in the recipe

Workshop 10 Oct 15:12

OpenOffice.org welcomes gatecrashers to version 3.0 orgy

Key-swapping is optional extra

Applications 10 Oct 14:50

PayPal top-up card is titsup

And nobody knows anything

Financial News 10 Oct 14:41

Verizon to charge for message termination

Feed the masses, threepence a time

Mobile 10 Oct 14:35

Virgin Media calls foul on web speed testers

'We're just too quick for you'

Telecoms 10 Oct 14:18

Laptops to blame for Qantas jet plunge?

Cargo hold over-filled with XXXX no longer thought responsible

Reg Hardware 10 Oct 14:14

Oz radio newsreader skips broadcast for Facebook

IT team probe exposes social networking hackette

Bootnotes 10 Oct 14:02

Channel 4 in Heathrow Playmobil reconstruction shocker

Oi!

Bootnotes 10 Oct 13:22

Vista scrabbles for X Factor

You can't sing, you can't dance - what do you want me to say?

Bootnotes 10 Oct 13:03

Dial 'M' for Microsoft's new programming language

Oslo trio uncovered

Developer 10 Oct 13:02

C4 abandons DAB

Farewell, consortium

Music and Media 10 Oct 13:00

US Justice Dept builds microwave heat-ray 'rifle'

Settings: Radar, pain-blaster or nudie perv scan

Science 10 Oct 12:34

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