The Curious Engineer

The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say

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December 2020

  1. Start Up No.1454: Facebook turns up the misinformation dial, another Google project dies, Fitbit purchase cleared, and more
  2. Start Up No.1453: Google accused of secret Facebook deal, when will VR take off?, our vaccine fight illustrated, and more
  3. Start Up No.1452: Europe goes after on Big Tech, UK unveils Online Harms bill, valuing wireless broadband, Apple Fitness+ reviewed, and more
  4. Start Up No.1451: the trouble with Slack and work, Apple works on replacing Qualcomm modems, Pornhub’s giant purge, and more
  5. Start Up No.1450: Facebook staff look back in anger, US Treasury hacked, Oracle off to Texas, Johnson’s herd immunity lockdown failure, and more
  6. Start Up No.1449: Facebook’s creepy ad problem, why gigabit broadband?, Cydia sues Apple over app store, credit cards dump Pornhub, and more
  7. Start Up No.1448: Facebook faces breakup threat, Pichai responds on AI firing, AirPods… in the shower!, the Lincoln Project’s failure, and more
  8. Start Up No.1447: how Biden won online, Pornhub stiffens its moderation, Samsung won’t ship chargers, TikTok survives in US, and morei
  9. Start Up No.1446: Xiaomi’s Indian rebrand, Apple’s 32-core plans, do benchmarks disfavour Intel?, Uber sells self-driving unit, and more
  10. Start Up No.1445: Pornhub’s rape problem, Google staff row over AI paper, drones do policing, TikTok delayed again, and more
  11. Start Up No.1444: Facebook acts against vaccine lies, Britain’s creaking bridges, our slowing computers, can movie theatres survive?, and more
  12. Start Up No.1443: our over-complex world, the metal asteroid, TSMC aims for 3nm, a killer iOS Wi-Fi exploit, Parler gets porny, and more
  13. Start Up No.1442: how machine learning is changing financial reports, the trouble with aircraft, Utah monolith takers revealed, and more
  14. Start Up No.1441: how Ocado succeeded, why national economies aren’t households, the PS5 scalpers, the fake electric vehicle story, and more

November 2020

  1. Start Up No.1440: Facebook readies limited Libra, Twitter aims for safety, the PC malaise era?, the monolith vanishes, Cummings’s error, and more
  2. Start Up No.1439: MPs call for right to repair, the perfect way to smarten your home, Parallels plans for Windows on M1 Macs, and more
  3. Start Up No.1438: a glimpse inside real Facebook feeds, how old is Utah’s mystery obelisk?, suspicion over Amazon Sidewalk, and more
  4. Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid’s smart mutation, and more
  5. Start Up No.1436: the misinformation superspreaders, an infinite quilt, GM quits Trump, Snapchat tries to TikTok, and more
  6. Start Up No.1435: a plethora of fakes, America’s stupid coup, Apple explains more about the M1, Twitter to pass @POTUS to Biden, and more
  7. Start Up No.1434: Facebook says it catches more hate speech, Stadia has a birthday, solar power from space?, BuzzFeed buys HuffPo, and more
  8. Start Up No.1433: how Finland and Norway beat Covid, Google Pay relaunches (again?), why is sand soft?, Chrome speeds up, and more
  9. Start Up No.1432: Facebook labels don’t stop Trump’s lies spreading, when will Twitter ban him?, Apple’s M1 machines benchmarked, and more
  10. Start Up No.1431: Obama frets for US democracy, US military buys app data, Apple faces Facebook’s nemesis, M1 emulation outpaces Intel Macs, and more
  11. Start Up No.1430: Apple’s M1 benchmarked (fast!), whither Intel?, electric vans on the way, the cursed treasure, Parler’s data grab, and more
  12. Start Up No.1429: the pointlessness of Parler, US pauses TikTok shutdown, Apple’s boom year, Google’s sound AI fixer, and more
  13. Start Up No.1428: Google to start charging for 15GB+ Photos, Schmidt disses social, our splintering realities, frack the moon!, and more
  14. Start Up No.1427: Apple Silicon’s CPU revelation, EU accuses Amazon of antitrust breach, the joy of Columbo, the company named to hack, and more
  15. Start Up No.1426: coronavirus vaccine offers hope, fighting Facebook, iPhone 12 mini reviewed, HP’s newest ink tactic, and more
  16. Start Up No.1425: digital nomads stymied by Covid, the virtual influencers taking advantage, Intel’s chip dilemma, AOC on digital, and more
  17. Start Up No.1424: life inside a black hole, LG plans a ‘rollable’ phone, $1bn bitcoin move mystery solved, how Oz zapped Covid, and more
  18. Start Up No.1423: eternal printer woes?, Californians go private, Kim Dotcom faces US extradition, Denmark culls Covid mink, and more
  19. Start Up No.1422: Facebook internal morale droops, the US’s other tech antitrust problem, Bezos’s climate grant, Apple’s AR application, and more
  20. Start Up No.1421: the dead hiker v the internet, Apple Silicon Macs incoming, whale saves train from doom, the coming media shift, and more
  21. Start Up No.1420: Facebook pauses Group recommendations, Slovakia test big, the ‘night owl’ genetic defect, Dwight Schrute v life, and more

October 2020

  1. Start Up No.1419: Apple insiders explain its organisation, a Facebook constitution?, a retail crash looms, your secret salivary glands, and more
  2. Start Up No.1418: the US town the libertarians (and bears) took over, Mozilla hates Google (but loves its money), sayonara Quibi, and more
  3. Start Up No.1417: US files antitrust lawsuit against Google, kill the chatbots!, Sweden nixes Huawei and ZTE 5G, peak streaming?, and more
  4. Start Up No.1416: Google’s antitrust redux, how a Trumpite got ZTE out of US sanctions, how climate change killed early humans, and more
  5. Start Up No.1415: why British TV cops rule, can AI fix US government regulations?, free speech v misinfo, is social media like smoking?, and more
  6. Start Up No.1414: GOP subpoenas Twitter, thousands of Robinhood accounts hacked, GM to test driverless cars on SF streets, and more
  7. Start Up No.1413: Twitter and Facebook act on ‘hacking’ story, red states want limits on big tech, the racism in healthcare software, and more
  8. Start Up No.1412: the ‘gangstalking’ delusion, Apple’s new iPhones (and HomePod), Facebook moves against vaccines, UK plans retrospective tech un-buyout law, and more
  9. Start Up No.1411: Facebook bans Holocaust denial (but others are OK), Wisconsin further snubs Foxconn, is ad tech a bubble?, and more
  10. Start Up No.1410: should Trump’s tweets be delayed?, our crowded orbits, Facebook and the kidnap plot, Apple’s T2 problem, and more
  11. Start Up No.1409: Sweden’s pandemic response examined, Supremes considers Google v Oracle, hacking Apple, how deadly is Covid?, and more
  12. Start Up No.1408: Uighur diaspora v Great Firewall, is Facebook preparing for Trump’s defeat?, the Big Tech report digested, and more
  13. Start Up No.1407: Big Tech gets monopoly slap, Facebook zaps Trump Covid post, Apple tips iPhone date, sex app lock-in, and more
  14. Start Up No.1406: China’s worrying food shortage, the Excel virus screwup, whither America after Trump?, dry Venice, and more
  15. Start Up No.1405: the un-American internet, sayonara California?, Covid’s aerosol risk, virtually cycling seniors, the battery-free future, and more
  16. Start Up No.1404: Facebook triples down on Groups, Navalny on novichok, GCHQ finds Huawei flaw, Google aims low with Pixel, and more
  17. Start Up No.1403: Tiktok zaps political misinformation (Facebook doesn’t), Samsung’s TV ad invasion, goodbye hold music, and more

September 2020

  1. Start Up No.1402: Facebook’s populist ‘advantage’, deepfake blood detection, do smartphones think?, moving buildings, and more
  2. Start Up No.1401: Google cracks down on app payments, the TikTok failure, how Iranians stay in touch, no herd immunity in Brazil, and more
  3. Start Up No.1400: how to raise a city by six feet, iOS 14’s biggest hit, people back social media election blackout, solar’s wild prices, and more
  4. Start Up No.1399: Facebook lets misleading political ads through, Cambridge Analytica boss dinged, Big Bang black holes?, and more
  5. Start Up No.1398: Twitter blamed for Indian and South African violence, the acediac world of Covid, Zuck caught on tape, and more
  6. Start Up No.1397: Facebook’s strategy on US election chaos (and threat to Europe), is Twitter’s photo algorithm secretly racist?, and more
  7. Start Up No.1396: how to price app subscriptions, Facebook’s QAnon failure, TouchID for new iPhones?, Quibi maybe for sale, and more
  8. Start Up No.1395: how YouTube fought its algorithm, the scam of the TikTok deal, Apple buys all TSMC’s 5nm output, and more
  9. Start Up No.1394: Facebook’s internal discord grows, Apple One for all?, hacking Tony Abbott, how PG&E messed up maintenance, and more
  10. Start Up No.1393: Oracle TikTok bid still uncertain, Spotify negative on Apple One, iOS 14 released, cyberwar on newspapers, and more
  11. Start Up No.1392: telework better, what Apple announced, life on.. Venus?, Kardashian v Facebook, Goodreads or bad?, and more
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  13. Start Up No.1390: the Arctic is on fire too, preventing California’s infernos, Britain’s coronavirus testing shortage, and more
  14. Start Up No.1389: Moonshot under the microscope, Zuck ignores vaccine lies, Surface Duo reviewed, TikTok censorship, and more
  15. Start Up No.1388: China’s failed 7nm chip effort, ethics row deepens at Facebook, 5G iPhones await, cartels try drone killing, and more
  16. Start Up No.1387: London’s falling bridges, the iPhone pause, Android 11?, thoughts before dying, Apple sues Epic, and more
  17. Start Up No.1386: how Senegal beat the US on Covid, Lucent’s fall into darkness, the sci-fi energy gap, Epic demands a lifeline, and more
  18. Start Up No.1385: students hack AI testers, Pink Floyd’s Wine Glasses (yes), Huawei runs low on chips, Amazon’s odd reviewers, and more
  19. Start Up No.1384: US DoJ prepares Google antitrust suit, real-world v virtual privacy, Facebook bans Indian politician, and more
  20. Start Up No.1383: the A-level algorithm lesson, kill Twitter Trends!, Google remixes radio, India bans PUBG, Reels v Facebook, and more
  21. Start Up No.1382: Amazon’s desperate drivers, Facebook zaps IRA (but not fake video), mask safety data, Apple… Search?, and more
  22. Start Up No.1381: Facebook offers US election study, an Apple Silicon MacBook?, Uber and Lyft’s PR attack dogs, and more

August 2020

  1. Start Up No.1380: Apple zaps Epic’s dev account, WFH in… Barbados?, TikTok sale gets more complicated, Facebook’s moderator indifference, and more
  2. Start Up No.1379: Apple under news pressure on App Store fees, Adobe zaps Lightroom photos (oops), ML Roman emperors, and more
  3. Start Up No.1378: Facebook the (misinforation) superspreader, Zoom coming to more screens, Instagram pushes endless scrolling, and more
  4. Start Up No.1377: Facebook blocks Plandemic 2.. and Myanmar investigation, America’s two-foot trouble, the 30 per cent mystery, and more
  5. Start Up No.1376: Epic v Apple battle intensifies, Facebook’s African push, Google’s Aussie disinformation, Huawei under pressure, and more
  6. Start Up No.1375: Facebook ignores Indian politician’s hate speech, Google saves Mozilla, GPT-3 blogs, solar panel breakthrough, and more
  7. Start Up No.1374: Apple kicks Epic off App Store, US nabs terrorists’ crypto, Intel promises again to get faster, killed by Covid misinfo?, and more
  8. Start Up No.1373: Facebook’s ongoing Boogaloo problem, QAnon eats into the GOP, retailers quit Manhattan, Mozilla’s money trouble, and more
  9. Start Up No.1372: how TikTok circumvented Android to track users, remote workers v spyware, how Facebook keeps QAnon alive, and more
  10. Start Up No.1371: who will want a vaccine?, Ancestry.com sells for $4.7bn, why Facebook hackers use Isis flags, Genoa rebridged, and more
  11. Start Up No.1370: the US defence group tracking your phone, how Cook made Apple his own, Gates on Covid and Facebook, and more
  12. Start Up No.1369: Facebook’s rightwing insiders, Snapchat helps voter registration, can Trump build a (fire)wall?, Excel prompts gene rethink, and more
  13. Start Up No.1368: Facebook screws up political ads, Instagram screws up political hashtags, Google screws up WearOS v YouTube Music, and more
  14. Start Up No.1367: how to escape an island, coal use slumps further, Apple’s Schiller steps aside, Google’s Fitbit acquisition investigated, and more
  15. Start Up No.1366: the impatient media election, a teen hacker’s trajectory, Iran’s coronavirus coverup, Tim Maughan interview, and more
  16. Start Up No.1365: social media’s failing news diet, Twitter ejects David Duke, TikTok races Trump, is GPT-3 going to screw up comments?, and more

July 2020

  1. Start Up No.1364: Qualcomm hints at iPhone 12 delay, antitrust hearings pour out incriminating emails, kids v Covid, and more
  2. Start Up No.1363: how Amazon screws up, Instagram’s fear of Zuck’s wrath, life on TheirTube, masks break facial recognition, and more
  3. Start Up No.1362: how Google search got so closed, US lets off Twitter Saudi insiders, marathon masks, Trump tweets deleted, and more
  4. Start Up No.1361: the trouble with ‘hygiene theatre’, an AI overhang?, Surgisphere’s suspect surgeon, Twitter’s woeful security, and more
  5. Start Up No.1360: Intel faces the future, does Britain back Biden?, the Swede helping the Chinese smartphone biz, faster tests are better, and more
  6. Start Up No.1359: Instagram’s racial bias bias (yes), where the UK’s Covid response has gone well, TikTok considers selling itself, and more
  7. Start Up No.1358: Facebook’s mimsy political labels, Slack files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, Covid reinfection?, and more
  8. Start Up No.1357: how Britain turned blind eye to Russian interference, our Covid future, Microsoft disses the App Store, and more
  9. Start Up No.1356: how to troll American partisans, rear windows on the world, Covid vaccine first steps, Twitter hackers missed out, and more
  10. Start Up No.1355: TikTok halts London HQ plan, how Twitter was hacked, the AI deciding patient care, 32 clipboard-snooping apps, and more
  11. Start Up No.1354: EU rejects data transfer to the US, the Twitter in depth, TSMC cuts out Huawei, should TikTok be blocked?, and more
  12. Start Up No.1353: hackers hit Twitter, Apple escapes tax bill, the technological genocide in Xinjiang, Zoom thinks big, and more
  13. Start Up No.1352: more on Facebook’s pseudoscience ads, TikTok as warfare, the trouble with VC money, Google’s ATAP lives!, and more
  14. Start Up No.1351: Facebook’s junk cancer ads, the trouble with efficiency, California quake odds rise, Google’s walled garden, and more
  15. Start Up No.1350: Facebook mulls political ad ban, time to quit Chrome, is Big Sur fun?, Mueller on Stone, AI to make you polite, and more
  16. Start Up No.1349: UK’s chaotic paper Covid trail, Facebook as gaslighter, draw that circle!, a real virus for Macs?, Quibi’s diehards, and more
  17. Start Up No.1348: Facebook runs into more trouble, how WW2 plane crashes improved design, Trump rally blamed for Covid ramp, and more
  18. Start Up No.1347: the MidEast propaganda fakes, the death of malls?, pricing a Covid vaccine, Quibi’s tin ear, North Korea gets hacking, and more
  19. Start Up No.1346: does Facebook need juries?, the pub privacy problem, Nokia’s 5G error, pandemic photography, Google’s shopbot, and more
  20. Start Up No.1345: scientists warn on airborne Covid, how Facebook flattens us, iOS 14’s password watch, MIT’s bad images, and more
  21. Start Up No.1344: the ‘rabbit Ebola’ outbreak, Facebook shuts its TikTok clone, UK regulators look at Google’s iPhone deal, and more
  22. Start Up No.1343: how China tracked Uighurs for years, Softbank’s Wirecard screwup, Nick Clegg’s wrong again, US’s Covid undercount, and more
  23. Start Up No.1342: the US’s plane crash coronavirus response, Facebook to boost ‘new’ news, India bans TikTok, Google tries to re-Glass, and more

June 2020

  1. Start Up No.1341: how Facebook fell in for Trump, remake the world!, Apple crunches the ad industry (again), in the eye of the Twitter storm, and more
  2. Start Up No.1340: Britain buys satellites, the NHS app cockup, faulty facial recognition policing, focus falls on Wirecard’s auditors, and more
  3. Start Up No.1339: America’s young Covid deaths, how to win big on Facebook, Myanmar internet blackout continues, sayonara Wirecard?, and more
  4. Start Up No.1338: Apple fixes another antitrust problem, Google offers to wipe old data about you, how OSINT beat the GRU, fashion v ML, and more
  5. Start Up No.1337: female gamers rise up, Apple tweaks the App Store, Americans’ strong backing for climate action, a live LED Tube map!, and more
  6. Start Up No.1336: Apple ARMs for the future, Hey makes hay, iOS14 lets defaults go, more on TikTok v Trump, Wirecard unravels, and more
  7. Start Up No.1335: Tiktokers v Trump, Apple and ARM and the App Store, the mystery of Tether’s growth, ceiling fan secrets, and more
  8. Start Up No.1334: Facebook takes down Trump ads, US police in graphs, Google clones Pinterest, Chrome spyware campaign shut down, and more
  9. Start Up No.1333: England’s calamitous track-and-trace system, advertising in charts, Zoom goes for encryption, the pandemic rent drop, and more
  10. Start Up No.1332: Apple faces double EU antitrust investigation, tweet for science!, Instagram the news service?, Magic Leap’s last gasp, and more
  11. Start Up No.1331: eBay execs’ cockroach attack, what iOS 14 needs, Covid-19’s immunity puzzle, Quibi looks crispy, loving trackers, and more
  12. Start Up No.1330: smartphones v American police, more on ARM Macs, AI that can really write, Beijing locks down again, ‘Potemkin journalism’, and more
  13. Start Up No.1329: Biden attacks Facebook, Snap adds mini-apps, the trouble with peer review, racial discrimination by country, and more
  14. Start Up No.1328: Amazon suspends facial recognition system, Zoom blocks user over Tiananmen party, life in the US police, and more
  15. Start Up No.1327: Apple readies ARM Macs, the truth about Trump’s photo op, Microsoft’s AI screws up, 2020’s worst jargon, and more
  16. Start Up No.1326: DuckDuckGo prepares for the big(ger) time, SARS-Cov-2’s origins become clearer, Twitter to relaunch verification, and more
  17. Start Up No.1325: Facebook and the oligarchy, TikTok code stays in the west, Surgisphere in the spotlight, the last Civil War pensioner, and more
  18. Start Up No.1324: hackers target US presidential campaigns, questions deepen over Lancet HCQ paper, a new form of nitrogen, and more
  19. Start Up No.1323: Facebook’s unmet Oversight board, Zuck transcribed, Beeb makes its own Alex(a), Snapchat downgrades Trump, and more
  20. Start Up No.1322: Facebook v the humans, ban Trump or bear him?, Walmart’s hated AI, smart contact lenses (will they work?), and more
  21. Start Up No.1321: meet the Clubhouse audio app, image scrubbing for protesters, Huawei CFO faces extradition, Facebook staff walk out, and more
  22. Start Up No.1320: Trump v Twitter (and how it happened), Microsoft’s AI takes over from journalists, Amazon kills its Look, and more

May 2020

  1. Start Up No.1319: Facebook’s strange fact-checking pose, UK trace-and-trace delayed, whatever happened to creationists?, and more
  2. Start Up No.1318: Facebook defends on polarisation, Australia’s irrelevant tracking app, judges back social media on speech ban, and more
  3. Start Up No.1317: Facebook knew it was polarising, ban Trump’s Twitter?, how Bill Gates became conspiracists’ villain, YouTube’s odd deletion, and more
  4. Start Up No.1316: the coronavirus conspiracists, how the NSA mapped Americans’ social networks, eBay’s odd port scanning, what makes Catalina slow, and more
  5. Start Up No.1315: how iOS 14 leaked, a fungus to stop malaria?, UK to phase out Huawei, how Ayn Rand ruined Sears, ‘fish cleaner’ death redux, and more
  6. Start Up No.1314: grannies v the GDPR, Facebook to cut remote worker pay, the Covid bots, Magic Leap lives (for now), Amish health redux, and more
  7. Start Up No.1313: the trouble with Google Classroom, Apple’s Austin hotel, no-reply Twitter, Dyson’s electric car goes flat, and more
  8. Start Up No.1312: the log graph problem, 5G unboxing!, BBC Together gets Netflix Party, how Easyjet got hacked, Wuhan dossier debunked, and more
  9. Start Up No.1311: Huawei hits out over new sanctions, Uber cuts further, Disney loses exec to TikTok, Microsoft loves open source!, and more
  10. Start Up No.1310: Google faces antitrust threat, Facebook swallows Giphy, OnePlus’s see-through camera, lipsyncing Trump, and more
  11. Start Up No.1309: Call of Duty kicks cheaters with 2FA, Netflix’s timesaver, Apple buys NextVR, comparing apocalypses, Huawei’s new old phones, and more
  12. Start Up No.1308: Facebook’s AI beating hate speech, let’s make words!, Schmidt finally exits Google, media squeeze worsens, and more
  13. Start Up No.1307: Facebook paying PTSD moderators $52m, Twitter offers some permanent WFH, anatomy of a viral (video) outbreak, and more
  14. Start Up No.1306: web sites really are growing more alike, India’s dead smartphone market, Apple gets cloudier, Microsoft blocks reply-all, our confusing internet attitudes, and more
  15. Start Up No.1305: reopen Jurassic Park!, VR’s coming winter, Twitter dumps on US State Dept bot claim, Facebook’s poisoned SDK, disaster unpreparedness, and more
  16. Start Up No.1304: Facebook names Oversight board, all the Covid symptoms in one place, Chromebook sales spike, Sidewalk exits Toronto, and more
  17. Start Up No.1303: NHS considers pivot to Apple-Google API, Uber cuts 14% of staff, Magic Leap on the edge, the shape of business post-Covid, and more
  18. Start Up No.1302: AirBnB cuts 1,900 jobs, reviving a Mac app, how long do people use Windows?, Love Bug creator speaks 20 years on, and more
  19. Start Up No.1301: lockdown poses problems for money launderers, Apple and Google block contact location tracking, bye bye butterfly (on laptops), and more
  20. Start Up No.1300: Zuckerberg tightens grip on Facebook (and Icke kicked off it), the dangers of Amazon’s dynamic pricing, Icann blocks .org sale, and more
  21. Start Up No.1299: how QAnon’s original trio boosted nonsense, TikTok hits 2 billion, Zoom doesn’t have 300 million, and more

April 2020

  1. Start Up No.1298: poll finds Americans don’t trust tracking apps, Trump’s lost two months, Facebook hires its UK regulator, HTC’s 1,000-year phone, and more
  2. Start Up No.1297: how and who at Apple and Google developed contact tracing, US meat prices to rise, Covid-19’s mechanism mystery, and more
  3. Start Up No.1296: NHS rejects Apple-Google for contact app, the woman falsely accused of causing Covid-19, the trouble with e-sports, and more
  4. Start Up No.1295: Germany goes with Apple/Google, Britons reject the old ‘normal’, America’s standards exclusion, the Difficult Times poem, and more
  5. Start Up No.1294: YouTube bans junk coronavirus content, ARM Macs on the way?, how Facebook advertisers target dolts, Zoom hits 300m, and more
  6. Start Up No.1293: lockdown boosts voice search, how Jack Dorsey dodged the hedge fund, America’s sclerotic government, Texas gets solar, and more
  7. Start Up No.1292: Covid-19’s subtle killing, HCL tests show no benefits, Huawei caught fibbing (again), China targets Uyghurs via iOS, and more
  8. Start Up No.1291: Australia to force Google to share ad revenue, Texas oil price goes negative, PC shipments slump, a new theory of everything?, and more
  9. Start Up No.1290: how the UK missed on coronavirus, Raspberry Pi sales rocket, the coming fraud crisis, Icann delays .org sale again, and more
  10. Start Up No.1289: Facebook scales down Libra, GoPro slashes workforce, China’s internet cafes stay shut, the coming crash for US state funding, and more
  11. Start Up No.1288: layoffs cut deep into the middle class, Medium’s conundrum, how China dithered on coronavirus, how to endure a lockdown, and more
  12. Start Up No.1287: how the virus nearly crushed finance, Apple offers transport data, US hospitals chop jobs, should science publishing slow down?, and more
  13. Start Up No.1286: the exit metric for coronavirus, YouTube ad rates plummet, the trouble with ‘immunoprivilege’, pollsters rejoice!, and more
  14. Start Up No.1285: contact tracing examined, how Trump failed on the virus, IBM offers free Cobol tuition, Google rebrands Hangouts once again, and more
  15. Start Up No.1284: are runners really a risk?, inside Zuckerberg’s jealous rage at Instagram, Travelex’s downfall, Microsoft puts off Windows 10X devices, and more
  16. Start Up No.1283: the 5G conspiracy theory’s origins, Google bans Zoom, life in the ICU, Foxconn’s pricey ventilator factory, and more
  17. Start Up No.1282: NHS coronavirus app shows mission creep, WhatsApp cuts group sharing, YouTube bans 5G conspiracies, block that Cobol!, and more
  18. Start Up No.1281: the roots of the 5G conspiracy, has Google found a new Covid-19 symptom?, a child’s unpredictable future, getting gamers to stay in, and more
  19. Start Up No.1280: the 5G coronavirus madness, marooned in paradise, our Tiger King world, wear a mask!, Italy’s uneasy peace, and more
  20. Start Up No.1279: ‘Contagion’ writer on what to expect, no more 5G conspiracies?, Bird Zooms 406 out of work, WeWork founder to lose a billion, and more
  21. Start Up No.1278: how the UK government screwed up Covid testing, more Zoom hacks, Dark Sky alternatives, YouTube plans TikTok ‘rival’, and more
  22. Start Up No.1277: Zoom get clobbered (but doesn’t care), consumers doubt personal data benefit, Apple buys Dark Sky, Covid-19 forecasts by US state, and more

March 2020

  1. Start Up No.1276: Twitter deletes Bolsonaro falsehoods, how the virus got here (and what we should do next), the coming car loan collapse, and more
  2. Start Up No.1275: what the Imperial studies really say, how to survive the next year, RIP Playboy, Zoom stops sneaking to Facebook, and more
  3. Start Up No.1274: Facebook gets back to news, how the CDC screwed up, layoff by Zoom, drug dealing in the age of coronavirus, and more
  4. Start Up No.1273: Zoom welcomes trolls (unfortunately), surveil this!, Covid-19 as time machine, the news media “extinction event”, and more
  5. Start Up No.1272: life with the (new) iPad Pro, let the cruise lines sink, Instagram founder on the coming US calamity, Peloton speeds up, and more
  6. Start Up No.1271: Taiwan’s ‘electronic quarantine fence’, have a (distant) Netflix party!, the inevitable scams, goodbye Starsky Robotics, and more
  7. Start Up No.1270: time to kill targeted advertising?, the low-income workers at biggest risk, smartphone shipments crash, the cleaner air of lockdown, and more
  8. Start Up No.1269: the pandemic plan Trump’s team ignored, UK gov tracking Londoners, Netflix degrades to ease the load, nobody’s eating out, and more
  9. Start Up No.1268: Apple’s MacBook Air gets updated keyboard, Facebook zaps legitimate news, what is ESPN without sports?, and more
  10. Start Up No.1267: US considers smartphone tracking, meet Mr ‘Invoice Barr’, Windows 10 passes 1 billion active, and more (coronavirus)
  11. Start Up No.1266: TikTok shuns the ugly, Apple fined by French, bitcoin’s squeezed miners, penguins!, and lots more coronavirus news
  12. Start Up No.1265: Twitter’s stalled cleanup, get bouncing!, the other benefits of trees to cities, and much more on coronavirus
  13. Start Up No.1264: CNN finds Russian troll farm in Africa, Magic Leap for sale, coronavirus splits the US, password rules to forget, and more
  14. Start Up No.1263: ‘surveillance creep’ at schools, why political writers can’t cover Covid-19, Sidewalk sidelined, work from home or not? and more
  15. Start Up No.1262: when Google loses your house, dress to disappear completely, Ukraine’s coronavirus riots, how WeChat is losing attention, and more
  16. Start Up No.1261: Sensor Tower’s VPN data grab, Apple Watch to aim at kids, Twitter averts Dorseypocalypse, Google finds fish faces, and more
  17. Start Up No.1260: development in a coronavirus recession, Sonos stops bricking gear, the incom-parable prodigal techbro, muzzled conservatives, and more
  18. Start Up No.1259: Clearview’s life as a secret toy, Folding@Home fights Covid-19, the brain’s sleep-rinse cycle, Apple out of SXSW, and more
  19. Start Up No.1258: Facebook’s fake news label trouble, India unbans cryptocurrency, how China censored coronavirus chat, and more
  20. Start Up No.1257: Facebook’s pharma madness, coronavirus hits conferences, Let’s Encrypt trips on certs, Amazon’s brand madness, and more
  21. Start Up No.1256: the Philippines’ Facebook fake news, all about Mrs WeWork, Silicon Valley workers v bosses, Apple takes $500m battery hit, and more
  22. Start Up No.1255: coronavirus updates, FBI says ransomware has cost $140m, is Stadia struggling?, picturing Clearview AI’s data, and more

February 2020

  1. Start Up No.1254: Reddit CEO slaps at TikTok, coronavirus roundup, a trackpad iPad?, why entering numbers on a webpage is so hard, and more
  2. Start Up No.1253: Facebook blocks coronavirus “urgency” ads, Gmail v Democrats, NTSB slams Tesla for Autopilot death, streaming passes 50% in UK, and more
  3. Start Up No.1252: the auto insurance algorithm that soaked big spenders, coronavirus could threaten Olympics, Amazon’s spooky grocery, and more
  4. Start Up No.1251: Apple ARM computer in 2021?, how coronavirus escaped China, an AR implosion, swim mousey swim!, and more
  5. Start Up No.1250: a drug dealer’s lost bitcoin fortune, AI finds new antibiotic, on being cancelled, Germany’s wonky renewable incentives, and more
  6. Start Up No.1249: will iOS 14 let you change defaults?, killing killer asteroids, Google bans ad-riddled apps, how Pinterest lost its mojo, and more
  7. Start Up No.1248: Google shifts UK data out of Europe, how the Saudis infiltrated Twitter, Facebook’s minimalist fact check team, and more
  8. Start Up No.1247: India’s election gets deepfake-friendly, the 101-year-old bug, decoupling arguments, Razr folds (oops), and more
  9. Start Up No.1246: Apple warns on revenues, how cars make you fat (proven!), police say don’t Ring us, a Tesla teardown, the edgiest coronavirus cash-in, and more
  10. Start Up No.1245: HQTrivia asks its last, how to beat job-hire software, coronavirus scares and shows, looking back at LG’s Prada, and more
  11. Start Up No.1244: Huawei faces new charges in US, left-wing YouTubers arise!, how UK council sites surveil citizens, niche science preprints in trouble, and more
  12. Start Up No.1243: the app to sue robocallers, the botnet that loves you, the trouble with Equifax, Europe breaks Facebook date, adieu Essential!, and more
  13. Start Up No.1242: how the CIA spied on everyone, FTC to query past tech buyups, now wash your hands!, Razr reviewed, and more
  14. Start Up No.1241: Oscar winner keys Apple, QAnon infects reality, Wuhan coronavirus takes toll on smartphones and MWC, Hong Kong v Swiss watches, and more
  15. Start Up No.1240: Trump admin grabs location data, the disinformation war, Apple v Swiss watches, how antivaxx can kill, and more
  16. Start Up No.1239: mobile adblocking rockets, EU quizzes Facebook on data, the real risk of website leaks, China’s coronavirus challenge, and more
  17. Start Up No.1238: Google gets legal on Clearview, how coronavirus will change the world (and MWC), Nevada dumps Shadow app, the truth about UK election news, and more
  18. Start Up No.1237: Apple patents a (neat) foldable, Instagram’s big sales number, British parents fret about their online kids, the dark opioid pattern, and more
  19. Start Up No.1236: AirBnB scams listed, YouTube’s a $15bn business (but is it profitable?), your too-smart TV, TikTok India gets censor-y, and more
  20. Start Up No.1235: Google Ads For One?, the call to ban facial recognition, how YouTube comments show radicalisation, tablet shipments slip, and more

January 2020

  1. Start Up No.1234: Facebook pays up for facial recognition, Huawei chases Samsung, Avast dumps Jumpshot, is Google Wave-ing again?, and more
  2. Start Up No.1233: Facebook pivots off video, the dogs of Trump’s campaign, the trouble with the Fold, who hacked the UN?, and more
  3. Start Up No.1232: Facebook shows its data grab, will Apple buy MGM?, US voters polarise over news, the awkward iPad, and more
  4. Start Up No.1231: China struggles with social media contagion, why Hollywood loves sequels, Avast under scrutiny, the IoT problem, and more
  5. Start Up No.1230: 23andme cuts staff, Motorola’s lumpy foldable, Google’s search backtrack, Sonos redux, killing Xylo, and more
  6. Start Up No.1229: is it TikTok’s time?, the encyclopedia of opinion, games about viruses go viral in China, iCloud encryption redux, and more
  7. Start Up No.1228: UN looks at Saudi hack of Bezos iPhone, Sonos amps up obsolescence, Vodafone exeunt Libra, why and when to encrypt iCloud, and more
  8. Start Up No.1227: Saudis ‘hacked Bezos phone’, Apple’s unencrypted iCloud, blocking the credit card scammer, coronavirus reaches US, and more
  9. Start Up No.1226: Twitter considers troll score, Pichai supports facial recognition pause, when anti-vaccine nuts go viral, OnePlus won’t fold, and more
  10. Start Up No.1225: the facial recognition app to end them all, ranking the evil of companies, Opera’s shady payday loan apps, Biden v s230, and more
  11. Start Up No.1224: AR contact lenses!, Pelosi slams Facebook, retail privacy policies, WhatsApp NoAds, and more
  12. Start Up No.1223: Mozilla lays off 70, Apple buys another AI company, could the FBI hack those iPhones?, what bystanders really do, and more
  13. Start Up No.1222: US considers anti-Huawei subsidies, will finance strangle coal?, sayonara Windows 7 – hello PC sales!, Norway sues apps, and more
  14. Start Up No.1221: the next big thing in content, spies face the recognition age, iPhone v Apple v US government (again), kill the Android bloatware!, and more
  15. Start Up No.1220: is AI facing winter?, Huawei’s huge subsidies, mispricing renewables, LG’s big promise, and more
  16. Start Up No.1219: Facebook decides on political ads, Ring fires staff over video snooping, Amazon isn’t Honey, Lime squeezed, and more
  17. Start Up No.1218: Bluetooth promises to improve, the .org battle, killing coal saves lives (and crops), the fake ladies of dating, and more
  18. Start Up No.1217: Sonos sues Google, Facebook’s internal 2020 memo, firefighting disinformation about Australia, Travelex held to ransom, and more
  19. Start Up No.1216: YouTube tries to get kid-friendly, the trouble with Goodreads, ToTok’s spying scheme, and more
  20. Start Up No.1215: Google’s culture change, ChromeOS is stuck, you are HERE in history, TikTok to infinity, and more

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December 2019

  1. Start Up No.1214: tracking your life in the US, Facebook’s hardware bet, ‘pink slime’ takes over news, internet v climate change, and more
  2. Start Up No.1213: smartphone life 2010-style, Ring’s security holes, 2019’s top stories, part-time fact-checking?, bitcoin mansplaining, and more
  3. Start Up No.1212: how Finns beat fake news, Apple’s decade in retrospect, Google’s cloud deadline, and more
  4. Start Up No.1211: Google/YouTube moderators speak out, the adaptive UI, Facebook goes DeepText, on Corbyn in 2015, and more
  5. Start Up No.1210: the decade’s puzzled economists, Foxconn wriggles in Wisconsin, Samsung’s smaller fold, and more
  6. Start Up No.1209: the podcasters hacking Ring cameras, Strava drives London’s cyclists, Apple’s influential journalists, the Apple non-tax, and more
  7. Start Up No.1208: YouTube tweaks ‘hate speech’ policy, Trump fined and barred from NY charity work, Apple Pro Display XDR Cloth©, the 201x’s 100 gadgets, and more
  8. Start Up No.1207: those lyin’ political ads, Unicorn runs out of road (and cash), Mac Pro pricing, don’t touch that (car) screen, and more
  9. Start Up No.1206: Amazon’s Ring cameras mapped, hidden in hashtags, China dumping US PCs, Bo de-selection?, and more
  10. Start Up No.1205: ave atque vale Larry and Sergey, Russia leaking NHS papers?, Nato stress-tests social platforms, Thailand’s e-waste problem, and more
  11. Start Up No.1204: fix the climate (here are the tools), life inside InfoWars, Reddit outdoes Twitter, Google with unions?, and more
  12. Start Up No.1203: why ‘cancel culture’ is a hit, fake news keeps on thriving, Egypt tries to kill the tuk-tuk, another Google messaging app!, and more
  13. Start Up No.1202: Facebook’s chatbot hit, Ring and the police, tracking MPs’ extra income, Escobar’s folding phone (really), and more
  14. Start Up No.1201: Wikipedia + Wayback = better, Greenland’s melt worsens, Facebook’s strange way with facts, and more
  15. Start Up No.1200: China forces face scans for mobile, fake news and fake viewers, EU looks again at Google, iPhone = iPod?, and more

November 2019

  1. Start Up No.1199: Twitter pauses account cull, bad bags for life, TikTok helping repression, Toshiba’s cancer blood drop test, and more
  2. Start Up No.1198: climate hits crisis, farewell Clive James, TikTok bends the truth, who’ll fire Zuck (or Zuck Jr)?, and more
  3. Start Up No.1197: Google fires activist staff, India’s coal sputters, IPv4 all gone, Bose’s headphone row, Brexit gets worse, and more
  4. Start Up No.1196: Berners-Lee calls for halt on political ads, the dumbest smartwatch, China’s pork crisis, crypto’s scammers, and more
  5. Start Up No.1195: Facebook under attack, the election polls to watch, does your site fit on a floppy?, and more
  6. Start Up No.1194: are the grifters here to stay?, judges warns on AI decisions, Trump’s Apple nonsense, and more
  7. Start Up No.1193: Google cuts back TGIF, the $4bn browser extension, Ring shares a bit too much video?, “right to repair”.. military equipment, and more
  8. Start Up No.1192: Apple reveals repair costs (sorta), fact-checking’s problem, Google’s flawed election spend data, and more
  9. Start Up No.1191: Snapchat checking political ads, cheaper iPhone sells in China, spot that bot!, Disney+ hacked accounts for sale, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,190: ex-Apple chip execs aim at servers, track Twitter hoaxes, costing Labour’s broadband plan, Amazon’s externalities, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,189: the UK political spending dashboard, .org to .cost?, Schiller keys in, South Korea’s scientific kids, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,188: energy forecast hots up, MacBook Pro keyboard gets thumbs up, Sir Rod Stewart’s railway city, strife at Google?, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,187: Facebook iOS app has camera bug, US demographics and its doughtiest opponent, Galileo’s GPS problem, not enough fish, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,186: Google’s data grab, Apple’s AR headset timings, what if China makes Libra?, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,185: the tech crash risk, the wonders of ‘Chi-fi’, how AirBnB screwed its New Jersey vote, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,184: Twitter tries to dump the dunk, Microsoft’s lost bet, ‘personal CRM’, misunderstood marginalia, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,183: Saudi moles inside Twitter, Facebook docs show data plan, Uber ignored jaywalkers (fatally), Xerox + HP = ?, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,182: US cops get big genetics warrant, who wins a meal with Trump?, AirPods Pro compared, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,181: YouTube accused on Hong Kong video, spiders and insects decline, Fitbit’s forced finale, a Valve-Apple headset?, Polish troll farming, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,180: Amazon’s devices problem, a new CF drug?, a search in a million, the Netflix sinkhole, what does Trump see?, and more
  21. Start Up No.1,179: politics v Twitter v Facebook, California’s next century, Rudy Guiliani – too cybersecure!, the WhatsApp hack, and more

October 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,178: inside the gangster smartphone company, the new digital divide, political ad meltdown, Prime ad slapped, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,177: Facebook staff revolt on political ads, Normal’s ransomware fixer, deja Vue, Oz’s face plan for porn, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,176: Facebook’s worsening political ad mess, China’s cryptocurrency?, AirPods Pro!, how to get RCS, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,175: a social network that helps democracy, Facebook’s News problem, who is Mike Pompeo exactly?, the trouble with dark mode, RCS’s mess, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,174: Facebook’s political advertising mess, TikTok under fire (again), is YouTube innocent?, Newsweek’s death spiral, it’s Wagileaks!, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,173: Amazon and permafrost warnings, who tips on Uber?, why iOS and macOS have bugs (duh), dark mode saves battery!, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,172: facial recognition v your job, background monk noise, how pollen lowers crime, Gmail’s costly fill, is AR gaming the answer?, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,171: Indian call centre virus scam arrests (redux), Facebook zaps more foreign spies, why no carbon tax?, China lives the American Dream (sorta), and more
  9. Start Up No.1,170: Trump ads swamp Facebook, Tinder on the species future, HuffPost for sale?, 16in MacBook Pro breaks cover, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,169: Zuckerberg speaks up, biggest child sex abuse site shuts, Qatar cools the world (badly), VR loses focus, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,168: Amazon’s unstoppable run, Yahoo slays Groups, camera chain shuttering?, we love smart speakers, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,167: Twitter warns Trump (subtly), WeWork squeezes Meetup, Google Pixel 4 kills Daydream, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,166: Apple defends Tencent connection, Zuckerberg’s right-wing meetups, PC market grows (sorta), what’s next for Fortnite, Sully on MCAS, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,165: Apple’s China browsing problem, Turkey blocks social media, fracking means methane, blocking tech tax dodges, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,164: Apple and Google draw fire over Hong Kong, Facebook finds gambling kids, movie poster cliches, Dyson dumps electric car, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,163: China v Hong Kong v the tech world, watch Tokyo’s trains, Apple delays iCloud file sharing, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,162: US and China row over censorship, the bubbly Galaxy Fold, Bitfinex sued for a trillion, Cormac McCarthy’s science papers, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,161: New Yorker machine writing, predicting the hits, Apple ups iPhone production?, deepfake detail, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,160: the poker ‘cheating’ fight, TikTok bans political ads, cryptocurrency mining’s real cost, Paypal exits Libra, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,159: the online review problem, Apple kills Hong Kong police app, the fake Tory fusion dream, DNS over HTTPS = bad, and more
  21. Start Up No.1,158: Pew Research on social media and news, Reddit moderates harder, Libra backers stepping back?, the location builders, and more
  22. Start Up No.1,157: Huawei Mate 30 workaround blocked, games competition intensifies, Ladybirding Trump, and more
  23. Start Up No.1,156: Simjacker debunked, Medium’s content problem, Mozilla and DoH, WeWork still in trouble, and more

September 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,155: Google faces DNS-on-https queries, the FCC’s false neutrality claims, iOS 13’s hidden features, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,154: AI medical diagnosis as good as human, Amazon’s new IoT protocol, 5G’s heat problem, WeWork aims to sell three businesses, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,153: TikTok’s moderation revealed, Apple still seeks thinner keyboards, Amazon’s new kit, WeWork’s counterfeit capitalism, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,152: the trouble with SDKs, Facebook’s politics pass, WeWork’s CEO’s out, Fitbit for sale?, Trump mumble mumble, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,151: TikTok’s meme vision, Huawei’s unfinished dev tool, YouTube creators hit by hackers, looking at Imagenet in detail, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,150: Facebook zaps more data-sucking apps, bitcoin for.. aliens?, Google claims quantum leap, WeWork’s CEO under pressure, Apple Arcade gets replay, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,149: Apple’s AR patent surfaces, Huawei’s unsellable Mate 30, China’s Twitter troll scheme, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,148: Imagenet Roulette goes Milkshake Duck, WeWork’s mad king, California v Trump on car quality, the Amazon’s criminal deforestation, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,147: new iPhones in review, an elevator to the Moon!, WeWork delays IPO, the Britons still off the internet, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,146: Google Assistant workers gripe, get fit for.. chess?, HP’s chatty printers, Microsoft doing foldables?, dogs at work, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,145: Vestager embeds, Apple’s neat UWB move, moving 3D from a flat image, your period is on Facebook, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,144: electric scooters are coming!, France v Libra, could Apple kill WearOS?, Facebook and Google on news, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,143: Reddit draws its awful self, are iPads Surfaces now?, the no-deal Brexit paper, scientists cool on Franzen, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,142: Apple event roundup, chameleon inks, the coming US college collapse, Uber cuts jobs, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,141: Facebook’s scammy fact-checker, Apple’s App Store bias, 11 myths about USB-C, the NOAA debacle deepens, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,140: US states go after Google and Facebook, MIT Media Lab disgraced, Apple v Google on Uyghurs, Twitter’s algorithm boon, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,139: how bots can change votes, the drone bust, pricing the Galaxy Fold, Sonos gets mobile, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,138: California’s nuclear option, how Hong Kong protesters organise, deal with Google Calendar spam, Android 10 reviewed, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,137: Huawei’s missed fish, the AI fraudsters, iPhone hacks get cheaper, Samsung plans another foldable, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,136: deepfake app goes viral, listen to a rock arch, delete your account (easily), enter your phone number (hardly), and more
  21. Start Up No.1,135: new details on Apple’s Tile, China’s iPhone attack also hit Android and Windows, the human-driven robots, and more

August 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,134: political ads go for Facebook kids, your lousy passwords, What3Words for good or bad?, Huawei delays foldable (again), and more
  2. Start Up No.1,133: WeWork’s dodgy loans, why NULL is a bad number, Google looks for plagiarism, the trouble with log graphs, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,132: Facebook listened to you too, the trouble with retweets (by its maker), trouble inside Google, an Ebola cure, Snap re-spectacles, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,131: how YouTube corrupted Brazil’s politics, Tumblr sold!, ransomware for cameras, why not become a cartoon?, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,130: the trouble with email, FTC slams Unroll.me, Skype translators may hear your calls, YouTube’s CEO speaks, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,129: hacking GDPR, US voting systems left online, Google boosts maps, Note10 under the spotlight, moderating Hacker News, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,128: Instagram discovers data scrapers, Apple testing for dementia, MoviePass’s wild schemes, loot box data to be opened, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,127: Microsoft finds Russia in printers, Apple stops Facebook listening, Yahoo helps with email, iPhone 11 release date released?, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,126: Europe heated by climate crisis, the games company that wasn’t, VR market shrinks, Huawei readies its OS, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,125: Chrome’s unused extensions, Alexa, Google and Siri stop human listeners, scooters v the climate, can the internet change abortion?, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,124: Facebook and Aussie fake news, the motion smoothing problem (redux), America’s phone farmers, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,123: Greenland’s dangerous melt, wanting a WhatsApp black door, Chrome breaks the paywalls, Samsung stays big, and more

July 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,122: Apple’s Wearables zoom, YouTube’s Indian growth, questions for Capital One, Galaxy Fold’s bad timing, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,121: Hong Kong’s facial fights, Huawei and Google’s smart speaker plans, Russia’s radiation leak, would Netflix add ads?, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,120: Norway’s electric plane plan, Weird Al and the spyware, IRS writes to bitcoiners, Tumblr’s demise, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,119: YouTube’s climate problem, monitors for all!, Tim Cook’s successor, the Airbus rollover problem, Brexit wargames, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,118: Facebook gets around the FTC, how Russia split search, Plex and the pirates, NYT goes for.. blockchain?, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,117: Facebook’s fake growth, US DOJ get antitrust-y, browser can load web pages!, the games disruption, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,116: how Google crushed a celeb site, carbon costing air travel, waiting for smart thermostats to warm up, Korea gets hot about 5G tests, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,115: FT’s lost pages, less dark matter, FaceApp and privacy, the iPad future?, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,114: 5G can’t stand the heat, your spying browser (extensions), Libra backpedalling begins, the plan to mine science, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,113: Bezos’s space plan, EU goes after Amazon, Apple’s anti-theft team, FaceApp’s privacy problem, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,112: the UK’s diptel problem, how many USB-C cables?, TurboTax screws the poor for more, Apple seeks exclusive podcasts, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,111: will Europe ban data export to US?, Germany’s privacy watchdog nixes Office 365, Twitter dithers on Trump, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,110: Facebook gets off lightly, solar cheaper as coal goes bankrupt, TikTok is coming!, Jony Ive and his designs, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,109: AI poker bot beats pros at no-limit, how to make money podcasting, Apple crunches Zoom, people eavesdrop on Google Assistant too, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,108: Instagram’s influencers’ waning numbers, AT+T blocks robocalls, China’s coal blights solar, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,107: Zoom’s bad video plan, Marriott cops GDPR fine, Hollywood v Netflix, will Google’s Pixel survive?, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,106: the apps exploiting children, social ads for good, YouTube’s febrile phase, what climate scientists do (and don’t) do, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,105: Alaska overheats, machines search for new theories, Google ticked off in NZ, ransomware’s new targets, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,104: Superhuman rows back, Samsung in hot (salt) water, Apple running with scissors?, India’s water problem, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,103: why San Francisco’s techies hate it, will Boeing need bailing out?, voice’s slow takeoff, iOS13 fixes your gaze, and more
  21. Start Up No.1,102: Europe’s heatwave is climate-driven, will Loon balloon?, 4shared shares too much, Facebook and YouTube battle cancer junk, and more
  22. Start Up No.1,101: Evernote’s long goodbye, climate change 30 years on, the racists in the CBP, Cue and Ive and Apple, and more
  23. Start Up No.1,100: the Huawei un-ban puzzle, 5G’s infrastructure problem, how Uber worsens congestion and pollution, ‘kayfabe’ and Trump, and more

June 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,099: polls and trolls, China’s electric bus dominance, the growing price of cutting the cord, $30 per month for email?, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,098: life and data on 5G, classical streaming’s woes, EU v AI, Apple hires ARM chief, Libra’s risky potential, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,097: Apple’s self-driving (again), RIP chatbot news, sizing Hong Kong’s protests, Facebook and Libra, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,096: Raspberry Pi gets more vroom, Apple downplays Spotify numbers, the trouble with cement, how Wikipedia beats fake news, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,095: US’s cyberattack on Iran, big expectations for 16in MacBook Pro, stopping Libra, the trouble with fertiliser, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,094: Facebook’s moderators under stress, UK porn verification delayed, US cities in ransomware attacks, premium smartphone market slumps, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,093: YouTube thinks of the kids, more deepfakery, the antivax funders, GDPR by the numbers, views on Libra, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,092: Facebook launches Libra, driving v self-driving cars, how we changed dogs, Mazda dumps touchscreens, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,091: Google pushes RCS, China’s organ scandal, social media v drugs trials, YouTube v its Kids app, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,090: YouTube’s sweary kid side, US ready to hack Russia’s grid, Gmail’s calendar flaw, the cost of (no) GPS, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,089: the spies created by AI, the farm emissions problem, Sudan cuts its internet, iPadOS in view, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,088: deepfaked Zuckerberg, US warns on antitrust, Huawei kills laptop launch, the problem with privacy policies, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,087: YouTube CEO kinda-sorta apologises, Dropbox evolves a bit, Have I Been Sold?, Ebola keeps growing, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,086: the trouble with monopsony, YouTube has Russia in a spin, a G20 concordat on digital tax?, deepfakes get worryingly easier, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,085: Huawei on the edge, the fake Iranian who the US admin leant on, Apple’s desirable sign-in system, Uber and bust?, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,084: working with Walmart’s robots, Microsoft facial recognition wipe, a trillion for a green economy?, Google Stadia not a crowdpleaser, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,083: YouTube dithers and then decides, Apple’s healthy Watch, the GDPR ambulance chasers?, surveillance by Ring, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,082: Climate emergency to global strife, ethics for facial recognition, more on Apple keyboards, even more of iOS 13, the trouble with Mars, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,081: YouTube’s paedophile tendency, Laffer is back (we regret), Facebook v antitrust, WWDC in brief, Huawei accused, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,080: Qualcomm’s 20-year industry shakedown, Google facing DOJ antitrust?, iPhone’s chatty apps, China’s tech blacklist, and more

May 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,079: DeepMind wins again, the scanner company at bars, meet your data self, Huawei’s life on subsidies, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,078: GDPR one year on, Chernobyl by bike, is your Uber ranking high enough?, Google blocks adblockers, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,077: leaky data apps on iOS, Google settles cold fusion question, how to secure politicians, the concerns over Chrome, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,076: Facebook’s shredded ethics, Federighi bites on privacy, Asus’s dual-screen wonder, the AR killer app?, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,075: Huawei accused over the years, Facebook’s video doubletalk, the need for clouds, how Prime began, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,074: moderating YouTube (it’s hard), Twitter’s ad overload, Mona Lisa talks, Amazon get emotional, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,073: Huawei’s problems deepen, Australia’s role in 5G concerns, fingerprinting iPhones, Qualcomm loses on antitrust, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,072: Huawei planning Android alternative, US EPA’s memory hole solution, Facebook and Google’s media money influence, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,071: more Huawei fallout, Telegram says WhatsApp can’t be secured, Google Glass lives!, do you want to know your future?, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,070: Google cuts off Huawei, Britain’s climate crisis refugees, Facebook shuts another fake news op, what if women made the laws?, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,069: former MI6 chief warns on Huawei, the energy revolution challenge, the simple ransomware solution, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,068: Trump bans Huawei (in effect), how to change the world peacefully, Salon for sale, can Twitter solve discourse?, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,067: AT+T’s jobs fib, Google adds more ads, hacking Tinder, the WhatsApp attack, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,066: Uber stutters, bad playlist antics, Apple loses Supreme Court case, the social robot failures, Foxconned in Wisconsin?, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,065: Ever had your photo misused?, Illinois faces the truth, Clegg’s Facebook switch, “Netflix and till”, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,064: time to break up Facebook?, self-driving cars delayed, China’s coal bonanza, Disney writes off Vice, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,063: are App Stores over?, Google’s 15m music subs, the rise of apps built on fear, peak copper?, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,062: Alexa’s eavesdropping problem, Google’s new Pixel (and sayonara Daydream VR), Fold on hold, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,061: the right to drive?, HDDs begin to fade, Facebook’s crypto plan, this subscription life, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,060: how online extremists exhaust researchers, the battery buyer’s problem, seeing Maoris anew, Pixel 3 woes, and more
  21. Start Up No.1,059: Facebook bans right-wing extremists, esports takes training!, questions over Apple’s kids app ban, and more
  22. Start Up No.1,058: Silicon Valley’s new money worries, Apple’s big Watch, the trouble with Slack, the unprivate lock, and more
  23. Start Up No.1,057: WeWork’s mad S-1, Apple’s mixed results, carbon-capturing technology, Pixel 3 fluffs it, and more

April 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,056: the marijuana conviction cleanup, Wikipedia’s Brexit war, Apple defends app zap, will 5G mess up weather forecasts?, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,055: the 5G threat, a new Chinese IoT vulnerability, fining Facebook, the climate change number, Google bans Baidu spinoff’s apps, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,054: the Tesla hunters, expiring app permissions on Facebook, Kodi boxes are malware traps, are YouTube kids exploited?, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,053: Facebook faces $3bn fine, AirPods 3 on the way?, laundry robot folds without folding, the Fold’s fatal flaw, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,052: blockchain hacks by the numbers, Fortnite’s big crunch, smart speakers ahoy!, Intuit’s free tax filing tricks, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,051: India’s fake news deluge, China’s hacking onslaught, who owns Huawei?, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,050: Sri Lanka shuts social nets, where are the smart guns?, Samsung’s Fold reviewed (and delayed), and more
  8. Start Up No.1,049: Facebook in more hot water, a deep dive on passwords, Google’s ‘browser choice’ in Europe, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,048: the cancer test 23andme misses, the 48-year iPad lockout, Galaxy Fold has problems, YouTube’s troubled queen, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,047: Facebook’s new news problem, the software fix for Apple’s keyboard, Sony’s next PlayStation detailed, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,046: where now for Wikileaks?, UK’s carbon miss, Microsoft admits mail hack, hands on the Galaxy Fold, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,045: San Fran likes scooters, China’s AI abuse, who’s buying Google’s Pixel 3?, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,044: why the US is charging Assange, iTunes to split?, EU v Internet Archive, Netflix’s DVD customers, PC market shrinks further, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,043: Facebook’s AI death smarts, Amazon staff push for green scheme, how Russia trolls on vaccines, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,042: Walmart gets robotic, Google’s kids app problem, China bans bitcoin miners, Brexit causes medicine shortages, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,041: the real US tax rate (it’s high!), when Google sees itself, the Mar-a-Lago incursion, dogs can smell epilepsy, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,040: Netflix crashlands AirPlay, is Facebook the new Microsoft?, Google’s AI ethics board disbands, how to make remote working work, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,039: Facebook’s biased algorithm, Apple cuts HomePod price, US forces out Chinese investors, Trump whistleblowers abound, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,038: the lost internet, editing amid outrage, Facebook redux, the end of the desktop?, Mac keyboards (again), and more
  20. Start Up No.1,037: handset makers’ hard choices, China’s India app insurgency, solving the videogame meltdown, Ebola v fake news, and more
  21. Start Up No.1,036: the dinosaur proof, the birth control app, Google employees’ AI panel backlash, Apple News plus or minus?, and more
  22. Start Up No.1,035: YouTube on radicalisation, is Trump a golf cheat?, AirPower crash-lands, Sandy Hook hoaxers, and more

March 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,034: the genes that null pain, EU bans single-use plastics, Huawei’s longrunning security failures, filter bubble or decision bubble?, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,033: what pilots can tell drivers, what’s Medium for?, Sony hits 4.2m VR headsets, Apple’s kyboad poblm psists, buses v oil, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,032: Qualcomm dings Apple, Brexit grinds on, can Nasa see women?, Article 13 passes, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,031: Apple sort-of launches video, Asus PCs hacked via updates, ONS on automation risks, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,030: the content on Apple’s TV service, AirPods ahoy!, Brexit in perspective, bitcoin’s fake trading, big oil’s Facebook lobbying, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,029: Kushner’s WhatsApp use queried, Boeing charged for safety update, 8channer regrets, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,028: a US DNA database by stealth?, Uber’s Aussie spyware, AI to draw for you, Nunes v cow, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,027: AI’s influence on science, how b*tcoin screwed the new Nazis, Google aims for gamers, Vestager on the data companies, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,026: Apple’s Pencil puzzle, your teeth v your jaw, US recycling sputters, HTC’s high VR hopes, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,025: Beto’s Dead Cow membership, Apple responds to Spotify, Facebook’s angry algorithm tweak, how the backstop deal broke, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,024: Spotify ‘warns’ of price rises, Brexit beyond belief, quantum time truths, pricing Apple Video, VR feels the chill, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,023: Spotify says Apple’s bad, the Tube’s missing Wi-Fi, FourSquare: still here, Cobol lives on, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,022: Huawei’s asymmetric PR push, watching the porn blockers, Vizio targets your smart TV, the facial files, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,021: Captain Marvel crushes the trolls, is social media radicalising MPs?, Samsung’s face woes, smart speakers are in!, and more
  15. Start Up No.1,020: breaking up Facebook?, the spectacles ripoff, the Brexit ad mystery, Iranian hackers hit Citrix, the AI hype, and more
  16. Start Up No.1,019: Facebook’s privacy tweak, octopi are even more weird, BBC v Netflix, US government tracks journalists, and more
  17. Start Up No.1,018: smartphone woes continue, the foldable phone wait, Meizu falls (way) short, when is AI conscious?, and more
  18. Start Up No.1,017: Spotify’s Indian foothold, Twitter beats Facebook on news, battery prices fall, RAM prices slump, the Instagram clones, and more
  19. Start Up No.1,016: Lenovo v Huawei, not so superstar economics, Facebook dinged on phone numbers, USB..4?, the strangest common password, and more
  20. Start Up No.1,015: AI judges benefit fraud, Excel gets snappy, UCal dumps Elsevier, how Facebook lobbied against privacy, and more
  21. Start Up No.1,014: the Momo urban legend, how scooters die, plastic plumbs the depths, Bollywood’s silver lining in a mushroom cloud, and more

February 2019

  1. Start Up No.1,013: FTC fines Musical.ly/TikTok, Coinhive buzzes off, did China fund the Crispr babies?, taxing robots, and more
  2. Start Up No.1,012: US disrupted Russia’s trolls, data != oil, Saudis v Bezos, weedkiling wine, and more
  3. Start Up No.1,011: Facebook’s moderation horror, inside Theranos’s dying days, hands on Huawei’s foldable, and more
  4. Start Up No.1,010: Apple’s ARM Macs timetable? Huawei folds in, a world not built for women, scooter glitches, and more
  5. Start Up No.1,009: how Kodak discovered atomic tests, when kids search for themselves, who’ll splash out on phones?, AT&T dumps YouTube in paedo row, and more
  6. Start Up No.1,008: YouTube’s paedophile problem, Nest’s secret mic, picking real people, Samsung folds, and more
  7. Start Up No.1,007: should OpenAI release GPT2?, a new ‘Oumuamua theory, where flat earthers come from, and more
  8. Start Up No.1,006: Apple preps odd-sized laptops and iPads, MPs slam Facebook, Amazon aims low on carbon, AI music!, LG holds its fold, and more
  9. Start Up No.1,005: Google backtracks on Chrome adblock block, make your own cloud, Apple hires to up IoT game, how AI is messing up science, and more
  10. Start Up No.1,004: AI gets closer and creepier, Facebook’s watch list, Amazon won’t make it in New York, what the FBI director saw, and more
  11. Start Up No.1,003: Apple plans video launch event, tracking the sanction-breakers, AI loses the debating game, whitespace killed the company app, and more
  12. Start Up No.1,002: the DNA test explosion, your smart light is chatting, more Apple Enterprise Cert problems, how to count to 1,000, and more
  13. Start Up No.1,001: Mars One hits zero, automate Google Docs!, Saudi patriarchy app under fire, boo to blitzscaling, and more
  14. Start Up No.1,000: Insect armageddon, the Facebook factchecking fallacy, Apple bans the screen recorders, the (non-)War of the Worlds, and more
  15. Start Up No.999: Facebook’s German data hiccup, ads and robot anxiety, Twitter’s user truth, webcam insecurity, and more
  16. Start Up No.998: bad news on global warming, why Spotify wants podcasts, EU roaming charges loom, hacking your airline ticket, and more
  17. Start Up No.997: the workforce split, MPs’ Twitter mistake, Apple’s tax payback, Fortnite’s big show, and more
  18. Start Up No.996: Zuckerberg’s big hopes, a new Huawei sting, VPN truths, a five-year bet on Bitcoin, the Captcha puzzle, and more
  19. Start Up No.995: putting malware into DNA, Google’s marks go down, Buzzfeed’s unpaid quiz queen, the Quadriga mystery, and more
  20. Start Up No.994: Apple yanks Google’s iPhone enterprise certificate, bank accounts emptied by text hackers, Foxconn cuts plans in China, sayonara Ultraviolet, and more

January 2019

  1. Start Up No.993: Apple dings Facebook’s VPN, 3D iPhone cameras?, AlphaStar attacked, evaluating Alexa, life without Google, and more
  2. Start Up No.992: the iPhone motor slows, why kids are online, choosing the right astronaut, laser whispering, and more
  3. Start Up No.991: US charges Huawei, Pentagon v deepfakes, Iranian cryptocurrency?, IBM goes quantum, and more
  4. Start Up No.990: the coming Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp integration, Japan’s here to hack!, living on bitcoin, and more
  5. Start Up No.989: surviving conspiracy theorists, supply chain hacking, Apple’s Titan-ic layoffs, ransomware v bitcoin, and more
  6. Start Up No.988: the rise of ‘selfie dysmorphia’, Daily Mail grumps at browser, the camera that sees round corners, is Wear OS doomed?, and more
  7. Start Up No.987: WhatsApp tamps virality, could porn fund Trump’s wall? (no), hacking Nest cams, India’s Google alternative, and more
  8. Start Up No.986: Kurzweil on AI (yes), what 5G will and won’t do, that big old password breach, Google’s GDPR fine, Corbyn’s failure, and more
  9. Start Up No.985: Dorsey’s dithering, testing twin DNA, VR tests courtroom prejudice, is hi-fi streaming necessary?, and more
  10. Start Up No.984: Facebook’s eager Portal reviewers, Britain’s upper-class twits, how to give up your phone, Google gets Fossil tech, and more
  11. Start Up No.983: North Korea hacks Chilean ATMs, Facebook’s face meme, US chases Huawei again, keep that sunscreen!, and more
  12. Start Up No.982: the insect dieoff, Brave’s browser gamble, GMO v Dunning-Kruger, the CES lowdown, Wikipedia is 18!, and more
  13. Start Up No.981: hot v cool v Trump v AOC, AI v Alzheimer’s, the oven that knows what it’s cooking, Firefox kills Flash, and more
  14. Start Up No.980: the vitamin D myth, how smart TVs pay, Brexit’s paranoid fantasy, where Apple stumbled, and more

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December 2018

  1. Start Up No.979: Alexa reveals too much, Fortnite’s hackers cash in, K-Cup inventor regrets, and more
  2. Start Up No.978: Facebook in hot water again, China arrests another Canadian, Amazon’s Marketplace scams, Apple’s India problem, and more
  3. Start Up No.977: Babylon GP app questioned, Twitter goes chronological (again), Instagram’s fake influencers, election data wars, and more
  4. Start Up No.976: self-driving recklessness, Britain’s dark news web, the Russian troll project, Google’s China project over?, and more
  5. Start Up No.975: why YouTube can’t kill its video star, Apple tries to evade Qualcomm, Facebook’s French role, a better Bluetooth?, and more
  6. Start Up No.974: the trouble with baby ads, Apple kills artist music pages, Russia’s too-human robot, France checks les facts, et plus
  7. Start Up No.973: making effects special again, Verizon’s big writedown, Apple getting medical?, China’s listening cars, and more
  8. Start Up No.972: a new superconductivity high?, Equifax lashed, SuperMicro says nope, what’s a headphone jack worth?, Dell’s return, and more
  9. Start Up No.971: more location tracking, Google+ shutting down early, scooters slow down, the crypto cruise crash, and more
  10. Start Up No.970: the mystery of Sandberg, Huawei’s 2013 tell, the bias around AI, the paralyzed robot waiters, and more
  11. Start Up No.969: Microsoft officially goes with Chromium, Apple v inflation, Google kills another messaging app, Ericsson screws up, and more
  12. Start Up No.968: Facebook’s emails released, can Uber make a profit?, Tom Cruise v motion smoothing, BT v Huawei, and more
  13. Start Up No.967: Microsoft dumping Edge, Bose’s audio.. sunglasses?, Python for bras, how was Quora hacked?, and more
  14. Start Up No.966: the UK’s retail space crash, Alexa: play Apple Music, Facebook’s role in French riots, and more
  15. Start Up No.965: Zuckerberg on outrage, iPads v MacBook Pros, CRISPR v Alzheimers, the White House tech beat, and more

November 2018

  1. Start Up No.964: Indian virus scam arrests, loot boxes investigated, Microsoft v Apple, Mic drops, and more
  2. Start Up No.963: the headphones vulnerable to hacking, Amazon gets chippy, tracking a novel’s progress, AutoCAD malware?!, and more
  3. Start Up No.962: Google staff get restive, how will each MP vote?, bitcoin’s mining exodus, Android tablet pro, and more
  4. Start Up No.961: China goes CRISPR?, wearables for good and bad, Brexit and the Prisoners’ Dilemma, another Android app fraud, and more
  5. Start Up No.960: Facebook at bay, algorithms screw up, legally what is a bitcoin?, Pixel 3 camera trouble, and more
  6. Start Up No.959: US v Huawei, ranking Gmail’s answers, Wikitribune in view, the art of The Incredibles 2, Square Enix dumps loot boxes in Belgium, and more
  7. Start Up No.958: Amazon hacked?, how bots spread lies, another bitcoin casualty, hello Mars!, and more
  8. Start Up No.957: Facebook’s dark PR pitches, lots of bitcoin, Google to stop News?, Snap spectacles 2, and more
  9. Start Up No.956: the smartphone crunch begins, Apple cutting orders?, kill that dropdown menu!, flat earth dunces, and more
  10. Start Up No.955: all Amazon all the time!, busting tech’s mythology, SEC rolls ICOs, knitting in code, and more
  11. Start Up No.954: the cyborg cockup, Google steps away from robots, quitting Instagram, hacking kids’ smartwatches, and more
  12. Start Up No.953: Facebook’s internal fight, Tesla dinged on Autopilot, faking fingerprints, Deepmind Health into Google, and more
  13. Start Up No.952: jigsaw melding, Russia jamming GPS?, the faked heavy metal fans, YouTube v Article 13, and more
  14. Start Up No.951: Xiaomi under fire, Apple shares drop, Wear OS’s missing link, the smart speaker revolution, and more
  15. Start Up No.950: Pakistan’s banks hacked?, smartphones in Africa v China, the human bot problem, unzip for iPhone!, and more
  16. Start Up No.949: AI finds missing voters, US cordcutters keep cutting, Creative Commons photos safe, White House goes deepfake, and more
  17. How to find out if you’re paying an App Store subscription without realising it – and what Apple needs to do
  18. Start Up No.948: the deep fakes problem, Wisconsin dumps Foxconn fave, folding screens ahoy!, Bristol’s spying phoneboxes, and more
  19. Start Up No.947: InfoWars sneaks back onto Facebook, don’t blockchain the vote, the end of mobile apps?, why passwords survive, and more
  20. The iPad Pro: when software delays meet ‘real work’ reviewers
  21. Start Up No.946: the iPad debate goes on, Iran say Israel cyberattack failed, Kenya v Big Tech, Foxconn v Wisconsin, and more
  22. Start Up No.945: how Google (accidentally) unravelled a CIA network, the impossible laptop, smartphones’ dwindling battery life, USB-C iPhones?, and more
  23. Start Up No.944: smartphones post-boom, Apple slows down, Facebook saturates, Google staff walk out, VR’s too pricey, and more
  24. Apple’s results: 14 new graphs tell the financial story
  25. Start Up No.943: the first bendy phone (from an unknown), Snapchat sues ‘influencer’, iPad Pro v the old world, the ad fraud silence, and more

October 2018

  1. Start Up No.942: Spotify v labels, Apple’s messed-up Mac line, Google’s harassment hassle, Arizona’s solar swizz, and more
  2. Start Up No.941: why beacons died, tech giants face new UK tax, how Night Sight works, XR portraits for everything!, comments go sour (again), and more
  3. Start Up No.940: Pixel 3 v iPhone XS camera, how to make solar win, is China hijacking net traffic?, Gab faces mute, and more
  4. Ahead of Apple’s earnings and new kit: 14 graphs to think about
  5. Start Up No.939: how Google protected Rubin, AI art makes big bucks, British Airways hacked again, crypto ‘journalism’ for sale, and more
  6. Start Up No.938: Cook calls for US data privacy, Sidewalk adviser quits, will 5G change filmmaking?, millennials v tablets, and more
  7. Start Up No.937: Google v the ad fraudsters, Wikitribune fires its journos, Apple’s TV service coming, Oculus’s closing spiral, and more
  8. Start Up No.936: Brexit reality, Facebook’s falling influence, Intel ends 10nm?, Amazon fake review factories, and more
  9. Start Up No.935: whither Windows?, the App Store subscription scam, China’s Android schemes, the class news problem, and more
  10. Start Up No.934: Facebook blames spammers for hack, how Saudi Arabia hacks dissidents, Brazil’s WhatsApp problem, iPad alert!, and more
  11. Start Up No.933: Twitter’s Russian data, Facebook’s video flaw, Essential thins out, NPC explained, and more
  12. Start Up No.932: Uber v Google, Dragonfly confirmed, machine learning’s killer app?, Turkey nudges Saudis, and more
  13. Start Up No.931: Facebook and Myanmar, inside Google+, the voice resistance, Palm reborn!, Reddit’s product manager regrets, and more
  14. Start Up No.930: Saudi Arabia under investigation, Facebook says 14 million hacked, Watch faces for all, the rise of real citizen journalism, and more
  15. Start Up No.929: Facebook purges liars, Google ponders curation, PC market stays flat, Minecraft exits Apple TV, and more
  16. Start Up No.928: Apple’s TV content plans, the Apple Watch clue to a Saudi dissident, crypto on the ebb tide, Google PIxel 3 hands-on, and more
  17. Start Up No.927: doubts over Bloomberg, Google call screening, iPad Pros with Face ID?, the ongoing piracy problem, and more
  18. Start Up No.926: the climate change deadline, Facebook gets visual, the GRU’s hasty fumbling, archiving the internet, and more
  19. Start Up No.925: more on SuperMicro, Windows rollout halted, Apple’s non-killing kill switch, Wikipedia bans Breitbart, and more
  20. Start Up No.924: Google secures protesters, Microsoft ❤️ Android, Russia’s long troll game, Fitbit solves murder?, and more
  21. Start Up No.923: the robot autonomous farm, Tim Cook on data, the information terrorists, XS camera in depth, and more
  22. Start Up No.922: how Tesco Bank was hacked, Microsoft’s black Surface, Amazon’s rippling pay rise, Trump’s tax fiddles, and more
  23. Start Up No.921: commute with Google!, stream with Google!, the Instagram penthouse, AI imaginings, and more
  24. Start Up No.920: Berners-Lee’s new web plan, how America failed women, Facebook’s breach, US hits tech stasis, Office un-touched, and more

September 2018

  1. Start Up No.919: tech v democracy, Snapchat snapping?, solve your office Wi-Fi, iOS 12 + XS = fast ML, and more
  2. Start Up No.918: WhatsApp co-founder vents, FB Messenger chief vents back, the good-bad Apple News news, is Shazam an AR trojan horse?, and more
  3. Start Up No.917: Google searches for the future, Walmart goes blockchain-y, teens on Kavanaugh, AirPower lives?, Instagram’s real CEO, and more
  4. Start Up No.916: Apple completes Shazam, Sirius buys Pandora, Chrome row rumbles on, YouTube channel maker arrested, and more
  5. Start Up No.915: Labour’s Twitter nexus, Amazon’s driver catch, goodbye Chrome!, bowdlerising Apple?, watchOS 5 reviewed, and more
  6. Start Up No.914: “Alexa, microwave!”, the threat to Sonos, PC market to grow?, Huawei gets AirPoddy, get rich on bugs, and more
  7. Start Up No.913: the crypto wild west, the Circle’s catfish game, Magecart strikes again, Nest looks to health, Google’s new tablet?, and more
  8. Start Up No.912: the gamified date, Twitter goes chronological, AMP opens up, YouTube’s alternative paths, iPhone XS reviewed, and more
  9. Start Up No.911: Frasier!, the open tightness of Brexit-Trump, CSS to crash WebKit, videogame gambling gets squeezed, and more
  10. Start Up No.910: Twitter’s inequalities, Google’s China phone plan, Grindr’s over-local, Apple goes to the movies, and more
  11. Start Up No.909: making heavy weather, game apps under fire, the everlasting iPhone?, Outlining the problem, and more
  12. Start Up No.908: Watch that iPhone!, glasses for tea pickers, the Russian health tweeters, celeb mag secrets, Fortnite’s Android quest, and more
  13. Start Up No.908: Zuckerberg in profile, the crypto gap, how BA was hacked, why we use big phones, and more
  14. Start Up No.907: YouTubers’ burnout, local papers’ web curse, Mac and iOS apps caught data-siphoning, the real Goldfinger, and more
  15. Start Up No.906: “iPhone XC” and “XS Plus”?, Facebook’s fake problem, are we post-PC?, ride-hailing grows… traffic, and more
  16. Start Up No.905: Twitter bans Alex Jones (why not Trump?), America’s mass transit woes, design better web forms!, track Twitter hoaxes, and more
  17. Start Up No.904: blocking the monopolies, users shun Facebook, VR market swoons, what AI?, and more
  18. Start Up No.903: Amazon hits a trillion, ‘busybody’ journalism?, Twitter v Dorsey, seeing around corners, and more
  19. Start Up No.902: fear of a blank algorithm, Five Eyes v encryption, TSMC nabs alleged secrets thief, Google is 20!, and more
  20. Start Up No.901: Google hits tech scammers, Firefox to block trackers, do AI cameras work?, and more

August 2018

  1. Start Up No.900: iPhone and Watch images leak, what Trump told Kim, Magic Leap tried out, consumer genomics is coming for you, and more
  2. Start Up No.899: FTC prods backpack crowdfunder, WearOS redesigned, Miami’s freshwater problem, Amazon’s tennis trouble, and more
  3. Start Up No.898: estimating Apple’s wearables biz, Japan’s drone farmhands, the oldest blockchain, Facebook’s rating you, and more
  4. Start Up No.897: Oregon’s weed problem, the battle over Sidewalk, Magic Leap trashed, UN condemns Myanmar and Facebook, and more
  5. Start Up No.896: is Google hiding Maps reviews?, TripAdvisor’s power struggle, what’s a pro Mac mini?, the press release hackers, and more
  6. Start Up No.895: social media for good, how do you break up Facebook?, Xiaomi grows, Onavo’s no-go, cracking app stores, and more
  7. Start Up No.894: the DNA data crunch, cold fusion crypto?, Iran’s social media sneaks, AI v art, and more
  8. Start Up No.893: how Facebook incites hate, pricing knee surgery, the data Google collects, Fancy Bear gets busy, Tinder Hunger Games, and more
  9. Start Up No.892: China’s smart speaker fight, Huawei ad caught out, Julia or Python?, the Bitcoin post-boomers, and more
  10. Start Up No.891: when to expect an iPhone launch, monitoring sleep monitors, collapsing bridges, California’s data privacy, and more
  11. Start Up No.890: Snap’s slowing growth, Facebook’s Myanmar failure, ARM edging Intel?, Googlers’ Dragonfly protest, and more
  12. Start Up No.889: Dorsey on improving Twitter, Italy’s bridge problem, Penn Jilette on truth, 3D printing and gun laws, and more
  13. Start Up No.888: Apple aims for health chip, faking YouTube, the truth about fighting fake news, drones at work!, and more
  14. Start Up No.887: Google’s (still) tracking your Android phone, safeguarding self-driving cars, tech v kids, and more
  15. Start Up No.886: the power user curve, email’s 1% solution, Surface Go reviewed, GDPR persists, and more

July 2018

  1. Start Up No.885: the state-sponsored trolls, WhatsApp resists India, pricing the Galaxy Note 9, choosing avatars, and more
  2. Start Up No.884: the dumb smart bike lock, skinny bundling challenges, covering Musk, and more
  3. Start Up No.883: fertility app woes, Roku’s ad truth, four-day week yay!, hot MacBook Pros, ‘vomit fraud’, and more
  4. Start Up No.882: Huawei under UK scrutiny, experts on EC v Android, Facebook light on alt-right, Samsung’s folding phone?, and more
  5. Start Up No.881: Google faces Android penalty, trolls and feeding, peak oil (again?), truths about the DNC, and more
  6. Start Up No.880: MacBook Pro keys redux, why Flint’s water’s bad, Instapaper goes indie, overheated dogs, and more
  7. Start Up No.879: porn filters don’t work, America: failed state?, whoa there Mr Musk, why Surface Go?, and more
  8. Start Up No.878: why WikiTribune?, Huawei and the Africa hack, our confused streets, Hollywood’s con queen, and more
  9. Start Up No.877: the BBC v Facebook, the phone camera question, AirBnB’s mixed benefits, towards Zero Waste, and more
  10. Start Up No.876: Apple’s Taiwanese bug, YouTube v fake news?, Surface… Go?, HPs eternal computer, and more
  11. Start Up No.875: San Francisco’s caste system, another blabby fitness app, cropmarks ahoy!, Firefox v Google, and more
  12. Start Up No.874: Twitter slaughters the fakes, how cybercrime feeds ad fraud, Sonos’s S-1 examined, and more
  13. Start Up No.873: Dotcom nears extradition, Twitter’s non-uprising, the smart TVs watching you, Pruitt gone, and more
  14. Start Up No.872: WhatsApp pressed by India, is your phone listening?, Samsung S9 sales slow, the bitcoin mining flood, and more
  15. Start Up No.871: Berners-Lee steps up, how to launch badly, how to present well, the stork’s surprise and more
  16. Start Up No.870: who’s reading your Gmail?, Uganda tries to stop VPNs, Dell’s coming back, scooter madness!, and more
  17. Start Up No.869: California gets data bill, animated Excel!, the smartphone future, email ‘inventor’ resends, and more

June 2018

  1. Start Up No.868: Equifax manager charged, keyboard downfall, the cryptocoin graveyard, Google’s new mobile OS investment, and more
  2. Start Up No.867: Twitter aims at bots, Apple/Samsung settle!, unstoppable IPv4, peak screen?, and more
  3. Start Up: California’s privacy race, driving Amazon Flex, anthropomorphic keyboards, the $1bn digital heist, and more
  4. Start Up: ask a chatbot!, Alexa and manners, Brexit’s hedge fund profiteers, death of the phone, and more
  5. Start Up: is the smart home an abuser’s dream?, a simple malaria test, Micron v China, Proxima Centauri ahoy!, and more
  6. Start Up: your call is important to our AI, US Supremes approve internet tax, where’s Apple’s AirPower?, and more
  7. Start Up: the border row fallout, Fortnite’s first $100m, tau neutrino mystery, a blockchain for video?, and more
  8. #cyberwars: Harry Potter and the army of hackers (or why hackers are wizards, of a sort)
  9. Start Up: poisoning neural networks, the quiet smart home, will Article 13 pass?, Cook v Trump, and more
  10. Start Up: DeepMind’s 3D mapper, Cohen’s BlackBerry cracked, smartwatches ticking up, and more
  11. Start Up: Theranos founder charged, USB-C headphones?, Instagrammers v hotels, Manafort’s terrorist technique, and more
  12. Start Up: ARM MacBooks?, catching the hoax copier, Google Plus is milkshake ducked, Echo beats Fire, and more
  13. Start Up: Fortnite takes control, solar shines in US, Antarctica melts, hacking smart locks, and more
  14. Start Up: ZTE still in trouble, a router subscription?, Tesla’s naggier autopilot, and more
  15. Start Up: a new AI film!, Facebook ‘spying’ redux, the Android ‘app install’ scam, Quebec slows crypto mining, and more
  16. Start Up: Apple Watch getting touchy?, crypto heists top $1bn, the NYC taxi price crash, why ringtones bug you, how China’s bugging Trump, and more
  17. Start Up: iPhone X Plus sized up (via logs), Nasa rover finds Martian.. stuff, conference seating woes, and more
  18. Start Up: Facebook v China, foldable smartphones?, the too-smart cryptocontract, Android fine for Google?, and more
  19. Start Up: the WhatsApp split, Apple v Facebook and Google, Manafort’s dire opsec, and more
  20. Start Up: how Instagram works, a Trumpy troll unmasked, MasterMap mystery, India’s big solar bet, and more
  21. Start Up: Microsoft buying Github, Google’s dashed drone hopes, let’s trade war!, beating dark ads, and more
  22. Start Up: iMessage + iCloud = secure?, Facebook and the ageist job ads, Twitter gets GDPR-y, the antibiotic problem, and more

May 2018

  1. Start Up: explaining bitcoin’s price fall, an AI winter?, Meeker’s latest trends, ultrasonic attack!, and more
  2. Start Up: TSB thefts continue, selfish economists, AirPlay 2!, spot the drowning child, and more
  3. Start Up: California considers data privacy, nuclear’s fading light, Fortnite’s heady boost, Apple v Valve, and more
  4. Start Up: how Prime began, Lightning v lint, iPhone NFC expanding?, Peterson the ‘social order warrior’, and more
  5. Start Up: FBI zaps Russian botnet, don’t listen Alexa!, the quiet location scandal, a fresh dating site hell, and more
  6. Start Up: ZTE counts the cost, cutting the wrong red tape, the Apple news ecosystem, Uber drives out of Arizona, and more
  7. Start Up: US phone slump, make a faster MacBook, Trump’s phone (in)security, Yelp v Google (again), and more
  8. Start Up: OnePlus 6 reviewed, Google used on Safari (again), getting the internet inside, MoviePass’s fatal flaw, and more
  9. Start Up: smart luggage drops out, a Pixel Watch?, two Steve Jobs questions, Gates on Trump, and more
  10. Start Up: bitcoin v renewables, porn boost for UK newsagents?, Chinese phone OEM settles with FTC, and more
  11. Start Up: what Apple knows about you, Sonos’s patent play, Iran hackers get played, Trump’s second ZTE U-turn, and more
  12. Start Up: Facebook’s spam blast, White House zaps cyber czar, that meme explained, HTC’s blocky phone, and more
  13. Start Up: ticketing by face?, stop that PGP email, the man whose blood saved millions of babies, MFPs: the last word, and more
  14. Start Up: music’s “unacceptable behaviour”, Iran’s hackers are back, Skype’s update problem, and more
  15. Start Up: Facebook’s (extra) Russian ads, iOS 11.4’s Lightning stop, Klout gets clonked, and more
  16. Start Up: did Tidal inflate its numbers?, Europe’s smartphone shrinkage, the fake review economy, and more
  17. Start Up: Google I/O top lines, mobile gaming takes over, encrypted Twitter DMs?, iMac timing, and more
  18. Start Up: how Facebook helped form Isil, spotting old Flash memory, Xiaomi’s real business model, the GOP donor hack, and more
  19. Start Up: Instagram pets train AI, GDPR’s first success, COBOL forever?, • kills the Android app, and more
  20. Start Up: Xiaomi preps giant IPO, tablet market (but not iPad) withers, the CIA cop on the streets, and more
  21. Start Up: the internet of crypto things, smartphone slowdown, Fitbit wheezes, the AI gamblers, and more
  22. Start Up: dating Facebook, Apple’s X factor, UX mistakes, murderous malware, and more
  23. #cyberwars: why and how you get phished, and how not to get phished
  24. Start Up: hackers who hack back, Fitbit teams with Google, the Bezos memos, squirt guns for all!, and more

April 2018

  1. Start Up: North Korea’s hacking goes on, YouTube’s garbage fire, 8m Xs?, Google’s podcast plan, and more
  2. Start Up: Close (Tiny) Encounters, China’s slowing smartphones, WhatsApp’s age puzzle, and more
  3. Start Up: Huawei face Iran questions, Amnesty knocks Google, Ellen Pao speaks, the iCloud storage problem, and more
  4. Start Up: the recommendation engine risk, DNS crypto hack, smartwatches goose Verizon, and more
  5. Start Up: China’s selfie madness, better notifications, Russia blocks Telegram (and Google), Facebook’s later smart speaker, and more
  6. Start Up: Hunt blasts social media companies, EventBrite muscles in, Google gets Chat-ty, climate’s hockey stick 20 years on, and more
  7. Start Up: the ICO scam that wasn’t, millennial streamers, machine learning and chaos, Intel shutters smart glasses, and more
  8. Start Up: another scam ICO?, Amazon’s 100m Primes, Facebook gets chippy, PornHub deepfakes, and more
  9. The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see
  10. Start Up: eat that plastic!, Huawei backs out of US, more on Russia and Facebook, Nokia selling Withings, and more
  11. Start Up: Tesla’s factory pains, accessing Alexa, Google’s Maps spam trouble, and more
  12. Start Up: TurboTax’s dark patterns, fiduciary Facebook, Rome’s (real) collapse, Xiaomi and GoPro?, and more
  13. Start Up: Netflix’s personal art, the Facebook ad scammers, PC market still stagnant, the missing Android security, and more
  14. Start Up: Zuck’s part 2, adblocking politics, how YouTube creates human clickbait, China’s AR challenge, and more
  15. Start Up: Mr Zuckerberg goes to Washington, Theranos circles the drain, the bitcoin infection, and more
  16. Start Up: the Tory hacker, the fake Facebook BLMer, the ARM Mac puzzle, Pandora’s (quiz) Box, and more
  17. Start Up: a new Twitterpocalypse?, what Scott Pruitt hasn’t done, oh woe Windows Phone, Zuck’s 14-year apology your, and more
  18. Start Up: the Tesla Autopilot fault, 19 things about 2001, smartphones for cardiac diagnosis, and more
  19. Start Up: Facebook’s 87m mistake, the cost of correcting Google, 2001+50, the wrong Waze, and more
  20. Start Up: Apple hires Google’s AI chief, Trump campaign’s Facebook skillz, Grindr to stop sharing HIV data, and more
  21. Start Up: EPA vs the future, will Tesla go bust?, Russia’s bots like guns, sayonara Windows!, and more

March 2018

  1. Start Up (holiday bonus): Facebook redux, what the Uber car should have seen, the fake NHS pay rise, and more
  2. Start Up: YouTube will ban gun ads, reproducing machine learning, the bird catastrophe, and more
  3. Start Up: Facebook’s zucka culpa, Apple Watch gets hearty, alarming Theranos, Dropbox and avocado?, and more
  4. Start Up: Facebook’s problems deepen, the illegal blockchain?, WileyFox lives!, Apple’s FaceID lead, and more
  5. Start Up: Facebook’s woeful failures, unsentimental sentiment analysis, location-location-location?, and more
  6. Beware taking your Mac running High Sierra to the Genius Bar: APFS might surprise them
  7. Start Up: Cambridge Analytica in hot water, Alexa’s deep (AI) music, YouTube Kids joins the info wars, and more
  8. Start Up: the Spotify playlist black market, how Siri soured, who’ll wear WearOS?, Toys’R’Us bust, and more
  9. Start Up: upload that brain!, Apple Watch adoption, YouTube’s weird fact-checking plan, Google to stop crypto ads, and more
  10. Start Up: iPad FacePro at WWDC?, 3D printing Marines, Toys’R’Us in trouble, Fitbit tries again, and more
  11. Start Up: Trump blocks Broadcom, how AirBnB hit New York, S9 sells.. the same?, rogue satellites!, and more
  12. Start Up: goodbye Moto?, YouTube’s radicalising problem, Twitter stops the thieves, here come the miners!, and more
  13. Start Up: slow electric clocks solved!, will Apple buy Snap?, S9 reviewed, Trump v videogames, and more
  14. Start Up: every Oculus Rift bricked, the joy of (news)print news, the £37m Google ad fraudsters, why Maplin failed, and more
  15. Start Up: malicious guided vehicles, hacker blocks stalkers, space station incoming!, BB sues FB, and more
  16. Start Up: the in-app browser risk, gun culture and slippery slopes, bad notch!, a cheaper MacBook Air?, and more
  17. Start Up: here come the neo-luddites, advertisers flee Infowars, who’s meeting Trump on games?, and more

February 2018

  1. Is indisposed.
  2. Start Up: YouTube’s conspiracy-mongers, how Facebook ads helped Trump, Apple acquiesces to China on iCloud, and more
  3. Start Up: Goldilocks meets the iPhone, Google’s bad searches, awaiting AirPods 2, has pro-Trump media met its Vietnam?, and more
  4. Start Up: The bot army, Samsung’s OLED questions, how hackers will use AI, Spotify hardware?, and more
  5. Start Up: Twitter and Facebook at bay, the teens opposing the NRA, Samsung cutting OLED output?, and more
  6. Start Up: Huawei’s no-Mate, illegal deepfaking?, Facebook’s Group problem, Cape Town’s true water trouble, and more
  7. Life on an iPad
  8. Start Up: Facebook’s smart speakers (with screens?), Russia’s internet farm, China’s piece of the US, and more
  9. Start Up: the duo who took on Google, cracking Facebook, Dyon’s electric cars, Nokia to drop wearables?, and more
  10. Start Up: Twitch v TV, Google Chrome v (some) ads, iPhone Xx3?, HomePod crop circles, and more
  11. Start Up: Skype’s unfixed bug, retesting HomePod, Android cryptomining, Nokia’s back!, and more
  12. Start Up: hello robots, an audiophile on HomePod, the Big Switch decade, FBI v Cook, and more
  13. Start Up: cryptominer attack!, torturing paper, the iBoot leakers, what we say to machines, and more
  14. Start Up: deepfake cryptomining, jumping skyscrapers, India fines Google, and more
  15. Start Up: Nest rejoins Google, bye Spectacles!, Tumblr’s Russian trolls, and more
  16. Start Up: more tech support scams, who reads junk news?, HomePod reviewed, bitcoin’s miner margin, and more
  17. Start Up: Intel’s smart glasses, why Apple pulled Telegram, China squashes cryptocoins, tablets fizzle, and more
  18. Start Up: release the Twitter bot memo, Dell to re-IPO?, bitcoin in Kentucky and S Korea, and more
  19. Start Up: Google and Apple hit new highs, solar windows, will you talk to your printer?, Yo nears death, and more
  20. Start Up: Facebook’s antiviral, Brexit’s immigration woes, Lenovo’s coming writedown, and more

January 2018

  1. Start Up: Google goes to hospital, Strava reveals all (and too much), Windows XP makes ATM jackpot, and more
  2. Start Up: Facebook goes local, government realises Brexit will hurt, web giants seek antitrust salve, Trump’s 5G nixed, and more
  3. Start Up: the fake follower factory, OnePlus isn’t snitching, bitcoin follows you!, solving Travelling Salesmen, and more
  4. Start Up: YouTube woos kids advertisers (again), Soros warns Facebook and Google, HomePod why art thou?, Hawaiian filenames, and more
  5. Start Up: is Google overcompeting?, the fake celeb porn wave starts, Xiaomi downs Samsung in India, the $1m “space” fight, and more
  6. Start Up: iPhone X sales of 29m?, Trump turns US off solar, Torvalds’s spectral meltdown, HomePod ahoy, and more
  7. Start Up: Murdoch’s Facebook demand, the ICO hacks, who’s ot 2FA?, Google’s un-VPN, and more
  8. Start Up: the death of Civil Comments, Facebook trusts you!, Twitter’s Russian trouble, hacking the CIA, and more
  9. Start Up: after retail collapse, what?, a new iPhone killer text, the death of blogs, and more
  10. Start Up: palliative AI?, beyond bitcoin, why biometrics don’t stop secret police, Amazon gets alarming, and more
  11. Start Up: Facebook v the fakes, bitcoin hits the bumpers (and bounces), UWP’s enterprise problem, and more
  12. Start Up: boosting bitcoin, Nintendo shuffles off VR, LG delays G7?, how to stop US gun violence, and more
  13. Start Up: making China great again (by omission), Fancy Bear is back, crafting Apple’s emoji, and more
  14. Start Up: Roku’s ambition, Dropbox to IPO, can you hack Aadhaar?, Russia’s new Olympic sport, and more
  15. Start Up: coding to kill, CES goes dark, Apple sells mesh Wi-Fi, Huawei chief’s rant, and more
  16. Start Up: discovering Spectre and Meltdown, where are Wikileaks’s bitcoinillions?, self-mending screens, and more

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December 2017

  1. Finish Up: Facebook’s smarter factcheck, Keeper’s bug suit, smart speakers v wearables, and more
  2. Start Up: Magic Leap unveiled, North Korea’s bitcoin heist, Apple’s unified app plan, Google’s map moat, and more
  3. Start Up: climate sceptics predictions, smartphone slowdown?, Maria’s deadly toll, Google’s hardware hit, and more
  4. Start Up: when Google kills you, BT’s stealth city, Atlanta’s failure, AirPods away, not uncanny AI, and more
  5. Start Up: Facebook’s worried about you, Apple’s adblocking bites, Volvo’s self-driving detour, and more
  6. Start Up: how democracy ends, call an ambUberlance!, the porn ad spawn fraud, Amazon blinks, and more
  7. Start Up: paying for news, Chromebook cautions, Patreon reverses, dissing Pixel Buds, lost snow and more
  8. Start Up: monitoring Google, iMac Pro pro enough?, AI-faked celeb porn, email money machine, and more
  9. Start Up: Apple’s Shazam purpose, Spotify’s Muzak plan, re-buying Gawker?, exploding asteroids and more
  10. Start Up: China’s LinkedIn friends, notching Huawei?, gender pay improbability, bitcoin redux, and more
  11. Start Up: AlphaGo conquers chess, enter Amazon, Silicon Valley’s model problem, bitcoin’s future, and more
  12. Start Up: limiting chatbots, online media meltdown, Steam dumps bitcoin, Oracle v Google, and more
  13. Start Up: Russia’s fake Twitter news, Facebook for kids?, cracking iOS 11, Google v Amazon, and more
  14. Start Up: social media explained, Oreo reviewed, cheaper iPads?, make your own Brexit!, and more
  15. Start Up: Facebook failing fake news crackdown, concerns on Face ID apps, Thiel’s legacy, Google’s romances, and more
  16. Start Up: Google faces Safari suit, Proton’s search query, the guy who killed Trump’s tweets, and more

November 2017

  1. Start Up: Amazon’s smart camera, Apple fixes root bug, Buzzfeed cuts, PCs to fall further, and more
  2. Start Up: Uber’s secrets stealer, dumb smart homes, 3m lost bitcoins, impossible intelligence, and more
  3. Start Up: killer Pokemon Go, the anonymity of memes, Samsung’s ballsy battery, damn you CAPTCHA!, and more
  4. Start Up: the Android (and iOS?) trackers, faking neutrality, getting deregulation wrong, and more
  5. Start Up: Uber in hot water, sugar’s secret studies, net neutrality considered, vanishing bikers and more
  6. Start Up: Facebook’s Russian pointers, bitcoin’s electric ranking, stop Excel!, a new iPhone SE?, and more
  7. Start Up: Uber covered up hack, HomePod’s slow lane, Google’s location tracking, the new AI jobs, and more
  8. Start Up: spot that asteroid!, China’s foreign phone giant, earthquakes in 2018?, and more
  9. Start Up: what Facebook knows, no no Lenovo!, why clocks go clockwise, Amazon hacking!, and more
  10. Start Up: Berners-Lee fears web’s future, time for Watch sales?, Pixel Buds review, tracking your web typing, and more
  11. Start Up: ageing Android, charging iOS, US guns by numbers, the nearest “Earth”, bitcoin bumps in Zimbabwe, and more
  12. Start Up: the fabulist smearing Moore’s accusers, Google back on Firefox, FaceID faces its fears, and more
  13. Start Up: the Android view of iPhone X (and bigger?), Facebook’s fake profile business, is Huawei stiffing Qualcomm?, and more
  14. Start Up: Russia’s twitter troll, harassment figured, lives in virtual reality, Logitech relents, and more
  15. Start Up: Facebook the attention piranha, retail apocalypse ahoy!, Google says 250k logins stolen weekly, and more
  16. Start Up: FaceID iPad?, Facebook’s creepy tracking, Pandora boxed in, inside the DNC hack, and more
  17. Start Up: car doom nears, a week of iPhone X, Snap swoons, another Pixel 2 XL woe, and more
  18. Start Up: what your kids are watching, BroadQual?, Russia’s early Trumpbots, Apple delights, and more
  19. Start Up: animoji karaoke!, Twitter’s Russian errors, cheap VR, fake WhatsApps, and more
  20. Start Up: Lenovo’s PC problem, Bin Laden’s computer, Russian DNC hackers tracked, and more
  21. Start Up: how Google and Facebook took the web, Edge falls off, Note 8 freezes, and more
  22. Start Up: Google gets lobbying, Samsung rejigs, iPhone X reviewed, Congress quizzes Facebook, and more

October 2017

  1. Start Up: VR company dumps VR, Facebook’s Russian reach, bloating browsers, and more
  2. Start Up: the Spectacles flop, Google’s language failure, NAO on #wannacry, a Luther for today?, and more
  3. Start Up: Pichai interviewed, tracking Google’s ads, Amazon’s pensioner scheme, open data PDfs!, and more
  4. Start Up: how Hey Siri works, SolarCity boondoggle?, Puerto Rico’s bust grid, and more
  5. Start Up: WPA2 v paywalls, how Russia rocket the US, Apple’s Safari ad squeeze, and more
  6. Start Up: Wi-Fi and public key hacks explained, North Korea’s real power, iPhone X ships, and more
  7. Start Up: Google + Facebook + Twitter v chaos, US phone tracking, get sorted!, and more
  8. Start Up: Equifax screwed again, Magic Leap wants $1bn, costing US carbon, and more
  9. Start Up: phone and home surveillance, stop iCloud phishing, 2014’s lost Lumia, PCs slump, and more
  10. Start Up: Shazam for art, why the iPhone X notch?, Google’s TAC tax, the plastic-chewers, and more
  11. Start Up: smartphone profits, Google finds Russians!, polarise and conquer, and more
  12. Start Up: fears of a smartphone nation, AI phooey, Tillerson on the edge, Puerto Rico redux, and more
  13. Start Up: Continuum discontinued, Taboola abused, the fake Facebookers, and more
  14. Start Up: rise of the mining ads, Google does hardware, Facebook’s new Russia trouble, and more
  15. Start Up: Google gets launching, Facebook’s miserly video, Trumps’ private email server, and more
  16. Start Up: Google’s algorithm blame, Amber’s crpyto confusion, polarised politics, and more
  17. Start Up: Facebook’s fake defence, awaiting Amazon’s TV app, Google get Showy, and more

September 2017

  1. Start Up: Ballmer basketballer, Twitter Senate discomfort, the past’s future, wearables galore! and more
  2. Start Up: Amazon can’t Show YouTube, the Nadellas at home, downgrade to 280Twitter!, and more
  3. Start Up: mobile web shrinks, TfL v Uber explained, the bitcoin ads, and more
  4. Start Up: Facebook’s growing hassles, Siri dumps Bing, the three-way Watch, and more
  5. Start Up: fixing Facebook’s ad machine, the gender idiots, Apple Watch v Fitbit Ionic, and more
  6. Start Up: Facebook and Instagram in hot water, exploding moons, LTE Watch, and more
  7. Start Up: watch Apple’s Watch, another Equifax boob, Google buying (some) HTC, and more
  8. Start Up: the Bluetooth DDOS threat, Canada’s pricey phones, iPhone8 and WatchOS review, and more
  9. Start Up: inside the Equifax hack, CCleaner compromised, Google’s auction offer, and more
  10. Start Up: Facebook v Mueller (yes, that one), FaceID questions answered, Equifax’s musical security, and more
  11. The Apple Watch Series 3 ripoff: how carriers want to charge for zero data use
  12. Start Up: Facebook’s fake election rallies, Trump blocks Lattice buy, Equifax’s woeful security, and more
  13. Start Up: averaging MPs’ faces, Apple’s big OLED plans, what hunter-gatherers had, and more
  14. Start Up: Apple Pay on iPhone X, Russia’s fake Americans, Yelp accuses Google, and more
  15. Start Up: pricing iPhones, see humans evolve!, why credit systems are broken, Manc-y Oyster, and more
  16. Start Up: video game gamblers collared, ethics of machine learning, Wi-Fi tube maps, and more
  17. Start Up: the rehab scammers, ultrasonic hacking, India’s biometric nightmare, HTC breaks up?, and more
  18. Start Up: Facebook’s Russian fess-up, how IBM spun Watson, North Korea in perspective, and more
  19. Start Up: Tinder’s GINI number, the fake war photographer, Oreo reviewed, ARCore v ARKit, and more
  20. Start Up: Myanmar’s fake news problem, Paris Hilton coins it, it’s Facebook’s web!, iOS cropping, and more
  21. Start Up: the real fake news, the upgrade downturn, NYPD’s smart phones move, blinding cameras, and more
  22. Start Up: smartphone slowdown, Facebook’s million killer, Sony chases AirPods, Cortana BFFs Alexa, and more

August 2017

  1. Start Up: did Google squeeze think tank?, botnets attack, fake AI reviews, and more
  2. Start Up: Google jumps at AR, Apple’s iPhone time, NY’s Nokia error, will Fitbit’s watch fit?, and more
  3. Start Up: South Africa’s fake news, India blocks Wayback Machine, BlackBerry smartglasses?, Kalanick sued, and more
  4. Start Up: Facebook’s copy machine, Infowars supplements, live randomly!, Kochs help Techdirt, and more
  5. Start Up: iPhones assemble (all at once)!, tracking tablets, Trump’s fake follower, proper passwords, and more
  6. Start Up: more on the Google man-ifesto, ARKit ahoy, hacking slot machines, Mumbai’s lethal railways, and more
  7. Start Up: an LTE Apple Watch?, Pentagon bans DJI drones, Google sought Snapchat, reactions on Google, and more
  8. Start Up: Brit ‘Wannacry’ hero arrested in US, Google’s bad app crackdown, ransomware’s future, slower tablets, and more
  9. Start Up: what’s a TV antenna?, pop-up inventor apologises, China’s smartphone power, and more
  10. Start Up: the smart speaker bubble, iPads up!, hacking Alexa, more iPhone leaks, Facebook’s non-bots, and more
  11. Start Up: the AI conundrum, Motorola shuns Facebook, Russia bans VPNs, CRISPR on humans, and more

July 2017

  1. Start Up: Pandora’s Australian halt, Apple cuts VPN apps in China, Charlie Gard truths and fictions, and more
  2. Start Up: a Wi-Fi worm, Twitter flaps, Samsung’s struggle, North Korea v tech, open Flash?, and more
  3. Start Up: towards better passwords, Pixel sans jack?, TomTom’s wearable trouble, Ive’s round work at Apple, and more
  4. Start Up: Google’s growth struggle, ding dong Flash!, linkrot measured, FFVII unfinished, and more
  5. Start Up: Rock on Siri, save Snopes!, drone registration, the fake ad crackdown, bendy tablets!, and more
  6. Start Up: Clifford Stoll got it right, swiping in iOS 11, ARKit!, Microsoft v Fancy Bear, and more
  7. Start Up: Citymapper’s (K)Night Rider, Twitter’s abuse numbers, dark web goes darker, and more
  8. Start Up: Amazon’s music challenge, spotting photo fakes, Apple patents Siri dock, and more
  9. Start Up: improving the Echo, block that form!, a week in (then out) of Soundcloud, Google blocks untrusted apps, and more
  10. Start Up: did UAE hack Qatar?, Pakistan’s font trouble, HTC sorry over ads, visualise Brexit!, and more
  11. Start Up: iPhone bug bounties, peak oil fades, HTC’s keyboard ads, DJI’s hacking war, and more
  12. Start Up: hacking US votes, crypto-tulips, spool that thread!, signing gloves, and more
  13. Start Up: Vertu dies (but will live?), Android misconceptions, the lawbot cometh, Razer’s optimism, and more
  14. Start Up: death of the web startup?, how Google paid for academic coverage, Daily Mail sued, and more
  15. Start Up: Final Fantasy’s housing crunch, Twitter tightens up, Oculus cuts its price (again), and more
  16. Start Up: Russia hacks US power, the solar subsidy fight, wild Amazon bot!, what Google reveals, and more
  17. Start Up: Google facing Android fine?, Jawbone exits, Texas’s political portents, Twitter truths, and more
  18. Start Up: California’s solar loop, watch an AI flirt, Xiaomi’s dice roll, speak to speakers, and more
  19. Start Up: the troll habit, Deezer buying SoundCloud?, LeEco fizzling out, OLED for all!, and more
  20. Start Up: Facebook beats privacy, DeepMind’s wrist slapped, the satellite revolution, and more
  21. Start Up: Petya and survivor bias, the FireWire tragedy, the White House’s war on science, and more

June 2017

  1. Start Up: after Javascript, dying for YouTube, Benjamin Button’s Macbook, Google’s VR ads, and more
  2. Start Up: Facebook’s weird censorship, Google v Canada, Petya the wiper?, iPad Pro and con, and more
  3. Start Up: does anyone search with voice?, purple LEDs!, the violence of Facebook Live, and more
  4. Fining Google: a slow train coming
  5. Start Up: augmented reality gets rolling on iOS, password hacking, stop hyperthreading!, and more
  6. Start Up: Russia’s US election hacks, negotiating bots, hacking Windows 10S, GoFundMe fraud, and more
  7. Start Up: Russia’s Ukrainian cyberwar; YouTube’s 1.5bn, the art of sound, Trump’s lost jobs, and more
  8. Start Up: how Upworthy fell, AirPod satisfaction, read the WSJ free, time to shut Uber?, and more
  9. Start Up: how IS beats YouTube, OnePlus’s benchmark fix, HomePod v world, the meat allergy tick, and more
  10. Start Up: US medical data abuse, $1m ransomware!, Mexico’s text spyware, iPhone app bloat, and more
  11. Start Up: where the spammers have gone, awful volume!, 2FA at 50%, fight like a Canadian, and more
  12. Start Up: Oxford’s self-driving cars, pause on iOS 11, Pac-Man madness, hacking Georgia’s voters, and more
  13. Start Up: Apple Watch gets smart, how Britain voted, 1m Pixels sold!, the next Einstein?, and more
  14. Start Up: hack that election!, Microsoft says patch, iPad Pro speed tested, Ivanka underfoot, and more
  15. Start Up: Uber exec’s beliefs, iPad Pro reviewed, blocking the trackers, AI doctors, and more
  16. Start Up: the App Store scammers, the Facebook (non-Brexit) election, Kalanick to go?, Softbank robots, and more
  17. Start Up: App Store coding?, Facebook’s ad watching, AI for novels, Britney’s Russian bots, and more
  18. Start Up: Facebook’s election row, more Uber shocks, iOS 11: NFC+QR, the truth on terror, and more
  19. Start Up: the internet of whose things?, HomePod and iPad evaluated, Uber fires a score, and more
  20. In search of the early adopter (HomePod edition)
  21. Start Up: our unenriched lives, more Russian election hacking, Apple’s AR play, wearables up!, and more
  22. Start Up: the attention economy crash, Tories on Facebook, Yosemite solo, Google’s sex data exit?, and more
  23. Start Up: OneLogin breached, tracker tracking, the SMS bitcoin hack, goodbye Frank Deford, and more
  24. Start Up: a Siri speaker?, Windows goes ARM, Lexmark’s patent setback, America’s opioid central, and more

May 2017

  1. Start Up: Rubin’s back!, Uber fires Google hire, blowing up the filter bubble, India goes solar, and more
  2. Start Up: Tesla’s cyclist risk, vote tactically!, Sandberg’s Irish lobbying, AMOLED ahoy, and more
  3. Start Up: evading YouTube censors, Switch blooms, Breitbart dwindles, Google delays, and more
  4. Start Up: first-time app millionaires, avoiding another MH-17, who owns England?, pricing broadband, and more
  5. Start Up: another $1m+ crowdfunding bust, why people join IS, Google’s watching your cards,
  6. Start Up: hiding passwords, goodbye Roger Moore, LeEco cuts deep, DeepMind wins, ironic fascism?, and more
  7. Start Up: Apple seeks switchers, Facebook bullies, LeEco’s CEO out, AMP v the web, and more
  8. Start Up: Google’s promise, DeepMind investigated, facial recognition reunites, 2bn Androids, and more
  9. Start Up: decrypting #wannacry on XP, Apple’s glucose test, undesigning Huawei, and more
  10. Start Up: Google I/O, no Panic over code, America’s pill mill, who’ll pay to fix bugs?, and more
  11. Start Up: Biz back at Twitter, new Mac laptops?, it’s InstaSnapGramChat!, MP3 lives, and more
  12. Start Up: business models and #Wannacry, Google’s bad health deal, smart Apple Watch bands?, and more
  13. Start Up: reporting (and tracking) #Wannacry, interviewing Trump, Apple buys Lattice Data, and more
  14. Start Up: Microsoft gets Fluent, iMessage Siri?, GTA X: Self-Driving mode, HP audio keylogging, and more
  15. Start Up: Magic Leap’s sexism suit, Snap slips, regulating new monopolies, enthusiast smartphones!, and more
  16. Start Up: phishing Trump, Amazon’s Echo gets a screen, Pandora’s slim chance, Fyred!, and more
  17. Start Up: Citymapper gets bussy, the vanishing tablet, how French defeated the alt-right, and more
  18. Start Up: the Brexit hijack?, Schiller on app pricing, the smartphone squeeze, YouTube’s lost ads, and more
  19. Start Up: tablets detach from growth, how cities change, what’s an engineer?, no phones home, and more
  20. Start Up: AR for cyclists, “Google Docs” phishing attack, Facebook staffs up, save Energy Star!, and more
  21. Start Up: Microsoft’s Laptop surfaces, Facebook’s ad power, un-appy Watch, and more
  22. Start Up: Facebook’s new problems, who works in the ‘gig economy’?, airport Wi-Fi passwords, and more
  23. Start Up: Fyre Festival screwup foretold, Chromebook v iPad, how many Surfaces sold?, and more

April 2017

  1. Start Up: smartphone market solidifies, Uber iPhone protest, a new Apple screen?, educating Donald, and more
  2. Start Up: US phone sales slow, Unrolling.me, Facebook Live and the dead, and more
  3. Start Up: the coming tech equity crash?, Trump’s wall collapse, ‘wireless iPhone charging’, and more
  4. Start Up: ‘heartbreak’ monetisation, Chrome’s blockers, Trump’s lying success, and more
  5. Start Up: the sadness of Facebook, why US retail is collapsing, ignoring robots.txt, and more
  6. Start Up: should Facebook forget, Google’s adblock plans, Trump’s 90-day mark, is Bose listening?, and more
  7. Start Up: Facebook’s monopoly tendency, Solv-ing healthcare, the mobile web’s drift, and more
  8. The (fixable) problem with Steve Ballmer’s USAFacts site: its lack of transparency
  9. Start Up: Ballmer’s data site, S8’s so-so hello, Twitter’s pause, iMacs in September?, and more
  10. Start Up: game theory in customer service, evaluate that tweet!, Google’s Russian deal, and more
  11. Start Up: hacking self-driving cars, Trump hides visitor details, Shadowbrokers dissemble, and more
  12. Start Up: losing God and finding Trump, Apple’s sweet solution, the Hitler sitcom (honest), and more
  13. Start Up: Apple’s Mac strategy tax, use the computer Luke!, Bixby delayed, stopping trolls, and more
  14. Start Up: Fitbit’s slow watch, the real airline scandal, Ikea goes IoT, killing Kelihos, and more
  15. Start Up: SeekingAlpha shamed, Mac Pro redux, the telltale iPad, Google’s $800m OLED Pixel, and more
  16. Start Up: Google accused on pay discrimination, Syria’s information wars, Samsung looks up, and more
  17. Start Up: the fake iCloud threat, Spotify to IPO (sorta), YouTube cuts the 20%, Yoga Book dead?, and more
  18. Start Up: Ubuntu Unity dead, bots swamp Google Play reviews, LG’s G6 reviewed, Ms ‘Alexa Siri’, and more
  19. Start Up: Google’s search problem (and ad solution), where pianists look, Mac Pro lives!, and more
  20. Start Up: Apple slices Imagination, marijuana cuts opioid use, Tesla’s convenient truth, and more
  21. Start Up: the ad cutback starts, the data raid on Facebook, Pandora’s last chance, bitcoin struggles, and more

March 2017

  1. Start Up: finding Comey, Samsung’s quest, spotting the real Trump, hacking smart TVs, HTC’s Pixel number, and more
  2. Start Up: the examined life (on video), startup tips, facial recognition’s racial bias, tracing hoaxes, and more
  3. Start Up: Google’s Pixel drought, “cheap premium” is over, Guardian sues adtech co, Facebook v blasphemy, and more
  4. Start Up: productivity at Apple and Google, Samsung recycles Note 7, Medium’s uphill battle, and more
  5. Start Up: more YouTube ad trouble, iPad optics, troll factory rebrands, Walmart madness, and more
  6. Start Up: Apple buys Workflow, SoundCloud deeper in debt, Android’s patchy security, and more
  7. Start Up: AT&T yanks YouTube ads, cloudy hacker threats, AI v breast cancer, opioid hopes, and more
  8. Start Up: catching the GIF-tweeter, hacking tractors, the 2038 problem, that laptop ban, and more
  9. You think it’s a Muslim laptop ban? This picture suggests it’s really a terrorist ban
  10. Start Up: Google faces the advertisers, crowdsourced e-ink iPhone flops, Rubin rebuffed, and more
  11. Start Up: Samsung’s watch race, why iMessage apps?, Uber’s stop-start autonomy, future GMOs, and more
  12. Start Up: Google Home goes ad-mad, Swatch thinks smart, Guardian kills Google ads, Apple’s endless doom, and more
  13. Start Up: Yahoo hack charges, death on the reef, Office v Google Docs, 32-bit iOS apps face death, and more
  14. Start Up: stop being smart, the trust problem, iPhishers ahoy!, Google kills Android botnet, and more
  15. Start Up: Vertu sold for £50m, your Facebook data selfie, the tiny workstation market, and more
  16. Start Up: the really world wide web, new gTLDs in trouble, voice’s uncanny valley, Pixel problems, and more
  17. Start Up: the Tinder trap, UK v US on solar, DeepMind mines more health, Android v the CIA, and more
  18. Start Up: Nest tries again (but smarthomes don’t), Windows Server on ARM, Facebook’s anti-science, and more
  19. Start Up: Facebook’s video and child problem, ZTE swallows huge fine, trolls dissected, and more
  20. Start Up: AI’s indifferent control, inside the Indian scam call centres, Google breaks own Captcha, and more
  21. Start up: economists v robots, the trouble ahead for bots, night of the zombie smartphones, and more
  22. Start Up: iPhones will keep Lightning, AI for tennis linecalls, Counter-Strike’s gambling market, and more
  23. Start Up: strawberry green, Twitter cracks down on eggs, the smartphone squeeze, smarter Word?, and more
  24. Start Up: Amazon’s big outage, Google kills Pixel laptop, a USB-C iPhone?, the US’s new war on pot, and more

February 2017

  1. Start Up: YouTube’s extreme views, the US travel solution, Singhal out at Uber, the tablet conundrum, and more
  2. Start Up: Google’s Waymo rows with Uber, the truth about Apple Watch owners, did big data win it?, and more
  3. Start Up: the telltale tracker, Uber’s culture trouble, the Twitter resistance, wood trouble, and more
  4. Start Up: the female bot question, Fitbit off pace, Bangalore’s techie times, the fact problem, and more
  5. Start Up: Snapchat’s story trouble, Asus’s dwindling tablets, Apple without Netflix, and more
  6. Start Up: Wikipedia’s AI effort, Krebs wins again, Uber’s harassment problem, Hololens on hold?, and more
  7. Start Up: car app hacking, Zuckerberg examined, Samsung’s S8 Sony power, the trouble with HTTPS, and more
  8. Start Up: WhatsApp’s Syrian tale, Maude on government, why US airports suck, iPhone 8 rumours, and more
  9. Start Up: Google unafraid of Stagefright, Whitehall’s identity problem, Amazon Prime in numbers, and more
  10. Start Up: Facebook forces video sound, ransomware for power plants, VR slows, PewDiePie screws up, and more
  11. Start Up: tech’s fake markets, the App Store problem, a real overspill!, iPhone 8 wireless and OLED?, and more
  12. Start Up: the Chromebook conundrum, WSJ shuts loophole, VR’s China problem, and more
  13. Start Up: Trump’s cybersecurity firing, Twitter’s ongoing failure, the Titanic smartwatch?, and more
  14. Start Up: the asymmetric media war, defending Uber, Best Buy retreats from VR, iPhone booms, and more
  15. Start Up: hating Alexa, the Atom killer, sayonara Photosynth, how Vizio kept its promise, and more
  16. Start Up: the wall the British built (not Hadrian’s), Echo v VR, how Russians beat US casinos, and more
  17. Start Up: the risk of company health data, GoPro slumps, iMDb shutters its forums, and more
  18. Start Up: Snap filed for IPO, Windows 10’s woes, Mozilla cuts jobs, beating Kickstarter and more
  19. Start Up: Apple tops Samsung, dying desktops, Google v the spammer, how streaming burns money, and more
  20. Start Up: fast food fat figures, inaugural ransomware, Isis’s drones, Nexus updates end, and more

January 2017

  1. Start Up: tech survivalists, predicting product success, Facebook v China, forecasting Apple, and more
  2. Start Up: tech reacts to Trump, the voices in noise, VPN Android risks, the app misers, and more
  3. Is Atlantic privacy dead?, Google v hardware, Trump and Twitter, what bots don’t know, and more
  4. Start Up: rogue emails!, LG’s dying phone business, open data v Trump, wearables sneak in, and more
  5. Start Up: Zuck not for prez, self-driving cars v you, Samsung’s corners Snapdragon, and more
  6. Start Up: WhatsApp’s fake news in India, AI beats the poker pros, voice app abandonment, and more
  7. Start Up: Twitter bots for hire, Apple sues Qualcomm, Chromebooks ahoy?, Sonos dreams, and more
  8. Start Up: (more) trouble with ads, Coolpad v Huawei, where’s the Pixel?, the WhatsApp conundrum, and more
  9. Start Up: Facebook’s video switch, cyberattack in Ukraine, the browser line of death, and more
  10. Start Up: Qualcomm’s antitrust charge, what’s a backdoor?, MacBooks look up, Android Wear preps, and more
  11. Start Up: 2016’s app market, Tango meets Daydream, nipples!, Lenovo v Motorola, naughty str!ngs, and more
  12. Start Up: Tesla’s lock trouble, Sudan’s deadly fake news, Fitbit looks flabby, the emoji problem, and more
  13. Start Up: numberplate readers online, PC sales fall again, celebrity death hoaxing, and more
  14. Start Up: how Facebook splits us, Alphabet’s selloff, the tld domain scam, Parrot shrinks, and more

2016 264

December 2016

  1. Start Up: Google’s watches, Uber’s SF trouble, China v the US, India’s smartphone hassle, and more
  2. Start up: will Buzz bite Google?, CJEU rules on surveillance, Uber runs wild, Note 7 lives!, and more
  3. Start Up: the $3m ad fraud scheme, Vice kills comments, AirPods in place, 2FA for Amazon, and more
  4. Start up: Talkspace’s untherapy, Zuckerberg’s custom AI, working at Snapchat, AirPods hit shops, and more
  5. Start Up: Twitter bot fight!, Uber’s self-certifying vehicles, Snap’s buying edge, Deep Bach, and more
  6. Start Up: Facebook hits fake news, Japan’s holographic wives, malvertising v webmail, and more
  7. Start Up: Trump snubs Twitter, Japan’s vanishing people, BeatsX delayed, Surface Hubs boom, and more
  8. Start Up: Airpods ahoy!, inside Pebble’s fall, Facebook’s (bad) Year in Review, cloud mistrust, and more
  9. Start Up: Surface joy, Google gets driving, the VR headset market, restart your 787!, and more
  10. Start Up: Google’s platform problem, what’s the Airpod delay?, Westworld deconstructed, and more
  11. Start Up: TalkTalk’s router duds, Samsung’s S8 plans, Trump’s tech table, Pebble’s vultures, and more
  12. How many Apple Music users are on Android?
  13. Start Up: join The Circle!, Macbook Pro woes, smartglasses for cyclists, tablet time squeeze, and more
  14. Start Up: milking the iPhone, Android tablets’ death, Galaxy S8 may dump the headphone jack, and more
  15. Start Up: how GitHub killed trolls, Facebook’s news threat, wearables struggle, Moto mods, and more
  16. Start Up: router hacking, Reuters news bots, Facebook’s $1bn news swipe, 52 things to know, and more
  17. Start Up: wearables crunch, Internet Archive moves, Nokia’s phoenix, Reddit’s internal war, and more
  18. Start Up: GoPro diverts, Samsung’s cash pile, SF Muni hacker hacked, 1m Androids infected, and more

November 2016

  1. Start Up: curved iPhones?, smartphone sales struggle, Pixels perform, Valley’s empathy miss, and more
  2. Start Up: Android warning for Trump, Uber’s strike, more IoT hacking, enormotabs are here!, and more
  3. Start Up: Trump’s fake news cronies, Xiaomi unruffled, machine learning cameras, USB-C fun, and more
  4. Start up: the fake news and propaganda war, Microsoft’s Chinese chatbot, not talking to Siri, and more
  5. Start up: gaming Twitter, censoring Facebook, Karhoo’s collapse, MacBook Pro RAM and more
  6. Start up: pricing Xiaomi, pondering bitcoin, Brexit blues, Facebook’s little white lies, and more
  7. Start up: the truth behind Trump U, the fake news factory, algorithmic futures, the pro Mac, and more
  8. Start up: Zuckerberg the politician, unethical coding, the grudge botnet, whose robot army?, and more
  9. Start up: Britain’s web grab, Trumpbots v Hillarybots, Twitter’s new crackdown, de-OLED iPhones?, and more
  10. Start up: Facebook’s fake ad stats, most users *are* clueless, the Androids with built-in backdoors, and more
  11. Start up: the fake news uprising at Facebook, tales from the Trumpites, India’s imbalance, and more
  12. Start up: Touchbar Macs reviewed, another Facebook news row, consumer software in the 1980s, and more
  13. Start up: SoC wars, more Brexit PC price hikes, USB smuggling, Pixel reviewed, and more
  14. Start up: light caught in the wave/particle act, the fake news advertisers, MacBook Pro lift, and more
  15. Start up: Trump’s impact on tech, AI goes phishing, DDOS that heating!, how we read news now, and more
  16. Start up: vote counting, Android malvertising, Theranos sued, Skype hacks, see USB-C grow!, and more
  17. Start up: Adobe’s voice faker, a later S8?, the war on reality, how Tesco Bank was hacked, and more
  18. Start up: Assistants Assemble!, disruption forecasts, the fragile US, Magic Leap exec jumps ship, and more
  19. Start up: Google’s endless EC case, here comes USB-C, mobo no go, South Korea’s weird scandal, and more
  20. Start up: Facebook booms (and busts Admiral), Fitbit struggles, whither Macs?, and more
  21. Start up: further Russian hacking, MacBook Pro redux, troubled tablets?, Wii U goodbye, and more
  22. Start up: battery blocking, beyond the touch screen, block that chumbox!, OLED wars, and more

October 2016

  1. Start up: Facebook’s race ad row, Merkel’s search query, how Vine withered, toaster’s hacked!, and more
  2. Start up: the attention economy, Alphabet booms, Apple’s two-year Touch Bar, sayonara Vine, and more
  3. Fear of a USB-C planet: why we’re going to miss Apple’s MagSafe
  4. Start up: Airpods delayed, battle of the bokehs, Microsoft’s tablet vroooom, AI judges, and more
  5. Start up: Apple Macbook pics leak, Twitter to cut jobs, more SETI?, Amazon’s counterfeit trouble, and more
  6. Start up: smartwatches slow, Microsoft hikes UK prices, explaining Assange, recalling the botnet, and more
  7. Start up: Facebook’s news problem, LG dumps modular, the IoT’s weak spots, Ikea’s economics, and more
  8. Start up: Musically’s silent revolution, Nintendo Switch-es, Intel slows iPhones, grading Pixels, and more
  9. Start up: judging Assistant, Trump’s death march, Apple at MWC?, iPlayer fades on mobile, and more
  10. Start up: why Disney dropped Twitter, why Thiel?, the fake social graph, selfie passwords, and more
  11. Start up: trolling Wikileaks, Apple car slows, Obama on Silicon Valley, is Google AMP your friend?, and more
  12. Start up: Google gets factual, Note 7’s determined users, the silence of Yahoo, how US voting works, and more
  13. Start up: hacking Clinton, more IoT vulns, Verizon cutting Yahoo?, Samsung’s creative destruction, and more
  14. Start up: no ceramic iPhone, trading nonexistent bitcoin, the drone arms race, 40 years of Pigs, and more
  15. Start up: Apple v Samsung supremely, the trouble with Age Verification, Anandtech on iPhone, and more
  16. Adieu Note 7, advantage Huawei, maybe Apple, maybe not so much Google Pixel
  17. Start Up: Note 7 redux, HTC’s Android Wear why?, chocolate and Nobels, talking to robots, and more
  18. Start up: the adtech vig, new Macs and Surfaces?, securing the IoT, the fingerprinted smart gun, and more
  19. Start up: Disney won’t Twitter, Oculus Touch prices, reviewing Alexa, Lenovo buying Fujitsu’s PCs?, and more
  20. Start up: replacement Note 7 aflame, end of software patents?, querying Yahoo, Pixel analysed, and more
  21. Start up: Google’s Pixel plans, PINs in lights, Amazon zaps junk reviews, 4Chan near death?, and more
  22. Start up: IoT hack code in wild, can Twitter regenerate?, fewer flicks on Netflix, Meerkat’s dead, and more
  23. Start up: our stupid management, Sierra’s ARM hints, Google aims at Home, Apple’s music problem, and more

September 2016

  1. Start up: climate change tipping point, modular mysteries, Huawei v Android Wear, Samsung’s hot wash, and more
  2. Start up: Getty v Google, chatbotting spammers, Twitter’s costly stock, BlackBerry’s hard stop, and more
  3. Start up: Lenovo guts Motorola, print PDFs on iOS 10!, Nadella on AI, BlackBerry’s halt?, and more
  4. Start up: Twitter and… Disney?, BI’s paywall plan, Google’s AI balloons, eight years of Android, and more
  5. How to recover when Apple Numbers says a file “can’t be opened for some reason”
  6. Start up: rogue algorithms, Luckey unlucky for Oculus, Snapglasses!, robots that see, and more
  7. Start up: AirBnB’s race problem, solar prices crater, modern porn, AirPods teardown (sorta), and more
  8. Start up: Google Now not, the price of Oculus, Dropbox hack blocked, Amazon pricing re-examined, and more
  9. Start up: Google’s Pixel leak, Porat profiled, Skittles photo row deepens, hacking Teslas, and more
  10. Is Android Wear going to make Google create the next Zune?
  11. Start up: Google buys more AI, iTunes’s overload, how SoftRAM fooled the world, Google Maps v Uber, and more
  12. Start up: Note 7’s slow recall, HP v refills, here come the ad police!, AirPods pro and anti, and more
  13. The 2Q 2016 smartphone scorecard: players searching for an exit
  14. Start up: Pandora subs up, can links break copyright?, Note 7 recall!, PC/smartphone death watch, and more
  15. Start up: what colour is the web?, Samsung’s problem deepens, driverless in Pittsburgh, and more
  16. Start up: sex toy + IoT = lawsuit, the CGI girl, Samsung’s Note charge fix, iOS 10 in depth, and more
  17. The iOS 10 changes that actually matter: ad tracking, camera changes, “press to unlock” and more
  18. Start up: Spotify passes 39m, a ceramic phone?, the 2007 AirPods, another Facebook photo row, and more
  19. Start up: Nougat on the Pixel C, Apple’s app cleanup, print’s perfected UI, DeepMind talks!, and more
  20. Start up: iPhone analyses!, LG stays modular, Google’s extra Android time, algorithmic bosses, and more
  21. Colours, names and numbers: why is it ‘iPhone 7’ but just ‘MacBook Air’?
  22. Start up: three steps to AI, Intel sets McAfee loose, Land Registry saved?, the wearable slowdown, and more
  23. Start up: Twitter’s question, the iPhone future, Clinton’s email report, predicting bestsellers, and more
  24. Lenovo’s Yoga Book: a brilliant idea – for 15 minutes or so
  25. Start up: pregnant on the internet, mapping road deaths, think car!, the joy of comments, and more
  26. Start up: the app implosion, 2012 Bravia v YouTube, OpenOffice on the edge, smartphone slowdown, and more
  27. A short history of Project Ara, in breathless headlines and sceptical observations
  28. Start up: AI cucumber sorting, the EU-US tax war, Samsung dinged on patents, tablets keep slowing, and more
  29. Start up: the Nougat niggles, the Yoga PC-tablet, Swift has hacker trouble, SETI only found TI, and more

August 2016

  1. Start up: not so SETI, Apple’s tax trouble, Google to absorb Nest, Facebook’s trend troubles, and more
  2. Start up: scamming Trump, 23andme’s data trove, Facebook’s new fake problem, Apple’s image makers, and more
  3. Start up: Apple’s Irish tax deadline, Facebook trends away, how broadband divides us, and more
  4. Start up: software to cut racism?, China’s CRISPR plan, inside Google Fiber, Excel’s biology flaw, and more
  5. Start up: Amazon’s drone test site, AI at Apple, Spotify’s contract trouble, no Snowden 2.0, and more
  6. Start up: Europe’s detachable craze, GIANT blue screens, AI v cancer, Pinterest buys Instapaper, and more
  7. Start up: Pokemon Gone?, the trouble with tech journalism, questions for the Note 7, Nougat’s here, and more
  8. Inside the unprofitable world of (Lenovo’s) Android tablets (updated)
  9. Start up: Facebook’s 98 data points, smartphones v relationships, Apple’s supplier struggle, and more
  10. Start up: counting Apple’s people, Uber gets trucky, fake Instagram billions, Xiaomi’s trouble, and more
  11. Start up: AI’s next wave, the Snapchat Olympics, USB-C v headphone jacks, Cyanogen’s odd numbers, and more
  12. Start up: Note 7’s water test, Windows 10 goes holographic, the Roomba coprocopalypse, and more
  13. Start up: how not to fix online abuse, Google goes fuchsia, trouble with edu tech, Cook speaks, and more
  14. Start up: Google v Korea, AI for faces, why swimmers tie, how secure is iMessage?, Wonder remembers, and more
  15. Start up: cyborg Olympics!, the lost iPhone conundrum, explaining iris scanning, Basis burns, and more
  16. Start up: Kim’s crushed BlackBerry, Amazon’s Alexa game kit, the electric database error, and more
  17. Start up: Samsung eyes Note 7, iOS 10 further limits ad tracking, the Olympics and doping, and more
  18. Start up: why startups fail, Apple’s patent reverse, Yahoo’s troll-finder, Swiftkey’s leaky data, and more
  19. Start up: Pokemon Go’s $3.6bn sum, iPad v Linux?, the rise of wanksomware, GCHQ’s link honeypot, and more

July 2016

  1. Start up: Apple’s TV miss, Google’s non-ad hit, Soundcloud for sale?, floppies v nukes, and more
  2. Start up: Tor’s sex woe, who opens emails?, park with Apple Maps, Xiaomi’s laptop challenge, and more
  3. Start up: the feudal internet, driverless insurance?, Apple swoons, a computer to queue for you!, and more
  4. Start up: Russia and the Democrat hack, Mayer v Yahoo, a CRISPR future, another Brexit price hike, and more
  5. Start up: Airbnb v racism, the iPad paradox, Kickass’s insider secret, sayonara VCRs, and more
  6. Start up: Brexit v open data, 3D-printed dead fingerprints, smartwatches slow, Kickass kicked, and more
  7. Start up: Scrivener on iOS!, how Twitter should improve, Skype’s odd cloud move, Windows 10’s data problem, and more
  8. Start up: AI photo colouring, Chrome extension malware, the biodiesel fake, iPhone 7 ’Airpods’?, and more
  9. Start up: ransomware evaluated, Brexit and the death penalty, True Tone iPhones?, Swatch swoons, and more
  10. ARM: the weightless corporation that outweighs Intel
  11. Start up: YouTube’s music economics, Brexit and privacy, LED lights v garage doors, and more
  12. Start up: the GMO lies, Eddy Cue on Hollywood, EC hits Google again, UK welfare blockchain, and more
  13. Start up: Chromebook infiltrate PC market, Privacy Shield arrives, Britain’s favourite map spots, and more
  14. Start up: the wearable PIN leak, bitcoin’s split, chatbot psychology, Facebook’s gun problem, and more
  15. Start up: Spotify’s freemium finish?, where robots will go, NHS and Deepmind details, evil PDF!, and more
  16. Start up: Theranos’s last days?, Samsung’s water-unproof S7 Active, the Pokemon Go craze, and more
  17. Start up: Apple opens betas, Counter-Strike’s gambler scandal, Blackphone’s black future, and more
  18. Start up: revising China’s phones, oldies don’t buy music, a disabled view of Apple Watch, Brexit raises tech prices, and more
  19. Start up: DeepMind’s eye challenge, South African open data, the Linksys router that can, bad hamburger!, and more
  20. Start up: why tech support annoys, Shazam for makeup, the iCloud hackers, Brexit v filter bubble, and more
  21. Start up: LinkedIn’s extra bidders, LG’s mobile shakeup, Google Maps v Apple Maps, cracking Android, and more
  22. Start up: Spotify v Apple, ATM skimmers ahoy, BB10 phones are dead, why fMRI might be fibbing, and more

June 2016

  1. Start up: robocalling wars, form-filling frustration, Pakistan’s troll problem, Apple port death, and more
  2. Start up: a new blue!, Anki’s new toy, a useful chatbot, Scrivener (nearly) on iOS, Brexit law, and more
  3. Start up: Brexit fuels uncertainty, Google faces new antitrust case, AI for the blind, and more
  4. Start up: Intel ponders McAfee sale, iPad Pro v Mac, wearables get broader, pizza’s malware topping, and more
  5. It’s dark out there: the Q1 2016 smartphone scorecard
  6. Start up: tabloids on Europe, WhatsApp’s 100m callers, Huawei’s Apple use, VR shipment numbers, and more
  7. Start up: the Android OEM conundrum, understanding guns (and laws), Taylor Swift v YouTube (again), and more
  8. Start up: Musk’s strange takeover, Apple’s cloud escapees, Gawker v Thiel redux, the Trump question, and more
  9. Start up: Twitter gets AI too, Apple’s photo AI, would Brexit raise roaming prices?, Spotify’s 100m, and more
  10. Chromebooks: low-end disruption amid the PC collapse
  11. Start up: Apple v Trump, Ev Williams v text, Google’s learning bet, Snapchat’s magazine plan, and more
  12. Start up: the American iPhone?, China’s dying satellite, Snapchat’s filter fiddle, spammer jailed, and more
  13. Start up: Facebook’s video hope, Amy on Outlook, Apple’s neural nets, a Trump rally in Greensboro, and more
  14. Start up: hacking Dems, Theranos loses another, Apple’s non-chatbot chatbots, slimmer Xbox!, and more
  15. Start up: searching Hillary, Microsoft buys LinkedIn, delete iOS defaults!, what to ask your parents, and more
  16. Start up: hologram phones!, Apple’s 64-bit future, Windows 10’s tablet trouble, Moto Z’s missing jack, and more
  17. Start up: the USB-C screwup, faster pages with annoying ads!, celeb fattening, thermostat wars, and more
  18. Apple’s paid search experiment shows there’s still no PageRank for apps
  19. Start up: the world in 2045, Apple’s App Store revamp, Magic Leap’s hat show, app downloads pause, and more
  20. Start up: TeamViewer sorry for hack, UK allows encryption, Uber’s car gamble, Google v Oracle redux, and more
  21. Start up: Gov.uk vetoes apps, Buzzfeed nixes Trump ads, Twitter’s growth trouble, and more
  22. Start up: how Facebook beat Google+, Fadell’s exit interview, iPad Pro review, Appelbaum leaves Tor, and more
  23. Start up: the Meeker explosion, Saudi women on Uber, GCHQ on MPs, Windows goes Holographic, and more
  24. Start up: 3D scan copyrights, 2016 internet trends report, smartphone growth stalls, Jawbone lives!, and more
  25. Start up: more iPhone rumours, tablet use falls, six useful algorithms, and more

May 2016

  1. Start up: products without money, Chromebooks that’ll miss Android, who’s killing US biometric law?, and more
  2. Start up: mobile phones still safe, Clinton’s email screwup, Apple Store life, Facebook everywhere, and more
  3. Start up: the Gawker-Thiel fiasco in detail, Three to try adblock, how Genius screwed security, and more
  4. Start up: the copyright abusers, Windows Phone is dead, browser bloat in detail, and more
  5. Start up: interrogate better!, Twitter fixes replies, Google ads Maps, evading Windows 10, and more
  6. Start up: bias in the machine, Spotify’s financials, is Watson a fraud?, Cook talks iPhones, and more
  7. Book review: Disrupted: Dan Lyons v the startup bubble (at Hubspot)
  8. Start up: Chromebooks rising, why airport queues grow, how Shapeshift was hacked, Apple v AI, and more
  9. Start up: Android on ChromeOS!, the PC squeeze, play like Steve Reich, Bluetooth tampons?, and more
  10. Start up: toxic times at Facebook and Wikipedia, Google gets appy, Trump v Twitter, profit and lies, and more
  11. Start up: Google’s image search ads, Intel’s iPhone deal, Tabooillion!, Runkeeper confesses, and more
  12. Start up: the stuck smart home, McAfee’s hack trick, ICO probes Deepmind deal, Flash the zombie, and more
  13. Start up: NHS’s unapproved Google deal, China’s smartphone bust, the email trail, design for women, and more
  14. Start up: debunking uBeam, iTunes loss explained, Google’s payday venture, Apple R+D, and more
  15. Start up: Google kills payday ads, software kills satellite, Uber v Hollywood, Swiss watches unwind, and more
  16. Start up: Radiohead v Spotify, Facebook’s news problem, Google’s dark links, Sinclair’s calculator genius, and more
  17. Start up: AdBlock hits 100m users, is Facebook left-wing?, Baidu’s search under fire, robot surgeon wins, and more
  18. Start up: Windows 10 hits 300m, a new virus war, gene therapy’s bust, Land Registry’s real value, and more
  19. Start up: Google + Apple v PCs, longform reading lives, the hole in US incomes, keep that password!, and more
  20. Start up: Apple’s GPU hiring, Samsung’s VR plan, our changing media habits, streaming $1bn loss, and more
  21. Start up: Facebook v journalists, give me your email!, iPhone dips ahead, whose fault is Theranos?, and more
  22. Start up: Schrödinger’s Satoshi, the trouble with VC funding, stalking with Waze, dentists get malware, and more
  23. Start up: Google’s health data grab, Intel’s mobile halt, satire wars, iPad Pro beats Surface Pro, and more

April 2016

  1. Start up: Google rehires Moto chief, Esquire’s satire #fail, play the woman card!, Facebook’s video problem, and more
  2. Start up: infected airplanes, Samsung gets VR-y, the real counterfeiters, Youtube’s unstoppable ads, and more
  3. Start up: SWIFT’s hacking problem, Apple swoons, the emoji war, the medical firm shut by filesharing, and more
  4. Start up: China’s coming smartphone crash, Boston Globe v readers, Google Glass is back!, and more
  5. Start up: trouble with bots, big data’s fable, Google and the White House, beware iCloud phishers, and more
  6. How is Google’s mobile revenue rising if 50% of people do zero searches per day?
  7. Start up: fibre’s horsemeat moment, AMD in new Apples?, Sony’s troubled cameras, Xiaomi sales slow, and more
  8. Start up: EC v Android in detail, how neural networks spot nudes, Xbox 360’s black ring of death, and more
  9. Start up: the comments pit, Magic Leap v Google Glass, South Korea’s shocking history, sue Kanye!, and more
  10. Start up: EC v Android?, the human chatbots, Metallica v YouTube, Wall Street’s new mortgage con, and more
  11. Start up: more Alphabet trouble, peak desktop?, hacking the Philippines, Japan quakes hit iPhones, and more
  12. Start up: goodbye Phorm!, the empty iPhone 5C, why we aren’t sharing now, the trouble with specs, and more
  13. Start up: the sputtering sharing economy, new bots are old, how Facebook helps fake news sites, and more
  14. Start up: Oculus delays, CGI plastic surgery, the drone tractor, Buzzfeed misses, PCs keep dropping, and more
  15. Start up: self-driving trucks, Gen Z grapples with email, AI (lack of) manners, BB10 is a zombie, and more
  16. Start up: how to properly break the internet, the premium phone boomlet, emoji variation, and more
  17. The Overspill is on a spring break for a week
  18. Start up: deeper inside Nest, slower smartphone sales, smaller Yahoo, ransomware spreads further, and more

March 2016

  1. Start up: the chat bots are here!, what Windows Phone?, Spotify’s IPO debt sprint, fixing iOS 9.3, and more
  2. Start up: the $200k iPhone hack, sleep robot axed, the criminal who wrote Truecrypt, If This Then No, and more
  3. Start up: Oracle’s $9.3bn Android, FOI v Land Registry, have a robot bin!, longer smartphone life, and more
  4. Start up: Hubspot culture, bad citations, Wikipedia for piracy, how Tay was pre-broken, and more
  5. Start up: Nest’s cuckoo, TayAI gets shut up, Pebble cuts staff, how mobile games rely on whales, and more
  6. Start up: the iPhone crackers, tick-tock dies, the Instagram trojan returns, Microsoft’s AI bot, and more
  7. Start up: the ad deception, why your Wi-Fi is lousy, will Android OEMs follow the iPhone SE?, and more
  8. Start up: Spotify hits 30m, Google’s Syria wish, Apple’s iPhone aim, the truth behind Powa, and more
  9. Start up: malware for all!, Tim Cook v FBI, US gov seeks source code, bedtime for robots, and more
  10. Start up: Twitter’s ongoing API cull, NSA v Hillary, life without Facebook, Apple’s cloud moves, and more
  11. Start up: the iCloud celeb hack, a Chinese ransom?, the real terrorist phone, Trump as Berlusconi, and more
  12. Start up: evaluating ebooks, EU’s tax quiz, no more Here on Windows, two cameras on iPhone 7?, and more
  13. Start up: Trump’s casino flop, Micromax hits a bump, Samsung’s warning, the prime conspiracy and more
  14. Start up: Xiaomi’s money trouble, instructing Alexa, the App Store problem, Uber’s sick loophole, and more
  15. Start up: Android antitrust?, Flickr flickers, Apple gets small, Opera adblocks, an iPhone killer dies, and more
  16. Start up: Samsung’s US chance, Google’s RTBF extension, hacking Isil, bionic feels!, and more
  17. Start up: 3D TV is dead, Samsung’s S7 in brief, tablets to grow and shrink, the faked Nefertiti, and more
  18. Start up: app retention rates, the real FBI-Apple court problem, Samsung closing Milk Music?, and more
  19. Start up: Mac ransomware, bitcoin’s crunch, global warming’s milestone, the price of your attention, and more
  20. Start up: Bitcoin’s nightmare, the cheating economy, how Snapchat took off, Oculus spurns Macs, and more
  21. Start up: US parties v internet, see UK power flow!, Twitter’s broken park, decrypting Samsung, and more
  22. Start up: Facebook v Brazil, HTC Vive sells out, unsticky Cardboard, iPhone 7 rumours, and more
  23. Android Wear activations might hit 5 million by October… if things go well
  24. Start up: Google’s crash, Hive overheats, Vive or Hololens?, BB10 withers, the backdoor test, and more

February 2016

  1. Start up: Facebook’s real origin, Apple’s political underspend, Samsung’s unbranding, the electric oil crisis, and more
  2. Start up: more Google tax, LinkedIn’s problem, Apple’s 1970s fix, and more
  3. Start up: VR porn!, privacy and the FBI, Baidu’s data grab, why Trump?, and more
  4. The Q4 2015 smartphone scorecard: Apple gazes down at the rat trap
  5. Start up: Asus’s router screwup, slower smartphones, Ek speaks, the FBI’s other iPhones, hi – it’s Sony, and more
  6. Start up: who backs the FBI?, Google gets RCS, LG goes modular, Linux Mint backdoored, and more
  7. Start up: Google adds ads, HTC nears Vive, Watch wrinkles and worries, FBI v Apple redux, and more
  8. Start up: FBI v Apple redux, Google’s Cloud Vision, fixing #error53, Iraq’s lost iridium, and more
  9. Start up: careful with that axe, Marissa!, PC consolidation, ultra-cheap Android, and more
  10. Start up: sexism in funding, Powa struggles, China’s smartphone rat race, Apple software, and more
  11. Start up: Android root attacks, Silicon Valley doesn’t click ads, Wikimedia tries search, videogames v culture, and more
  12. Start up: Apple on software, 1970 reporting, Microsoft leaves ICOMP?, cycling’s new doping scandal, and more
  13. Start up: Twitter’s falling tweet count, Google forgets more, cops v iPhone, how gravity waved, and more
  14. Start up: Watson seeks a use, what not to do with Android, TalkTalk insider on (in)security, and more
  15. Start up: Samsung’s adblocker’s back, cement – solved!, #error53 redux, the Useless Hackathon, and more
  16. Start up: broadband targets, Wired’s adblock plans, Facebook app v iOS, Ted Cruz v reality, and more
  17. Explaining the iPhone’s #error53, and why it puts Apple between conspiracy and rock-hard security (updated)
  18. Start up: hedge funds like AI, Facebook’s close separation, what if Twitter died?, BlackBerry cuts, and more
  19. Start up: risky USB-C cables, Google’s travel funnel, Uber’s tax diversion, bye-bye 747, and more
  20. Start up: Google’s search rejig, adblockers can’t Play, Sony to exit tablets?, Magic Leap’s big step, and more
  21. Start up: Ireland’s judgement day, Yahoo crumbles, a new iPhone?, Swiftkey sold, and more
  22. Start up: Apple’s VR effort, why zebras really have stripes, the PC mergers, Facebook v your battery, and more
  23. Start up: smartwatches’ app gap, games and VR, smart luggage risks, Apple’s China rivals, and more

January 2016

  1. Start up: Google’s little big VR, teens in 2016, TalkTalk arrests, Italy v Google, and more
  2. Start up: Apple’s conundrum, watch birds migrate!, the 5am startup, and more
  3. Start up: Apple stalls, Japan’s zombies, Samsung on iOS?, the truth about terror, and more
  4. Start up: Apple’s phone expectations, Amazon’s giant backdoor, mobile adblocking grows, and more
  5. Start up: weather-forecasting phones, MPs v BT, Google’s UK tax row, Apple Street View?, and more
  6. Yes, Google’s UK back-tax payment is derisory. Here are the numbers that show it.
  7. Start up: Google’s ad stop, hacking phishers, the lost phone mystery, the adblocking browser and more
  8. Start up: the open data economy, Samsung sued on software updates, Google v Isis, deaf developing, and more
  9. Start up: the tech productivity gap, adtech fraud to pass $7bn, the stacked chart delusion, and more
  10. Start up: Apple’s $8bn tax bill?, the tech funding squeeze, Friends Liquidated, Samsung ‘Live Photos’+ more
  11. Start up: writing clickbait, search v the law, IAB disses AdBlock Plus, Android’s future in 2010, and more
  12. How close was my forecast for HTC’s 4Q? Only 3.4% out
  13. Start up: UK encryption doubletalk, Netflix VPN crackdown, Apple’s iAd retreat, and more
  14. Start up: real China lessons, map the past, India’s phone problem, and more
  15. Start up: smartphone v cars, Oracle v Android, Korea’s browser problem, flat design woes, and more
  16. Start up: how late is your train?, Android v audio, Sean Penn’s odd meetup, rebutting Paul Graham, and more
  17. Apple has a *lot* more people using its Music app since June
  18. Start up: smart TV+dumb ads, dual camera phones, Apple registers .car, Fitbit spins, and more

2015 281

December 2015

  1. Start up: BB Priv sales figured, Google drives to Ford, Samsung’s culture shock, and goodbye 2015
  2. Start up: debunking 2015’s fake pics, wearables grow, Apple’s 800 camera people, and more
  3. Start up: talking to Barbie, BlackBerry’s criminal approach, mobile theses, tracing bitcoin, and more
  4. Start up: the smartphone slowdown, AirBnB ‘racism’, malware Bibles, Google lobbies and more
  5. Start up: adbock in India, no ISIS internet?, Galaxy S7 hints, what else Adele CD buyers buy, and more
  6. Start up: Apple’s QA question, the ChromeOS Pixel C?, racism on eBay, Dell’s revenue drop, and more
  7. Start up: Apple v Samsung redux, Twitter hacks, hating Trump, zombie phones?, and more
  8. Start up: Radiohead v Prince, the ad crunch, Surface Pro review, and more
  9. Start up: damn internet fridges!, getting hacked, the coming phone shakeout, PGP doubts over “Satoshi”, and more
  10. Start up: AI for your app, quantum computing works?, Yahoo’s future, Watch watch, and more
  11. Start up: more PC decline, apps for 2016, the OLED iPhone delay, cars that snitch, and more
  12. Start up: Dropbox dumps Mailbox, what mobile adblocking?, life after viral fame, and more
  13. Start up: Samsung pays on patents, smartphone sales slow, Toshiba to sell PC arm?, and more
  14. Start up: streaming runs dry?, the absent unicorn, Watch myths and more
  15. Start up: Gravity’s mystery CEO, Android audio latency, Engadget v Wikipedia v AI, and more
  16. Start up: EFF accuses Chromebooks, Public Enemy in Focus!, OnePlus’s iPhone extra, and more
  17. Start up: truths about music, neural nets for you, PC v iPad, Apple Watch abandonment, and more

November 2015

  1. Start up: inside Apple’s A9X, Amazon unlimited?, VTech hacked, YouTube v Palestine, and more
  2. Start up: the smartphone generation, OLED for iPhone?, VR’s Atari moment, and more
  3. Start up: farewell Steve Wildstrom, PS4 = 30m, cooling on Xiaomi, Google crunches Yelp, and more
  4. Start up: why Win10 update was pulled, Android v the law, post-iPad mini, neural nets on the move, and more
  5. Dark matter full of piranhas: Android, Apple and the 3Q 15 smartphone scorecard
  6. Start up: Adele v pirates, Alphabet’s challenge, Mayer’s end? and more
  7. Start up: journalism v Sean Rad, the Lumia 950 zombie?, Pepsi phones, and more
  8. Start up: blocking Trump,dissecting Pencil, evaluating Uber, and more
  9. Android, iOS and Ericsson’s new leaky bucket meet the featurephone swamp
  10. Start up: hackers for hire, Chrome grows, Tinder’s CEO chats, and more
  11. Start up: the $10 iPhone, the mobile data boom, Watch 2 in June? and more
  12. Start up: Apple Music on Android, Zuckerberg profiled, the dark tower and more
  13. TEDx Hilversum: “How to spot the next big thing” – slides and commentary from my talk
  14. Start up: who’ll exit PCs next?, Gwen Stefani v iCloud, Chrome vuln pwns Android, and more
  15. Start up: Google adds mobile ads, the sensing wearable, paying for snoops, and more
  16. Android Wear downloads: a more nuanced (and slightly higher) estimate
  17. Start up: how self-driving cars will change life, why *is* http on port 80?, iPad Pro reviewed, and more
  18. Start up: Surface Book review, Google v EC redux, where are the iPad Pro apps?, after Google Flu, and more
  19. Start up: Google open-sources machine learning, Adele v streaming, Facebook’s Belgian problem, and more
  20. Start up: yet another UK broadband pledge, what is mobile?, hacking Samsung’s theft protection, and more
  21. If you think the Apple Watch is a ‘flop’, try this estimate for Android Wear device sales
  22. Start up: the Watch drop, Tango slows, Samsung’s bug bonanza, kids and tablets, and more
  23. HTC won’t forecast this quarter’s revenues. But don’t worry, we can. (They’re bad.)
  24. Start up: why Android should encrypt, Facebook v the intifada, 3D Touch v page parking, wary drones and more
  25. Start up: payday search predators, the natural nuclear reactor, Facebook’s code problem and more
  26. Start up: the convertible laptop dream, Pagefair’s malvertising hack, Samsung’s bulging bottom, and more
  27. Start up: can machines do fact-checking?, HP’s split, HTC gets evasive, adblocking starts to hurt, and more

October 2015

  1. Start up: Google to merge Android and ChromeOS, tablets dwindle, online ad scams, and more
  2. Start up: iPhone 6S ain’t no scale, Samsung’s tablet TV, Theranos woes worsen, smartphones slow, and more
  3. Start up: SXSW’s silencing problem, the Strava bicycle thief, Apple claims Android switchers, Google gets chippy, and more
  4. Start up: Google’s antitrust expansion, Morocco goes solar, Apple Music revealed?, IoT hacked again, and more
  5. Start up: Adblock Plus v Axel Springer, Apple’s Wi-Fi problem, Xiaomi’s shortfall, sell that Priv!, and more
  6. Start up: Surface Book v MacBook Pro, Microsoft’s cloud boost, HP’s cloudburst, BlackBerry’s last stand?, and more
  7. Start up: Dell, the movie!, Surfacebook reviewed, why WD bought SanDisk, IT disasters sized, and more
  8. Start up: Safe Harbour’s failure, Google Photos grows, Android Doze, Theranos redux, and more
  9. Start up: sneaking iOS apps, spoofing Spotify, CIA director gets hacked, and more
  10. Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile
  11. Start up: Tor for iOS 9?, Google wins book appeal, HTC’s new (i)Phone, DNA suspects, and more
  12. Start up: lightening YouTube, more Flash vulnerability, farewell to Apple’s store fan, NSA cracking, and more
  13. Start up: a cure for ageing?, smartphone slowdown, how many Surface Books?, Playboy’s China link, and more
  14. Start up: inside a content factory, US reacts to Safe Harbour sinking, why Surface?, Android lemons and more
  15. Start up: Apple v chipmakers, the plot to sell Dell, is Android Auto safe?, casinos’ slotty problem, and more
  16. Start up: porn’s new business model, the real emissions scam, Jamaica’s 419 scammers, and more
  17. Start up: Facebook’s dwindling teens, Safe Harbour or balkanisation?, the privacy tsunami, and more
  18. Start up: can Google accelerate publishers?, DuckDuckGo profitable, 3D Touch coming to Android?, and more
  19. Start up: boarding pass hacks, Microsoft Surfaces, the truth about Android Auto, ad fraud explained, and more
  20. Start up: Russia v Android, Citymapper and Crosslink, the Windows 10 problem, and more
  21. Start up: flat design problems , ad tech stocks drop, life inside HP, LG’s challenge, and more
  22. Start up: the Nexus puzzle, Stagefright 2.0 (bigger!), T-Mobile US data hack, Fiorina’s iPod miss and more
  23. Start up: Microsoft and Google make up, the social network paradox, adblocking v disability, and more

September 2015

  1. Start up: Euler programs, adblocking wars redux, Android M’s security measure,
  2. Start up: Apple Music for Android enters beta, how many Ubuntu phones?, Samsung’s dead Milk, and more
  3. Start up: ad traffic fraud, adblocking goes paid and free, US v Google?, BlackBerry to Android, and more
  4. Start up: adblockers v retailers, robot nail technicians, who killed Nokia?, the SKU wars, and more
  5. Start up: a shorter rounder Pebble, VW v DMCA redux, Lenovo’s other spyware, IAB defends ads, and more
  6. Start up: DMCA v Volkswagen, cruel opt-outs, self-parking cars win, HP’s irrelevance, and more
  7. How big (and bad) adblocking could get – and why news sites should sell adblockers
  8. Start up: explaining XcodeGhost, Monument Valley goes VR, will Venice sink BlackBerry?, and more
  9. Start up: more PC market woe, tons more adblocking, Android One comes to Europe, and more
  10. Start up: Facebook’s AI ambitions, it’s the Galaxy S7!, the value of comments, Apple goes Android, and more
  11. Podcast guesting: talking premium Android on The Blerg
  12. Start up: the Foodpanda takeaway scam, watch iOS 9 grow!, 2 billion lines of Google, and more
  13. iOS 9 review: longer battery life, more storage, and adblocking. What more could an iOS – or Android user – want?
  14. Start up: now on email!, video adblocking, Toshiba’s PC loss, iOS 9 for enterprise, and more
  15. What Apple’s 3D Touch aims to do: replace the physical iPhone home button
  16. Start up: hacked ATMs in Mexico, Cyanogen + Cortana, iPhone forecasts, Apple TV v consoles, and more
  17. Start up: Samsung Pay to win?, Apple on Siri/Photos privacy, mystery ministry mujahadeen hack, and more
  18. Start up: Uber’s China fight, Stagefright goes public, women and Apple, Wileyfox reviewed, and more
  19. Start up: how 3D Touch was made (and what it’s like), adblock wars redux, why PC makers want gamers, and more
  20. This is the worst Apple Watch ever. (Think about it.)
  21. Start up: Apple’s AI hires, Spotify’s smart music, why refugees have smartphones, and more
  22. Start up: iOS 9 and the BBC, AdBlock v Chrome/YouTube, Imogen Heap’s blockchain, and more
  23. Start up: Firefox attacked, iPhone’s “3D Touch Display”?, ad folks fret on blockers, Note 5/Edge+ reviewed, and more
  24. Start up: design for cars and Xbox 360s, the rural broadband row, is Huawei Samsung v2?, hacking OSX, and more
  25. Start up: Huawei’s ambition, HTC R+D layoffs, 3D copyright, Google’s odd war on app ads, and more
  26. Start up: Wikipedia’s blackmail ban, Ashley Madison redux, Google OnHub meta-reviewed, and more
  27. Premium Android hits the wall: the Q2 2015 smartphone scorecard
  28. Start up: Android Wear on iOS, will Slack kill Dropbox?, India v Google, after the adblockers, and more

August 2015

  1. Start up: Chrome v Flash (and Google v iOS 9), HTC delays Vive, streaming’s true problem, and more
  2. Start up: wearables grow, adblocking as chemo?, how silent calls lead to fraud, Acer woes, and more
  3. Start up: Ashley Madison’s vanishing women, PC and tablet gloom, taxing sugar, and more
  4. Start up: Tim Cook’s stock question, Samsung’s pen trouble, bending the iPhone 6S, and more
  5. Start up: smartphone jobs bloodbath, Apple v watch sales, Android’s messy sharing, and more
  6. Start up: Second Life higher ed, killing more comments, Spotify’s hari-kiri, and more
  7. Yes, on a break – but once I’m back..

July 2015

  1. Start up: the Samsung conflict, Google Analytics v Edge, Windows 95 v 10, Android woes and more
  2. The adblocking revolution is months away (with iOS 9) – with trouble for advertisers, publishers and Google
  3. Start up: Wi-Fi Sense explained, another giant Android vulnerability, the US’s sleepiest cities, and more
  4. Start up: after Windows Everywhere, what?, flying Twitter’s nest, Happy Uncopyrightday, and more
  5. Start up: a huge new Android security risk, Google+ downgraded, iTunes’s giant mess, and more
  6. Start up: adblocking animus, Amazon’s aims, Ubuntu phone reviewed, the iPod Watch, and more
  7. Start up: Amazon’s profitable cloud, Apple Music woes, early days of search, and more
  8. Start up: Instagram v skin colour, slow smartphone sales, Galaxy Note 5 in a rush, and more
  9. Start up: the people who buy flops, remotely hacking Jeeps, sharing Google’s salaries, and more
  10. Start up: Windows 10’s puzzle, Adobe’s coming obituary, our digital romances, and more
  11. Start up: Google and real accident rates, who really buys iPods?, Reddit and trolls, and more
  12. Start up: how we view innovation, FBI malware v Tor, drones on the farm, Samsung in India, and more
  13. Start up: Fitbit’s problem, Google’s staff boom, Apple Watch keeps ticking, and more
  14. Start up: Seattle v the Quake, Nadella on phones, Apple Pay in UK, Google’s giant ad and more
  15. Start up: life as an “Invisible”, why use adblocking?, how Spotify’s eating your drive, and more
  16. The deaths of “Others”: how the PC market’s implosion is squeezing smaller players
  17. Start up: Reddit implodes, catching criminals via Spotify, Cameron’s mad encryption plan, and more
  18. Start up: YouTube’s smartest change, Google + Huawei, the truth on ads, Windows Phone redux, and more
  19. Start up: Windows Phone hits the buffers, more Flash woes, do Google ads discriminate?, and more
  20. Start up: Samsung’s missing numbers, Lizard Squad hacker convicted (but..), transparent aluminium!, and more
  21. Start up: uncommenting The Verge, Siri v lights, the washing machine trials, web ad delights, and more
  22. Start up: bitcoin for Greece?, news apps’ key problem, when hamburger menus are good, and more
  23. Start up: Apple Music’s likely effects, no Paypal in Greece, how Bitstamp was hacked, and more
  24. Start up: Wi-Fi password sharing?, machine intelligence smart and stupid, Pebble Time review, and more
  25. Start up: Apple’s antitrust, querying Google, Microsoft’s coming writedown, unprivate faces, and more

June 2015

  1. Start up: China’s Uber ripoff, Microsoft’s maps and ads exit, Google v Oracle redux, and more
  2. Start up: the forcePhone, analysts cut Samsung Q2 forecasts, bogus Beats?, the jailbreak economy, and more
  3. BlackBerry might have no BB7 users left by February 2016 – and that’s a big, bad problem
  4. Start up: what Chinese hackers steal, Snapdragon overheats Sony, eternal Spotify streaming, and more
  5. Start up: HTC and LG struggle, Getty’s Google complaint, Circa’s bad news, and more
  6. Start up: Kickstarter disappointment, the Apple leaks source?, Google is listening, and more
  7. BlackBerry results: my forecast: 1.3m phones, $20m operating loss
  8. Start up: tracking Android, the 1998 software warning, Google’s revenge porn move, VUT Swift?, and more
  9. Start up: Swift v Apple, Beats gets heft, Aibos’ mortality, why Upworthy pivoted, and more
  10. Start up: Lightning at Twitter, academic publishers strangle libraries, that iOS/OSX hack explained, and more
  11. Start up: Apple’s hacker flaw, Downing St’s FOI oddity, machines that parse art, and more
  12. Windows Phone: Microsoft’s really good reason to keep it going isn’t about phones
  13. Start up: Grexit to bitcoin?, Google’s antitrust deadline, Merkel’s suspect PC, Samsung security hole and more
  14. Start up: LastPass’s warning, Google tracks down racists, HTC snubs Asus, valuing maps, and more
  15. Start up: Apple’s Sonos rival?, Nokia’s smartwatch, three-ton Twitter, Netscape in the NHS, and more
  16. Start up: Oculus here!, when cashless fails, what Twitter needs now, EC’s ebook probe, and more
  17. Windows Phone, in five tweets
  18. Start up: iOS 9, Google and adblocking; Kaspersky under attack; the Search for Harm Data, and more
  19. Start up: more PC slowdowns, Apple Pay goes big, Facebook gets AI, Uber’s early days, and more
  20. HTC’s prospects begin to look like a death spiral
  21. Start up: Apple Music?!, preserving the web, watch wars, Sony’s parsimonious storage, and more
  22. Start up: find a doppelgänger!, privacy woes, voice input’s promise, Brazil’s smartphone boom, and more
  23. Start up: drone questions, Baidu barred in AI comp, why Apple shunned HERE, and more
  24. Start up: watch the commuters!, SamsungPay’s big obstacle, Apple gets mappy, and more
  25. Start up: Russia’s misinformation detailed, USB-C wins!, automation woes?, and more
  26. Great truths of our time: “journalists and coders should sit together to create amazing stuff”
  27. Start up: Apple’s transit plans, app monetisation, Samsung’s S6 rebuttal, bitcoin booboo, and more
  28. Start up: Google Wallet v Android Pay, chip consolidation, Buzzfeed’s news numbers, Android Wear lessons, and more

May 2015

  1. Great lies of our time: “journalists and coders should sit together to create amazing stuff” (updated)
  2. Start up May 29: leap second fretting, Pebble Time reviewed, Apple’s AR buy, and more
  3. How long can you wait for Android M to be on 50% of devices? Would June 2017 be OK?
  4. A vision of the future: the only two companies which get it right
  5. Start up, May 28: LG Urbane reviewed, crashing iOS, who really bought Re/Code?, Meeker’s 2015, and more
  6. Start up: Ive v the SEC, Android M and the batteries, adblock apocalypse, and more
  7. Start up: a Microsoft BlackBerry bid?, Firefox’s dead mobile dream, Montblanc’s smart watchband, and more
  8. Start up: explaining BlackBerry’s demise, Samsung S6 sales concerns, Apple Watch shipments, and more
  9. Start up: dual-app iPads?, Pebble’s cash call, improving S6 battery life, Chromebook sales and more
  10. Start up (May 21): Cisco in Russia, more Google Maps malarkey, a Watch forecast cut, and more
  11. Start up: death to calendars!, S6 hits 10m (is that fast?), why Apple ditched the TV, and more
  12. Why Sony might pull out of smartphones: it’s trying to raise prices in a falling market
  13. Start up: Apple v Samsung redux, cornering the DRAM market, what millennials will do to tech
  14. Start up: Starbucks gets pass-agg on hacking, what Uber really pays, adblocking for sociopaths, and more
  15. Start up: Starbucks app hack, more image recognition, HomeKit on the way, drone questions and more
  16. Start up: Apple Watch’s big security hole, iPhone rumours!, fight for your right to be forgotten, and more
  17. Android (and Apple, and BlackBerry, and Microsoft Mobile) handset profitability – the Q1 scorecard (updated)
  18. Start up: Apple Watch v Android Wear, the old smartphone buyers, Google halts Mapmaker (finally), and more
  19. Start up: Hololens on the edge, what self-driving cars need, the buttons that do nothing, and more
  20. Putting iOS and Android apps on Windows 10 is a white flag to rivals – and a red flag for developers
  21. Start up: costing Apple’s Watch, why Glass flopped, evaluating Fitbit, with Android’s permission?, and more
  22. Start up: Pariser on the Facebook bubble, Android Wear’s Wi-Fi tweak, bitcoin economics, and more
  23. Start up: the customer service conundrum, Consumer Reports on Apple Watch, Daimler gets self-driving, and more
  24. Start up: mobile app freight trains, mobile trumps desktop search, the switcher thing, and more
  25. Start up: over-smart stuff, is Apple squeezing free music?, distaff Tinder, Tidal disputes payouts, and more
  26. Start up: bigger force-touch iPad?, a deafblind user on the Apple Watch, OpenSeaMap needs you!, and more
  27. Start up: tablets sink further, Indiegogo’s vaporware campaigns, pricing Apple Watch, and more

April 2015

  1. Start up: Argentina v bitcoin, Secret shuts, Cyanogen dumps OnePlus, Windows10 seeks devs, and more
  2. Start up: EC v Android, Galaxy S6 top camera, how Google woke up to trouble, and more
  3. Oh, and also: Microsoft’s warning it might write down the mobile division
  4. Microsoft’s per-handset profit, or the lack of it – and its impact on Windows Phone’s future
  5. Start up: iPhone sales visualised, stopping VR sickness, Canon lurches downward, mobile design and more
  6. Start up: Watch experiences, Samsung gets Edgy, Nexus 7 stops, how CD leakers did it, and more
  7. Start up: who’ll buy HERE?, Loon gets ready, Vermeer and the Apple Watch, web v native redux, and more
  8. Start up: Yahoo’s mobile trouble, BLARPing, Galaxy S6’s slow start?, killing iOS, and more
  9. Start up: YouTube v smart TV, Google’s PR war, Gear Fit obsolete?, HTC goes in-car
  10. Start up: Wikipedia’s oldest hoaxes, Android’s audio problem, EC seeks transparent search, and more
  11. Start up: Chrome v Safari, designing Windows Phone, Apple Watch value, S6 battery life and more
  12. Lessons from history: the effect on Microsoft’s culture of the US antitrust verdict. Who’s next?
  13. Start up: correcting Google, science says videogames don’t make sexists, iPhone forecasts, and more
  14. Start up: Yahoo buying 4sq?, keyless car breakins, smartphones in Africa, and more
  15. Amazon: ever-growing behemoth, or topped out?
  16. Start up: Google v EC, decrypting ransomware, Apple’s troubled app reviews, and more
  17. Start up: spotting comment trolls, stopping piracy Of Thrones, where’s Android One?, and more
  18. Start up: S6 battery life, Datasift squeezed, notifying Apple Watch, and more
  19. Start up: PC shipments slump (again), are reviews broken?, Tidal’s challenge, monetising Android and more
  20. Start up: P&G’s disruptive nature, duck searching, Watch reviews, Google’s new ad chief, and more
  21. Start up: iMessage v Android, Waze in Costa Rica, Google knows your face!, and more
  22. Why Google’s struggles with the EC – and FTC – matter
  23. Start up: hacking nannycams, S6 SD/battery poll, Watch wait, and more
  24. Start up: Samsung’s #bendgate?, algorithms v April Fool, graphene is coming!, the US’s backward financial improvement
  25. Start up: Apple’s China watch pricing, Google v EC (and FTC), inside the Watch, and more
  26. Start up: Nintendo’s mobile money, Nest misses summer, the non-voice phone, why Tidal will fail, and more
  27. Start up: Google swipes ad injectors, streaming v vinyl, Galaxy S6 reviewed, FTC-Google scrutiny, and more

March 2015

  1. BlackBerry’s lucky that BB10 handsets sell so badly, or it would have real problems
  2. Start up: Apple Watch battery life, the trouble with AdBlock, did FBI agents nick Silk Road bitcoin?, and more
  3. Start up: why Google lost its Safari appeal, US gov trumps Kim Dotcom, S6 still bloated?, and more
  4. Samsung knows how many replacement batteries it sells. Which is why the S6 doesn’t have one
  5. Start up: Meerkat v Periscope, three new iPhones?, life as a Russian troll, and more
  6. Start up: FTC rebuts critics, Mars One or Capricorn One?, failures of tech criticism, how open is ResearchKit?, and more
  7. Start up: Apple gets prismatic, the tricorder cometh, smart home dilemmas, oceans in trouble, and more
  8. Start up: self-driving car wars, trying Hololens, Google’s targeted ads on Kansas TV, Glass undead, and more
  9. Start up: Steve Jobs v Neil Young, the robot nightmare, thoughts on watches, and more
  10. Start up: Google v FTC (and Europe), Tim Cook on Apple’s culture, Xiaomi on Microsoft, and more
  11. Start up: YouTube’s war on loudness, American’s price fears, Sharp’s cost cuts, and more
  12. When will Apple build a weightless laptop? Let 26 years’ data tell us
  13. Start up: Google checks apps, Nintendo’s app strategy?, Galaxy S6 review, why 4Chan is for sale, and more
  14. Start up: cracking iPhone passcodes, why .sucks sucks, Superfish away!, Lyft and Uber face key court case
  15. Start up: making the Apple Watch, Tinder with an AI, web v apps again, what’s the real mobile search?, and more
  16. Google’s new London retail store: only if ‘new’ means ‘four years old’ (and not a Google store)
  17. Start up: Intel stutters, Google goes retail, why Apple Watch?, what people really want in news apps, and more
  18. Start up: how Brin/Page handle email, smartwatch disruption and use, from $500k to zero on Kickstarter, and more
  19. Start up: Doppler scrolling, Apple v record labels, the price of attention, where Google+ failed, and more
  20. Start up: harassment claims against Google, android dog funerals, self-destructing handset makers? and more
  21. Apple’s loose ends: HomeKit, Apple TV, Photos, retina MacBook Air, Apple Pay?
  22. Start up: SLR death throes, why fusion won’t change things, Apple’s waterproof phone?, Samsung’s big spend, and more
  23. Start up: virtual reality gets real, our AI friends, Oracle’s junk bundle, Google’s Wiki love, games with molten lead, and more
  24. Start up: squinting at Lollipop, phone cameras ranked by pros, how Crossy Road triumphed, and more
  25. Start up: Samsung’s future?, Lollipop drops mandatory crypto, the DDOS lightbulb, Microsoft and keyboards, and more
  26. Start up: Google+ dies, fingerprint better, being watch-y, it’s the robots!, Yahoo’s odd numbers, and more
  27. Start up: Samsung’s S6, why clickbait works, the music industry’s pain, Lenovo’s clean pledge, and more

February 2015

  1. Start up: thin those CDs!, U2’s many listeners, IT price hikes coming?, YouTube’s zero profit, and more
  2. Start up: another Lenovo preinstall, abandoning GPG, video game breasts (yup), the watch business, and more
  3. Start up: should phones be thick?, toward 7nm, Volvo self-drives, S6 shortage?, Siri’s successor Viv, and more
  4. Start up: neural nets explained, Google’s spiralling spend, adieu Nest!, men and their comments, and more
  5. Committing acts of journalism: the New Yorker profile of Jony Ive
  6. Start up: Siri’s smart sibling, testing Magic Leap, more Superfish flaws, Cook the CEO, reviving Wallet, and more
  7. Start up: Lenovo, Superfish and its implications; identifying Jackson Pollocks, tech v fashion, and more
  8. Start up: Azure’s machine learning, explaining Apple’s taxes, Sony v Samsung, EC v Google redux, and more
  9. Start up: Google eases Project Zero, Xiaomi’s patent woe, Microsoft’s big Office vision, driving helium, and more
  10. Start up: Snapchat discovers media, Google v privacy, that Jony Ive interview, Russia’s phone market and more
  11. Start up: Zane Lowe joins Apple, Windows Phone five years on, Google closing Helpouts, and more
  12. Start up: Microsoft apps on Galaxy S6?, ransomware’s reward, the absent smartwatches, and more
  13. Start up: damn smart TVs, peak Google?, acting on gators, no Apple car, blue bubble discrimination and more
  14. How many Android Wear devices out of 720,000 were activated in 2014? Here’s the number
  15. Start up: Apple squeezes leakers, Google pushes health, Samsung exiting Japan?, tablet puzzles, and more
  16. Start up: the internet of advertising things, (more) smartphone profits, Left Shark attack!, the death of good sound, and more
  17. Android OEM profitability, and the most surprising number from Q4’s smartphone market
  18. Start up: TSMC/Samsung chip intrigue, emoticon overcharging, is that William Shatner?, going broke with encryption
  19. Start up: Apple Pay in the UK?, 10m Chromecasts, the hacker whose cat betrayed him, and more
  20. Start up: finding Waldo, Amazon’s tablet gripe, Samsung 4:3 tablet?, better interface design, and more
  21. Start up: dual-SIM nations, Korea v Apple (and Google), Galaxy S6 flat – or rounded?, and more
  22. Start up: smartwatches are go!, tablets shrink, bitcoins all spent?, Yahoo keeps growing in search, and more
  23. Start up: Pono Pogued, Jawbone money hassles?, car hacking, Apple Watch ahoy!, and more

January 2015

  1. Start up: Apple v Samsung, Microsoft + Cyanogen, how three bits can end your privacy, and more
  2. Start up: Douglas Adams’s living video game, Sony cuts, Microsoft’s future, haunted empires and more
  3. Start up: Google v security redux, how your browser can track you, unboiling eggs (really), Android MVNO = flop, and more
  4. Start up: web design for 2015, Nexus 6’s long slipway, hacking journalism under threat?, Zoë Keating v YouTube redux, and more
  5. Start up: where’s Apple’s Hololens?, the Xiaomi copiers, CES or Skymall product?, YouTube’s tough licensing, and more
  6. Start up: Apple Watch battery life, Amazon Echo reviewed, 3D lightning, dark web buying, Google MVNO only data?, and more
  7. Start up: Microsoft’s holodeck (sorta), Amazon stops its wallet, Facebook squashing hoaxes, how to beat the iPhone
  8. Start up: Deep Mind interviewed, App Store calculated, crapware configured, Windows 10 coming, and more
  9. Start up: Google buying Softcard?, examining Uber’s numbers, why Windows 10 can’t fix Windows Phone, examining Samsung’s loss in China, and more
  10. Start up: Samsung’s leukaemia compensation, Glass’s failure dissected, Pinterest v single ladies, unwritten Bitcoin tales, and more
  11. Start up: China’s smartphone wall, Glass stops?, PC slowdown ahead, Monument Valley sales stats, and more
  12. Start up: bitcoin’s price spiral, Siri gets smarter, Samsung + BlackBerry?, the truth about Google’s 20% time, and more
  13. Start up: Google Ventures investment in focus, Apple Watch controls in view, don’t buy Pono!, and more
  14. Start up: PC sales droop, app store revenues, security on Android and Microsoft, Apple Watch promise, and more
  15. Start up: USB-C in brief, understanding CES, jobs that vanished (in pictures), Apple Pay’s next step, and more
  16. Start up: digging into Samsung’s numbers, Pono launches, a billion tablets!, a CES wearables binge, and more
  17. In the land of the refuseniks: what Kantar’s latest smartphone data reveals
  18. Start up: Monumental confusion, obligatory (useless) 4K, drone cost surprise, Yahoo’s search inroad, ereaders stall, and more
  19. Start up: inside the Fire Phone debacle, a selfie stick successor, CES beats the bedroom, CNN’s last-ever video, and more
  20. Start up: more on AMOLED deterioration, Panic in the stores, tracking the trolls, questions for 2015 and more
  21. Start up: fooling image algorithms, Xiaomi’s big year, how AMOLED screens degrade, and more
  22. Start up: botnets worsen, who really hacked Sony?, mobile PCs in 2015, LizardSquad in detail

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