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May the excessive force be with you: Chap cuffed after Star Trek v Star Wars row turns bloody

PollA bloke was arrested after a shouting match with a pal over Star Wars versus Star Trek led to blood being spilled.
Iain Thomson, 07 Jul 2017
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Raspberry, image via Shutterstock

Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'

Few could argue with what the Raspberry Pi has achieved. As well as inspiring countless youngsters into computing, the tiny affordable gadget is beloved by amateur and professional techies alike.
Kat Hall, 04 Jul 2017

One thought equivalent to less than a single proton in mass

Reg Standards BureauFraction required to equal one Katie Hopkins column still unknown
101 Comments
04 Jul 12:36

Male escort says he gave up IT to do something more meaningful

Unlike in tech, 'I get to make a small difference to people's lives'
116 Comments
03 Jul 11:33
Fidget Spinner

In touching tribute to Samsung Note 7, fidget spinners burst in flames

Hang on, there's a tech angle in here somewhere... IoT, right?
78 Comments
29 Jun 20:42

The 'DUP' joins El Reg’s illustrious online standards converter

Reg Standards BureauHow much can you find down the back of your sofa?
80 Comments
27 Jun 14:34

Snoop Dogg swerves Glasto, plays Pure Storage gig #keepitreal

'Where all the sexy ladies at?' Snoop asks hall of middle-aged suits
14 Comments
26 Jun 12:06

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

Bundles of future chip wrappers allegedly nabbed from London rail station
122 Comments
26 Jun 08:37

Ex-NASA bod on Gwyneth Paltrow site's 'healing' stickers: 'Wow. What a load of BS'

Paltrow, we have a problem
120 Comments
23 Jun 11:20

Genoans flout terror ban with bumper basil hand baggage policy

Sauce on a plane
33 Comments
22 Jun 16:32

Canadian sniper makes kill shot at distance of 3.5 KILOMETRES

He'd have been aiming higher than the top of London's Shard to hit his mark
181 Comments
22 Jun 15:28

Researchers take the piss with pee-powered liquid energy project

Bill Gates' cistern system uses your personal recharger
32 Comments
21 Jun 07:00

Hotheaded Brussels civil servants issued with cool warning: Leak

Brexit? No, no... it's baking! Put away the booze, biz-suit
70 Comments
19 Jun 12:38

When corporate signage goes BAD

LogoBotchThe Cisco slip of 2010
31 Comments
19 Jun 08:01

AWS launches celebrity-spotting-as-a-service: What a time to be alive

Cloud can now ID 'hundreds of thousands' of athletes, pollies, actors, struggles with oiled butt
31 Comments
13 Jun 02:35

Swedish school pumps up volume to ease toilet trauma

Don't blush, just flush
141 Comments
12 Jun 14:58

Hyperloop One teases idea of 50-minute London-Edinburgh ride

Reveals candidate European routes, two tunnels under the Med, under under Baltic Sea
194 Comments
07 Jun 06:57
Harvard

Class clowns literally classless: Harvard axes meme-flinging morons

Uni gives kids a lesson they'll never forget after spreading stupidity on Facebook
70 Comments
05 Jun 20:21
Man wrapped in turqouise cable-knit blanket sips from hot drink - is clearly ill. Photo by Shutterstock

Oil and lube firm offers to ease pains of frustrated office workers

Emo Oil targets overheated marketeers and frigid FM specialists alike
16 Comments
05 Jun 12:32
Asus X555LD

Utah fights man's attempt to marry laptop

Foe of same-sex unions seeks to wed machine
113 Comments
02 Jun 22:02

German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament

Bless me father for I have SYNTAX ERROR
32 Comments
31 May 02:40

IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni

Not a good fit. Apparently
61 Comments
30 May 09:37

I'll take the sandtrooper in white: Meet the rebel scum making Star Wars armour sets for a living

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Short of £180,000? These guys will sort you out
38 Comments
30 May 08:02

WannaLaugh? Funsters port WannaCrypt to Commodore, Cisco, Nintendo and Tesla

Some folk have Photoshop and too much time on their hands
30 Comments
29 May 08:02

The revolution will not be televised: How Lucas modernised audio in film

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Thank God for Jedi (and other words I thought I'd never use)
69 Comments
26 May 09:06

Walkers' Crisps pulls backfiring Tweet campaign that paired Gary Lineker and a bunch of nasties

Pranksters game promo to feature sex crims, murderers, terrorists....
41 Comments
25 May 16:21

Industrial Light & Magic: 40 years of Lucas's pioneering FX-wing

Star Wars New Hope @ 40The roots of multithreaded rendering software
46 Comments
25 May 08:38

'Odour' from AnalTech ramming leads to hazmat team callout

Some might say this is fake news. It isn't
38 Comments
24 May 12:34

Armstrong's moon-purse set for $4m bid-off

One small bag for a man, one giant check for Sotheby's
23 May 23:53

IT firms guilty of blasting customers with soul-numbing canned music

That's rich, coming from an audio-branded-call-handling biz
123 Comments
23 May 09:01

Vegemite tries to hijack Qantas name-our-planes competition

He just smiled and gave me... er, a copy of the Ts and Cs
65 Comments
22 May 16:03

After stiffing us with Trump, Weiner 'fesses to underage cock shot rot

'I have a sickness,' former politician notices while facing two years in chokey
55 Comments
19 May 18:48

Man sues date for cinema texting fiasco, demands $17.31

'Defendant’s behaviour is a threat to civilised society', claims Texan
101 Comments
19 May 12:23
White House

White House sicko sent down for 20 years after sexting underage girls

No, not who you're thinking of. Sad!
48 Comments
18 May 23:50
via leeds police. yes really. inflatable penis costume

Leeds cops issue appeal for man-sized todger

Pricking your memory, anyone?
21 Comments
17 May 12:04
Thomas the tank engine

Train station's giant screens showed web smut at peak hour

The 17:21 to Happy Town is going in and out and is aaah-aah-bout to finish its journey
70 Comments
17 May 06:33

MP3 'died' and nobody noticed: Key patents expire on golden oldie tech

And Fraunhofer won't renew 'em
163 Comments
16 May 11:38
Trolls from the film "Troll 2"

Blighty bloke: PC World lost my Mac Mini – and trolled my blog!

Retailer accused of acting like a real bunch of Dixons
73 Comments
16 May 05:04
shutterstock_cockerel

Giant spawn hammer on Antarctica map. Thanks, Google Waze

UpdatedCrowdsourcing is the future of (pubic) navigation
The TNMOC Virtual Lorenz cipher machine

Have a go with this WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine – in your browser

Fancy a crack at being Germany's secret signalman?
39 Comments
15 May 10:30
An Insitu Scaneagle drone being launch from a Royal Navy warship. Crown copyright

US Coast Guard: We're rather chuffed with our new Boeing spy drone

Meanwhile Britain is binning it. Well done, admirals
44 Comments
12 May 12:56
Airlander 10

Huge flying arse makes successful test flight

Nine months after its buttocks ignominiously met terra firma
58 Comments
11 May 12:10
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