Cheap as chips! Tier 2 pub landlord to start selling ‘substantial’ scampi and fries for just £3

A London pub landlord will start selling scampi and chips for just £3 next week when he is forced to sell a ‘substantial meal’ to every drinker under Tier 2 restrictions. Gary Murphy, of the Ye Old Mitre in High Barnet, said it would be impossible to grill his regular £10 dishes for each punter … Read more

Qualcomm to supply Huawei 4G chips only, not 5G

Qualcomm may be officially supplying components for Huawei. We mentioned this last week and now more details are surfacing. Qualcomm may be able to supply to Huawei and continue business as it was able to obtain a license from the US government. The US trade ban has been making things more difficult not only for … Read more

Ethics of Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other brain chips questioned

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is just one of many companies working on a brain chip and although the implants may be imminent, experts warn it comes with ethical matters.  Researchers at North Carolina University note brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies that aim to enhance cognitive abilities could question the authenticity of people’s achievements, as they may be … Read more

Apple to unveil first Macs powered by custom Arm-based silicon chips

Apple is expected to unveil the first Mac computers powered by its own custom Arm-based processor at its ‘One More Thing’ event tonight. The event will be livestreamed from the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California from 18:00 GMT (13:00 ET) on Tuesday, November 10. This marks the first time in the Mac’s 36-year history that … Read more

Samsung Exynos chips to power budget phones from Xiaomi, OPPO

Samsung has a couple of Exynos chips lined-up for release in the coming days and Qualcomm is all set to launch its next flagship silicon in December. While Exynos doesn’t command the kind of sales Qualcomm or say MediaTek processors do, it is making subtle inroads to create a presence. After testing waters with its … Read more

Tory MP tweets snap of his ‘posh fish and chips’ dinner and gets BATTERED by abuse

Conservative MP Andrew Bowie has had to endure a barrage of abuse after he posted a picture of his fish and chips dinner on social media. When the MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine shared the tasty snap he was expecting to receive a comment or two.  But hundreds of Twitter users latched onto the … Read more

Android phones with Qualcomm DSP chips can become “spying tools”: Report

Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are part of more than 40-percent of Android phones from various manufactures. If you own one such high-end device, be informed that a specific Qualcomm digital signal processor (DSP) chip has 400 vulnerabilities that make your phone a spying tool, cybersecurity company Check Point reports. The report confirms that Qualcomm DSP chips … Read more

Human hair chips away at a razor’s edge, engineers say

A shaving razor that doesn’t blunt could be on the horizon after scientists discover human hair can ‘chip’ metal blades, despite being 50 times softer than steel. In shaving experiments, engineers closely studied shaving in ultra-fine detail with an electron microscope to see how a razor blade can be damaged as it cuts human hair. … Read more

ITM Power’s management take a few chips off the table

Having built a company worth almost £1.5billion, the management team of ITM Power could be forgiven for taking a few chips off the table, particularly with the shares close to an all-time high. Boss Graham Cooley, chief financial officer Andy Allen, chief technology officer Simon Bourne and executive director Rachel Smith all exercised share options this … Read more