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Starbucks Vietnam: Why The US Chain Cannot Crack A Coffee-loving Nation

The verdict is clear: Vietnamese people love coffee, but they don’t really seem to like Starbucks. Read more

Google Offers To Alert Netizens When Their Personal Info Shows Up In Search

I Have Been Pw, er, Indexed Google is carrying out its corporate mission statement – to organize the world's informat... Read more

Canada's Telus To Shed 6K Workers As Profits Plunge 61%

Big cheese asks if anyone wants to take early retirement? Canadian telco Telus plans to ditch 6,000 workers across its ... Read more

Read Lips? Siri Wants To Feel Them, According To Fresh Apple Patent

We make movements when we talk, and gyro, accelerometer and sensor tech could improve speech recog Siri's ability to re... Read more

Big Chip Players Join Forces To Form Another RISC-V Venture

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints The RISC-V open instruction set architecture got a boost ... Read more

Telecom Giants Dial Up The Heat On Suppliers: It's Not You, It's Your CO2

Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with 'best practices' and a 'climate lens' A telecoms industry body focused on corpor... Read more

How To Get A Computer Get Stuck In A Lift? Ask An 'illegal Engineer'

Settle in for a weighty story with plenty of gravity On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's regular Fr... Read more

Out Of Nowhere, India Requires PC And Server Makers To Get An Import License

This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing India yesterday changed its trade rules to require manufacturers of ma... Read more

Devastating Wildfires Spur New Detection Systems

Firms are using AI, drones and satellite tech to help detect and suppress wildfires. Read more

Blue Origin Tells Staff To Catch Next Rocket Back To Their Desks

Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says Blue Origin, the off-planet enterprise owned by Jeff Bezo... Read more

Brave Cuts Ties With Bing To Offer Its Own Image And Video Search Results

There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it Brav... Read more

UK Government's Semiconductor Brain Trust Meets For The First Time

Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it The UK government has confirmed the formation of an ... Read more

Qualcomm's Great Vanishing Act: $2.48B Of Q3 Profit Disappears

Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach That long feted turnaround... Read more

China Floats Strict Screentime Limits And Content Crimps For Kids

Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to... Read more

Tech Shares Fall As China Mulls Child Smartphone Limits

Shares of firms such as Alibaba and video-sharing website Bilibili extended their losses in Asia on Thursday. Read more