Unlikely? We think so too

Grizzled hack Mike Magee has broken the world record for drinking tea.

Mike Magee - co-founder of the Register and the founder of the INQUIRER will leave Fudzilla.com at the end of December. He will be launching new non-tech titles, under non disclosure agreements, sources indicate.

They tell you what to believe

Fundamentalist atheist Richard Dawkins has discovered that Wackypedia editors are the true gods of the internet and that he is but a worthless sinner.

Bans six and cancel sysop privileges for another dozen

The Wikimedia Foundation appears to have woken up to the fact that a number of its editors are out of control bullies.

Next step recognising the existence of Fudzilla?

The Wikimedia Foundation has taken the extraordinary step of banning one of its admins after he was found to have been posting radical right-wing views on the Wackypedia site.

Obituary Nick Farrell remembers… and then takes his medication to forget

This story prompts me to write that The INQ was hugely important to my own story. After working on tech magazines and VNUnet for a few years, it became pretty apparent that the industry was changing. The days of the freelance were slowly turning in favour of this WWW thing. I found myself in Bulgaria making very little as magazines who wanted news features were dying out.

And won't even talk to each other

Artificial intelligence can go so far, but, so far, AI isn't showing much intelligence and has a sexist core.

The end of the SnowBIT

For years upon years I trudged the halls in Hannover hoping against hope that it wouldn't snow and the biggest IT trade show in the world wouldn't turn from CeBIT into SnoBIT. And now it seems to be either NoBIT or JustaBIT.

Better to have your Brexit soft

A hard Brexit would hurt IT  distribution according to Canalys president and CEO Steve Brazier.

Switching on the light

A Scottish school is testing high speed wireless internet using light technology.