Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again [Tue Jan 22 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 22 January 2019 ***************************************************************** Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again The iPhone time machine takes us back 36 years... to the Apple Lisa ***************************************************************** Business * EU will have agreed a tech tax by March, says French finance minister Bruno le Maire confident despite 'hesitant' nations * Fujitsu says UK Foreign Office can't count in lawsuit over loss of £350m comms contract Department's response? We might have made a typo * Big Red's big pay gap: $13,000 gulf between male and female Oracle staffers – reports Women allegedly paid 13% less in bonuses, 33% less in stock value * Looming EU copyright rules – tackling Google news article scraping, installing upload filters – under fire from all sides The question now is: Will it move forward or not? Data Centre * Cisco and Pure shove mini AI in FlashStack converged systems Entry-level AIRI equivalent * French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m CNIL brands ad personalisation consent invalid, slams lack of transparency * Western Digital deploys heatsink on remodelled M.2 to tempt gamers Bringing a 'tangible, next-level competitive boost' apparently... * Ooh, my machine is SO much faster than yours... Oh, wait, that might be a bit of a problem... Techie's speed test ends up bringing sales reps' work to a screeching halt Emergent Tech * Just forget what Gartner said about AI in June 'cos CIOs are all over it now apparently Are these the stats you were looking for? Reverse ferret by tech research giant * Big problems? How could AI and machine learning help? Get a deep discount on deep learning Personal Tech * Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again The iPhone time machine takes us back 36 years... to the Apple Lisa Software * Microsoft's Master Chief calls time on Cortana as a standalone AI platform Plus: Retail services win for Azure and 365, new toy for XAML UWP devs, and more Science * Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed Climate change is going to make Monday mornings much, much, much more of a grind Bootnotes * Clone your own Prince Phil, says eBay seller hawking debris left over from royal car crash Lot fetched almost £66k before being deleted * Ever feel like all your prayers go unheard? The Catholic Church has an app for that Move over One-Click shopping, Click to Pray is here * The lighter side of HMRC: We want your money, but we also want to make you laugh Junior staffers, cold fingers get blamed for missed payments in taxman's annual attempt at humour ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing, The Cursitor, 38 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1EN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: