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Chris Merriman is a freelance technology journalist who leads an exciting double life as INQ's Associate Editor. He joined the INQUIRER in 2013 after a long career messing about with tech in the music industry. He graduated from the University of Sunderland a very long time ago.

He got his first smartphone in 2003 and his first soldering iron in 1989. Before joining the INQUIRER, he divided his time between managing social media campaigns, music and tech journalism, radio presenting and DJing in London's glittering West End.

His love of all things tech is inherited from his grandfather, who worked on NASA's Gemini, Mercury and Apollo programmes and used to keep discarded rocket prototypes in the garage to cannibalise for odd jobs around the house. 

Since he joined Chris has been responsible for several major scoops for INQ, mostly surrounding privacy issues in Windows 10. Weirdly, Microsoft still invites him to things, occasionally.

As well as his written burblings, he can be found doing shonky product demos as the resident "Tech Guru" on The Matthew Wright Show, every Wednesday afternoon on Talkradio. He has also appeared as an expert on Sky, BBC and Al Jazeera amongst others.

Chris's ambitions include having an entry on Wikipedia, a blue tick on Twitter, finding the perfect cup of coffee and the cure for whatever has sent the human race so bonkers lately. 

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Blade Runner is set in November 2019, here's how accurate the tech is
Blade Runner is set in November 2019, here's how accurate the tech is

Perfect human replicas but not so much as a Nokia 3310 to be seen

  • Software
  • 04 November 2019
RIPE's IPv4 allocations to run out next month
RIPE's IPv4 allocations to run out next month

Crunch time finally approaches for IPv4

  • Communications
  • 21 October 2019
Python creator Guido van Rossum quits Dropbox, triggering his retirement
Python creator Guido van Rossum quits Dropbox, triggering his retirement

But he's not an ex-programmer. He has not ceased to be.

  • Software
  • 01 October 2019
Ticwatch S2 review
Ticwatch S2 review

A great fitness watch disgused as an above average smartwatch

  • Hardware
  • 01 July 2019
Bitdefender on how its protecting your smart home with a Box
Bitdefender on how its protecting your smart home with a Box

And why all the machine learning happens inside your home network

  • Security
  • 21 January 2019
Robocop, but not as you know him: Singapore's has four tyres and a camera

Singapore showed the robot off at the Annual Association of South East Asian Nations conference

  • Hardware
  • 23 November 2018
EU is testing AI-controlled border crossing - updated

Hungary, Latvia and Greece are testing the iBorderCtrl (yes, really) AI system

  • Software
  • 01 November 2018
Warning over VPNFilter malware and botnet as more routers are affected
Warning over VPNFilter malware and botnet as more routers are affected

Popular Netgear and TP-Link routers added to Cisco Talos VPNFilter warning list

  • Security
  • 07 June 2018
April release date fixed for Microsoft's Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
April release date fixed for Microsoft's Windows 10 Spring Creators Update

Next Creators Update will feature Skype-like re-design of the user interface

  • Software
  • 15 March 2018
Professor Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018: obituary

Hawking defied Motor Neurone Disease for much of his life

  • Hardware
  • 14 March 2018
Obituary - Professor Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018
Obituary - Professor Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018

Professor Stephen Hawking overcome the debilitating effects of motor neuron disease diagnosed at the age of just 21

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 14 March 2018
Microsoft to dump Windows 10 S and ship Windows 10 with a locked-down 'S Mode' instead
Microsoft to dump Windows 10 S and ship Windows 10 with a locked-down 'S Mode' instead

Joe Belfiore confirms the operating system shift on Twitter

  • Software
  • 08 March 2018
Microsoft pulls Meltdown and Spectre Windows patch poleaxing AMD Athlon PCs, blaming AMD for the borkage
Microsoft pulls Meltdown and Spectre Windows patch poleaxing AMD Athlon PCs, blaming AMD for the borkage

AMD documentation not up to snuff, sniffs Microsoft

  • Security
  • 09 January 2018
Nintendo Switch reaches 10 million sales less than nine months after launch

Nintendo plans to manufacture up to 30 million Switch consoles next year

  • Hardware
  • 13 December 2017
Google Pixel 2 XL has a problem with responsiveness at screen edges

Another problem with the Google Pixel 2? That's unusual, isn't it?

  • Hardware
  • 13 November 2017
Uber loses employment rights appeal over drivers' self-employed status
Uber loses employment rights appeal over drivers' self-employed status

Uber vows to fight on (and on, and on)

  • Software
  • 10 November 2017
Amazon Key will enable drivers to let themselves in to your house to deposit parcels
Amazon Key will enable drivers to let themselves in to your house to deposit parcels

Err, I don't think so, thank you very much, Amazon

  • Hardware
  • 26 October 2017
Facebook claims 30,000 more customers for Workplace as it adds chat, and clients for Windows and Mac
Facebook claims 30,000 more customers for Workplace as it adds chat, and clients for Windows and Mac

Facebook adds features to Workplace in a bid to chisel off some users from Slack

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 26 October 2017
Google Pixel 2: Users complain of even more faults
Google Pixel 2: Users complain of even more faults

Problems deepen for Google's ultra-expensive smartphone

  • Hardware
  • 25 October 2017
Elon Musk: AI, not North Korea's Kim Jong-un, will start World War Three
Elon Musk: AI, not North Korea's Kim Jong-un, will start World War Three

Musk responds to Russian President Vladimir Putin's warning that the leader in AI would "become ruler of the world"

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 05 September 2017
Windows 7 EOL timebomb identified
Windows 7 EOL timebomb identified

Latest figures reveal Microsoft is still struggling to shift people off Windows 7. Will it be the XP End of Life drama all over again?

  • Software
  • 01 September 2017
Google and Apple share 'mixed reality' plans
Google and Apple share 'mixed reality' plans

Mixed reality adds a virtual edge to the real world

  • Software
  • 31 August 2017
465,000 vulnerable pacemakers recalled by US authorities
465,000 vulnerable pacemakers recalled by US authorities

Faulty firmware in St Jude Medical / Abbotts devices means there is a risk of malicious attack

  • Security
  • 31 August 2017
Uber unveils new CEO - Dara Khosrowshahi lured from Expedia - to replace Travis Kalanick
Uber unveils new CEO - Dara Khosrowshahi lured from Expedia - to replace Travis Kalanick

Uber brings in "calming influence" to help steady the sinking ship

  • Hardware
  • 30 August 2017
Western Digital's MyCloud Home aims to unify the connected home
Western Digital's MyCloud Home aims to unify the connected home

First NAS aimed at the smart home

  • Storage
  • 30 August 2017
Crucial releases BX300 SSD offering more performance for the same price

Still running your old PC on spinning rust? Crucial wants you to buy one of these instead

  • Storage
  • 29 August 2017
Eve V, the World's first crowdsourced tablet, to be launched within weeks
Eve V, the World's first crowdsourced tablet, to be launched within weeks

Eve V looks like it will give the Microsoft Surface Pro a strong run for its money - if the price is right

  • Hardware
  • 25 August 2017
Google Updates: Sex, Yandex and Bad Ad Hex
Google Updates: Sex, Yandex and Bad Ad Hex

It's the week in Google....

  • Software
  • 11 August 2017
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations officially announced
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations officially announced

Microsoft reveals another new feature in the Fall Creators' Update

  • Software
  • 11 August 2017
Google engineer fingered for writing diversity memo is fired
Google engineer fingered for writing diversity memo is fired

Engineer James Damore "currently exploring all possible legal remedies"

  • Software
  • 08 August 2017
Windows 10 eye-tracking feature goes into open beta for Microsoft's Windows Insiders
Windows 10 eye-tracking feature goes into open beta for Microsoft's Windows Insiders

Accessibility feature will enable Windows 10 users to type with their eyes

  • Hardware
  • 04 August 2017
IBM breaks tape storage record getting 330 terabytes onto a single cartridge
IBM breaks tape storage record getting 330 terabytes onto a single cartridge

Who said tape was (completely) dead?

  • Hardware
  • 03 August 2017
Half of UK adults never change their router password
Half of UK adults never change their router password

Security? We've heard of it

  • Security
  • 03 August 2017
Acer releases cut-price HoloLens alternative to developers - available for just $300
Acer releases cut-price HoloLens alternative to developers - available for just $300

If it's anything like Acer's laptops it will work for a couple of years and then fall apart

  • Hardware
  • 02 August 2017
Mark Zuckerberg criticises Elon Musk for 'irresponsible' warnings over AI
Mark Zuckerberg criticises Elon Musk for 'irresponsible' warnings over AI

But Elon Musk hits back suggesting that Zuckerberg 'has limited understanding of AI'

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 25 July 2017
Western Digital wins injunction over Toshiba restoring access to intellectual property databases and chip samples for WD staff
Western Digital wins injunction over Toshiba restoring access to intellectual property databases and chip samples for WD staff

Western Digital wins first round against Toshiba - one of many in the legal battles to come between the two companies

  • Storage
  • 12 July 2017
Ubuntu Linux lands in Microsoft Windows 10 Store for Insiders
Ubuntu Linux lands in Microsoft Windows 10 Store for Insiders

Ubuntu for Windows to run in a Sandbox environment, with SUSE and Fedora also expected to get similar treatment

  • Software
  • 11 July 2017
New internet DRM standard approved by W3C in 'compromise' that critics say favours content providers
New internet DRM standard approved by W3C in 'compromise' that critics say favours content providers

HTML5 and 'encrypted media extensions' will at least mean that Flash and Silverlight can be put up against a wall and shot

  • Security
  • 10 July 2017
Stanford and MIT researchers create 3D carbon nanotube CPU architecture
Stanford and MIT researchers create 3D carbon nanotube CPU architecture

Techniques unlikely to be adopted any time soon, however

  • Hardware
  • 07 July 2017
Researchers at Stanford and MIT create 3D carbon nanotube CPU architecture to stretch Moore's Law more
Researchers at Stanford and MIT create 3D carbon nanotube CPU architecture to stretch Moore's Law more

What they gain in enthusiasm, they lack in a solid ETA

  • Hardware
  • 06 July 2017
Microsoft to nag Windows 10 users to upgrade to the Creators Edition
Microsoft to nag Windows 10 users to upgrade to the Creators Edition

Microsoft to transmit on-screen pop-ups to prod Windows 10 users to install Creators Update

  • Software
  • 04 July 2017
Volvo autonomous vehicles struggle to identify kangeroos on Australian roads
Volvo autonomous vehicles struggle to identify kangeroos on Australian roads

'When it's in the air it actually looks like it's further away, then it lands and it looks closer,' says Volvo's David Pickett

  • Big Data and Analytics
  • 29 June 2017
Microsoft admits to deactivating non-Microsoft security applications in Windows 10
Microsoft admits to deactivating non-Microsoft security applications in Windows 10

Don't worry! Microsoft has a perfectly valid excuse, honest.

  • Security
  • 22 June 2017
Passengers left steaming as IT glitch knocks out rail ticket machines
Passengers left steaming as IT glitch knocks out rail ticket machines

Commuters less than chuffed by ticket machine outage

  • Software
  • 22 June 2017
Taxi for Uber CEO Travis Kalanick!
Taxi for Uber CEO Travis Kalanick!

Kalanick resigns following shareholder pressure, as they watch their supposed $50bn company flush itself down the toilet

  • Communications
  • 21 June 2017
Atari to release the Ataribox, its first console since the Jaguar
Atari to release the Ataribox, its first console since the Jaguar

Nostalgia never goes out of fashion

  • Hardware
  • 19 June 2017
Microsoft shifts Windows Server to its twice-yearly update policy
Microsoft shifts Windows Server to its twice-yearly update policy

Microsoft moves Windows Server to the same twice-yearly update cycle as Windows 10 and Office

  • Software
  • 19 June 2017
Mozilla releases Firefox 54 web browser that, it claims, isn't a resource hog
Mozilla releases Firefox 54 web browser that, it claims, isn't a resource hog

Mozilla promises faster Firefox for browsers who like having hundreds of tabs open

  • Software
  • 16 June 2017
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