Chinese prefecture orders GPS trackers in every car in effort to curb violence

Samsung’s incubator lab is getting seriously into virtual and augmented reality

SciTE 3.7.3

Versie 3.7.3 van SciTE is uitgekomen. Scintilla Text Editor is een opensource en cross-platform teksteditor. Het maakt gebruik van de opensource Scintilla Text Editor-bibliotheek, wat van dezelfde makers is. Deze bibliotheek wordt ook door andere pr…

You're doing Hadoop and Spark wrong and they will probably fail

Developers want the new shiny, users forget integration and then along come the vendors ... Your attempt at putting Hadoop or Spark to work probably won't work, and you'll be partly to blame for thinking they are magic.…

Australia commences critical infrastructure protection consultation

The plan is to build a database of 'stuff we don't want bombed' Last month, Australia's federal government established a Critical Infrastructure Centre. Now it's decided to ask what the centre should protect.…

Amazon brings Alexa to UK TVs with updated Fire TV Stick

Here’s how to make Half-Life 2 look like Minecraft on a thumb-sized PC

Java and Python have unpatched firewall-crossing FTP SNAFU

This gets interesting when you find your way into a mail server, says dev who found it Stop us if you've heard this one: Java and Python have a bug you can exploit to cross firewalls. Since neither are yet patched, it might be a good day to nag your…

Software glitch, not wind farms, blacked out 60,000 in South Australia

Senate committee told SA Power 'sat on' a problem for a while while SA sweltered Yet another reason that isn't wind farms has emerged for recent blackouts in the Australian State of South Australia: dodgy software.…

Intel reveals Optane will need a 7th-gen core and a PC-centric launch

Blah The price and precise performance of Intel's Optane storage-class memory still remain officially obscure, but the company has confirmed the PC version of the product will run only on 7th-generation Core i7, i5 and i3 CPUS nestled into certain m…

Intel reveals Optane will need a 7th-gen core and a PC-centric launch

Blah The price and precise performance of Intel's Optane storage-class memory still remain officially obscure, but the company has confirmed the PC version of the product will run only on 7th-generation Core i7, i5 and i3 CPUS nestled into certain m…

BS Detection 101 becomes actual University subject

Uni of Washington says the age of Big Data makes statistical literacy essential How could El Reg ignore this? – two University of Washington professors have assembled a course to teach students to identify bullshit.…

WhatsApp krijgt update die gebruikersstatus in beelden kan weergeven

Whatsapp gaat WhatsApp Status uitbrengen, een update waarmee gebruikers in de berichtenapp hun status kunnen weergeven door middel van foto's en video's die na 24 uur weer automatisch verdwijnen. Ook deze statusupdates maken gebruik van end-to-end-…

Uber’s review of sexism allegations will be run by Eric Holder and some Uber employees

Wetenschappers maken ai die bij baby's ontwikkeling autisme kan voorspellen

Wetenschappers van de Universiteit van North Carolina hebben een algoritme ontwikkeld dat de diagnose autisme kan stellen bij baby's tussen de 6 en 12 maanden oud. Op basis van hersenscans bleek het algoritme in staat in 81 procent van de gevallen d…

NZ High Court rules US can extradite Kim Dotcom after all

Kimble's running out of road The businessman otherwise known as Kim Schmitz, aka "Kimble", aka "Kim Dotcom", has lost his High Court appeal in New Zealand to be extradited to the USA.…

Wetenschappers ontwikkelen kunstmatige intelligentie met 'reukvermogen'

Een groep wetenschappers, waaronder een team van de KU Leuven, hebben algoritmes ontwikkeld die voor een deel in staat zijn geur van moleculen te voorspellen op basis van de chemische structuur. Van de negentien gebruikte geuren hebben de algoritmes…

Report: Apple is planning a top-to-bottom refresh for the iPad in March

New 7.9, 9.7, 10.5, and 12.9-inch models are all said to be on tap.

Milo Yiannopoulos’ book deal canceled after pedophilia remarks

Do we need a wearable voice recorder to take notes for us?

What’s better than a ‘smart’ hairbrush? A supersonic one, according to this Dyson patent