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MSI introduceert low-profile-versies van GTX 1050 en 1050 Ti

MSI heeft low-profile versies van de Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 en 1050 Ti aangekondigd. De kaarten beschikken over twee ventilators met een diameter van 50mm en hebben geen extra voedingskabels nodig.

FTC report highlights challenge of how to best regulate 'sharing economy' platforms

Watchdog should look to the users for help User rating and review services provided by online platforms can help reduce the need to regulate the "sharing economy", according to a report by a US regulator.…

UK.gov flings £400m at gold standard, ‘full-fibre' b*&%*%£$%. Yep. Broadband

Stop drooling, BT. It's not for you The government is to release £400m towards full-fibre broadband in its Autumn Statement tomorrow, part of its Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund.…

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HTC komt met internationale versie van waterdichte smartphone zonder 3,5mm-jack

HTC heeft de evo-versie van de HTC 10 aangekondigd. In de VS bracht de fabrikant het toestel uit onder de naam Bolt. Daar is het toestel, dat niet over een 3,5mm-aansluiting beschikt, alleen beschikbaar bij provider Sprint. De HTC 10 evo is bedoeld …

Fallout from Euro Patent Office meltdown reaches Dutch parliament

King Battistelli, of course, remains unrepentant The extraordinary meltdown at the European Patent Office (EPO) has started to draw political attention, with the Dutch parliament planning a debate on the organization and its ongoing problems.…

AI is all trendy and fun – but it's still a long way from true intelligence, Facebook boffins admit

To be fair, the same goes for many humans, too Researchers at Facebook have attempted to build a machine capable of reasoning from text – but their latest paper shows true machine intelligence still has a long way to go.…

Tesla powers a whole island with solar to show off its energy chops

Irish eyes are crying: Tens of thousands of broadband modems wide open to hijacking

D1000 can be directed to drop its firewall, allowing access to panel over the internet Eir, Ireland's largest ISP, has tens of thousands of customers with insecure ADSL2+ modems that appear to be vulnerable to remote takeover.…

Glacier melt race increases vastly … for AWS cold storage

Sorry, no climate change. Just faster Glacier retrieval and new cloud hijinks with desktops-as-a-service-in-a-browser Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a few price cut announcements a few days out from its Re:Invent shindig in Las Vegas.…

New state of matter discovered by superconductivity gurus

The 'pseudogap' state could be key to high-temperature superconductors Physicists may be one step closer to cracking the mystery behind high-temperature superconductivity, as they confirm that a new distinct state of matter forms just before a mater…

Glacier melt race increases vastly … for AWS cold storage

Sorry, no climate change. Just faster Glacier retrieval and new cloud hijinks with desktops-as-a-service-in-a-browser Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a few price cut announcements a few days out from its Re:Invent shindig in Las Vegas.…

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'Nieuwe aftapwet mist effectief toezicht op bevoegdheden veiligheidsdiensten'

De Raad voor de Rechtspraak, de overkoepelende organisatie van rechters, heeft een advies uitgebracht over de nieuwe aftapwet. De organisatie is van mening dat het wetsvoorstel op dit moment onvoldoende toezicht op de bevoegdheden van de veiligheids…