Boffins of the future gear up to build their own beastmode rigs

Student rack war begins at SC16 HPC Blog  The tenth annual Student Cluster Competition kicked off Monday at the SC16 conference here in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is a competition for the ages, with some wildly divergent hardware configurations, mor…

Star Wars author James Luceno on setting the stage for Rogue One

Question Club: The science, aliens, and painfully timely messages of Arrival

Budget Android phones are secretly sending users’ text messages to China

Low-end notebook, rocking horse shit or hen's teeth

Don't bother going laptop shopping A low-end notebook drought is likely coming to a town near you, multiple analysts and tech distributors have told The Reg.…

DirecTV Now to give Apple TV free for those who take 3-month deal

Gee, thanks. I guess We made it very clear in our October 20 review of DirecTV Now that no set top was going to be commissioned for the service and yet it would deliver to any TV, because it would use a digital media adapter such as Apple TV. So it …

Super Mario Run is launching on December 15th for $9.99

Nvidia en Microsoft optimaliseren Cognitive Toolkit voor gpu's

Microsoft heeft samengewerkt met Nvidia om zijn Cognitive Toolkit te optimaliseren voor gpu's. De deeplearningtoolkit heeft toepassingen in Cortana en Skype. De software moet na een update ongeveer zeven keer zo snel zijn als de eerdere versie.

HP introduceert compact Z2 Mini-workstation

HP heeft een compacte workstation aangekondigd die in een configuratie met Intel Xeon-processor en Nvidia Quadro-kaart beschikbaar komt. Het systeem van ongeveer 20 bij 20 cm is bedoeld voor grafische professionals die bijvoorbeeld met cad-software …

Amazon's cloudy 'WorkSpace' desktops-as-a-service gain a GPU

Now we're talking: these new babies have 8 vCPUs and 1,536 GPU cores Amazon Web Services' (AWS') desktop-as-a-service “WorkSpaces” just grew up. And got all muscly, too: the cloud colossus has announced a new option to add 1,536 CUDA GPU cores with …

Amazon's cloudy 'WorkSpace' desktops-as-a-service gain a GPU

Now we're talking: these new babies have 8 vCPUs and 1,536 GPU cores Amazon Web Services' (AWS') desktop-as-a-service “WorkSpaces” just grew up. And got all muscly, too: the cloud colossus has announced a new option to add 1,536 CUDA GPU cores with …

This tiny supersonic jet could be the next generation Concorde

Tim Wu on advertising, Donald Trump, and Google's central tragedy

Roccat's new over-ear headphones let you switch mics for mobile gaming

Google en Facebook blokkeren sites met nepnieuws op advertentieplatforms

Google en Facebook gaan sites die nepnieuws verspreiden, blokkeren van hun advertentieplatforms. Dat hebben beide bedrijven laten weten. In de Verenigde Staten liggen de bedrijven onder vuur, omdat nepnieuws volgens sommigen invloed heeft gehad op d…

Gerucht: Apple werkt aan headset voor augmented reality

Apple werkt aan een 'digitale bril', zo meldt het persbureau Bloomberg op basis van eigen bronnen. De headset kan een draadloze verbinding met een iPhone opbouwen en op de manier informatie weergeven. Het gebruik van augmented reality is eveneens ee…

Microsoft reveals Neandercloud / Cloud Sapiens co-existence and cross-breeding plan

Azure Pack gets six more years of active development and support until 2027 Microsoft's revealed that it will keep working on its first Azure-in-a-box product, Azure Pack, until 2022 and support it until 2027.…

Google and Facebook pledge to stop their ads reaching fake news sites

Yesterday Facebook said it could not judge the truth and had no fake news problems Google and Facebook have both announced they'll try to stop their ads making it onto fake news sites.…

Microsoft reveals Neandercloud / Cloud Sapiens co-existence and cross-breeding plan

Azure Pack gets six more years of active development and support until 2027 Microsoft's revealed that it will keep working on its first Azure-in-a-box product, Azure Pack, until 2022 and support it until 2027.…

Apple releases $300 book containing 450 photos of Apple products

Nokia's canceled smartwatch appears in leaked video