New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech While weather and workforce strikes have affected air travel in Europe and the US this holiday season, Southeast Asia experienced disruption of its own due to a Ne…
Lees meerUsing a gigahertz-class computer to get an 36MHz computer onto the internet – or even just printing Code whizz and tinkerer Kian Ryan's ingenious "Sidecar" is a self-contained, battery-powered Wi-Fi-to-RS232 bridge that enables his elderly Psion 5MX…
Lees meerA pose by any other name would pay as sweet Opinion Information technology has a long tradition of making up new job titles to emphasize how futuristic we all are. Who can forget IBM's Worldwide Head Of Objects?…
Lees meerNeed a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need We're all used to dealing with system memory in neat factors of eight. As capacity goes up, it follows a predictable binary scale doubling from 8GB to 16GB to 32GB and so …
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Lees meerHopefully it comes with a 'new' competitive price, too Nvidia this week quietly, and perhaps unintentionally, revealed the previously canceled RTX 4080 12GB would be reborn as the RTX 4070 TI.…
Lees meerDid someone say teenage mutant ninja servers? Datacenters use a lot of power and despite our best efforts, a big chunk of that still comes from burning fossil fuels. But what if instead of relying on local utilities for power, these facilities gener…
Lees meerSometimes bringing your work laptop on a trip pays off On-Call Much of the world may be on holiday, but On-Call – The Register’s weekly tale of readers being asked to rescue tortured tech, is still hard at it.…
Lees meerWe can already imagine Louis R's reaction Video New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has approved a comprehensive right-to-repair law for tech products – the first of its kind for a US state – though not before some changes were made to the fine prin…
Lees meerWe'll have what Europe's having Smartphones and other mobile devices sold in India must have a USB-C charging port as standard by March 2025.…
Lees meerActions speak volumes Mass production of 3nm components has begun at TSMC's south Taiwan facilities, the silicon slinger announced on Thursday.…
Lees meerThere's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money Comment Hype around liquid and immersion cooling has reached a fever pitch in recent months, and it appears that the colocation datacenter market is ready to get in on the action.…
Lees meerTurns out patent trolls don't like being outed by their lawyers Intel and SoftBank-backed VLSI Technology have agreed to end a $4 billion patent dispute, according to documents filed in Delaware District Court this week.…
Lees meerHave they tried turning it off and back on again? Winter storms and staff shortages were only the tipping point that sent Southwest Airlines IT infrastructure over the edge, leaving thousands still stranded across the US, chief operating officer And…
Lees meerWhen the chips are down, bet the farm In spite of uncertain economic conditions, Kyocera is reportedly putting its stake in Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI on the line to expand its semiconductor footprint.…
Lees meerWhat to do with the boss who refuses to answer the phone? Or wants a bigger cubicle? Revenge, that's what Who, Me? The Reg's weekly confessional column, Who, Me?, is on holidays with shoes off, a festive drink in hand, and a warm fire. That's a com…
Lees meerAs if you needed another reason to delete the app right now Video sharing platform TikTok and its parent company Bytedance are leakier than a sieve – and it has emerged that in an attempt to plug the holes, members of Bytedance's internal audit team…
Lees meer'No plans at this time,' it tells us, but won't rule it out amid reports execs are visiting Dresden, Germany TSMC told The Reg it has no "plans at this time" to site one of its factories in Europe but wouldn't rule anything out amid reports that the…
Lees meerXbox maker responds to US regulator's lawsuit to block the acquisition Microsoft has put forward its argument against the US trade regulator's attempt to block its massive purchase of games dev Activision Blizzard from going through, claiming the de…
Lees meerFintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff Opinion With the quick one-two punch of FTX and Binance, crypto is finally losing its luster as the next revolution in money.…
Lees meer'Plague' of ageing, inadequate data systems strikes again as state struggles to cut £22b maintenance bill The UK government has failed to get a grip on the management of its £158 billion ($190 billion) property portfolio because of a failure to repl…
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