Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink? The Biden administration apparently wants SpaceX to support the anti-government protests in Iran – by providing Starlink satellite broadband to the Mid-East nation after its religious rulers restricted internet …
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Lees meerTwitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment Elon Musk has reportedly told investors in his Twitter buyout that he will gut the workforce by 75 percent once his c…
Lees meerMoving from Hadoop to open data lakehouse on all-flash storage solutions Webinar In the early 2010s, Hadoop was seen by many as the answer to soaring data storage demand. It could, after all, hold a huge volume and variety of information.…
Lees meerFormer staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme IBM intends to withhold tens of thousands of dollars each from certain retiring staff unless they agree to the IT giant's demands.…
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Lees meerThe question is: how severe will the Middle Kindgom's response be? Analysis The Biden administration's efforts to stymie China's semiconductor industry appear to have got the attention of chipmakers.…
Lees meerYeah, whatever, says internet mega-souk Amazon is facing a £900 million ($1 billion) lawsuit that claims its Buy Box algorithm breaks competition laws by unfairly favoring products sold by the American giant and preferred vendors.…
Lees meerVideo Electronics Standards Association shows the USB Implementers Forum how it's done The USB Implementers Forum, USB-IF, rolled out the spec of USB 4 version 2 just last month, as you've probably read in The Register. We noted at the time that the…
Lees meerTick tick tick ... just 8 days to go Billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk told analysts last night he was excited about his upcoming deal to buy Twitter despite his apparent belief that he will be "obviously overpaying."…
Lees meerWhy does it always rain on renters, asks CTO? Listening to the vendors, the analysts, hell, even the government – the direction of travel is obvious. All your server-side computing resources will move to the cloud, like it or not.…
Lees meerDon't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend Hardware makers are currently among the mix when it comes to the problem of environmental sustainability, in part by "penalizing" and competing with r…
Lees meerThere's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too Amazon Web Services has doubled the specs of its Snowball edge compute device.…
Lees meerAnd would you believe it, employees are not thrilled Exclusive IBM Consulting on Tuesday issued a policy telling US employees located near IBM or client offices that they are expected to be in the office at least three days a week.…
Lees meerEveryone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well Exclusive Intel is being taken to court in Massachusetts over its proposals to build a distribution and logistics warehouse on the site of its defunct R&D offices and chip fa…
Lees meerDon't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that Uber has announced the creation of an advertising division dedicated to helping brands "connect with consumers throughout the entire ride process." That's right. The entire ride.…
Lees meerRemember, remember, the Microsoft trackers DuckDuckGo's macOS browser has entered public beta, opening the privacy-centric browser to anyone on a Mac or MacBook willing to give it a go. …
Lees meerOh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet? SpaceX's in-flight internet service for airplanes now has a name – Starlink Aviation.…
Lees meerOh snap. It's not going to work with existing passive cables if they're longer than a meter A new generation of Thunderbolt interconnect technology is coming, with Intel promising data speeds up to 120Gbit/sec when it ships.…
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