Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet US broadband is about to get a major cash injection through the $1.2tr bipartisan infrastructure bill approved by the House of Representatives on Friday.…
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Lees meerMove over 'dog ate my homework', there's a new excuse in town Google has come up with a cast-iron excuse for why the fingerprint sensor on its latest Pixel 6 series of smartphones appears to be so unreliable – and you're going to love it.…
Lees meerDouble-digit declines in Germany, UK, France and 15 other countries Server sales across the European channel fell to their lowest level in four years over the third quarter of 2021, as the long-awaited recovery in infrastructure spending failed to s…
Lees meerWhere Mark leads, Jensen follows Nvidia sees itself as a hardware overlord of the "metaverse" and dropped some hints about the operation of a parallel 3D universe in which our cartoon selves can work, play and interact.…
Lees meerPlus further step toward a full desktop on Apple M1 Arm Macs While folks straddling the worlds of both Windows and Linux will appreciate the shiny NTFS support in version 5.15 of the open-source kernel, Arm device users may find more to appreciate i…
Lees meerExpect to shell out around $500k to take it home Anyone interested in an Apple I hand built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak circa 1976 has until 11:30 am PST today to make a bid as the rare computer goes up for auction at John Moran Auctioneers outs…
Lees meerMicrosoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts AMD teased a bunch of enterprise-class developments today, from claiming the AI and HPC accelerator crown to word of 3D-stacked cache, all perhaps to spoil rival Nvidia's upcoming GPU conferen…
Lees meerIt'll be 10 and 11 only if you want that personal file synchronisation action Microsoft has reminded everyone that OneDrive is for the chop in Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 by the end of the year.…
Lees meerReplacement in preparation for 10 years, but not quite ready to replicate legacy functionality The UK's Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system is set to retire in 2023, according to a National Audit Office, 10 years after plans…
Lees meerI don't care about your problems, it works fine here Who, Me? Although a little late for Halloween, today's entry into the Who, Me? archives concerns mysterious outages and some electrics that were perhaps a touch too cunning.…
Lees meerNvidia partner EVGA voids warranties - that'll show whoever nabbed 'em, or maybe flush them out US-based Nvidia partner EVGA has reported that a shipment of GPUs it was sending to a distribution centre has been stolen from a truck.…
Lees meerCentaur's brains will be transplanted to make hybrid AI tech for Chipzilla Taiwanese manufacturer VIA has traded employees from its CPU design subsidiary Centaur Technology to Intel.…
Lees meerSeason Two looks like it'll be a courtroom drama Netflix has rejected the premise of the lawsuit brought against it by South Korean telco SK Broadband, which demanded the streaming video giant pay up for the colossal amount of bandwidth consumed by …
Lees meerLow Earth orbit is going to be chockablock with broadband-beaming birds Amazon wants to launch another 4,538 satellites to provide broadband internet under Project Kuiper, according to a fresh filing to America's communications watchdog.…
Lees meerChocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims Google says responsible water usage is one of its top sustainability goals but the mega-corp tries to keep its data center water usage secret.…
Lees meerFinally – a purpose for the least-used key on your keyboard Do you remember the days before processors needed heatsinks? Are you wearied by the constant churn of new computer tech that never seems to make things easier? Then Intel has good news for …
Lees meerThat thing about discontinuing technical content was all a 'misunderstanding' IBMers were last week treated to a re-enactment of the Hokey Cokey*, sources claim, as staff working on Redbooks technical papers were told of planned reassignment, only t…
Lees meerJust like NASA did in spacecraft... and Fujitsu did for mobiles in 2015 Mobe and matress maker Xiaomi has unveiled its latest tech for keeping phones cool – a small heat pipe mechanism called Loop LiquidCool.…
Lees meerSome get a halo from the boss. Others barely get a hello Register Debate This week, Register readers debated the motion The Pandemic improved the status of IT workers… forever.…
Lees meerBrit telco to test out broadband tech in UK labs before customer trials next year Government-owned satellite broadband slinger OneWeb says it is planning to loft 648 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in the next eight months, after signing terms with…
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