It's on a computer screen. It must be some sort of technical jargon, right? On Call We do like our acronyms and initialisations in the IT world. Some might suggest we conceal the simplest of concepts behind a bewildering array of letters. And somet…
Lees meerNvidia, though, expects this virtual-reality world to be as vast as the internet Is the Facebook-driven metaverse opportunity for real? Chip makers seemingly have more important things to worry about than a concept that could either take off or emer…
Lees meerWhen IBM sold it back in 2014, it was a breakeven proposition. Seven years later not much has changed Lenovo has come within $17 million of recording a profit for its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), the enterprise hardware division within the …
Lees meerPair of 10/10 critical bugs demand your attention, as does a 9.8-rated SSH SNAFU Cisco this week revealed a pair of critical flaws, rated ten out of ten in severity, in its family of Catalyst PON Series Switches Optical Network Terminals.…
Lees meerAll right, which country's next? Google says it will comply with South Korean law by allowing Android apps hosted on Google Play to include third-party in-app billing systems, a decision that shows the dominant app store duopoly – represented by App…
Lees meerWhat was that, Brad Smith? You're at climate summit COP26 talking about sustainability plans? You're breaking up... Going in a tunnel Microsoft published a report today that highlights the "problem" of users sticking with ageing devices.…
Lees meerFor now, here's an IMG CXT processor with real-time ray-tracing abilities Imagination Technologies says supporting DirectX is becoming a bigger consideration for the company when it comes to designing GPUs.…
Lees meerDon’t trash your middle-aged servers. They probably just need a memory transplant Paid Feature Nobody really expects their data centre workloads to become less demanding over time. But for more than a year and a half, infrastructure managers have h…
Lees meerOh and that company-wide cost-cutting programme is 18 months ahead of schedule BT has decided against bringing in an external investor to help with the rollout of fibre networks across Britain, this morning citing lower build costs per premise as th…
Lees meerBut let me tell ya, technology work is better than diggin' a ditch Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a …
Lees meerIt's a good time to be a wireless communications architect or an AI engineer Apple hasn't put homegrown 5G modems in its iPhones yet, but is already looking for a jump-start on 6G modems.…
Lees meerCost of some supplies is up 200 per cent, so vendors start 'protecting margins' Good luck upgrading your network any time in the next year or two: key vendors Arista and Juniper have both warned they're waiting up to 80 weeks – aka 560 days, taking …
Lees meerCame for the people, the supply chain, and with hopes of building new servers, storage, HPC, and 5G kit. Don't mention the increasing geopolitical tension Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made a big new investment in Taiwan, covering hardware design a…
Lees meerOne lucky bod gets $28,000, on average it's a few hundred bucks each America's consumer watchdog has sent checks totaling nearly $60m to more than 140,000 Amazon drivers who were said to have been screwed out of their tips between 2016 and 2019. The…
Lees meerPlug into the oneAPI Dev Summit at SC21 – wherever you are Paid Post AI, machine learning, and HPC promise to help humanity crack some of the biggest challenges we face today.…
Lees meerPlans to hook up New Zealand's South Island and Indonesia too Submarine cable company Hawaiki is to build a trans-Pacific cable system, dubbed Hawaiki Nui, that links up Southeast Asia, Australasia and North America. It's slated for completion in 20…
Lees meerAnd you need to do it during a pandemic while working from home How does one rebuild an aeroplane, at 40,000 feet, while it is still full of passengers? That was the question posed by Daniel Tao, head of engineering at Bitbucket, while discussing th…
Lees meerIn preview. For Insiders. By end of 2021. Two full years after Surface Pro X Microsoft will at last bring a native version of its OneDrive cloud storage service to Windows on Arm users, months after announcing the same for Apple silicon.…
Lees meerShow you’re worth it, demand more Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the mot…
Lees meerAnd if the electronics aren't available, features are simply removed Car makers are shutting down factories because of semiconductor shortages – and whatever chips they can get their hands are going into more expensive vehicles.…
Lees meerUS sanctions mean the Intel chip well has run dry, so China's champion has little alternative but to offload Huawei is reportedly poised to offload its x86 server business after US sanctions left it unable to buy the silicon it needs to build boxes,…
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