Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done Imagine an optic fiber that can sense the presence of a nearby jackhammer and warn its owner that it is in danger of being dug up, just in time to tell diggers no…
Lees meerFirm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory Prices for DRAM and NAND flash are set to fall, sharply, in the second half of 2022 according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Lees meerLaptops added or refreshed, and another go at making dual-screen phones a thing, we see Microsoft has introduced the Surface Laptop Studio, and if you mistook it for a tablet with a trackpad accessory, you'd be forgiven.…
Lees meerUnexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically Square's payment system malfunctioned over the weekend for several hours, a glitch that cost workers at affected businesses a meaningful portion of their earn…
Lees meerBack from the brink with new features More than three years after X.Org Server 1.20, released in May 2018, a release candidate for 21.1.0 has been posted.…
Lees meerWhat in the blazes? Two Catholic monks from the Rhône region in southern France have been charged with setting fire to 5G phone masts amid concerns the mobile technology could pose a health risk to humans.…
Lees meer25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day A very-literally-mobile museum boasting over 2,000 exhibits is to go online and on the streets this year to show off the evolution of the mobile phone from 1984 to the presen…
Lees meerEPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has run the successful first test of its RISC-V-based European Processor Accelerator (EPAC), touting it as the initial step towards homegrown supercomp…
Lees meerThree or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors UK spending watchdog the National Audit Office has found that a 34-year-old computer system was one of the causes of a scandal which led to more than £1bn o…
Lees meerReport from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance A report from the Government Office for Science has proposed the formation of an in-house team dedicated to large-scale computing, as it bemoans the natio…
Lees meerMeaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response Boatnotes II Learning to fix your position without GPS is one thing. Actively jamming it to induce a deliberate system failure aboard your own ship is quite something else, as we found on M…
Lees meerAutomation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently SoftBank Robotics (SBRG) and China's Keenon Robotics are teaming up to make robot waiters the norm in Japan and Singapore, both companies announced on Monday.…
Lees meerPlus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom The SEC has launched an investigation into Activision Blizzard, and has subpoenaed several current and former employees, including CEO Bobby Kotick, the California games giant confirmed on Tuesda…
Lees meerAlso buys data replication company HVR for $700m Automated data integration outfit Fivetran has confirmed a $565m funding round – valuing the company at $5.6bn, roughly the GDP of Montenegro.…
Lees meerCash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor' The trading arm of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has received a £33m investment – putting paid to rumours that the company was looking to float on…
Lees meerThe pandemic has accelerated innovation and investment Sponsored If you didn’t know what hybrid learning was 18 months ago, you should have a better idea by now. Hybrid learning combines in-person interaction in the classroom with online education …
Lees meerRebranded org now calling itself National Highways National Highways, the UK government-owned company responsible for roads in England, is planning to spend up to £1bn on tech over the next four years via another framework.…
Lees meerEl Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course Boatnotes II How do you safely navigate a warship to within a few yards of a planned track? And how do you do that without GPS giving you a precise position readout? The Register has joined the R…
Lees meerNot that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly A private meeting will be held between President Joe Biden and India’s Prime Minister during the first in-person summit of The Quad in Washington DC this Friday, during which semiconductors and a u…
Lees meerWeb biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors Twitter has offered to pay $809.5m to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2016 accusing it of misleading investors by falsely inflating its number of mon…
Lees meerTells market not to worry - insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire' OVH Groupe SAS is edging closer to a potential initial public offering (IPO) expected to value the European hosting and cloud biz at around $4.7bn – months af…
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