Delivery drives to get refund The US Federal Trade Commission on Friday announced the approval a consent order against Amazon that requires the company to pay $61.7m to resolve charges that for two and a half years it took tips intended for Amazon F…
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Lees meerWell, that's one way to do it The government of Pakistan's Punjab region has a new weapon up its sleeve in the fight against vaccine hesitancy: blocking the mobile service of anyone who refuses to get jabbed.…
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Lees meerEnterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field Among the blizzard of new language support for Snowflake's data warehouse this week was a plan to beef up its data marketplace, which promises users somewhere to buy, sell, and o…
Lees meerSomeone's got to keep Altera company Intel offered more than $2bn to acquire RISC-V chip designer SiFive, it was reported today.…
Lees meer'The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,' says SIG-HPC chair RISC-V International, the nonprofit at the helm of the free and open-source CPU instruction set architecture, says it is writing a high-performance computing (HPC) roadmap o…
Lees meerHow to bust the bottlenecks without breaking the bank Webcast We all know HPC and AI datasets are going to be massive. But they’re also very different — the former built from large, sequential files, while the latter from much more random info.…
Lees meerQ1 WLAN sales rose by 16.7 per cent year-on-year A surge in wireless LAN sales in the opening three months of 2021 signals businesses are preparing to have you return to the office, according to IDC.…
Lees meerAMD hoping to grow its $38bn Xilinx acquisition as it seeks to compete with Intel's Altera AMD-owned FPGA specialist Xilinx has announced the acquisition of Silexica, a 2014-era academic spinout founded on a promise to "democratise accelerated compu…
Lees meerUpgraded build-it-yourself kit now includes 80-character mode, improved video output options Nostalgia-fuelled vintage computing specialists The Future Was 8bit and Tynemouth Software have opened pre-orders for a new computer kit based on Commodore'…
Lees meerBuy-in comes after (nearly) 24 years of living next door to Altice Altice – the French telecoms outfit that operates fibre and mobile networks serving more than 40 million punters in the US, France, Portugal and Israel – has bought a £2 billion chun…
Lees meerLet's hope Sachin Jogia sticks around longer than his predecessor Ofcom is to get a new full-time CTO this autumn in Sachin Jogia, who has spent the last nine years at Amazon and is currently GM of the Alexa Smart Home product management and busines…
Lees meerSure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay Facebook, like other Silicon Valley mega-corps, is ready to get its workers back in the office, setting October as the time when business returns so…
Lees meerAlso sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses Drivers who work for Indonesia’s Uber equivalent, Gojek, have gone on strike for three days in response to some of the payments they receive being halved.…
Lees meerImpressive working computer from the corpse of a rarity Video Faced with dwindling sales to education customers in the late 1990s, Apple introduced the eMate 300.…
Lees meerFPGA-driven prototypes yet to prove the company's bold performance and power-draw claims Tachyum, which has been promising a "universal processor" dubbed Prodigy for the past three years, said it was one step closer to delivering on that pledge with…
Lees meerWe want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond The UK's Department of Fun – aka Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – has opened a consultation on legislation designed to improve access to gigabit broadband in apartment bl…
Lees meerThe history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may Unless you've been hiding under a (non-silicate) rock, you know there's a massive global shortage of semiconductors. Automobile production l…
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