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Lees meerNew science challenges theory of liquid lost in space Up to 99 per cent of the water once in the ancient lakes and oceans on Mars is trapped in the planet’s crust and was not lost to space, according to a study in Science this week.…
Lees meerLooking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you The Wikimedia Foundation, built over the past two decades with the donated labor of its Wikipedia community, plans to offer corporate enterprises programmatic access to its content th…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom tests backup plan for when iGiant starts blocking app stalkers The Chinese Advertising Association has developed an identifier called the China Anonymization ID, or CAID, to ensure the continued ability to track iOS users after Apple …
Lees meerChina Unicom, Pacific Networks, ComNet all due for removal America's telecom market federal regulator, the FCC, today initiated the final step in a booting three Chinese telcos from the Land of the Free, saying they had failed to allay national secu…
Lees meerJust look at how Microsoft has grown since (but don't look at our results) Google has bitten back at fresh reports that the ad giant had a fortuitous escape nearly a decade ago, when American antitrust regulators opted not to sue. It has also seized…
Lees meerWot?! No new luxury phablet?! Samsung Electronics is contemplating skipping this year's Galaxy Note flagship as the business grapples with an industry-wide shortage of semiconductors.…
Lees meerSigns up for Cisco, says some encrypted creds were stolen Email security biz Mimecast has dumped SolarWinds' network monitoring tool in favour of Cisco's Netflow product after falling victim to the infamous December supply chain attack.…
Lees meerSecond hot-fire scheduled for (checks weather) tomorrow... maybe NASA has fired up the avionics of the Artemis I core stage ahead of tomorrow's planned redo of the prematurely terminated hotfire test.…
Lees meerIt's all about developers Ahead of its release next month, the Fedora community has posted details of what is coming in Fedora 34, Red Hat's bleeding-edge Linux distro.…
Lees meerWelcome to the Great Fire sale of old London town Corporate pantomime baddie Capita is again carving up its operations, creating specific divisions for private and public sector customers and a third that will house non-core businesses it wants to s…
Lees meerNetting £1.35bn for the Treasury Ofcom today wrapped up bidding on its 5G spectrum auction, which made 200MHz of mid and low-band spectrum available to carriers, raising the total amount of mobile spectrum by 18 per cent.…
Lees meerAny significant improvement in processing times will be a boon to productivity, say analysts Informatica has announced a serverless, Spark-based data integration engine intended to accelerate data engineering for machine learning in the cloud using …
Lees meerChromium-based browser boasts swifter tab opening and is an Apple M1 native Browser maker Vivaldi today rolled out an update for its eponymous surfing tool, laying claim to some impressive performance gains as well as adding native support for Apple…
Lees meerPlus: Stop bigging up these despicable criminals An English college has temporarily closed all eight of its campuses and moved all teaching online after a "major" ransomware attack "disabled" its IT systems.…
Lees meerIntel's Gelsinger has a decision to make Micron is stopping development of 3D XPoint technology and shifting resources into memory products that use the Compute Express Link (CXL).…
Lees meer40-year-old data warehousing outfit has its work cut out challenging the new cloud-native kids Interview As Teradata CEO for a little less than nine months, Steve McMillan has outlasted his predecessor, Oliver Ratzesberger, who took over in January…
Lees meerFinancial goals missed but Big Blue's execs were all winners anyway IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and ex-exec chairman Ginny Rometty were collectively awarded more than $38m in compensation for their services in fiscal 2020, a year in which Big Blue's reve…
Lees meerMicrosoft Mesh? 'I don't think most people want to have a thing strapped to their face all the time' Interview Twilio founder and CEO Jeff Lawson has told The Register that many biz execs still fail to grasp the importance of software developers an…
Lees meerThe 5G prog rock supergroup nobody asked for Nokia has been busily making deals with the cloud giants to connect their computing platforms to its Radio Access Network (RAN) via the magic of 5G.…
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