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Lees meerGreater yield than last year, but don't ditch your solar panels just yet Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consume…
Lees meerAn electrically charged spring in your step A group of Scottish engineers claim to have come up with a new way to harvest the electricity wasted by everyday human movement: electrically conductive foam.…
Lees meerPlus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies AI in brief Production companies are scanning the faces and bodies of actors and actresses, who fear their likeness will be used to create fake A…
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Lees meerInvestment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW? The cloud market continues to grow, but at a slowly declining rate, while investment is shifting to meet the demand for AI services, diverting spending away from othe…
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Lees meerWhat does this mean for his cage fight against Zuck? YOU DECIDE Opinion Unreliable billionaire Elon Musk appears adamant that his cage fight with rival social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg will actually go ahead.…
Lees meerAnd pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week Google is pitching another strategy to convince Googlers to return to the office, specifically the campus at Mountain View HQ: offer them a night…
Lees meerClock is ticking on April 2024 withdrawal Fujitsu has confirmed to The Register that it will cease selling all personal computers in Europe beginning in spring next year.…
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Lees meerFAR out, man: first build for Apple Silicon Macs might make it out this month The Asahi Linux project, which is working on getting Linux working on Apple Silicon-based Macs, is partnering with the Fedora Project for its new flagship distro.…
Lees meerA PC is a PC is a PC, and by any other name would not have taken down the intranet Who, Me? Welcome, gentle reader, to the safe place we call Who, Me? where Register readers tell us about the times when their brilliance shone a little dimmer than w…
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