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Lees meerYou've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow If you're one of the small subset of Apple aficionados waiting to get their hands on a folding iDevice, a patent for self-folding displays granted to Cook and Co last week is sure to pique …
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Lees meerHopes for predictive insights and automation, but no word on what it'll pay for that HPE is looking to buy IT management specialist OpsRamp and fold it into its Greenlake IT-as-a-service platform to smooth out the creases businesses can face when de…
Lees meerDitching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint Amazon is moving from diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to fuel the backup power generators for its datacenters in Europe, with sites in Ireland and Sweden the first to make the swit…
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Lees meerOpen letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process More than 1,400 Alphabet staffers have signed an open letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to reconsider aspects of the current redundancy process and remem…
Lees meerOpen letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process More than 1,400 Alphabet staffers have signed an open letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to reconsider aspects of the current redundancy process and remem…
Lees meerThose with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team The world's oldest national broadcaster, the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation, has told staff they shouldn't keep the TikTok app on a BBC corporate device…
Lees meerNHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation The UK's market watchdog has warned that US health insurer UnitedHealth's £1.24 billion ($1.5 billion) bid to buy UK health records software supp…
Lees meerThose with sensitive BBC information told to contact Beeb's security team The world's oldest national broadcaster, the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation, has told staff they shouldn't keep the TikTok app on a BBC corporate device unless the…
Lees meerExtraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two Have you ended up on Mars or the Moon and do you want to build a safe home from the dusty material surrounding you? Then potatoes are what you need, according to researchers at Mancheste…
Lees meerMargins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car Adobe CEO and chairman Shantanu Narayen received a total compensation pack of more than $31 million in 2022, the company has confirmed ahead of an Annual Meeting of Shareholders…
Lees meerDon't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need Opinion On-prem or not on-prem, that is the question. Hamlet, musing on something similar, decried the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, dramatically foreshadowing th…
Lees meerAt the very least, with other costs on top A Florida healthcare group has settled a class-action lawsuit after thieves stole more than 447,000 patients' names, Social Security numbers, and sensitive medical information, from its servers.…
Lees meerBadly configured routers ended up costing a bundle Who, Me? Gentle reader, once again it is time to cushion your landing into the working week with Who, Me? – The Register's weekly chronicle of people having a worse day than you. Hopefully.…
Lees meerAustralian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming Australian airline Qantas issued standing orders to its pilots last week advising them that some of its fleet experienced interference on V…
Lees meerMonday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region Google Cloud is having a nasty not-quite outage in its US-East region.…
Lees meerCan't get Google to finish the job, though Hong Kong's efforts to improve the accuracy of Google search results for its national anthem have yielded some affirmative results, according to an official from the Special Administrative Region of China.…
Lees meer2023 is only one more than 2022, right? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has delivered a major release of its home-spun Linux distribution – albeit rather later than it first promised.…
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