Staff reportedly furloughed as firm scrambles to find funding after failed launch Virgin Orbit has hit the pause button on the business to "conserve capital" while it seeks funding and explores strategic opportunities.…
Lees meerUm, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors The UK government is upping investment in quantum by £2.5 billion ($3 billion) over the next 10 years, and also putting up £900 million ($1.08 billion) for AI Research and the country’s own exascal…
Lees meerWe all owe three things to this pioneering machine – two more than you might think Feature Although it only gets credited with one of them – because Steve Jobs slipped up* – all modern end-user computers owe three defining aspects of their design t…
Lees meerDisc-trawling expedition of 30-year-old data turns up trumps Astronomers have uncovered the first evidence of an active volcano on Venus, using computer images captured more than 30 years ago by a NASA spacecraft.…
Lees meerOnline ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy Google says it has partnered with Fastly, a content delivery platform, to support its effort to deliver targeted ads in its Chrome browser with a greater measure of privacy.…
Lees meerWe're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter Chinese web giant Baidu has launched ERNIEbot, its chatbot based on a large language model, and claimed it represents not just a fine chatbot but also a reinvention of compu…
Lees meerShocking! Talking robots designed to interact and help boost employees' moods at work are more effective if they don't look like humanoids, according to a British research paper.…
Lees meerCharcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake NASA and its spacesuit provider Axiom Space have revealed what the astronauts on the Artemis III mission will wear if, as planned, they reach the surface of the Moon in 2025.…
Lees meerIn case of apathy, break Glass Google has halted sales of its business-grade augmented reality specs, the Glass Enterprise Edition.…
Lees meerActive Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off Microsoft's delayed effort to ensure its partners don't enjoy unduly privileged access to their clients' systems will run for just nine days before pausing…
Lees meerWhy patching matters: Everyone seemingly had a crack at security bug Multiple criminals, including at least potentially one nation-state group, broke into a US federal government agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services web server by exploit…
Lees meerMachine-learning safety and controls now everyone's problem Microsoft has eliminated its entire team responsible for ensuring the ethical use of AI software at a time when the Windows giant is ramping up its use of machine learning technology.…
Lees meerRedmond disseminates responsible AI duties throughout company Microsoft has eliminated the entire team responsible for ensuring the ethical use of AI at a time when Redmond's ramping up its use of technology.…
Lees meerMachine learning safety and controls now everyone's problem Microsoft has eliminated its entire team responsible for ensuring the ethical use of AI software at a time when the Windows giant is ramping up its use of machine learning technology.…
Lees meerGood news, unless trees or walls get in the way Wireless spectrum is a finite and tightly regulated resource and that makes it a hot commodity anytime one of the standards bodies opens another swath of it to auction.…
Lees meerGood news, unless trees or walls get in the way Wireless spectrum is a finite and tightly regulated resource and that makes it a hot commodity anytime one of the standards bodies opens another swath of it to auction.…
Lees meerVictim offered two years of credit monitoring after highly sensitive records dumped online A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and records were posted online after they were stolen by a ransomware gang, has sued her healthcare provider for al…
Lees meerPoor interface, lousy lyrics, and bland answers mean this won't be the tool that makes Edge mainstream First Look I've taken Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing search engine for a spin, and quite enjoyed its attempt at providing context to a list of l…
Lees meerBring back keys! Bring back keys! The first keys and locks appeared some 6,000 years ago and continue to work well. We use them to secure our homes and cars among many other things valued by us.…
Lees meerHowever, those Ryan Reynolds commercials aren't going anywhere Video Mint Mobile, the prepaid budget wireless company that counts actor Ryan Reynolds among its owners, is being bought by T-Mobile US in a deal expected to close later this year for a…
Lees meerPlus: Fixes for SAP, Adobe. Android, Chrome Patch Tuesday Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday includes new fixes for 74 bugs, two of which are already being actively exploited, and nine that are rated critical. Let's start with the two that miscreants …
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