There's no way this could be abused, right? Tiny, inexpensive wireless tracking devices like Apple's AirTags or Tiles have changed the way we keep track of our belongings, and now Qualcomm wants to put this tech to work in the enterprise sector.…
Lees meerThe Unified Payments Interface takes an important stride forward – as does India's soft power tech push India's use of government-created tech to expand its sphere of influence advanced yesterday, when Singapore agreed to link the Unified Payments I…
Lees meerNot doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point' Spending $600,000 on servers, and more to have them hosted, will save SaaS project management outfit 37 Signals over $7 million, according to CTO David Heinemeier Hansson.…
Lees meerAFRINIC situation has links to the APNIC snafu – and The Reg has more evidence of astroturfing The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has no board, no CEO, cannot pay its staff, could fail, and as of two weeks ago was being funded on a wee…
Lees meerAlmost 200 staff let go with emails that landed late at night Google's Asia Pacific headquarters has laid off an estimated 190 employees – around six per cent of staff – and did the deed by email.…
Lees meerMaybe one day war will just be machines fighting machines The US Navy has just taken delivery of a ship designed to operate autonomously at sea for up to 30 days. …
Lees meerAny sufficiently advanced chatbot is indistinguishable from spam Science fiction and fantasy periodical Clarkesworld Magazine has temporarily paused submissions from authors after being inundated with AI-generated stories.…
Lees meerWill Section 230 immunity just be revoked? We can answer that The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in Gonzales et al. v. Google, a case likely to reshape the internet if it goes against the search ad giant.…
Lees meeriGiant shuts dev beta loophole Sorry, early adopters, cash-strapped developers or anyone else that wants to test developer builds of iOS and iPadOS before public betas are available – the latest beta is doing away with configuration profiles that al…
Lees meerIf the Ribbon is your sort of thing, penguin-flavored options include this and WPS Office There are new versions of both OnlyOffice and the Chinese WPS Office. If LibreOffice looks and feels clunky and old-fashioned to you, there are other options.…
Lees meerLeaving another Russian craft in orbit for months ... what could go wrong? Crew trapped on the ISS due to a leaky Soyuz capsule ought to settle in for a longer than planned stay: Russian space agency Roscosmos announced today that the trio won't be …
Lees meerAnalyst haus Trendforce sees DC gain where there's consumer pain Server memory products are likely to overtake mobile memory in share of the overall DRAM bit output this year, as the datacenter market sees continued demand while consumer devices are…
Lees meer'Almost anywhere on land' ... that's a bold promise The Starlink satellite network has invited customers to try out a service that will allow them to take advantage of an internet connection "almost anywhere on land in the world" for $200 per month.…
Lees meerRedmond fixed the spam filtering problem, but it was a wild day-long ride for some Many Outlook users around the world woke up Monday morning to find a flood of spam and junk messages filling up their inboxes and they took to the internet to air the…
Lees meerPret and Starbucks rubbing hands with glee as some cash will go to larger London HQ UK quantum computing startup Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5 million) in equity financing to help fund development of its silicon-based quantum chips an…
Lees meerStudy in Chile desert finds NASA Mars mission instruments unlikely to detect signs of life in Earth's most arid regions A study in Chile's Atacama Desert has found that instruments taken to Mars on NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance missions might no…
Lees meerStruggling to keep staff? Pilot brings huge dive in attrition, sick leave The massive British trial of a shortened four-day work week is over – and it's food for thought for companies battling to attract and keep high value employees as one of the s…
Lees meerMore to come in other country ops? Company talks of admins 'sweating assets' and slowdown in 5G network builds Swedish networking kit maker Ericsson is laying off 1,400 employees in its home nation amid wider efforts to reduce expenses, and ahead of…
Lees meerThis is just a sliver of the $400,000 allegedly owed for branded merch Canary Marketing is the latest entity to join the orderly queue asking Twitter to pay its invoices – this time to the princely tune of $400,000.…
Lees meer4 million contract migration went as planned, spokesperson insists Despite declaring the problems resolved, German financial institution Postbank is receiving complaints about poor service following its migration to a new technology platform.…
Lees meerBlame it on phone number recycling (yes, that's a thing, too) A stranger may be receiving your private WhatsApp messages, and also be able to send messages to all of your contacts – if you have changed your phone number and didn't delete the WhatsAp…
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