Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Adding caffeine can enhance the efficiency of fuel cells, reducing the need for platinum in electrodes and significantly reducing the cost of making them, according to researchers …
Lees meerThe decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming Interview The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) debuted nine years ago with the hope of changing the way people interact with content online. It remains an ongoing project.…
Lees meerDon't start planning your long weekend yet – proposal is likely to be a hard sell in work-obsessed America AI, automation, and other new technologies have made the American worker far more productive than ever before, says US Senator Bernie Sanders …
Lees meerOnly the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store' Microsoft has told the European Commission's competition authorities that it only entered into agreements with generative AI d…
Lees meerAnd the party extends to shareholders with an overall $6B payout IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna bagged a double digit pay bump in 2023 as he met the major financial objectives outlined by the board. The average compensation of employees that he…
Lees meerGlobal meltdown turns fast food slow Technology certainly helped McDonald's process orders faster, but as soon as a computer fault hit, the burger behemoth was shuttled right back to the 90s.…
Lees meerMade public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service The London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds of people who f…
Lees meerDelays raise questions about £0.5 million legacy support bill, plans for new financial year Gloucestershire County Council has missed the go live date for its RISE with SAP move to the cloud, potentially incurring an additional £500k ($639,000) cost…
Lees meerDelays raise questions about £0.5 million legacy support bill, plans for new financial year Gloucester County Council has missed the go live date for its RISE with SAP move to the cloud, potentially incurring an additional £500k ($639,000) costs to …
Lees meerAdding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy… with the lightweight edition to follow One of the more widely used Ubuntu spinoffs, non-techie friendly Zorin has put out three editions of its latest version – Zorin OS 17.1 – and there are still more to come.…
Lees meerThe NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year The UK's Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister wants telcos to stop installing new telegraph poles.…
Lees meerResulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship On Call Thirsty folk will tell you it's always twelve o'clock somewhere, but Friday comes but once a week and The Register marks it by offering another in…
Lees meerReaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief' Citrix has allegedly made major changes to its partner program, and one of the consultancies briefed on the new arrangements told The Register that the when the news was del…
Lees meerThankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines Alibaba has added a twist to its annual Global Math Competition by opening a separate challenge to AI.…
Lees meerBut rates his first 100 days in charge a 'strong start' Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has rated his enterprise's first hundred days as the owner of VMware "a strong start," but also acknowledged the rapid changes at the virtualization giant have been hard f…
Lees meerIf you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper If Intel's 6GHz Core i9-14900K was too pedestrian for your tastes, the x86 giant now has a special-edition processor up for grabs that it says will do 6.2GHz right out of the box.…
Lees meerUncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point There's another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic locks, such as …
Lees meerIDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4% in 2024 to $232B – then add another $100B in three years Spending on edge computing is growing fast and because it's 2024, analyst firm IDC believes AI is a big reason for the boost.…
Lees meerIDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4 percent in 2024 to $232 billion - then add another $100 billion in three years Spending on edge computing is growing fast and because it’s 2024, analyst firm IDC believes AI is a big reason for the boost.…
Lees meerIf you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper If Intel's 6GHz Core i9-14900K was too pedestrian for your tastes, the x86 giant now has a special-edition processor up for grabs that it says will do 6.2GHz right out of the box.…
Lees meerImagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to cough up a $26 million settlemen…
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