ACLU sues US govt, demands to know if agents are buying their way around warrants to track suspects' smartphones
'Cos that would be against the Fourth Amendment, legal team says
03 Dec 2020 | 2
Katyanna covers artificial intelligence, scientific research, accelerator chips for machine-learning, and other topics for The Register. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code
Maybe this might work after all
03 Dec 2020 | 15
Forget Snow Day: Baltimore's 115,000+ public school kids get Ransomware Day, must check Win PCs for infection
We don't need no education... IT department may need some
01 Dec 2020 | 14
DeepMind's latest protein-solving AI AlphaFold pretty much cracks biology's 50-year conundrum
Lab hopes improved tool will be used to craft new medicines faster
01 Dec 2020 | 28
Pretty fly for a SharkEye: Salesforce sponsors AI drones to spot sharks before they attack California swimmers
Plus: A new web app from Google to generate AI monsters
23 Nov 2020 | 11
Hundreds of Facebook moderators complain: AI content moderation isn't working and we're paying for it
Human contractors battling COVID-19 stress and psychological trauma
21 Nov 2020 | 36
Study: While text-generating AI can write like humans, it lacks common sense
Humans live in the real world, machines don't, say academics
20 Nov 2020 | 58
YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience
Also bans devs from scraping the site for facial recognition fodder
20 Nov 2020 | 66
Adiós Arecibo Observatory: America's largest radio telescope faces explosive end after over 50 years of service
The aging structure is too hazardous to repair, engineers say
19 Nov 2020 | 129
ESA's Vega rocket crashes and burns after fourth-stage nozzle failure sinks two satellites
Second failure in last three missions doesn't inspire confidence
19 Nov 2020 | 20
Watchdog signals Boeing 737 Max jets can return to US skies following software upgrade, pilot training
Great timing because we're all in a rush to travel these days
19 Nov 2020 | 74
Behold, the Ultimately Large Telescope: A revived proposal for a 100-metre liquid-mirror star scanner on the Moon
'We are putting this idea out to the scientific community,' lead scientist tells El Reg
18 Nov 2020 | 63
Alleged Ponzi mastermind on the run from FBI hid in lake with sea-scooter, collared after he surfaced half-hour later
Suspect left a trail of bubbles for agents to follow
18 Nov 2020 | 41
America's largest radio telescope close to collapse as engineers race to fix fraying cables
900-ton receiver platform threatens to plummet into dish below
17 Nov 2020 | 83
Worn-out NAND flash blamed for Tesla vehicle gremlins, such as rearview cam failures and silenced audio alerts
eMMC storage will soon enough die in 159,000 cars, automaker says
17 Nov 2020 | 171
Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth
Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations
17 Nov 2020 | 5
AMD unveils its MI100 GPU, said to be its most powerful silicon for supercomputers, high-end AI processing
Chip takes aim at Nvidia's A100
16 Nov 2020 | 3
Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators
In briefPlus: Uber to sell off its self-driving unit, and pay $200 to spy on anyone you'd like in Russia
16 Nov 2020 | 35
Bio-boffins devise potentially fast COVID-19 virus test kit out of a silicon wafer and machine-learning code
These algorithms identify different types of viruses, we're told
13 Nov 2020 | 9
HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink
EFF on the attack as IT giant tries to claim free supplies during 'device lifetime' just an introductory offer
12 Nov 2020 | 181
Google to end free unlimited online photo, vid storage, will eventually delete files if accounts go over their cap
Gmail, Drive to count toward 15GB of gratis cloud space, caveats abound
12 Nov 2020 | 54
When sci-fact beats sci-fi: Echoes of exploding stars' final cries may be trapped in the rings of trees on Earth
Geo-boffin urges fellow scientists to consider again link between supernova and radiocarbon levels
12 Nov 2020 | 24
US-EU project to bring Mars samples back to Earth needs two more years, extra $4bn, watchdog warns
First stage already on its way to the Red Planet, full steam ahead
11 Nov 2020 | 14
Soyuz later! SpaceX gets NASA green light to lob astronauts to the International Space Station full time
Russian rockets are Putin on the back burner, except for emergencies
11 Nov 2020 | 23
