Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots
RoundupPlus: Amazon mulls snapping up self-driving startup
01 Jun 2020 | 4
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.
They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station
VideoBob and Doug are first humans launched into orbit by Elon's Muskteers
30 May 2020 | 79
After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts
'We couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment'
29 May 2020 | 90
Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system
Startup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much
28 May 2020 | 17
Pablo Escobar's big bro and former accountant sues Apple for $2.6bn over FaceTime bug
The vulnerability allegedly leaked his location, making him a target for hitmen
28 May 2020 | 35
Turns out Elon can't control the weather – what a scrub: Rain, clouds delay historic manned SpaceX-NASA launch
Lightning strike threat postpones lift-off to Saturday
27 May 2020 | 51
Coronavirus masks are thwarting facial recognition systems. So, of course, people are building training sets from your lockdown-wear selfies
RoundupPlus: A peek inside Nvidia's Ampere architecture, and more
26 May 2020 | 29
Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip
Tech is perhaps five years away from actual deployment, we're told
22 May 2020 | 59
Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter
PicWe know this sounds like a tall tail but...
22 May 2020 | 36
HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan
Biz says it'll be a proper as-a-service outfit by 2022, which means changes to support, supplies, locations
22 May 2020 | 43
NASA renames dark-energy telescope after its first Chief of Astronomy and Mother of Hubble: Nancy Grace Roman
VideoBoffin immortalized, praised for her 'leadership and vision'
21 May 2020 | 30
Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs
BuildThis big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs'
20 May 2020 | 9
It's, it's, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella... Facebook teaches its online tat bazaar to auto-identify stuff for sale
You wanted robo-butlers, you got robo-object-recognizers
20 May 2020 | 14
Hey, what kind of silicon may power next-gen space probes? We hope your answer includes 'AI acceleration'
Xilinx touts 'industry-first' 20nm FPGA for infinity and beyond
19 May 2020 | 4
Car crash: Uber axes another 3,000 jobs, closes 45 offices as punters snub app during coronavirus lockdown
That's 6,700 employees let go this month – so far – with doubt hanging over AI projects
18 May 2020 | 21
Nvidia's A100 GPU coming to a cloud near you, DARPA details AI war games, Intel wants to help scan your brain
RoundupPlus: Zuck wants machines to spot bad memes on Facebook
18 May 2020 | 6
If American tech is used to design or make that chip, you better not ship it to Huawei, warns Uncle Sam
Export of semiconductors built using US tools to Chinese giant banned without a license
16 May 2020 | 108
Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later
Satellite data shows two huge iron blobs tussling under the surface
15 May 2020 | 33
There's a new comet in town and you don't need a fancy multi-million-dollar telescope to see it. Just regular eyeballs
One other minimum requirement: You need to be in the southern hemisphere
15 May 2020 | 8
Ampere, Nvidia's latest GPU architecture is finally here – spanking-new acceleration for AI across the board
VideoYour guide to the A100
14 May 2020 | 15
Meet Morpheus, the AI that'll show you how deep the universe's rabbit hole goes: Code can detect, classify galaxies from 'scope scans
Way easier than getting humans to scour petabytes of images by hand, looking for faraway systems
14 May 2020 | 4
Don't trust deep-learning algos to touch up medical scans: Boffins warn 'highly unstable' tech leads to bad diagnoses
Now is not the time for Hollywood 'zoom and enhance' fantasies
13 May 2020 | 23
Meteorite's tiny secrets reveal Solar System's sodium-rich, alkaline liquid past – a clue to formation of life
Oh OK, so now we know who to blame for all this mess on Earth
13 May 2020 | 19
From pair to p-AI-r programming: Kite floats paid-for spin of its GitHub-trained code autocomplete assistant
Too lazy to type out Python? But not too tight to pay $20 a month?
12 May 2020 | 9
