The world's nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet
At 65 million miles away, that's what we call social distancing
11 Jul 2020 | 24
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.
An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn't mean it – Amazon
Shock TikTok block clocked, unblocked as poppycock amid media aftershock
11 Jul 2020 | 29
If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?
There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop
10 Jul 2020 | 93
Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview
Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot
09 Jul 2020 | 13
Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour
Trundle bot must dodge sand dunes in quest to find evidence of life on Red Planet
09 Jul 2020 | 19
FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?
They're more than happy to take Uncle Sam's coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley
09 Jul 2020 | 19
Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction
Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective
08 Jul 2020 | 28
NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs
All eyes were instead on SpaceX and its newer programming techniques
08 Jul 2020 | 97
Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time
In briefPlus: Experts back a national cloud for ML research
05 Jul 2020 | 59
Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day
No wonder J2157 clocks in at 34 billion solar masses
03 Jul 2020 | 15
Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all
This year is just one disappointment after another, eh?
02 Jul 2020 | 38
The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows
There's iron in them hills, maybe
02 Jul 2020 | 25
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs
Special reportTop uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
01 Jul 2020 | 98
Reviewing and profiling your code is boring? Well, Amazon will now sell you an AI editor to do it for you
CodeGuru guesstimates how much AWS will charge you to run that source on its cloud
01 Jul 2020 | 6
Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole
Or was target practice for a Death Star?
01 Jul 2020 | 61
Dems take a crack at banning Feds from using facial-recog tech. Congress will put it on todo list after 'learn Klingon'
In briefPlus: Amazon buys self-driving startup, and more
27 Jun 2020 | 24
Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life
World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think
27 Jun 2020 | 48
NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
26 Jun 2020 | 41
After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good
Oh, snap
26 Jun 2020 | 101
Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars
VidFrom the belly of Perseverance comes a revolution in Red Planet exploration
25 Jun 2020 | 30
Detroit cops cuffed, threw a dad misidentified by facial recognition in jail. Now the ACLU's demanding action
Another machine-learning model that can't tell people of color apart? Shocker
24 Jun 2020 | 36
Once again, racial biases show up in AI image databases, this time turning Barack Obama white
Researchers used a pretrained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia
24 Jun 2020 | 40
Grav wave boffins are unsure if they just spotted the smallest black hole or the biggest neutron star seen yet
Mysterious object's mass has challenged astrophysics models
24 Jun 2020 | 33
Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea
UpdatedSpringer ditches paper from research tome, boffins rail against junk science
24 Jun 2020 | 102
