Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning
If at first you don't succeed, fail again
24 Sep 2020 | 10
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.
NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet
The tiny X-ray bullets are only the size of a grain of sand. Pew! Pew! Pew!
24 Sep 2020 | 11
Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam
Elon Musk wants his money back, Volvo, Ford, Mercedes also pile in
24 Sep 2020 | 35
And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time
GIF67P is a gift that keeps on giving
23 Sep 2020 | 8
Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything
Ignite'The scope of commercial and creative potential is profound'
23 Sep 2020 | 11
Astroboffins reckon evidence of Martian life has probably been destroyed where liquid acid flowed on the Red Planet
Fortunately, it looks like Perseverance rover will start digging in the right place
16 Sep 2020 | 9
Russian hacker selling how-to vid on exploiting unsupported Magento installations to skim credit card details for $5,000
Nearly 2,000 e-commerce shops pwned over weekend so it's time to migrate
15 Sep 2020 | 18
Howdy, er, neighbor – mind if we join you? Potential sign of life spotted in Venus's atmosphere
VideoAliens may not be so different from us here on Earth – unintelligent and gassy
14 Sep 2020 | 33
US military takes aim at 2024 for human-versus-AI aircraft dogfights. Have we lost that loving feeling for Top Gun?
In briefSoftware fighter pilots could bring a whole new meaning to 'crash and burn'
14 Sep 2020 | 29
NASA is sending two small hand-luggage suitcase-sized spacecraft into the void to study binary asteroids
Janus mission seeks solution to orbiting space rocks in the Solar System
12 Sep 2020 | 27
VMware staff in Silicon Valley can leave a pandemic, wildfire-ridden zone – if they're willing to accept less pay
What's that? You want to breathe clean air? Tough luck then
12 Sep 2020 | 47
Something to look forward to: Being told your child or parent was radicalized by an AI bot into believing a bonkers antisemitic conspiracy theory
OpenAI's GPT-3 can go from zero to QAnon stan in 60 seconds... or however long it takes to ask it a couple of questions
11 Sep 2020 | 84
Forget Terminators, says US military, the next-gen AI battles will hinge upon net infrastructure, not killer robots
Databases, info pipelines, software... 'that is where the fight of 20 years will be won'
10 Sep 2020 | 24
Shine on you crazy diamond: We don't know who needs to hear it but NASA's explained the weird shape of the Bennu asteroid
Something that doesn't involve viruses, politics and wildfires
10 Sep 2020 | 17
Q: How does hydrogen turn into a metal? A: Hang on a second, I need to train my AI supercomputer first
Since we can't build a planet
10 Sep 2020 | 44
Zero. Zilch. Nada. That's how many signs of intelligent life astroboffins found in probe of TEN MILLION stars
Survey was huge, but we can do better - So don't go all '2020 sure is the year for feeling alone' on us, OK?
09 Sep 2020 | 57
Europe is falling behind in AI, we need to launch our second machine learning-powered satellite soon, says ESA
Hot on the heels of ɸ-sat-1, the space agency is planning to launch ɸ-sat-2
09 Sep 2020 | 6
AI in the enterprise: AI may as well stand for automatic idiot – but that doesn't mean all machine learning is bad
Register DebateIs AI just a rebrand of yesterday's dumb algorithms? We present the argument against this motion – and don't forget to vote
07 Sep 2020 | 27
Remember OpenAI's GPT model that was too dangerous for mere mortals? Well, it's now for sale on Azure
In briefPlus: Man incorrectly identified as a suspect by a facial recognition software is suing, and more
06 Sep 2020 | 12
Digital pregnancy testing sticks turn out to have very analogue internals when it comes to getting results
UpdatedHardware tinkerer makes odd finds, including an unusual on/off switch
05 Sep 2020 | 91
Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses
Tiny tilt from the probe's seisometer could map Phobos' orbit and help boffins predict when it'll crash into Mars
05 Sep 2020 | 26
There's a battery-free Game Boy that runs solely on the power of sunlight and the speed of your button-mashing
VideoJust not very well
04 Sep 2020 | 32
Google declares Maps COVID-19-ready after retraining it on pandemic traffic – or the lack of it in some areas
50 per cent decrease in worldwide traffic when lockdowns started
03 Sep 2020 | 9
Here comes an AI that can predict hurricane strength. Don't worry, NASA made it so it probably actually works
And if it does, chalk a win for IBM Watson at last
03 Sep 2020 | 14
