FCC finalizes $1.9bn compo deal for telcos forced to rip'n'replace Huawei, ZTE gear
'An unrealistic attempt to fix what isn’t broken', Big H mutters
14 Jul 2021 | 2
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Amazon will know when its business, privacy practices keep you up at night – it has an FCC-approved sleep radar
Every breath you take, every move you make ...
13 Jul 2021 | 15
As Europe hopes to double its share of global chip production, Intel comes along with $20bn, plans for fabs
France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands ... but not Brexit Britain?
12 Jul 2021 | 52
Uncle Sam sanctions Chinese AI outfits for links to Xinjiang Uyghur human-rights abuses
In Brief Plus: A tool that automatically shames politicians distracted by their phones during official business
10 Jul 2021 | 24
The human-devoid AI-powered Saildrone Surveyor ship just made it to Hawaii from SF
28 days at sea alone with nothing to look at but the waves and ocean floor
09 Jul 2021 | 35
Smuggler caught with 256 Intel Core processors wrapped around him in cling film
As GPU prices crash after crypto-mines shut down in China, we're told
09 Jul 2021 | 46
If you've mastered Python 101, you're probably better at programming than OpenAI's prototype Codex
10 PRINT "ML won't take my job ";: GOTO 10
09 Jul 2021 | 21
YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds
It even pushes videos that break the site's own content policies
08 Jul 2021 | 52
The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century
Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off
08 Jul 2021 | 34
Kepler spots four rogue Earth-mass exoplanets floating in space, unbound to any star
Data from NASA's 'scope may be years old now though discoveries keep on coming
07 Jul 2021 | 46
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract
Updated Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military
06 Jul 2021 | 66
GitHub Copilot auto-coder snags emerge, from seemingly spilled secrets to bad code, but some love it
Analysis Great wow factor but is it legal? Is it ethical? Is code that can't be trusted any use?
06 Jul 2021 | 35
Graphcore's AI chips may not be as powerful as Nvidia's GPUs, but may provide good bang for your buck
In brief Plus: SoftBank halts Pepper the robot production
03 Jul 2021 | 9
NASA talks up Perseverance Mars rover's self-driving rock-avoiding abilities
AutoNav performs 'thinking while driving' – any chance we could get more of that on Earth ... for humans?
02 Jul 2021 | 6
You, robo-car maker, any serious accidents, I want to know about them, stat – US watchdog
NHTSA sets 24-hour deadline for reporting significant crashes
01 Jul 2021 | 32
Robinhood hit with record $70m bill by financial watchdog for outages, misleading investors
FINRA cites suicide of man who was 'inaccurately' told by the app he was $750k in debt
01 Jul 2021 | 15
You wait ages for a neutron star and black hole to collide, then two pairs come along at once
Well, that was a busy month for gravitational wave boffins
30 Jun 2021 | 30
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Maybe call it backseat programming for now?
30 Jun 2021 | 17
Hubble telescope in another tight spot: Between astrophysicists sparring over a 'dark matter deficient' galaxy
One team says DF2 is 72m LY away, another disagrees – we speak to both sides
29 Jun 2021 | 55
Court kills FTC, US states' antitrust complaints against trillion-dollar Facebook
Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go
29 Jun 2021 | 13
Watch the moment China's Zhurong rover lands on Mars, hear it truckin' for the first time
Videos Chinese space agency emits footage of Red Planet bot
28 Jun 2021 | 11
Tesla shows off the AI supercomputer training what it hopes will one day be an actual self-driving car
In Brief Plus: AlphaFold on drugs, and a Google Cloud AI tool to spot dodgy kit
27 Jun 2021 | 29
Jailed for seven years: Cyber-crook who broke into Big Biz to steal bank card info for FIN7 super-gang
Also ordered to pay back $2.5m on his way to American cooler
25 Jun 2021 | 6
Mars race: China dreams of nuclear rockets, manned bases, and space elevators
We're looking forward to the late 21st-century colony wars
25 Jun 2021 | 23
