Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability?
My goodness that's moist
Science21 Mar 2023 | 6
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and Whispering Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm. He joined The Register in February 2020.
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small
Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in bid data of the past decade
Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 1
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live
Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike
Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 6
UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog
NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation
Software20 Mar 2023 | 8
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats
Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two
Science20 Mar 2023 | 35
NHS threatened with legal action over £480m patient data platform
Updated Campaigners ask if Palantir's 'must-win' contract could see tech giants build products on NHS data
Spotlight on Databases17 Mar 2023 | 16
Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle
Analysis But if he swings it, the company can secure long term growth
Spotlight on Databases17 Mar 2023 | 21
UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears
Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait
Security16 Mar 2023 | 45
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles
Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear
AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 67
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement
Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
WANdisco suspends shares pending fraud investigation
Revenue guidance cut from $24m to $9m after discovery of 'potentially fraudulent irregularities'
Spotlight on Databases09 Mar 2023 | 14
Leave your data where it is, we'll look at it there, says SAP
German software giant opens analytics up to external sources
Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |
Tabular launches with the promise of a 'headless' data warehouse
Developers of Apache Iceberg announce sign-up for their first product
Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code
Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As
SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce promises to follow the Oracle playbook
Yay for investors, eek for customers?
Applications06 Mar 2023 | 8
The Great Graph Debate: Revolutionary concept in databases or niche curiosity?
Register Debate Two experts go head-to-head – then you decide
Spotlight on Databases06 Mar 2023 | 37
Hands up anyone happy with Uncle Sam's $50B IT mega-job. Anyone?
Record number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie
Off-Prem03 Mar 2023 | 7
Hubble images photobombed by space hardware on the up
Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy
Science03 Mar 2023 | 25
UK space faces cash freeze unless watchdogs step up
'Toxic' environment requires reboot to restore confidence following failed satellite launch
Science02 Mar 2023 | 17
Bosses failing to offer hybrid work lose out in recruitment
Gartner finds pandemic-related trend is becoming the norm
On-Prem01 Mar 2023 | 34
Not just you in the night: Tiny bugs use superpropulsion to eject huge volumes of pee
This could have practical applications for human technology, say boffins
Science01 Mar 2023 | 50
Teradata chases hyperscaler, SI partnerships in cloud push
CEO Interview We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg
Spotlight on Databases01 Mar 2023 | 2
UK consortium set to bid for £480 million NHS data platform
Syndicate wants to see health service 'stay in control' in face of fierce competition from Palantir
Databases28 Feb 2023 | 25
Power behind throne to depart as SAP enters a new era
Board chairman Hasso Plattner lines up successor to take ERP giant into uncharted territory
Databases28 Feb 2023 | 6
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff
Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors
SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
UK courts' £1.3B case management platform hit with failures
System caused issues in fitting electronic tags to dozens of criminals after new tech rolled out
On-Prem24 Feb 2023 | 17
Microsoft strokes UK's ego by pooh-poohing EU approach to AI regulation
Representative even given opportunity to pitch tech to government during science committee hearing
AI + ML24 Feb 2023 | 38
Workday sued over its AI job screening tool, candidate claims discrimination
Software alleged to reject applicants based on 'race, age, and/or disability'
AI + ML23 Feb 2023 | 54
Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious
'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months'
HPC23 Feb 2023 | 14
Light from a long time ago reaches James Webb Space Telescope
Galaxies got big much sooner than expected, new observations
Science22 Feb 2023 | 27
Tech job vacancies hamper England's digital health plans
£1.1M ambition to recruit 10,000 pros 'inadequate' says committee
Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 46
Research raises questions: Are instruments taken to Mars sensitive enough to find life?
Study in Chile desert finds NASA Mars mission instruments unlikely to detect signs of life in Earth's most arid regions
Science21 Feb 2023 | 18
Deutsche Bank's takeover of Postbank hasn't gone well, according to customers
4 million contract migration went as planned, spokesperson insists
Databases21 Feb 2023 | 9
Gartner: Oracle probes orgs for Java compliance after new licensing terms
Big Red 'has a history of changing offerings' without allowing renewals of legacy products
Software20 Feb 2023 | 37
BAE Systems handed £38m Border Force intelligence contract
Cerberus data analytics system to give us a new reason to sweat at the landing gate
Databases16 Feb 2023 | 12
Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster
Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing
SaaS15 Feb 2023 | 9
AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS
Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant
Spotlight on Databases14 Feb 2023 |
Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence
Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer
PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7
UK prepares to go it alone on post-Brexit science plan
Still no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings
Science13 Feb 2023 | 174
While wider tech industry is hurting, analytics companies fatten up
Sumo Logic attracts private equity investor while InfluxData and Onehouse raise VC cash
Databases10 Feb 2023 | 3
UK health department contracts 'critical friend' for £480m data platform
As IT spending drops below promised billions, there's always room for those offering the right kind of feedback
Offbeat10 Feb 2023 | 8
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad
Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp
SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Find My Kids app is basically AirTags for your offspring
Comment Who even buys their children an Apple Watch?
Applications09 Feb 2023 | 121
UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards
Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm
Databases06 Feb 2023 | 23
Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?
As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services
PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13
Fossil brain undoes 350 million years of scientific understanding
'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates
Science02 Feb 2023 | 23
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided
In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide
SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Oracle, Microsoft barely compete for a quarter of their US Federal contracts
Vendor lock-in: savings of up to $750m a year possible if Uncle Sam didn't predetermine the victor
Software01 Feb 2023 | 11
Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing
SaaS provider Workday also among those laying off employees
Off-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 39
Atos and Nest part company two years into 18-year £1.5bn contract
Exclusive Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom
On-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 28
Best time to prepare to leave an Oracle ULA? The day after it starts, say licensing gurus
Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down'
Databases01 Feb 2023 | 10
Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET
Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds
AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 13
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle
Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn
SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery
Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter
Systems30 Jan 2023 | 38
Scientists conclude cats only have three personalities after YouTube clip binge
Insight could lead to better conflict resolution between our feline overlords
Bootnotes27 Jan 2023 | 90
AWS, Microsoft, Google among businesses owed money after FTX collapse
Join the queue, eh?
Personal Tech27 Jan 2023 | 5
Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime
As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar
Devops27 Jan 2023 | 90
SAP culls 3,000 jobs – and its results weren't even that bad
CRM and industry solutions among biz units targeted, analyst says cuts could be worse
Software26 Jan 2023 | 4
UK govt Matrix has unenviable task of consolidating several different ERP systems
Software to support 46,000 users as group part of £900m program to simplify central government back end
Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 16
Oracle engineering exec quits after tryst with health division
Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit
Databases25 Jan 2023 | 4
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