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Bose, the company that makes decent speakers, invented something astonishing more than 20 years ago: an electromagnetic suspension system for automobiles. The footage of it in action (already curiously dated, thanks to the vintage of the test vehicles and low resolution of...
Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful.
A new species of cable bacteria, which function like electrical wiring, was recently discovered in the US. Its unique morphology and genetic structure may be useful for the development of bioelectronics.
Proper training is vital to success in pretty much any job. That's even more true in complex and stressful environments. How much the brain can cope with at any time, or 'cognitive load' is an important part of the process. We spoke to Nial Campion, co-founder of virtual...
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
There are many moving parts in software development, particularly as tech and the role of engineers quickly evolve. Against this backdrop, there is transformative potential for “EveryOps” in 2025. But what exactly is EveryOps? We coined the term to include DevOps,...
Just because you can use generative AI in software development doesn’t mean you should. AI coding assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are a productivity dream in some cases but a debugging nightmare in others. So, where is that line? “Knowing when and how...
Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column...
After the release of updates for Windows 10 in February, users started to complain of problems with jump lists. More than this, Start menu issues, and an inability to view recent files plagued systems after the installation of the KB5052077 update and later. Affecting both...
President Trump has made much of wanting to ban TikTok from operating in the US. In fact, he’s talked about it so much, and -- initially, at least -- with such passion, that you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was one of his top priorities. But having already delayed...
'A federal class action lawsuit filed this week in Texas accused Toyota and an affiliated telematics aggregator of unlawfully collecting drivers' information and then selling that data to Progressive,' reports Insurance Journal: The lawsuit alleges that Toyota and Connected...
Get Paid with AI We all go to work to get paid, and IT professionals this week were keen to find out more on the subject, devouring our article on the highest-paying IT skills of 2025. What they really wanted to understand is how much does AI pay? Being an AI-infused...
Marking the end of an era, May sees the retirement of Skype, Microsoft’s loved and loathed messaging app. The death of Skype has been a long time coming, with the aged platform struggling to keep pace with the competition, and now the last rites can be read. Today, May 5,...
Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing. 'So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this release. Let's hope I didn't jinx it by saying so.'
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! Asia in brief India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
Rolling Stone reports on a strange new phenomenon spotted this week in a Reddit thread titled 'Chatgpt induced psychosis.' The original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model 'gives him the answers to...
As May the 4th transforms into Star Wars Day, dozens of sites and games have found ways to celebrate. The official Star Wars channel on YouTube released a celebratory video. Disney+ released Tales of the Underworld, a six-part animated series about bounty hunters during the...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: CachyOS 250330 News: Kali updates project's repository key, Trinity desktop receives update, UBports tests home directory encryption, Gentoo and other projects face...
PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more! Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…
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