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But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines Analysis Last week, AWS jumped into Iceberg with both feet. S3 Buckets, the near-ubiquitous storage containers for developers, got another layer. The dominant cloud platform...
Want to utterly wipe a drive? ShredOS will do it for you. Install it to a USB stick, boot from said stick, and let it annihilate all those ones and zeroes. READ BOING BOING AD-FREE! ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of...
Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you.
Studies using new brain-mapping and wearable devices have shown that unstimulating urban architecture can harm residents' health, leading to increased rates of depression, cancer and diabetes. Research projects across Europe and North America, including the EU-funded...
In painting apps, color gradients are calculated within abstract color models, apparently without any particular care for how humans see or what humans expect. If you've ever felt you could see 'Photoshop colors' in the dull and stodgy hues of a digitally-colored comic book...
The Facebook group Death Stairs is dedicated to staircases likely to murder those who set foot on them. Though there is a variety of subgenres—consider ultramodernist glass stairs with no railings or risers, for example, or the DIY witch stairs of an amateur carpenter's...
The Wombles are Britain's counterpart to the Smurfs, the Gnomes, the Trolls, and so on: in the 1960s and 1970s, every European country had its own cast of counterculture-influenced yet eminently franchisable creature cultures. The Wombles are hedgehog-like characters who...
'Can it run Doom?' is a clever way of reminding us that everything, from toasters to tealights, are general-purpose computers underneath the polypropylene. Though Doom in the browser is nothing new, Doom in a captcha in a browser as a test of humanity is a potentially...
Rudy Giuliani—formerly America's Mayor and lately Donald Trump's startlingly disgraced lawyer—will not be able to keep a list of witnesses hidden until a legal hearing next month that could strip him of his Florida condo. Giuliani is on the hook for a $148m defamation...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was once the fresh face of the Liberal party there, winning three elections on center-left platforms despite a string of scandals. His popularity faded slowly, then suddenly: in recent months the bottom has fallen out in his polling,...
Can it topple x86 and Arm, or is the gap too wide to close? Feature RISC-V has been talked up as a challenger to Arm and x86, offering an open royalty-free architecture that promises flexibility and innovation without licensing costs. But for all the noise, you're more...
The graphics card hype train left the station weeks before CES 2025 kicks off in early January, with the launch of Intel’s $249 Arc B580 – the GPU we’ve begged for since the pandemic. But make no mistake: Intel decided to launch its second-gen Arc in December because...
It seems like every new laptop lately is a “Windows Copilot+ PC.” With Intel’s Lunar Lake and AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 CPUs, AI-infused Copilot+ PCs have finally expanded into traditional x86 laptop territory. They aren’t limited to just Arm-powered laptops with Qualcomm ...
Microsoft will stop at nothing to advertise its services BORK!BORK!BORK! A reminder today that bork – the nickname The Register gives to IoT displays gone awry – is truly international.…
Jocelyn Wildenstein, the Swiss socialite who became famous later in life for extreme cosmetic surgery that gave her a catlike appearance, died Wednesday. She was 79 or 84 years old, depending on the source, and suffered a pulmonary embolism. 'Her most enduring project,'...
Apple launched its highly anticipated Vision Pro “spatial computing” headset last Feb. 2 amid significant hype — and hopes it could finally push virtual or mixed reality into mainstream use. But with a price tag of $3,499 and a staggered rollout to countries outside...
Canon confirms multifunction devices struggling with Windows 11 24H2 Windows 11 24H2 is still causing problems with multifunction devices despite Microsoft marking an issue with the eSCL scan protocol as resolved.…
Apple is offering rare discounts of up to 500 yuan ($68.50) on its latest iPhone models in China, as the U.S. tech giant moves to defend its market share against rising competition from domestic rivals like Huawei. From a report: The four-day promotion, running from Jan....
Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To fix this in 2025, we must start building for joy.
Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?' Policymakers need to carefully guide the future consumption of electricity by AI datacenters, according to a report that considers four potential scenarios and suggests a number of guiding...
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