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Microsoft To Spend $1 Billion On Datacenters In North Carolina

Hopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Caroli... Read more

Japan To Set Up New Semiconductor Outfit With IBM's Help

2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 m... Read more

Musk Tells Of Risk Of Twitter Bankruptcy As Tweeters Trash Brands

Alleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH Comment  Twitter... Read more

BT Preparing To Offer Financial Support To Inflation Struck Staff

CEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes BT says UK govern... Read more

Go Ahead, Be Rude. You Don't Know It Now, But It Will Cost You $350,000

You'd think tech support people would stick together … On Call  Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday frol... Read more

Why Smart Thermostats Don't Always Save You Money

The makers of smart thermostats says the devices can cut energy bills but the evidence is not conclusive. Read more

AMD Grows Epyc Datacenter Share, Loses To Intel Generally

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine AMD has grown its share in the serve... Read more

TSMC: You Know What Would Be Fab? Some Local Neon Supplies

Chipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is reported to be seeking local s... Read more

AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs Leapfrog Intel To Put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 In The Datacenter

Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim AMD's status as scrappy underdog trailing in Intel's wake has been upe... Read more

Tesla Rival Rivian Posts Losses Of $1.7b, With Worse To Come

Taps mic: Elon? Elon are you there? Care to comment? Electric carmaker Rivian is reporting more trouble – this time i... Read more

EU Set To Sign Internet Satellite Deal, As UK Frees Up Spectrum

Hasn't escaped Europe's notice that US, China, Russia are launching sat after sat The EU is said to be nearing a deal o... Read more

The Osprey Has Landed: IBM's 433-qubit Quantum Processor

Still quite a way to go before fabled 4,158-qubit system lands, scheduled for 2025. Plus: Fujitsu details quantum/HPC h... Read more

NTT Claims It Can Stop The Noise Leaking From Annoying People's Headphones

Can't do anything about their musical taste though Japanese telecommunications megalith NTT released details on Wednesd... Read more

John Lewis, Tesco And Lidl Tone Down Christmas Adverts

John Lewis says the cost-of-living crisis was "front of mind" as it joins other big brands launching festive campaigns. Read more

CIOs In Europe Warned: Be Wary Of Tech Price Inflation

Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again Chief information officers in Wes... Read more