Memory Prices To Dive In Late 2022, Says Gartner
Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory Prices for DRAM and NAND flash are set to... Read more
Microsoft Wants You To Know It Hasn't Forgotten About Surface
Laptops added or refreshed, and another go at making dual-screen phones a thing Microsoft has introduced the Surface La... Read more
Square-shaped Hole In Workers' Wallets After Payment System Fails At Peak Tip Time
Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically Square's payment system malf... Read more
The Edible Insects Coming To A Supermarket Near You
A number of firms are now farming locusts and mealworms for human consumption. Read more
More Than Three Years After Last Release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 Appears
Back from the brink with new features More than three years after X.Org Server 1.20, released in May 2018, a release ca... Read more
Hellfire And Damnation: Two French Monks Charged Over 5G Mast Arson Attack
What in the blazes? Two Catholic monks from the Rhône region in southern France have been charged with setting fire to... Read more
Mobile Mobile Museum Looks To Chart The History Of Portable Phones
25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day A very-literally-mobile museum boasting over... Read more
First RISC-V Computer Chip Lands At The European Processor Initiative
EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has run the successfu... Read more
Thatcher-era ICL Mainframe Fingered For Failure To Pay Out Over £1bn In UK Pensions
Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors UK spending watchdog t... Read more
'Large-scale Computing' Needs A Government Team Driving It, Says UK.gov
Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance A report from the Govern... Read more
Navigating Without GPS Is One Thing – So Let's Jam It And See What Happens To Our Warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response Boatnotes II Learning to fix your position without GPS is ... Read more
Japan, Singapore, Perhaps The Whole World.... Get Ready For Robot Waiters From Softbank And Keenon
Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently SoftBank Robotics (SBRG) and China's Keenon ... Read more
German Elections: Businesses Face Future Without Merkel
Many companies in Germany are focused on short-term survival in the hope of medium-term revival. Read more
CEO Secrets: 'In My Business, You Eat What You Kill'
Music executive Riki Bleau shares his business advice for our CEO Secrets series. Read more
Now America's Financial Watchdog Probes 'frat House' Activision Blizzard
Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom The SEC has launched an investigation into Activision Blizzard, a... Read more