NASA spills last details of Mars space truck trip |
- NASA spills last details of Mars space truck trip
- Aus radio industry wants content quotas punted
- Death match between site and writer over Twitter account
- Army to deploy jumping robots in Afghanistan
- Alcatel-Lucent secures biggest GPON deal in China
- Lockheed Martin splurges $AU10 million on security lab
- AMD revs up server channel for Opteron 6200 push
- Student Cluster Comp – an inside look
- Apple kills code-signing bug that threatened iPhone users
- Boffins build electric car from a single molecule
- US doctors demand right to advise on gun ownership
- Mm, Silverlight, what's that smell? Yes, it's death
- Happy birthday, Tech City: Have another confusing map
- IBM rises to the optimisation challenge
- OFFICIAL: Last Western Black rhino snuffs it
- US weather boffins tap IBM for 1.6 petaflops super
- Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why
- Apple's iPad not so shiny once you get it home
- Chief inspector sacked for 'advertising uniformed self online for sex'
- ARM rolls out new GPU, loses head
- Clean-up begins after biggest ever botnet takedown
- Mobile scaremongers want warning stickers on EVERYTHING
- Thai flood ripples set to impact entire world PC market
- UK.gov moves to close VAT loophole on etailers
- <i>The Register</i> goes Live on 22 Nov 2011
- Smartphones rocket past consoles for mobile game sales
- Kansas IT boss found faking CV resigns
- Nokia's Windows comeback: Great but what's next?
- NetApp faces probe into Syrian spooks' use of its storage kit
- Nazi <i>Star Trek</i> episode finally broadcast in Germany
- Murdoch blames other NI execs for phone-hacking scandal
- Where are all the decent handheld scribbling tools?
- Apple agrees to replace dodgy MacBook power cords
- Ultrabooks are doomed unless prices tumble
- Az mayor offers Prince Harry beer and pizza in fornication row
- Results in on why life, the universe and everything exists
- Hong Kongers fight for right to stand in line for iPhone 4S
- Renault Fluence ZE
- Flasher macs popular among data centre nerds
- Another hushed HTC blower set for 2012 debut
- UK to big brands: Get off our Facebook, mate!
- Mexican drug runners torture and decapitate blogger
- Only an open standard lance can slay EMC's cache demon
- ICT education quango will learn to wield Sword of Twitter
- Why your tech CV sucks
- Sony: Pssst! Want access to the PlayStation on Android SDK?
- Is Apple nobbling iPhones to avoid more patent misery?
- New tap turns water into super-cleaning potion
- Mystery of MAGNETIC ROCKS FOUND ON MOON cracked
- Dating sites can be haven for sex pests, say cops
| NASA spills last details of Mars space truck trip Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:28 PM PST Skycrane landing, mountain climbing, nail bitingNASA Mars Science Laboratory is buttoned up into its fairing atop its Atlas booster, ready for liftoff on November 25 with touchdown scheduled for August of next year – a reentry and landing that will have NASA space boffins biting their nails.… |
| Aus radio industry wants content quotas punted Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST Radio stars to lose protection in the Internet agePeak radio industry body Commercial Radio Australia has called for the scrapping of quotas for local music on radio nationally and dropping the minimum local program content rules for regional areas.… |
| Death match between site and writer over Twitter account Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:11 PM PST Account with 17,000 followers appraised at $340,000A mobile products review site is locked in a fierce battle with one of its former writers over who is the rightful owner of a Twitter account with 17,000 followers that was set up before he ended his employment.… |
| Army to deploy jumping robots in Afghanistan Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:10 PM PST Sand Flea machine can leap 24 foot wallsThe US Army will be testing a new type of reconnaissance robot designed to jump over walls and through windows, without putting soldiers in the line of fire.… |
| Alcatel-Lucent secures biggest GPON deal in China Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST Beats local foes Huawei, ZTE to the punchChina Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent as the key supplier for its proposed fibre broadband access network, one of the largest GPON broadband projects in China to date.… |
| Lockheed Martin splurges $AU10 million on security lab Posted: 10 Nov 2011 01:30 PM PST At home in CanberraLockheed Martin has added a cyber-security centre in Canberra to an international network of labs that includes facilities in the US and UK.… |
| AMD revs up server channel for Opteron 6200 push Posted: 10 Nov 2011 01:26 PM PST Time to start thinking outside of the same old boxChipmaker AMD is getting ready to launch its "Interlagos" line of server processors, which are expected to be called the Opteron 6200s. AMD won't say when the launch is, but it is saying that its server channel is primed and pumped to get peddling.… |
| Student Cluster Comp – an inside look Posted: 10 Nov 2011 12:30 PM PST Texas insider spills all on 2010 effortSC11 In my continuing effort to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the upcoming SC11 Student Cluster Competition, I spent a few minutes on the phone with Jason Kilmer – a member of the 2010 University of Texas team. The Longhorns were the first team to break the Teraflop barrier (among three) and also notched the highest LINPACK score – but were ultimately whipped by Taiwan for the overall crown. (There still isn't an actual SCC crown, although I'm working on one.)… |
| Apple kills code-signing bug that threatened iPhone users Posted: 10 Nov 2011 11:54 AM PST Hacker who discovered it remains excommunicatedApple has patched a serious bug in iPhones and iPads that allowed attackers to embed secret payloads in iTunes App Store offerings that were never approved during the official submission process.… |
| Boffins build electric car from a single molecule Posted: 10 Nov 2011 11:51 AM PST Titchy transport won't get you farDutch scientists have reported building a car that's a single molecule wide and is powered by electrons.… |
| US doctors demand right to advise on gun ownership Posted: 10 Nov 2011 10:27 AM PST Strangely not on household chemicals, cars, hot tubs etcDoctors in America are up in arms over the suggestion that they have no business advising their patients on gun ownership and safety. The incensed medics insist that it's their duty to tell Americans not to keep guns in the home, or if they do, to keep them unloaded and locked away.… |
| Mm, Silverlight, what's that smell? Yes, it's death Posted: 10 Nov 2011 09:52 AM PST HTML5 challengers dead or looking distinctly peakyMicrosoft hasn't denied rumours that they are about to pull the plug on Silverlight, its development platform for rich Web design. Often compared to Flash, Silverlight could be about to get the same treatment as Adobe's platform and get dumped in favour of leaner, quicker, more energy-efficient HTML5.… |
| Happy birthday, Tech City: Have another confusing map Posted: 10 Nov 2011 09:29 AM PST PM hobnobs with startup upstarts at partyThe UK Prime Minister went down to the Silicon Roundabout on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of his Tech City initiative and unveil an interactive map of it all.… |
| IBM rises to the optimisation challenge Posted: 10 Nov 2011 09:16 AM PST The right tools for the jobIn computing, it sometimes pays to specialise. Generic systems will handle most computational needs, but they may not excel at them.… |
| OFFICIAL: Last Western Black rhino snuffs it Posted: 10 Nov 2011 09:01 AM PST Poached ... and friedThe last of the Western Black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes), a rare species of black rhino, has died and the survival of the northern white configuration hangs in the balance, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).… |
| US weather boffins tap IBM for 1.6 petaflops super Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:46 AM PST Jumping from Power to Xeon chipsThe US National Center for Atmospheric Research has fallen behind in the race for more powerful parallel supercomputers, and it needs a petaflops-class machine to run its weather and climate modeling simulations. The only trouble is, there's no power at its Boulder, Colorado facility to juice up such a behemoth.… |
| Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:39 AM PST Imagine someone on £10K with a £50k credit card billAnalysis Quite what is actually happening over the Eurozone I can't actually tell you: it's not that things change too fast to write about them, it's that things change to fast to read about them. Berlusconi still PM? Italian bond yields over or under 7 per cent? That changes as often and as fast as Berlusconi does condoms. France to go bust or not? Greece still bust?… |
| Apple's iPad not so shiny once you get it home Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST Brits too busy to fondle their slabs...Many Brits can't be bothered to use their fruity fondleslabs once they have them and don't think they're worth the money, a new study has found.… |
| Chief inspector sacked for 'advertising uniformed self online for sex' Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:02 AM PST Boy into too much blue, apparentlyAn unnamed chief inspector, who allegedly trawled an online website looking for sex while advertising himself dressed in police uniform, was sacked today.… |
| ARM rolls out new GPU, loses head Posted: 10 Nov 2011 07:39 AM PST One 18 months from market, one leaving in MayOne of ARM's founders, not to mention a co-designer of the eponymous chip, will be retiring from his presidential role next year to spend more time with his money, though not until May.… |
| Clean-up begins after biggest ever botnet takedown Posted: 10 Nov 2011 07:19 AM PST Ghost (Click) BustersA clean-up operation following the takedown of what has been described as the biggest cyber-scam scam ever has begun.… |
| Mobile scaremongers want warning stickers on EVERYTHING Posted: 10 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PST This'll get The Mail into a right latherAnalysis Mobilewise - the tireless promoters of the dangers inherent in mobile telephony - has a new report blaming mobiles for everything from cancer to infertility, and it wants sticky warning labels to alert the world.… |
| Thai flood ripples set to impact entire world PC market Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:44 AM PST Forecast graphs dip into the red zoneThe Thai floods have dampened Goldman Sachs outlook for global PC sales forcing it to downgrade forecasts for this quarter and next.… |
| UK.gov moves to close VAT loophole on etailers Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PST Big boys will no longer be able to slip throughThe UK government is planning to close the loophole in tax law that was allowing online retailers to funnel goods through the Channel Islands and thereby evade import VAT.… |
| <i>The Register</i> goes Live on 22 Nov 2011 Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:20 AM PST Brian Cox, Genevieve Bell and Bruce Schneier in waitingWe've got five places left* for what promises to be the sci-tech event of the year – The Register and Intel Live 2011.… |
| Smartphones rocket past consoles for mobile game sales Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:18 AM PST Way more spent on Android, iOS than DS, PSPTwo years ago, Nintendo's handheld games consoles accounted for 70 per cent of the money made selling mobile games to Americans. This year, they will account for a little over a third of the total.… |
| Kansas IT boss found faking CV resigns Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:11 AM PST Gov Brownback to seek truth-telling meat-cutterThe new head of Kansas' state IT department has resigned after he was found to have put a degree from a fake university on his CV.… |
| Nokia's Windows comeback: Great but what's next? Posted: 10 Nov 2011 06:01 AM PST Lumia 800 arrived in the nick of timeReviewer's Notebook Back in February, people muttered that Nokia's new CEO Stephen Elop was a Trojan Horse sent to destroy the company and deliver the remains of the chopped up cadaver to Microsoft. Those mutterings continue. But having used Nokia's new Windows phone (here's my review) it doesn't look quite like that. Microsoft's software has given Nokia a quick and vital competitive advantage.… |
| NetApp faces probe into Syrian spooks' use of its storage kit Posted: 10 Nov 2011 05:44 AM PST FAS racks 'used to slurp email' despite export banNetApp faces a grilling by US senators after its storage gear helped Syrian spooks to spy on anti-government protesters during a crackdown that resulted in more than 3,500 deaths.… |
| Nazi <i>Star Trek</i> episode finally broadcast in Germany Posted: 10 Nov 2011 05:28 AM PST ST:SS aired after watershedGerman television has finally aired an episode of Star Trek, which was previously held from broadcast due to a Nazi theme that ran throughout.… |
| Murdoch blames other NI execs for phone-hacking scandal Posted: 10 Nov 2011 05:16 AM PST Claims he knew nothing of widespread voicemail tapping at NotWJames Murdoch has once again defended himself against allegations that he knew in 2008 that phone-hacking was more widespread than one "rogue reporter" at the company's now-closed Sunday tabloid News of the World.… |
| Where are all the decent handheld scribbling tools? Posted: 10 Nov 2011 05:01 AM PST Shove your fondleslab, we want a keyboardPart 1 As the market for computerised devices grows ever bigger and the internet takes over its users' social lives, it's a good time to be a gadget fan. They're everywhere, from smartphones and fondleslabs to pocket games consoles. There are notebooks of every size and shape from netbooks to desktop replacements. What were once mere MP3 players can now show films, play games and surf the web wirelessly.… |
| Apple agrees to replace dodgy MacBook power cords Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST Be frayed, be very frayedApple will replace strained MagSafe cords, even if they are out of warranty, to settle a lawsuit brought against the fruity tech titan.… |
| Ultrabooks are doomed unless prices tumble Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST A minimum 25 per cent cut required, says analystUltrabooks are likely to be a flop with hard-up shoppers until prices fall by at least 25 per cent, market watcher Gartner has warned.… |
| Az mayor offers Prince Harry beer and pizza in fornication row Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PST Bud and a 12 inch pepperoni unlikely to dampen royal ardourThe Mayor of Gila Bend, Arizona has offered Prince Harry a pizza supper and a "beer summit" to lay to rest claims that he warned the third in line to the throne off fornicating with the local ladies.… |
| Results in on why life, the universe and everything exists Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:23 AM PST 10-year study indicates that theoretically it shouldn'tIt's one of the most difficult questions that human philosophy and science have ever faced: Why are we here? Why is the universe and all that's in it here?… |
| Hong Kongers fight for right to stand in line for iPhone 4S Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:12 AM PST Foreign pro queuers face wrath of indigenous amateursApple's Hong Kong store appeared to have banned the traditional queue fest ahead of its launch of the iPhone 4S this weekend, after "tongue fights" between "professional" queuers and their amateur counterparts threatened to get much nastier.… |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2011 04:01 AM PST The first affordable, practical electric carFirst Look With Renault-Nissan now having splurged €4bn (£3.4bn) on its e-car projects, it's about time we saw some iron beyond the frankly rather too US-oriented Leaf. That time has now arrived: Renault officially unveiled the Fluence in Lisbon last week.… |
| Flasher macs popular among data centre nerds Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:52 AM PST FlashMax will give server apps a frightFlashMax sounds like a used car salesman from Essex. It's actually Virident's latest server flash card to replace the TachION and comes as Virident pockets $21m in extra funding from VCs keen to invest in the hottest flash market of them all.… |
| Another hushed HTC blower set for 2012 debut Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:43 AM PST Ville your Sandwich with Ice CreamFresh in the wake of this week's quad-core HTC handset leak comes another beefy blower expected for 2012.… |
| UK to big brands: Get off our Facebook, mate! Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:41 AM PST Netizens spurn biz on social sitesNearly two-thirds of Britons would prefer big-name brands to stay off social networks, according to a new survey.… |
| Mexican drug runners torture and decapitate blogger Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:31 AM PST El Mod of social network ritually murderedThe moderator of a Mexican social network has been tortured and ritually murdered by local drug lords in the latest cartel-related killing in the country.… |
| Only an open standard lance can slay EMC's cache demon Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:22 AM PST Put your heads together, ladsBlocks and Files Having EMC storage arrays direct hot data into a flash bank is great, but only if you're happy using EMC's cache gear. Wouldn't it be rather nice if there was an open and widely used server flash interface that could be used by all PCIe flash cards and PCIe flash-using vendors?… |
| ICT education quango will learn to wield Sword of Twitter Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:13 AM PST There is no try. Only do!Jisc, the ICT education quango, has announced that it will take part in a project to find how the social media technology behind Twitter and Facebook can be used to capture educational content and then be fed to users and publishers.… |
| Posted: 10 Nov 2011 03:02 AM PST And here's how we can helpNo, really. Your CV really, really stinks. I read these things for a living and the quality varies a lot more than it should considering what you are selling.… |
| Sony: Pssst! Want access to the PlayStation on Android SDK? Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:55 AM PST Series game devs only. No time wastersSony is seeking US and UK "content developers" who'd like to code for its PlayStation Suite - the framework that allows Android-based devices to run PlayStation-branded games.… |
| Is Apple nobbling iPhones to avoid more patent misery? Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:51 AM PST Android-like autocorrect discovered hidden in iOS 5iOS 5 has a hidden autocorrect function, suggesting words along the top of the keyboard in an Android-like XT9 fashion, which can be enabled with a minor configuration tweak.… |
| New tap turns water into super-cleaning potion Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:42 AM PST Boffins add ultrasound and bubbly goodnessScientists in Southampton have been given a grant by the Royal Society to develop an ultrasonic tap head that makes water clean better.… |
| Mystery of MAGNETIC ROCKS FOUND ON MOON cracked Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:31 AM PST Apollo 'nauts baffling finds caused by moon spoon dynamoScientists say they may finally have cracked a long-standing boffinry conundrum – the mystery of why it is that the Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts of the 1960s and '70s are magnetic. The Moon, unlike the Earth, has no global magnetic field – a compass would not work on the lunar surface – and so its rocks shouldn't be magnetised. But they are.… |
| Dating sites can be haven for sex pests, say cops Posted: 10 Nov 2011 02:22 AM PST Some people online might not be who they say they areThe capital's coppers are warning lonely hearts to think about their safety when signing up to online dating sites because they can be a haven for sex offenders.… |
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