Boffins save telescope data with a slice of Raspberry Pi
Succeeded where higher tech could not.
A NASA experiment was saved thanks to a bus-load of cheap and cheerful Raspberry Pis.
Proton Mail experiments with blockchain
Check email addresses
Privacy-focused email service Proton Mail is trying out blockchain technology with a product that will allow users to verify email addresses.
UK avoids regulating AI for now
We, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
The UK has said it will refrain from regulating the British artificial intelligence sector, even as the EU, US and China push forward with new measures.
Apple surrenders to EU and adopts RCS
Tame Apple Press bends over backwards to explain flip-flop.
The Tame Apple Press is having difficulty explaining why its favourite tech company is suddenly reversing a decision to adopt the Rich Communication Services messaging standard.
Microsoft designing AI chip based around trickster's mum
It may or may not be there
Software King of the World Microsoft is apparently building its own AI chip and cloud-computing processor.
Tencent not bovvered by US trade constraints
We have plenty of AI chips to keep us going
It looks like the US attempts to keep China out of the AI race have failed, as major player Tencent admits that it has more than enough chips to keep it going for the forceable future.
Microsoft and Nvidia team up on AI
Want to put more features on Windows PCs
Microsoft and Nvidia are teaming up to help developers run and configure AI models on their Windows PCs.
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot
He will be back by Christmas
The marketing voles working for Microsoft have been trying to earn their cash by rebranding Bing Chat to Copilot so that it shares the same brand name as multiple other Microsoft AI products.
Apple to face the music over Stewart cancellation
Was it doing dirty deeds with China
The fruity cargo cult Apple is being hauled over the coals by the US House of Representatives over its cancellation of Jon Stewart’s talk show.
Google paid $8 billion to Samsung
Make our apps default
Google agreed to pay $8 billion over four years to Samsung to make its apps default on Samsung phones, according to information presented by Epic Games in court.