TikTok Influencer Is Fined After Hitting a Golf Ball Into the Grand Canyon
Phone cameras were rolling, so the TikTok influencer bent her knees, adjusted her stance and swung her club at a...
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Oldest DNA samples discovered, lodged in Ice Age sediment • The Register
Scientists have recovered the oldest DNA samples yet, in sediment left over from the Ice Age in Northern Greenland, according...
Video Game Workers at Microsoft and Activision Take Steps to Unionize
Amanda Laven, a Q.A. employee involved in the union campaign at the studio, said workers were frustrated that the company...
Are You Applying for Tech Jobs or Internships? We Want to Hear About It.
November was a bleak month for tech workers. Meta, Amazon, Lyft, Stripe and Twitter laid off thousands of employees. Microsoft...
Asus’ latest SBC packs a 12-core, 4.5Ghz Intel i7 • The Register
Packing a 35W CPU onto a board barely larger than a Raspberry Pi might sound like a bad idea, but...
Detective Sued Over SWAT Raid Based on Wrong Location on the Find My App
When a SWAT team showed up in front of her house in January and demanded over a loudspeaker for anyone...
Detective Sued Over SWAT Raid Based on Wrong Location on the Find My App
When a SWAT team showed up in front of her house in January and demanded over a loudspeaker for anyone...
Intel aims to regain lost datacenter market share by 2024 • The Register
Intel's CFO has admitted to certain "inefficiency in the fab" that is logical when "you're a monopoly" but "just doesn't...
Computer Science Students Face a Shrinking Big Tech Job Market
In the past, tech companies used their internship programs to recruit promising job candidates, extending offers to many students to...
Europe’s USB-C deadline set for December 2024 • The Register
OEMs, start your assembly lines as the European Commission (EC) has published its USB-C rules, and an official date for...
Final Fantasy Reunion Review: Reboot Is a Much Better Game
One of the most anticipated video games of the year isn’t really new. It’s 15 years old. And it’s a...
How Good is Google’s Big December Pixel Update?
The December update that Google pushed out this week to all of its still-supported Pixel phones is a big one....
8 Amazing Apps That Can Help Make Household Chores Easier
There are so many things you’d rather be doing after a long week of work—lounge at the beach with friends,...
Leak Time: OnePlus 11 renders show a return of a favourite and new camera layout
Over time we’ve seen OnePlus go from an enthusiast’s phone to a real contender. In the eyes of many, a...
Loved ‘Wednesday’ on Netflix? Stream These Addams Family Movies and TV Shows
Now that you've watched Wednesday, Tim Burton's Addams Family spinoff on Netflix, you might find yourself missing Wednesday Addams and...
Guy Who Sued YouTube Because Someone Else Copied A Bit Of His YouTube Video Loses (Again)
from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept You may recall that, back in August, we wrote about the bizarre situation of a company...
Courtyard by Marriott Setia Alam hotel opens for business travellers
Courtyard by Marriott has debuted in the Klang Valley with the soft launch of its Setia Alam location yesterday, December...
Medibank IT systems will go offline over the weekend • The Register
Australian health insurance company Medibank will take all of its IT systems offline and close its branches over the weekend...
Oversight Board Criticizes Meta for Preferential Treatment
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, was harshly criticized on Tuesday by a company-appointed oversight board for policies that...
FTC sues to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard takeover • The Register
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of video game studio...
The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT
Most A.I. chatbots are “stateless” — meaning that they treat every new request as a blank slate, and aren’t programmed...
Tighter regulation of datacenter water, energy use expected • The Register
Assessing the sustainability credentials of your company's colocation provider is currently not so simple as they don't all report the...
Twitter’s Rivals, Including Meta, Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos
Mr. Musk didn’t respond to requests for comment, and Meta declined to comment.After Mr. Musk bought Twitter, one alternative service...
Google’s Dart language soon won’t take null for an answer • The Register
When the third major release of the Dart programming language debuts in mid-2023, null values will no longer be allowed...
Microsoft to Offer Call of Duty on Nintendo Devices if Activision Deal Closes
Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.A long-running franchise in which players fight in historical, present-day and...
North Korean tech freelancers’ earnings fund nukes, missiles • The Register
North Korean IT pros are using freelancing platforms to earn money that the nation's authoritarian government uses to fund the...
Why Losing to Meta in Court Could Still Be a Win for Antitrust Regulators
President Biden’s antitrust regulators have adopted a mantra: In order to win, they need to be willing to lose.Since Mr....
