Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office' - Collaboration, cohesion, and irony all under one roof Zoom is underscoring its mandated r... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/zoom_london_office/
USB-C Cable Tester is Compact and Affordable - We’ve all been bitten before by USB cables which were flaky, built for only chargi... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/usb-c-cable-tester-is-compact-and-affordable/ #testequipment #cabletester #techhacks #toolhacks #usbc #usb
Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely - Welcome to the coding couch. We hope you sleep well On Call As Friday rolls around and t... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/on_call/
Texas Could Get a 205-MPH Bullet Train Zipping Between Houston and Dallas - Amtrak and a company called Texas Central announced a partnership on Wednesday to ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/11/0211237/texas-could-get-a-205-mph-bullet-train-zipping-between-houston-and-dallas?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #transportation
Think International Space Station dust is obviously free of bad chemicals? Wrong - No one's in danger but we may need to rethink some cabin materials The International Spac... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/dust_from_the_iss/
Smell Your Way Out of the Uncanny Valley - In simulated environments, smell is often the neglected sense. Scentient’s wearable devic... - https://www.wired.com/story/scentient-smell-virtual-reality/ #business/startups #snifftest #business
US Cyber Command boss says China's spooky cyber-skills trail America's - Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a 'pacing challenge' The boss of US Cyber Command ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/nsa_boss_says_chinas_hackers/
An LM386 Oscillator Thanks to Tungsten Under Glass - Once ubiquitous, the incandescent light bulb has become something of a lucerna non... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/an-lm386-oscillator-thanks-to-tungsten-under-glass/ #positivetemperaturecoefficient #automaticgaincontrol #classichacks #incandescent #oscillator #wienbridge #mischacks #feedback #tungsten #lm386 #agc #ptc
On board Virgin Galactic's tourist journey to space - A look inside the company's first space tourism flight, which took off from New Mexico on... - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66470128?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Oracle shrinks its on-prem cloud into a single rack - Big Red rigs start at 552 fourth-gen EPYC cores and 150TB storage, can scale to 6,624 cor... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/oracle_compute_cloud_at_customer/
Alibaba says demand for cloud has dipped – which improved its profits - What? How? Chinese tech giant Alibaba has reported tiny revenue growth, but a 106 percent... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/alibaba_q2_2023/
Russia heads back to the Moon with Luna 25 - Enlarge / Fire from the engines of a Russian Soyuz rocket as it lifted ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960296 #roscosmos #luna25 #russia #space #soyuz #moon
Scientists At Fermilab Close In On Fifth Force of Nature - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Scientists near Chicago say they... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/10/233204/scientists-at-fermilab-close-in-on-fifth-force-of-nature?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #science
New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level - Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well b... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/supermarket_reins_in_ai_recipebot/
Install ChimeraOS and Never Leave The Sofa - There are some projects that initially don’t seem to make sense, but actually turn... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/install-chimeraos-and-never-leave-the-sofa/ #remotegaming #retrogaming #steamdeck #chimera #games #os
Anthropic Launches Improved Version of Its Entry-Level LLM - Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI execs, has released an updated v... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/08/10/2255206/anthropic-launches-improved-version-of-its-entry-level-llm?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai
Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis Can Now Work the Streets of San Francisco 24/7 - Robotaxis can offer paid rides in San Francisco around the clock after Alphabet’s Waymo a... - https://www.wired.com/story/robotaxis-cruise-waymo-san-francisco/ #business/transportation #greenlight #business
Best Mini Fridge for Man Caves in 2023 - Many companies featured on ReadWrite partner with us. Opinions are our own, but co... - https://readwrite.com/best-mini-fridge-for-man-cave/ #productreviews
Regulators Agree to Expansion of Driverless Car Services in San Francisco - Autonomous Cruise and Waymo taxis have been buzzing around the city for some time, and no... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/technology/driverless-cars-san-francisco.html #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #regulationandderegulationofindustry #californiapublicutilitiescommission #cruisellc #waymo
Chinese web giants go on $5B Nvidia shopping spree to fuel AI ambitions - In the ML arms race, GPUs are the ammunition China's largest web and cloud providers are ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/chinese_web_giants_nvidia/