WHO, ME? Welcome to another installment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column in which The Register opens the working week with your tales of IT woe. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as...
Using the special pens to remove the wax coating on the template. (Credit: Old Typerwriters and Calculators, YouTube) Document duplication has been a highly desirable feature, long before medieval monks slaved over yet another...
It’s arguably adult-sized. (Credit: Sam Barker, YouTube) A staple of old movies featuring railways, many handcars – also called pump trolleys or pump cars – feature the characteristic seesawing beam. Requiring at least two...
AI datacenters have become a major driver of rising electricity consumption, but AI doesn’t just happen in a datacenter. The telecommunications networks connecting datacenters to businesses and consumers are themselves...
The long legal battle over ownership of Linux is closer than ever to ending, after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn’t valid, and that time has expired for further action. This story starts in...
We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The space agency provided an update...
Those 200 × 200 and 400 × 400 numbers tell you where the mounting holes line up, but you still...
While these two names sound like they’d refer to the same product, there are major...
After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), just to see what would happen with its more powerful...
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million in the second largest penalty issued under Europe’s GDPR.
And they looked absolutely ridiculous doing it.
The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used...
