Microsoft's grand unified theory of .NET advances a little (2022/11/10) More support for multiple platforms, Arm architecture, and the cloud in release 7
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth! (2022/11/10) They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market
I'm happy paying Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value (2022/11/10) Opinion Addressing social media's baked-in flaws starts with users realizing its true worth
Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel (2022/11/10) 'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent
Musk sows more Twitter chaos, now with Official policy snafu (2022/11/10) Today's messes: a possible crypto venture; blue tick blackflips; advertiser assurances; and a promise to try dumb things
Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules (2022/11/10) And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech (2022/11/10) Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead
Wells Fargo, Zelle slammed by Liz Warren over rampant online banking fraud (2022/11/09) Customers 'more than twice' as likely to be hit by scams, says Dem Senator
Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash (2022/11/09) Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'
Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender (2022/11/09) Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it
GlobalFoundries expects semi market dip – but only in first half of 2023 (2022/11/09) Foundries folk pity the fool who writes off whole of 2023, though analyst says GF crew is 'optimistic'
Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset (2022/11/09) The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place
TSMC reportedly looks to raise a second Arizona chip fab (2022/11/09) America's Chip Act looking a bit less like 'expensive exercise in futility'
Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter (2022/11/09) Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining
Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns (2022/11/09) The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end
Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC (2022/11/09) x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory
HPE goes Cray for Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons in latest supers (2022/11/09) Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first
Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce (2022/11/09) Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand
China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders (2022/11/09) Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal