M4 MacBook Pro features soldered storage and battery glue
1 day ago · Storage is also unhelpfully soldered to the logic board. M3 and M4 MacBook Pro internals compared (pic: iFixit) Although many of the ports are modular, it is most likely the battery that users will seek to replace to extend their device's life. Getting to it required the removal of multiple screws by the iFixit team, the trackpad, and stretch ...
Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI
4 days ago · Fri 22 Nov 2024 // 16:01 UTC. Americans could face a 70 percent hike in their electricity bills by 2030 unless action is taken to boost generation and transmission capacity to satisfy an AI-driven surge in demand from datacenters. This latest warning comes in a report from Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Jack Kemp Foundation (JKF), which ...
Trump administration likely to upend Biden AI policy
5 days ago · Analysis President Biden has taken some steps to create a concrete AI policy in the United States. However, while there's plenty to argue about in terms of how effective the administration's moves have been, experts The Register spoke to agree that there are likely to be more big changes once Donald Trump begins his second term.. For starters, expect Biden's 2023 executive order on AI to be ...
Neuralink brain trials head for Canada • The Register
5 days ago · Elon Musk's brain chip biz, Neuralink, has been given the nod by Health Canada to start recruiting for its CAN-PRIME Study. The study is a trial for the neurotech startup's wireless brain-computer interface (BCI), designed to interpret a person's neural activity so they can operate a computer by thought alone. The device has over 1,000 electrodes in threads implanted by a Neuralink robot.
Battery Electric Vehicles still being shunned by EU buyers
4 days ago · Overall, new car registrations were up in October across the EU, reversing the trend of the previous months. Registrations of battery-electric vehicles grew 2.4 percent versus September, but the year-to-date volume was significantly lower than the same period in 2023; down 4.9 percent to give it a total market share of 14.4 percent.
BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 • The Register
6 days ago · Wed 20 Nov 2024 // 10:36 UTC. Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96. Along with his colleague, John Kemeny, Kurtz's work revolutionized computing, operating systems, and programming language design. Kurtz was born in Illinois in 1928, and died last week in a hospice in New Hampshire ...
Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea cables severed
Nov 19, 2024 · Updated Two optical fiber internet cables under the Baltic Sea appear to have been deliberately broken, Germany and Finland confirmed, prompting fresh concerns over possible Russian interference with technology infrastructure.. In a joint statement, the Finnish and German foreign ministers said they were "deeply concerned" about the severed cable beneath the Baltic Sea connecting the two nations.
Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog • The Register
Nov 18, 2024 · Opinion In 1968's Star Trek episode, "The Ultimate Computer," Captain Kirk had his ship used to test M5, a new computer. A copilot, if you will, for the Starship Enterprise. Designed to more efficiently perform the jobs of the human crew, the M5 indeed did those jobs very well yet with such a terrifying lack of understanding it had to be disabled. But not before exacting a terrible price.
AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards
Nov 17, 2024 · The researchers suggest readers mistake the complexity of human-written verse for incoherence created by AI and underestimate how human-like generative AI can appear, according to a study published this week in Nature Scientific Reports. The researchers used five poems each from ten English-language poets, spanning nearly 700 years of ...
Apple's iCloud hit with £3 billion overcharging claim
Nov 14, 2024 · UK consumer group Which? has filed a £3 billion action against Apple over alleged competition law breaches related to its iCloud service. The claim alleges that the iPhone maker locked customers into iCloud and charged them handsomely for the privilege. Which? claims that around 40 million Apple customers in the UK who have obtained iCloud services in the last nine years could be affected ...