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We're not trying to be rude here but... there's an ice giant stripping down, emitting gas as it orbits a hot white dwarf
Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs
Re: What next?
Foreign travelers to install a "Visit Russia" App during their stay?
When I visited Russia a dozen years ago foreign visitors were supposed to register their mobile phones upon entry. No-one ever asked me for my number at any stage so I didn't go looking for a kindly policeman* to report myself to. My phone automatically picked up a connection (presumably due to whatever roaming agreement my provider had at the time) and I assumed that would give them all the info on me they wanted.
* The joke goes that if you want to tell a kind Russian militsia from an unkind one, pick the one who spends his day harassing gypsies rather than the one who is stopping motorists to extort a bribe.
Larry leaves, Sergey splits: Google lads hand over Alphabet reins to Sundar Pichai
Cast into the memory hole
Thanks to them, we have a timeless mission, enduring values, and a culture of collaboration and exploration.
Timeless mission and enduring values? 'Don't be evil' didn't exactly endure. And while they may have started off with a culture of collaboration and exploration, it quickly turned into monopolisation and exploitation.
Maybe Pichai should have done a bit of a search before writing that. Or maybe he did and Google showed him the results it thought he needed to see.
Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup
Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?
UK parcel firm Yodel plugs tracking app's random yaps about where on map to snap up strangers' tat
BBC tells Conservative Party to remove edited Facebook ad featuring its reporters
this is after all an organisation that spent decades with a so-called 'globe' as its logo, without ever allowing the flat-earth society a right of rebuttal.
I would expect flat-earthers to be overjoyed at seeing a 2D 'globe' on their television screen. Their only complaint would be that it wasn't accelerating upwards at 9.81m/s.
Vote rigging, election fixing, ballot stuffing: Just another day in the life of a Register reader
Go champion retires after losing to AI, Richard Nixon deepfake gives a different kind of Moon-landing speech...
Re: @ Chris the BeanCounter
Presence of technology doesn't imply usage.
We have used nukes. Not to kill anyone (well, not directly) but to threaten to kill. That's the intended purpose of nuclear weapons; if they were actually used to kill then they would have failed in their purpose. That's MAD for you.
Why can't passport biometrics see through my cunning disguise?
You're drinking morning coffee in 2019. These eggheads are in 2119 landing drones on their arms like robo-falconers
Hmm...
"In this case, the swarm, which is capable of tactile interaction with a user in VR, might represent the skeleton structure of the human body flying in the air. This may bring a new level of immersion of VR communication and teleconferencing."
On the one hand these sound like spurious excuses for a few engineers to play with new toys and pretend there's some practical use, but on the other hand I'd be happy to see almost anything that would liven up yet another ball-achingly dull teleconference.
Dead or alive, you're camming with me, says RoboPup: Bomb squad hires Boston Dynamics Spot to snoop on suspects, packages
Planets may lurk in harshest environments. Not that Novell NetWare server you can't unplug – black holes
Re: Okay, planets. Why not ?
Black holes suck in everything, including any energy that might be around.
But only at the event horizon. Imagine a photon generated at a point somewhere in the accretion disk. If it happens to be emitted directly towards the black hole it will end up being sucked in (assuming it doesn't strike anything else first). If it is emitted in a direction that will just miss the event horizon it will swing around the black hole and maybe even head back almost towards the point where it was generated. If it is emitted off to one side it could pass round the black hole and head out into space, possibly even appearing to a distant observer as if it had passed through the black hole. But if it is emitted directly away from the black hole then it will escape quite comfortably, even though to an observer higher up the gravity well it will appear to take longer than a simple distance-over-velocity calculation would suggest. So a gamma ray emitted from the accretion disc could end up striking a planet in the outer disc, generating a particle shower and ultimately heat.
(All of the above is a simplistic treatment; the photon's path would also be affected by the frame-dragging effect caused by a spinning black hole.)
Taxi for Uber: Ride-hailing app giant stripped of licence to operate in London
From humble Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka
Beware the trainee with time on his hands and an Acorn manual on his desk
Found on Mars: Alien insects... or whatever the hell this smudge is supposed to be, anyway
BOFH: Trying to go after IT's budget again?
Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much
No wonder cops are so keen on Ring – they can slurp your doorbell footage with few limits, US senators complain
Re: The un-named PR gave half an answer of course
If the camera is recording, it can record a maximum of 30 seconds or so, before it has to overwrite the video, you can then use the override switch in the case of an accident to keep it rolling and recording.
Yeah, my first thought after an accident would be to hit the dashcam override rather than check for fractures or serious bleeding before hauling myself out of the overturned car ready to help the other occupants get free.
Space-wrecks: Elon's prototype Moon ferry Starship blows its top during fuel tank test
Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket
Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors
Here we go again...
"Service providers, application developers and device manufacturers are developing and deploying products and services with encryption which effectively conceals sexual exploitation of children occurring on their platforms,"
Abducted children are driven away in cars and molested in buildings. Ban all cars and demolish all buildings which are not made entirely of glass.
Pack your bags, you're going to America, Lord Chief Justice tells accused Brit hacker
Re: Odd thought
Iran is already capable of jailing people they don't like, in one instance ably assisted by a UK Foreign Secretary.
Bloodhound gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record
Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter
Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites
Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker
What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over
NASA boffins tackle Nazi alien in space – with the help of Native American tribal elders
This just seems to be carrying political correctness a bit too far.
Rubbish. It was a nickname due for replacement as usual, that's all. Your response tells us more about your mindset than it does about NASA's.
I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train
Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US
Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399
One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark
Re: So in short...
These friendly vendors, would they be ones in which the managers making decisions, happen to end up with non-executive directorships in, by any chance would they?
Those managers don't make decisions. They call in management consultants to do that for them, consultants who belong to one of the Big Four and who have a healthy rotating-door policy with regard to industry executives looking for a two-year placement position.
Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs
(same place now calls itself a University!)
You make this sound like a name change made on a whim for marketing purposes. A college has to offer a sufficient range and quality of courses, postgraduate and research as well as undergraduate, to qualify and it also has to earn degree-awarding powers. It's a rigorous process of qualification and assessment which usually takes five years or more to attain, even once the minimum academic provision is in place. A successful result culminates in the grant of a Royal Charter and the right to call itself a university