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While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again

Tue, 02/01/2024 - 6:32am
Redmond's AI assistant bounds onto Android and iOS without Bing branding

First Look  While many readers enjoyed holiday downtime, Microsoft was busy bringing its Copilot AI to Android and iOS.…

Huawei bets its 2024 on datacenter infrastructure

Tue, 02/01/2024 - 4:30am
Compute, networking and storage are key, and global sales are still possible – despite, y'know, controversy

Huawei chair Hu Houkun has prepared the Chinese tech giant for 2024 by suggesting its datacenter offerings are the key to success in the new year.…

A ship carrying 800 tonnes of Li-Ion batteries caught fire. What could possibly go wrong?

Tue, 02/01/2024 - 12:58am
Less than you might imagine, thankfully

The US Coast Guard has advised that a ship carrying around 800 tonnes of Lithium-Ion batteries – some of which caught fire – is out of danger after its crew handled the situation admirably.…

People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous

Mon, 01/01/2024 - 5:59am
And don’t get us started on what it’s like to work around high explosives

On Call: Dirt File  All good things must end, even the holidays - and with them On Call’s Dirt File, a special festive edition of our reader-contributed tech support trauma tales dedicated to the filthiest places techies have been asked to toil.…

How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Throw it a string of hex, a crayon, and a canvas

Sun, 31/12/2023 - 4:13pm
Artist Agnieszka Pilat tells The Register how she gets Spot to paint, not pant

Boston Dynamics' "Spot" robot dog has been deployed as a tour guide, a police officer, and a warehouse worker. At the National Gallery Of Victoria's Triennial in Melbourne, Australia, it's now doing duty as an artist.…

Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap

Sat, 30/12/2023 - 1:07pm
As we argue over freeing ourselves from fossil fuels, can SRM buy us time to develop green energy we need?

In-depth  At the American Geophysical Union annual meeting (AGU23) in San Francisco the other week, the 25,000-plus science folks in attendance pretty much all agreed on one unequivocal fact: the Earth is warming and it's warming quickly. Discussions centered not on "if" — that's been settled — but on how to best measure that rise, how to best model it, and what best to do about it.…