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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.…