Sony Says Its Xperia Smartphones Are Still ‘Very Important’ Summary During Sony’s latest financial-results presentation CFO Lin Tao said Xperia remains “a very important business for us”, according to reports…
The Backlash Against Duolingo Going ‘AI-First’ Didn’t Even Matter Summary Duolingo’s announcement that it would go “AI-first” prompted strong social media backlash and criticism — but the company’s latest quarterly…
China Solves ‘Tunnel Boom’ Problem With Maglev Trains Summary Researchers working on China’s latest maglev, capable of travelling at around 600 km/h, have tackled the long‑standing “tunnel boom” problem. When…
ThinkPad Designer David Hill Spills Secrets, Designs That Never Made It Summary David W. Hill, who led ThinkPad design from 1995 to 2017, tells The Register about several beloved features…
Summary Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has pushed back against what he called “misinformation” about his past roles after US President Donald Trump publicly urged him to resign. In a letter…
UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases Summary Privacy groups, led by Big Brother Watch, say the UK government has quietly allowed passport and immigration photos to…
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes Summary Researchers from Tsinghua University and Stanford have developed a new algorithm for the single-source shortest-paths problem that breaks…
Google Tests AI-Powered Google Finance Summary Google is rolling out an AI-driven redesign of Google Finance in the United States over the coming weeks. The update adds natural-language query processing…
Star leaky app of the week: StarDict Summary StarDict, a long‑standing GTK dictionary app included in Debian 13 (Trixie), will by default send whatever text you select (the X11 selection)…
Trump Signs Executive Order Opening 401(k) Retirement Market To Crypto Investments Summary President Trump has signed an executive order directing federal regulators to explore ways to allow participant-directed defined-contribution plans…
