Addiction is a brain disorder, not a moral failing, says Surgeon General

NASA astronaut launching today will be the first woman to command the ISS twice

I hung out with my past self in virtual reality

The latest trailer for Kong: Skull Island shows off a wonderful, monstrous world

Dropbox upgrade adds nice bits for sysadmins

POPs dropped into DCs for better performance and local peering Sysadmins need a "nice" user experience, Dropbox reckons, and Daniel Iversen (head of solution architects for Dropbox Asia Pacific) told The Register that was in mind when the outfit pus…

Dropbox upgrade adds nice bits for sysadmins

POPs dropped into DCs for better performance and local peering Sysadmins need a "nice" user experience, Dropbox reckons, and Daniel Iversen (head of solution architects for Dropbox Asia Pacific) told The Register that was in mind when the outfit pus…

This surreal game makes mundane places magical

Microsoft’s new app lets colorblind people see the world a little clearer

Watch Dogs 2: hackersgame scoort met humor en variatie

Op vrijwel elk vlak is Watch Dogs 2 een betere game dan zijn voorganger. Met name de grotere inbreng van humor en het feit dat San Francisco als spelomgeving dient, blijken goed te werken.

Facebook koopt bedrijf dat software maakt voor herkenning emoties

Facebook heeft de start-up FacioMetrics overgenomen voor een onbekend bedarg. Het Amerikaanse bedrijf ontwikkelt techniek die emoties van mensen kan detecteren. Het sociale netwerk wil die inzetten om zijn Snapchat-achtige filters te verbeteren.

SpaceX vraagt toestemming voor lancering 800 internetsatellieten

SpaceX heeft bij de Amerikaanse toezichthouder FCC een aanvraag ingediend om 800 satellieten te lanceren voor het opzetten van satellietnetwerk. Uiteindelijk moet dat wereldwijde netwerk voor breedbandinternet uit 4425 satellieten bestaan.

Facebook 'fesses up to fudged ad metrics … again

Social Network™ messed up counts of the stuff advertisers and publishers love Facebook's offered the advertising world an An Update on Metrics and Reporting that's needed because it's been counting things wrong, again.…

Hacker's Mac pwning expedition: 'Help, I've got too many shells!'

Hacked hack's Mac yaps, Nest cam slapped Kiwicon  When Dan Tentler hacked writer Kevin Roose's Mac, his chief problem wasn't trying to pop the shell; it was trying to reign in the hundreds of shells he spawned.…

'G' is for 'Google' and 'GPU' and 'gaining on other clouds'

Yet another cloud workstation hits the market, plus some grunt for artificial braniacs Google's followed its cloudy rivals into the servers-plus-GPUs caper, announcing that “Early in 2017, Google Cloud Platform will offer GPUs worldwide for Google C…

'G' is for 'Google' and 'GPU' and 'gaining on other clouds'

Yet another cloud workstation hits the market, plus some grunt for artificial braniacs Google's followed its cloudy rivals into the servers-plus-GPUs caper, announcing that “Early in 2017, Google Cloud Platform will offer GPUs worldwide for Google C…

The NES Classic is the perfect commercial for the Nintendo Switch

OnePlus stopt met verkoop van OnePlus 3

Smartphonefabrikant OnePlus stopt met de verkoop van de OnePlus 3. Dinsdag presenteerde het merk een iets snellere en iets duurdere variant, de OnePlus 3T. Aanvankelijk was het onduidelijk of de voorganger in het assortiment zou blijven.

Curb your enthusiasm, 'India's smartphones are changing the world' fans

First 30-million smartmobe quarter ever just happened, but feature phones still sell more India has just recorded its first-ever 30-million-smartphones-shipped quarter, according to abacus-shuffling firm IDC.…

PoisonTap fools your PC into thinking the whole internet lives in an rPi

DHCP has to be trusted, so this isn't trivial to block How do you get a sniff of a locked computer? Tell it you're its gateway to the entire Internet IPv4 routing space.…

Long-distance Asian internet hookups are now faster then ever

We're talking about the new Facebook-funded APG submarine cable. Not that If you fancy a long-distance Asian internet hookups now available, we have good news: the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable has been completed and brings 100Gbps of c…

Searching for 'Fatty Kim the Third' banned on Chinese social media

Fatty who? That's North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un to the rest of us If you're in China today and feel like doing something futile, try searching for “Fatty Kim the Third” or the Chinese equivalent "Jin San Pang" - Google translate says that'…