No matter how much you already know about computer graphics, you’ll find something new in Alvy Ray Smith’s wide-ranging, anecdote-strewn book. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Data at rest should remain at rest Dell believes that technologies such as computational storage will soon play a part in high-performance computing (HPC) in response to ever-growing volumes of data. It doesn’t see the general-purpose CPU disappearing any time soon, but says it will be complemented with specialised processors for specific tasks, with composability…

Heads up, hot sleepers! Cool off for the night when you throw on one of this year’s best cooling mattress toppers. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft’s Update Connectivity in Intune device management monitors update failures that are “very likely” to occur if a PC isn’t powered on and connected to the internet for two hours continuously. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The doctor won’t see you now Opinion  It started in Jeopardy and ended in loss. IBM’s flagship AI Watson Health has been sold to venture capitalists for an undisclosed sum thought to be around a billion dollars, or a quarter of what the division cost IBM in acquisitions alone since it was spun off in…

‘Save and replay memories’? Not quite, say boffins… Publicity-shy self-proclaimed technoking Elon Musk reluctantly hit the headlines last week as his brain wiring startup Neuralink launched recruitment for clinical trials.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

We might be amidst a chip shortage, but if you enjoy reverse-engineering, there’s never a shortage of intriguing old chips to dig into – and the 2513N 5×7 character ROM is one such chip. Amidst a long thread probing a few of these (Twitter, ThreadReader link), [TubeTime] has realized that two address lines were shorted…

“The U.S. National Weather Service Miami-South Florida warned the public on Sunday that immobilised iguanas could fall out of trees,” reports Reuters, “due to unusual cold temperatures across the region. “Iguanas are cold-blooded. They slow down or become immobile when temps drop into the 40s (4-9 Celsius). They may fall from trees, but they are…

A tale of command line booby traps and bored engineers Who, Me?  Take a trip back to when mainframes and terminals were all the rage and The Cloud was the smoke produced by the mainframe when a washing-machine-sized disk was about to let go. Welcome to another Who, Me? confession.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Deep Space Network scope tilts to find its targets, or to dispose of the effects of recent rain Video  The venerable Voyager 2 spacecraft is currently more than 19 billion kilometres from Earth, travels at 15 kilometres per second and talks to NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) at a torturously slow 160 bits per second.……