AI can’t patent inventions in the UK
So they can't be trolls either
The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that AI cannot invent new patents under British law.
Intel releases Beast Canyon
Rather good but very pricey
Intel's NUC 11 Extreme mini PC, otherwise known as Beast Canyon, has launched to retail, at a price much higher than Chipzilla promised.
Seagate releases on 2nd generation HAMR drives
Its HAMR time
Seagate said that it is already working on 2nd generation HAMR drives with 30TB capacity.
US spooks install adblockers
Security risk
While Big Tech rails against ad blockers as a way of undermining Internet business models, US spooks and law enforcement have quietly installed ad blockers to prevent an obvious security threat.
New iPhones and iPad break Apple Music
New software feature
The software geniuses who bought you a watch app which could not handle summer time, have now said that a device restore will tigger its premium music product software.
Kids can't understand how computers work any more
No idea about directories, folders, or files
Having moved from generations who were frightened to touch computers because they were frightened something would go wrong, The Verge reports that professors are increasingly seeing the rise of a generation that can’t understand even the basic fundamentals of how computers and operating systems work.
Microchip with wings is the smallest flying structure
Small as a sand grain
A winged microchip, the size of a sand grain, is being billed as the smallest ever human made flying structure.
Russian aristocrat PR plays Ryff advertising music
AMD. Intel. Now Taylor
A former senior PR executive at Intel and AMD has now a senior vice president role at Ryff - a startup making waves in Silicon Valley and now with what appears to have an office in The Smoke (London).
Microsoft shows its new Surface 2021 lineup
Surface Laptop Studio and new Surface 8 Pro
Preparing for the upcoming Windows 11 launch, Microsoft has refreshed its Surface lineup with new models, including the all-new Surface Laptop Studio and Surface Pro 8, as well as minor tweaks for some other models, like the Surface Pro X and the Surface Go 3.
Old Microsoft man believes in toilets, toilets and toilets
Ballmer's latest obsession
The shy and retired former Microsoft boss Steve “there’s a kind of hush” Ballmer has a new obsession – toilets.