Global disparities in electric car ownership
Russia, South America and Africa falling behind
Europe and China dominate the world market for electric cars, but there are still very few electrified vehicles on the roads in large markets like Russia, South America and Africa, according to a study conducted by the Munich Mobility Show.
One bloke makes Apple look really silly
Holes in App store review system cause fanboys to fall for scams
The fruity cargo-cult Apple's app review process protects users as effectively as a chocolate teapot makes tea and this has been highlighted by one bloke who finds scams on the store without any hardware or software.
UK people trash their landlines
More than three million have cut the cord in the last five years
More than three million households in Britain have ditched their home phone in the last five years.
IT needs better supplier chains
Recent events shows they are pretty rubbish says, disaster experts
Recent events – such as the Suez Canal blockage and logistic problems with COVID-19 vaccine production – have underlined the need for organisations to build more resilient supply chains. According to disaster recovery and business continuity specialist Databarracks, this means working in partnership with suppliers and carrying out joint exercises in order to identify and address weak points before they become a bigger problem.
Intel defeats VLSI
$3.1 billion damage claim thrown out
Chipzilla is opening the champers after a US jury tossed out a patent infringement lawsuit filed against it by VLSI Technology.
HAProxy's load balancer handles 2.04 million requests per second
All using a single ARM Neoverse
HAProxy has announced that its HAProxy 2.3 tested on a single ARM Neoverse has achieved 2.04 million requests per second and is citing it as proof that its load balancer can scale on powerful servers with significant network bandwidth, and run on much more modest hardware while still achieving excellent results.
iMac shows Apple has lost its design mojo
Yeah it is thin so what?
Apple has released a new design of its all-in-one iMac and while the Tame Apple Press has creamed itself on cue about things like thinness and colours it does not look like anyone really thought about what they were writing.
Magic Leap AR ready for later this year
Spectacular
Magic Leap's next augmented reality headset is on track to be unveiled later this year.
Songwriters short changed by music streaming
Record labels still make a killing
According to a new report by industry analysts Mark Mulligan and Keith Jopling of Midia Research, songwriters are getting drastically short changed in the music streaming economy.
Edge gets performance mod
Optimising battery, CPU, chord change and RAM.
Microsoft’s Edge is about to get a "performance mode" which will improve how the browser uses the resources.