Love it or hate it, you can’t deny: TikTok is addicting. What makes it so addicting isn’t necessarily the quality of the videos (although ...

National Pizza Day, Thursday, Feb. 9, is one of many food holidays on our calendar —but I think we can agree that it’s among the upper ech...

With so many do-it-yourself personal finance tools at your fingertips, you might not even consider the need to enlist the help of a real-l...

Ah, the 2020s, in which we fund public roads and schools with Dogecoin A state legislator in New York has introduced a law bill that would ...

Ford has recalled 462,000 vehicles worldwide (382,000 in the U.S.) because of a video output failure that prevents the rearview camera ima...

The gang’s all here for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard (Feb. 16), as the Paramount+ spiritual revival of The Next Generat...

Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more In brief   Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, made headlines for c...

Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter Last summer's datacent...

Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater Opinion   The European Union has a commendable love for the safety of its citiz...

Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online in brief   Russia...

PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more Asia In Brief   ...

Cacti and other succulents have been popular houseplants for years now—and given how easy they are to care for, that’s hardly surprising. T...

In theory, cleaning a mirror shouldn’t be difficult. A few spritzes of a cleaning product, followed by a thorough wipe-down, seems like it ...

Who said workforce development was just for humans? Comment   The lucid ramblings and art synthesized by ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion have c...

'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that' Those using Chrome on Windows and other platforms may have trouble storing files over a ...

Do you cheat at Wordle? That’s going to depend on your definition of cheating, of course. Peeking at somebody else’s screen when they’re so...

If I have one hindrance as a food writer, it’s my textural issues—my aversion to the gelatinous and the jiggly. As a child, they were so ba...

If you spend enough time on TikTok, you’ll likely run across a video of someone brutalizing a bottle of Fabuloso cleaner with a caption li...

For big retirement savers, the silver lining of record-setting inflation is the record-setting cap increase for your 401(k) in 2023 . But i...

Goldeneye is back, baby! The game that changed first-person shooters is finally available to play on Nintendo Switch and Xbox for new and ...

I have been working on rekindling the romance with my Instant Pot. I’ve had her for at least half a decade, and right now we’re working on ...

Uncle Sam doles out decryption keys to 300+ victims after sting op The FBI said it has shut down the Hive's ransomware network, seizing...

Intriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched... Dell is reportedly buying cloud orchestration company Cloudify for ...

We all know walking is good for us. While the old “10,000 steps” goal was never really based on science , studies have shown that generall...

On Thursday, Jan. 26, Asteroid 2023 BU will buzz by the earth. The asteroid is small, less than five meters wide, but it’s coming in close....

Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit The head of Oracle Health engineering has abruptly left the bus...

Nothing lasts forever. The shiny new appliance you buy today will be a broken piece of junk in a few years or decades. A few years ago a fr...

The Start Menu is an iconic Windows element (let’s pretend Windows 8 never happened). It’s the launch pad of Windows, providing access to f...

Feds say Google manipulated ad auctions and subverted competition The US Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet's Google sub...

I love Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. I enjoy it when prepared according to the package instructions, but I’m also prone to tweaking it by su...

Heavily hyped tech bound for big time by decade end Research conducted by Fujitsu suggests there is no need to panic about quantum computer...

If you like horror that focuses on grotesque destruction, perversion, or violation of the human body (and that’s most horror, if you think ...

Many foods can be fried to excellent results— pickles , potatoes, little nuggets of cheese—but nothing fries quite like chicken. When it’s ...

Pool noodles are great summertime companions. They help you stay afloat if you’re unsteady in the water or   are   just trying to lounge an...

There is no doubt the Nintendo Switch is one of the most popular gaming consoles ever . Its games are great, and the portability is a plus,...

If you buy a house , there’s an excellent chance it will be the largest asset you own—maybe ever. I often stop and experience amazement tha...

$20b investment in Ohio semiconductor fabs is all go, though Intel looks set to shed over 500 jobs in California following last year's ...

To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast Opinion   Simple sums can pack a punch. When the CTO of 37Signals got his $3 million c...

PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more Asia In Brief   India's IT min...

Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI In-brief   Consumer tech publisher CNET will pa...

Hacking the world with ML is Uncle Sam's job, buddy China's AI development program poses a serious threat to America and other coun...

It has been 12 years since Japanese organizing consultant Marie Kondo’s book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” was first published, ...

Large appliances like refrigerators, ovens, washers, and dryers are major household investments. And while affordability is an important fa...

How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement? Feature   In 1793, French scientist Joseph Dombey sailed for the ...

But the next day it laid off 10,000 staff Comment   As Microsoft employees went to sleep on Tuesday not knowing that the next day their job...

As the perils of the winter Jon Snow warned us about begin to fade in late January, deals on winter clothing start to emerge from the retai...

We all want our written work to look nice. Whether you’re preparing a book for possible publication, or just writing up a document for cowo...

Applications are open to be a “Hotdogger,” or a Wienermobile spokesperson for Oscar Mayer. If you are one of the 12 people selected for the...

That'll definitely teach them to look out for their workers Amazon has been hit with a trio of citations from US safety inspectors who ...

Wendy’s New Year’s resolution, if we had to guess, is to get everyone to download their app—and their determination to accomplish this goal...

All the tech we know and love will, one day, be obsolete. In the meantime, it would be nice if the gadgets we use every day were designed t...

Maker spaces are becoming a popular alternative for DIY enthusiasts who don’t have the space to set up their own shop or studio at home. Th...

Hated, dogged, scandalous, sordid, nasty—these movies have been called all of those things, and much worse. Many have inspired death threat...

Apple went all-in on eSIM with the iPhone 14 line up , removing the option for SIM cards from their smartphones for the first time. In theo...

With a few billion people on the planet, is it really so bad that you fell head over heels with your ex’s friend? After all, treading throu...

And no more geofencing around health clinics either A bill proposed by Washingston state lawmakers would make it illegal for period-trackin...

Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code The UK's University of Leeds is looking for a systems integrator...

Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings India’s top four IT outsourcers, Wipro, HCL Technologies I...

Well whaddya know, the crypto ecosystem did the right thing by stiffing the WannaCry bandits Two cryptocurrency exchanges have frozen accou...

A couple have already been jailed, others shown the door for embezzling or arranging sham contracts Chinese web and gaming giant Tencent ha...

Addition of the chatbot everyone's talking about, and to, comes as Azure OpenAI goes GA Microsoft has promised it will "soon"...

After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers Chinese ride-share provider DiDi Chuxing announced on Monday that aft...

Am I bid $50 for a a ten-foot neon logo? Or $25 for an @ symbol planter box? Twitter has arranged an auction rid itself of 631 "surplu...

No good deed escapes scripting SNAFUs who, me?   Welcome once again to Who Me?, The Register 's weekly reader-contributed column in whi...

Chinese developers are cashing in as the region buys in to TikTok and games Asian nations have been revealed as the primary drivers of the ...

Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals – which operates project management pl...

Optimistically suggests international collaboration – including on standards – will help it get there China's government has declared t...

PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more Asia In Brief   ...

Using houseplants to add a bit of greenery to your bathroom isn’t anything new. But more recently, there’s a trend that takes it one step f...

With airline prices predicted to remain high for the rest of 2023, even the most basic economy tickets will feel like a (financial) splurg...

Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit In brief   A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize ...

You met someone great. However, they are newly single. So how soon is too soon to date someone who just got out of a relationship? After al...

How ever will he get by on that $50m? Apple CEO Tim Cook's 2023 compensation package has been slashed by 40 percent, Apple said, after ...

The hope? To grease the security skids for internet-connected devices – and they need all the help they can get Developers can now use the ...

Salt is great for dealing with ice outside—but salt is terrible for your floors for the same reason. Even if you’re very much on top of ma...

For a while now, our tech has run on rechargeable batteries, and that’s great‚ until we plug in a device and discover it won’t charge. Alte...

There is a certain genre of food that is adored by people who are complected in the way that I am complected (very lightly): Food that is o...

Getting your door locks to work like they should isn’t just a matter of convenience, but of safety as well—taking the hassle out of dealing...

Home remodeling projects can be (sort of) great. You work hard and make a massive mess but hopefully create something beautiful and get to...

Open source org called out for ignoring own code of conduct Natives in Tech, a US-based non-profit organization, has called upon the Apache...

Did a criminally minded robot write this? In part, yes. GPT-3 language models are being abused to do much more than write college essays, a...

You don’t need me to tell you that the Ancient Aliens series, which somehow airs on a network called History, is utter bullshit. Its whole...

Long-exposure photography lets you take some truly stunning shots if you want to capture light trails, a starry sky, or exaggerated motion ...

Companies want you to buy their products, Samsung included. Whenever the company drops a new product—like, say, the highly anticipated Gala...

Do you know what I did today? I secured a toasted bagel, hash browns, and a medium iced coffee ( with almond milk ) for $3.03. Why? Because...

Planting a tree in your yard offers a host of benefits, from shading your home from the sun (and thus lowering your energy bills ), to incr...

Climate change, drugs and immigration behind chip supply on White House priority list The US, Mexico, and Canada have renewed talks on semi...

Look at our big claims, but don’t think about how AMD beat us in the DDR5, PCIe 5 race After dealing with multiple delays, Intel is finally...

Windows 7 launched in October of 2009 . Barack Obama was president, Avatar was soon to hit movie theaters, and swine flu was officially de...

Adulting has never been easy, but since March 2020, we’ve all been struggling with additional stress.The pandemic introduced a slew of new ...

Time has run out for users of legacy operating systems: will you upgrade or buy a new PC? Changes are imminent for users running legacy ver...

I grew up in upstate New York without a garage, so I consider myself fairly skilled in the art of car de-icing—or so I thought. Ice storms ...