The Best of The Register
9 most popular The Register articles, as voted by our community.
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The Register on Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch
Microsoft's Bing and Google's Bard just as bad as each other
The Register on Digital Life
Mozilla, Google looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit
Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again
The Register on Functional Programming
Haskell, Erlang, and Frank walk into a bar and begin new project to work in Unison
It's not a joke, it's a programming language tuned for distributed systems
The Register on Future Of Cars
British industry calls for autonomous vehicle regulation
Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear
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