NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom Science13 Jan 2024 | 100
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors $ gig revert HEAD && gig commit -e 'Biden was here' Personal Tech10 Jan 2024 | 78
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes Science09 Sep 2023 | 31
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment Science15 May 2023 | 417
IT boss arrested over Cash App exec Bob Lee death Updated Alleged killer said to be industry pal, faces one count of murder On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 14
San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis Software fix coming – that'll be a braking change we'd actually like to see AI + ML12 Apr 2023 | 45
Drones aim to undo Ukraine's landmine problem Feature Draganfly aims to help clear invaded nation of deadly devices Defense Tech Week05 Apr 2023 | 36
Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why 2023, just like 2008 Legal10 Mar 2023 | 133
Biden attacks Big Tech's data addiction, wants more protection for kids Old man yells at cloud, literally Personal Tech08 Feb 2023 | 5
UK PM splits govt department in 4, creates dedicated 'Science and Tech' bit GDPR rejig and Online Safety Bill concerns, semiconductor strategy basically sorted then. Right? Right? Science08 Feb 2023 | 98
Trump and Biden agree on something – changing Section 230 White House proposes fill-in-the-blanks tech policy reform Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 22
California passes bill requiring salary ranges on job listings Legislation also aims to tackle wage gaps around gender, race, and ethnicity Legal06 Sep 2022 | 64
Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems Opinion Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies Systems18 Jul 2022 | 260
EU court says it can probe M&As even when one party has no European operations Bloc insists it has right to rule on planned merger between US biotech firms Illumina and Grail Legal14 Jul 2022 | 15
COO of failed bio-biz Theranos found guilty on all twelve fraud counts What a prick ... of blood was ever going to work in these machines? Science07 Jul 2022 | 30
Wash your mouth out with shape-shifting metal You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots Science06 Jul 2022 | 38
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint? Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 84
Uber, Meta to reduce hiring as stocks slide Is winter coming already for the US tech sector? Personal Tech10 May 2022 | 15
MIT's thin plastic speakers fall flat. And that's by design Video The walls are alive with the sound of music Science29 Apr 2022 | 35
Real-time crowdsourced fact checking not really that effective, study says NYU boffins find the crowd is not all that wise when it comes to spotting misinformation Personal Tech30 Oct 2021 | 79
Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional Personal Tech23 Sep 2021 | 194
SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff Combined with its Super Heavy booster, Starship stood briefly as the tallest rocket yet Bootnotes07 Aug 2021 | 89
Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall Open letter drafted against what's seen as unjustified profiteering Software31 Jul 2021 | 66
That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews Veteran technologist Terence Eden recalls upstart's solicitation for shills Bootnotes10 Jul 2021 | 57
Biden order calls for net neutrality, antitrust action, ISP competition – and right to repair your own damn phone Market dominance of tech giants in President's cross-hairs Personal Tech09 Jul 2021 | 77
Satellite collision anticipated by EU space agency fails to materialize... for now at least Internet rubberneckers and crisis-starved media left to ponder non-event Science10 Apr 2021 | 41
Biden nixes Trump immigrant visa ban as clock runs down on H-1B suspension Keeping family members out of the country deemed harmful Legal27 Feb 2021 | 12
Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup SaaS25 Feb 2021 | 16
Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19 Serial entrepreneur regrets the error Science17 Feb 2021 | 30
Airbnb, or not to be, if you're headed to Washington DC: Biz cancels bookings over fears of inauguration insurrection Hosts, guests paid off to 'ensure hate group members are not part of the Airbnb community' Personal Tech13 Jan 2021 | 19
Buggy code, fragile legacy systems, ill-conceived projects cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020 Software quality crisis made worse by developer shortage, report claims Software09 Jan 2021 | 118
Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem Don't worry, Mr President, we've found another platform for you: /dev/null Personal Tech09 Jan 2021 | 348
Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it What if the cat in the box could come back to life? Science09 Dec 2020 | 33
President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds White House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off Science26 Oct 2020 | 50
Meet the new aviation insecurity, same as the old aviation insecurity: Next-gen ACAS X just as vulnerable to spoofing as its predecessor Faking an emergency collision alarm - just what you don't need over Heathrow Security06 Oct 2020 | 12
South Korea bods open source NVMe storage controller to save academics, non-profits a bundle OpenExpress does away with intellectual property licensing burdens Storage09 Sep 2020 | 2
Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces – other IRS that can ruin your day Science01 Jun 2020 | 10
NASA makes May 27 its US independence day from Russian rockets: America's back in the astronaut business after nearly nine years Thanks to a South African immigrant Science17 Apr 2020 | 49
WeWork sues SoftBank over 'AWOL' $3bn shares purchase – which included millions lined up for ousted CEO Neumann Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms Science07 Apr 2020 | 19
Alphabet, Apple, Dell, Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries, human-rights warriors claim Updated Woke tech giants sued for 'knowingly benefiting from ... the cruel and brutal use of young children' Personal Tech16 Dec 2019 | 66
PSA: You are now in the timeline where Facebook and pals are torn a new one by, er, Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen Updated The Dictator leading man says web giants would run 'Final Solution' ads for Hitler Personal Tech22 Nov 2019 | 85
Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating Science16 Nov 2019 | 210
Smack-talking overflow: Mining developer sentiment to understand the most popular APIs Boffins build search engine based on feelings expressed about programming interfaces Devops08 Nov 2019 | 5
The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row Updated Pending pronoun policing piques political protest Legal01 Oct 2019 | 295
TAG, you're s*!t: Internet advertising industry bods admit self-policing approach is a sham Special report Meanwhile: Trustworthy Accountability Group CEO dismisses ax-grinding critics Personal Tech30 Sep 2019 | 27
Valorous Vikram lunar lander – or Star Wreck: Enterprise? India's Moon craft goes all silent running during descent Nation braces for bad news after last-minute comms blackout Science06 Sep 2019 | 44
Looming US immigration crackdown aims to weed out pre-crime of poverty. And that may be bad news for techie families Government officials will guess the future and deny those likely to utilize public benefits Legal12 Aug 2019 | 77
Remember that crypto-exchange boss who mysteriously died after his customers' coins disappeared? Of course he totally stole them So claims this Ernst & Young probe report Science25 Jun 2019 | 109
NASA goes commercial, publishes price for trips to the ISS – and it'll be multi-millionaires only for this noAirBNB $22,500 a day to breathe, eat and exercise, $50 per GB for data, $11,250 to pee and sleep Science07 Jun 2019 | 89
Lend me your ears and AI will play with your brain: Machine voice imitators outsmart us Brain-scanning boffins find no signals to differentiate real and spoofed speakers AI + ML04 Apr 2019 | 15
What do sexy selfies, search warrants, tax files have in common? They've all been found on resold USB sticks You do know just dragging stuff to the delete folder doesn't wipe stuff, right? Apparently not Security14 Mar 2019 | 78
Sniff the love: Subaru's SUVs overwhelmed by scent of hair shampoo, recalls 2.2 million cars Dozens of brake lights broken by chemicals in smells Bootnotes02 Mar 2019 | 67
IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow? Exclusive Tech giants under fire? Hold my beer, says Big Blue as it spins up race slur recruitment websites Legal26 Feb 2019 | 241
Oh cool, the Bluetooth 5.1 specification is out. Nice. *control-F* master-slave... 2,000 results Can't let go of that old terminology we see. Plus, it now tells you where a nearby device is located Edge + IoT01 Feb 2019 | 108
The Iceman cometh, his smartwatch told the cops: Hitman jailed after gizmo links him to Brit gangland slayings Killer behind bars for life after fitness kit data tips off plod Security19 Jan 2019 | 80
Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days Vid Watch this game of moist mechanical musical chairs Science11 Jan 2019 | 24
Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate Licensing red-tape violate First Amendment, says court in battle over timing algorithm Software02 Jan 2019 | 153
Laptop search unravels scheme to fake death for insurance cash The first rule of death club is not to be seen alive Security22 Nov 2018 | 49
Bird, Lime, and Xiaomi face scooter sueball Nine injured riders and pedestrians say scooters are shoddy and ill-maintained Personal Tech31 Oct 2018 | 24
Euro eggheads call it: Facebook political ads do change voters' minds – and they worked rather well for Trump in 2016 'Brexit and the election of Donald might be largely due to the use of data analytics' Legal24 Oct 2018 | 83
US and UK Amazon workers get a wage hike – maybe they'll go to the movies, by themselves Updated At $15 an hour, 50,000 full-time and temp staffers will be livin' it up Bezos style - almost Legal02 Oct 2018 | 57
Swedish ISP spanked for sexist 'distracted boyfriend' advert for developer jobs Recruitment effort based on popular meme called out for gender discrimination Personal Tech27 Sep 2018 | 81