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One year on after US repealed net neutrality, policymakers reflect soberly on the future

Fed up with Oracle's Sith, AWS wades into Big Red's lawsuit over Pentagon JEDI contract

Cloud giants, enterprise refreshes keep storage market poppin': Global sales up 20% in Q3

Ofcom asks networks, ISPs: Hey, wouldn't it be nice if you let customers know the best deal once their contract's up?

Hot on heels of 2.0, Vivaldi 2.2 adds tab session management among other goodies

Better get cramming... Xamarin University due to close early next year

Careful with this latest Microsoft release – tug too hard on the threads and it tends to unravel

Home users due for a battering with Microsoft 365 subscription stick

Brazil bested by hackers, Virgin plugs hub bugs, and France surrenders… records

'Bomb threat' scammers linked to earlier sextortion campaign

Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children's charity

Stop us if you've heard this one: Facebook apologizes for bug leaking private photos

CLL '19 to span DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and Serverless

Kubernetes has become 'boring' and that's good, Google tells devs

JFrog to open freebie central repository for Go fans in the new year

Need continuous Kubernetes satisfaction? CloudBees has just the thing

Spending watchdog points finger at Capita for 1,300 shortfall in British Army rookies

Postmates plans rollout of autonomous delivery robots in US

UK spam-texting tax consultancy slapped with £200k fine

Godmother of word processing Evelyn Berezin dies at 93

Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

Razer offers freebies to gamers who descend into its coin mine

Sidecar drags itself out the grave, sues Uber for putting it there

Telcos enlist Google, Amazon to help protect Europe's data from Big Tech

Geek's Guide

Astroboffins spy a rare exoplanet evaporating before their eyes

Virgin Galactic test flight reaches space for the first time, lugging NASA cargo in place of tourists

Phew, galactic accident helps boffins explain dark matter riddle

Hole-y ship: ISS 'nauts take a wander to crack Soyuz driller whodunnit

Amazon's creepy facial recog doorbell, Facebook open sources machine learning code and much more

An AI system has just created the most realistic looking photos ever

Forget your deepest, darkest secrets, smart speakers will soon listen for sniffles and farts too

When it comes to AI research the West is winning, the East is rising and women are being left behind

Verity Stob

Vitamin Water gets massive publicity for new flavor: Utter BS

Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit

Doom at 25: The FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers, and enraged admins

Dine crime: Chippy sells deep fried Xmas dinner

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evaporating_exoplanet

Astroboffins spy a rare exoplanet evaporating before their eyes

*Okay so it will be here for another billion years or so but it's shrinking faster than normal

14 Dec 00:10 | 35

VSS Unity

Virgin Galactic test flight reaches space for the first time, lugging NASA cargo in place of tourists

SpaceShipTwo goes faster and higher than ever before

13 Dec 16:38 | 55

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Phew, galactic accident helps boffins explain dark matter riddle

Texan-led team find ancient oddity that's full of the stuff

13 Dec 04:03 | 53

Hole-y ship: ISS 'nauts take a wander to crack Soyuz driller whodunnit

In Soviet Russia, comrade find small hole by making much bigger hole

12 Dec 18:00 | 46

Supernovae may explain mass extinctions of marine animals 2.6 million years ago

Deadly radiation bouncing around could have killed off animals in the Pliocene era

12 Dec 07:01 | 65

Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks

Bees harvest data, but would be more fun if they had lasers

12 Dec 06:01 | 23

OSIRIS-REx space probe catches a whiff of water on asteroid Bennu

But how Earth ended up with all its water is still a mystery

11 Dec 07:01 | 22

China on its way to becoming the first nation to land on the far side of the Moon

Chang'e-4 is in the pipe; 5 by 5

10 Dec 23:22 | 39

Official: Voyager 2 is now an interstellar spacecraft

The veteran probe that keeps going has now gone where only Voyager 1 has gone before

10 Dec 19:35 | 80

Boffins build blazing battery bonfire

'Sun in a box' system promises power storage from molten silicon

08 Dec 06:40 | 154

Bloodhound SSC (pic: Flock and Siemens)

Bloodhound SSC reaches the end of the road for want of £25m

1,000mph dreams dashed as administrators throw in the towel

07 Dec 17:30 | 62

Galileo

Galileo's magnifico measurement: 1976 redshift test updated

A second put aside for Doresa and Milena

07 Dec 10:52 | 29

Boy cold water photo via Shutterstock

Falcon 9 gets its feet wet as SpaceX notch up two more launch successes

Also, Musk's giant mitt misses again but don't worry. Those salt stains will buff out ok

06 Dec 13:50 | 45

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Waiter, what's this? SpaceX delivery delayed for a day by moldy food

Don't worry, NASA's not skimping on astronauts - the food is for mice

05 Dec 06:00 | 30

No, you haven't gone deaf – the Large Hadron Collider has been wound down for more upgrades

Back in 2021 with even more inverse femtobarns*

04 Dec 11:20 | 44

Three become six as new 'nauts arrive for a visit to the ISS

Russia's back in the crewed spaceflight game with a bang

04 Dec 05:01 | 18

FYI: NASA has sent a snatch-and-grab spacecraft to an asteroid to seize some rock and send it back to Earth

Off-planet manic miner reaches orbit around its prey: Bennu

04 Dec 00:26 | 46

Space policy boffin: Blighty can't just ctrl-C, ctrl-V plans for Galileo into its Brexit satellite

InterviewYou need spectrum – and find something better to spend £92m on, will ya?

03 Dec 10:05 | 235

Here's the list of space orgs big and small sparring to send next NASA gear to the Moon

Boffins promise to return 'nauts to the lunar surface, too. No, really

01 Dec 00:58 | 25

Thought black holes were donut-shaped? It turns out they're more like deadly fountains

Japanese boffins argue for a new spin on astrophysics

30 Nov 23:39 | 23

It's all a matter of time: Super-chill atomic clock could sniff gravitational waves, dark matter

These ultra-precise babies are not your average timepiece

29 Nov 06:54 | 58

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Apple iPhone X detail

Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

Man possibly shocked at what he's seeing on computer screen

An AI system has just created the most realistic looking photos ever

Dumpster fire against background of wooden fence with sad green recycling badged nailed to it

Stop us if you've heard this one: Facebook apologizes for bug leaking private photos

A heap of dung

Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children's charity

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Pulses quicken at NASA as SpaceX gets closer to crewed launches and Russia readies the next Soyuz

If only there was some way the agency could unwind a bit. Or maybe not

28 Nov 09:50 | 32

CubeSat buddies, like those sent to track Mars InSight landing, can be used in future missions

VidPlucky briefcase-size birds beamed back data pronto of Martian touchdown attempt

28 Nov 07:06 | 19

NASA's Mars probe InSight really has Mars in sight: It beams back first pic after touchdown

VidOnce solar panels are deployed, spacecraft can begin studying Martian underground

26 Nov 22:22 | 65

Mars InSight probe

NASA has Mars InSight as latest lander due to arrive today

Then it's time to penetrate the Martian surface for science

26 Nov 08:45 | 42

Man feels someone else's pain

Blighty: We spent £1bn on Galileo and all we got was this lousy T-shirt

Minister confirms how much UK spunked on system it can't use

23 Nov 16:15 | 266

Zarya

In Space, Still: 20 years since Russia hurled first bit of floating astronaut hostel into orbit

No one fancied Salyut-style jaunt to Mir to grab some gear

22 Nov 09:15 | 57

HMS <i>Enterprise</i>, pictured alongside at the port of Kristiansund, Norway

Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

BoatnotesWarships don't only sink the nation's enemies, you know

21 Nov 10:21 | 96

Big Falcon Namechange for Musk's rocket: BFR becomes Starship

♪We built this rocket on debt and bull*♪

20 Nov 14:37 | 109

Busy week for ISS as Russia resumes flights and vies for parking spaces with NASA

RoundupDon't worry, it was just cargo, not 'nauts

20 Nov 10:20 | 16

Holy moley! The amp, kelvin and kilogram will never be the same again

Measurement nerds enter the 21st century

17 Nov 08:06 | 205

Sorry, but NASA says Mars signal wasn't Opportunity knocking

Mislabelled signal raised rover fans' hopes, just for a while

16 Nov 05:26 | 21

star

Douglas Adams was right, ish... Super-Earth world clocked orbiting 'nearby' Barnard's Star

Icy planet within cosmic spitting distance of humanity

15 Nov 07:03 | 84

Rocket Labs' It's Business Time mission launch

Rocket Labs mean business, Brits stick pin in Mars map, and Japan celebrates HTV-7’s dive into the atmosphere

RoundupAnother way ISS 'nauts can send stuff home

13 Nov 10:28 | 13

compass

Brit boffins build 'quantum compass'... say goodbye to those old GPS gizmos, possibly

VideoDon't expect one in your mobile phone any time soon, admittedly

11 Nov 08:10 | 142

Mars

Thank $deity that week's over. Look, here's some trippy music generated from pixels of a Martian sunrise to play us out

VideoSo there is fife on Mars?

10 Nov 00:56 | 13

Third Soyuz does not explode while auditors resume poking around NASA's big rocket SLS

Meanwhile, SpaceX forges ahead with BFR, pretty chill

08 Nov 21:00 | 18

Here's a search engine for all you boffins and eggheads that makes it easier to learn science

Microsoft co-founder's gift from beyond the grave

08 Nov 14:00 | 5

FYI NASA just lobbed its Parker probe around the Sun in closest flyby yet: A nerve-racking 15M miles from the surface

FAB, Lady Penelope

08 Nov 06:51 | 51

Astroboffins spot one of the oldest, coolest stars in the universe lurking in the Milky Way

Ancient light source may last trillions of years before dying

07 Nov 06:05 | 46

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