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Oh snap: AWS has only gone and brought out its own Backup

There's gold in them thar clouds as Infor guzzles $1.5bn from Koch and Golden Gate

Huawei’s elusive Mr Ren: We’re just a 'sesame seed' in a superpower spat

Veeam. Veeam. Veeeeeeeam. What was that? Oh, just the sound of half a billion bucks hitting backup biz's bucket

Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo

Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce

Cortana and Search to innovate separately in an amicable Windows 10 Insider split

Do you feel 'lucky', well, do you, punk? Google faces down magic button patent claim

Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach

South Korea says mystery hackers cracked advanced weapons servers

$24m in fun bux stolen from crypto-mogul. Now he fires off huge fraud charge. Like, RICO, say?

Lowjax city: Researchers crack open notorious Fancy Bear rootkit

The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men

Non-profit? Into DevOps, CI/CD, Containers? There’s a CLL ticket with your name on it

Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda to kick off our Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Crap app tapped to trap mishaps: Demo insecure software built to school devs on secure coding

Diplomat warns that tech industry has become a pawn as politicos fight dirty

US comms watchdog's industry-friendly 5G rules challenged by fresh legislation

Licence to chill: Shrinking data warehouse biz Teradata hires insider CEO

Army had 'naive' approach to Capita's £1.3bn recruiting IT contract, MPs told

Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong

FCC's answer to scandal of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US selling people's location data: Burying its head in the ground

Geek's Guide

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...

The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

McKinsey’s blockchain warning irks crypto hipsters

Bipartisan Kumbaya: President Trump turns Obama's open govt data policy into law

Ahem, Amazon, Google, Microsoft... Selling face-snooping tech to the Feds is bad, mmm'kay?

Verity Stob

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

Smartphones gateway drug to the Antichrist, says leader of Russian Orthodox Church

Reg Standards Bureau introduces the Devon fatberg as coastal town menaced by oily blob

Border guards probe 'suspicious bulge' in man's trousers to find he's packing fluffies

Science

Moon

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

The poor cotton seedling froze to death as temperatures plunged during the lunar night

16 Jan 22:28 | 66

burn

Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...

Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show

16 Jan 15:14 | 35

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The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

Future Circular Collider hopes to rack up 100 tera electron Volts to probe physics

16 Jan 07:54 | 156

China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

PicLiving in a box, living in a faraway box, I'm living in a box

16 Jan 07:04 | 53

Spektr-R goes quiet, Dragon splashes down and SpaceX lays off

RoundupUnfortunate SpaceX workers start a different sort of countdown

15 Jan 10:15 | 25

People say tabloid hacks are always looking for an angle. This time, they'd be right: Tilting disk of proto-planets spotted

Only 45 parsecs away if you fancy a look up close

15 Jan 08:06 | 30

Computing boffins strip the fun out of satirical headlines

Real or satire? Teaching machines to tell apart 'BP ready to resume oil drilling' and 'BP ready to resume oil spilling'

14 Jan 09:37 | 38

It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos

Pics and vidNot much fun back in the West for SpaceX, tho: Staff decimated

12 Jan 01:28 | 40

Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days

VidWatch this game of moist mechanical musical chairs

11 Jan 21:56 | 24

SpaceX Iridium-8

SpaceX sends Iridium-8 into space while Musk flaunts his retro rocket

The 1930s called. They'd like their silver Starship back

11 Jan 19:04 | 27

crystal_white_dwarf

What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years

50-year theory finally confirmed by European space probe

11 Jan 05:53 | 39

eagle_nebula

Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free

UpdatedRemote fix hoped for orbiting robo-eyeball

10 Jan 08:01 | 238

CHIME radio telescope

Typical! You wait ages for a fast radio burst from outer space, and suddenly 13 show up

Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron

10 Jan 05:06 | 33

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What's 23 times the size of Earth, uncomfortably warm – and has astroboffins excited?

Kepler's successor, TESS, turns up its first three exoplanets

09 Jan 11:37 | 20

Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars. Do you think we could get another probe to land on Mars?

Roundup2018 a cracker for spaceflight. Ignoring Galileo

09 Jan 10:02 | 9

Gyro failure fingered for sending Earth-gazing Digital Globe sat TITSUP (That's a total inability to snap usual pics)

Two-year-old bird in safe mode

09 Jan 07:28 | 10

Killer superbugs in space... are something astronauts on orbiting science lab don't have to worry about right now

Don't miss ISS's Star Spores: Return of the Fungi

09 Jan 06:07 | 7

Chinese rover pootles about... on the far side of the friggin' MOON

RoundupPlus: SpaceX gets back to some Falcon work

08 Jan 09:04 | 59

Dark matter's such a pushover: Baby stars can shove weird stuff around dwarf galaxies

Mystery material 'a cold, collisionless fluid' apparently

04 Jan 17:17 | 64

SpaceX's Crew Dragon shows up at pad 39A, nearly 8 years after the last Shuttle left

Musk's mighty missile erected but not yet engorged with fuel as engineers check it all fits

04 Jan 12:23 | 56

Forget 2019's tech biz takeovers, here's the mega-merger everyone's talking about: Milky Way and LMC, coming soon

And by soon, we mean, two billion years

04 Jan 00:49 | 25

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Moon

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

Factory crane

Yes, you can remotely hack factory, building site cranes. Wait, what?

Terminator head

World's first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff

plasters cover arm. photo by shutterstock

Microsoft sends a raft of Windows 10 patches out into the Windows Update ocean

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Florida man stumbles on biggest prime number after working plucky i5 CPU for 12 days straight

Processor thrashed by GIMPS

03 Jan 16:25 | 54

New Horizons snaps finish buffering: Ultima Thule actually two dust bunnies that got snuggly 4.5 billion years ago

We were wrong about the chicken drumstick, OK?

03 Jan 13:51 | 47

China's loose Chang'e: Probe lands on far side of the Moon in science first, says state media

Chang'e 4 makes history with 'soft landing' on lunar surface

03 Jan 06:08 | 59

graphene_qubit

Boffins manage to keep graphene qubits 'quantum coherent' for all of 55... nanoseconds

Doesn't sound very long, but it could have big implications for quantum computing

02 Jan 17:14 | 28

Ultima Thule

New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick?

We'll have a better idea when fresh 2014 MU69 snaps look less like Minecraft

02 Jan 13:36 | 64

sad party

Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7

At last! The pretender to the throne swipes the crown

02 Jan 12:59 | 94

The Earth from the Moon (pic: NASA)

An upset tummy and a sphincter-loosening blackout: Lunar spaceflight is all glamour

It is 50 years since Apollo 8 took the first humans to the moon

24 Dec 14:08 | 99

50 years ago: NASA blasts off the first humans to experience a lunar close encounter

The previous Saturn V didn't go so well, but you guys will be fine. Trust us

21 Dec 10:20 | 123

Scrubtastic end to 2018 as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace all opt for another day on Earth

RoundupBut spare a thought for 'nauts coming home in punctured Soyuz

18 Dec 19:30 | 12

Brexit-dodging SCISYS Brits find Galileo joy in Dublin

UK space specialist's holding company ups sticks for €11.2m

17 Dec 13:49 | 136

Happy Christmas! Bloodhound SSC refuelled by Yorkshire business chap

Yuletide cheer for Wing Commander Andy Green and the team

17 Dec 10:59 | 33

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 | 41

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 | 61

MIlky Way

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 | 55

Soyuz Spacewalk

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 | 48

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

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