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Uh-oh .io: Question mark hands over trendy tech startup domains as UN condemns British empire hangover

If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch

When two tribes go to war... Intel, AMD tease new chips at Computex: Your spin-free summary

DXC: We axed 10k staff, shut nine data centres, closed 4.6m sq ft of office space... and sales tumbled, funnily enough

Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules

Microsoft? Oh it's just another partnership, insists GitHub CEO

GitLab looks for users to CI to eye: Come join us on the happy path

Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples

Millions of personal files exposed by insurance biz, serial web hacker strikes again, and more from infosec land

Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet

Why telcos 'handed over' people's GPS coords to a bounty hunter: He just had to ask nicely

GitHub slurps open-source bug zapping automator Dependabot, chucks cash at devs

Serverless Computing London: Agenda on its way, blind birds heading off

All aboard the Windows Server container train as Google punts out Rapid Release GKE channel

Come join the Mirantis Kubernetes party, just be sure to BYOD – the D being distro, not drinks

Murdoch-backed adtech startup Unlockd ditches Google lawsuit: That'll be £200k, ta very much

Gee, SEC, how did that get out?! 'Leaked' Tesla email claims big boost in Model 3 production

While big orange spectre haunts certain Chinese firms, fiscal '19 treated Lenovo rather well

Kelway founder slurps Brit public sector supplier SBL, financials undisclosed

It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

HP: Based on our Intel, don't hold your breath waiting for Chipzilla's CPU shortage to end

Geek's Guide

Third time's a charm? SpaceX hopes to launch 60 Starlink broadband sats into orbit tonight

NASA boffins may just carve your name on a chip and send it to Mars if you ask nicely

Tim Peake's Soyuz lands in London after jaunt around the UK

UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet, fishes out a paltry £2m for Brit plans to return to orbit

HP's delayed Reverb: Jesus-headset dribbles out of the echo chamber and into the channel

Uber JUMPs at chance to dump load of electric bikes across Islington

AI can now animate the Mona Lisa's face or any other portrait you give it. We're not sure we're happy with this reality

We listened to more than 3 hours of US Congress testimony on facial recognition so you didn't have to go through it

Verity Stob

Let's make laptops from radium. How's that for planned obsolescence?

This is a sett-up! Mum catches badger feasting on contents of freezer

Honey, hive had it with this drone: Couple lived for years with thousands of bees in bedroom wall

Long-distance dildo devotee deploys ding-dong over data deceit

Science

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Third time's a charm? SpaceX hopes to launch 60 Starlink broadband sats into orbit tonight

UpdatedAt 13,620 kilograms, it's the heaviest payload yet for the Elon Musk-run biz

24 May 01:30 | 20

Mars

NASA boffins may just carve your name on a chip and send it to Mars if you ask nicely

You probably won't ever get to go to space – but your name can

23 May 06:09 | 37

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Tim Peake's Soyuz lands in London after jaunt around the UK

No word if a trip through Manchester was scarier than atmospheric reentry

23 May 05:00 | 61

UK Space Agency cracks open its wallet, fishes out a paltry £2m for Brit plans to return to orbit

Cash for horizontal launchers and PowerPoint slides

22 May 05:03 | 55

50 years ago: Apollo 10 takes an unplanned spin above the lunar surface – and sh!t gets sweary

Part twoPutting the 'blue' in blue moon

21 May 09:26 | 39

When two become one: 200 boffins contribute to first Ultima Thule paper

RoundupChina adds to Beidou constellation while India preps radar-imaging satellite

20 May 11:59 | 5

It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'

Part OneCharlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon

18 May 07:04 | 189

SpaceX takes a leaf from the Microsoft playbook and stands down Starlink for an update

Also: Repeated reboots to get a Windows 10 update installed? Just like the (not so) old days

17 May 11:13 | 14

NASA wheels out Habitation prototypes while SpaceX encounters problems with parachutes

RoundupAlso: 60 Starlink sats shoehorned in a Falcon 9 fairing, bound for orbital shenanigans

15 May 08:15 | 14

helix_nebula

Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

15 May 05:33 | 59

NASA rattles the tin for an extra $1.6bn to keep 2024 lunar hopes alive

Just a downpayment, says administrator Jim Bridenstine

14 May 11:26 | 21

Cracks on Phoebus - NASA Goddard

Japan's mission to mine Mars' moon is cleared – now they've filled out the right paperwork on alien world contamination

In space no one can hear you complete form P6719 in triplicate for astro-mandarins

14 May 08:09 | 64

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Guess what shrinks when it gets cold and then you shake it around a little? The Moon. We're talking about the Moon

What did you think we meant?

14 May 05:57 | 118

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Japan on track to start testing Alfa-X, fastest train in the world with top speed of 400kph

But an even faster Maglev method is also in the works

13 May 14:40 | 84

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin unveils 'Blue Moon' lander, making it way too easy for manchild Elon Musk to take the piss

More like Blue BALLS amirite? lolol I'm 11

10 May 12:41 | 59

Rocket Lab picks up the pace while SpaceX sends a Dragon to the Space Station

RoundupAlso: NASA's 2024 Moon dreams get another soaking from the big bucket of reality

07 May 08:58 | 31

Cocaine, psychedelics, DMT? They sure knew how to party 1,000 years ago: Archaeologists make startling discovery

PicMeet South America's Stoned Henge

07 May 05:03 | 54

Water big surprise: H₂O found in samples of 'dry' asteroid brought to Earth over millions of miles by plucky probe

Parched Itokawa was hiding watery tricks up its sleeve

03 May 08:42 | 25

NASA fingers the cause of two bungled satellite launches, $700m in losses, years of science crashing and burning...

Aluminium manufacturer accused of running 19-year supply quality scam

03 May 05:56 | 158

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully lobs another capsule beyond the edge of space

Burning through the Amazon billions with rockets

02 May 18:23 | 29

'Lightweight' UPS-style flywheels to power naval laser zappers

UpdatedNaval 'leccy storage tech looks remarkably familiar

02 May 10:00 | 87

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Traffic camera

Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

Frozen disc, image via Shutterstock

Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft's Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot

Smashing windows

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

China selfie revolution

No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences

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We regret to inform you the massive asteroid NASA's all excited about probably won't hit Earth

Apophis will be inside satellite belt, visible to the naked eye from our home world, sweet release not imminent...

02 May 05:54 | 175

Woke up on Wednesday, expecting a SpaceX launch? Surprise! It got postponed

ISS power problems keep Dragon on the ground for a few more days

01 May 08:15 | 22

Boeing boss denies reports 737 Max safety systems weren't active

If it's Boeing, I'm not going

30 Apr 11:26 | 177

Falcon 9

Slip-sliding to May: Another Dragon delay and JAXA makes a bigger splash

Round-upOoooh, and lets not forget Manx Moon Stamps 'cos everyone loves an anniversary

29 Apr 09:30 | 10

Hubble Space Telescope by NASA

Eggheads confirm it's not a bug – the universe really is expanding 9% faster than expected

Scientists get ready to rewrite the cosmological rulebook

26 Apr 16:10 | 115

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What are we more likely to see? A smooth Windows 10 May release... or a xenon-124 decay? Oh dear, bad news, IT folks

And before Half-Life 3 arrives

26 Apr 05:05 | 43

Trinity atomic bomb test

Rising sea levels? How about the rising risk of someone using a nuke?

Lords cite 'irresponsible rhetoric' and communication as factors. Sound familiar?

24 Apr 12:55 | 111

Thanks to the NASA InSight probe (and British tools), you can now listen to the sound of a Martian earthquake

VideoAstroboffins rejoice over tiny rumblings underground

24 Apr 06:58 | 8

It was that gosh-darn anomaly again, says SpaceX as smoke billows from Crew Dragon test site

RoundupNASA schedules walloped, Cynus launches, and Owen Garriott's final voyage

23 Apr 15:30 | 39

Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans)

Can't take over the galaxy if you don't know how it works, innit?

17 Apr 12:41 | 27

Three planets and two stars adds up to one research team made very happy by Kepler's unique discovery

Dead telescope keeps on giving

17 Apr 10:10 | 32

Dundee Antenna

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Put that on the side of a bus

17 Apr 09:46 | 53

oneweb

Last week in space: Giant aircraft, asteroid impacts and exploding satellites

RoundupAlso, Boeing's Starliner is tickety boo. No, really

16 Apr 09:12 | 27

scott_kelly

Yay, you lose weight and get rad hardened in space! Nay, your genes go awry and your brain slows down when you return to Earth!

NASA Twin Study explores space and Earth poop in twins

12 Apr 22:53 | 24

Black Hole

Astronomer slams sexists trying to tear down black hole researcher's rep

Misogynists sniping at Caltech's Kate Bouman get an earful

12 Apr 19:24 | 166

Hey kids! Want to send teacher on a Zero-G flight? Unleash those mad cool video skillz

Get students in creative mood and ride on the Vomit Comet beckons

12 Apr 09:15 | 3

Welcome your new ancestor to the Homo family tree; boffins have discovered a new tiny species of human

Homo luzonensis spotted underneath layers and layers of clay in a Filipino cave

11 Apr 11:37 | 41

Humanity gazes into the abyss to get its first glimpse of a black hole

Sadly, USS Cygnus still missing

10 Apr 14:30 | 61

Are brown dwarfs stars or planets? Boffins find evidence for proto-suns in a solar system

Finding a twin brown dwarfs around a giant star just adds to the confusion

10 Apr 07:01 | 33

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