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Come to GoDaddy: 12 million domains – from .biz to .nyc – acquired from Neustar amid promises of lower prices

From Amanda Holden to petrol-filled water guns: It has been a weird week for 5G

Learn how to maintain remote scale, resiliency and intelligence with the Akamai Edge Live | Virtual Summit

Cabinet Office dangles £15m for help ditching its Single Operating Platform for cloud-based ERP system

Google tests hiding Chrome extension icons by default, developers definitely not amused by the change

Four new bugs? You shouldn't have: Microsoft celebrates 45 years with dollop of borkage on Windows Insider Fast Ring

Just cough into here, please: Cambridge-developed app slurps the sounds of COVID-19

Already in final beta? That's Madagascar: Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' gets updated desktop, ZFS support

Mozilla plugs two Firefox browser holes exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack victims' computers

Roaring trade in zero-days means more vulns are falling into the hands of state spies, warn security researchers

Kaspersky cleans up poisoned watering hole, Google presses pause on cookie crackdown

British Airways and Marriott UK data protection fines deferred again as coronavirus shutdown hits business

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era

Minister slams 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories as 'dangerous nonsense' after phone towers torched in UK

UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence

Tech services biz Allvotec furloughing staff, asking remainder – including top brass – to take pay cut

Real-time tragedy: Dumb deletion leaves librarian red-faced and fails to nix teenage kicks on the school network

Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones

Motorola casually trots out third UK release in as many months: This time it's a 'Lite' take on the Moto G8 Power

Absolutely everyone loves video conferencing these days. Some perhaps a bit too much

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NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom

Where's the best place to add Mentos to Diet Coke for the most foam? How big are the individual bubbles? Has science gone too far?

ESA missions back doing science after precautionary pandemic plug pull: We talk to space boffins about Mars Express emergency command line

Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks

Washington state governor green-lights facial-recog law championed by... guess who: Yep, hometown hero Microsoft

Automatic for the People: Pandemic-fueled rush to robo-moderation will be disastrous – there must be oversight

Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair

Verity Stob

Salesforce publishes self-themed activity book to keep your kids ‘Appy

Vietnam bans posting fake news online

How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out

Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that

Science

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch

06 Apr 04:42 | 29

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Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom

Testing times for SpaceX as another Starship prototype implodes

03 Apr 20:04 | 40

Science

Where's the best place to add Mentos to Diet Coke for the most foam? How big are the individual bubbles? Has science gone too far?

Teachers trek high and low to uncover cola geyser secrets

03 Apr 18:02 | 39

Science

ESA missions back doing science after precautionary pandemic plug pull: We talk to space boffins about Mars Express emergency command line

Meanwhile, three-quarters of NASA staff now staying at home

03 Apr 16:59 | 7

Science

Cricket's average-busting mathematician Tony Lewis pulls up stumps

University lecturer and half of Duckworth-Lewis passes, aged 78

03 Apr 06:41 | 13

Science

NASA's classic worm logo returns for first all-American trip to ISS in years: Are you a meatball or a squiggly fan?

PollShould boffins keep it old-school space-race era – or embrace the, er, future of the 1970s?

03 Apr 00:50 | 61

Science

Do you want to be an astronaut when you grow up? Yeah, you and 12,000 others: NASA flooded with folks hoping to visit Moon, Mars

Cramped conditions? Not being able to see friends and family? Sounds familiar

02 Apr 10:30 | 24

Science

If you thought black holes only came in S or XXXL, guess again, maybe: Elusive mid-mass void spotted eating star

Could this candidate be a missing link between small and bonkers-massive?

02 Apr 07:01 | 12

Science

Sun storm probe OK'd: 'Our motivation is a fascinating signal that we have detected for decades but never been able to make an image of'

Space scientist reveals drive behind solar instrument experiment now approved by NASA

01 Apr 11:10 | 9

Science

Soichi to join three-spaceship club, SpaceX is going to the Moon (no, really), and rocket boffins step up COVID-19 fight

RoundupAlso: Satellite comms outfit OneWeb files for Chapter 11

01 Apr 09:45 | 17

Science

NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service as SLS delays and costs mount

April FoolsFlying a 50-year-old rocket to mark the anniversary of Apollo 13? What could go wrong?

01 Apr 06:15 | 136

Science

16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe

Special reportMEX I can: A tale of ingenuity and innovation

31 Mar 09:00 | 37

Science

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Just use a wee bit of your imagination

31 Mar 05:03 | 47

Science

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

UpdatedScientists pull coronavirus treatment study apart after rushed publication

28 Mar 02:17 | 236

Science

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

VidWatch the Atlas V 551 rocket blast off

27 Mar 13:26 | 34

Science

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

VideoTerahertz nanoplasma kit makes traditional transistors look slow

27 Mar 06:06 | 49

Science

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Sure, the bullet couldn't shift a big boulder, but it may have learned Ryugu's composition and birthday

26 Mar 08:31 | 17

Science

Corona coronavirus hiatus: Euro space agency to put Sun, Mars probes in safe mode while boffins swerve pandemic

Spacecraft instruments switched off after COVID-19 outbreak forces mission control to send workers home

26 Mar 05:54 | 10

Science

First crew launch in US since 2011 could happen by May, 34 more OneWeb sats, and astros share their top isolation tips

RoundupIn space, no one can hear you scream 'Who used the last sheet of toilet roll!'

24 Mar 15:15 | 4

Science

Damn you, coronavirus. Damn you. Now you've gone too far: James Webb Space Telescope, Moon mission work paused

Including effort to land first woman on the lunar surface

24 Mar 07:07 | 23

Come to GoDaddy: 12 million domains – from .biz to .nyc – acquired from Neustar amid promises of lower prices

From Amanda Holden to petrol-filled water guns: It has been a weird week for 5G

Learn how to maintain remote scale, resiliency and intelligence with the Akamai Edge Live | Virtual Summit

Cabinet Office dangles £15m for help ditching its Single Operating Platform for cloud-based ERP system

Google tests hiding Chrome extension icons by default, developers definitely not amused by the change

Four new bugs? You shouldn't have: Microsoft celebrates 45 years with dollop of borkage on Windows Insider Fast Ring

Just cough into here, please: Cambridge-developed app slurps the sounds of COVID-19

Already in final beta? That's Madagascar: Ubuntu 20.04 'Focal Fossa' gets updated desktop, ZFS support

Mozilla plugs two Firefox browser holes exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack victims' computers

Roaring trade in zero-days means more vulns are falling into the hands of state spies, warn security researchers

Kaspersky cleans up poisoned watering hole, Google presses pause on cookie crackdown

British Airways and Marriott UK data protection fines deferred again as coronavirus shutdown hits business

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

RHEL pusher Paul Cormier appointed CEO to lead Red Hat into the IBM era

Minister slams 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories as 'dangerous nonsense' after phone towers torched in UK

UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence

Tech services biz Allvotec furloughing staff, asking remainder – including top brass – to take pay cut

Real-time tragedy: Dumb deletion leaves librarian red-faced and fails to nix teenage kicks on the school network

Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones

Motorola casually trots out third UK release in as many months: This time it's a 'Lite' take on the Moto G8 Power

Absolutely everyone loves video conferencing these days. Some perhaps a bit too much

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom

Where's the best place to add Mentos to Diet Coke for the most foam? How big are the individual bubbles? Has science gone too far?

ESA missions back doing science after precautionary pandemic plug pull: We talk to space boffins about Mars Express emergency command line

Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks

Washington state governor green-lights facial-recog law championed by... guess who: Yep, hometown hero Microsoft

Automatic for the People: Pandemic-fueled rush to robo-moderation will be disastrous – there must be oversight

Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair

Salesforce publishes self-themed activity book to keep your kids ‘Appy

Vietnam bans posting fake news online

How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out

Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that

Science

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

Things that go crump in the night: Watch Musk's mighty missile go foom

Where's the best place to add Mentos to Diet Coke for the most foam? How big are the individual bubbles? Has science gone too far?

ESA missions back doing science after precautionary pandemic plug pull: We talk to space boffins about Mars Express emergency command line

Cricket's average-busting mathematician Tony Lewis pulls up stumps

NASA's classic worm logo returns for first all-American trip to ISS in years: Are you a meatball or a squiggly fan?

Do you want to be an astronaut when you grow up? Yeah, you and 12,000 others: NASA flooded with folks hoping to visit Moon, Mars

If you thought black holes only came in S or XXXL, guess again, maybe: Elusive mid-mass void spotted eating star

Sun storm probe OK'd: 'Our motivation is a fascinating signal that we have detected for decades but never been able to make an image of'

Soichi to join three-spaceship club, SpaceX is going to the Moon (no, really), and rocket boffins step up COVID-19 fight

NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service as SLS delays and costs mount

16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Corona coronavirus hiatus: Euro space agency to put Sun, Mars probes in safe mode while boffins swerve pandemic

First crew launch in US since 2011 could happen by May, 34 more OneWeb sats, and astros share their top isolation tips

Damn you, coronavirus. Damn you. Now you've gone too far: James Webb Space Telescope, Moon mission work paused

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COBOL-coding volunteers sought as slammed mainframes slow New Jersey's coronavirus response

Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones

Real-time tragedy: Dumb deletion leaves librarian red-faced and fails to nix teenage kicks on the school network

NASA reveals the new wavy Martian wheels it thinks can crush the red planet

Minister slams 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories as 'dangerous nonsense' after phone towers torched in UK

Pan-European group plans cross-border contact-tracing app – and promises GDPR compliance

We're number two! Microsoft's Edge browser slips past Firefox in latest set of NetMarketShare figures

Virtually – no – actually borked: We'd slap ailing ATM's 'OK' button but it's probably against government guidance

British Airways and Marriott UK data protection fines deferred again as coronavirus shutdown hits business

Kaspersky cleans up poisoned watering hole, Google presses pause on cookie crackdown

Apollo astronaut Al Worden – once named most isolated human being of all time – dies aged 88

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Black hole quasar tsunamis moving at 46 million miles per hour

Bad news: Coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the world. Good news: Nitrogen dioxide levels are decreasing and the air on Earth is cleaner

Remember that blurry first-ever photo of a black hole? Turns out snaps like that can tell us a lot about these matter-gobbling voids

SpaceX beats an engine failure to loft another 60 Starlink satellites

Theranos vampire lives on: Owner of failed blood-testing biz's patents sues maker of actual COVID-19-testing kit

Planning a trip to space to escape COVID-19? Tough. Arianespace shuts up shop while SpaceX sputters

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, surely has no frozen water, right? Guess again: Solar winds form ice

Yanking on the space supply chain: Rocket Lab goes Interplanetary with Sinclair acquisition

If you're looking for a textbook example of an IT hype cycle, let spin be your guide

Coronavirus pandemic latest: Trump declares 'two very big words' – national emergency – and unexpectedly ropes in Google to help in some form

In case you want to flee this wretched Earth, 139 minor planets were spotted at the outer reaches of our Solar System. Just an FYI...