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From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

Hey, US taxpayers. Filed your taxes? Good, good. $500m of it is going on an Intel-Cray exascale boffinry supercomputer

Dell EMC refreshes Unity arrays with splash of Skylake and NVMe

That's Huawei I like it: Chinese giant's cloudy arm dumps 19-inch rack for newer model

Oracle's long-running pension plan class action case: C'mon, judge, reject a jury trial – Big Red

Apple: Group FaceTime allows up to 32 people! Skype: Hold my beer

College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin

Bandersnatch to gander snatched: Black Mirror choices can be snooped on, thanks to privacy-leaking Netflix streams

Bad cup of Java leaves nasty taste in IBM Watson's 'AI' mouth: Five security bugs to splat in analytics gear

This headline is proudly brought to you by wired keyboards: Wireless Fujitsu model hacked

Lone staffer killed our shields, claims etailer Gearbest after infosec bods peep at user deets

Hey, DevOps fans. We've got another TLA for you to write down: CDF

From on-prem to serverless, here’s how to transform your software ops

Continuous Lifecycle early bird ticket offer extended

Wanna improve your software ops? Need to cut through container hype? Like saving cash?

UK libraries dumped 11% of computers since 2010-11... everybody has one anyway, right?

Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report

Click here to see the New Zealand livestream mass-murder vid! This is the internet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter built!

Blighty's most trusted brand? Yeah, you wish, judge tells Post Office in Horizon IT system ruling

Qualcomm wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case, wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case...

Apple bestows first hardware upgrades in years upon neglected iPad Mini and Air lines

How many Reg columnists does it take to turn off a lightbulb?

Bombs Huawei... Smartphone exploded in my daughter's pocket, seriously burning her, claims dad in lawsuit

Geek's Guide

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectic witchery, for starters

'Naut trio successfully dock at ISS after Soyuz rocket goes all the way

Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins

Forget that rare-earth element crunch – we can now just extract them from industrial waste

First, Google touts $150 AI dev kit. Now, Nvidia's peddling a $99 Nano for GPU ML tinkerers. Do we hear $50? $50?

We don't want to be Latch key-less kids: NYC tenants sue landlords for bunging IoT 'smart' lock on their front door

Brouhaha over IBM using Flickr faces for AI training, big trouble in not-so-little China for Microsoft, and more

Let's face it. We need to face up to facing off with face-recog tech, say US senators: Bipartisan AI privacy law proposed

Verity Stob

Wondering why 'Devin Nunes herp-face' was trending online? Here's the 411: House rep sues Twitter for all the rude stuff tweeted about him

Mayors having a right 'mare in Florida: Acting mayor arrested weeks after boss also arrested

Science says death metal fans delightful and intelligent people, great at dinner parties

UK joins growing list of territories to ban Boeing 737 Max flights as firm says patch incoming

Science

Cragside photo courtesy NationalTrust

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectic witchery, for starters

Geek's Guide to BritainForget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery

18 Mar 09:05 | 79

Soyuz MS-12 Launch (credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)

'Naut trio successfully dock at ISS after Soyuz rocket goes all the way

Hague, Ovchinin, Koch arrived at their new home this morning

15 Mar 11:41 | 14

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Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins

It may have an asteroid belt, worlds similar to Earth and Neptune – and only 470 light years away

15 Mar 06:04 | 52

Forget that rare-earth element crunch – we can now just extract them from industrial waste

It's a match made in heaven for erm, glucunobacter and phosphogypsum

15 Mar 05:02 | 50

Brit rocket wranglers get Reaction they wanted after rattling SABRE

Euro space agencies approve air-breathing engine testing

14 Mar 17:15 | 22

NASA admin: What if we switched one delayed SLS for two commercial launchers?

Bridenstine reckons the agency should try sticking to its dates

14 Mar 11:19 | 30

Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA?

Boffins baffled by Bennu: We're due to visit asteroid but it's whirling faster and faster

14 Mar 07:29 | 43

Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring

Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners

13 Mar 07:52 | 32

Crew Dragon returns to dry land as NASA promises new space station for the Moon

Upgrades postponed for NASA's big rocket budget request in this week's round-up

12 Mar 18:00 | 55

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Astroboffins spot hefty pair swinging together. What? Um, we're talking about record-breaking massive binary stars...

What did you think we meant?

12 Mar 06:59 | 28

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'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

VideoAnd they may be injected into your body one day

10 Mar 11:09 | 54

Stereo Ultima Thule

Thought you'd seen everything there is to Ultima Thule? Check this out: IN STEREO!

3D glasses required... or you can try squinting at the screen

08 Mar 18:05 | 27

Crew Dragon Splashdown

Champagne corks undocked as SpaceX brings the Crew Dragon back to Earth

Cuddly Earth to stay in orbit. For now.

08 Mar 13:53 | 56

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You've been dying to know. Here's the answer: The Milky Way tips the cosmic scales at '1.5tr' times mass of the Sun

Still looks slim thank to Spanx-like dark matter

08 Mar 06:14 | 37

One-time Mars InSight Lander engineer scores $1.5m redress over whistleblower sacking

ManTech was using Lockheed Martin files illicitly, court told

06 Mar 15:05 | 26

Canada has lunar dreams as Germany worries about what lies beneath

Space roundupAnd in Israel, a funny thing happened on the way to the Moon

06 Mar 10:20 | 47

Real life sci-fi: Massive exoplanet booted out of home by binary parents – then slipped back inside by passing friendly stars

Cosmic soap operas may explain why weird alien objects end up in our backyard

06 Mar 06:04 | 10

Hurrah for Apollo 9: It has been 50 years since 'nauts first took a Lunar Module out for a spin

About as welcome as a what in a spacesuit?

05 Mar 13:45 | 40

Official science: Massive asteroids are so difficult to destroy, Bruce Willis wouldn't stand a chance

Videos'Only a matter of time before these questions go from being academic to defining our response to a major threat'

05 Mar 08:42 | 63

SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown...

Champagne remains on ice until Demo-1 is bobbing about in the Atlantic

04 Mar 11:02 | 68

Boffins put the FUN into fungus by rigging yeast to squirt out the active ingredients in cannabis

Greener than growing green, Berkeley biologists claim

01 Mar 16:00 | 46

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College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

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Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report

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UK code breakers drop Bombe, Enigma and Typex simulators onto the web for all to try

Cragside photo courtesy NationalTrust

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectic witchery, for starters

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Danger mouse! Potent rodents 'see' infrared after eyeballs injected with nanoparticles

Maybe it'll make its way to humans in the army one day...

01 Mar 06:01 | 58

Today's good news is that whoever has to clean up Solar System will have an easy job: Lack of small debris in Kuiper belt

None of that tiny space rubble to sweep away, judging by snaps of Pluto's acne spots

01 Mar 01:43 | 10

Spooky! Solar System's Planet NINE could be discovered in the next NINE years (plus one to six), say astroboffins

Where is that elusive super-Earth hiding?

28 Feb 06:49 | 76

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It was the best of times, it was the WFIRST of times: How NASA's next exoplanet hunter could find 1,000+ worlds

Boffins predict success rate of telescope's gravitational microlensing tech

27 Feb 07:42 | 8

Three New Virgin Astros

SpaceX's Demo-1 green lit for launch as Virgin enjoys a brief ménage à trois aboard VSS Unity

RoundupPlus: Up close and personal with Ultima Thule and Fregat saves the day

25 Feb 15:47 | 10

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In a galaxy far, far away, aliens may have eight-letter DNA – like the kind NASA-backed boffins just crafted

This may be proof that ET doesn't need the same DNA chemicals we need

25 Feb 10:55 | 59

Hayabusa 2 Landing Spot

Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has got the horn for space rock Ryugu – a sampling horn, that is

Asteroid bits collected. Next step, to hadouken a crater

22 Feb 17:35 | 24

Lunar lander's brief jaunt will place Israel as fourth country to make soft landing on Moon

If it works. Comms sat also along for ride, but there are loads already so...

22 Feb 10:48 | 16

Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface

Looks like someone's thought ahead this time

22 Feb 05:01 | 85

Deton-8. Blastobox-3. Demo-1... One of these is the name of a SpaceX crew capsule test now due to launch in March

As experts worry about the potential for rapid unscheduled in-flight rocket disassembly

21 Feb 20:10 | 14

NASA boffins show Moon water supply could – er, this can't be right? – come from the Sun

All rocks can produce water if irradiated in the right way

21 Feb 07:02 | 21

Nigerian satellite with the L-band antenna draped in a fetching red ribbon

How do you solve a problem like Galileo? With a strap-on L-band payload, of course!

Nigerian and Brit augmented boffinry could save billions

20 Feb 10:27 | 48

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Oldest white dwarf star catches amateur's eye – and its dusty ring leaves boffins baffled

PicJ0207 is estimated to be a mere three-billion years old and just 145 light years away

20 Feb 06:11 | 17

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Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation

15 gallons of uranium ore left in the visitors' center for 18 years

20 Feb 04:11 | 73

United Kingdom during sunrise as seen from Earth's orbit in space.

Surrey Uni mans the space harpoons, and NASA buys more seats on Russian rockets

RoundupUK Space spends £18m on internet sat tech

18 Feb 15:36 | 24

How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way

And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth

16 Feb 01:04 | 46

NASA's Dawn Mission receives nod in memory of Apollo 13 'naut for asteroid belt derring-do

Dead probe swinging around Ceres wins Swigert Award

15 Feb 16:55 | 3

Help us sniff out 50 neutron star collisions so we can calculate universe expansion, cosmoboffins plead

There's only been one so far, so 49 more to go

15 Feb 05:08 | 16

How's this for sci-fi: Orbiting probes face fiery death dive from planet's radiation belts. And that planet is Earth

They're dropping like flies: First Opportunity, now NASA's Van Allen craft

15 Feb 04:04 | 19

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