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HPE: Since y'all love cloud subs so much, we'll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022

HPE unveils Primera storage tech, vows 100% availability – anyone fancy breaking, er, putting that to the test?

DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5

Ahhhhh! What year is it?! Users left without direction or clue after Google Calendar 404s

Youtube Queue Chrome extension booted out of store for search engine hijacking, revealing Google's lax dev checks

Fancy a fondleslab dab? Adobe pulls oilcloth off new iPad-first Fresco painting, drawing app

Get your coat, you've pulled a Pull Panda: GitHub goes home with code collab specialists

10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC

Spin the wheel and find today's leaky cloud DB... clack clack... clack A huge trove of medical malpractice complaints

Awoogah! Awoogah! Firefox fans urged to update and patch zero-day hole exploited in the wild by miscreants

Delicious irony: Hacked medical debt collector AMCA files for bankruptcy protection from debt collectors

Parliament IT bods' fail sees server's naked OS exposed to world+dog

Dev darling Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Fsck it, we've lost Bitbucket: Quay.io webhook integration fails after API tweaked

Microsoft throws lifeline to .NET orphans in the brave new Core world

AWS goes live with Windows containers... but contain yourselves: It's going to be niche

Human-rights warriors crack on with legal challenge to UK's lax surveillance laws

London opens stock market for a tickling from Chinese tentacles

Blighty's online pr0n gatekeepers are begging for a regulatory beating, says digital rights org

UK industry calls for delay of IR35 off-payroll tax rules to private sector

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.

Flight Simulator 2020: Exciting new ride or a doomed tailspin in a crowded market?

Geek's Guide

What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present

Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

Bonjour, mon chum! Québécois IT giant CGI snaps up freshly Irish Galileo botherer SCISYS

Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone...

Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none

Cyber-IOU notes. Voucher hell on wheels. However you want to define Facebook's Libra, the most ridiculous part is its privacy promise

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Finally, an AI that can reliably catch and undo Photoshop airbrushing. Who made it? Er, Photoshop maker Adobe

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UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

You gotta be kitten me: Pakistan politicos feline silly after filter farce hits purrrfect conference

We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods

Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

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What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present

RoundupAlso: The Bennu Thrill Show - coming to an asteroid near you

18 Jun 09:00 | 20

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Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

But don't get too excited, it can't do much at the moment

17 Jun 11:01 | 76

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Bonjour, mon chum! Québécois IT giant CGI snaps up freshly Irish Galileo botherer SCISYS

Splashes £78.9m on IP, space smarts and general boffinry

14 Jun 11:55 | 5

Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone...

14 Jun 06:01 | 54

2,500 years ago, these folks weren't cremated – but their funeral-goers were absolutely baked: Earliest evidence of pot smoking discovered

Talk about a high profile discovery

13 Jun 05:44 | 33

Break out the poutine! SpaceX flings triple serving of Canadian satellites into orbit

Next up, Falcon Heavy and thinking about those Crew Dragons for Bigelow

12 Jun 16:16 | 17

Hate your IT job? Sick of computers? Good news: An electronics-frying Sun superflare may hit 'in next 100 years'

Bad news: Might actually be 1,000 years. And not even that devastating

12 Jun 05:44 | 72

Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater

My God, it's full of... really dense metal?

11 Jun 17:50 | 173

Inflatables, solids, strap-ons and riders – oh my, it's the week in space

RoundupAlso, decoding the Donald and opening up BEAM

11 Jun 13:15 | 17

The International Space Station, NASA

NASA goes commercial, publishes price for trips to the ISS – and it'll be multi-millionaires only for this noAirBNB

$22,500 a day to breathe, eat and exercise, $50 per GB for data, $11,250 to pee and sleep

07 Jun 20:13 | 89

The Earth from the Moon (pic: NASA)

Box shifting on the Moon? Lunar payloads on Amazon Prime

Only the essentials: liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen and... cargo pants, maybe?

07 Jun 11:00 | 28

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New twist in underworld of alleged code, data theft: Two, er, boffins accused of trying to steal, uh, a river model

Pair said to have tried to take non-profit's Mississippi simulation blueprints

06 Jun 23:45 | 19

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Barbie Girl was wrong? Life is plastic, it's not fantastic: We each ingest '121,000 pieces' of microplastics a year

Worse news, there's more in alcohol than tap water

06 Jun 06:54 | 119

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She's just a Cosmic Girl but UK.gov is dangling £20m to have Beardy Branson's 747 launch satellites from Cornwall

Sends me into Newquay airspace when I see her pretty face

05 Jun 16:30 | 41

Bad news from science land: Fast-charging li-ion batteries may be quick to top up, but they're also quick to die

VideoToday in current affairs...

05 Jun 09:15 | 110

Musk loves his Starlink sat constellation – but astroboffins are less than dazzled by them

The ruddy things are getting in the way of our radio telescopes!

05 Jun 06:01 | 100

And now here's Tom on Jupiter with the weather: Thanks, Karen. Still a bit breezy on the Great Red Spot, but it's easing up

UpdatedAstro-amateurs catch raging storm in a moment of shedding

04 Jun 16:00 | 21

Northrop Grumman has nozzle nightmare, Soyuz brushes off lightning, and updates on Crew Dragon 'anomaly' probe

RoundupAlso: 53 years since NASA first soft-landed on Moon

04 Jun 08:07 | 14

Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way

Not due to whiz past, 5.9 million km away, until 2123. NASA still wants to crash a DART into it

04 Jun 05:54 | 92

Gaze in awe at the first ever movie of a solar eclipse from recording long thought lost forever

VideoSadly no HD video back in 1900 but restoration has worked wonders

31 May 06:00 | 43

Neptune-sized oddball baffles astroboffins: It has a good atmosphere despite star-lashing

First gas giant spotted in the so-called 'Neptunian Desert'

30 May 06:03 | 27

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Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster – and are fighting to secure it

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Sad SACK: Linux PCs, servers, gadgets may be crashed by 'Ping of Death' network packets

Embarrassed/exhausted man sits in front of laptop in hipstery office. Photo by Shutterstock

Greatest threat facing IT? Not the latest tech giant cockwomblery – it's just tired engineers

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Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

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Chinese fireworks, Indian orbits, and NASA names Maxar as maker of its first Moon module

RoundupAlso, Boeing fires Starliner's rockets

28 May 11:47 | 4

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

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 | 38

Tim Peake's Soyuz (pic: Richard Speed)

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

A piggy bank in a pile of pound coins

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

Apollo 10 Lunar Module (pic: NASA)

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

New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto

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 | 190

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

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 | 91

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

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