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Core blimey... When is an AMD CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide

Veeam: Users are crying out for cloud tiers

France wants in on the No Huawei Club while Canuck infosec bloke pretty insistent on ban

Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass

We all love bonking to pay, but if you bonk with a Windows Phone then Microsoft has bad news

Canonical brings some bling to the Internet of Things with Snap-happy Ubuntu Core 18 release

Microsoft's Master Chief calls time on Cortana as a standalone AI platform

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

Plug in your iPhone, iPad, iPod, fire up the App Store: You have new Apple patches to install

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

Heads up: Debian's package manager is APT for root-level malware injection... Fix out now to thwart MITM hijacks

En garde! 'Cyber-war has begun' – and France will hack first, its defence sec declares

Atlassian barges into the billion dollar club with a cheery G'Day!

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

Dixons Carphone still counting cost of miserly mobile phone sales

Wall St moneymen on IBM Q4 financials: Don't get your hopes up

EU will have agreed a tech tax by March, says French finance minister

Fujitsu says UK Foreign Office can't count in lawsuit over loss of £350m comms contract

Stage fright or Stage light? Depends how far you dare to open your MacBook Pro's lid

Surface: Tested to withstand the NFL. Microsoft firmware updates? Not so much

Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

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

Geek's Guide

You heard the latest Chinese CRISPRs? They are real: Renegade bio-boffin did genetically modify baby twins

A Delta IV Heavy heads for space at last while New Horizons' fumes OK for 'future missions'

Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

EasyJet boss says pre-Chrimbo Gatwick drone chaos cost it £15m

NHS England digital boss in hot water over 'puff piece' written about her future employer

UK.gov plans £2,500 fines for kids flying toy drones within 3 MILES of airports

Just forget what Gartner said about AI in June 'cos CIOs are all over it now apparently

Verity Stob

Hardworking Americans keep busy during the government shutdown driving up smut traffic

Struggling with GDPR compliance? Don't waste money on legal advice: Buy a shredder

Clone your own Prince Phil, says eBay seller hawking debris left over from royal car crash

Ever feel like all your prayers go unheard? The Catholic Church has an app for that

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You heard the latest Chinese CRISPRs? They are real: Renegade bio-boffin did genetically modify baby twins

Egghead faces criminal rap after Beijing tells of banned experiment

22 Jan 23:41 | 2

A Delta IV Heavy heads for space at last while New Horizons' fumes OK for 'future missions'

RoundupAlso: Is that an aerospike in your pocket or are bells more your thing?

22 Jan 09:59 | 20

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Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

Climate change is going to make Monday mornings much, much, much more of a grind

21 Jan 06:02 | 106

Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

Bet you were expecting a rude ring pun here? Well, not today

18 Jan 05:12 | 57

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 | 141

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

Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show

16 Jan 15:14 | 43

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 | 165

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 | 56

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

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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

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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 | 41

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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

Ford's 'Robutt'

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

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Ooh, my machine is SO much faster than yours... Oh, wait, that might be a bit of a problem...

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Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m

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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

LMC

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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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

Ultima Thule (credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

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 National Space Administration photo from Chang'e 4 on the far side of the Moon

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

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

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

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

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

Apollo 8 (pic: NASA)

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

man hangs onto lamppost to prevent wind from sweeping him out to clouds

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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