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What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS

Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey

Amazon triples profit to $11.2bn, pays ZERO DOLLARS in corp tax – instead we pay it $129m

Oracle throws toys out pram again, tells US claims court: Competing for Pentagon cloud contract isn't fair!

Down productivity tools: Microsoft Teams takes a Monday tumble

Windows Subsystem for Linux adds pop to release, SAC-T sacked, crypto-jacking apps: It's Microsoft's week

After outrage over Chrome ad-block block plan, Google backs away from crippling web advert, content filters

Missed Valentine's Day? Take your beloved to a Visual Studio 2019 launch event instead

Australian prime minister blames 'state level' baddies for Oz parliament breach

Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can't be killed by software alone, Google boffins conclude

Tens of millions more web accounts for sale after more sites hacked, Mac malware spreads via Windows.exe, and more

Well Holby damned! We've caught a virus: Brit medical soap operas team up for 'cyber' episode

Want to learn how to accelerate your software ops AND save big?

Squarespace's Tanya Reilly to deliver keynote at Continuous Lifecycle London

Looking to give wings to your software development and deployment?

You like JavaScript! You really like it! Scripting lingo tops dev survey of programming languages

Court sees Morissette Meter flip out as Oracle assumes anti-arbitration stance in pay dispute

HPE wants British ex-CFO to testify in UK Autonomy lawsuit before Uncle Sam sentences him

Here come the riled MPs (it's private, huh), Facebook's a digital 'gangster' ('disingen-u-ous'). Zuckerberg he is a failure (on sharing data)

The algorithms! They're manipulating all of us! reckon human rights bods Council of Europe

Solder and Lego required: The Register builds glorious Project Alias gizmo to deafen Alexa

Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property

Banking in 2019: Sure, we'd recommend TSB's online, mobe banking say cowed customers

Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight

Geek's Guide

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

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

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

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

Want to create fake web profile pics? This creepy AI tool makes them on demand. Plus predictive policing, and more

Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban

Blockchain is bullsh!t, prove me wrong meets 'chain gang fans at tech confab

Boss of venerable sect with millions of devoted followers meets boss of venerable sect with... yeah, you get the idea

Verity Stob

You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly

Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin

Sussex rap fan wants statue of Easy-E from NWA in his hometown because he's a 'legend'

Airbus will shutter its A380 production line from 2021

Science

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 | 7

Milky Way photo via Shutterstock

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 | 39

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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 | 18

Opportunity's mission is over, but InSight almost ready for a driller thriller below Martian surface

Self-hammering spike to see what weather's like 5m down

14 Feb 14:38 | 20

A once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity: NASA bids emotional farewell to its cocky, hardworking RC science car on Mars

Amazing what you can achieve on unforgiving dust world over 15 years with a 20MHz RISC CPU and a bunch of probes

13 Feb 23:52 | 62

Earth's noggin took quite a clockin' back in the day: Now a second meteorite crater spotted under Greenland ice

Pics, videoHuge hole hints at home world taking a pounding

12 Feb 07:33 | 28

From Red Planet to deep into the red: Suicidal extrovert magnet Mars One finally implodes

Bonkers dust world colonization that was never going to happen definitely isn't going to happen

11 Feb 19:16 | 108

Gravity

Happy Satellite Collision Day! It is 10 years since Russia and Iridium got too close for comfort

Plus: Cygnus freighter to spray more sats across the heavens

11 Feb 17:20 | 20

Ultima Thule

Holy planetesimal formation, Batman! Ultima Thule's no snowman – it's a friggin' pancake

Latest data dribble from distant New Horizons reveals things are strange out there

11 Feb 11:20 | 48

drunk

Hungover this morning? Thought 'beer before wine and you'll be fine'? Boffins prove old adage just isn't true

Better to drink plenty of water, we reckon

10 Feb 10:08 | 88

von_karman_crater

Brit Mars bot named while NASA 'nauts must wait a bit longer for a US rocket trip to the ISS

RoundupAlso: Well done, Squirrels, you've got your Commercial Astronaut badge

08 Feb 09:20 | 22

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Tell NASA to grab the margarita mix – a sextillion-kg salty ring found floating in space

Astroboffins haven't seen anything quite like it

08 Feb 07:22 | 21

Yay, we got a B for maths. Literally, a bee: Little nosy nectar nerds smart enough to add, abstract numbers

What's next? Arithme-ticks?

07 Feb 08:03 | 54

What a smashing time, cheer astroboffins: Epic exoplanet space prang evidence eyeballed

Kepler 107c is way too beefy for its own good

07 Feb 07:17 | 16

Pixaaaarrrrrrghh! Mars-snapping CubeSats Wall-E and Eve declared dead (for now) by NASA bods

Briefcase-sized spacecraft will continue to float in space peacefully around the Sun

06 Feb 07:06 | 33

Clever girl: SpaceX's Mars-bound Raptor engine looks like it works just fine

RoundupPlus: Lucy in the sky with Trojans, and ISS 'nauts splash around in a water party

05 Feb 10:41 | 32

NASA pops titanium tea cosy over Martian InSight probe instrument

PicSeismometer looking for whole lot of shakin' going on

05 Feb 06:36 | 16

Musk shows off the latest power plant for Starship, replaces Tesla CFO with a millennial

Here comes Ahuja again... BOING! ...and he's out of there

01 Feb 17:30 | 28

Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it

Shock after accelerometers hacked, in the old-school sense, and rock density probed

01 Feb 06:03 | 21

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Tens of millions more web accounts for sale after more sites hacked, Mac malware spreads via Windows.exe, and more

A pile of platinum or silver bars

Techie in need of a doorstop picks up 'chunk of metal' – only to find out it's rather pricey

A ghost

Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can't be killed by software alone, Google boffins conclude

Alias Undressed

Solder and Lego required: The Register builds glorious Project Alias gizmo to deafen Alexa

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Chang'e 4 wakes and Yutu 2 stretches its solar panels for another day... on the friggin' MOON

Opportunity still maintaining a Martian silence

31 Jan 10:53 | 24

How big is the UK space industry? It hauled in £14.8bn for 2016/2017 – report

40% of exports to France won't be a problem, right?

30 Jan 15:42 | 60

Japanese astronomers find tiniest Kuiper Belt object yet – using cheap 'scopes and off-the-shelf CMOS cameras

Boffinry on a shoestring finds icy chunk that's just 1.3km across

30 Jan 05:33 | 37

Skyrora CEO Vladimir Levykin and business development manager Daniel Smith inside the remains of the Black Arrow projectile (the UK's only rocket to successfully launch a satellite into orbit) in a storage facility in Penicuik, near Edinburgh

Sad relics of UK launch capability returned to Blighty while NASA fiddles with Boeing crew

RoundupIndia and China keep chucking out satellites

29 Jan 09:15 | 20

mars_astronaut

I studied hard, I trained for years. Yay, now I'm an astronaut in space. Argggh, leukemia!

Only veteran 'nauts should think about going to Mars, judging by this research

28 Jan 23:48 | 65

NASA Opportunity Rover on Mars (pic: NASA)

NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 15 years on Mars – by staying as dead as a doornail

Still, not bad for hardware that was supposed to last 90 days

26 Jan 07:44 | 66

New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto

Crispest image yet of Ultima Thule arrives on Earth, but grab a coffee while the rest downloads

At up to 2,003bps, it'll be 2021 before we get all the data

25 Jan 19:01 | 55

SpaceX enjoys three whole seconds of fire and fury on Pad 39A

Crew Dragon demo flight slated for February

25 Jan 15:22 | 10

I can hear the light! Boffins beam audio into ears with freakin' lasers

You can't eavesdrop on these whispers

25 Jan 11:50 | 48

Under Armour and Virgin Galactic team up so tourists can stay on-trend throughout white-knuckle ride into space

What's this on the label? 'Do not wear in actual space'

24 Jan 20:54 | 20

Starship bloopers: In touching tribute to Tesla shares, Musk proto-craft tumbles – as Bezos' Blue Origin rocket lifts off

Vid + PicJeff 1 - 0 Elon

24 Jan 02:43 | 57

super_blood_wolf_moon

Q. China just landed on its far side, the US woz there 50 years ago – now Europe wants to mine it? A. It's the Moon

PicPlus: Potential meteoroid snapped crashing into surface during total lunar eclipse

23 Jan 06:46 | 45

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 | 22

coffee_addict

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 | 147

Saturn

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 | 44

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

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