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Falling NAND prices to drive NVMe SSD uptake, say industry watchers

Debate around Huawei espionage fears in UK about as clear as those darn Brexit negotiations

Children of Wales to be prepped for the vibrant world of work with free Office 365 ProPlus

O2 brings forth a Friday fail for some unlucky UK customers

US prosecutors whack another three charges on list against ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch over $11bn HP biz gobble

Oracle spaffed $30bn on buybacks over the past 9 months, but analysts warn it can't last forever

Android clampdown on calls and texts access trashes bunch of apps

Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored

Uncle Sam's disaster agency FEMA creates disaster of its own: 2.3 million survivors' personal records spilled

Security storm brewing for Oracle Java-powered smart cards: More than a dirty dozen flaws found, fixes... er, any fixes?

Hey, what's Mandarin for 'WTF is going on?' Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed

Don't have a heart attack but your implanted defibrillator can be hacked over the air (by someone who really wants you dead)

Atlassian bats eyelashes at the enterprise with AgileCraft acquisition

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

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

Facebook's at it again: Internal emails show it knew about Cambridge Analytica abuse 'months' before news broke

Campaigners cry foul over NHS Digital plans to grant policy wonks and researchers access to patient-level data

TV piracy ring walks the plank after Euro cops launch 14 raids and shutter 11 data centres

Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

Geek's Guide

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't!

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

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

Our amazing industry-leading AI was too dumb to detect the New Zealand massacre live vid, Facebook shrugs

Autopilot engineer drove off to Chinese rival with our top-secret blueprints in the glovebox, Tesla claims in sueball

New phone who dis? Facial recognition models more farcical despite progress

Our Skyborg (actual US govt program) will be just like IBM Watson, beams Air Force bod

Verity Stob

Google sparks online outcry after its currency converter goes haywire for third time this year

Not quite the Bake Off they were expecting: Canadian seniors served weed-infused brownies

Russian sailors maroon themselves in Bristol Channel after drunken dinghy ride goes awry

'It's full of beer!' Miracle fridge reveals itself to pals tuckered out from cleaning flooded cabin

Science

Boeing 737 Max

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

Airline maker accused of not realising what controversial MCAS system could do

19 Mar 12:58 | 204

NASA's SLS on the mobile launcher

NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't!

Panto season comes early as the commercial threat focuses the minds of managers

19 Mar 11:03 | 35

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

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

18 Mar 09:05 | 99

'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

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 | 54

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

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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

NASA's SLS on the mobile launcher

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

mini_bots

'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

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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

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

Cuddly Earth to stay in orbit. For now.

08 Mar 13:53 | 57

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 | 11

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

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prison

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

Cable confusion, image via Shutterstock

Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies

UK breakfast tv presenter lorraine kelly

Brekkie TV host Lorraine Kelly wins IR35 ruling against HMRC, adds fuel to freelance techies' ire over tax reforms

Palace of Westminster

Brit Parliament online orifice overwhelmed by Brexit bashers

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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 | 71

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

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

NASA New Horizons artist's impression

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

planet

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

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

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

SpaceX Crew Dragon access arm

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

moon_water

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

oldest_white_dwarf_star

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

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

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

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