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NASA sets a date to begin lunar tuning
First Artemis mission is stacked on a rocket – now for five punishing sets of tests before liftoff
25 Oct 00:18 | 2
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After more than a decade of development, South Korea has a near miss with Nuri rocket test
Nation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban
21 Oct 13:59 | 10
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Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year
Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions
21 Oct 10:14 | 74
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Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told
Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged
21 Oct 01:15 | 45
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UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead
DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government
20 Oct 14:38 | 17
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Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active
* Just a couple of billion years
20 Oct 09:58 | 18
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Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death
Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue
20 Oct 08:17 | 41
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Engineers investigating iffy solar array latch on NASA's Lucy as probe begins long journey to Trojan asteroids
Spacecraft otherwise stable and working well
18 Oct 18:46 | 8
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Dishing up the goods: Square Kilometre Array moves out of the theoretical and into the contractual
Plus: Australian telescope precursor finds weird waves in the middle of the galaxy
18 Oct 16:44 | 22
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Oops, they did it again – rogue Soyuz spurt gave ISS an attitude problem
Crew successfully de-orbited on Sunday carrying vital payload: footage for a movie shot in space
17 Oct 23:59 | 16
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Space boffins: Exoplanet survived hydrogen-death of its host star
Hope extended to gas giants across the universe... well, it is Friday
15 Oct 14:24 | 31
Register Debate
Reg readers: Don't assume anything when sharing health data
Debate exhibits chronic distrust of policy makers, Big Pharma, and insurance companies
15 Oct 10:30 | 21
Science
Forget everything you learned playing Lunar Lander: Chinese boffins reveal secrets of Chang'e 5 probe's touchdown
Landing with liquid fuel aboard made slosh-avoidance essential. Plus: China names first woman to visit Tiangong space station
15 Oct 07:51 | 8
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Sharing medical records with researchers: Assumed consent works in theory – just not yet in practice
The UK shows us how not to run an opt-out approach
14 Oct 10:45 | 31
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James Webb Space Telescope completes its voyage to French Guiana
Only a million or so miles to go
13 Oct 17:30 | 25
Register debate
I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation
You want my medical records? Good, take them – now find me a cure
13 Oct 10:45 | 110
Science
Saturday start for NASA's Lucy probe on its 12-year quest to map Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed
12 Oct 23:50 | 13
Register debate
Patients must know how their health records are used – and approve any sharing for research
Who really benefits from 'secondary use' of your medical data?
12 Oct 10:45 | 44
Science
Boeing's Calamity Capsule might take to space once again ... in the first half of 2022
'Oxidizer and moisture interactions' blamed for iffy spaceship valves
11 Oct 13:01 | 40
Register Debate
Opt-out is the right approach for sharing your medical records with researchers
If assumed consent is informed consent, it’s individuals who benefit
11 Oct 10:45 | 121
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Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections
Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more
Security
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser
A death by a thousand cuts
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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
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'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator
What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo
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Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone
WebKit engine is well behind the competition
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If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'
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How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
Look what you found! Aren't you clever!
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Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales
Windows giant has a funny way of 'loving' Free software
Security
You've heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?
Intel duo propose fresh use of, yes, SGX but also Arm's TrustZone and similar TEEs
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Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse
Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'
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Nothing says 'We believe in you' like NASA switching two 'nauts off Boeing's Starliner onto SpaceX's Crew Dragon
All change on 2022 ride to the ISS
07 Oct 17:30 | 30
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Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry awarded to boffins studying complex systems, organic catalysts
20m Swedish kronor – close to 2 million quid – to be shared
07 Oct 10:28 | 6
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D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer
And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024
05 Oct 20:25 | 25
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Italian researchers' silver nano-spaghetti promises to help solve power-hungry neural net problems
Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain
05 Oct 10:23 | 18
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Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule
William Shatner joins crew for Bezos' number two
04 Oct 16:23 | 151
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ESA and JAXA release Mercury eyecandy, courtesy of spacecraft BepiColumbo
Fourth of nine scheduled planetary assists completed as spacecraft inches closer to releasing its orbiters
04 Oct 12:13 | 19
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UK.gov presents its National Space Strategy: Space is worth billions to us. Just don't mention Brexit, OK?
'Putting rocket boosters the size of Saturn V's F1 under Brit space biz.' Yikes. But where's the money, Boris?
01 Oct 10:27 | 74
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Honda to build reusable rockets to sling sats, but won't scare SpaceX
Also plans remote-controlled robots with fingers and jar-opening capabilities, to help run a moon base
01 Oct 05:05 | 3
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Blue Origin employees complain of sexist culture that ignores safety concerns
At Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, billionaire egos create fear of flying
01 Oct 01:13 | 24
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Airline meal-sized £700k awarded by UK.gov for green aviation: That's for eco-tech rather than planes, mind
Infrastructure to support lower-emission aircraft, is the hope
30 Sep 14:44 | 13
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Virgin Galactic cleared to fly again after a spell on Federal Aviation Administration's naughty step
More airspace and a hotline to the authority fixed up for the next flight
30 Sep 11:01 | 20
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YouTube expands vaccine misinfo crackdown, nukes anti-vax channels for good
Public health experts wonder what took so long
30 Sep 00:16 | 114
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FYI: Catastrophic flooding helped carve Martian valleys, not just rivers of water
Thanks, science
29 Sep 23:25 | 22
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NASA halts Mars comms for two weeks as Sun gets in way of Red Planet
Who wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise?
29 Sep 07:31 | 26
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If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up
Astronomers are still figuring out how the planet's storm continues to rage
28 Sep 06:44 | 84
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Samsung is planning to reverse-engineer the human brain on to a chip
'Here I am, 100 billion neurons and all you want me to do is calculate all the ways this could possibly go wrong?'
27 Sep 15:16 | 72
