Lyft driver takes off with cat, global search ensues
Ride-share app originally told man they’d charge him $20 for Tux’s return
Offbeat02 Oct 2023 | 6
Offbeat
Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years
It's about time!
Science02 Oct 2023 | 19
NASA delays already-late $1B Psyche probe's visit to metal-rich asteroid
Given it was first due to blast off last year, what's another week or so?
Science30 Sep 2023 | 9
Equal Employment Commission sues Tesla for racist discrimination, retaliation at Fremont plant
Like some sort of bizarro greatest hits album, the EEOC case sounds just like multiple previous suits
Legal29 Sep 2023 | 26
Musk, Yaccarino contradict each other on status of X's election integrity team
One says it's dead, the other says it's growing, and we all know how grumpy Elon gets when contradicted
Offbeat28 Sep 2023 | 47
You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ
Feds allege tat bazaar turned blind eye to folks buying more than 343k aftermarket defeat devices
Legal28 Sep 2023 | 67
Zuck dives deeper into the metaverse, dragging Snoop Dogg along for ride
Meta's annual conference sees the company playing catch-up to OpenAI but pulling ahead of Apple
Offbeat28 Sep 2023 | 12
Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce
Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet
Legal28 Sep 2023 | 3
Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally home after over a year in orbit
Rubio spent 371 days on the ISS, the longest any American has been aloft
Science28 Sep 2023 | 3
Perseverance rover sets a Martian speed record with software controls
347.7 meters in a day - humans could probably do better
Science27 Sep 2023 | 7
The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech
We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5°C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible
Science27 Sep 2023 | 78
CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted
Why there is not a lot more of it is yet to be explained though
Science27 Sep 2023 | 32
Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity
The result? Install Fee Tycoon
Offbeat27 Sep 2023 | 14
Bids for ISS demolition rights are now open, NASA declares
Winning spacecraft will dock with the station at least a year before go time
Science27 Sep 2023 | 53
Researchers train an AI system to find extraterrestrial life
Machine learning model touted as ideal for finding LGMs on Mars, and beyond
Science27 Sep 2023 | 26
Hong Kong securities regulator to name suspicious crypto players
Tightens regulations after downfall of the brazen JPEX exchange
Legal27 Sep 2023 | 6
Cryptocoin Ponzi scheme AirBit Club co-founder jailed
12 years behind bars, and ordered to forfeit $65m in illicit proceeds
Legal27 Sep 2023 | 12
China identifies AI, optoelectric semiconductors, as challenges it wants to crack
Underwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better
Science26 Sep 2023 | 1
NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in danger of never launching
Review board: Mega project is way over budget, needs cash, and senators want it axed
Science25 Sep 2023 | 22
Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs
Gets blanked again
Offbeat25 Sep 2023 | 132
Popular
Now MOVEit maker Progress patches holes in WS_FTP
Infosec in brief Plus: Johnson Controls hit by IT 'incident', Exim and Chrome security updates, and more
What's next for VMware? Long-term Virtzilla-watchers predict Broadcom's moves
Consensus is cuts and spin-offs are coming, whether they'll help is another matter
Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport
No, that does not mean you can leave it at home just yet
ASUS's Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive
Desktop Tourism Taiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender
Lost your luggage? That's nothing – we just lost your whole flight!
Who, me? Tech's second day on the job nearly saw his high-flying career grounded
Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh
Opinion How's he done? tl;dr – not very well
OpenAI warns folks over GPT-4 Vision's limits and flaws
AI In Brief Plus: Mistral emits uncensored model, Meta expands Llama 2's context window, Alexa drills into your voice
Scandium-based nuclear clocks promise punctuality for next 300 billion years
It's about time!
AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage since 2010
Interview Security exec Mark Ryland spills the tea on hush-hush threat intel tool
Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed
Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds
STORIES
No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center
who, me? Techie tried to dunk on a co-worker, and found himself absolutely soaking wet
Offbeat25 Sep 2023 | 83
OSIRIS-REx successfully delivers NASA's first asteroid sample
Molto Bennu
Science25 Sep 2023 | 18
That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life
Hey, ESA: Can Juice get there any faster?
Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 8
US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report
This surely can't be related to that crash debacle over the weekend, right?
Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 26
FAA wants rocket jockeys to clean up after their space launch parties
Have you seen orbit? There's junk everywhere
Science22 Sep 2023 | 6
BOFH: A security issue, you say? Activate code tangerine
Episode 18 When you utter those words, it empowers us to do anything
BOFH22 Sep 2023 | 54
95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers
'Even the most prominent collections are struggling to maintain demand'
Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 73
Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec
Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival
Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 8
Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death
Web giant accused of gross negligence by not updating app despite complaints
Legal21 Sep 2023 | 195
Neuralink's looking for participants willing to be part of human trials
Musk company gets FDA's OK for six-year assessment of its brain implants
Science20 Sep 2023 | 26
Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss
Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe
Science20 Sep 2023 | 43
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs
And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain!
Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Rocket Lab launch streak goes up in smoke with 41st mission
Electron rocket was lost when reusable first stage separated early this morning
Science19 Sep 2023 | 10
US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit
A different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope
Science19 Sep 2023 | 1
World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second
US DoE particle will be a 'strobe light' in atomic disco
Science18 Sep 2023 | 15
SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale
Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it
Legal18 Sep 2023 |
Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement
Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick?
Science18 Sep 2023 | 68
If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon
Updated US military enlists public to help track down missing jet
Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 77
Mention AI in earnings calls ... and watch that share price leap
This week's story is brought to you by the letters C, E, O, as well as B and S
Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 6
Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns
At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers...
Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 42
South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight
Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership
Legal18 Sep 2023 | 3
Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible
We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics
Science18 Sep 2023 | 7
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite
On Call For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer
Offbeat15 Sep 2023 | 100
Meet Honda's latest electric vehicle: A rideable suitcase
The Motocompacto is a successor to the '81 Motocompo, but with greater ability to deprive its rider of dignity
Bootnotes15 Sep 2023 | 88
NASA wants to believe ... that you can help it crack UFO mysteries
Is there nothing crowdsourcing and open source phone apps can't solve?
Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 29
Ex-Twitter employees pull Musk back to money table over missing severance
Will Elon actually pay this bill?
Legal14 Sep 2023 | 26
Stoner Cats NFT project declawed for being an unregistered security
You can't puff puff pass on the Securities Act
Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 31
UK civil servants – hopefully including those spending billions on tech – to skill up in STEM
How about the ministers go next?
Science14 Sep 2023 | 55
Scientists spot startlingly close black holes in Hyades star cluster
Black hole stun: They're more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder
Science14 Sep 2023 | 40
Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign
Those of you happy to spend ten hours in a single-aisle A321, take note
Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 100
Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard
Another load of automakers teams up to lean into the inevitable
Offbeat13 Sep 2023 | 92
Amazon's three rocket makers insist Project Kuiper will launch on schedule
It's not as if space is hard, is it?
Science13 Sep 2023 | 8
Scientists trace tiny moonquakes to Apollo 17 lander – left over from 1972
Humans just can't leave anything alone, huh
Science13 Sep 2023 | 104
South Korea's Moon orbiter snaps India's lander
As Japan's space agency preps a rover to land on Martian moon Phobos
Science13 Sep 2023 | 7
US amends hypersonic weapons strategy: If you can't zoom with 'em, boom 'em
DARPA awards Boeing $70.5M to develop intercept technology
Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 17
James Webb spies distant exoplanet that could be wet, wild, and Hycean
That or it's just really gassy
Science12 Sep 2023 | 12
Chat2024 stuffs US election hopefuls into generative AI so you can be an 'informed voter'
Comment Jean Baudrillard would've LOVED this
Offbeat12 Sep 2023 | 10
Long-lost 1977 Star Wars X-Wing prop discovered – lock s-foils in bid position
Hundreds more iconic props set to go on sale from collection of late Hollywood model maker Greg Jein
Bootnotes12 Sep 2023 | 28
X marks the spot where free speech clashes with Californian transparency
AB 587's true purpose is to eliminate speech the government finds objectionable, lawyers argue
Legal11 Sep 2023 | 24
MOXIE microwaved Mars air into oxygen, but now it's time for a breather
Concept will need to be scaled up to keep more than a small dog alive
Science11 Sep 2023 | 19
Elon Musk has beef with Bill Gates because he shorted Tesla stock, says biographer
Comment The origin story of the 'in case u need to lose a boner fast' tweet
Offbeat11 Sep 2023 | 54
Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border
Deposit in 19-million-year old caldera could dwarf sources in Bolivia, Chile and Australia
Science11 Sep 2023 | 20
China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses
Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal
Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7
Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles
Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes
Science09 Sep 2023 | 31
Atari pulls nostalgia power move and buys homebrew community forum
AtariAge is older than the current Atari incarnation – retro enough for you?
Offbeat08 Sep 2023 | 11
NASA rockets draining its pockets as officials whisper: 'We can't afford this'
Watchdog finds space agency has no plans to measure SLS production costs
Science08 Sep 2023 | 84
SK hynix says no Huawei its memory should be in Chinese wonder-phone
The Mate 60 Pro keeps making waves – this time worrying Korean chipmaker
Legal08 Sep 2023 | 21
Musk's mighty missile is ready for launch once FAA says OK
Updated Starship Super Heavy to remain on terra firma until US watchdog ticks off the corrective actions
Science07 Sep 2023 | 96
UK rejoins the EU's €100B Horizon sci-tech funding program
Two and a half years after Brexit, some cheer for scientists based in Britain. We're... baaaaxit (sorry!)
Science07 Sep 2023 | 156
Scientists turn to mid-20th century tech for low-power underwater comms
Hat tip to the late Lester Clare Van Atta, whose array is behind the system
Science07 Sep 2023 | 19
DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel
Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps
Legal07 Sep 2023 | 3
Japan's 'Moon sniper' and its two ejectable landers make it into space
Now for the hard part: testing its ability to pick a safe landing spot
Science07 Sep 2023 | 6
Judge greenlights $5.9M unpaid overtime Citrix wage deal
Agreement will settle claims the company failed to compensate staff for all the hours they worked
Legal06 Sep 2023 | 2
India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission hibernates to see out a long lunar night
Spacecraft scheduled to snooze until September 22 when it's hoped machines return to duty
Science06 Sep 2023 | 9
ASEAN bloc starts work on Digital Economy Framework
Who needs India or China when ten booming economies form a gang?
Legal06 Sep 2023 |
Europe's Ariane 6 takes rocket science seriously by testing patience before engines
Four seconds of fire and fury to be followed by eight minutes then... a launch in 2024?
Science05 Sep 2023 | 10
2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones
Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink
Offbeat04 Sep 2023 | 14
BOFH: What a beautiful tinfoil hat, Boss!
Episode 17 In which our heroes keep the office safe as only they know how
BOFH01 Sep 2023 | 108
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with its first-ever asteroid sample
Regolith scraped from the surface of Bennu will reach Earth on 24 September
Science01 Sep 2023 | 27
Grant Shapps named UK defense supremo in latest 'tech-savvy' Tory tale
Comment He praised Apple for its 'open source' tech – now he'll oversee AI use to defend Britain from its foes
Bootnotes31 Aug 2023 | 98
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests
Scientists one step closer to cracking the case of these atomic swine
Science31 Aug 2023 | 137
Meteorite is 4.6 billion years old and still rocking the solar system dating scene
Presence of aluminum isotope might help age other objects from space
Science30 Aug 2023 | 4
Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army
Black Mirror? Never heard of it
Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34
India set to launch Sun-spotting satellite on Saturday
Meanwhile its Moon rover dodges a crater and spots sulphur
Science30 Aug 2023 | 5
NASA to outdo most Americans on internet speeds, gigabit kit heading to the ISS
See hot singles in your area! Well, -453.8 F singles at least
Offbeat29 Aug 2023 | 10
Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster
Asks Beijing to stop the phone calls harassing civilians, as tests show impact of nuke plant water
Science29 Aug 2023 | 107
US and China to keep talking about chip bans, just not when they'll end
Intel and Micron made the agenda, but action to ease their woes did not
Legal29 Aug 2023 | 2
Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss
Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson
Legal29 Aug 2023 | 8
Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city
Not just a company town - it's the new feudal age
Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 70
UK flights disrupted by 'technical issue' with air traffic computer system
British Bank Holiday blues as flight plans have to be filed by hand
Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 159
Foxconn founder Terry Gou to run for Taiwan's presidency
Billionaire claims being a political outsider means he can fix border, avert wars, make Taiwan great again … which sounds rather familiar
Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 19
Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
Discrimination lawsuit claims company's 'ITAR' excuse was badly wrong
Science25 Aug 2023 | 68
Windows screensaver left broadcast techie all at sea
On Call A Love Boat story that almost didn't have a happy ending
Offbeat25 Aug 2023 | 71
India's Moon mission continues to triumph, Japan's waits for better weather
JAXA's SLIM scheduled to arrive after Chandrayaan-3 says goodnight
Science25 Aug 2023 | 7
Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet
Don't get too excited: We're purely in the 'is this possible' stage right now
Science24 Aug 2023 | 107
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom
Opinion So those 218,000 enterprise customers are wrong to hold meetings on web?
Offbeat24 Aug 2023 | 106
Blazar Token creator accused of using investor funds for renovating bathroom
Interesting choice, if true. Not a Lamborghini, is it?
Legal24 Aug 2023 | 10
Neighbors angry as another North Korean 'satellite' launch attempt fails
US, Japan, and South Korea are well and truly over this sham
Science24 Aug 2023 | 19
China's top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn't convinced
400km range after 10 minutes charging sounds great. Shame the details are thin
Science24 Aug 2023 | 96
India lands Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on Moon, is the first to lunar south pole
Video with update Way to go, ISRO. Congrats on getting your rover rolling, too
Science23 Aug 2023 | 51
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