Meta threatens to stop sharing news in USA to protest publisher payment plan
Good luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia?
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 43
Offbeat
China regulates use of motion detection to trigger smartphone ads
'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work
Legal06 Dec 2022 | 2
Industrial robots in China push people out of jobs, slash wages
Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include indifference, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation
Science06 Dec 2022 | 9
US could save billions in health costs if it changed wind energy strategy
Socio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers
Science05 Dec 2022 | 17
You're getting warmer: NASA's thermal mole reveals active mantle plume on Mars
Discovery shows 'astrobiological potential of subsurface habitable environments'
Science05 Dec 2022 | 9
Working Apple-1 'Byte Shop' computer expected to fetch $375k+
What do you mean, you don't think historic handwriting is worth it?
Offbeat05 Dec 2022 | 9
Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them
Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog
Legal05 Dec 2022 | 65
Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?
Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can...
Columnists05 Dec 2022 | 107
Square Kilometre Array Observatory construction commences
World's biggest radio telescope to have first parts up and running by 2024
Science05 Dec 2022 | 43
US ends case against Huawei CFO who holed up in Canada for three years
Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed
Legal05 Dec 2022 | 19
After lunar orbit trip NASA's Orion capsule is on its way back home
Heat shield will be put to the test for the first time, what could go wrong?
Science03 Dec 2022 | 40
Neuralink's AI brain chip could be in humans within six months claims Elon Musk
This is a Musk prediction, so don't get your hopes up
Science02 Dec 2022 | 50
Musk says spat with Apple over App Store ejection threat for Twitter was 'misunderstanding'
Lovely visit to meet Tim Cook at Apple Park HQ forces big change in tone from world's richest man
Offbeat01 Dec 2022 | 80
Just 22% of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT
Why not recruit mature folk from outside industry? Why not keep experience in place for longer
Offbeat01 Dec 2022 | 146
130,000 UK businesses sue Google over £13.6B in lost ad revenues
Parent biz Alphabet also accused of unfair monopoly in online ads
Legal01 Dec 2022 | 25
SpaceX grounds Falcon 9 carrying first private lunar lander
Lift-off postponed for 'additional pre-flight checkouts'
Science30 Nov 2022 | 11
Boffins' beam forming kit opens the door to more realistic holograms
MIT's hardware speeds up light manipulation by a factor of 10
Science30 Nov 2022 | 9
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools
Redmond disputes report that 'it is not possible to use without transferring personal data to the USA'
Legal30 Nov 2022 | 96
NASA scraps budget-busting GeoCarb greenhouse gas observatory project
Being over budget, behind schedule, becoming obsolete, and impeding other projects isn't a way to get a green light
Science30 Nov 2022 | 10
UK cuts China from Sizewell nuclear project, takes joint stake
Move comes as National Grid decides not to fire up blackout prevention scheme
Science30 Nov 2022 | 176
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Rackspace customers rage as email outage continues and migrations create migraines
Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause
Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?
who, me? No crypto needed, just a project with a tough deadline that nobody minded missing
Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
Microsoft releases out of box experience update to simplify and speed up migrations
A brand new Linux DRM display driver – for a 1992 computer
Feature 680x0: the CPU architecture that just will not die
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues
High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans
Tech contractor who uses an umbrella company? UK tax is coming after them
Britain's wallet-checkers suspect VAT avoidance from some of them – to the tune of 10,000-case tribunal backlog
Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?
Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can...
Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS
RE:INVENT The intersection of computer science and physics
Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that
Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2
US ends case against Huawei CFO who holed up in Canada for three years
Wanzhou Meng hasn't re-offended, so last possible charges have been dismissed
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NASA awards $57.2m to Texas biz for 3D printing future Moon base
ICON will have to figure out how to build a machine that uses lunar regolith and operates in lunar gravity
Science29 Nov 2022 | 28
Rolls-Royce, EasyJet fire up first hydrogen-fueled jet engine
Sustainable aviation will require something lighter than batteries
Science29 Nov 2022 | 104
Iterable co-founder claims he was ousted because of racial discrimination, not LSD use
While Justin Zhu admits to micro-dosing, he alleges that his ethnicity was an issue for investors
Bootnotes29 Nov 2022 | 11
JAXA: Research simulating life onboard ISS contained fabrications
Space agency releases report alleging falsified data, researchers who weren’t there, and improper data management
Science29 Nov 2022 | 8
China: Face-to-face meetings are best when swapping space station crews
Tiangong's population to double for a week after very, very, long commute, if rare very cold launch succeeds
Science29 Nov 2022 | 9
Judge tells Amazon: Stop retaliating against employees
Pioneer Amazon union gets a boost, staffer still get the sack
Legal28 Nov 2022 | 8
ISS resupply drops off experiments for life in deep space
If we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology
Science28 Nov 2022 | 17
Man wins court case against employer that fired him for not liking boozy, forced 'fun' culture
You gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot
Offbeat28 Nov 2022 | 145
Meta scores $200k default win against alleged peddler of Instagram Likes
Manipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job!
Legal28 Nov 2022 | 3
Japan successfully propels steam-powered spacecraft
Asia In brief PLUS: Criminal probe of Singapore crypto exchange; Bosch invests in China R&D; $2B APAC datacenter fund formed; and more
Science28 Nov 2022 | 23
Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit
Insertion burn scheduled to take place today then engineers have six days to see how spacecraft fares in deep space
Science25 Nov 2022 | 76
ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall
23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew
Science25 Nov 2022 | 28
Bright light from black holes found to be caused by particle shock waves
NASA's IXPE space telescope pays off with 'dazzling' observation of intergalactic X-rays
Science24 Nov 2022 | 26
Japanese cubesat sends home pics from the far side of the Moon
JAXA hopes second lost lander can be recovered for radiation experiments
Science24 Nov 2022 | 15
JWST snaps first chemical profile of an exoplanet atmosphere
We knew Wasp 39b was rich in CO2, but now we have the full molecular picture
Science23 Nov 2022 | 43
New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage
Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27
Science22 Nov 2022 | 51
Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach
Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times
Legal22 Nov 2022 | 43
Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research
EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement
Science22 Nov 2022 | 183
Asia's superapps follow another hot tech trend: mass layoffs
Grab reveals caps on car numbers make ride-sharing miserable
Site News22 Nov 2022 | 3
After years without data privacy rules, India floats two sets in a week
And ponders subsidies to attract big datacenter and content delivery network builds
Legal22 Nov 2022 |
Orion reaches the Moon, buzzes surface, gets ready to orbit
We're back - for the first of many missions to come
Science21 Nov 2022 | 26
NASA's meteor avoidance plan for James Webb Space Telescope: Turn it around
When a grain of sand moves fast enough to crack a mirror, it's best to put your back to the wind
Science21 Nov 2022 | 15
Boffins are studying Martian clouds to avoid another Opportunity episode
They look and behave a lot like those on Earth – except they're made of dust
Science18 Nov 2022 | 9
World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course
Staff locked out as hundreds appear to say no to Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum
Offbeat18 Nov 2022 | 210
BOFH: We're an industry leader … in employing idiot managers
Episode 22 Actually, strike the second part …
BOFH18 Nov 2022 | 61
Artemis I isn't just a test run – there's science to be done
Amazon and Cisco even managed to sneak Alexa and Webex on board
Science18 Nov 2022 | 33
Twitter refugees seek asylum in an unusual place: The Matt Hancock app
Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos
Bootnotes17 Nov 2022 | 32
White dwarf study suggests planets are as old as their stars
Scientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered
Science17 Nov 2022 | 16
Dell agrees to pay $1b to settle claims it shortchanged stockholders during EMC acquisition
Drawing a line under the share swap drama of 2018, or trying to...
Legal16 Nov 2022 |
Spent Chinese Long 6A rocket spews over 50 pieces of space junk
Tiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry
Science16 Nov 2022 | 9
AI analysis of dinosaur tracks suggests 'predator' may have been a herbivore
Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way
Science16 Nov 2022 | 22
After 47 years, Microsoft issues first sexual harassment and gender report
Faint praise: Windows giant tries to follow best practices and wants to improve
Legal16 Nov 2022 | 4
What's that, Lassie? Boston Dynamics is suing its robot dog tech rival?
The way your computerized canine walks down the stairs looks familiar to us, claims MIT spinoff
Legal15 Nov 2022 | 20
Amazon founder Bezos to donate 'majority' of $126bn fortune
Comment Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home
Offbeat15 Nov 2022 | 39
NASA's cubesat makes it to the Moon to test orbit for human visitors
After a troubled journey CAPSTONE marks Lunar Gateway for humans
Science15 Nov 2022 | 16
Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs
Doesn't matter what the data is, they thought they pushed the off switch, argues complaint
Legal14 Nov 2022 | 16
Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move
Updated Bro do u even GraphQL?
Offbeat14 Nov 2022 | 347
Robotics startup wants to disrupt walking with AI roller skates
For when millions of years of evolution and timekeeping are not good enough
Offbeat14 Nov 2022 | 24
Looking for a holiday DIY project? Build your own pen-plotter, for under $15
Ubuntu Summit BrachioGraph: 'The cheapest, simplest possible pen-plotter'
Bootnotes14 Nov 2022 | 19
KFC bot urges Germans to mark Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken
Tasteless food chain claims 'semi-automated' process skipped internal review process
Bootnotes11 Nov 2022 | 87
BOFH: Don't be nervous, Mr Consultant. Come right this way …
Episode 21 Simon and the PFY take a closer look at a 'routine' data translation costs bill
BOFH11 Nov 2022 | 60
You wait for an aurora on Mars and MAVEN spots two arriving at the same time
Boffins baffled: There's, like, zero magnetic field and very little atmosphere. What gives?
Science11 Nov 2022 | 8
Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices, claims class action lawsuit
Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition
Legal10 Nov 2022 | 11
Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!
They'd need to be a kilometer wide and point at even larger landside targets, so they won't fire up the renewables market
Science10 Nov 2022 | 118
Cygnus cargo ship makes it to ISS with blanketed solar panel
'Acoustic blanket' cuts power by 50 percent
Science10 Nov 2022 | 18
Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules
And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either
Legal10 Nov 2022 | 24
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's arguments for new trial deemed spurious – just like her tech
Federal judge won't revisit fraud case, sets a date for sentencing instead
Science09 Nov 2022 | 43
Feel Luckey, punk? Oculus designer builds VR murder headset
The metaverse is shaping up to be such an inviting place
Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 32
China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders
Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal
Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 73
Microsoft's $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard under investigation by EU regulators
Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs
Legal09 Nov 2022 | 10
This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all
Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this
Science09 Nov 2022 | 58
With potential hurricane approaching, NASA leaves mega-rocket on launch pad
Just call it the Sad Launch System
Science08 Nov 2022 | 19
Swiss drone-busting eagle squadron grounded permanently
Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds
Offbeat08 Nov 2022 | 40
NASA reassigns Venus boffins to save short-staffed asteroid interceptor
Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does
Science08 Nov 2022 | 11
Europe wants Airbnb and pals to cough up rental property logs
Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end
Legal08 Nov 2022 | 49
Parody Elon Musk Twitter accounts will be suspended immediately, says Elon Musk
This is no laughing matter, says very stable genius, as Kathy Griffin forced to tweet from dead mom's account
Offbeat07 Nov 2022 | 127
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms
Science07 Nov 2022 | 201
Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab
And it should know – having just failed to catch one
Science07 Nov 2022 | 58
Boeing's Starliner launch pushed back again... to April 2023
The official word is 'scheduling conflicts,' but NASA's safety panel has expressed concerns too
Science04 Nov 2022 | 22
NFT vending machine appears in London
Don't everyone rush at once
Offbeat04 Nov 2022 | 49
All of the norths are about to align over Britain
Magnetic north is on a walkabout, and your OCD will benefit
Bootnotes04 Nov 2022 | 112
NASA wheels SLS rocket out to the launchpad for another attempt to get off the ground
After two previous failures, will third time be the charm?
Science03 Nov 2022 | 19
Tumblr says nudes are back on the menu – within reason
But old 'go nuts, show nuts' attitude is dead for good
Offbeat03 Nov 2022 | 28
NASA's CAPSTONE satellite is out of safe mode and on track for Moon orbit this month
Artemis orbit tester back in the pipe, five by five
Science03 Nov 2022 | 10
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds
Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim
Science02 Nov 2022 | 39
Crowds not allowed to leave Shanghai Disneyland without a negative COVID test
Let us go, let us gooooooo
Offbeat02 Nov 2022 | 26
Porsche wants to sell you a rusty tailpipe soundbar for $12k
Here's hoping it doesn't come with factory-installed rattling for added authenticity
Offbeat02 Nov 2022 | 55
UK comms regulator rings death knell for fax machines
Much-loved but outdated hardware could be consigned to tech history
Offbeat02 Nov 2022 | 96
InSight Mars lander has only 'few weeks' of power left
Think I got some dust in my eye
Science02 Nov 2022 | 70
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats
Classified mission will █████████ for ████ in █████████ until ███████████ █████
Science01 Nov 2022 | 43
China's third and final module docks with Tiangong space station
Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now?
Science01 Nov 2022 | 15
Two Scotts among volunteers helping NASA to track Artemis mission
If we want to launch craft beyond the Moon, we're going to need a better way to know where they are
Science01 Nov 2022 | 9
UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told
Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure
Science01 Nov 2022 | 253
Terraform Labs and crypto bro Do Kwon face $57 million court case in Singapore
But will Kwon show up in court? Probably not.
Legal01 Nov 2022 | 10
Oh, great. By peering into twilight, boffins find 'planet killer' asteroids in our system
One may hit Earth, but unlikely. One could whack Venus. This is good or bad news, depending on your outlook
Science01 Nov 2022 | 17
Never mind the Saudis: Here's a new OPEC for EV battery metals
Countries propose grouping in cartel as demand for EVs continues to rise
Offbeat31 Oct 2022 | 22
Signs of sediment-rich ocean lend direction to Mars life search
3D models and maps show similarities in how the planet and Earth share sediment strategies
Science31 Oct 2022 | 7
Spooky Pillars of Creation snap reveals a dark side
Latest James Webb Space Telescope photo looks positively haunting
Science31 Oct 2022 | 19
NASA uses space station dust sensor to map 50 methane 'super-emitters' on Earth
Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags
Science30 Oct 2022 | 41
NASA details totally doable, not science fiction plan for sending Mars rocks to Earth
So crazy, it just might work
Science29 Oct 2022 | 79
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