FAA proposes air taxi pilot licensing plans, sans actual air taxis
We're still a couple years out from eVTOLs picking you up for that red eye flight, and even that may be pushing it
Offbeat08 Jun 2023 |
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Caltech claims to have beamed energy to Earth from satellite
Tech has potential to power war-torn spots and remote regions
Science07 Jun 2023 | 25
Boeing discovers Dreamliner defect, delivery delay decided
Better than not delaying it, we suppose
Offbeat07 Jun 2023 | 22
Whistleblower claims Uncle Sam is sitting on hoard of alien vehicles and tech
Ex-UAP analyst reckons he was harassed for telling Congress
Science07 Jun 2023 | 54
UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies
'Mixed bag' of solutions await tech workers forced into IR35 alternatives
Legal07 Jun 2023 | 27
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation
Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space
Science07 Jun 2023 | 69
NASA's heavy metal Psyche asteroid trip is a go for October
Team problems found last year seem to have been resolved
Science07 Jun 2023 | 4
Hong Kong tries to outlaw uploads of unofficial and anti-Beijing anthem
State-sponsored SEO effort to send people to properly patriotic tune has its limits
Legal07 Jun 2023 | 21
James Webb smells someone having barbecue in galaxy 12 billion light years away
Most distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe
Science06 Jun 2023 | 12
Election Excel blunder declared a 'low point' for Austrian social democracy
Next time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams
Offbeat06 Jun 2023 | 29
China EV market share hits 27 percent as tax breaks extended
Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia's digital success under the radar; Singapore picks Google AI; India claims streaming record
Offbeat05 Jun 2023 | 8
This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again
Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around
Science02 Jun 2023 | 82
Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028
You'll need to be fast to score one of 30 tickets for planes that don't go very far
Offbeat02 Jun 2023 | 50
Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres
Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science
Science01 Jun 2023 | 8
India official fined after draining reservoir to recover phone
Dam it all to hell
Offbeat01 Jun 2023 | 22
NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing
Video We need better data! If only everyone could carry a high-quality camera and apps to share pics...
Science01 Jun 2023 | 77
North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash
Rather than herald exciting success of best-ever lift-off, state media confirms fiasco. Consider us surprised
Bootnotes31 May 2023 | 10
Brits and Yanks join forces to make fusion magnets cool again
How cool? About -250°C
Science31 May 2023 | 23
Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext
Sure is '90s in here
Offbeat31 May 2023 | 34
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight
An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan
Science31 May 2023 | 121
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Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content
Boffins and machines write very differently – and it's easy to tell
10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
Feature Spies gonna spy
Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation
Outdated ISS system will need an upgrade if we're to go further into space
Malwarebytes may not be allowed to label rival's app as 'potentially unwanted'
Legal prof warns: 'This case is like a wrecking ball for internet law'
Florida man (not that one) sold $100M-plus in counterfeit network gear
Military, schools, and hospitals burned by off-brand Cisco inferno
Starlink's rocket speeds hit a 50 megabit wall for large downloads
Disgruntled customers claim throttling happens any time of the day or night
Google snubbed JPEG XL so of course Apple now supports it in Safari
Chocolate Factory under pressure to reverse decision to abandon image format
Red Hat to stop packaging LibreOffice for RHEL
The sky isn't falling… but it's sign of bigger changes to come
Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco
Deadly accident said to be unavoidable
US govt now bans TikTok from contractors' work gear
BYODALAINGTI (as long as it's not got TikTok installed)
STORIES
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers
Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you
Legal31 May 2023 | 29
CERN spots Higgs boson decay breaking the rules
So much for the Standard Model of particle physics?
Science30 May 2023 | 46
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover
Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder
Science30 May 2023 | 40
Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password
Who, Me? Fed-up techie wields the magic of malicious compliance on his way out the door
Offbeat29 May 2023 | 98
Neuralink says US OK's human experiments with Elon's brain chips
Hopefully this tech works better than his self-driving cars
Science26 May 2023 | 36
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves
The instrument that proved Einstein right is back
Science26 May 2023 | 23
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ
Science26 May 2023 | 26
BOFH: Get me a new data file or your manager finds out exactly what you think of him
Episode 10 A developer in sales? You poor, poor creature
BOFH26 May 2023 | 122
Experimental brain-spine computer interface helped a paralyzed man walk
Comment Pioneering research effectively reconnects patient's motor cortex with his spinal cord
Science26 May 2023 | 42
Fahrenheit to take over Celsius
0°C×9/5+32 = how much money to thaw frozen crypto accounts?
Legal26 May 2023 | 43
India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act
Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too
Legal26 May 2023 |
After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds
Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business
Science26 May 2023 | 3
Virgin Galactic flies final test before opening for business
$450k buys you about 90 minutes of space adventure and a sub-orbital glimpse of Earth
Science26 May 2023 | 38
Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak
Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison
Offbeat25 May 2023 | 2
Ford in reverse gear over AM radio removal after Congress threatens action
Surprise: Electronics was always there. Cars lacking button for the band just need a software update, says CEO
Offbeat24 May 2023 | 57
Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill
SETI encouraging everyone to break out their decoder rings, get in on the simulated first-contact fun
Science24 May 2023 | 23
Virgin Orbit-uary: Beardy Branson's satellite launch biz shutters
Rocket Lab, Stratolaunch, and Vast pick at the corpse
Science24 May 2023 | 25
Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth
Juno probe strikes at the similarities despite differences in planets' size and structure
Science24 May 2023 | 6
Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing
Lawsuit alleges he was 'set up' after finding flaws in product meant for sale to Uncle Sam
Legal24 May 2023 | 22
Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy
Meanwhile, will train a million IT graduates in Artificial Intelligence
Legal24 May 2023 | 6
Nearly 1 in 5 academics admit close encounters of the anomalous kind
Boffins call for end to UFO stigma
Science23 May 2023 | 78
China becomes the 37th country to approve Microsoft's Activision buyout
Boss fights with US and UK authorities lie ahead, and Redmond may not have enough power-ups to prevail
Legal23 May 2023 | 10
Russian businesses want to party like it's 1959 with 6-day workweek
In Putin's Russia, the work does you
Offbeat22 May 2023 | 68
Parent discovers the cost of ignoring Roblox: £2,500 and heart palpitations
10-year-old hacks family iPad and goes on in-game bling shopping spree
Offbeat22 May 2023 | 71
China seeks space cargo launches well below prices NASA pays SpaceX
Asia In Brief Plus: ChatGPT hallucinates Japan's PM; Infosys scores huge BP deal; Grab on the way to becoming a bank; and more
Science22 May 2023 | 8
China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws
Alleges major risks to national security, but is happy for chips to remain in place
Legal21 May 2023 | 24
Astronomers spot Earth-sized exoplanet probably 'carpeted' by volcanoes
The floor is lava. Literally. But at least there might be water
Science18 May 2023 | 16
Asia's top rideshare outfit, Grab, is late paying fines for running late
Took out Uber and promised to play nice, but regulator alleges years of evasion
Legal18 May 2023 | 3
Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill
'Liz' learns you don't screw over rich people
Science17 May 2023 | 70
We regret to inform you Earth will not be destroyed by an asteroid within 1,000 years
Never mind, there's always nuclear war and climate catastrophe
Offbeat17 May 2023 | 38
Stratolaunch takes hypersonic flight dreams to new heights with mid-air release success
Paul Allen must be smiling up there ahead of test flight in summer
Science17 May 2023 | 9
US Disruptive Technology Strike Force has struck
Former Apple engineer busted for stealing self-driving code, others accused of arranging illicit military tech transfers
Legal17 May 2023 | 3
North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch
To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains'
Science17 May 2023 | 13
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted
Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation
Legal17 May 2023 | 59
OpenAI's Sam Altman rattles tin for crypto startup that will support bot-replaced workers
Idea is to scan irises to disburse universal basic income just for being human
Offbeat16 May 2023 | 20
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age
Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum
Science16 May 2023 | 7
NASA freezes ice-hunting cubesat Moon mission for good after thruster fail
Lunar Flashlight's innovative hardware worked ... other than its engines. Let's call it a draw
Science15 May 2023 | 6
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess
Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment
Science15 May 2023 | 417
Big Tech mainstays named as targets of PwC tax law leak
Consultancy's Australian arm is in deep trouble after offering advice on how to avoid rules its people helped write
Legal15 May 2023 | 3
Astronomers say they've seen the largest explosion yet – and we just had to talk to them
The culprit: A supermassive black hole, a billion times more massive than the Sun, feeding on a giant gas cloud
Science13 May 2023 | 27
Perseverance rover shows up Curiosity with discovery of Martian water park
Latest snaps have NASA rethinking scale of rivers on the Red Planet
Science12 May 2023 | 23
BOFH: Ah. Company-branded merch. So much better than a bonus
Episode 9 Is your hair on fire or is it just that lovely Spring sunshine?
BOFH12 May 2023 | 173
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028
How complicated can fusion be, really?
Science12 May 2023 | 18
Alien rock causes cosmic disturbance in New Jersey home
Potential meteorite excites everyone but the insurance company
Offbeat11 May 2023 | 36
EU-US Privacy Framework could make life easier for a data biz, if it survives
Analysis But what about the Brits? A lawyer gives their take on the privacy minefield
Legal11 May 2023 | 18
NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice
Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way
Science11 May 2023 | 9
The Hubble Space Telescope is sinking! Two startups want to save it for free
But it's up to NASA to approve a rescue mission. Cue Aerosmith
Science11 May 2023 | 27
This upstart is selling tickets for a SpaceX trip to the world's first private space station
30 days with three other people in a double-width shipping container built by a crypto billionaire. What's not to like?
Science10 May 2023 | 19
The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault
Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?
Offbeat10 May 2023 | 59
Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung
Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on
Legal10 May 2023 | 1
Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'
Switchzilla takes a stab at inclusive language. Sorry, that should be 'makes a first pass'
Bootnotes10 May 2023 | 218
Star Fomalhaut has dusty little secret – two more debris belts and a potential planetary party
Nearby system was thought to have an exoplanet, but that was wrong. Now NASA says there may be multiple
Science09 May 2023 | 5
Meta CEO doesn't Zuck at Brazilian jiu-jitsu, apparently
'Silent killer' Mark bags himself top medals in tournament
Offbeat09 May 2023 | 22
Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon
'How did NASA do what they did in the 60s what they cannot do now?'
Bootnotes09 May 2023 | 108
Vietnam to require registration of social media, even on global platforms
Show some ID or your Facebook feed might not make it across the border
Legal09 May 2023 | 5
Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS
Three power outages have hit NAIA in the past year. What was that about ramping up tourism?
Offbeat08 May 2023 | 9
China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek
Asia In Brief PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more
Science08 May 2023 | 25
Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages
Dense debris left by Halley's Comet more than 3k years ago will produce more than 100 fireballs per hour
Science05 May 2023 | 19
Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets
Young mother only 10 million years old appears to have twins
Science05 May 2023 | 20
Four out of five Uranus moons likely to have ocean under crust
A preview of what Uranus Orbiter and Probe might find in the 2040s
Science05 May 2023 | 32
Ex-OpenSea exec convicted in first-of-its-kind case of insider trading of NFTs
Who would have thought there was anything dodgy about selling pictures of cartoon apes?
Legal05 May 2023 | 6
Ten-day optical burst shows star eating giant planet, scientists say
Twelve-year interaction ended with a bang
Science04 May 2023 | 10
Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner
That's certainly one of the stranger headlines we've written
Offbeat04 May 2023 | 66
Fresh GDPR ruling says even 'minor anxiety' could mean payouts for EU folks
Lawyers quip: 'The definition of hell is European legislation with American enforcement'
Legal04 May 2023 | 45
I've seen things you wouldn't believe, like an atom about to photosynthesize
Paper details previously unknown step in process of converting light energy to chemical energy
Science04 May 2023 | 21
Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China
Human Rights Watch details mass surveillance and repression
Legal04 May 2023 | 56
Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch
Neither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space
Science03 May 2023 | 9
Handwritten Einstein essay on theory of relativity goes under the hammer
It's not an NFT either!
Offbeat03 May 2023 | 22
Major decision on GDPR compensation rights expected soon
Breached businesses might have to cough for your discomfort too
Legal03 May 2023 | 21
Smuggler busted heading for China with dodgy GPUs … and live lobsters
A new twist on fast food
Legal03 May 2023 | 14
Saturn's rings are shrinking and boffins will use the Webb 'scope to find out why
They go down, down, down, with the burning pull of gravity ... or do they?
Science03 May 2023 | 16
Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest
Dare we say that's a master stroke
Bootnotes03 May 2023 | 74
Eco warriors sue FAA over Starship fallout, claim watchdog is lost in space
NEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges
Science02 May 2023 | 29
How Sandia hopes to accelerate US hypersonic weapons development
You want this to go faster? OK, send in the contractors. That'll do the trick
Science01 May 2023 | 10
Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud
Gee, you mean that surge to 800,000 applications in one year isn't entirely legit? Shocking
Legal01 May 2023 | 32
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor
But don't toss out your silicon chips quite yet
Science01 May 2023 | 51
Space: The final frontier, or the next venture capital gold rush
Book review Ashlee Vance's When the Heavens Went on Sale paints an inside view of orbital startups
Science01 May 2023 | 3
Europe floats patent overhaul, which obviously everyone's thrilled about
Industry groups and biz aren't yet sold on reforms
Legal01 May 2023 | 8
China's Mars rover finds signs of 'modern' water
Asia In Brief AWS adds Korean support; Singtel creates InfraCo; Philippines SIM registration drive extended
Science01 May 2023 | 4
Ashlee Vance spills the beans on the secret exciting life of space startups
Interview Reg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more
Science29 Apr 2023 | 10
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