Microsoft, Activision Blizzard have days to show merger won't harm competition
Brit watchdog says what we're all thinking, motions for deeper investigation
Legal02 Sep 2022 | 19
Offbeat
How this Mars rover used its MOXIE to convert CO2 into precious oxygen
Producing vital gas out of Red Planet's hostile atmosphere? Truly a test of Perseverance
Science01 Sep 2022 | 42
Astronaut blood reveals genetic mutations for cancer and heart disease
Could just be a coincidence ... let's keep going into space and see what happens
Science01 Sep 2022 | 14
Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down
You're under app-vest
Bootnotes01 Sep 2022 | 188
Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m
Payment from Crypto.com was off by five zeroes because bank account number was mistakenly entered
Offbeat31 Aug 2022 | 102
Voyager 1 data corrupted by onboard computer that 'stopped working years ago'
Deeply impressive that NASA engineers fixed telemetry transmit glitch on 1970s probe in the first place
Science31 Aug 2022 | 93
Startup wants to build a space station that refuels satellites by 2025
Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad!
Science31 Aug 2022 | 30
California to try tackling drought with canal-top solar panels
Watt an interesting idea
Science31 Aug 2022 | 91
The International Space Station will deorbit in glory. How's your legacy tech doing?
Opinion Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above?
Columnists30 Aug 2022 | 101
NASA scrubs Artemis SLS Moon rocket launch
Boffins wish this one engine would just chill out
Science29 Aug 2022 | 111
You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups
Who, Me? A Reg reader comes to appreciate the value of paper
Columnists29 Aug 2022 | 113
Facebook settles Cambridge Analytica class action for undisclosed amount
Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta
Legal29 Aug 2022 | 31
James Webb Space Telescope finds first evidence of CO2 in exoplanet atmosphere
This same tech could someday help us discover strange, new – and habitable – worlds
Science26 Aug 2022 | 23
BOFH and the case of the disappearing teaspoons
Episode 16 The Dark Side … of the Spoon
BOFH26 Aug 2022 | 140
California to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2035
Air board votes unanimously to approve wind down of gas guzzlers
Science25 Aug 2022 | 219
US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all
Remembering Aaron Swartz
Science25 Aug 2022 | 15
China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system
A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search
Science25 Aug 2022 | 2
Compound that 'remembers' phase transitions could have uses in computer memory
Researchers ran a current through vanadium dioxide and were never forgiven
Science25 Aug 2022 | 20
Twitter whistleblower summoned to Senate Judiciary Committee
Updated Get the popcorn out for September 13
Legal25 Aug 2022 | 18
Tesla owner gets key fob chip implanted in his hand
Embedded electronics workaround for his phone's 'aggressive' power management
Bootnotes24 Aug 2022 | 88
Japan reverses course on post-Fukushima nuclear ban
PM says shuttered plants can re-open, fresh reactors will be built, old ones are getting their lives extended
Science24 Aug 2022 | 145
NASA's Space Launch System rocket is on track for August 29 liftoff
Artemis 1 is ready to light its candle
Science24 Aug 2022 | 50
Commercial space station Orbital Reef's design phase passes NASA review
Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business
Science23 Aug 2022 | 23
Apple autonomous car engineer pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets
Top secret tech theft admission sealed into top secret plea deal
Legal23 Aug 2022 | 17
Lawsuit accuses Oracle of facilitating sales of 'billions' of folks' personal data
Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016
Legal23 Aug 2022 | 29
China cybersecurity regulator wants to support tech growth
New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down
Legal23 Aug 2022 | 2
NASA identifies landing sites for America's return trip to the Moon
Hopefully Lucky 13 spots suggested, all on the south pole near water ice
Science22 Aug 2022 | 16
How important are tech and other contractors to UK? PM candidate promises tax review if elected
Liz Truss to go over IR35 off payroll tax as ruling party voters gear up to pick their leader
Legal22 Aug 2022 | 63
Rocket Lab CEO reflects on company's humble beginnings as a drainpipe
PowerPoint presentations are all well and good, but for Peter Beck, you can't beat something physical
Science22 Aug 2022 | 19
Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there
Opinion No country for old menus
Columnists22 Aug 2022 | 102
NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years
Hopefully these probes won't end up as target practice for some aliens in a few centuries
Science20 Aug 2022 | 126
Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid
Sandia has been working on the project for more than a decade – now comes scaling
Science19 Aug 2022 | 140
Russian cosmonauts abort ISS spacewalk after suit power fluctuates
Imagine how much Apple would charge for a power lead that long
Science19 Aug 2022 | 14
We were promised integrated packages. Instead we got disintegrated apps
Something for the Weekend Not to mention the severely disadvantageous subscription model
Columnists19 Aug 2022 | 144
Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19
A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew
Offbeat19 Aug 2022 | 108
NASA selects 'full force' for probe into UFOs
'We're placing a high priority on it'
Science19 Aug 2022 | 108
Vietnam demands Big Tech localize data storage and offices
Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have a year to comply
Legal19 Aug 2022 | 5
$2.8m gene therapy treatment is America's most expensive drug ever
Sure, it's pricey, but not using it would be more expensive, says drug maker
Science18 Aug 2022 | 57
South Korea cracks down on unlicensed foreign crypto businesses
Financial Services Commission also creates a digital assets task force
Legal18 Aug 2022 | 2
Skyrora fires up second stage of XL rocket
First stage hot fire and launch from UK soil in 2023
Science18 Aug 2022 | 13
NASA has MOXIE, but rivals reckon they can do better for oxygen on Mars
Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator
Science18 Aug 2022 | 39
Rocket Lab to search for signs of life in the clouds of Venus
As promised, Peter Beck is sending a Photon next year. Because he can
Science17 Aug 2022 | 15
SOFIA observatory's last hurrah set back by damage from high winds
Boeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end
Science17 Aug 2022 | 8
UK launches 'consultation' with EU over exclusion from science programs
Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement'
Science17 Aug 2022 | 307
NASA uses occult means to spot tiny moon orbiting asteroid
Lucy probe is five years away from getting a closeup of Polymele's satellite
Science17 Aug 2022 | 12
Modeling software spins up plans for floating wind turbines
Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea …
Science17 Aug 2022 | 38
NASA wants a hundredfold upgrade for space computers
Does it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something?
Science17 Aug 2022 | 36
Elon Musk 'buying Manchester United' football club
Results are rubbish on Earth, but Mars United could be undisputed champions
Bootnotes17 Aug 2022 | 54
Ryugu asteroid: It came from the outer solar system, say scientists
Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe samples reveal coarse-grained phyllosilicates that may have served as 'cradles' for organics and water
Science16 Aug 2022 | 16
Ninefold increase in startup layoffs in Q2 follows economic uncertainty
Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash
Legal16 Aug 2022 |
World record for strongest steady magnetic field 'broken' by Chinese team
Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge stick-on
Science16 Aug 2022 | 28
Artemis I will get 3 launch attempts after termination system extension agreed
Rolling back to the pad tomorrow, the SLS might finally take flight in August
Science15 Aug 2022 | 17
Intel hands over nearly 5,000 patents in deal with IP management outfit
Newly formed Tahoe Research Limited will seek to license them to third parties
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 12
Virgin Orbit trims losses, eyes two final launches for the year
Second quarter revenues at zero, though should jump to $12m following successful flights from Cornwall
Science15 Aug 2022 | 21
When will the UK take another giant leap into space?
Feature Tim Peake set to return to ESA as the race to first vertical launch from British soil continues
Science15 Aug 2022 | 41
Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape
Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on
Science15 Aug 2022 | 514
Samsung heir pardoned after doing time for bribery
Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 15
Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway
Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior
Legal15 Aug 2022 | 71
Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon
The discovery could help scientists further understand the origins of life
Science12 Aug 2022 | 21
Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia
Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'
Legal12 Aug 2022 | 14
