Science
Rocket Lab goes large with Neutron – a big rocket for big constellations. Oh, and it confirms a merger proposal
Something for rocket fans and rocket financiers to chew on
01 Mar 17:02 | 5
Science
Science
Bezos denied: New Glenn launch pushed into 2022 after Space Force says no
Also: Old age a bigger risk for Branson's passengers as Virgin Galactic slips again
26 Feb 20:00 | 37
Science
Huawei to Hell: Embattled Chinese comms giant said to be revving up for a move into the electric vehicle market
Though company insists it is 'not a car manufacturer'
26 Feb 19:06 | 9
Science
ESA mulls sending waves of robot explorers into dark depths of lunar lava tubes
Lidar-equipped spherical probes or solar panel-powered cranes, perhaps?
26 Feb 12:54 | 18
Science
NTT boffins reckon they’ve out-randomed current quantum random number generators
And managed to pull it at speed, despite the menace of quantum noise
25 Feb 06:27 | 16
Science
China, Thailand, UAE team up to test cross-border crypto-payments
Just the sort of thing you’d do if you want your national cryptocurrency to be broadly accepted
25 Feb 04:59 | 3
Science
No fair! Space Launch System gets cool stickers even though monster rocket failed test
They say 'NASA' and 'ESA', not 'You tried'
24 Feb 19:07 | 16
Science
Scottish rocketeers Orbex commission Europe's largest industrial 3D printer to crank out 35 engines a year
Single-piece blend of metals to help get company into Prime time
24 Feb 15:01 | 29
Science
Robots that take out your garbage? Oh What A Feeling, says Toyota as it opens its very own smart city
In 'Woven City' human-driven cars aren't allowed, 'personal mobility devices' get their own roads, and sensors tell robots when you need help
24 Feb 08:28 | 25
Video
NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video
See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world
23 Feb 06:20 | 116
Science
What's that, Lassie? Dogs show signs of self-awareness according to peer-reviewed academic study?
Canine friends may not be as dumb as they sometimes like to appear
19 Feb 19:59 | 62
Science
British govt emits fuzzy vision for UK version of American boffin special forces group Darpa
Aria. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
19 Feb 15:30 | 53
Science
Hero to Jezero: Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geologist rover, lands on Mars, beams back first pics
Difficult entry, descent, landing process over, now for a search for ancient microbial life
18 Feb 21:41 | 108
Science
European Space Agency open to hiring astronauts with a physical disability
‘Help Wanted … in Space’ signs go up for first time in over a decade
17 Feb 07:01 | 18
Science
Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19
Serial entrepreneur regrets the error
17 Feb 01:39 | 30
Review
Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster
'Every country will need to change its ways' says Microsoft billionaire
16 Feb 19:06 | 132
Science
Iron in the kinks, say boffins: Wrinkly graphene could one day make computer chips 'smaller and faster'
All these use cases, not much action
16 Feb 10:30 | 14
Science
Voyager 2 receives and executes first command in 11 months as sole antenna that reaches it returns to work
Resets clock to avoid going into safe mode
15 Feb 00:58 | 117
Science
Future astronauts at risk of heart attacks, strokes if radiation allowed to ravage their cardiovascular health
One small step for man, one giant.... urgh...*clutches heart*... THUD
14 Feb 09:47 | 31
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin
Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong
12 Feb 09:30 | 72
Popular
OSes
Linus Torvalds went six days without electricity, swears smaller 5.12 kernel is co-incidental
Devs told if they really, really, need more time for merges they can have it
Virtualization
Two ransomware strains target VMware’s ESXI hypervisor through stolen vCenter creds
CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER give you extra reasons to patch last week’s critical vCenter bug
Who, Me?
Rookie's code couldn't have been so terrible that it made a supermarket spontaneously combust... right?
We'll never know but he was spared the whiteboard of shame
Devops
Splunk junks 'hanging' processes, suggests you don't 'hit' a key: More peaceful words now preferred in docs
Biased terms can't be ‘grandfathered’ in either – that’s also on vendor's list of language best avoided
Networks
After spending $45bn on 5G licences, Verizon tells customers to turn off 5G to save battery life
You've just got to have 5G... except when you don't
In Brief
Mobile spyware fan Saudi Crown Prince accused by US intel of Khashoggi death
Plus: Critical Cisco flaw, NSA advice, and someone hacked Gab?
On-Prem
China creates a $50bn tech 'aircraft carrier' by merging two state-controlled entities
Merged Potevio and CETC do drones, 5G, satnav, lots of military software, and have been told to accelerate R&D
Software
Singapore reveals open-source blockchain COVID-test result tracker, eyes uses as vaccine passport app
Tech already used to verify university degrees, will soon be compulsory at the border
Security
Malware attack that crippled Mumbai's power system came from China, claims infosec intel outfit Recorded Future
The fun started at the same time as border skirmishes
Column
Palantir and UK policy: Public health, public IT, and – say it with me – open public contracts
Nope, COVID-19 is not a catch-all excuse for backdoor deals
STORIES
Science
Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri using latest telescope technique
Space is about to look a lot clearer, thanks to adaptive optics
11 Feb 11:43 | 64
Science
Samsung floats autonomous ships as ready to sail in 2022
Test on tricky route planned for later in 2021, followed by productisation
11 Feb 06:01 | 76
Science
India on track for crewed space mission, says first test flight to launch in late 2021
Plans week-long orbital mission, with Chicken Korma already pencilled in on the menu
11 Feb 04:32 | 26
In Brief
The hottest destination for 2021: China probe follows UAE's into Martian orbit
Also: NASA to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy for the Lunar Gateway while eyeing another seat in a Soyuz
10 Feb 20:51 | 5
Science
First UAE interplanetary probe now in orbit around Mars – two craft from China, US near Red Planet, too
Orbital mechanics leads to rush hour
10 Feb 07:01 | 10
Science
After 7 months and 500 million kilometres, the Emirates Mars Mission has to endure 27 nail-biting minutes of engine burn
Only then will it be known if the UAE's Hope probe was a success
08 Feb 19:01 | 16
Science
Square Kilometre Array Observatory has a council now, so building super-sensitive €1.3bn telescope is next on agenda
But then there's the issue of mega-constellations to contend with
08 Feb 13:45 | 8
Science
NASA offers foodies, boffins $500,000 to find ways for astronauts to make their own dinners on the Moon, Mars
Deep Space Food Challenge could also help solve nosh dilemmas here on Earth
06 Feb 11:10 | 44
Science
Big data: Study suggests even a moderate gambling habit is linked to increased mortality and other bad stuff
R, me hearties: Boffins sift through 6.5 million individual dataset
05 Feb 10:27 | 40
Science
Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry
Atom bond length of Es measured for the first time
04 Feb 12:58 | 72
Video
Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down
Still hoping to lob a zillionaire and three commoners into space in a commercial flight later this year
02 Feb 23:22 | 62
Science
ESA signs off on three more service modules for Moon mission – despite agency boss casting doubt on 2024 landing
Director General injects some reality into the lunar landing schedule
02 Feb 19:24 | 20
Science
NASA to have another go at firing Space Launch System engines because just over a minute of data won't cut it
Chance of Moon landing in 2024 ever slimmer if test flight this year is delayed
01 Feb 13:56 | 27
Column
The good optics of silicon photonics: Light sailing serenely down a fibre
15 years in the making. Out of the labs and into the real world: The 100Gbps Internet connection
01 Feb 11:46 | 26
Science
India plans national digital currency plus a ban on ‘private’ crypto-cash
Seems to be full steam ahead on blockchain for uses other than funny money
01 Feb 01:59 | 15
Science
Remember life on Venus? One of the telescopes had 'an undesirable side effect' that could kill off the whole idea
Alas, it looks as though, for now, us humans are still alone in the pitch-black depths of space
30 Jan 11:03 | 23
Science
Microsoft's Gooseberry is a dish best served really, really cold: Progress made on silicon quantum computing
None of that nuclear-magnetic-resonance garbage, ha
29 Jan 07:07 | 14
Science
Taiwan scores Google’s first hardware engineering lab outside the US of A
Job ads call for silicon designers, ASIC engineers, display wonks and folks to build data centre and home kit
29 Jan 01:30 | 4
In Brief
The UK's first industrial contribution to the ISS: An end to sneakernet for spacefarers
Also: First all-commercial crew named, Boeing readies Starliner again and NASA's ex-boss is off to private equity
27 Jan 12:15 | 10
