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Japanese billionaire invites y'all to apply for an all-expenses-paid Moon trip in a SpaceX Starship – like the one that blew up today

Eight plucky applicants will be picked for journey of a lifetime

04 Mar 01:03 | 27

9 years after SpaceX strode into Texas village, Elon Musk floats name change for Boca Chica: 'Starbase'

If he said it on Twitter it must be all above board, right?

03 Mar 13:30 | 34

Homo sapiens: Hey you, Neanderthals! Neanderthals: We heard that

Neanderthal ear scans support idea they could hear us and had a 'type of human language'

02 Mar 13:15 | 38

Boffins trap ultra-cold plasma-in-a-bottle, a move that may unlock secrets of exotic stars

Matter held not for long... but for long enough

02 Mar 06:28 | 15

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 | 15

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 | 38

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 | 10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 | 119

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

Qualys hit with ransomware: Customer invoices leaked on extortionists' Tor blog

Ace infosec biz aware and investigating, we're told

Register debate

Hacking is not a crime – and the media should stop using 'hacker' as a pejorative

Hackers are friends not foes, says Alyssa Miller in this opening argument for our latest debate

It only took four years and thousands of complaints but ICANN finally kills off rogue Indian domain registrar

DNS oversight body accused again and again of chronic foot-dragging

What happens when cancel culture meets Adolf Hitler pareidolia? Amazon decides it needs a new app icon

Dodgy doppelganger not the first, won’t be the last

Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

Notes an 'erosion of trust' – gee, wonder who could be responsible for that...

The wrong guy: Backup outfit Spanning deleted my personal data, claims Cohesity field CTO

One warning email.... then three years of backup gone in a flash, says storage exec

Telecoms shack in the middle of Scotland put up for auction at £7,500

No broadband or bedroom though, so you'll have to sign up for sats or build your own

Microsoft promises end-to-end encrypted Teams calls for some, invites you to go passwordless with Azure AD

When there are passphrases, there is inherent risk, says Redmond

AdGuard names 6,000+ web trackers that use CNAME chicanery: Feel free to feed them into your browser's filter

Assuming your content blocker can scrutinize DNS

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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