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On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies
NASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg
19 Apr 11:59 | 32
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Elon Musk's SpaceX bags $3bn NASA contract to, fingers crossed, land first woman on the Moon
And the 13th guy
16 Apr 22:28 | 51
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Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
Unless by aliens you mean Russians
16 Apr 21:41 | 89
Science
Fridges... in... Spaaaaaaace: Engineers book ride on the Vomit Comet to test astro-refrigerator
It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727
16 Apr 16:33 | 22
Science
We're on our way already: Astroboffins find 5 potentially habitable Tatooine-like systems from Kepler 'scope
Perhaps gigantic puffy exoplanets aren't as hostile to life as previously thought
16 Apr 06:04 | 24
Video
Blue Origin sends Mannequin Skywalker aloft again, testing out comfier capsule for future space tourists
One day you too can experience a few minutes of free fall with great visuals... if you can afford it
15 Apr 02:31 | 15
Science
Ice, ice maybe? Astrobotic will ride SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to the Moon in 2023 and drop off NASA's water-hunting rover
Firm's Griffin lander to do the honours
14 Apr 20:34 | 3
Science
NASA writes software update for Ingenuity helicopter to enable first Mars flight
Won’t say when flight tests will resume, because uploads and testing are hard when your machine is 15 light minutes away
13 Apr 04:59 | 49
Science
It is 60 years since the first cosmonaut reached orbit and 40 years since the Shuttle first left the launchpad
Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right?
12 Apr 20:03 | 14
Science
Satellite collision anticipated by EU space agency fails to materialize... for now at least
Internet rubberneckers and crisis-starved media left to ponder non-event
10 Apr 11:01 | 41
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SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts
As the constellation stands anyway
09 Apr 18:37 | 110
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NASA's Mars helicopter spins up its blades ahead of hoped-for 12 April hover
Things to look forward to on Monday morn: Our Who, Me? column and 1st flight of Ingenuity
09 Apr 17:29 | 63
Science
Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away
Duplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic
09 Apr 08:08 | 98
Science
What's this about a muon experiment potentially upending Standard Model of physics? We speak to one of the scientists involved
'It’s an exciting prospect, but too early to say so definitively' professor tells us
08 Apr 22:34 | 69
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Software in space race heats up: Microsoft eyes satellite image processing with Thales Alenia Space's digital image analyst
DeeperVision software coming to Azure Marketplace
07 Apr 18:11 | 4
Science
We finally get to spot a burnt-out comet and what is it covered in? Talcum powder
We might just be witnessing a final state of these incredible space rocks
07 Apr 07:26 | 28
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DARPA adds RISC-V to its Toolbox: Defense researchers can get special access to SiFive chip designs
Labs offered tech by Arm as well as its upstart rival and others
07 Apr 01:49 | 5
Science
CERN boffins zap antimatter with ultraviolet lasers in the hope of revealing the secret symmetry of the universe
If you can't measure it, you can't research it
06 Apr 09:45 | 73
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Scientists stumped by strange X-rays from Uranus
UCL astronomer tells us: 'We were surprised by our discovery'
02 Apr 06:01 | 36
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Sierra Nevada Corporation resurrects plans for crewed Dream Chaser spaceplane
Updates on its blow-up space station while Bigelow threatens to burst NASA's bubble
01 Apr 12:47 | 10
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You want a reboot? I'll give you a reboot! Happy now?
Two windows, one tetchy techie – what could possibly go wrong?
OSes
Linus Torvalds reluctantly issues one more release candidate for Linux kernel 5.12
We gotta do this again? Really? Oh, alright then. But this eight release candidates thing is not great
Software
Debian devs decide best response to Richard Stallman controversy is … nothing
Two-week vote dismissed options to back or sack controversial FOSS figure
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Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge
Would move for The Greater Good™ actually be good, though?
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On a dusty red planet almost 290 million km away... NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies
NASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg
Security
Pakistan cut off Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Telegram – for just four hours
To stop protests by far-right party that wants France’s ambassador expelled
Software
Adobe co-founder and PostScript co-creator Charles Geschke dies, aged 81
Mathematician and massive figure in digital publishing lives on in every PDF
Networks
India appoints ‘IP Guru’ to push nation towards IPv6
Three-pronged adoption drive includes cut-price courseware
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Huawei could have snooped on the Dutch prime minister's phone calls thanks to KPN network core access
Nobody caught – er, held us responsible, says Chinese firm
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Truth and consequences for enterprise AI as EU know who goes legal: GDPR of everything from chatbots to machine learning
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'Imagine' if Virgin Galactic actually did sub-orbital tourism: Firm unveils new chrome job on SpaceShip III
That schedule, however, is looking a lot less shiny
31 Mar 15:04 | 47
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Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work
Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce
30 Mar 23:45 | 3
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Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing
Explosions in the mist
30 Mar 17:25 | 103
Analysis
What happens when back-flipping futuristic robot technology meets capitalism? Yeah, it’s warehouse work
Boston Dynamics: From Terminator to Amazon worker replacement
30 Mar 06:31 | 73
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Satellites, space debris may have already brightened night skies 10% globally – and it's going to get worse
Goodbye darkness, my old friend
29 Mar 22:42 | 61
Science
Distorted light from ancient explosion when the Universe was 3 billion years old helps point astroboffins to intermediate black hole
Gamma-ray burst technique could figure out how commonplace these tricksy customers are
29 Mar 17:09 | 14
Science
Sadly, the catastrophic impact with Apophis asteroid isn't going to happen in 2068
Astroboffins are so confident, this once dangerous near-Earth object has now been struck off official risk lists
28 Mar 11:05 | 66
Science
ESA gives UK space an £8.5m Boost: Rocketeers eye a 2022 launch
Lawmakers still need to sign off on launch from UK soil, though
25 Mar 11:45 | 11
Science
NASA sets the date for first helicopter flight on another planet – and the craft will carry a piece of history
Fabric from Wright brothers' aircraft makes it to Mars
25 Mar 07:23 | 43
Pic + video
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A halo of light polarized by a gigantic black hole's magnetic field...
Most intimate snap yet of M87's supermassive abyss
25 Mar 02:24 | 38
Video
Your hardware is end-of-life... and it's in space. Worry not, Anglo-Japanese sat to test new orbital cleanup method
Magnetic tech could be used to deorbit debris
23 Mar 08:32 | 42
Science
Founders of medical science upstart uBiome once likened to Theranos now indicted for, you guessed it, fraud
Failed firm was full of it, Feds say
22 Mar 23:53 | 12
Science
Boffins get first measurements of Jupiter's stratospheric storms that show 'unique beast' dwarfing Earth's issues
Even though its Great Red Spot appears to be shrinking, the storm behind it will probably live on
20 Mar 10:10 | 12
Science
Being asked to rate fake news may help stop social media users sharing it, study finds
Could slow the spread of misinformation without needing draconian law
19 Mar 12:30 | 42
Science
Boldly going where Elon Musk will probably go before: NASA successfully tests SLS Moon rocket core stage
Space agency now that much closer to the Moon tossing multi-million dollar Space Shuttle engines in sea
19 Mar 10:25 | 55
Video
Watch it go: World's smallest self-folding origami bird that reminds us we were promised nanobots at some point
Remember the dream of microscale machines? They may look like this
19 Mar 05:58 | 33
Science
Listen to The Sound of Perseverance: Not the death metal album, but NASA's Mars rover on the move
Rolling over the Martian stones toward a drop-off for the Ingenuity Helicopter
18 Mar 20:07 | 31
Science
Where did the water go on Mars? Maybe it's right under our noses: Up to 99% may still be in planet's crust
New science challenges theory of liquid lost in space
18 Mar 01:16 | 21
Science
Russia, China say anyone will be able to use their south pole Moon base for 'peaceful' science and exploration
Researchers to bask in 100+ days of continuous sunlight
16 Mar 11:47 | 22
