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Leaving Las Salesforce: Paul Smith fashions a new role at ServiceNow

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That's infotainment, that's infotainment: Android Automotive OS goes virtual with new reference platform

Microsoft? AWS? Nein und nein. Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for its latest crack at digital transformation

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

Micro Focus COVID-19 costs: Carry the one, decimal 9 places to the right... hmm. Holy cow, it's a $1bn+ loss

Microsoft to take a break from Edge releases: Hits pause button to align with Chromium

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart

Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft's Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory... to spot malware

Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

Grappling with mixed infra, container security, service meshes? Our DevOps conf has practical help for you

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

Fast as a motorbike, subtle as a brick: Motorola pushes out new Moto G 5G Plus mid-ranger

Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

Geek's Guide

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven't got that the wrong way round

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Verity Stob

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

Science

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective

08 Jul 07:18 | 3

Science

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

All eyes were instead on SpaceX and its newer programming techniques

08 Jul 02:57 | 14

Science

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

The last thing America needs right now is a brain drain

08 Jul 00:29 | 35

In Brief

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

Plus: SpaceX launches another GPS satellite, the next Mission Extension Vehicle arrives in French Guiana and.... come ON, Tim!

07 Jul 11:20 | 10

Science

University ordered to stop running women-only job ads

Experiment to diversify academic workforce falls foul of human-rights watchdog

07 Jul 07:14 | 70

Science

A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure

'Pics or It Didn't Happen' won't be sending back any pics any time soon

06 Jul 14:22 | 12

Science

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Whitehall buddies up with Bharti to complete constellation

03 Jul 15:00 | 83

Science

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

No wonder J2157 clocks in at 34 billion solar masses

03 Jul 05:02 | 14

Science

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Surprise! The UK has been shut out of an EU-led project

02 Jul 16:00 | 131

Science

Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all

This year is just one disappointment after another, eh?

02 Jul 07:03 | 38

Science

The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows

There's iron in them hills, maybe

02 Jul 02:43 | 22

Science

Born slippy: NASA Mars rover Perseverance to persevere on Earth a little longer as launch date pushed back again

A delay until 2022 looms as sensor problems on Atlas V add a few more days to schedule

01 Jul 12:30 | 10

Science

Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole

Or was target practice for a Death Star?

01 Jul 05:28 | 61

Science

Two out of three parachutes... is just as planned for Boeing's Starliner this time around

Abort test simulated a very bad day – now, how about getting it to the ISS?

30 Jun 15:08 | 21

Science

One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway

Blighty pondering OneWeb as the new Brexit Satellite

30 Jun 10:31 | 259

In brief

Come glide with me: Virgin Galactic gives Unity some fresh air, looks forward to rocket-powered flight

Plus: On-orbit battery replacement and scrub-a-dub-dub, my launch is a dud?

29 Jun 14:53 | 14

Science

Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life

World will marvel at tiny electronic brain made of sand taught to think

27 Jun 08:50 | 47

Science

Russia returns to space tourism and offers a first citizen spacewalk

As Japan's virtual space tourism rig is readied for bolt-on to ISS

26 Jun 07:51 | 15

Science

NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

26 Jun 06:04 | 41

Vid

Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars

From the belly of Perseverance comes a revolution in Red Planet exploration

25 Jun 06:01 | 30

Leaving Las Salesforce: Paul Smith fashions a new role at ServiceNow

Achieve your financial services digital transformation with advice and insight brought to you by Workday

That's infotainment, that's infotainment: Android Automotive OS goes virtual with new reference platform

Microsoft? AWS? Nein und nein. Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for its latest crack at digital transformation

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

Micro Focus COVID-19 costs: Carry the one, decimal 9 places to the right... hmm. Holy cow, it's a $1bn+ loss

Microsoft to take a break from Edge releases: Hits pause button to align with Chromium

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart

Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft's Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory... to spot malware

Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

Grappling with mixed infra, container security, service meshes? Our DevOps conf has practical help for you

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

Fast as a motorbike, subtle as a brick: Motorola pushes out new Moto G 5G Plus mid-ranger

Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven't got that the wrong way round

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Detroit cops employed facial recognition algos that only misidentifies suspects 96 per cent of the time

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

Science

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

University ordered to stop running women-only job ads

A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all

The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows

Born slippy: NASA Mars rover Perseverance to persevere on Earth a little longer as launch date pushed back again

Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole

Two out of three parachutes... is just as planned for Boeing's Starliner this time around

One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway

Come glide with me: Virgin Galactic gives Unity some fresh air, looks forward to rocket-powered flight

Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life

Russia returns to space tourism and offers a first citizen spacewalk

NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons

Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars

Popular

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Fujitsu tells 80,000 of its Japan employees: From now on, you work remotely

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing

Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150

Make sure you've patched your F5 BIG-IP gear. Exploit code for scary bug pair is so trivial, it fits in a tweet

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

Three UK: We're sending you this SMS to warn you not to pay attention to unsolicited texts

Think of a number: A tale of iffy discount codes, supermarket loyalty cards and Hotels.com

Things that make you go foom: Destruction derby as NASA and SpaceX test rocket components to failure

Grav wave boffins are unsure if they just spotted the smallest black hole or the biggest neutron star seen yet

US starts sniffing around UK spaceports – though none capable of vertical launches actually exist right now

No longer a planet and left out in the cold, Pluto, it turns out, may have had hot beginnings

Virgin Galactic inks deal with NASA to train astro-tourists looking to buy a seat to the International Space Station

With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of civilizations in the galaxy

CERN puts two new atom-smashers on its shopping list. One to make Higgs Bosons, then a next-gen model six times more energetic than the LHC

Going to the cloud doesn’t mean you have to leave your legacy IT behind

Check out the night sky in all its X-ray glory: Everything from hot gases to supernovas and massive black holes

NASA to send Perseverance, a new trundle bot, and Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, to sniff out life on Mars in July

NASA scientists mull sending a spacecraft on a 13-year mission to visit Neptune's 'bizarre' moon, Triton

Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way