UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition -- Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm

8 hours ago

City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout -- Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place

22 hours ago

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off -- As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts

8 hours ago

Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes -- Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents

1 day ago

Indian bank's IT is so shabby it's been banned from opening new accounts -- After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank

8 hours ago

Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip -- Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

4 hours ago

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right -- On Call -- Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways

4 hours ago

Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful -- Systems Approach -- Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters

4 hours ago

Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim -- Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name

3 hours ago

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' -- Cash to go out as refunds to punters

3 hours ago

Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission -- Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth

4 hours ago

Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night -- What do we say to the God of Death? Not today

1 day ago

SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing -- Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages

3 days ago

Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -- All from billions of miles away

3 days ago

FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch -- Commercial operators must try Varda

4 days ago

A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel -- Not yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it's a start

6 days ago

NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth - Updated - Look out for a new star next week - Science - 19 Apr 2024 - | 21

3 days ago

NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope -- Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts

8 days ago

Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data -- One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed'

9 days ago

Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas -- Video -- If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished -- Science

9 days ago

NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan -- Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034

9 days ago

China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip -- Analysis -- Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models -- Systems

10 days ago

NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack -- Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? -- Science

10 days ago

NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground -- Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks -- Science

10 days ago

NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away -- Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software -- Science

11 days ago

Digital Realty ditches diesel for salad dressing in US to cut datacenter emissions -- Hydrotreated vegetable oil to power bit barns stateside after successful Euro trial -- Systems

15 days ago

Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94 - Obituary - The particle bearing his name lives on - Science - 10 Apr 2024 - | 13

14 days ago

CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 -- 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap -- Public Sector

17 days ago

Solar eclipse darkened skies, dampened internet traffic -- Byteflow dropped by around half under some of the path of totality -- Networks

17 days ago

Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves -- Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation -- Science

17 days ago

Blue Origin to fly another 90-year-old into outer space -- Ed Dwight, almost America's first Black astronaut, will ride New Shepard rocket

21 days ago

NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover -- At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive

22 days ago

65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts -- The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for'

22 days ago

Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens -- 3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time'

22 days ago

US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone -- What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually -- Science -- 03 Apr 2024

23 days ago

Alibaba signs to explore one-hour rocket deliveries -- Chinese space startup claims it has the tech to make it happen. Yeah, right -- Science -- 03 Apr 2024

23 days ago

Japan's moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night -- Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery -- Science -- 02 Apr 2024

24 days ago

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue -- Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues -- On-Prem -- 28 Mar 2024

24 days ago

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense -- Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics

30 days ago

Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic - Updated - Oh, and there's small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills - Science - 27 Mar 2024 - | 9

24 days ago

Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear -- 100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth

1 month ago

Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets -- This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators

1 month ago

World's first Neuralink patient enjoying online chess, long Civ 6 sessions -- While excited by the implant, Noland Arbaugh says it's not perfect and there's still work to be done

1 month ago

DARPA tasks Northrop Grumman with drafting lunar train blueprints -- Um. Let's successfully land on Moon without immediately faceplanting first, amirite?

1 month ago

Euclid space telescope needs de-icing -- Warm water and a scraper not an option when you're 1.5 million kilometers from home

1 month ago

European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale -- Awards contracts for spacecraft to bring the IoT to space

1 month ago

Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off -- Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date

1 month ago

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage -- Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source

1 month ago

Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship -- Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success!

1 month ago

Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble -- Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers

1 month ago

Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions - Video - KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad - Science - 13 Mar 2024 - | 17

1 month ago

NASA's FY2025 budget request means tough times ahead for Chandra and Hubble -- But Artemis is still OK, so that's alright then

1 month ago

Stratolaunch's air-launched test vehicle hits supersonic speed -- TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait

1 month ago

UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers -- Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?

1 month ago

An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer - Interview - Chatting to Anmol Taploo about the race to develop tech for satellites - Science - 09 Mar 2024 - | 58

1 month ago

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth -- 'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive

1 month ago

Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too -- With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense

1 month ago

Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries -- Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027

1 month ago

Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open -- Time flies for The Flies

1 month ago

Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help -- Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently

1 month ago

Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon -- To detect seismic waves, silly

1 month ago

NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies -- Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August

1 month ago

Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected -- Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter's icy moon

1 month ago

NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas -- OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs?

1 month ago

NASA's Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board -- The tech just isn't ready and clunky collab with ESA isn't helping, auditor finds

1 month ago

The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out -- 'Farewell' snap revealed by Intuitive Machines amid hope solar-powered craft may one day spring to life again

1 month ago

Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air -- Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up

1 month ago

New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners -- Subzero temperatures and batteries don't mix – but there may be a solution

1 month ago

Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side -- Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander

1 month ago

FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again -- You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure?

1 month ago

ESA's ERS-2 satellite began to come apart earlier than predicted -- Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent

1 month ago

Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap -- How's that for resilient?

1 month ago

72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics -- Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell -- Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now

2 months ago

Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science -- Space factory startup celebrates successful re-entry

2 months ago

NASA warns as huge solar flare threatens comms, maybe astronauts too -- No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday

2 months ago

Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told -- Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing - Updated - It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part - Science - 22 Feb 2024 - | 8

2 months ago

Neuralink patient masters mind-mouse maneuvers – if Musk is to be believed -- Brain-computer interface trial continues to display troubling lack of transparency

2 months ago

Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage -- Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering

2 months ago

Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground -- Danger to humans? Less than '1 in 100 billion', says agency

2 months ago

Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable - Opinion - Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around? Science - 19 Feb 2024 - | 297

1 month ago

Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G - Updated - One giant leap for astronaut medicine - Science - 16 Feb 2024 - | 12

2 months ago

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped -- 121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once

2 months ago

NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space -- Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times

2 months ago

Intuitive Machines IM-1 heading for Moon on SpaceX rocket -- Taking Disaster Recovery as a Service to lunar extremes

2 months ago

WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age -- The curious incident of the instrument cover on the Red Planet rover

2 months ago

NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission? -- Ready for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court

2 months ago

Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason -- The Small Bodies Nomenclature Working Group has just given 29 space rocks names

2 months ago

Japan's space program seeks reboot with Wednesday launch -- Second test flight for failed H3 booster after a run of bad luck

2 months ago

50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth -- Around The World in 84 days

2 months ago

Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high -- Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035

2 months ago

NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite -- 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter

2 months ago

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery -- 2 MWh of energy storage using dirt, winches, and cables set to be installed in Finland

2 months ago

Saturnian moon Mimas: Crunchy on the outside, sub-surface ocean on the inside -- Data from Cassini suggests hidden depths beneath crater-ridden body

2 months ago

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider -- Vid -- CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots -- Science

2 months ago

Hundreds of workers to space out from NASA's JPL amid budget black hole -- Launch windows do not respect political squabbling

2 months ago

How Neuraspace aims to clean up orbital clutter with AI -- Interview -- Can tech and regulations beat the great satellite landgrab? -- AI + ML

2 months ago

India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability -- Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025 -- Science

2 months ago

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal -- Despite EV commitment, German giant tells Musk marque to buzz off -- Personal Tech

2 months ago

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator -- The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC -- Science

2 months ago

Save the Mars Sample Return mission, plead Congresscritters -- Letter: Budget cuts will 'essentially cancel' daring multi vehicle project unless reversed -- Science

2 months ago

Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough -- Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid -- 01 Feb 2024

2 months ago

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy - Updated - Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us - Science - 31 Jan 2024 - | 8

2 months ago

Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk -- Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve? -- 31 Jan 2024

2 months ago

ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards -- It's all in the software -- 30 Jan 2024

2 months ago

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human -- Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that

2 months ago

ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch -- Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime

2 months ago

The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin -- Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim

2 months ago

Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit -- Don't pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet

2 months ago