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Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Experts warn UK court digitisation is moving too fast and breaking too many things

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

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ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

Verity Stob

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

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ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

ESTECTop brass on keeping ISS lights on and life after Brexit

10 Oct 12:45 | 8

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That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Goodenough for Goodenough as boffin is still working at 97

09 Oct 20:23 | 66

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Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

Whew, you're a bit of a rust bucket, aren't you?! Come with us

09 Oct 17:00 | 37

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'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

ESTECWalt Cunningham and Rusty Schweickart take a moment to chat with 'the enemy'

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A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

James Peebles gets half, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz each bag a quarter

08 Oct 21:25 | 5

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Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

All hail the new moon king

08 Oct 05:03 | 44

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Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

RoundupPlus: Space suits, walks and a new Crew Dragon

07 Oct 13:30 | 65

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Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Robot arm to give stricken burrower a helping scoop

07 Oct 10:30 | 16

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Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

Only four billion years to wait to watch the pair duking it out

04 Oct 09:20 | 66

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RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Alright job for some, innit

03 Oct 12:24 | 47

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Cassini may be dead – but its data shows basic building blocks of life spewing from Enceladus

It's another encouraging sign that Saturn's most interesting moon could be habitable

03 Oct 09:01 | 32

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When one of NASA's sun-studying satellites went down, AI was there to fill in the gaps

Machine learning in spaaaaaace!

03 Oct 07:01 | 27

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Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

NASA's InSight lander data hears 'dinks and donks' from the Red Planet

02 Oct 05:09 | 23

Science

Rocket Lab crows about launch, SpaceX zipwires, and a monster mock-up arrives at Kennedy

RoundupAlso: Artemis looks to pull on Apollo's boots as sustainability starts slipping

01 Oct 12:05 | 9

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NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

Mars, Moon and shiny steel is all well and good. But how about sending a crew to the ISS without anything exploding, hmm?

30 Sep 09:45 | 95

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Astroboffins spy the most ancient protocluster of galaxies yet found post Big Bang

The giant group of 12 galaxies formed when the universe was just 800 million years old

30 Sep 05:04 | 14

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Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist

Back to the drawing board folks

27 Sep 05:04 | 50

Science

Gagarin's Start now Soyuz-FG's End as shutters pulled on historic launchpad

Will the last cosmonaut to launch please turn out the lights

26 Sep 13:20 | 9

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Black holes are like buses: You wait for one – and three turn up at once in galaxy merger

PicThree becoming one

26 Sep 05:01 | 45

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Roscomos: We know all about how the hole in the Soyuz went down, but we're not telling you

RoundupPlus: Who needs a visa to Europe when you've got a Space Bridge?

25 Sep 07:30 | 25

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So we're going back to the Moon: NASA triggers countdown by firing up spacecraft production

See? That Trump fellow's not so bad after all

24 Sep 13:54 | 61

Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Experts warn UK court digitisation is moving too fast and breaking too many things

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

Science

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model

Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Diggerland comes to Mars as boffins battle to save InSight's mole

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

RAF pilot seconded to Virgin Orbit for three years of launching rockets from a 747

Cassini may be dead – but its data shows basic building blocks of life spewing from Enceladus

When one of NASA's sun-studying satellites went down, AI was there to fill in the gaps

Thanks to all those tax dollars, humans can now hear the faint sounds of earthquakes on Mars

Rocket Lab crows about launch, SpaceX zipwires, and a monster mock-up arrives at Kennedy

NASA Administrator upends the scorn bucket on Elon Musk's Starship spurtings

Astroboffins spy the most ancient protocluster of galaxies yet found post Big Bang

Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist

Gagarin's Start now Soyuz-FG's End as shutters pulled on historic launchpad

Black holes are like buses: You wait for one – and three turn up at once in galaxy merger

Roscomos: We know all about how the hole in the Soyuz went down, but we're not telling you

So we're going back to the Moon: NASA triggers countdown by firing up spacecraft production

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MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

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