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open Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35 7
By rg287
open Europe fires up beefier booster for Ariane 6 and Vega-C 3
open BOFH: The Prints of Darkness pays a visit 49
open Tesla's Optimus can't roll without rare earth magnets, and Beijing ain't budging yet 69
By Ochib
open Europe hits Meta, Apple with €700M in fines for flouting DMA 52
open NTT creates a drone that triggers and catches lightning – then keeps flying 32
open Dentists sue ex-contractor for holding web domains hostage in biz fight 9
By rcxb
open SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule docks to the International Space Station 19
open ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it 37
open America's National Science Foundation tells DEI, misinfo studies: You're fired 86
By Stork
open Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 85
By OhForF'
open No rest for the rocketry as NASA's Easter weekend heats up 18
open Small ocean swirls may have an outsized effect on climate, NASA satellite shows 16
open Heat can make Li-Ion batteries explode. Or restore their capacity, say Chinese boffins 20
open Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims 117
open 20 years on, DART still a masterclass in how not to rendezvous in orbit 10
open In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield 50
open US senator warns 'China is cheering' for proposed NASA budget cuts 63
open White House budget proposal could beam NASA science back decades 25
By bonkers
open The LittleGP-30: A tiny recreation of a very big deal from the 1950s 19
By swm
open Mapping legend Ordnance Survey releases blocky Britain in Minecraft – again 20
open BOFH: There's a fatal error in the blinkenlights 63
open Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call 96
open Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity 58
open UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants 29
open Laser-cooled chips: Maybe coming soon-ish to a datacenter near you 15
By Snake
open Canada OKs construction of first licensed teeny atomic reactor 32
open Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power 32
open Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash 56
By Roland6
open Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way 31
open Dev loudly complained about older colleague, who retired not long after 131
By Not Yb
open NASA doubles odds of Moon hitting near-Earth asteroid 54
By Hurn
open Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites now boarding the rocket to relevance 7
open Speech now streaming from brains in real-time 22
open FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion 20
open Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' 43
open Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it 21
open European Gaia mapping satellite is retired but proves very tough to kill 27
By tip pc
open Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses 33
open Intel and Microsoft staff allegedly lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan 8
By Nasu
open Brits to build ExoMars landing gear after Russia sent packing 44
open Boeing's Starliner may fly again, pending fixes to literally everything 35
By FIA
open Meanwhile, in Japan, train stations are being 3D-printed in an afternoon 55
open From concept to cosmos: Webb engineers on the telescope that changed everything 12
open Nuclear center must replace roof on 70-year-old lab so it can process radioactive waste 64
open ISS resupply and trash pickup craft postponed indefinitely after Cygnus container crunch 20
By FIA
open From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner 25
By Meph
open It's International Datacenter Day for those who colocate, er, celebrate 2
open 50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building 40
open Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting 31
By LionelB

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