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open Half a century ago, NASA's Pioneer 10 visited Jupiter, then just kept going 4
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 5th December 2023 23:41 GMT
open Steve Jobs' $4.01 RadioShack check set to fetch small fortune at auction 11
By Gene Cash
Wednesday 6th December 2023 03:28 GMT
open YouTuber who crashed plane for sponsorship dollars earns 6 months behind bars 13
By Flocke Kroes
Wednesday 6th December 2023 03:47 GMT
open UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program 82
By J.G.Harston
Wednesday 6th December 2023 02:09 GMT
open Branson's wallet snaps shut for Virgin Galactic 22
By IGotOut
Wednesday 6th December 2023 00:22 GMT
open Tiny bits of space junk reveal their wherabouts when they collide, boffins hope 6
By DS999
Tuesday 5th December 2023 18:37 GMT
open China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz 9
By MiguelC
Tuesday 5th December 2023 16:33 GMT
open Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats 6
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 5th December 2023 20:20 GMT
open Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was more punchline than science powerhouse? 8
By Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch
Tuesday 5th December 2023 23:47 GMT
open Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal 48
By CorwinX
Tuesday 5th December 2023 23:06 GMT
open Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches 9
By John Robson
Tuesday 5th December 2023 10:39 GMT
open World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan 116
By NeilPost
Tuesday 5th December 2023 15:14 GMT
open From Joaquin Phoenix to Rowan Atkinson, we enjoyed your Musk movie casting calls 20
By Blade9983
Monday 4th December 2023 15:32 GMT
open Potential sat-bothering cannibal coronal mass ejection slams into Earth's atmo tonight 9
By Scott 26
Sunday 3rd December 2023 19:40 GMT
open America's ambitious Artemis III likely to miss 2025 Moon landing date, auditors sigh 47
By simonlb
Sunday 3rd December 2023 11:42 GMT
open Roblox investor plays hardball over 'weak' parental controls 10
By An_Old_Dog
Friday 1st December 2023 03:27 GMT
open Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week 46
By John Robson
Monday 4th December 2023 09:28 GMT
open Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star 8
By Spherical Cow
Sunday 3rd December 2023 02:11 GMT
open Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater' 24
By Johannesburgel12
Friday 1st December 2023 09:29 GMT
open We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far 36
By A. Coatsworth
Monday 4th December 2023 02:10 GMT
open Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn's moon slips into 2024 3
By Spherical Cow
Saturday 2nd December 2023 05:21 GMT
open That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth 54
By cageordie
Sunday 3rd December 2023 15:07 GMT
open AI threatens to automate away the clergy 75
By all ears
Tuesday 5th December 2023 19:16 GMT
open No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins 35
By Anonymous Coward
Sunday 3rd December 2023 11:02 GMT
open Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament 9
By yetanotheraoc
Wednesday 29th November 2023 16:59 GMT
open Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 15
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 29th November 2023 21:24 GMT
open Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some govt Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal 5
By MiguelC
Wednesday 29th November 2023 09:46 GMT
open Virgin Atlantic flies 'world's first fossil-fuel free' transatlantic commercial flight 40
By Graham Dawson
Friday 1st December 2023 08:50 GMT
open They did it for science: 40 years since Spacelab module first launched 1
By Eclectic Man
Tuesday 28th November 2023 20:47 GMT
open Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model 88
By Snowy
Saturday 2nd December 2023 21:56 GMT
open Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater 309
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 5th December 2023 09:25 GMT
open X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club 61
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 2nd December 2023 18:14 GMT
open Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz 159
By Steve K
Sunday 3rd December 2023 16:14 GMT
open Japanese tech startups testing cash incentives for office return 26
By CowHorseFrog
Saturday 2nd December 2023 01:46 GMT
open Neuralink pockets extra VC cash in computer-brain interface quest 2
By DS999
Monday 27th November 2023 22:13 GMT
open Foxconn founder Terry Gou quits Taiwan presidential race 2
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Monday 27th November 2023 05:29 GMT
open USB Cart of Death: The wheeled scourge that drove Windows devs to despair 87
By Jou (Mxyzptlk)
Thursday 30th November 2023 20:39 GMT
open Surface Duo crashes the party as Doctor Who celebrates 60th birthday 57
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 30th November 2023 08:02 GMT
open Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial 10
By Horny_Manatee
Wednesday 29th November 2023 09:31 GMT
open BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling? 63
By John Brown (no body)
Monday 27th November 2023 21:43 GMT
open Europe's Ariane 6 rocket rated 'ready to rumble' after passing hot fire test 44
By Justthefacts
Thursday 30th November 2023 22:04 GMT
open Singapore to deter crypto investors with tactics like those used on smokers, gamblers 13
By Grogan
Tuesday 28th November 2023 20:43 GMT
open Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it's time for a sequel 15
By timrowledge
Tuesday 28th November 2023 05:28 GMT
open Bezos might beat Musk to Mars as NASA recruits Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket 23
By jmch
Tuesday 28th November 2023 10:56 GMT
open Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble 172
By EBG
Tuesday 28th November 2023 12:07 GMT
open Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts 34
By xyz
Sunday 26th November 2023 08:48 GMT
open Veteran wingman wants $1.75M from Boeing over emotional turbulence 2
By Chris Coles
Saturday 25th November 2023 09:28 GMT
open Half a kilo of cosmic nuclear fuel reignites NASA's deep space dreams 37
By Lord Elpuss
Tuesday 5th December 2023 09:26 GMT
open FAA stays grounded in reality as SpaceX preps for takeoff 58
By John Robson
Friday 24th November 2023 08:42 GMT
open Remembering the time Windows accidentally sent Poland to the bottom of the sea 30
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 23rd November 2023 06:53 GMT

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