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open White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms 44
By DS999
open NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag 3
open Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator 33
open Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles 42
open NASA watchdog report pokes holes in Artemis lunar lander plans 25
By Snapper
open Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns 201
open Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states 33
open Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place 90
open Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope 50
By FeRDNYC
open SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed 30
By DJO
open Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream 18
open China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon 15
open NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead 21
open Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is 87
open Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds 27
open NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour 22
open Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom 52
open 60 years since humanity first touched the surface of another planet 19
open Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm 8
open Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification 45
open TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor 23
open You can power a G-Wiz EV with 500 vapes, and this YouTuber proved it 19
open Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan 14
By ThatOne
open Solar superstorm gave ESA's Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity 3
By Red Ted
open CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes 20
By druck
open Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it 12
open Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits 9
open MIT boffins aim to build injectable mini-organs that can fill in for a damaged liver 5
By NXM
open Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack 22
open US struck Iran with copies of its own drones 80
By rg287
open Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck 27
open Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here 28
open Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers 29
By Korev
open BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely 53
open UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame 76
open China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy 20
open NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing 140
open Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip 12
open Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe 5
open Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost 78
By ThatOne
open Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves 17
open Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026 25
open Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is 49
open Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay 25
open O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th 67
By FeRDNYC
open Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing 64
open NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate 19
open Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers 86
open SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping 21
open SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists 58