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Thursday 27th February 2025 09:19 GMT
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By Anonymous Coward
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By FeRDNYC
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open Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses 17
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By ravenviz
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By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 4th March 2025 06:33 GMT
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By Anonymous Coward
Monday 3rd March 2025 08:43 GMT
open France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run 49
By MachDiamond
Wednesday 26th February 2025 09:39 GMT
open Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight 37
By Jou (Mxyzptlk)
Wednesday 26th February 2025 12:09 GMT
open Want to play billionaire for a day? This app lets you rent your own armed goon squad 28
By collinsl
Friday 21st February 2025 15:06 GMT
open Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward 51
By CountCadaver
Wednesday 26th February 2025 17:58 GMT
open Einstein Probe finds two stars that have spent 40 million years taking turns eating each other 24
By UCAP
Thursday 27th February 2025 15:25 GMT
open City-slaying space rock 2024 YR4 still has 2.4% shot at smacking Earth 29
By EvilDrSmith
Thursday 20th February 2025 16:31 GMT
open There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032 61
By MachDiamond
Thursday 20th February 2025 23:30 GMT
open The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux 39
By joeldillon
Wednesday 19th February 2025 11:07 GMT
open International Space Station's out-of-this-world selfie booth turns 15 14
By collinsl
Monday 17th February 2025 09:23 GMT
open Undergrad and colleagues accidentally shred 40-year hash table gospel 27
By Apocalypso - a cheery end to the world
Wednesday 19th February 2025 17:37 GMT
open Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI) 24
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 15th February 2025 18:01 GMT
open DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech 5
By StudeJeff
Tuesday 4th March 2025 18:24 GMT
open James Webb Space Telescope to size up asteroid 2024 YR4 before it rocks our world 33
By Justthefacts
Monday 17th February 2025 20:19 GMT
open SpaceX Crew Dragons swapped so ISS crew can go home early 8
By midgepad
Thursday 13th February 2025 13:44 GMT
open Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation 57
By Rich 11
Sunday 16th February 2025 06:14 GMT
open Man who binned 7,500 Bitcoin drive now wants to buy entire landfill to dig it up 113
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 11th March 2025 01:24 GMT
open RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK's first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 52
By cray74
Monday 17th February 2025 17:55 GMT
open Boeing warns SLS staff that job cuts could be on the way 41
By John Robson
Tuesday 18th February 2025 14:08 GMT
open Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation 46
By Philo T Farnsworth
Thursday 13th February 2025 00:17 GMT
open New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned 21
By dvhamme
Friday 14th February 2025 12:26 GMT
open Trump's Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out 64
By MachDiamond
Wednesday 12th February 2025 19:10 GMT
open NASA solar mission data recovering after server room flood fiasco 22
By UnknownUnknown
Monday 10th February 2025 14:52 GMT
open BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit 48
By PitBullCH
Sunday 20th April 2025 19:15 GMT
open Amazon-backed X-energy bags $700M more for itty-bitty nuke reactors that don't exist yet 9
By StargateSg7
Saturday 8th February 2025 05:30 GMT
open Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil 123
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 12th May 2025 07:56 GMT
open Robot dogs learn bomb disposal tricks in trials 17
By Ken Shabby
Saturday 8th February 2025 01:42 GMT
open Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers 110
By teebie
Tuesday 18th February 2025 16:42 GMT
open Poland’s 2nd astronaut brings pierogi to the ISS party 14
By I ain't Spartacus
Thursday 6th February 2025 16:51 GMT
open Blue Origin spins up lunar gravity for New Shepard flight 24
By the spectacularly refined chap
Thursday 6th February 2025 22:52 GMT
open You know something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times 27
By ThatOne
Thursday 6th February 2025 18:32 GMT
open US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme 24
By Henry Wertz 1
Wednesday 5th February 2025 18:34 GMT
open Ireland's AI minister has never used ChatGPT but swears she'll learn fast 23
By jdiebdhidbsusbvwbsidnsoskebid
Wednesday 5th February 2025 15:10 GMT
open Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough 17
By Alistair
Tuesday 25th February 2025 01:57 GMT
open Humans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price 227
By M.V. Lipvig
Tuesday 11th March 2025 23:20 GMT

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