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open White House hopes $180M will solve science, tech gaps in commercial fusion power 19
open California upgrade company aims militarized 'Tactical' Cybertruck at police forces 82
open Quantinuum inches closer to fault-tolerant quantum with a 56 qubit machine 12
By Ken G
open A tale of two missions: Starliner and Starship both achieve milestones 57
open Samsung union stages its first ever strike – very politely 9
By PB90210
open Ariane 6 ready to rocket, bringing heavy-lift capability back to Europe 12
open Tetris Company celebrates classic game's 40th birthday 28
open Can AI models trained on human speech help us understand dogs? 29
By EBG
open High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away 40
By Krellan
open Boeing's Starliner makes it into orbit at long last – with human crew aboard 35
open Hubble will transition to single-gyro mode to gain a few more years of operational life 14
open From meatballs to metaverse – IKEA's flatpack fantasy lands on Roblox 9
By druck
open China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe packs rocks and rolls back to Earth 4
By Mike_T.
open Graveyards a favorite haunt for solar farms in Valencia 11
By Bebu
open Hubble plays spin the bottle with last few gyros 26
By Orv
open Energy buffs give small modular reactors a gigantic reality check 122
open Boeing's Starliner finds yet another way to not reach space 67
open JAXA's Akatsuki probe goes silent after more than a decade studying Venus 3
open China lands probe Chang'e-6 on the far side of the Moon 2
By DS999
open DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus 3
open NASA and ESA take a close look at Europe's International Habitation Module 6
By phuzz
open Tesla slams advisors for not loving Musk's $44.9B payout 85
open FCC boss wants tighter rules to prevent devastating satellite explosions in orbit 6
open European Space Agency's Vega-C rocket a step closer to returning to flight 5
open Promising results for osteoarthritis treatments tested in space 5
By Korev
open Neuralink wants 3 more quadriplegic patients for its brain control interface trial 12
By Bebu
open Evidence mounts that Venus has multiple active volcanoes 16
open The Reg builds official Lego Artemis and Milky Way sets 62
open NASA, Boeing opt to fly leaky thruster as-is for first crewed Starliner CST-100 mission 65
open Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port 24
By ThomH
open 4 more years! Intelsat, Northrop Grumman extend satellite servicing contract 10
By short
open 'Little weirdo' shoulder surfer teaches UK cabinet minister a lesson in cybersecurity 213
open BOFH: Come on down to the dunge– erm … basement 91
open China reveals space weather radar it claims represents a breakthrough 7
open Computer modeling deepens scientists' understanding of solar cycle 8
By ThatOne
open US Army doubles down on laser tag with $95M for prototyping 17
open Boeing's Calamity Capsule launch date slides into the future 24
open Research finds electric cars are silent but violent for pedestrians 231
open 55 years ago, Apollo 10's crew turned the airwaves blue 67
open Alleged $100M dark-web drug kingpin, 23, arrested 31
open FDA gives Neuralink 'a second shot' at human brain chip 9
open Another week, another leak for Boeing's Starliner crew capsule 27
open Really? A sarcasm detector? Wow. You shouldn't have 41
open Rosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck 5
open Oklahoma saddles up bill of rights for crypto wranglers and miners 11
open Google gives in to Hong Kong, blocks fake national anthem on YouTube 16
By IGotOut
open Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep 26
open BepiColombo power struggle could leave probe short of Mercury's orbit 4
open Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger 90
open Tesla nearing shareholder vote to grant Musk $46B 49