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open Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032 75
open Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again 178
open A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles 30
open And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples 22
By frankvw
open White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em 65
open Boom's XB-1 jet nails supersonic flight for first time 94
open Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts 93
open Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands 162
open 40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw 38
By oldbus
open Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid 55
open Boeing warns of more financial hits from strikes, costlier parts – and Starliner, of course 17
open BOFH: How to innosplain your way through an audit 43
open Trump nukes 60 years of anti-discrimination rules for federal contractors 317
open NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life 14
By cray74
open Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin 136
By Not Yb
open China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 74
open Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent 30
By LionelB
open Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming 9
open Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars 166
open AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads 141
open SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes 22
open Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? 91
open Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper 11
open SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero 118
open In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy 86
open Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules 8
open Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory 26
open Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery 60
open India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit 14
By Vader
open US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register 4
open SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon 22
By TVU
open Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing 91
By fg_swe
open SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover 54
open They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file 66
open Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky 60
open Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam 32
open Blue Origin gives up on New Glenn lift-off, 2 hours into launch window 35
open Celebrating when EVs went to the Moon with a Lego Lunar Roving Vehicle build 21
By msage
open Blue Origin postpones New Glenn's maiden flight to January 12 50
open BOFH: Forecasting and the fine art of desktop upgrades 42
By TSM
open Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content 26
open Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both? 66
open Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025 78
open NASA's lunar Roomba set to suck up Moon dirt for study 21
open What happens when someone subpoenas Cloudflare to unmask a blogger? This... 89
open Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed 62
open NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left 10
By UCAP
open Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station 48
open First launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket slated for January 10 21
open Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics 340