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open Royal Mail wins worst April Fools' joke 2023 61
By codejunky
Wednesday 12th April 2023 08:36 GMT
open It is now safe to turn off your brain: Google CEO asked Bard to plan his dad's 80th birthday 22
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 8th April 2023 15:10 GMT
open Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting 6
By Grogan
Sunday 9th April 2023 18:37 GMT
open Tesla ordered to pay worker $3M-plus over racist treatment 40
By John Brown (no body)
Friday 7th April 2023 20:02 GMT
open Virgin Obit: Launch company files for bankruptcy in US 22
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 21st June 2023 18:28 GMT
open NASA names astronauts picked for next Artemis Moon test flight 46
By John Brown (no body)
Friday 7th April 2023 10:08 GMT
open Parisians say au revoir to shared e-scooters 56
By John Brown (no body)
Thursday 6th April 2023 20:26 GMT
open Paid and legacy Twitter verification now indistinguishable 58
By Mostly Irrelevant
Monday 17th April 2023 12:38 GMT
open India flies – and lands – reusable autonomous spaceplane 8
By Eclectic Man
Tuesday 4th April 2023 13:46 GMT
open Astronomers (re)discover never-before-seen phenomenon on Saturn 11
By wub
Wednesday 5th April 2023 20:18 GMT
open Ex-politico turned Meta hype man brands Metaverse 'new heart of computing' 42
By Michael Wojcik
Tuesday 4th April 2023 23:42 GMT
open Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of staff as funding deal falters 61
By Insert sadsack pun here
Tuesday 4th April 2023 09:56 GMT
open Today's old folks set to smash through longevity records 117
By TomG
Monday 3rd April 2023 14:59 GMT
open Boffins: Microgravity impacts cell repair systems in proteins 15
By Version 1.0
Thursday 13th April 2023 14:37 GMT
open Boeing's first-ever crewed mission in Starliner ISS spacecraft delayed to late July 17
By TheWeetabix
Sunday 16th April 2023 15:48 GMT
open Google (sort of) loses in Indian antitrust appeal 4
By v13
Friday 31st March 2023 10:27 GMT
open Scientists speak their brains: Please don’t call us boffins 218
By Anonymous Coward
Tuesday 11th April 2023 12:14 GMT
open Boffins claim discovery of the first piezoelectric liquid 28
By bigphil9009
Friday 14th April 2023 16:35 GMT
open British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice 32
By amanfromMars 1
Thursday 30th March 2023 07:25 GMT
open Moon's glass beads contain enough water to support a mission 33
By RichardBarrell
Thursday 30th March 2023 10:32 GMT
open Is Neuralink ready for human brain implants? Allegedly so 30
By Michael Wojcik
Wednesday 29th March 2023 19:57 GMT
open India-based cybergang busted for selling fake KFC franchises 14
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 13th May 2023 14:30 GMT
open The most bizarre online replacement items in your delivered shopping? 100
By gotes
Friday 28th April 2023 19:55 GMT
open No 'decoupling' here: Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm sing China's praises 9
By Dan from Chicago
Monday 3rd April 2023 19:07 GMT
open Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk 26
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 29th March 2023 05:07 GMT
open Matthew Brown Companies confirms it's in funding talks with Virgin Orbit 7
By Paul Crawford
Sunday 26th March 2023 08:24 GMT
open Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count 23
By DS999
Monday 27th March 2023 19:43 GMT
open BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days 69
By Ghostman
Friday 19th May 2023 05:48 GMT
open Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually 12
By Michael Wojcik
Monday 27th March 2023 17:17 GMT
open Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid 6
By DanceMan
Saturday 1st April 2023 03:04 GMT
open Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit 12
By Francis Boyle
Thursday 30th March 2023 14:39 GMT
open First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research 42
By anonymous boring coward
Tuesday 4th April 2023 16:16 GMT
open Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit 16
By Zolko
Thursday 13th April 2023 12:10 GMT
open Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life 13
By John Brown (no body)
Friday 24th March 2023 00:14 GMT
open Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man 14
By Raj
Saturday 25th March 2023 21:47 GMT
open Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong 33
By DoctorPaul
Thursday 23rd March 2023 18:37 GMT
open Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability? 14
By CrazyOldCatMan
Thursday 23rd March 2023 11:13 GMT
open NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess 8
By Orv
Thursday 23rd March 2023 23:05 GMT
open Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket 17
By sgp
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 19:04 GMT
open Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware 42
By TRT
Thursday 23rd March 2023 10:59 GMT
open Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science 24
By David 132
Thursday 23rd March 2023 17:35 GMT
open Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats 38
By JassMan
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 14:42 GMT
open Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note 12
By J.G.Harston
Tuesday 1st August 2023 09:10 GMT
open Now collapsed SVB's parent files for bankruptcy as Biden calls for stiffer penalties 35
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 25th March 2023 16:09 GMT
open UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now? 91
By James R Grinter
Friday 24th March 2023 21:55 GMT
open Capital crunch: Virgin Orbit confirms all ops on pause until Tuesday 24
By Fruit and Nutcase
Saturday 18th March 2023 10:39 GMT
open NASA spots first evidence of an active volcano on Venus – in a big pile of CD-ROMs 11
By the spectacularly refined chap
Tuesday 21st March 2023 18:47 GMT
open Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025 62
By ian 22
Tuesday 4th April 2023 14:35 GMT
open Here's a fun idea: Try to unlock and drive away in someone else's Tesla 146
By Solviva
Tuesday 21st March 2023 15:53 GMT
open Firefly gets nod from NASA to deliver Lunar Pathfinder to the Moon 14
By james 68
Thursday 16th March 2023 14:34 GMT

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