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Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

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Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

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It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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IBM Watson Xprize is a chance to make AI more open, says prize team

A $5m AI competition aimed at showing “how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world's grand challenges” has been launched by IBM Watson under the XPRIZE banner. IBM Watson XPRIZE leader Amir Banifatemi hopes to repeat the successes of the previous XPRIZE, a separate competition, with AI. “There …

SpaceShipTwo ready to slip the surly bonds of Earth for Virgin Galactic

UpdatedVirgin Galactic is set to unveil its new space plane on Friday, 16 months after the last one crashed in the Mojave Desert. "Very soon, Virgin Galactic will introduce our new spaceship to our customers, our partners, and the world," the company said in a statement. "As we celebrate the end of one critical phase of work, we …

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crackup verdict: Pilot error

The National Transport Safety Board has today given its verdict on last year's fatal Virgin Galactic crash, suggesting the cause of the tragic accident was human error and a lack of safety training. The NTSB determined that the probable cause was manufacturer Scaled Composite's failure to mitigate against the human factor of …

Laughing gas and rubber: A recipe for suborbital flight?

This summer, the skies above Nevada will thunder to the sound of a mighty hybrid rocket motor, as the Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group (BURPG) sends its Starscraper vehicle past the symbolic 100km Kármán line. BURPG group shot at motor test site BURPG: Laughing gas and rubber Having recently tin-rattled its way to …

Virgin 'spaceship' pilot 'unlocked tailbooms' going through sound barrier

The Virgin Galactic "spaceship" rocketplane which broke up in mid-air during a flight test on Friday deployed its unique "feather" atmospheric re-entry system far earlier than planned, according to federal investigators. VSS Enterprise in feathered descent testing. Credit: Clay Observatory/Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise in …

From launch to orbit: The new commercial space pioneers

FeatureWe all know that many 20th century prophecies of life in the new millennium never came to pass. Among them were flying cars, meals-in-a-pill and annihilation by Skynet, to name but a few. However, taking the crown of unfulfilled expectations has to be private spaceflight for business or pleasure. With all the rapid space tech …

Branson's SpaceShipTwo succeeds in first rocket-powered flight

Finally. Sir Richard Branson's long-delayed commercial spaceliner, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, has successfully completed its first rocket-powered test flight. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on successful April 29, 2013 test flight Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its first rocket-powered test flight (click to …

Richard Branson gets nod to strap rocket on SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic has finally got the green light to attempt supersonic rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo flights at the end of the year. The SpaceShipTwo craft takes to the air carried by its WhiteKnightTwo mothership. Credit: Virgin Galactic The SpaceShipTwo craft takes to the air carried by its WhiteKnightTwo mothership The …

'Asteroid mining company' makes classic hypegasm debut today

A group of wealthy advertising and software kingpins have allied themselves with celebrity auteur James Cameron and prominent "new space" business figures to launch a business focused on mining asteroids for precious resources. As is common with Silicon Valley new-tech business launches, hypegasm media management techniques …

'Android malware must be kind of thrilling for Microsoft'

QuotWThis was the week when in a rather ironic about-turn, peer-to-peer veterans decided to start a suit against companies like Google, Amazon, Dropbox and VMWare for using their intellectual property to make their cloud and virtualisation offerings. While the US discovered that one of the devices it uses in critical infrastructures …

Paul Allen latest plan: Space rockets on MEGA PLANE

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul G Allen has set foot down a path trailblazed generations ago by another eccentric business kingpin: he intends to build the biggest aircraft ever flown. However unlike Howard Hughes' monster "Spruce Goose" 1940s flying boat, Allen's plan appears at least feasible and he has some big names on …

SpaceShipOne designer produces hybrid flying car

Burt Rutan, the famous engineer behind the Ansari X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne and many other amazing aircraft, has produced a hybrid-electric aeroplane which can also be driven on roads as his final design before retirement. The BiPod features twin fuselages equipped with electrically driven wheels and propellers (though the …

Virgin space rocketship trials 'feather' re-entry system

The SpaceShipTwo suborbital rocketplane, commissioned by beardy biz-lord Richard Branson in order to offer zero-G exoatmospheric joyrides to wealthy customers, has flight-tested its unique "feathering" re-entry mode. VSS Enterprise in feathered descent testing. Credit: Clay Observatory/Virgin Galactic Engage shuttlecock mode …

X Prize offers cash for oil spill cleaners

This Thursday, the X Prize Foundation will announce its next competition: a challenge to inventors and entrepreneurs to find ways to clean up after such environmental disasters as BP's Gulf gusher. The effort won't encompass the entire mess that BP has made, nor will it target all the oil released in future underwater …

US X-37B robot minishuttle: 'Secret space warplane'?

Tomorrow, the US Air Force will finally launch the long-delayed X-37B unmanned mini space shuttle, dubbed by the Iranian government a "secret space warplane". But what is it actually for? Probably nothing hostile, most of the time, is the answer. But it could do some quite naughty and interesting things if required - and what' …

Branson's SpaceShipTwo rocketplane gets off ground

Beardy biz kingpin Richard Branson was overjoyed yesterday to announce that his passenger-carrying suborbital "SpaceShipTwo" rocket thrillride craft has left the ground for the first time. However it remained attached to its jet-powered "mothership" for the entire flight: independent operations aren't expected for some time. …

Robot mini space shuttle is go for April, says US air force

Long-delayed plans by the US to deploy a small robot space shuttle appear now to be approaching fruition, according to reports. The US Air Force has now stated that the X-37 unmanned spaceplane will be launched into orbit on April 19. The X-40 unpowered test model, used to gather data for the design of the X-37. Credit: NASA …

Virgin Galactic tests laughing-gas powered rocket motor

Sir Richard Branson's space-tourism operation, Virgin Galactic, has announced successful tests of the rocket motor it will use to launch fare-paying passengers out of the Earth's atmosphere. Unusually, the rocket runs on laughing gas and tyre rubber. The SpaceShipTwo hybrid rocket in ground testing. Credit: Virgin Galactic …

Virgin space mothership test details posted online

The firm building jet "motherships" and suborbital rocketplanes for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space joyride operation has begun posting flight-test results online. The move is perhaps an acknowledgement that the SpaceShipTwo programme and Virgin Galactic can only survive by maintaining high public visibility and …

Branson mothership bottom smacked in 'touch & go' incident

Rumoured control issues in Richard Branson's WhiteKnightTwo rocketplane-piggyback "mothership" craft appear to be persisting. Reports have it that the innovative aircraft smacked one or both of its tails against the runway during a recent test flight. The WhiteKnightTwo prototype on the runway in Virgin video The tale of the …

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