PLATO mission to find alien life is given the thumbs up

ESA to start the construction of space telescope network The European Space Agency’s PLATO mission hunting for habitable exoplanets has been given the green light to move from blueprint into construction.…

Watch a KFC sandwich fly to the edge of space

Germany’s biggest industrial robotics company is working on consumer robots

Cisco's 'encrypted traffic fingerprinting' turned into a product

Borg's boxen can now figure out of there's malware lurking in encrypted traffic Cisco has turned research published nearly a year ago into a product it hopes will protect enterprises against malware hidden in encrypted traffic.…

Cisco's 'encrypted traffic fingerprinting' turned into a product

Borg's boxen can now figure out of there's malware lurking in encrypted traffic Cisco has turned research published nearly a year ago into a product it hopes will protect enterprises against malware hidden in encrypted traffic.…

LG’s latest ridiculous OLED screen is transparent, flexible, and taller than Tom Cruise

ITU thinks Blockchain and pals need interoperability

Calls for standards-setting conference to consider security, privacy, whatever other regs distributed ledger types want The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has decided the time is ripe to start talking about what standards might be deve…

Cisco to reveal 'Starship' ride to cloudy server automation heaven

Borg plans 'AI-assisted operations in IT', but first we get new HCI boxen for ROBO Cisco will next week reveal something called “Project Starship” that it promises will allow greater and easier automation of UCS servers and its HyperFlex hyperconver…

Cisco to reveal 'Starship' ride to cloudy server automation heaven

Borg plans 'AI-assisted operations in IT', but first we get new HCI boxen for ROBO Cisco will next week reveal something called “Project Starship” that it promises will allow greater and easier automation of UCS servers and its HyperFlex hyperconver…

Researcher calls the fuzz on OpenVPN, turns up new vulns

Patches for servers and clients OpenVPN has patched another round of security vulnerabilities, turned up by a researcher independently of the organisation's 2016/17 code audit.…

Arista-cats nearly out of the bag as redesigned products okayed

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again Arista's long slog back to the shelves in America continues with an initial determination from the International Trade Commission okaying its product redesign.…

Arista-cats nearly out of the bag as redesigned products okayed

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again Arista's long slog back to the shelves in America continues with an initial determination from the International Trade Commission okaying its product redesign.…

Oracle, why so much talk of cloud? How's the hardware biz... oh dear

No wonder they're trying to get away from on-prem Oracle says it has finally turned the corner with its cloud compute transition as it reports big gains for the business, both in the quarter and the fiscal year.…

Homeland Security: Putin’s hackers tried to crack electoral networks in 21 US states

Senate Intelligence Committee frustrated by lack of details Russian attempts to hack key US election systems are more advanced than first thought, according to testimony by Homeland Security officials in Congress on Wednesday.…

Darkness to fall over North America from a total solar eclipse

Grab your camping gear and prepare for August 21 America will witness, for the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse stretching from coast to coast on August 21.…

Oz senate committee says 'robo-debt' program was 'set up to fail'

Government senators play the 'this is fine' card Federal Government senators have rejected a Senate report that describes its “robo-debt” program as “set up to fail”.…

Apple goes after clones and spam on the App Store

 Every time Apple’s developer conference rolls around we get a smattering of changes to the App Store Review guidelines. This corpus of rules can be, in turns, opaque and explicit and has caused a decent amount of consternation over the years for de…

Apple releases lots of new developer betas

Apple has released second developer betas of iOS 11, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, watchOS 4, tvOS 11 and and Xcode 9. Developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center or the So…

OnePlus accused of installing cheat codes for benchmarks with new handset

Benchmarks aren't useful anyway, says cofounder On Tuesday OnePlus launched its latest smartphone with much hoopla, and the handset has already found notoriety.…

Walmart tells developers to stay away from AWS

Retail giant prefers partners not feed Amazon their cloud cash Retail giant Walmart says it doesn't want its developer partners using Amazon Web Services to host their cloud apps.…

Lenovo toont concept van laptop met vouwbaar scherm

Lenovo heeft een concept getoond van een vouwbare laptop. De afbeelding toont een gebogen scherm en toetsenbord. In dichtgevouwen vorm lijkt het nog het meest op een niet strak gevouwen blad papier. Voorlopig blijft het bij een concept.