Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's
Published: October 12, 2026 11:30
25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid
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US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Published: October 9, 2026 12:44
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Published: October 8, 2026 20:15
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/08/microsoft-unveils-surace-laptop-ultra/5301882
Published: October 8, 2026 09:44
What the f?
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
Published: October 8, 2026 07:01
The ALBATROSS has landed
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing
Published: October 7, 2026 16:29
Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
Published: October 6, 2026 20:32
Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
Published: October 6, 2026 07:15
No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
Security researcher claims to they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Published: October 6, 2026 02:06
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
Published: October 5, 2026 14:29
Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply