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You can listen right here to the sound of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
Video One of the microphones on Perseverance, NASA’s latest and greatest Mars rover, has recorded the sounds of its autonomous…
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Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software’s boss
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s public statements about the state of his automaker’s Autopilot assistive driving technology overestimate the system’s capabilities,…
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Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it
The number of Facebook and Instagram users on iOS agreeing to be tracked by the social networking behemoth for targeted…
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Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS
MariaDB has added proprietary bells and whistles, in the form of distributed SQL, for its DBaaS and supposedly developer-friendly front…
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Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here’s a list of those changes
Russian spies from APT29 responded to Western agencies outing their tactics by adopting a red-teaming tool to blend into targets’…
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GitLab’s 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies
GitLab says a surge in demand and a technical shortcoming resulted in the DevOps outfit yanking a free certification offer…
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Scottish bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight
TSB admitted today it still hadn’t fixed a transaction processing issue that has for days held up customers’ payments, with…
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Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft’s EU data move: It won’t keep the NSA away
Microsoft has announced plans to ensure data processing of EU cloud services within the borders of the political bloc in…
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We were ‘blindsided’ by Epic’s cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling
An Apple exec has spoken of his shock after Fortnite creator Epic Games installed a hotfix that allowed it to…
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‘A massive middle finger’: Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Open source audio software outfit Audacity, now under new management, is adding some “basic telemetry”, much to the alarm of…
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