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And it's goodbye from Jim as smallsat launcher takes a 'pause' from operations

Roundup Last week saw four launches, one catch, and the ejection of one exec in a busy few days for rocket fans.…

Boffins spill beans on super 'scope machine-learning tech

Google Health's so-called augmented-reality microscope has proven surprisingly accurate at detecting and diagnosing cancerous tumors in real time.…

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Event If you’re thinking of exploiting serverless technologies, or want to take your current experiments to the next level, what could be better than getting your hands dirty with an acknowledged expert in the field.…

If you let voice chat app transcribe your calls, yup, people were paid to eavesdrop on your private conversations

Facebook secretly employed hundreds of contractors to listen to clips of its addicts' private voice calls to transcribe parts of conversations its AI software couldn't understand.…

Case not closed on concerns over how $10bn winner-takes-all super-contract was written

Despite the US Department of Defense's assurances last week that any and all ethics complaints against the $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract had been fully resolved, the Pentagon's internal investigators say they are still poring over the matter.…

Breach of contract, false advertising, unfair business practices sueball fired

Apple is being sued for breach of contract, false advertising, and unfair business practices for allegedly reselling Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform services under its iCloud brand – and failing to adequately disclosure that relationship to customers.…

Fret not. Here's a gentle guide to drawing up a plan to take the pain away from your info management

Comment Go back 15 years and big data as a concept was only just beginning.…

Meanwhile, SEC takes on Kik on similar charges

Two Canadian lovers have tentatively agreed to pay $7m to the SEC, America's financial watchdog, to settle a long-standing lawsuit.…

Plus special guest stars Adobe and SAP in this month's security fixes

Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP may have just ruined more than a few summer vacation plans, thanks to a massive and critical Patch Tuesday bundle of security fixes this month.…

Google guru shows how WinXP-era text code grants total control

Patch Tuesday Software buried in Windows since the days of WinXP can be abused to take complete control of a PC with the help of good ol' Notepad and some crafty code.…

You've got until Dec 15 to panic buy gear until 10% rise hits

America has pushed back its decision to raise import tariffs on Chinese-made smartphones, laptops, and similar electronics, by 10 per cent, the Office of the US Trade Representative announced today.…

No more $15-and-done option – cough up $70 every year, please

Microsoft is continuing its campaign to force Office users on a subscription plan by killing off its discounted Home Use program.…

1.5 EFLOPS monster will chew through simulations, modeling, and more, when it, fingers crossed, spins up in 2023

Cray will build Uncle Sam's 1.5 exa-FLOPS El Capitan supercomputer for $600m, it was announced today.…

Operators cut throttle during go-around. Aircraft crashed

A British Army Watchkeeper drone that crashed near its home base of Aberporth in north Wales did so after its crew overrode its autopilot, causing the unmanned aircraft to hit a tree.…

Also: Redmond buddies up with Reliance Jio Infocomm (no, not that Infocom)

Roundup Welcome to your midweek Microsoft roundup – stories you might have missed amid another seven days of Nadella action.…

And look how BC Partners' ownership went for them

A British cloud software company has sold a 50 per cent stake in itself to the private equity firm that owned British phone retailer Phones4U at the time of its demise.…

IT kit recycling arm that 'wasn't core' turns out to be important

London-listed tech supplier Computacenter has revealed it snapped up the IT asset disposal business RD Trading (RDC) in the UK from Arrow Electronics Inc, just four years after flogging it to Arrow's British tentacle for £56m.…

DirectX 11 and Catalina support will please, the price may not

Virtualization outfit Parallels celebrated International Left Handers Day* with an update to its Desktop package.…

But it claims just 32 people had 'non-public' info disclosed. Eh?

The American Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be investigating a US insurance company that allegedly left 885 million personal records accessible "without authentication to anyone with a web browser".…

Two more chances to get it right or we could be looking at 2022

European Space Agency and Roscosmos's 2020 ExoMars launch is in jeopardy after a failed parachute test.…