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Blue Origin, Dynetics cry foul Katyanna Quach Tue 4 May 2021 // 02:38 UTC Share Copy NASA’s $2.89bn contract awarded to SpaceX for its Starship rocket to send the first American woman and next man to the Moon has been put on ice after SpaceX’s competitors complained to the US Government Accountability Office. “On April 26, NASA was notified that Blue Origin Federation and Dynetics filed protests challenging the Option A human landing system selection with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO),” a spokesperson from the US space agency confirmed to The R...

The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world. Chris Mellor Tue 4 May 2021 // 15:00 UTC Share Copy HPE is trying to up its Greenlake public cloud-like game by launching a storage-as-a-service (SaaS) platform with data service software abstraction layers operating on new Alletra storage arrays. The set-up has a Data Service Cloud Console (DSCC) that has API access to the Alletra arrays so they can be managed in the same way as a customer would look after AWS or Azure storage. This cannot be done with HPE's existing storage kit available via GreenLake, which ...

Plus: Anti-Chocolate Factory campaign says it'll collect all the class-action damages, thank you Gareth Corfield Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 15:55 UTC Share Copy A barrister for the Information Commissioner's Office hinted the regulator would stop enforcing the law on data breaches if the Supreme Court sides with Google in a case about class-action lawsuits. The startling threat was made on behalf of the ICO by barrister Gerry Facenna QC, who was intervening on the authority's behalf in the Lloyd v Google data protection case. "If a large number of data subjects have had their ...

Ingenuity's third flight goes further, faster, as Perseverance snaps pics 'n' vid of 'copter zipping past Laura Dobberstein Mon 26 Apr 2021 // 08:01 UTC Share Copy VIDEO NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has flown flying faster and further than ever before - even when it was on Earth - and we even have video of Sunday's 80-second flight because the Perseverance Rover’s Mastcam-Z had its eye on the drone's third flight. The video showed the helicopter lift vertically to an altitude of five metres, cruise horizontally for 50m until it disappeared off screen, before reap...

Never want to return to daily 9-5 regime? Use psychology to baffle higher-ups Paul Kunert Mon 26 Apr 2021 // 10:00 UTC Share Copy With some company bosses hellbent on forcing staff to return to the office once the pandemic is over, research has arrived that warns of the productivity pitfalls of expecting minions to re-embrace the daily commute. Whether it be fighting through traffic in a car, risking your life on British roads from the saddle of a bike or enduring the grind of train delays and breakdowns, very few sane humans will have missed the thrill of travelling t...