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If a new browser arrives on an OS nobody cares about, did it arrive at all?

It was a while coming, but Google has finally made a Windows on ARM-native version of Chrome.…

Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed off on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves from space.…

We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it

Opinion  Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such as Irish datacenter electricity usage making up a third of that country's total juice budget by 2026.…

"Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere," writes SciTechDaily. "At only approximately twice Earth's diameter, the planet GJ 9827d could be an example of potential planets with water-rich atmospheres elsewhere in our galaxy." "This would be the first time that we can directly show through an atmospheric detection, that these planets with water-rich atmospheres can actually exist around other stars," said team member Björn Benneke of the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at Université de Montréal. "This is an important step toward determining the prevalence and diversity of atmospheres on rocky planets." "Water on a planet this small is a landmark discovery," added co-principal investigator Laura Kreidberg of Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. "It pushes closer than ever to characterizing truly Earth-like worlds." However, it remains too early to tell whether Hubble spectroscopically measured a small amount of water vapor in a puffy hydrogen-rich atmosphere, or if the planet's atmosphere is mostly made of water, left behind after a primeval hydrogen/helium atmosphere evaporated under stellar radiation... Because the planet is as hot as Venus, at 800 degrees Fahrenheit, it definitely would be an inhospitable, steamy world if the atmosphere were predominantly water vapor... "Observing water is a gateway to finding other things," said Thomas Greene, astrophysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. "This Hubble discovery opens the door to future study of these types of planets by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Clever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidity

Who, Me?  Why hello, dear reader – fancy seeing you here again on a Monday – the slot we The Register reserves for a fresh installment of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech tribulations.…

The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed creating a new top-level domain (TLD) and never allowing it to be delegated in the global domain name system (DNS) root.…

Firm's first high-end speaker gets the thumbs up from us

Firm's first high-end speaker gets the thumbs up from us

Yes. Yes you can

Yes. Yes you can

A fantastic ultraportable that's almost devoid of innovation

A fantastic ultraportable that's almost devoid of innovation

A fantastic ultraportable that's almost devoid of innovation

Screen if you want to go faster

Screen if you want to go faster

It's not quite as clear cut as you might think

It's not quite as clear cut as you might think

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