Long-standing cloud enemies to do battle in the courts AWS has intervened in Oracle’s lawsuit against the Pentagon’s plans to award a $10bn cloud contract to a single vendor.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Why does every movie have to be a spin-off of a reboot of a sequel that only came out five minutes ago? …read more Source:: CNet

If you include the $7,500 federal tax incentive, the price dips just below the $30,000 mark. …read more Source:: CNet

If you’re into amateur rocketry, you pretty quickly outgrow the dinky little Estes motors that they sell in the toy stores. Many hobbyists move on to building their own homebrew solid rocket motors and experimenting with propellant mixtures, but it’s difficult to know if you’re on the right track unless you have a way to…

But built-in email and mobile clients still works in progress Only months after reaching the 2.0 milestone, the independent Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has added a bunch of useful features.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Rocco the parrot plays romantic music and tries to order treats from an Echo. …read more Source:: CNet

You still have time to score some amazing discounts, like an Amazon Fire HD 8 for $50 and a 32-inch TV for just $80. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader shares a report (may be paywalled): Every morning, time once was, a giant roar from Heathrow Airport would announce the departure of flight BA001 to New York. The roar was caused by the injection into the aircraft’s four afterburners of the fuel which provided the extra thrust that it needed to take…

The game studio behind Fortnite is pushing to get more people using its Steam competitor. …read more Source:: CNet

If you were to invent a time machine and transport a typical hardware hacker of the 1970s into 2018 and sit them at a bench alongside their modern counterpart, you’d expect them to be faced with a pile of new things, novel experiences, and exciting possibilities. The Internet for all, desktop computing fulfilling its potential,…