I've a solution
Mandate that UAVs either look like, or wear, little cyclists helmets, and then let loose a population of Australian Magpies. You'll have clear skies in no time.
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The eagle has been grounded: Dutch anti-drone squadron retired
SpaceX to try reusing both rocket and spacecraft for historic ISS mission
Tired of despairing of Trump and Brexit? Why not despair about YouTube stars instead?
Lap-slabtop-mobes with Snapdragon Arm CPUs running Windows 10: We had a quick gander
Wednesday 6th December 2017 04:01 GMT 
"Three in one" because they combine a laptop, a tablet, and smartphone-like connectivity in one.
ASUS did this (more or less) with Android on some of its Padfone products. A smartphone with a dumb tablet "skin" that could then be attached to a keyboard.
The concept was abandoned years ago, but at least a Windows laptop is useful.
nbn™ chair Ziggy Switkowski says HFC remediation mess is business as usual
Huawei Mate 10 Pro: The unfashionable estate car wants to go to town
SEC's cyber-cops cyber-file cyber-first cyber-fraud cyber-charges
As the singularity approaches, neural network pens black metal album
Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked!
Hardly anyone uses Australia's My Health Record service
Russian rocket snafu may have just violently dismantled 19 satellites
Wednesday 29th November 2017 01:04 GMT
Re: Oversimplifying the simple.
"Instead, it fell back to Earth, possibly still carrying its payload, and was destroyed by air friction, with the debris falling safely into the sea, we're told."
As a red-blooded Reg reader it would be remiss of me not to also point out that on re-entry from orbit, the heat and mechanical stresses come largely from compression of the air in front of the object rather than friction.
Wednesday 29th November 2017 01:01 GMT
Early suggestions are that the Soyuz rocket performed its job and a flight control programming error in the Fregat upper stage (which is used with multiple launch systems) is likely to blame.
Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes
Bitcoin outfit 'Tether' reveals US$31m BitBuck BitHeist
New UK aircraft carrier to be commissioned on Pearl Harbor anniversary
Dick move: Navy flyboy flings firmament phallus for flabbergasted folk
Parity's $280m Ethereum wallet freeze was no accident: It was a hack, claims angry upstart
Firefox 57: Good news? It's nippy. Bad news? It'll also trash your add-ons
UK Home Sec thinks a Minority Report-style AI will prevent people posting bad things
Brace yourselves, fanboys. Winter is coming. And the iPhone X can't handle the cold
User asked help desk to debug a Post-it Note that survived a reboot
Metal 3D printing at 100 times the speed and a twentieth of the cost
Friday 10th November 2017 08:47 GMT 
The final printed part is then first placed in a "debind" fluid that breaks down the wax and most of the plastic before being placed into a furnace where the rest of the binding agent (which has a boiling point of just below the metal) is burnt off, leaving just the metal.
Presumably the binding agent's boiling point is just below the metal's melting point, not its boiling point...
Astronomers find bizarre 'zombie supernova' that just won't die
Thursday 9th November 2017 09:37 GMT
Re: More than one sun ?
I think it would be an incredible coincidence for a stable multi-star system to form in the first place, and then after potentially hundreds of millions of years, for them to all go off within a few decades.
I don't know how close an ageing star would have to be to a supernova to be "set off" by the shockwave, or if that's even possible, but it also seems pretty implausible...
Thursday 9th November 2017 01:47 GMT
Re: Antimatter supernova
Pulsational pair instability was my first thought from a reading of the article, until I got to its mass. They're definitely right about the need to revisit that theory if it turns out to be the case, since this one is much smaller than the agreed lower mass limit for that type of supernova.
I particularly like the fact that pair instability supernovae leave no remnant, generating enough energy to completely disrupt the star. Returning all of a star's material to the universe in that way feels less wasteful than leaving behind a degenerate object like a neutron star or black hole.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
