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Grab Holdings Ltd. raised its earnings forecast for the year after quarterly profit topped estimates, signaling robust demand for the Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery firm’s new products... View Source

Three employees at cybersecurity companies spent years moonlighting as criminal hackers, launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort millions of dollars from victims around the country, US prosecutors alleged in court filings... View Source

Apple has just released iOS 26.1, which includes a new transparency toggle for Liquid Glass. The toggle helps address some of the legibility issues introduced in iOS 26 by allowing iPhone users to tone down the glassy design for buttons, tabs, and other navigational elements. As teased during the iOS 26.1 beta, with the toggle, users can switch between two Liquid Glass options. One is the current... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Amazon’s $38 billion deal to supply OpenAI with Nvidia chips, as the AI investment boom continues. Plus, Xiaomi's pivot from smartphones to electric vehicles may have come at a human cost. And, Palantir’s earnings are expected to show continued excitement for AI and defense tech. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI says ChatGPT’s behavior “remains unchanged” after reports across social media falsely claimed that new s updates to its usage policy prevent the chatbot from offering legal and medical advice. Karan Singhal, OpenAI’s head of health AI, writes on X that the claims are “not true.”  “ChatGPT has never been a substitute for professional advice, but it will continue to be a great resource t... View Source

As voters across the US from New York City to New Jersey and Virginia prepare to cast ballots Tuesday, election officials are operating with sharply reduced support from a federal government agency that had previously helped states and localities counter bomb threats and cyberattacks... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. raised its annual revenue outlook to $4.4 billion and outpaced analyst estimates for third-quarter sales, citing “accelerating and otherworldly” growth for its artificial intelligence and data analytics products... View Source

The list of nations signing the Artemis Accords is growing, continuing NASA's efforts to establish internationally cooperative space exploration... View Source

This could be you in the near future, bingeing The White Lotus while your Cadillac Escalade handles the driving. But what happens when the car makes a mistake? | Image: GM Last month, General Motors added its name to the growing list of automakers who are pursuing a novel type of partially automated technology called "eyes-off driving." What they didn't do, though, is provide a thorough descriptio... View Source

The Starcloud-1 satellite launched this Sunday and has successfully separated from the SpaceX rocket that brought it to orbit. About the size of a small refrigerator, the 60kg satellite features the first Nvidia H100 GPU in space. StarCloud CEO Philip Johnston said Starcloud was founded only 21 months ago and this satellite hosts the first ... Read more... View Source

The Southern Taurid meteor shower peak on Nov. 4-5 brings the potential for bright meteors and dramatic fireballs... View Source

Apple has launched its App Store on the web, offering a central hub where you can browse through different categories of apps across all of the company’s devices, as spotted earlier by MacRumors and 9to5Mac. Now, when you navigate to apps.apple.com, you’ll see the revamped interface instead of a webpage that just contains information about the App Store.  There’s no way to download apps from... View Source

A person claiming to be one of the University of Pennsylvania hackers says that about "1.2 million lines of data" will be kept private for the group to sell before it is made public. The group also plans to make other documents public. In comments to The Verge, the hacker or hackers distanced themselves from earlier hacks of other private universities including Columbia - which were aimed at demon... View Source

A new study used the James Webb Space Telescope to study how our universe's first galaxies were... View Source

Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) functions as both a streaming device and a Matter-compatible smart home hub. With everything from the next Knives Out movie to the final season of Stranger Things on the way, there’s going to be a ton of great stuff to stream in the coming weeks. And if you want to watch it all in glorious 4K resolution, Google’s TV Streamer (4K) is a great streaming device tha... View Source

Unistellar is cutting 20% off all of its smart telescopes and accessories, including the Odyssey Pro and the eQuinox 2 for the whole month of November, ahead of Black Friday on Nov. 28... View Source

Apple has shared a new intro sound and video that will accompany things you watch on the newly-renamed Apple TV streaming service. Apple rebranded Apple TV Plus to just Apple TV last month, and the previous intro prominently highlighted the plus, so it makes sense that Apple made a new version to accompany the updated name.  The new sound is composed by Finneas, who is Billie Eilish’s brother... View Source

The physics-based Martian rover simulator rides out of early access, offering tons of creative tools and impeccably chill vibes... View Source

Look at all those blobby bunnies. Coca-Cola is once again using generative AI to reimagine its classic Coke caravan holiday commercials, and in doing so, killing some of the festive joy you have for the brand. After receiving backlash for airing three AI-generated holiday commercials last year that featured gliding wheels and uncanny-looking faces, the company has doubled down with a new AI Christ... View Source

New satellite imagery captures the complete devastation across Jamaica left in the wake of deadly Hurricane Melissa... View Source

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2, as reported by Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning process may constitute copyright... View Source

Brazil’s central bank unveiled a new set of rules for financial institutions on Monday, the latest step toward strengthening a system that’s faced a slew of probes into its fintech firms in recent months... View Source

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are investigating... View Source

You may have heard about the extensive testing facilities for spacecraft and equipment, but how do scientists prepare for the human aspect of space exploration?... View Source

For Big Tech, a penny invested in AI is a penny earned… Maybe. After an indeterminate amount of time. Investors hope. On earnings calls last week, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta reported more than $350 billion this year on capital expenditures, or longer-tail investments in a company's future. All four told investors to expect the number to skyrocket even further next year: Microsoft said "hi... View Source

In recent weeks, copies of an intriguing policy document have started to spread among space lobbyists on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The document bears the title “Athena,” and it purports to summarize the actions that private astronaut Jared Isaacman would have taken, were his nomination to become NASA administrator confirmed. The 62-page plan is notable both for the ideas to remake NASA that... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has signed a $38 billion deal to supply a slice of OpenAI’s bottomless demand for computing power. Amazon shares jumped... View Source

Today, I’m talking with David Risher, who is the CEO of Lyft. I’ll just say from the jump: I think you’ll like this one, since David is refreshingly direct and doesn’t pull a lot of punches. He has on the board of Lyft for years, but he only stepped in as CEO just a couple of years ago to help turn it around. He’s done pretty well with that so far, but he’s pretty straightforward about how the com... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has signed a roughly $9.7 billion deal to buy artificial intelligence computing capacity from IREN Ltd., becoming the Australian company’s largest customer. Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A Pakistani astronaut will fly to China's Tiangong space station for a short visit, marking the start of international participation in China's human spaceflight program... View Source

The Apple Watch SE 3 is $199.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. If you haven’t upgraded your Apple Watch in years (or haven’t tried one at all) the Apple Watch SE 3 (40mm GPS) offers the best bang for your buck, and the Starlight color is down to a new all-time low of $199.99 ($50 off) at Amazon. Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song was impressed with how many features Apple managed to cram into its entry-lev... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc.’s pricey valuation has long confounded Wall Street but investors have largely ignored those calls, instead pushing the stock to yet another record ahead of earnings... View Source

We'll lose the ISS pretty soon. What might we lose with it?... View Source

OpenAI has struck a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that will give the AI giant access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GPUs to power its AI models. The seven-year partnership comes as Microsoft continues to loosen its grip on OpenAI, dropping its status as its exclusive cloud provider and losing the first right of refusal to host its AI workloads. OpenAI will “immediately” start usi... View Source

Amazon Web Services has signed a $38 billion deal to supply OpenAI with computing power. This includes providing access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processing units. Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Bwine F7GIM is a lightweight beginner drone that weighs above the 250 g threshold, but it flies well, and the automatic camera is fairly good... View Source

Waymo said it plans on launching commercial robotaxi services in three new cities: San Diego, Las Vegas, and Detroit. The announcement comes after the company said it would begin rapidly scaling to bring its fully driverless technology to more people on a faster timeline. Waymo didn’t say exactly when it plans on opening up its vehicles to customers in all three cities, but it will likely be somet... View Source

US stocks continued a six-month bull run on Monday as Amazon.com Inc. rolled out a years-long artificial-intelligence deal with OpenAI and the government shutdown left investors scouring private data for clues about the economy... View Source

Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled a new all-in-one product that’s meant to help retail stores, health care facilities and factories use artificial intelligence with a single rack of equipment, part of the company’s push to take a bigger role in AI... View Source

A new panorama from the Rubin Observatory captures the Milky Way in vivid detail... View Source

Nvidia Corp can add trillions more to its valuation after making history as the first company to ever breach a $5 trillion market capitalization, according to at least one analyst... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has signed an approximately $9.7 billion deal to purchase AI cloud capacity from IREN Ltd., becoming the Australian company’s largest customer... View Source

Jacob Elordi. For Mike Hill and Guillermo del Toro, it all started with Frankenstein. Years ago, Hill - a sculptor and special effects artist - was exhibiting his works at a convention in Burbank. Del Toro saw some of Hill's monstrous creations on display and was so impressed that he decided to get in touch, tracking down Hill's contact info from an obscure model kit forum. "I don't know how he fo... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is planning to spend more than $7.9 billion on data centers, cloud computing and employees in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, capitalizing on a US government clearance to ship artificial intelligence chips to the Gulf nation... View Source

If you're thinking about waiting for Black Friday for a star projector deal, you might want to consider 28% off the Govee Star Light Projector right now... View Source

Redmagic’s latest phone is as subtle looking as ever. The Redmagic 11 Pro is the first phone (outside of a OnePlus concept design, at least) to feature true liquid cooling, and it’s launching worldwide later this month — including the US, though you won’t be able to buy it direct from any carriers. We’ve seen plenty of phones launch with vapor chambers and call it liquid cooling, but the 11 P... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow and Ian King report on the skepticism that has greeted startup Substrate’s announcement that it will produce new chipmaking equipment — and new chips — that can shake up the entire industry... View Source

Hurricane Melissa’s rare intensity and lasting impact reveal how storms are evolving in a warming world... View Source

The November full moon will be the closest and brightest full moon of the year... View Source

Investors worried that artificial intelligence bets look too frothy shouldn’t assume the clean-tech companies powering AI would be trapped in the same bubble, according to a portfolio manager overseeing one of BlackRock Inc.’s flagship actively managed sustainability funds... View Source

Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her.  In a post on X, Google’s official news account said the company had “seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask it factual questions.” AI Studio is a platform for developers... View Source

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based crypto investor and blockchain developer, plans to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger with Currenc Group Inc... View Source

Scientists working with the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) have collected the oldest directly dated ice cores ever drilled: 6 million years old... View Source

Private equity firm Montagu has raised a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) continuation fund for Wireless Logic, a provider of smart connectivity services, to help it hold onto the asset even longer... View Source

Alphabet Inc. is returning to Europe’s debt market for the second time this year with a multi-tranche sale, as the Google parent raises funds to support record capital spending on artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure... View Source

Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi Corp. smartphones to his South Korean counterpart, a rare moment of spontaneous levity captured during a week of tense trade negotiations with Donald Trump... View Source

Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments, a growing campaign that could end up costing companies and consumers billions of dollars, according to new cybersecurity research... View Source

The global energy industry needs annual investment of $4 trillion as the boom in data centers and artificial intelligence increases demand, according to Sultan Al Jaber, head of the biggest crude producer in the United Arab Emirates... View Source

Love me some lavender. Logitech's Alto Keys K98M mechanical keyboard is now available in North America after its initial launch in China and other select markets. The $149.99 Alto Keys K98M is an almost full-size 1800-layout keyboard, offering a slightly compact design that maintains a number pad. But what makes the K98M special for a mass-market Logitech board is that it's fully hot-swappable wit... View Source

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has started to deploy artificial intelligence to vastly reduce sudden maintenance halts and to make production forecasts more accurate... View Source

An orca pod has been spotted for the first time repeatedly targeting and flipping young great white sharks onto their backs to paralyze and dismember them... View Source

On 5 November, the moon will be just under 357,000km from Earth, making it appear bigger and brighterThis week brings the largest supermoon of the year. Supermoons occur because the moon’s orbit is not perfectly circular around the Earth. Instead, it is an ellipse, meaning that sometimes the moon will be closer to the Earth than at other times.When a full moon coincides with the moon being within... View Source

At least 10 multinational companies may list their Indian units in Mumbai over the next year as they seek higher valuations amid the country’s rapid growth, according to Rothschild & Co... View Source

Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony AI Inc. is telling prospective investors it plans to price its Hong Kong listing at HK$139, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public... View Source

Pine Labs Ltd., a digital payments providers, plans to raise as much as 39 billion rupees ($439 million) through an initial public offering in Mumbai, according to an advertisement... View Source

Electric-vehicle maker Seres Group Co. raised HK$14.3 billion ($1.8 billion) after pricing its Hong Kong listing at the upper limit it had set and exercising an option to increase its deal size... View Source

Spooky season is over, which means it's officially Mariah Carey season. It also means streaming services are already loading up on Christmas movies. On pure principle, they'll be omitted here - Santa doesn't need a full two months of our attention. Also, while not a movie, worth noting that season two of The Vince Staples Show premieres on November 6th. The first season is funny, surreal, and just... View Source

Movie studios are rethinking how to get the most value out of their films in the streaming age... View Source

Lake Mungo is haunting and heartbreaking. Found footage movies are tough to pull off. For every classic like The Blair Witch Project or Rec, there are 100 movies like Slender and Megan Is Missing that are, at best, forgettable, and at worst, an affront to the very concept of cinema. My personal favorite, though, is Lake Mungo, a slow burn mokumentary with found footage elements that manages to be... View Source

NASA's astronauts living in space are still going to work during the government shutdown... View Source

We wanted to show space agencies that were already planning three-year missions to Mars what they were overlooking... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the real-world effects of Trump's tariffs, follow Mia Sato. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The economists tried to warn us. From the beginning, trade policy experts cautioned that tariffs would raise consumer prices a... View Source

The Microsoft Zune is mostly just a footnote in tech history. Microsoft spent years - and vast sums of money - trying to create a true competitor to Apple's iPod, without ever coming close to actually pulling it off. The Zune was simply too little, too late. You know what's surprising about the Zune, though? Microsoft made a lot of the right bets with the Zune. The company saw - well ahead of most... View Source

Nvidia Corp. made history last week when it became the first company ever to have a market value of $5 trillion. But that’s just one way it’s casting a shadow over the global economy... View Source

The International Space Station just notched a major milestone, but its days are numbered: The ISS will crash to Earth over Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean in late 2030... View Source

There is no more chaotic activity than willfully entering a grocery store without a list. I know. Some people thrive on vibes-based grocery shopping. They can come up with meals on the fly, buy what's on sale and work around that, or follow some bizarre "3-3-2-2-1" rule or whatever I'm always seeing on Instagram. I am not one of these people. But while I know a list is essential for my survival at... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 104, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Halloween, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about lotteries and Jennifer Lawrence and religious AI, shame-watching Finding Mr. Christmas, turning MyMind into my daily journal / commonplace... View Source

Apple will kick off its 50th anniversary year with what’s expected to be a nearly $140 billion holiday quarter. Also: The company’s retail stores will get new product displays on Nov. 12, and Apple is readying an OLED screen overhaul for the MacBook Air, iPad Air and iPad mini. Lastly, iOS 26.1 and the first beta version of iOS 26.2 are imminent... View Source

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance still demands a human story... View Source

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it... View Source

The Chinese unit of Nexperia BV, a Dutch semiconductor company, has enough wafers stockpiled to fill orders for its customers, despite its parent company’s suspension of supplies to its assembly plant... View Source

SpaceX launched its 140th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Nov. 2), sending the "Haven Demo" tech demonstrator and 17 other payloads up on the Bandwagon-4 rideshare mission... View Source

India will launch the powerful CMS-03 military communications satellite to orbit today (Nov. 2), and you can watch the action live... View Source

While clashes between the US and China over tariffs and trade restrictions have been a dominant theme in the technology world, this year’s hottest Asian stock demonstrates how the nations still rely on each other... View Source

SpaceX will reportedly receive a $2 billion contract to develop satellites for the US government, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ's report detailed that SpaceX will be tasked with developing up to 600 satellites that can track missiles and aircraft and will be used for President Trump's proposed "Golden Dome" project. Announced back in May, the president introduce... View Source

Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, plus James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' take on Dracula — now in black and white for extra creep-factor. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-a-deep-dive-into-humankinds-searc... View Source

Ayaneo is breaking into the competitive smartphone market with its latest offering, but it's hoping to attract the mobile gamers out there. In a teaser posted to its YouTube, the gaming handheld maker offered its first look at the Ayaneo Phone. As vague as the trailer is, Ayaneo clearly has a target demographic in mind, describing the smartphone as when a "mobile phone meets the soul of... View Source

Later this month, Italian citizens will have one extra step to go through before getting on porn sites. On Friday, Italy's regulatory agency for communications, known as AGCOM, announced an age verification system that's meant to prevent minors from accessing websites with pornographic content. The initial list of sites covers around 50 sites, including Pornhub, XHamster and OnlyFans. Th... View Source

Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 is on sale for $199.99 ($100 off) for a limited time. There are plenty of good smartwatches out there, and Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 is one of them. Right now, the 45mm / Wi-Fi model is available at Amazon, Walmart, and Target for $199.99 ($100 off), which is a new low price and $150 less than the Pixel Watch 4. In her review, our own Victoria Song noted how i... View Source

Ayaneo is best known for its retro gaming handhelds, but the company has now confirmed its first phone will be coming soon. Ayaneo briefly teased that it was working on a phone back in August during the event where it unveiled the dual-screen Pocket DS. Of course, many of the company’s gaming handhelds run a custom take on Android, so putting a cellular modem in one isn’t much of a stretch. We don... View Source

This intimate look at the design, building, and operation of the ISS airs on PBS Nov. 5 and Nov. 12... View Source

A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism... View Source

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals... View Source

Best Buy’s latest doorbuster deal nets you a cool $770 off the regular price. | Image: The Verge Best Buy’s early Black Friday deals are already live, with discounts to be had on everything from smartphones and gaming PCs to wireless headphones. If you’re in the market for a new 4K TV, Best Buy is also offering an exclusive doorbuster deal on LG’s 48-inch B5 OLED, bringing the price of the 4K TV d... View Source

On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a survey of some of the best (and most laughable) movies about critters from outer space!... View Source

The Find X9 Pro features a large battery, but it’s still a pretty slender device. Whenever I review a phone, one of the first things I do after setting it up is charge it to full and then just… let it run, using it as my only phone for as long as I can, resisting every urge to charge it along the way. The Oppo Find X9 Pro lasted for three full days. 74 and a half hours, to be a little more exact... View Source

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has successfully completed a static fire test ahead of launching NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars... View Source

We're living in a wonderful period for puzzle games. Seemingly everyone, from The New York Times to Linkedin, has fun puzzles to play, so every morning I have plenty of options to accompany my first coffee of the day. Lately, though, much of my daily puzzle time has come from an unlikely source: the Playdate. Panic's little yellow handheld is best known for being home to oddball indie games you ca... View Source

Techtober may have come to an end, but our reviews team is still hard at work with this fall’s haul of new devices. Over the last two weeks, we’ve tested two new Apple products, a powerful gaming handheld, some seriously impressive headphones and Meta’s sporty smart glasses — and that’s just the start. Read on to catch up on all you might’ve missed, including our picks for the best of 2025. Apple... View Source

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place... View Source

Even for Jensen Huang, it was an extraordinary week... View Source

Elon Musk has told Joe Rogan that he hopes to unveil a flying car "before the end of the year." As Gizmodo has reported, Rogan asked Musk about about the long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster in his show, when the Tesla CEO suddenly started talking about wanting the vehicle to fly. If you'll recall, Tesla unveiled a new Roadster in 2017 and had plans to start deliveries in 2020, bu... View Source

Research shows a full moon can modestly affect sleep, but its influence on mental health is much less certain... View Source

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As always, we have a bunch of new games for you to check out this weekend, along with fresh looks at some upcoming projects and a release date or two.But first, I really enjoyed this week's edition of The Guardian's Pushing Buttons newsletter. The publication's video games editor, Keza MacDonald, wrote ab... View Source

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood... View Source

Apple continues to refine the look and feel of the iPhone with each major iOS release, and iOS 26 places more emphasis than ever on personalization. The one big change is the introduction of Spatial Scenes, a feature that allows you to create what Apple calls “holographic” lock screens. Instead of being a flat image, the wallpaper reacts to the way you move your device, giving it a sense of depth... View Source

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number theory to explain quantum fractals... View Source

Black Friday has become the time to buy the hottest tech of the year. Whether you're shopping for yourself or stocking up on gifts for the holidays, Black Friday deals are sure to bring the best prices of the year to things like headphones, game consoles, robot vacuums, phone accessories and everything in between. You don't even have to wait until Black Friday proper to save a ton of mon... View Source

Macau’s gaming revenue rose 15.9% in October, exceeding analyst expectations as the world’s biggest gambling hub experienced a rebound in players after China’s Golden Week holiday was foiled by bad weather... View Source

Private Internet Access (PIA) comes with some of the best pricing of any VPN, and often doesn't feel like a budget service. I say "often" because, sadly, it does sometimes feel like you get what you pay for with PIA. While I'm working on seeing what settings iron out the kinks, the fact is that PIA doesn't always leave you with the internet speeds you need for everyday use... View Source

Elon Musk predicts that traditional smartphones will evolve into lightweight edge nodes optimized for AI inference rather than standalone hardware. This is a broader architectural transformation driven by AI advancements. Musk describes the future device (formerly known as a phone) as an edge node for AI inference particularly for AI video inference. It would feature ... Read more... View Source

Rockstar Games, developer of Grand Theft Auto VI, has been accused of deliberately laying off employees who were trying to unionize, Bloomberg reports. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) claims over 30 employees who were eliminated at the developer's offices in the UK and Canada were either already part of a union or attempting to organize."Rockstar has just carried ou... View Source

Elon said 1000 cars in the Bay area by the end of the year and 500 cars in austin by the end of the year. Tesla will likely have 100-200 cars in 8 other cities. They will likely be as big or bigger than Waymo which has about 1500 cars... View Source

Rockstar Games, the developer of  Grand Theft Auto VI, fired between 30 to 40 employees on Thursday, as previously reported by  Bloomberg. According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), all of the employees fired were part of a private trade union Discord chat and were either already union members or attempting to organize a union at Rockstar.  “Rockstar has ju... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang has sold more than $1 billion worth of the chipmaker’s shares since June, completing a massive pre-planned stock sale... View Source

Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were rewarded by investors for reporting better-than-expected third-quarter profits. At both companies, earnings were boosted by the increased value of their stakes in Anthropic PBC, maker of the popular Claude chatbot... View Source

"The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar distances, remains unclear."... View Source

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve conversations on its platform.The new experiments Bluesky is running are primarily built around the notion of "social proximity." The company says it's aiming to build a system that map... View Source

Project Frame Forward takes any change you make to the first frame of a video and applies it across the entire footage. Adobe demonstrated some of the experimental AI tools it’s working on at its Max conference that provide new ways to intuitively edit photos, videos, and audio. These experiments, called “sneaks,” include tools that instantly apply any changes you make to one frame across an... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde gets investor reaction to earnings from Amazon, Apple, Twilio and others. Plus, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang still hopes to sell Blackwell chips to customers in China. And CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator says his company’s relationship with Core Scientific is still strong, even after the latter’s shareholders rejected an acquisition offer. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Footage from a NOAA satellite taken Oct. 28 shows Melissa’s deadly spin as it moves across the Caribbean... View Source

With the holidays quickly approaching, everyone will soon be on the hunt for gifts and the fastest way to get them. Thankfully, many retailers offer generous shipping policies for their products, with some even providing free two-day shipping or even same-day delivery if you’re willing to pay a little extra. And just in case the gift you choose isn’t quite right, many retailers offer extended... View Source

Union says between 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’... View Source

You can save up to $160 off Bose headphones and earbuds right now. | Image: The Verge It’s almost November, and to celebrate, retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are dropping early Black Friday deals on everything from Apple devices to smartphones and video games. We’re also seeing some great deals on Bose headphones and earbuds, with many of the discounts matching previous all-time lows... View Source

While YouTube TV is Engadget's pick for the best live TV streaming service, it isn't for everyone, especially right now. Google and Disney's ongoing carriage dispute means subscribers don't have access to channels like ABC and ESPN, and recent price hikes means paying for YouTube TV now costs a minimum of $83 a month. Whether you've switched to another service to hold... View Source

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane... View Source

Microsoft is bringing shared audio to Windows 11, allowing you to stream audio across two pairs of wireless headphones, speakers, earbuds, or hearing aids. The feature is built using the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) audio codec, and it’s rolling out in preview to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels. Shared audio comes in handy if you’re watching a movie on a laptop with your friend or fa... View Source

Microsoft’s new Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like navigation experience to Windows PC gaming handhelds, is coming to another family of devices: the MSI Claw. As part of the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build, Microsoft is rolling out support for the Xbox FSE in preview to “MSI Claw models” today, the company announced. FSE debuted on the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X ea... View Source

Orange SA has agreed to buy out the remaining stake in its Spanish joint venture MasOrange for $4.9 billion, giving the French telecom giant sole ownership of a business in its second-largest European market... View Source

SOPA Images via Getty Images If you're a YouTube TV subscriber, you may have noticed that ABC, ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on the platform today. The Walt Disney Co. has pulled its channels from YouTube TV as of midnight on Oct. 30 after the two companies failed to reach new terms on their latest carriage agreement. That means that until that negotiation is resolved, you wo... View Source

Dolby Atmos, the dominant name behind spatial audio in theaters and the home, has become a fixture in luxury cars from the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Rivian, Cadillac, and Lucid priced upwards of $70,000. But now, Hyundai is including Dolby Atmos audio in the new entry-level Elexio EV - a China-exclusive (for now) SUV that costs between RMB 119,800 and 149,800 (or $16,800 to $21,000). Unlike the more... View Source

A former Headlands Technologies LLC trader charged with stealing the quantitative firm’s source code said his criminal case should be thrown out because prosecutors haven’t adequately specified what he allegedly took... View Source

DJI just announced the Neo 2 selfie drone, a follow-up to last year's original. This upgraded model includes a whole lot of new features. Just make sure to set DJI's website to Hong Kong/China to see images and specs.  Perhaps the biggest upgrade here is the inclusion of LiDAR sensors for obstacle avoidance. The LiDAR is paired with downward-looking infrared sensors so it should be much safer... View Source

Aggressive Tesla FSD and Robotaxi rollout can send Tesla shares to $2000 in 2026. SpaceX released more details of the plan to return the moon and Brian Wang goes over the critical factors for SpaceX to help the US beat China to the moon... View Source

From Orwell's dystopian paranoia to Jeff VanderMeer's ecological nightmares, these science-fiction horror novels explore fear on every scale... View Source

“We got hacked,” members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The sender, apparently, was the potential hacker or hackers themselves. “The University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards,” said the emails, which were received by several alumni incl... View Source

After producing remakes of the first three ‘Dragon Quest’ games, Masaaki Hayasaka now wants to pitch a new franchise... View Source

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pages dedicated to memes, animal videos and yes, AI-generated photos and videos.The people behind these pages are experts at creating content that can catch Facebook's algorithm and go viral. Successful pages can gene... View Source

Shenzhou 21, China's latest astronaut mission, is on its way to the Tiangong space station after a Friday (Oct. 31) launch from the Gobi Desert... View Source

Music is obviously a huge part of KPop Demon Hunters. Songs are how the Huntr/x girls connect to their human fans and keep hordes of demons from entering the mortal realm. But beneath KPop Demon Hunters' banging soundtrack, there is also a rich tapestry of sounds that each play a role in bringing the movie's world of magic and monsters to life. The job of crafting those sonic elements fell to Mich... View Source

As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as Starcloud, have begun to address this problem, the idea has also attracted the interest of tech barons. In May, it emerged that former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt acquired Relativity Space due to his... View Source

The esports partnership between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Saudi Arabia is no more. On Thursday, the IOC said that it and the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SOPC) have "mutually agreed" to part ways. The breakup comes weeks after Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and other investors bought EA for $55 billion. The IOC and SOPC agreed on a 12-year esport... View Source

Read on to discover where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween night sky on Oct. 21 and find out if they're a stargazing trick, or a telescopic treat... View Source

One of the biggest flashpoints for internet regulation, the Kids Online Safety Act, is poised for a revival - but possibly without the central feature that's kept people fighting over it for the past three years. Since 2022, supporters of KOSA have backed its plan to require web platforms to protect kids from a variety of online harms, imposing what's known as a duty of care. That faction includes... View Source

Sportsbook operators are treading cautiously in the fast-growing business of prediction-based betting, unsure of the financial opportunity and wary of threats by regulators to revoke their gambling licenses... View Source

Creative Labs, the maker of Sound Blaster audio cards, has launched a Kickstarter for a modular audio hub called Sound Blaster Re:Imagine. The universal hub, which is reminiscent of Elgato's Stream Deck, is meant to allow routing from any input to any output with the press of a button. Users can connect their gaming consoles, PC and musical instruments to the Re:Imagine, as well as speakers,... View Source

Scientists are searching for answers in the cosmic mystery of ghost particles known as neutrinos... View Source

Donkey Kong Bananza is $61.99 ($8 off) at Woot. There haven’t been a lot of opportunities to catch Switch 2 games on sale since the console launched in early June, but that’s changing thanks to Woot. The store is having a sale on new video games and game accessories that’s live now, and runs through November 8th at 11:59PM CT. Dozens of games for all three current-generation systems are on sale, b... View Source

Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race. Half of that won’t show up on the social media giant’s balance sheet as debt... View Source

The Republican-led FCC has voted on and approved a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, as originally spotted by CNET. This proposal revises previous "unnecessary" requirements on the grounds that a fact-based list of charges "may confuse customers." These changes would minimize the benefit of the... View Source

Many video games are full of alien horrors, but these are the best games that let players turn the tables and become the terror from outer space... View Source

Yet another rumor suggests that Netflix is interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming businesses. On Friday, Reuters reported that Netflix is “actively exploring” a bid for the company and has hired a bank to look into a potential offer. Sources tell Reuters that Netflix now has access to Warner Bros. Discovery’s “data room,” which the outlet says “contains the financial de... View Source

Perplexity AI has agreed to a multi-year licensing partnership with Getty Images that will allow its users to access the latter’s extensive library of images. Leveraging Getty’s API, Perplexity will integrate the visual media distributor’s huge collection of stock and editorial imagery within its AI search and discovery tools, with correct attribution being a key part of the agreement. In a press... View Source

More than 20 Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ABC, and Nat Geo, have been pulled from YouTube TV after Google and Disney failed to reach a new content distribution agreement. The previous contract expired at 11:59 PM ET on October 30th, and it’s unclear when, or if, the two companies will reach a new deal. The blackout was prompted by disagreements over carriage fees, with Google saying in a... View Source

A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear safety... View Source

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, interactive cosmic panorama with unprecedented detail... View Source

A definitely real, existent phone. Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote an article for theverge.com pointing out that the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version) — a.k.a. the Trump phone — had missed its promised release date. Now here I am again, because the phone still hasn’t come out. In case you’ve forgotten, the T1 is a very gold mid-range Android phone that was announced in June alongside a $47 Tru... View Source

Cloudflare Inc. shares surged to a record after posting better-than-expected sales figures that topped quarterly and annual estimates, following a reorganization and the addition of more large enterprise customers... View Source

Home robots are moving way beyond Roombas. 1X unveiled its NEO helper bot this week, a terrifying $20,000 machine that can perform basic tasks after you've trained it, and more complex tasks via teleoperation. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonafacic try to figure out why 1X made the Neo look like a murderbot, as well as the future they see for home robots. Also, we discus... View Source

Full apps can be run on the hub’s 3-inch touchscreen, including a DOS emulator for retro games. | Image: Creative Creative, the company best known for its Sound Blaster line of sound cards that boosted the audio capabilities of ’90s-era PCs, is reviving the brand with a new hub called the Re:Imagine. It’s reminiscent of Elgato’s Stream Deck controllers, but with a focus on your audio gear. I... View Source

NVIDIA has teamed up with with South Korea's biggest companies and the country itself, as they build out their AI infrastructure. One of those companies is Samsung, which is building a new AI factory that will use 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell server GPUs and other NVIDIA technologies to make its own chips. This "AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing," as the companies call it, will help... View Source

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge... View Source

The FCC is moving to dismantle a rule requiring internet service providers to publish detailed "nutrition labels" for their service plans, just over a year after the requirement went into effect. The changes it's proposing could roll back transparency requirements that took years to establish - making it harder to tell how much you'll be paying for internet service. In a 2-1 vote on October 28th,... View Source

From horror to hyperscale: The rush to build AI data centers is so intense that even the owner of a hospital-turned-haunted house wants in. Jeremy Hill explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google’s AI ambitions are global in scale, so much so that it has just agreed to give Gemini away for free in India to people using the country's biggest mobile provider. Thanks to a deal with Reliance Intelligence, an AI-focused subsidiary of Reliance Industries, people signed up to Jio’s Unlimited 5G plan will be offered Google AI Pro at no extra cost for 18 months. That means that qualifyi... View Source

This Halloween discover how your candy choices can trick—or treat—the microbes in your gut... View Source

Patents are notoriously difficult to search for, but Perplexity has launched an AI-powered tool that’s supposed to make the process a little easier. Its new patent research agent allows you to search for patents using natural language, rather than a string of keywords. As an example, Perplexity says you can enter something like, “Are there any patents on AI language learning?” or “Key quantu... View Source

Adobe Inc. brought together 10,000 marketers, filmmakers and content creators to its annual conference this week to persuade them that the company’s software products are adapting to artificial intelligence and remain the best tools for their work... View Source

The Bose QuietComfort headphones (the non-Ultra variety) are on sale. Best Buy's early Black Friday sale has the comfy cans for 45 percent off, knocking their price down to $199. That matches their record low from Prime Day. Bose's headphones have top-notch comfort and active noise cancellation (ANC). For the latter, you can choose between "Quiet" (full ANC) and "Aware... View Source

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth... View Source

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona... View Source

Analysts covering Kongsberg Gruppen ASA have given a sweeping endorsement of the Norwegian defense technology firm’s shares after they fell 18% in a post-results plunge... View Source

A good VPN is worth paying for. Almost every service I'll recommend as one of the best VPNs is either subscription-only or supported by paid plans. Free VPNs do have their place, though, as not everybody can afford yet another subscription in the software-as-a-service hellscape we live in. Since everyone deserves privacy and flexibility online, I wanted to put together a definitive list of th... View Source

Faced with her son’s struggle with dyslexia, one mom built an AI platform to help kids learn their own way... View Source

A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this Halloween... View Source

Finland plans to exclude high-risk vendors from a bigger portion of its fifth-generation mobile network in line with a push by the European Union to boost telecommunications security across the bloc... View Source

Disney's channels have gone dark on YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach an agreement by their October 30 deadline. The affected channels include ESPN, local ABC stations, ABC News, FX, NatGeo, Disney Channel and Freeform. "Last week Disney used the threat of a blackout on YouTube TV as a negotiating tactic to force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers," You... View Source

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.17 of the Rocket Report! Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the first crewed launch to the International Space Station, on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. Since this time humans have lived in space continuously, even through spacecraft accidents and wars on Earth. This is a remarkable milestone that all of humanity can celebrate. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Alexandra Levine reports on the continuing saga of TikTok’s survival in the US... View Source

Microsoft’s latest earnings report for the quarter ending on September 30 revealed that revenue from the Xbox hardware fell 30 percent year over year. Worse, in a way, this revenue decline doesn’t reflect any dip in sales caused by the console’s $20 to $70 price hike, since that took effect on October 3 — after this earnings report. (Oh, and Microsoft raised the price for its Game Pass Ultimate su... View Source

China will launch three astronauts toward its Tiangong space station today (Oct. 31), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Keep burning through your video generation allowance on Sora? No problem, OpenAI now lets you buy extra credits to make even more AI videos. That’s good, because the company says it expects to reduce free allowances at some point in the future. Bill Peebles, who leads the Sora team at OpenAI, said the video platform’s economics are “currently completely unsustainable.” Power users “clearly”... View Source

What sneaky invisible forces enable these instruments to locate buried treasure?... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang still hopes to sell chips from the company’s Blackwell lineup to customers in China, though he has no current plans to do so, he told reporters Friday... View Source

The Task Manager isn’t managing its tasks. | Image: u/Hary06 If you’re a Windows 11 user who frequently uses the Task Manager tool, you should probably avoid Microsoft’s latest OS update. Reddit users and my colleague Tom Warren are reporting that a bug in the optional Windows 11 KB5067036 update is causing Task Manager to duplicate itself when they attempt to close the app, impacting computer per... View Source

There’s no official read on how fast the US economy grew last quarter, thanks to the government shutdown. But almost everyone reckons it was a healthy pace — and that’s largely thanks to AI... View Source

The Toronto Blue Jays have taken the lead in the 2025 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Fall Classic returns to Toronto's home turf for Game 6 tonight — Friday, Oct. 31 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT. The World Series odds still favor the Dodgers ahead of tonight's game, meaning we may very well make it to a Game 7. Every 2025 MLB World Series game will air on Fox and Fox Deportes... View Source

"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"... View Source

This week’s big rally in Nokia Oyj shares underscores how the 5G equipment maker and once-iconic phone brand is now emerging as a major European artificial intelligence play... View Source

Telefónica SA is set to cut its dividend as part of a new strategy plan due next week, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Singapore has seized more than S$150 million ($115 million) in assets linked to alleged money laundering and forgery in an operation involving Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group and its founder Chen Zhi... View Source

Taiwan’s economy grew more than expected in the third quarter, adding to its gains from the AI boom... View Source

What AI means in the market-making context... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. raised its annual forecast by less than expected, a sign of how export controls and Beijing’s push to build its own chip supply chain are tempering the Japanese chip gear maker’s outlook amid an AI spending boom... View Source

Nvidia Corp. forged a landmark deal to supply its technology to South Korea’s biggest companies, part of an aggressive push to expand AI infrastructure around the world... View Source

India’s top solar panel maker Waaree Energies Ltd. said it’s reconfiguring its supply chain in an attempt to get around steep US import tariffs and keep supplying to a country that accounts for nearly 60% of its orders... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV will lose marquee channels like ESPN from the end of this month after failing to strike a new licensing deal with Walt Disney Co... View Source

Udio, an artificial intelligence startup, triggered an angry backlash from subscribers after signing an agreement with Universal Music Group NV that restricts their use of the tracks they create... View Source

Apple Inc. blamed a surprise decline in China revenue on supply disruptions, predicting it will return to growth in the world’s biggest smartphone arena as the iPhone 17 gains momentum... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is warning investors about a new risk to its expansive data center plans: local backlash... View Source

Nasa chief Sean Duffy confirms 1969 landing was indeed real after US celebrity on TV show says ‘I think it was fake’Nasa has rejected comments made by Kim Kardashian about the 1969 moon landing and confirmed that it did, in fact, happen.During Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, the Skims founder questioned whether the space mission ever took place while noting her interest in conspiracy theori... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit posted the strongest growth rate in almost three years, reassuring investors who were concerned that the largest seller of rented computing power was losing ground to rivals... View Source

Jay Parikh in 2018. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow / Getty Images This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. To understand how Microsoft sees its role in the AI race, look at what was announced at the company's GitHub Universe developer conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The event marked a turning p... View Source

Reddit Inc. gave a better-than-expected forecast for fourth-quarter sales, a sign that the company’s advertising business will continue to grow at a steady clip a year and a half after its initial public offering. Shares rose in extended trading... View Source

Forget Samsung's $1,800 Galaxy XR, the Android XR device I'm actually intrigued to see is Xreal's Project Aura, an evolution of the company's existing smart glasses. Instead of being an expensive and bulky headset like the Galaxy XR and Apple Vision Pro, Xreal's devices are like over-sized sunglasses that project a virtual display atop transparent lenses. I genuinely loved... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg fell to fifth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — the lowest in nearly two years — as investors spooked by Meta Platforms Inc.’s planned $30 billion debt sale sent the company’s shares spiraling amid a flurry of tech earnings shaking up the ranks of the world’s richest... View Source

Google Doodle is featuring something special for gamers today: A tribute to Pac-Man's 45th anniversary, just in time for Halloween. For today and tomorrow, you'll be able to play four haunted-house mazes especially designed for the event by Pac-Man's parent company, Bandai Namco Entertainment. Like other games in the franchise, you'll have to control Pac-Man and eat all of the... View Source

The frenzy over artificial intelligence has helped Asian stocks outperform the world this year. It’s also transforming the region’s markets in a way that has fund managers racing to keep up... View Source

A number of US government agencies are backing a potential move by the Commerce Department to ban TP-Link routers, according to The Washington Post. Multiple sources familiar with internal deliberations spoke with the publication on the condition of anonymity, including a former senior Defense Department official. A months-long interagency process involving the Departments of Homeland Security, Ju... View Source

SpaceX did NOT publicly share specifics of the simplified and faster return to the moon plan. They described that they have made proposals and NASA is looking at it. SpaceX revealed they have made 600 raptor engines. This means enough for 15 full boosters and 30+ Starships. They have had a few booster recoveries and ... Read more... View Source

As linear TV declines and podcasters become video stars, companies outside the audio realm are rushing to license their programs... View Source

OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool. An extra 10 video gens will retail for $4. The company currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day, a rate that will likely decrease as OpenAI starts to monetize the offering. Bill Peebles, who heads OpenAI's Sora, posted on X about the changes. "Eventually we will need to bring the free ge... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. found record-shattering demand for its bond sale on Thursday even as its shares plunged, in a sign that bond investors are looking past any concerns about its artificial-intelligence spending plans... View Source

Norton Security has some reliable products, but its VPN isn't one of them. In my Norton VPN review, I argued that it's only really worthwhile if you can get a discount on it as part of a Norton 360 package — and even in that case, you should only use it for non-sensitive activities due to some holes in Norton's comprehensive privacy policy. That's a lot of conditions, so I... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss earnings from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta as Apple and Amazon prepare to report after the bell. Plus, Roblox CEO David Baszucki discusses the platform’s user growth which added to the company’s costs. And, President Trump and China's Xi Jinping discussed trade and chips during a meeting in South Korea. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pinterest is adding a new way to find clothes, furniture and other sources of aesthetic inspiration through its app. It's called Pinterest Assistant, and it's an AI-powered search and recommendation tool that uses knowledge of your Pinterest activity to tailor its responses.Whereas other search features work best when you have a specific thing you're looking for in mind, Pinterest s... View Source

SpaceX officially detailed progress on the Starship HLS for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission and had a new faster, safer and simpler plan for returning astronauts to the Moon. This responds to the push from NASA and the President for faster lunar landings. SpaceX has completed 49 milestones under the fixed-price Human Landing System (HLS) contract. ... Read more... View Source

Our best camera for autofocus is on sale at Walmart for only $3190 in this pre-Black Friday deal... View Source

Tim Cook says Apple has plans to embed more third-party AI tools into the company’s operating systems. “Our intention is to integrate with more people over time,” Cook said in an interview with CNBC. Apple has already embedded ChatGPT into Siri, with a Google Gemini integration said to be in the works, along with rumors swirling about a partnership with Anthropic and Perplexity. This isn’t the fir... View Source

A group of first-lien lenders to Peraton Corp. have tapped  Evercore Inc and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher amid growing concerns that a prolonged government shutdown could dent its cash reserves, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Unless you're a PC nerd like me, chances are you're not familiar with Fractal Design. The company has made a name for itself in recent years by designing some of the best cases you can buy for a DIY build. In a space known for its gaudy aesthetics, Fractal's products stand out for their simplicity. Now the company is entering the crowded audio space with the $200 Scape, a gaming hea... View Source

Scientists have developed a laser-based ice drill concept that could enable deeper, low-power exploration of ice on moons and planets in our solar system... View Source

Apple Inc.’s fourth-quarter revenue edged past analysts’ estimates despite a surprise sales decline in China, where it’s been struggling to stage a comeback... View Source

The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps' developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a year later, the changes Canva has introduced are big, but not necessarily unwelcome. The newly relaunched Affinity by Canva combines all three apps into a single piece of illustration, photo editi... View Source

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision."... View Source

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro received a decent price drop during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale, but if you held off on picking them up, your patience has been rewarded. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are available for around $165 ($85 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, which is the lowest price we’ve seen in months. The discount only applies to the silver color, though, and Amazon shows the dea... View Source

Netflix Inc. approved a 10-for-1 stock split to bring the share price to a more accessible range for employees who participate in the company’s stock option program... View Source

Dyson is holding an early Black Friday sale on vacuums and related products. Sure, Black Friday isn't for another month, but who are we to turn down a fantastic deal? To that end, the Dyson V8 Absolute cordless vacuum is on sale for just $300, which is a discount of $290. That's nearly half off. Dyson devices are all over our list of the best cordless vacuums, and for good reason. The co... View Source

Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise... View Source

Microsoft has officially released its Windows 11 remote desktop feature across Meta’s Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets. The feature can beam multiple high-resolution monitors to your Quest headset, while also allowing you to try an immersive ultrawide mode, similar to what you can do on Apple’s Vision Pro. Microsoft first launched its virtual desktop feature on Quest headsets in preview in December 2... View Source

After more than a year of negotiations, the US and China are nearing the “resolution” of a deal to transfer the US operations of social media platform TikTok to a new investor consortium, according to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent... View Source

By now, I have a well-established routine when I set up a new pair of Meta smart glasses. I connect my Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify accounts. I complete the slightly convoluted steps in my Bluetooth settings to make sure Meta AI can announce incoming phone calls and text messages. I tweak the video settings to the highest quality available, and change the voice of Meta AI to "English (UK)... View Source

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu vaccines... View Source

Despite Amazon and other retailers having filled the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. Thankfully, like in previous years, we’ll be working to highlight the best prices on phones, TVs, noise-canceling headphones, gaming gear, and other tech throughout the deal-packed week, whether you plan to shop in... View Source

Nvidia Corp. plans to invest as much as $1 billion in the artificial intelligence company Poolside, according to people familiar with the matter — part of a deal that would quadruple the valuation of the AI startup... View Source

Disney+ is making its first foray into HDR10+ content, but access to this content will be limited at the start. About 1,000 shows from Hulu will be available with this HDR standard, although other programming under the Disney umbrella will add support at an unspecified later date. Samsung, which is a major player behind this standard for high dynamic range video, announced the news. Disney+ will f... View Source

Some scientists are concerned that the Trump administration will use “junk science” when reviewing mifepristone’s safety record... View Source

On Oct. 30, SpaceX posted an update about its Starship moon-landing plans, which includes a reference to a possible "simplified mission architecture and concept of operations" for NASA's Artemis 3... View Source

These are the first Vivo phones to run OriginOS outside of China. Vivo’s flagship X300 and X300 Pro only launched in China two weeks ago, but they’re getting an international release faster than we’re used to from Vivo. Today, the company announced that both phones are going on sale outside China, including a handful of European countries, and bringing with them OriginOS — Vivo’s previously China-... View Source

Globalstar Inc. is exploring a potential sale and has held early talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX among other potential suitors, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) aircraft is designed to reach supersonic speeds without the "sonic boom," and now with this latest test flight complete, NASA and Lockheed plan to conduc... View Source

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better understand storms today and those from the past... View Source

Earlier this year, Apple sued leaker Jon Prosser alongside Michael Ramacciotti, alleging the two had a “coordinated scheme to break into an Apple development iPhone, steal Apple’s trade secrets, and profit from the theft.” However, in a new filing, Ramacciotti “denies that he planned or participated in any conspiracy or coordinated scheme” with Prosser” and that, to the best of his recollection, a... View Source

England is on track for another year of drought, as record dry weather has left reservoirs depleted and upcoming rainfall is expected to fall far short of what’s needed to replenish the nation’s water supplies... View Source

Much like Half-Life: Alyx, Thief's long-awaited return is a VR exclusive. The game was announced in June, but now we know when it will arrive. You can play the pioneering stealth franchise's new chapter, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow, on December 4. Thief VR takes place about halfway between the events of the original trilogy and Thief (2014). You play as Magpie, a cunning thief (duh), who... View Source

An analysis suggests Nanotyrannus is a separate, smaller dinosaur that lived alongside T. rex, settling a 30-year debate... View Source

The Celestron SkyMaster binoculars are our best binoculars for magnification, with a massive discount of over $156, now is the time to enjoy the wonders of the night sky at a bargain price... View Source

YouTube has introduced a new like button on select videos that rewards your engagement with a brief animation. The feature was first announced in mid-October as part of a slate of updates that included UI changes to make the platform easier to navigate, There are currently 20 different animations that are customized to the genre of the video you’re watching. If it’s a video about cars or auto raci... View Source

Germany is considering using public funds to pay Deutsche Telekom AG and other telecom operators to replace Huawei Technologies Co. equipment, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

We learned last month that Call of Duty would be making the leap to the big screen with a planned motion picture project. Today, Deadline reported that two of the main creative forces behind the movie will be Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg. Sheridan and Berg previously both worked on the 2016 film Hell or High Water and 2017's Wind River. Berg was a producer on those projects, but he... View Source

“The only countries that will really learn more if testing resumes are Russia and to a much greater extent China,” Jeffrey Lewis says... View Source

This “OS” won’t be running your computer or mobile device. Canva is introducing new digital marketing and video-editing tools, built around what the company is calling a “world-first” design-focused AI model. These launches are part of an overhaul to the design platforms Visual Suite workplace products, which Canva describes as a “Creative Operating System” for marketing teams. To be clear, this i... View Source

Canva Inc. launched new AI tools and integrated recent acquisitions into its main product suite, ramping up its speed of new rollouts as it seeks to lure users away from rival Adobe Inc... View Source

On Thursday, Samsung launched a desktop version of its web browser. Why bother putting its mobile browser on Windows? Well, the company offers a hint in describing Samsung Internet as "evolving from a PC browser that waits for input to an integrated AI platform." So, surprise, surprise: It's about AI. As one would imagine, Samsung Internet on Windows supports cross-platform syncing... View Source

Colorado's attorney general is suing the Trump administration over the White House's plans to move the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama... View Source

The smart button pusher is down to one of its best prices. You don’t necessarily have to buy a bunch of pricey new smart devices to enjoy the convenience of a smart home. The SwitchBot Bot offers an easy, affordable way to bring smart control to many of the regular gadgets you already own, and right now it’s available for just $23.99 ($6 off) from SwitchBot with code BXBX20 through November 11th,... View Source

The nonstop enthusiasm for artificial intelligence is spilling into the transportation business, as shares of C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. are on a tear after analysts praised its is use automation to boost profits... View Source

Immersive productivity for Windows 11 is now available on the Meta Quest 3 and 3S with the latest release of Meta's Horizon OS. The feature, called Mixed Reality Link, was available on a limited basis after public previews began last year. The Windows virtual desktop experience is now rolling out to all users. After installing Mixed Reality Link on their Windows 11 PC, users will pair the mac... View Source

The Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa. Google announced plans to revive a nuclear power plant that shut down in 2020, as it looks to secure enough electricity for its AI data centers. The company announced a 25-year agreement with NextEra Energy to eventually purchase electricity from the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a 615MW nuclear plant in Iowa, when it starts operating again. “We’re enabling th... View Source

Activist investor Engaged Capital is pushing the software company BlackLine Inc. to pursue a sale to SAP SE or other potential suitors... View Source

It's been around three and a half years since season four of Stranger Things premiered. We finally have an actual trailer for the fifth and final season of Netflix's retro-soaked adventure series. It's a good thing, as the first batch of episodes drop on November 26. As previously mentioned, this is a real trailer with tons of footage and not a teaser. It's over two minutes of... View Source

ArianeGroup's methane-fueled Prometheus engine and Themis demonstrator mark key steps toward a European reusable rocket program... View Source

Let's just get this out of the way: Liam Hemsworth actually makes for a pretty solid Geralt of Rivia. Hemsworth assumes the mantle in the fourth season of Netflix's The Witcher, picking up from Henry Cavill. And while it can be distracting at first, especially since Cavill inhabited the role so well, it only took a few episodes before I was mostly on board with the new face under the blonde wig. H... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. sued two former senior artificial intelligence engineers, claiming they stole documents and information to help launch a “copycat” competitor, Percepta... View Source

Social media conversations can be vastly more enjoyable when you pick and choose who you're talking with. Today, Threads is adding more controls that let users determine who can reply to their posts. One new feature is Reply Approvals, where the user will get a first look at responses before allowing them to appear publicly. The approval option can be turned on for individual posts rathe... View Source

Web browsers are getting awfully chatty. They got even chattier last week after OpenAI and Microsoft kicked the AI browser race into high gear with ChatGPT Atlas and a "Copilot Mode" for Edge. They can answer questions, summarize pages, and even take actions on your behalf. The experience is far from seamless yet, but it hints at a more convenient, hands-off future where your browser does lots of... View Source

Kroger Co. is partnering with Uber Technologies Inc. to give its online grocer shoppers restaurant delivery options, the latest in a string of similar tie-ups that that allows platforms to tap into each others’ customer bases... View Source

The SanDisk 256GB microSD Express Card for the Switch 2 is down to $60 via Amazon, which is a record-low price. This model is also available in storage sizes of 128GB and 512GB, but neither version is on sale. This particular model easily made our list of the best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. It even made our list of the best Switch 2 accessories. It just gets the job done. We loved th... View Source

China unveiled the crew set to launch on the Shenzhou 21 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Oct. 31, including the youngest member of its astronaut corps... View Source

Hello, and welcome to Decoder. This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I’m standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into full-time hosting duties.  Today, we’ve got a fun one. I’m talking to Cory Doctorow, prolific author, internet activist, and arguably one of the fiercest tech critics writing today. He has a new book out called Enshittification... View Source

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children... View Source

US equities dropped Thursday as a mixed reaction to megacap technology companies’ spending plans and pushback from Federal Reserve policymakers on further interest-rate cuts offset optimism around a trade truce between the US and China... View Source

LG and Ubisoft have teamed up to bring the motion-controlled rhythm game Just Dance Now to LG Smart TVs. The game will be available from December in the LG Gaming Portal for LG TV users in the US and Europe running webOS 22 or later, with no additional hardware required. Just Dance Now originally launched in 2014 as a mobile app for iOS and Android, before Ubisoft brought the game to Apple TV a ye... View Source

SpaceX, Nvidia and Tesla will all have huge new breakout technologies in 2026. Tesla stock (closing $459) is seen drifting sideways or slightly down until the November 6 annual meeting, where Elon’s compensation vote could catalyze upside. Tesla Q4 production looks solid with 90-100K/month in Shanghai, aiding 500K quarterly goal. We give a bullish 2026 ... Read more... View Source

This deal is also valid on the white model. | Image: The Verge If your wrist or forearm aches every time you use your computer, the chances are good that you’d benefit from using a vertical mouse, like the Logitech Lift wireless mouse. This ergonomically-friendly device has been marked down to its cheapest-ever price today at Amazon, where it’s selling for $49.99 (originally $79.99) in black or wh... View Source

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These space-based data centers could take advantage of the always-on, free fusion reactor at the center of the Solar System. Proponents say this represents a natural step in the evolution of moving heavy indust... View Source

Core Scientific Inc. shareholders voted to reject a takeover bid by CoreWeave Inc. that proxy advisers said undervalued the data center company... View Source

Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, have agreed to a one-year pause on the punitive Trump-instated tariffs that are at the heart of the ongoing trade war between the two superpowers. Among the issues discussed when the two leaders met face-to-face in the South Korean city of Busan were China’s chokehold on rare earth metals and the export restrictions on NVIDIA’s AI chips. Trump had previ... View Source

New observations of a volatile young star have shown how infant suns could unleash enough energy to trigger biologically relevant chemical reactions in an orbiting planet's atmosphere... View Source

Nintendo is updating Animal Crossing: New Horizons with new features for the Switch 2. The upgraded game will arrive on January 15th, 2026, offering 4K visuals on TV, mouse controls, and an in-game megaphone that uses the Switch 2’s built-in microphone. It will cost $64.99 but will also be available as an upgrade pack for $4.99 if you already have the game for the first-gen Switch. When the enhanc... View Source

The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners... View Source

UK fiber challenger brand Netomnia Ltd. is courting multiple buyers for a potential £2 billion ($2.6 billion) sale, and has held advanced talks with rival CityFibre Holdings Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Many of us would rather forget all about the annus horribilis that was 2020, but there was at least one glaringly bright spot in that year, as Animal Crossing: New Horizons provided solace for many. Almost six years after the game's debut, Nintendo is hoping you'll return to your island — or start a new one — as a Switch 2 version with a bunch of upgrades will arrive on January 15. A fre... View Source

What would the world look like if we changed the value of pi? Whether in the real world or a game environment, the answer is complex... View Source

A new James Webb Space Telescope image showcases the gorgeous Red Spider Nebula against a backdrop of twinkling stars... View Source

Ariana Grande is one of Universal Music Group’s most popular artists. Universal Music Group says it has made “industry-first strategic agreements” to “settle copyright infringement litigation” with AI startup Udio and license music for a new AI-powered music platform. The move is one of several anticipated licensing deals expected to land in the next few weeks as the sector grapples with how to ha... View Source

Reliance Industries Ltd. announced a pact with Google that will provide its telecom unit’s subscribers with 18 months of free access to Google’s AI pro platform, as the Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate seeks to lure more users in the world’s most populous nation... View Source

WhatsApp is rolling out passkeys for backups, which is great news for anyone who has been on the platform for years. This will add another layer of security to anything that's been backed up, including chats, photos, voice notes and more. It's also convenient because passkeys don't force users to keep track of yet another password or encryption key. For the uninitiated, passkeys all... View Source

Weavy, now known as Figma Weave, lets you control AI tools in a mind map-like canvas interface. Figma has acquired Weavy, a creative platform that allows users to link AI models and editing tools together, and use them simultaneously in a single canvas. The platform will now live under its new parent company as “Figma Weave,” according to Figma’s announcement, adding an image and video editing too... View Source

The consulting sector has been buffeted by headwinds in key markets from the UK and China to Saudi Arabia and Australia in recent years. But its latest challenge might come from within... View Source

OpenAI has rolled out the capability to create character cameos of your pets, doodles, original personas or even objects in the Sora app, which you can put in your videos. You can start the process by going to your profile page in the Sora app, tapping on the "Create cameo" button and then uploading a video of the character (or pet) you want the model to generate. The company says just a... View Source

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. aims to raise at least $25 billion from a bond sale, according to people familiar with the matter, raising cash amid surging growth of artificial intelligence spending... View Source

As part of an AI-focused reorganization, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees that it will offer voluntary buyouts, according to an internal company memo. At the same time, he emphasized that there would be no specific role eliminations as part of new structure. "Looking to the future, the next frontier for YouTube is AI, which has the potential to transform every part of the platform,"... View Source

Silver Spring, USA/ Maryland, 30th October 2025, CyberNewsWire... View Source

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured high-resolution views inside the eye of the powerful Hurricane Melissa... View Source

Sora can turn almost anything into a reusable AI video character. OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These “character cameos” are one of several new features that have been added to the Sora 2 video generator, alongside clip stitching and leaderboards that showcase the app’s most popular videos and cameos. Character cam... View Source

Roblox Corp. reported its best quarter ever with daily active users beating analysts’ expectations on the heels of three hit games... View Source

It looks like Meta's Vibes feed is just the start of the company's pivot toward AI slop. In an earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that "we're going to add yet another huge corpus of content" to Meta's recommendation system, via AI's ability to create and remix content — so you're likely to see even more AI generated posts on Facebook and Instagram... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Matt Day sizes up the latest spending plans announced by Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta... View Source

Proton, the company behind Proton VPN and other encrypted apps like Proton Mail and Proton Drive, just launched a new web page called the Data Breach Observatory that aims to make accurate cybercrime data more widely accessible. The Observatory is intended to be a continually updated report that records any data leak detected on the dark web, with information sourced from the underground data mark... View Source

The Nobel committee will love this. | Image: Getty President Donald Trump says he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start testing nuclear weapons, citing a need to match “other countries [sic] testing programs.” Trump’s post on Truth Social included very few details on the nature of the tests, but says the “process will begin immediately.” It’s not clear whether Trump is referring to expl... View Source

Legora, an artificial intelligence startup tackling legal grunt work, has raised $150 million in funding, valuing the company at $1.8 billion... View Source

An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena... View Source

Blue Energy Global Inc., a nuclear startup, is planning a power plant in Texas that will supply as much as 1.5 gigawatts of electricity to a new data center, initially using natural gas systems and eventually shifting to small reactors... View Source

Black Friday (which is now basically all of November) is one of the best times of the year to pick up things for yourself and for other people. But to say money is tight is an understatement this year. If Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days was any indicator, folks are spending more on essentials than anything else during these big sales. That, combined with the rising trend of holding on to big tech pur... View Source

SpaceX will launch its 100th Starlink mission of the year today (Oct. 30), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Oil giants in the Middle East are taking a more direct role in using the region’s oldest resource to finance a multibillion-dollar bet on a new one: Artificial intelligence... View Source

Ursa’s classic spherical profile and centered legends dress up any Topre keyboard. Your Happy Hacking Keyboard can finally get fresh caps. While regular keyboards have an embarrassment of keycap options, Topre boards like the HHKB or Realforce R3 don't. They've more or less been relegated to OEM-profile PBT keycaps with dye-sublimated legends, in light grey, charcoal, white, or (recently) a few mo... View Source

Apple Inc. has been on a tear in the stock market over the past few months, as iPhone optimism powers the shares to record highs. Investors will get a sense of whether that enthusiasm was warranted when it reports earnings after the bell Thursday... View Source

When you buy the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, you aren’t just getting a pair of smart glasses: you’re also getting Meta’s Neural Band, a small wristband that you use to control what’s on the glasses’ display. It’s an essential part of the product. But, if by some unfortunate circumstance, you need to buy a replacement for the wristband, it’s been unclear how you would do that. The wristband isn’t li... View Source

Elon Musk’s Starlink struck its first UK telecom deal to bring satellite connectivity directly to customers’ phones... View Source

Beijing pledged to work with Washington to resolve the fate of TikTok’s US business, stopping short of saying it’s agreed to a deal touted by President Donald Trump to spin off ByteDance Ltd.’s crown jewel... View Source

Garmin Ltd. plans to build its first production base in Southeast Asia with a factory in Thailand that will manufacture smartwatches and GPS navigational devices... View Source

Bitcoin continued to lose ground after hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dampened expectations for another interest-rate cut this year... View Source

A former director at a US military contractor that sells computer vulnerabilities pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing and reselling $35 million in trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker whose clients include the Russian government... View Source

The international arm of Ant Group Co., the online finance company co-founded by Jack Ma, is making inroads in Latin America through a strategic investment in embedded lending firm R2... View Source

US President Donald Trump said he didn’t discuss approving sales of Nvidia Corp.’s Blackwell chips to China with his counterpart Xi Jinping, dampening speculation that Washington will allow exports of the powerful AI accelerators to the world’s largest semiconductor market... View Source

Shares of semiconductor linchpin Lasertec Corp. surged 21% after Nvidia Corp. hit a $5 trillion market capitalization that’s spurring hopes for more spending on bleeding-edge chipmaking to develop AI... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reports on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GTC conference in Washington... View Source

Honda Motor Co. is cutting or suspending production at some of its North American plants due to a shortage of critical semiconductors that threatens to spread throughout the industry’s automotive supply chain... View Source

Elon Musk’s lawyer pledged to continue the billionaire’s legal crusade against OpenAI as he slammed the attorneys general of California and Delaware for not blocking the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring as a for-profit company... View Source

Alphabet Inc. sales topped quarterly Wall Street estimates, fueled by a surge in demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence services. Shares rose as much as 7.5% in extended trading... View Source

Rode’s range of tiny, portable microphones are a mainstay for creators looking for crisp audio on their phone videos. The company knows that those using digital cameras probably want that same blend of portability and performance for their own footage. That’s why it’s launching the new Wireless Micro Camera Kit, which outputs audio over USB-C or via a 3.5mm line-in. As with the Wireless Micro, the... View Source

Universal Music Group NV signed an agreement with artificial intelligence-powered music startup Udio to settle a copyright lawsuit and collaborate on a new commercial music creation and streaming service... View Source

Chey Tae-won, the billionaire chairman of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, projected strong demand for artificial intelligence over the next few years, joining other tech leaders in playing down fears about a spending bubble... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Washington D.C. was a sweeping celebration of American innovation and a call to action for America to lead the AI revolution. NVIDIA at the epicenter of this next Apollo moment. The 90-minute talk blended technical deep dives, major announcements, and forward-looking visions for AI, quantum ... Read more... View Source

The largest technology companies are betting on an AI future powered by gigantic complexes of data centers filled with humming servers... View Source

It hasn't been a good year for Xbox so far. Microsoft has released its earnings report for the quarter ending on September 30, and it has revealed that its revenue from the Xbox hardware fell by 30 percent year-over-year. Take note that the revenue decline doesn't reflect any dip in sales caused by the console's $20-to-$70 price hike, since that took effect on October 3. Similarly,... View Source

MercadoLibre Inc.’s third quarter net income missed analysts’ estimates despite a jump in revenue from the company’s expansion of its free shipping policies in Brazil and the ongoing growth of its credit card offerings... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor arm reported a stronger-than-expected rise in profit, suggesting global AI demand is helping drive a recovery at the Korean company’s most important business... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering as soon as next year that could give the company a market capitalization of $1 trillion, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing unidentified sources... View Source

Tech products that are packaged and ready for sale aren't launching in the US as planned right now, thanks to the government shutdown. Earlier this month, Leica delayed its M EV1 camera due to holdups on approval from the partially shuttered Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The WiiM Sound audiophile speaker, currently shipping in international markets, has been delayed in the US for the sa... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is still suffering from a computing capacity crunch despite massive spending on data centers, a scenario that weighed on the company’s closely watched Azure cloud unit... View Source

When OpenAI launched its TikTok-like Sora app, a key feature was "Cameo" that allows people to add any likeness to videos they generate. Now the maker of Cameo, an app that allows you to buy short videos from celebrities, has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of violating its trademark by using the same name, Reuters reported. It claims that OpenAI's use of "Cameo" is likely... View Source

Rode’s Wireless Micro Camera Kit includes a charging case to extend the battery life of its receivers and mics. | Image: Rode Last November, Rode launched its Wireless Micro microphone system that paired two tiny lavalier mics with a small receiver that connected to your phone’s charging port. Rode later gave that product a free upgrade, sending out another receiver that let the mics connect to d... View Source

EBay Inc. gave a profit forecast for the fourth quarter that missed the average analyst estimate, stoking investor concerns about narrowing margins heading into the holiday shopping season... View Source

Uber's robotaxi service with EV maker Lucid and self-driving car company Nuro is officially coming to the Bay Area in 2026. The ride-hailing service previously announced plans to deploy at least 20,000 self-driving Lucid cars powered by Nuro's driving software in July. The partnership between the companies also included investment from Uber in both Nuro and Lucid.Uber's final robota... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to dump even more AI-generated posts into your social feeds. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will “add yet another huge corpus of content” to its recommendations system as AI “makes it easier to create and remix” work that gets shared online. “Social media has gone through two eras so far,” Zuckerberg said. “First was when... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia’s impact on the market as the chipmaker becomes the first $5 trillion firm off the back of its GTC event. Plus, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are all set to report results after the closing bell today. And, AI startup Character.AI will ban kids from having conversations with chatbots on its platform. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chalk this one up under "The most clever (alleged) legal sidesteps this side of Tony Soprano." On Wednesday, The Guardian published a report about a so-called "winking mechanism" regarding Israeli cloud computing contracts with Amazon and Google. The stipulation from 2021's Project Nimbus is said to require the US companies to send coded messages to Israel. According to th... View Source

At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, including satire. Google, meanwhile, held firm in its stance, saying that evaluating - and often rejecting - government content requests is bus... View Source

Harvey develops generative AI products aimed at automating legal work... View Source

Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users. Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest milestone for the company's text-based app during Meta's third-quarter earnings call. The company previously reported in August that Threads had reached more than 400 million monthly users.Zuckerberg, who has mused that Threads could become Meta's next billion-person app, said that it was "on... View Source

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?... View Source

Kat Abughazaleh, who has announced a campaign for Illinois' 9th Congressional District, carries yard signs into her campaign office Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Palestinian American and Democratic candidate for Congress in the 9th District of Illinois, has been indicted by the Department of Justice on charges connected to protests outside an ICE facility. The indictment alleges that Abughazaleh... View Source

ServiceNow Inc. gave an outlook for strong revenue growth and said AI is helping the company reduce costs... View Source

It looks like a hundred thousand people fell for a fake NVIDIA livestream featuring an AI-generated version of CEO Jensen Huang, as reported by PC Gamer. Perhaps the scariest part is that the fake stream ran at the same time as an actual NVIDIA event and dwarfed the live viewership numbers. The actual keynote speech of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) garnered around 20,000 live views... View Source

Japan declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus climate probe failed to respond to calls from mission control... View Source

Xbox sales have been tanking for a while now — and the story hasn’t gotten any brighter. Microsoft just released its Q1 2026 earnings and Xbox hardware revenue was down 29 percent year-over-year. Last quarter, it was down 22 percent. Down 29 percent in the first two quarters of 2025, down 42 percent in Q4 of 2024… You get the picture.  As tariffs and inflation take their toll, Microsoft... View Source

After months of back-and-forth with regulators and stakeholders, OpenAI said it has completed the process of restructuring as a more traditional, for-profit company – a key step in its bid to secure billions more in capital to build cutting-edge artificial intelligence products... View Source

Sometimes, game development is a labor of love. Other times, it's an agonizing experience akin to pulling teeth. More than a decade after first announcing the project, Lunar Software and Raw Fury appear to be in the home stretch with their project Routine. The sci-fi horror game has been given a December 4, 2025 release date. For their sakes, I hope it comes to pass.The duo first announced Ro... View Source

A popular ski resort town in Colorado is adopting a new AI Smart City Solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help it better detect wildfires, as well as update a range of other city services. Vail is expanding its firefighting toolbox as hotter, more arid weather with climate change raises wildfire risk in the western US. Colorado has suffered 11 of the 20 largest fires in state history... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. said it expects total expenses to significantly increase in 2026, and will continue to invest at historic levels in artificial intelligence... View Source

General Motors announced that it will cut more than 1,700 manufacturing jobs in reaction to changes in the electric vehicle market. "In response to slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment, General Motors is realigning EV capacity," the company said in a statement reported by CNBC. "Despite these changes, GM remains committed to our US manufacturing footpr... View Source

Researchers claim flashes of light seen in sky surveys could have been UFOs drawn to Earth by nuclear tests, but more mundane explanations should be explored first... View Source

AOL will soon have a new owner. Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that has bought up a range of other digital businesses like Evernote, MeetUp, WeTransfer, and soon Vimeo, announced plans to purchase AOL from Yahoo after securing a $2.8 billion debt financing package. Over the past couple of decades, AOL has been passed from company to company, merging with Time Warner in 2001 before ge... View Source

Fiserv Inc.’s massive earnings shortfall baffled analysts even as it dealt a crushing blow to the company’s shares... View Source

YouTube is rolling out some updates aimed at making visuals look better on its TV apps, including automatic AI video upscaling. To begin with, YouTube plans to upscale videos that were uploaded in under 1080p to an HD resolution. It aims to support 4K upscaling in the future.The platform will still retain the original files and video resolution options. Creators can opt-out of the AI upscaling fea... View Source

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old debate about the function of these structures... View Source

OpenAI has cleared the path for raising far more capital, though major questions remain about its corporate restructuring. But first…... View Source

A decade ago, when smart speakers with built-in voice assistants were the hot new thing, many imagined they'd quickly evolve into highly intelligent companions. (Think C-3PO or Star Trek's Data living inside a speaker.) That road has been much longer than expected, as virtual helpers like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant seemed to sit in neutral for years. But now that generative AI is h... View Source

Kratos Defense will utilize the Hermeus high-speed Quarterhorse aircraft as part of its support work for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency’s Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic Testbed (MACH-TB) program. The rapid expansion of the Kratos Defense hypersonic test team follows the award of a $1.45 billion contract in January 2025 to support the MACH-TB ... Read more... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists mapped the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b in three dimensions, uncovering a blistering hotspot where water molecules are torn apart... View Source

Almost immediately in The Outer Worlds 2, the player receives news of a corporate shake-up: Auntie Cleo and Spacer's Choice, two of the in-game retail brands, have merged to form Auntie's Choice. Less a chain of stores and more a feudal power, Auntie's Choice manages its employees - serfs, really - with the cruelty of the balance sheet, its military business far more important than the faux-cheery... View Source

In late 2024, OpenAI, still recovering from the aftershock of the brief, messy ousting of Sam Altman, initiated what it hoped would be a relatively straightforward process of converting to a more traditional for-profit business that would be more appealing to investors. Then came the pushback... View Source

Character.AI will no longer permit teenagers to interact with its chatbots, as AI companies face increasing pressure to better safeguard younger users from harm. In a statement, the company confirmed that it is removing the ability for users under 18 to engage in any open-ended chats with AI on its platform, which refers to back-and-forth conversations between a user and a chatbot. The changes com... View Source

Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed his nation conducted a successful flight of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here’s how that missile might work... View Source

Abxylute’s M4 Snap-On phone controller trades clamps for magnets. | Image: Abxylute Abxylute, a company known for its Android-based handhelds, has announced a new compact mobile controller for smartphones. Unlike controllers from companies like Backbone and 8BitDo that use an expanding mechanism to clamp onto phones, Abxylute’s smaller and lighter M4 Snap-On controller uses a Q-shaped mount to mag... View Source

Google’s YouTube will use artificial intelligence to improve the visual clarity of many low-resolution videos on its platform when viewed on TV screens... View Source

Sony just announced the PS Plus Monthly games for November and there are some standouts. All of these titles will be available to download on November 4 until December 1. First up, there's the cat sim Stray. We praised the third-person cyberpunk adventure in our initial review, in which we lauded the game's unique mechanics and puzzles. After all, you play as a cat in a dystopian and fut... View Source

The award-winning anthology of animated Star Wars shorts is back with a third batch crafted by Japanese studios. Here's our take on all of them... View Source

Finally cut down on that rat’s nest of cables. | Image: The Verge The thing about carrying multiple devices is you usually end up hauling a nest of cables along with them. Now imagine trimming your kit down to a single, versatile cord that can provide power to your smartphone and laptop simultaneously. That’s where Anker’s 140W 2-in-1 USB-C to USB-C Cable comes in, and right now you can pick it up... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has suffered an outage in its Azure cloud service that has disrupted its own products and the operations of several companies, including Alaska Airlines... View Source

The 2025 Fall Classic is tied up again after Game 4 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays saw Toronto dominate to win 6-2. The World Series continues with one more game in Los Angeles tonight — Wednesday, Oct. 29 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT. The World Series odds favor the Dodgers ahead of tonight's game. Every 2025 MLB World Series game will air on Fox and Fox Deportes.  Of c... View Source

How the "Supergirl" TV series shaped DC's modern age of heroes... View Source

You’re going to start seeing more warnings in Chrome when accessing insecure sites. Starting next October, Chrome will soon warn users when they visit a public website without an encrypted HTTPS connection. Chrome already issues a “Your connection is not private” message when you visit pages that have an HTTPS connection that’s misconfigured. But this will expand the warnings to websites tha... View Source

AI companies offer rewards for reported vulnerabilities... View Source

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is experiencing an outage that appears to have hit both Microsoft 365 and Xbox. Both services show spikes in outage reports on DownDetector around 12PM ET, and the Azure status page indicates Microsoft is dealing with issues with “Azure Portal access.”In the most recent Azure status update as of writing, Microsoft says that “starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we b... View Source

Two new climate reports warn Earth's vital signs are flashing red after the hottest year in 125,000 years, but say recovery is still possible with swift action... View Source

A screenshot from Halo: Campaign Evolved. Halo coming to PlayStation is one of those events that, five years ago, would have been the tell that "something is not right here" in a show about time travel or alternate universes. Looking at the state of Xbox with its layoffs, game cancellations, price hikes, studio closures, and a soft release schedule light on attention-grabbing titles, it certainly... View Source

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix... View Source

BCE Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mirko Bibic said sensitive Canadian data must stay within the country, as geopolitical tensions rise... View Source

Magic Leap is once again trying to make a name for itself in augmented reality. The company revealed an Android XR smart glasses prototype and it extended an existing partnership with Google. It said it built the glasses "as a reference design for the Android XR ecosystem."They look similar to other modern smart glasses, with thick frames to house all of the electronics and what appears to be a ca... View Source

Elon Musk posted that Tesla autonomous driving might spread faster than any technology ever. In interpret that this would mean: * going to no supervised driving monitor in December of 2025 in Austin then they will spread in months to all cars. * Q2 2026 they will have about ten cities without safety drivers or ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Oct. 29), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast... View Source

Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage just one week after issues with AWS took out swaths of the internet. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and even Minecraft. Microsoft confirmed Azure Portal issues on the service’s status page, adding that the outage started around 12PM ET: Startin... View Source

Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup, is releasing a new version of its popular AI assistant that’s designed to carry out more complicated software development tasks from start to finish, rivaling products from OpenAI and Anthropic... View Source

Amazon Games is winding down support for New World: Aeternum amid layoffs in the division and even deeper job cuts across its parent company. The game debuted on PC in 2021 and it landed on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S just over a year ago."After four years of steady content updates and a major new console release, we've reached a point where it is no longer sustainable to continue supporting... View Source

Nvidia CFO clarified $500 billion in datacenter revenue at analyst dinner yesterday. 30% already shipped as of end-October. Morgan Stanley had modeled ~$407B cumulative Blackwell + Rubin for 2025-26 vs $500B, implying ~$93B upside. The Timing is unclear but you’ll start seeing larger magnitude beats (on revenue and income). This will be about 12 million ... Read more... View Source

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest pass to the sun on Oct. 30, and various spacecraft will be watching, seeking clues about the icy wanderer's chemistry and composition... View Source

The high-end OLED TV is 41 percent off. | Image: LG If you want one of the best home theater experiences LG can provide, the 65-inch LG G5 OLED is down to a new record low price. Regularly $3,399.99, you can buy the TV for around $1,996.99 at Amazon and directly from LG. Other configurations are also on sale, with the 77-inch going for around $3,456.99 (about $1,000 off) at Amazon and LG. If you p... View Source

Caterpillar Inc., the company synonymous with yellow bulldozers and mining trucks, is getting a boost from another type of machinery... View Source

Grammarly is no more, at least with regards to its name. The AI-powered writing assistance tool founded in 2009 has been absorbed into a new software platform called Superhuman. It follows Grammarly’s acquisition of Superhuman Mail earlier this year, with the former taking the somewhat unusual step of adopting its newly obtained company’s name, rather than the other way around. Superhuman unites G... View Source

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Separate brain processes cope with moment-to-moment versus big-picture experiences, which helps explain how parenting both increases and decreases aspects of well-being... View Source

Tesla’s Cybercab isn’t scheduled to go into production until 2026, but when it does, it may end up stuck with a vestige of the automotive past: a steering wheel. To be sure, we still use steering wheels. But the Tesla Cybercab was meant to be the first vehicle of the new future, and there’s nothing futuristic about steering wheels. Robyn Denholm, chair of Tesla’s board of directors, let slip in an... View Source

The billionaire cable-TV mogul John Malone is stepping down as chair of his media and telecoms empire, the Financial Times reported, marking an end to a decades-long career as an industry pioneer and master architect of some of the most significant media and cable deals of his time... View Source

Nintendo is teaming up with Laced Records on a couple of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vinyl soundtrack releases, which is pretty darned cool. There's even a massive 8-LP box set that ships with some franchise-friendly bells and whistles. Let's start with that box set. It's available in limited-edition colored vinyl or standard black vinyl. At eight vinyl records, it proba... View Source

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together... View Source

Google introduced support for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro in 2021. But if you’ve been struggling to get your Pixel phone to precisely locate one of the few Android-compatible trackers that support UWB, it’s because that feature is only enabled on the Pro models of the Pixel 8 and above, Google confirmed to Android Authority. Google didn’t explain why UWB precise... View Source

WB Electronics SA is considering selling shares on the Warsaw bourse, as the largest drone producer by sales in the European Union prepares to scale up investments under the bloc’s new defense program... View Source

I vividly remember testing the first Echo Studio. Even though that was nearly six years ago, I can clearly recall my surprise that Amazon had finally built a smart speaker that actually sounded good. It certainly helped that Amazon created a device that appropriately broadcasted spatial audio, and one that offered a boost to movies in the living room (if you bought a pair of them).  I was sim... View Source

Nvidia has become the world’s first $5 trillion company. Shares soared by up to 5 percent to over $211 around 9:30AM ET on Wednesday morning, according to Bloomberg, marking the latest milestone for a company that only just hit the $4 trillion mark in July. Nvidia shares have been on the rise as the company continues to make waves in AI. Apple currently sits behind Nvidia with a $4 trillion market... View Source

Review: The $100 Echo Dot Max outshines the pricier Echo Studio... View Source

Do you have one streaming service too many? While you're far from alone in that, sometimes it's worth saying goodbye to one and saving some cash. Take Paramount+, which starts at $8 per month for its ad-supported Essential plan. Then there's its ad-free Premium plan, coming in at $13 a month.  If you're not really using it, or just can't justify the cost, canceling yo... View Source

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset... View Source

Google smart home users in the US can now get an early taste of the new Gemini for Home assistant, which began rolling out in early access on Tuesday. It’s slated to replace the current Google Assistant on Nest devices, marking one of the most significant updates yet to Google’s smart home ecosystem. It runs on the Gemini LLM, allowing it to complete more complex tasks and offer a more conversatio... View Source

Credit traders are buying protection against Oracle Corp. defaulting on its debt, a trend that Morgan Stanley sees continuing in the near term as the tech giant pours billions into artificial intelligence... View Source

The Nothing Phone universe continues to expand. On Wednesday, the company launched the fourth model in the Phone 3 lineup: the Nothing Phone 3a Lite. (It joins the Phone 3, Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro.) The cheapest model in the series, the Phone 3a Lite pairs the brand's distinct styling with solid all-around specs for an entry-level handset. However, with the company saying its non-flagship d... View Source

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet... View Source

A massive coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun's far side late on Oct. 21, 2025 and was captured by a NOAA coronagraph... View Source

Smart Split uses AI to edit down a longer video into smaller shorter clips with captions. | Image: TikTok TikTok announced three new features at its US Creator Summit yesterday. They include an update to revenue sharing for creators that offer subscriptions plus tools that can help with both the early planning stages of a video, and the process of editing longer clips into multiple shorter ones. S... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Character.AI will ban kids from having conversations with chatbots on its platform following growing pressure from lawmakers and a raft of lawsuits alleging the company’s so-called characters are responsible for harms to children... View Source

US lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill called the "GUARD Act," which is meant to protect minor users from AI chatbots. "In their race to the bottom, AI companies are pushing treacherous chatbots at kids and looking away when their products cause sexual abuse, or coerce them into self-harm or suicide," said the bill's co-sponsor, Senator Richard Bl... View Source

The iPad Mini is reportedly the next device to get an OLED upgrade. Apple is planning to incorporate OLED displays across more of its devices, including the MacBook Air, iPad Mini, and iPad Air, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company added an OLED display to the iPad Pro last year and the upgraded M5 model released this month, offering improved brightness, better contrast,... View Source

Blank-check deal veteran Harry You’s latest special purpose acquisition company is looking to merge with a business that operates portable health-care stations... View Source

YouTube will enforce new rules that are supposed to strengthen the enforcement of its guidelines around online gambling and graphic video game content starting on November 17. One of the biggest changes it's implementing is age-restricting gaming videos featuring realistic human characters in scenes depicting torture or mass violence against non-combatants.  The streaming website says it... View Source

Uber has picked the first city for the launch of its new robotaxi service with Lucid and Nuro. No surprise, it’s San Francisco. The companies have already begun on-road testing after the delivery of their first vehicle, a Lucid Gravity SUV modified with Nuro’s self-driving software. But they will still need to obtain the driverless operational permits from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles,... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is preparing to offer driverless rides on vehicles developed by Lucid Group Inc. and Nuro Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time next year, thrusting the company into direct competition with Waymo’s robotaxi service... View Source

Apple is planning to introduce OLED displays to its iPad Air, iPad mini and MacBook Air devices, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. The technology offers deeper blacks and better contrast than the LCDs currently used on those devices, which would make them better for things like content creation and entertainment. However, OLED is also more expensive, so it could result in higher prices on fut... View Source

Space agencies around the world are planning moon missions that will depend on water ice for resources, but much remains unknown about its availability of water ice on the lunar surface... View Source

Cameo is requesting a court order to block OpenAI from using the term “cameo.” | Image by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Cameo is suing OpenAI over Sora 2’s “cameo” feature, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using the name to compete directly with its personalized celebrity video service. The trademark infringement lawsuit filed in a California federal court on Tuesday alleges that OpenAI’s u... View Source

Online marketplace Etsy Inc. will elevate Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal to the CEO job, entrusting the company veteran with navigating the artificial intelligence era... View Source

Engadget has been reviewing the latest devices for over two decades, adding well over 100 in-depth product tests to our tally every year. For 2025, we have compiled a list of the best gear we reviewed this year based on the highest review scores in each category. From Pixel to iPad, and Switch 2 to Sony WH-1000XM6, our reviews team has spent thousands of hours testing new products this year to dis... View Source

TikTok’s U.S. spin-off could reshape its algorithm and the way culture is curated online... View Source

The used-car industry isn’t exactly on firm footing, going by recent events. A major lender went bust just before a big parts supplier followed suit. Loan delinquencies have skyrocketed, car prices remain high and the lower-end consumer is showing signs of buckling... View Source

I really like Surfshark VPN. Like I said in my full Surfshark review, it's the fastest VPN on the market, with download speeds that beat all the other best VPNs. It also gives you universal split tunneling, multi-hop with customizable endpoints and unlimited simultaneous connections. Surfshark does have its flaws, though. The apps hang up on error messages a bit too often and features sometim... View Source

It's been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld "Xbox" that can't be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem with the white Xbox Ally or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. (Asus tells me it needs more time to test.) But if you want... View Source

Viola Credit, an asset manager specializing in alternative credit, has raised a $2 billion fund to lend to financial technology startups... View Source

Designed by a German incel, the FGC-9 was created in a distinctly American spirit... View Source

Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station for the first time ever today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Actis GP LLP is eyeing a possible investment in data centers in Saudi Arabia, a sector that’s assuming growing importance in the oil-rich kingdom’s economic diversification plans... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is on track to become the first $5 trillion company as Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s spree of deals around the world propels the artificial intelligence trade to new heights... View Source

Keen to bolster a domestic nuclear industry that’s built just three reactors this century, the Trump administration is opting to use a government-investment strategy it’s applied to the mining, steel and semiconductor industries... View Source

Japan’s NEC Corp. said it’s buying CSG Systems International Inc., a US supplier of customer care and billing services for cable and phone companies, for around $2.9 billion in a move to shore up its operations in the US... View Source

A brighter earnings outlook for artificial-intelligence companies is allaying concerns that the AI-led global equity rally is in a bubble territory after hitting records... View Source

New Mexico City International Airport was canceled when only half built, and has since been flooded and restored into wetlands... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s shares extended their dramatic ascent to a record after US President Donald Trump said he’ll discuss the chipmaker’s Blackwell artificial intelligence processors with Chinese leader Xi Jinping... View Source

Chinese carmakers posted their best month ever in Europe, roaring past previous highs in September on surging demand for battery-powered and hybrid-electric models... View Source

A secretive American startup has emerged with aspirations to challenge two titans of the semiconductor industry: ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... View Source

It’s been nearly three years since Withings first showed off U-Scan to a bemused world, and now it’s finally on sale. U-Scan is the company’s at-home urinalysis gizmo which sits in your toilet bowl and tests your first splash of the day. The device runs a tiny sample through a microfluidic to test, depending on what cartridge you use, either your nutritional or kidney health. These results are the... View Source

Royal Philips NV received a letter from the US Food and Drug Administration warning that three manufacturing sites don’t meet standards, a blow to efforts to draw a line under high-profile issues with some of its products... View Source

California-based AI and robotics company 1X is now accepting pre-orders for its humanoid robot NEO, which was designed to automate everyday chores and to offer personalized assistance. Users will be able to control NEO and have it accomplish tasks around the house with the click of a button or a verbal command. It will come with the ability to do basic tasks autonomously when it starts shipping ne... View Source

The U-Scan can be left installed in your toilet for up to three months between charges. | Image: Withings Withings first announced its U-Scan, a non-invasive device you install in your toilet to track various health metrics, at CES 2023 two years ago. Unlike Kohler’s Dekoda, which uses a camera to analyze your poop, the U-Scan detects and samples your urine, tests it using replaceable cartridges,... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is taking a $1 billion equity stake in Nokia Oyj and plans to supply the telecom company with artificial-intelligence powered computers for wireless networks. Nokia shares jumped the most in more than a decade... View Source

Advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA agreed to buy Singapore’s Hepmil Media Group to bolster its social-media expertise in Southeast Asia’s rapidly growing online market... View Source

Cheaper artificial intelligence tools from China threaten to trigger a sudden sell-off in US tech giants betting on generative AI, according to the investment chief at one of Australia’s largest pension funds... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is setting aside another $5 billion for investment in South Korean data centers, sharply ramping up the spending it’s already devoting toward building AI infrastructure in the country... View Source

Nvidia Corp. boss Jensen Huang plans to unveil new contracts to supply AI chips to major South Korean companies, including Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Motor Group, when he visits the country this week to carve out new opportunities for his business... View Source

Tareq Amin, the head of Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence startup Humain, said he is confident the US will clear the sale of advanced chips to the kingdom after his firm provided detailed guarantees to American officials... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. reported a 62% jump in profit and said customers have already secured its entire memory chip lineup for next year, illustrating how a global AI infrastructure buildout is ratcheting up sector-wide demand... View Source

China is on track to lead the world in science — at least by one revealing measure... View Source

The Bot Company, a startup working on robots that can do chores for people, is set to raise $250 million in a funding round that will value the company at more than $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

When the first big wave of handheld PCs hit the market two to three years ago, they were designed as more travel-friendly and convenient alternatives to traditional gaming rigs. That meant reduced performance in exchange for increased portability. However, there will always be enthusiasts who want more: increased horsepower, better battery life and all sorts of extra features. Out of all the handh... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that maintaining the US edge in artificial intelligence will require a steady approach that ensures China remains hooked on American technology... View Source

Adobe Max kicked off today with a slew of announcements — mostly in the world of AI. But the company also used its creative conference to share that Adobe Premiere's video editing tools are being integrated into YouTube Shorts.  It's no secret that YouTube has been taking every step it can to make Shorts compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels. Now, YouTube creators will be able to... View Source

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky completed a 6 hour and 54 minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025... View Source

Nvidia Corp. unveiled a new system to connect quantum computers with the company’s artificial intelligence chips, seizing on an emerging technology that holds the promise of significantly faster processing to drive advances in medicine and materials science... View Source

If you’re a person who enjoys the social side of online gaming, this product launch is not for you. Board was designed by entrepreneur Brynn Putnam, alongside former World of Warcraft exec Seth Sivac, as a way to make the idea of "screen time" a more immersive in-person experience. "Families want to connect, but they’re competing with incredibly powerful technologies," Putnam t... View Source

A new piece of legislation could require AI companies to verify the ages of everyone who uses their chatbots. Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the GUARD Act on Tuesday, which would also ban everyone under 18 from accessing AI chatbots, as reported earlier by NBC News.  The bill comes just weeks after safety advocates and parents attended a Senate hearing to call at... View Source

In a potentially far-reaching shift, the Federal Reserve is weighing whether to redraw the perimeter of the US financial system. A proposal under consideration would grant fintech giants like Circle Internet Group Inc. and Stripe Inc. a form of direct access to the central bank’s core payment infrastructure — a privilege historically reserved for banks... View Source

GOG kicked off its annual Autumn Sale today with some discounts on excellent PC games that can carry you through the end of 2025. The sale runs through November 4, and notably also includes discounts on several older games maintained as part of the GOG Preservation Program. The Autumn Sale includes sales on newer games like Cyberpunk 2077, which normally costs $60 but is available during the sale... View Source

The mission had previously targeted a launch at the end of 2025... View Source

YouTube is updating its policy to age-restrict more content containing video game scenes with “graphic violence,” the company announced on Tuesday. The update will go into effect on November 17th and will prevent accounts under 18 and signed-out users from watching videos with games focused on showing “realistic human characters” involved in scenes of “mass violence against non-combatants” or tort... View Source

BASF SE is bringing forward parts of its share buyback program to bolster its stock price as the chemicals industry struggles with trade barriers and subdued demand from the car industry... View Source

The BBC has today announced Doctor Who will return for a Christmas Special in 2026, with news of the next series to be revealed “in due course.” The broadcaster says the special will be written by current executive producer Russell T. Davies, putting to rest more than a year’s worth of doubt. For the unaware, Doctor Who has been a mainstay in the BBC schedules since its 2005 revival, but the BBC f... View Source

The idea that real estate builds wealth isn’t a surprise to anyone. But what many people don’t realize is just how powerful it can be as part of a retirement plan. While traditional investments like stocks, bonds, and 401(k)s play their part, real estate offers something unique — steady income, tangible value, and the ability ... Read more... View Source

Hasselblad is still the camera partner on Oppo’s phones. Oppo has announced the international launch of its Find X9 and Find X9 Pro flagships, and both phones are going on sale in the UK and Europe. Best of all, unlike some other Chinese phones, there’s been no reduction in battery capacity for the global release, making these two of the longest lasting phones in the European market. The Find X9’s... View Source

Nvidia will make a $1 billion equity investment in Nokia Oyj as they work to integrate Nvidia technology into Nokia's network products. Nokia Chief Executive Officer Justin Hotard and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speak to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow about the partnership. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two directors from MultiVersus are striking out on their own, forming a new, independent game studio. The platform brawler's production director, Justin Fischer, and technical director, Brock Feldman, have joined forces to launch a new endeavor called Airlock Games. Rather than continuing to follow the AAA route, the first project from Airlock is a sci-fi sim management horror game called Wha... View Source

Tesla will put a steering wheel and pedals in the Cybercab if that’s what regulators require, according to Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm. “If we have to have a steering wheel, it can have a steering wheel and pedals,” Robyn Denholm told Bloomberg. This would likely be a sub-$30,000 car. There are about 5 months for ... Read more... View Source

The wireless earbuds feature an over-the-ear hook style for a more secure fit. | Image: The Verge If you spend most of your time commuting, walking around, or exercising, the Nothing Ear Open earbuds are worth considering. These open-ear-style earbuds rest securely in your outer ear rather than inside of your ear canals, allowing you to more easily hear what’s going on around you at all times. Rig... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing major changes to its MacBook Air, iPad mini and iPad Air lines, with a plan to give the popular devices higher-end displays... View Source

It keeps happening. HBO Max just raised prices again, around 16 months after the last price increase. If your debit card is feeling the pain, or if you're just not excited about that weird Harry Potter remake nobody asked for, you may decide to take a break from the perpetually renamed platform. Here's everything you need to know about canceling your HBO Max subscription, so you can stre... View Source

Nvidia today announced it is partnering with Uber to help build the world’s largest Level 4 autonomous fleet, targeting 100,000 Robotaxis starting in 2027. Nvidia will work with Uber to scale the world’s largest level 4-ready mobility network, using the company’s next-generation robotaxi and autonomous delivery fleets, the new Nvidia Drive AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous ... Read more... View Source

Lucid says it will eventually sell “privately owned” autonomous vehicles with the help of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology. The company is the latest to declare its intention to sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles to its customers, despite a range of theoretical and logistical challenges standing in the way. Lucid’s autonomous vehicles — which do not exist at the moment — will be powered b... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss OpenAI’s agreement to give Microsoft a 27% stake in the startup as part of a restructuring plan that clears the path for the ChatGPT maker to become a for-profit business. Plus, the chair of Tesla’s board of directors talks about efforts to convince investors to approve the proposed $1 trillion compensation package for Elon Musk. And, Nvidia plans to... View Source

With digital games outselling physical ones by embarrassing margins, it's easy to conclude that the latter is done for. But sometimes, approaching extinction leads to pockets of nostalgic enthusiasm. (Think the modest resurgence that point-and-shoot cameras are currently enjoying.) That leaves room for Limited Run Games, which specializes in physical copies. The company's latest showcase... View Source

The US government and the owners of Westinghouse, Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco, have struck an $80 billion deal to build a fleet of nuclear reactors, using funding from a trade agreement with Japan. They had formed a new partnership to provide the reactor technology for the plants, which would help reach the US goal ... Read more... View Source

These images of Hurricane Melissa show the Category 5 storm in all its power... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator. When it comes to the news cycle, only the actual destruction of the White House could have overshadowed the slate of dubious pardons that President Donald Trump issued last week, including former Rep. George Santos, the compulsive fabulist who had been expelled from Congress for making false statements and went to prison for numerous counts of fraud, and Changpeng Z... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about his relationship with President Donald Trump. Huang says Trump has to do what's right for America when it comes to trade. Huang speaks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA has entered a partnership with Uber to equip more of the rideshare company's vehicles with its autonomous driving infrastructure. The deal centers on NVIDIA's Drive AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous vehicle development platform, a computer and sensor system that can make any vehicle capable of level 4 self-driving, as well as its Drive software. According to the press release, this partn... View Source

A haunting grin appeared on the sun as bright active regions and dark coronal holes combined to create a jack-o'-lantern face just in time for Halloween... View Source

This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a national security risk. Officially, it's a way to close loopholes and protect US networks from backdoors in Chinese telecom gear. But it could also give the Trump adm... View Source

One day after NextEra Energy Inc. revealed it would reopen a nuclear plant in Iowa to feed Google data centers, the energy developer said it’s now planning for more power generation in the area for the AI boom... View Source

Vampire Survivors just dropped a free update that includes an expansion based on the indie sensation Balatro. The expansion is called Ante Chamber and includes a new stage, new characters and a new power ups that makes the top-down rogue shooter feel more like, well, Balatro. First up, the titular Ante Chamber stage is filled with playing cards, calling to mind the source material. The new charact... View Source

Apple’s 4K streaming device rarely goes on sale, but right now it’s available for its lowest price to date at Costco.com. Now through October 31st, Costco members can buy the third-gen Apple TV 4K online with an expanded 128GB of storage for just $119.99 ($30 off). If you’re not already a member, you can still take advantage of the deal if you sign up for an annual subscription, which starts at $6... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble, saying the company’s latest chips are on track to generate half a trillion dollars in revenue during the coming quarters... View Source

Don't Nod has a long history of making memorable narrative games, and it looks like the studio's next project will come from Netflix programming. In the company's half-year financial report, Don't Nod noted that it has signed "a development agreement with Netflix for the creation of a new narrative video game based on a major IP." Its Montreal studio is helming the pr... View Source

NASA's X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet took off on its first-ever flight on Oct. 28, flying from Palmdale, California to its new home at Edwards Air Force Base... View Source

A screenshot from Throne and Liberty, one of Amazon’s MMOs. As part of Amazon’s mass layoffs announced today, the company is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, including halting much of its work on first-party AAA MMOs, according to a memo from Steve Boom, VP of audio, Twitch, and games.  “While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing,... View Source

Lucid Group Inc. is partnering with Nvidia Corp. to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, as it races to become one of the first automakers to build a passenger car that requires no supervision from drivers... View Source

Not for the first time this year, Google has been forced to reassure its users that it has not suffered a large-scale data breach that could affect their Gmail accounts. A few months ago the company released an unusual statement intended to put to bed allegations that its email service had been hit with a serious security issue. And it did so again this week, after numerous news outlets published... View Source

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded... View Source

Siddharth Patel has been watching the sky since the age of five. Fresh off two possible asteroid discoveries, he's taking a big step toward his astronaut dream... View Source

Robotaxi fever is back, baby! After a bunch of automaker-led autonomous driving projects shut down amid concerns over safety and costs, car companies are expressing a renewed interest in self-driving cars, and robotaxis specifically. Stellantis, which oversees brands like Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler, announced today a “new collaboration” with a diverse range of firms, including Nvidia, Foxconn,... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. will begin expanding a fleet of 100,000 autonomous vehicles powered by Nvidia Corp. technology starting in 2027, an ambitious move that could help bring down the cost of offering hailable robotaxis to consumers... View Source

Oppo’s latest flagship phone, like the sleek (but hard to buy) Find N5 foldable, goes hard on the tech specifications. In fact, the Find X9 Pro’s specs read like a wishlist of what many want to see in their phones, with a huge 7,500mAh battery, a 200-megapixel telephoto camera and a bright 6.78-inch screen with tiny, almost one-millimeter bezels, all while still measuring in at 8.25mm in thickness... View Source

Though there’s still a new Doctor Who spinoff making its way to Disney Plus, Disney’s production partnership with the BBC has come to an end. The BBC announced today that after two seasons of Doctor Who starring Ncuti Gatwa in the titular role, Disney will no longer be a co-producer on the sci-fi series. In a statement about the news, the BBC’s director of drama Lindsay Salt than... View Source

Prediction market Polymarket is preparing to return to the US in the coming weeks with a focus on sports betting, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on links, Chrome will enable a setting called Always Use Secure Connections for public sites for all users by default. This will happen in October 2026 with the release of Chrome 154. The change will... View Source

An innovative technique for measuring the force acting on individual grains of sand could help scientists uncover how winds have shaped the surface of Mars... View Source

PayPal announced today that you’ll be able to use its wallet to make purchases directly through ChatGPT beginning sometime in 2026. The recently-added Instant Checkout feature in ChatGPT will have an option to pay with PayPal, using the same interface you already see when checking out with PayPal through other services. You’ll have access to all of your usual payment methods in your PayPal account... View Source

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico hailed a decision by China’s Gotion High-Tech Co. to build a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) electric-car battery plant in his country even as ties between Beijing and the European Union grow increasingly tense... View Source

Toyota battery electric vehicles (BEV) owners can now have Apple Maps help them plan charging stops along their route via CarPlay. Alongside an announcement that the Toyota bZ is now on sale, the automaker says all 2023 and newer battery-electric vehicles can now integrate real-time battery information to help drivers with iPhones find compatible chargers. In the US this would simply mean the bZ4X... View Source

Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable properties... View Source

Upgrading Lego’s Game Boy using the BrickBoy kit will cost you a lot more than many handheld emulators that are far more capable. | Image: Kickstarter After being announced last week, the BrickBoy kit that turns Lego’s buildable Game Boy model into a functional handheld through emulation has finally launched on Kickstarter, but its pricing could be a serious deterrent. Three versions of the BrickB... View Source

Tesla Inc.’s chair said it’s too early to know whether a campaign to win shareholder support for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s enormous pay package will be successful just days ahead of a pivotal vote by investors... View Source

Simogo is celebrating its 15th anniversary with some retrospective projects, which include bringing its games to more platforms. The studio has put together the Simogo Legacy Collection for Steam, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. This includes all seven of the mobile games that the developer released between 2010 and 2015, including Year Walk and Device 6. The collection will be available on December... View Source

Fragments of CI chondrite meteorites, which are space rocks that are typically rich in water, have turned up in the sample collected from the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin by China's Chang'e 6 mission... View Source

(L to R) Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, Jacob Romero as Usopp, Taz Skylar as Sanji. | Image: Netflix Attention, Straw Hats — Netflix’s surprisingly great One Piece adaptation finally has a season 2 premiere date. Netflix announced today that its take on One Piece is set to return on March 10th, 2026 with 8 new episodes that will follow Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and the rest of his Stra... View Source

Heavy machinery makers Caterpillar Inc. and Cummins Inc. will get a “meaningful” boost to earnings in the next three years as revenue nearly doubles from selling backup generators to help power US data centers, according to UBS... View Source

MSI’s Mag 271QP X28 is on sale for $519.99 ($130 off). Black Friday is one month away, but MSI didn’t wait to drop the price of its 27-inch Mag 271QP X28 QD-OLED gaming monitor. You can get it for an all-time low price of $519.99 ($130 off) from MSI with the promo code 272QPW40. The display has a 2K (2560 x 1440) resolution, 280Hz refresh rate, and .03ms response time. Many OLED gaming monitors ar... View Source

The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built... View Source

President Donald Trump’s administration is slated to sign a deal with South Korea aimed at bolstering cooperation in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 6G, according to a US official — part of a bid to maintain a competitive edge with China in an expanding race for tech supremacy... View Source

If you’re a former Twitter user still using X and rely on a hardware security key for your two-factor authentication (2FA) method, you need to re-enroll it before November 10. As spotted by The Verge, X’s Safety account notified users of the deadline in a post last week. The Elon Musk-owned company eventually intends to retire the twitter.com domain, which hardware keys such as YubiKeys remain tie... View Source

EA announced today that Battlefield Redsec, the free-to-play battle royale that the company says is “built on Battlefield’s iconic DNA,” is available now. Here’s how EA describes the mode in a press release: As part of this free-to-play package, players can jump into Battlefield’s biggest map ever Fort Lyndon, and experience an explosive new take on the Battle Royale genre. Battlefield’s DNA is fu... View Source

GlobalFoundries Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Breen said that the US-based company’s expansion plans in Germany are aimed at meeting increasing demands from clients, who want assurances that their supply of semiconductors is independent from China and Taiwan... View Source

Insta360 has launched a new camera that sits between the X4 and its current flagship, the X5. The company says the new Insta360 X4 Air is lightest-ever 8K 360-degree camera at just 165 grams. It is definitely lighter than the 200-gram X5 and the 203-gram X4 cameras, but the company says it packs flagship-level features. The camera has 1/1.8-inch sensors and can capture footage with a 134 percent i... View Source

New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy... View Source

This quiz dives into the historic and scientific journey behind the search for life in the universe—testing your knowledge of the thinkers, missions, and discoveries that shaped our cosmic curiosity... View Source

When Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was open to the possibility of a sale, the entertainment giant was careful to mention that it has already received multiple unsolicited offers "for both the entire company and Warner Bros." We knew about WBD's plan to split back into two corporate entities, and that the company had just refused a lowball acquisition proposal from David Ellison's newly... View Source

Private equity giant Blackstone Inc. is partnering with Saudi Arabia’s new artificial intelligence company, Humain, to build data centers in the kingdom with an initial investment of about $3 billion... View Source

Amazon has announced an approximately 14,000 person reduction in its corporate workforce. The news follows an earlier report from Reuters that up to 30,000 people could be let go. However, the exact number of layoffs is unclear, with the 14,000 figure being cushioned by planned hirings.  Engadget has reached out to Amazon for exact layoff numbers, but Bloomberg reports that impacted jobs are... View Source

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system evolved... View Source

Hurricane Melissa could make a record-breaking landfall in Jamaica, and satellites are monitoring the situation... View Source

With Meta's new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades - one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times. This in itself is nothing new. Introduced at the company's recent Meta Connect event, the glasses represent the tech industry's second major attempt at normalizing... View Source

Apple Inc. shares rose as much 0.4% to hit $4 trillion in market value, making the iPhone maker only the third public company in history to reach the milestone... View Source

OpenAI has completed its long, drawn-out reorganization into a public benefit corporation, the company announced today in a blog post attributed to board of directors chair Bret Taylor. As part of the reorg, OpenAI's nonprofit, now called the OpenAI Foundation, will retain control of OpenAI's for-profit division and hold an equity stake in the company valued at approximately $130 billion... View Source

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L), speaks with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who joined by video during the Microsoft Build 2025 conference. OpenAI’s controversial for-profit restructuring is finally complete, along with a new deal with Microsoft. The company’s for-profit arm is now a public benefit corporation, dubbed OpenAI Group PBC. The nonprofit is... View Source

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI finalized a new agreement in a long-negotiated partnership... View Source

AMD is working with the US Department of Energy to build sovereign AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the agency's famous research and development center. NVIDIA describes sovereign AI as "a nation’s capabilities to produce artificial intelligence using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and business networks." The company's products will power Lux and Dis... View Source

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for dark matter... View Source

The 4MOST instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope has captured its first light... View Source

Govee’s new accessory can make two power outlets more functional. | Image: Govee Did you know you should be replacing your surge protectors every three to five years to avoid them becoming a potential fire risk? If you’re now on the hunt for replacements, Govee’s new Smart Plug Outlet Extender packs a decent amount of functionality into a solution that won’t be taking up floor space under your des... View Source

Grubhub is partnering with Instacart to offer grocery ordering, helping it catch up with delivery rivals DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc... View Source

Adobe has released the latest version of Firefly that now leans heavily on AI for nearly every facet of video and image post-production. The updated app can now use AI to generate narration, music, images and video clips, while even helping you to brainstorm ideas and piece together clips. Many creators may find it distasteful to lean on AI for nearly every aspect of production, but Adobe calls it... View Source

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa’s exceptional strength and slow pace could make it more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which hit Jamaica in 1988... View Source

Zillow is trying to make it easier to share listings by putting a messaging feature directly in its app. Instead of sharing a link to your dream home over a text message, Zillow says you can invite a friend, family member, or significant other to chat from the app’s inbox. From there, both you and your shopping partner can have a back-and-forth conversation about listings, as well as share your ne... View Source

Adobe Inc. Chief Executive Officer Shantanu Narayen said his company is being undervalued as Wall Street focuses on chips and AI training infrastructure... View Source

Among the usual slew of AI enhancements to its Creative Cloud apps, Adobe has introduced a new Photoshop AI Assistant to help automate repetitive chores and provide personalized recommendations. At Adobe Max 2025, the company also introduced new tools for Photoshop, Premiere and Lightroom, while launching a new AI generative model and bringing in new third party models from Topaz and others. ... View Source

Civets enrich coffee beans they eat and excrete with two fatty acids often used in dairy products, study finds... View Source

Turn your telescope on the moon at sunset on Oct. 28 to see a colossal "X" and "V" form on the lunar surface as sunlight picks out broken terrain along the terminator... View Source

Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool can now use third-party AI models. | Image: Adobe Adobe has kicked off its annual Max event, giving us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Creative Cloud apps. These include updates to Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature that aim to give creators more control over adding, removing o... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Matt Day sizes up Amazon’s place in the changing cloud computing market... View Source

I’m an education researcher and a parent. Here are some factors to consider in picking the best possible school for your child... View Source

The AI Assistant is designed to be used without needing professional design experience. A new generative AI experience is coming to Adobe’s cloud-based Express design platform, enabling you to transform projects by vaguely describing what changes to make. Adobe describes the “AI Assistant in Adobe Express” launching in public beta today as a conversational creative agent that “empowers people of e... View Source

PayPal Holdings Inc. raised its full-year earnings guidance and announced a tie-up with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet into ChatGPT, sending its shares soaring in early New York trading... View Source

Spinning off from Rivian, the TM-B e-bike is Also’s attempt at a do-it-all e-bike. It’s pitching it as flexible enough for commuting, trail riding or kid- and cargo-hauling because its modular frame can swap in bench seats or cargo racks. But the frame only comes in a single size. Still, Also (hate that name) says the standard battery is good for 60 miles of riding and can be charged via USB-C. En... View Source

The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture... View Source

PayPal Holdings Inc. shares soared after it reached a deal with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet inside the firm’s ChatGPT product... View Source

The Atlantic CEO’s new book, The Running Ground, examines his complicated relationship with the sport. On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, he talks about the ways tech is helping him become a better runner... View Source

After years of leading the stock market, Nvidia Corp.’s wild rally took a break over the summer. Now Wall Street is looking for some DC magic to get the shares running again... View Source

Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. said it was cutting about 14,000 jobs in a major restructuring... View Source

A government attempt to impose ethical guardrails on the use of artificial intelligence in Chile is drawing pushback from global technology giants, a debate that could set precedents as nations around the world reckon with how to regulate the rapidly growing industry... View Source

While the excitement around 2-in-1 systems has cooled a bit over the years, they’re still useful solutions for anyone who wants a device that can act as both a tablet and a traditional laptop. In tablet mode, they’re handy for jotting down notes and drawing pictures, and in their full laptop configurations, they can let you manage e-mail and write as you would with a traditional notebook. Whether... View Source

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said he is working to “refocus” the beleaguered chip company on engineering after its struggles with complacency and mismanagement... View Source

The Romo P robot vacuum from DJI is now available in Europe for €1,899. Of all the companies that could have launched a robot vacuum in 2025, I didn't have DJI in the running - but here we are. The drone and camera manufacturer released the DJI Romo robovac in Europe today, following its China debut this summer. The Romo is a combo robot vacuum and mop with a twist - it's transparent. But, sadly,... View Source

The European Union is in discussions with the first anchor investors for a fund that will back companies on the continent working on quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and other strategic technologies... View Source

Andreessen Horowitz is leading funding for a year-old startup that seeks to popularize the use of stablecoins through neighborhood stores in Pakistan and other emerging countries... View Source

Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus. Now he's best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of classic episodes of The X-Files, ranging from a monster-themed spoof of Cops to a bizarre high-speed car chase that was his first collaboration with Breaki... View Source

OpenAI Inc. is offering a free year of its ChatGPT Go service to users in India, raising its bid to capture a market of 1.4 billion people... View Source

The billions of dollars flowing into artificial intelligence will bring about changes that threaten to upend the global economic system, according to veteran Wall Street dealmaker Paul Taubman... View Source

Samsung SDI Co. is in talks with multirole humanoid robot makers to supply batteries as it seeks to diversify revenue sources to cushion the impact from US tariffs and tepid global demand for electric vehicles... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok said they’ll comply with Australia’s looming social-media ban for under-16s, setting aside their opposition just weeks before it comes into force... View Source

2025 saw a tripling of continual learning LLM papers according to arXiv trends. This is driven by foundation model scale and multimodal extensions. However, no flagship AI released models (GPT-5, Grok 4 etc…) fully integrate production-grade continual learning yet. There are expected architectures like routers and sparse finetuning signal imminent hybrids. There has been no ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites today (Oct. 27), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast... View Source

XAI has released version 0.1 of Grokipedia. It has almost 900,000 articles. Grokipedia is now live on http://Grokipedia.com Grokipedia focuses on truth-revealing via AI bias detection. As of October 2025, the English Wikipedia contains approximately 7,081,086 articles. This figure reflects its ongoing growth, with around 500 new articles added daily... View Source

Nidec Corp. shares tumbled as much as their daily limit of 19% on Tuesday as the company is set to be removed from the Nikkei 225 Stock Average and was flagged for special oversight by the Tokyo Stock Exchange... View Source

xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected. Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikipedia entries, with headings, subheadings, and citations. I haven’t seen any photos on the site yet. Wikipedia lets users edit pages, but it d... View Source

Rogo says its AI platform helps investment bankers worker faster and smarter... View Source

Grokipedia, the encyclopedia powered by xAI's assistant Grok briefly went online Monday, before it promptly crashed. At the time of this writing, the website appears to be working, and contains more than 885,000 articles, according to a counter on its homepage.   Musk, who has previously railed against Wikipedia, has described the project as a "a necessary step towards the... View Source

AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Lux is slated to come online fairly soon in early 2026, with Discovery following in 2029.  Both build on the work tha... View Source

WiseTech Global Ltd. said officers from the Australian Federal Police and a securities regulator searched its offices, seeking documents regarding alleged share trading by Chairman and founder Richard White and three other employees... View Source

Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp, during the Summit on Methane and Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases on day three of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images ExxonMobil is suing California over state laws that compel large companies to share a more comprehensive picture of their gre... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Qualcomm’s jump into the AI data center market with new chips and computers that could challenge Nvidia. Plus, investors prepare for a big week of tech earnings with Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple all reporting. And Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller discusses the AI data center startup’s new $10 billion valuation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image featuring Halo characters, a Warthog vehicle from the games, and the text “DESTROY THE FLOOD” and a link to ICE’s recruitment website. The DHS captioned the post,... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is teaming up with the US Energy Department to develop a pair of supercomputers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will deploy the company’s artificial intelligence chips to seek breakthroughs in energy and scientific research... View Source

NXP Semiconductors NV, a provider of chips for automakers and industrial customers, gave a stronger-than-anticipated forecast for the current period, signaling that the company is recovering from sluggish demand and trade war uncertainties... View Source

NextEra Energy Inc. plans to restart a nuclear power plant in Iowa, primarily to supply Google data centers... View Source

You can now watch your favorite video podcasts on your big screen with Spotify’s new tvOS app update. | Image: Spotify Spotify has announced a redesigned version of its Apple TV app that the company says has been “rebuilt from the ground up for a faster, smarter, more visual experience.” The tvOS version of the Spotify app is also gaining several welcome features from the mobile version, but the b... View Source

AI data centers on earth face bottlenecks like intermittent solar power, massive water usage for cooling (up to 1.7 million tons per 40 MW facility over a decade), and grid constraints. Space offers near-constant solar exposure (up to 95% capacity factor in sun-synchronous orbits), zero water needs, and rapid deployment (2-3 months vs. years on ... Read more... View Source

Using NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter, astronomers have discovered a strange arrangement of exoplanets around tight binary stars that shouldn't be... View Source

C2PA has merit, but it isn’t enough to protect online users from being misled by OpenAI’s deepfake factory. OpenAI's new deepfake machine, Sora, has proven that artificial intelligence is alarmingly good at faking reality. The AI-generated video platform, powered by OpenAI's new Sora 2 model, has churned out detailed (and often offensive or harmful) videos of famous people like Martin Luther King... View Source

Nvidia Corp. and Deutsche Telekom AG are preparing to announce plans for a €1 billion data center in Germany as part of a broader push to develop more infrastructure across Europe to power AI systems... View Source

The movie industry has been in a tailspin for years, with many people foregoing the theatrical experience in favor of watching films at home. I get it. Going to the movies can be expensive and, let’s face it, dealing with other people can be annoying (it’s been 10 years and I’m still mad about those teenagers who would not stop giggling all the way through my first viewing of The Witch). But there... View Source

The discount is available for every color, including the purple and orange shades. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you’re in the market for workout earbuds, now’s your chance to make a move. The Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are back down to $199.99 ($50 off) in multiple colors at Amazon and Walmart. Although we saw the wireless earbuds drop to $179 earlier this year, they weren’t discount... View Source

With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs, according to Reuters, the latest in a series of layoffs the company has conducted in the past few years... View Source

Google’s long-awaited AI health coach is nearly upon us, as a preview version is launching tomorrow for some Fitbit Premium users in the US. This will only be for Android devices at first, but the company promises an iOS version is in the works. This is a Public Preview version of the software, so think of it like a beta release. Google says it'll incorporate user feedback to "add, chang... View Source

Got TESLA FSD 14.1.4 over the weekend. Much Improved, not perfect. Avoid potholes and objects on the road far better. Able to leave my garage and go down a steep driveway. Old 13.X version would treat the road at the end of driveway as a potential barrier. Now it goes smoothly onto the road and ... Read more... View Source

Follow the space program since the moon landing in the four-part documentary "Once Upon a Time in Space". Here’s how to watch it anywhere on the planet... View Source

New coach, new app. | Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge Fitbit's new Gemini-powered health coach is debuting in preview tomorrow, as part of an entirely new app experience that was announced back in August. Premium subscribers in the US on Android will have access to it first as it starts rolling out, with plans to expand to iOS "later this year," according to Taylor Helgren, Fitbit product manager... View Source

The Apple MacBook Air M4 laptop is back on sale for just $799, which is one heck of a deal. This sale is for the model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. It's available in multiple colorways, but the silver one inexplicably costs $899. We ranked this as our favorite Apple laptop in our list of the best MacBook computers. Heck, it's even our very favorite laptop. Full stop. The perform... View Source

The last-gen Kindle is a great budget-friendly e-reader. In case you didn’t know, the last-gen Kindle is nearly just as good as the current model. Not only is the reading experience nearly identical, it also has the same sharp 300PPI display with dark mode, an adjustable front light, and USB-C charging. If you want a great e-reader, but you also want to save some money, you can grab the refu... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. moved its top metaverse executive to oversee AI products following hundreds of job cuts last week, a sign the company is still working to structure its teams even as it spends aggressively to compete in the heated artificial intelligence race... View Source

Battlefield 6 is getting a free battle royale mode on October 28. This follows numerous leaks that have been popping up ever since the mainline game hit store shelves on October 10. It's called Battlefield: RedSec, though we don't have too many gameplay details. It's free for everyone and you don't need the full-priced game to play. That much we do know. This puts it in direct... View Source

Last week, General Motors CEO Mary Barra caused a stir when she said that the company would eventually kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all of its gas cars. The company had already successfully removed phone mirroring capabilities from most of its electric vehicles, and now it was plotting how to drop support from its internal combustion engine vehicles too. But today, the company is clarify... View Source

Banijay Group NV, the owner of Betclic, is in advanced talks to buy CVC Capital Partners Plc’s German sports-betting business Tipico, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google has teamed up with the United Service Organizations (USO) to help deployed service members stay in touch with their families in a different way. As part of a pilot program, the company is bringing Google Beam, its 3D video communication tech, to USO service centers in the US and other countries starting in 2026.Google suggests that Beam can help military families who are separated by many m... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for tonight... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis, one of the most important companies in the entire legal system. For years — including when I was in law school — LexisNexis was basically the library. It’s where you went to look up case law, do legal research, and find the laws and precedents you would need to be an effective lawyer for your clients. There isn’t a lawyer today who h... View Source

Vista Equity Partners snapped up a majority stake in Nexthink SA, valuing the Swiss-American software company at $3 billion, the firm said in a statement... View Source

Federal investigators who are looking into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) tech have requested information from the company about the Mad Max mode it added to the system. The company has claimed that Mad Max offers “higher speeds and more frequent lane changes” than its Hurry speed profile."NHTSA is in contact with the manufacturer to gather additional information," the National Highway... View Source

While interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will not come near our planet, future ones may. A new campaign seeks to improve orbit predictions... View Source

After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any other choice but to use AWS or another major cloud provider. “The problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS,” Whittaker writes in a series... View Source

Threads, the X competitor from Meta Platforms Inc., is launching disappearing posts to encourage more people to share “unfiltered thoughts” on the network without fear that they’ll exist forever on a user’s profile... View Source

Meta's Threads is getting its own version of ephemeral posting with a new feature the company is calling "ghost posts." The temporary posts will be published within Threads' main feed like any other post, but will disappear after 24 hours. And while other users can interact with ghost posts, only the original poster will be able to view likes and replies. Instead of typica... View Source

Tesla’s board of directors issued a stark warning to shareholders today: approve Elon Musk’s unprecedented $1 trillion pay package or risk losing him as CEO. It’s a familiar threat, one that the board has used before, and if history offers any clues, it’s likely to work again. Tesla’s executive team is in full lobbying mode in the run-up to the November 6th annual shareholder meeting, urging share... View Source

MapLight Therapeutics Inc. shares jumped as much as 23% after the biotechnology firm raised $258.9 million in an initial public offering and private placement... View Source

It happened again. Peacock just raised subscription prices for its Premium and Premium Plus plans. This is the third price increase in as many years. If your bank account is feeling the pain, or if you're just looking to streamline your entertainment options, you may decide it's time to take a break from NBC's flagship platform. Here's everything you need to know about cancelin... View Source

This is only the second time we’ve had more than two Category 5 storms in a single Atlantic hurricane season... View Source

A meteor photobombed the patch of sky containing Comet Lemmon on Oct. 24, wrapping it in a glowing trail... View Source

Qualcomm is launching a pair of new AI chips in an attempt to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the market. On Monday, Qualcomm announced plans to release its new AI200 chip next year, followed by the AI250 in 2027 — both of which are built on the company’s mobile neural processing technology.  The new chips are built for deploying AI models, rather than training them. The launch marks a notabl... View Source

Private equity firm Cinven is considering a sale of German software company think-cell, which could be valued at as much as €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in a deal, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The 2025 Fall Classic has already reached Game 3 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. The tied-up World Series heads to Los Angeles tonight — Monday, Oct. 27 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT, with the Dodgers getting their turn at a home field advantage at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles. Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers are aiming to win their second consecutive championship, while Vlad Guerrero... View Source

Earlier this month, Lyra Health announced a "clinical-grade" AI chatbot to help users with "challenges" like burnout, sleep disruptions, and stress. There are eighteen mentions of "clinical" in its press release, including "clinically designed," "clinically rigorous," and "clinical training." For most people, myself included, "clinical" suggests "medical." The problem is, it doesn't mean medical... View Source

A 142-year-old UK engineering firm run by the sixth generation of its founding family was thrust further into the stock market spotlight Monday, as investors pounce on its ties to rising military spending... View Source

We need an enhanced version of SUNSET will strive to establish a space-based, combined discovery and early-warning system for NEOs. If we use multiple satellites traveling ahead of Earth on its orbit we improves detections of sunward objects over satellites in NEO-Surveyor-like orbits by tens of percent and enables seamless, automatic follow-ups. A University of ... Read more... View Source

Scientists look to genetics to explain why GLP-1 drugs work for some people but not for others... View Source

Elon Musk's rocket company is clearing out its "gravel, tractors and space junk" from a once-pristine plot of South Texas land... View Source

X is preparing to put Twitter.com out to pasture, and the official @Safety account posted on Friday warning anyone using physical security keys or passkeys for 2FA that they will need to re-enroll them. According to X, if the login methods aren’t updated by November 10th, the associated accounts will be locked until the update process is completed, and abandoned accounts could possibly be sold. Ac... View Source

Qualcomm is taking its shot at Nvidia, unveiling new AI data-center chips built on its mobile roots. The company says its first customer, Saudi Arabia’s Humain, will deploy massive computing power starting in 2026. Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow joined “Bloomberg Open Interest” to discuss how Qualcomm plans to muscle into the hottest market in tech... View Source

Using Spotify on Apple TV might be a smoother experience going forward. Spotify has released an entirely new "experience" that integrates many of its mobile features to Apple TV, including managing your queue and viewing lyrics.  The updated Spotify for Apple TV app also includes remote control via Connect — hopefully there won't be any future issues with changing the volume. Y... View Source

Faking wealth has always been big business, from buying designer dupes to renting private jet “sets” for photoshoots. But these days, people are using AI to make it a little more personal: creating photos of themselves living in leisure and luxury not to chase clout, but as a form of personal escapism or an attempt to manifest a better life. App developer Tim Wijaya posted that he did consulting w... View Source

Qualcomm Inc., the top maker of mobile phone processors, is entering the lucrative AI data center market with new chips and computers, aiming to challenge Nvidia Corp. in the fastest-growing part of the industry... View Source

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Our team detected glowing nickel vapor in the gas surrounding the incoming interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at an extraordinary distance from the sun, where temperatures remain far too cold for metals to normally vaporize... View Source

Between increased tariffs and price hikes, it’s not a great time to buy a PlayStation 5 console. That is, unless you head over to GameStop, which is selling the 825GB PS5 with a disc drive in its original (thicker) design along with 24 months of PS Plus Premium included for just $579.99 (previously $749.99). Given that the slimmer 1TB disc-based model is $549.99, this is a phenomenal deal that net... View Source

Wall Street analysts are now almost universally bullish on Microsoft Corp., with Guggenheim upgrading the software company to buy from hold ahead of its quarterly results... View Source

Nvidia Corp. has spent the past three years ensnared in an escalating trade impasse between the US and China that has kept its prized artificial intelligence chips out of a crucial market and cost it billions of dollars in revenue... View Source

From viral shots of Tiangong to a new deal with Astroscale, HEO Robotics is pioneering satellite-to-satellite imagery in orbit and even plans to expand beyond Earth... View Source

The OnePlus 15 has a redesigned camera with a rounded square module. After a steady stream of spec teases, OnePlus has launched its new OnePlus 15 flagship in China today. Release plans elsewhere are still unconfirmed, but the company promises that the phone’s global launching will be “soon.” We’ve known what the 15 would look like since September, when OnePlus also confirmed it would be powered b... View Source

Massachusetts entrepreneurs and politicians see an opening to make the state more of a military technology powerhouse and blunt the economic damage caused by the loss of federal support for industries such as life sciences and clean energy... View Source

International Business Machines Corp. is launching a digital assets platform to allow financial institutions, governments and companies to launch blockchain-based services, as crypto activity gathers steam... View Source

Apple only released its newest iPad in mid-October but the device is already on sale. Right now you can pick up the 11-inch iPad Pro (M5) for $949, down from $999. The five percent discount is exclusive to the 256GB Wi-Fi model with standard glass. It's also only available for the Space Black model, though the Silver version is currently listed as $983.  We gave the new iPad Pro an 85 in our... View Source

With the Argonaut lunar lander and the LUNA simulation facility in Germany, the European Space Agency is building the technology and training to have life on the moon... View Source

tZero Group Inc., which operates a marketplace for securities tied to digital tokens, is planning an initial public offering for 2026, Chief Executive Officer Alan Konevsky said in an interview... View Source

Bird flu surges and a government shutdown collide, complicating efforts to track cases and protect flocks... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr reports on the frenemy AI competition in which Microsoft is always playing second fiddle to OpenAI... View Source

How can reconstructing long-lost smells of ancient artifacts help us connect with the past?... View Source

AI is changing what careers are possible for students interested in STEM subjects. WIRED spoke with five aspiring scientists to find out how they’re preparing for the future... View Source

Fractal Analytics is preparing to kick off its initial public offering, which may fetch 49 billion rupees ($555 million), as early as next month in India, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they might be onto something... View Source

The amount of bandwidth provided by SpaceX's Starlink satellites is limiting Ukraine's ability to operate ground robots on the frontline of the nation's war against Russia... View Source

Every day, millions confide in AI, exposing their most intimate problems and hoping it will fix them. This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier... View Source

Next month, Samsung will start displaying ads for Samsung-related products and services on its Family Hub refrigerators in the US. Samsung warned us last month that ads were coming to the giant Android tablets embedded in its Family Hub smart fridges. I've been eyeing mine ever since - and the first ones are about to arrive. Starting November 3rd, the $2,000-plus connected fridges will get a new w... View Source

Regardless of what kind of exercise you’re into, if you’re working out, you’ll want a pair of wireless workout headphones. They allow you to be free and untethered during a serious weight-lifting session, a 5K run, an hour at the skate park and everywhere in between where you’re moving and sweating a ton. There are dozens of great wireless headphones and wireless earbud options out there, but for... View Source

When Dutch voters go to the polls this week, the outcome is likely to be a fractured parliament with no party close to a majority. That will mean lengthy coalition haggling, leaving the country stuck with a caretaker government for some time... View Source

Catching this distinctive but faint zigzag constellation will require a dark sky, well away from street lightsTime to track down a faint gem of the northern skies. Nestled between the bright constellations of Cygnus, the swan, and the mythical mother-daughter pair of Cassiopeia and Andromeda, Lacerta, the lizard, is admittedly a faint constellation.However, picking out its distinctive shape on a c... View Source

European tech earnings resoundingly beat expectations, as growing investment in artificial intelligence lifts demand and counters trade headwinds... View Source

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said President Donald Trump told him the US and Malaysia will deal with US tariffs on semiconductors “at the appropriate time.”... View Source

Meituan plans to raise around $3 billion in what would be its largest regular bond issuance ever, as the company faces intensifying competition in China’s food delivery market... View Source

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said President Donald Trump told him the US and Malaysia will deal with US tariffs on semiconductors “at the appropriate time.”... View Source

X-Chess Champion Kramnik may face discipline. He hounded Daniel Naroditsky with accusations of cheating without evidence. Daniel Naroditsky said days before his death that whenever he was doing well the accusations of cheating would arise. Daniel said he felt is one of the worst periods of his life and at time felt his life was ... Read more... View Source

ASEAN (in particular Malaysia) were key part of US Trade diversification from China Trade. Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Australia had key deals for the US to get 30-50% of the rare earth supply over the next 2-3 years up from 10% non-China now. On October 26, 2025, during the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, the ... Read more... View Source

Its CEO tries to head off Paramount's offer. BTS plans its biggest tour ever... View Source

According to a report from The Information, OpenAI is interested in developing a tool that could generate music from text and audio prompts, and has been working with students from The Juilliard School to help with creating training data. The company envisions something that could be used to generate guitar accompaniment for a vocal track, for example, or to add music to videos, sources with knowl... View Source

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted a new measure that allows it to photograph any non-US citizen who enters or exits the country for facial recognition purposes. According to a filing with the government's Federal Register, CBP and the Department of Homeland Security are looking to crack down on threats of terrorism, fraudulent use of travel documents and anyone who overstay... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. will on Monday sign a letter of intent with Poland’s Defense Ministry, according to a statement from the ministry... View Source

Novartis AG agreed to buy biotechnology company Avidity Biosciences Inc... View Source

Opening Apple's Maps app just for directions may look a little different in the near future. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to introduce ads to Maps as soon as next year. While it won't be as annoying as unskippable YouTube ads, Apple wants to offer better visibility on Maps to restaurants and businesses that are willing to pay. When looking for a new restau... View Source

The iterative upgrades for iPads may not be enticing enough to warrant a new purchase every year, but Apple may have a particularly cool upgrade to convince users to shell out for the next iPad Pro. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to include a vapor chamber for the upcoming iPad Pro that's due to ship with the M6 chip. We've already seen the vapor chamber inc... View Source

Accurate storm surge predictions are critical for giving coastal residents time to evacuate and giving emergency responders time to prepare... View Source

There are only a handful of albums that I think qualify as genuinely scary. You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters, and Swans To Be Kind both immediately come to mind. But those records come with… let's say, baggage. I've Seen All I Need to See lacks some of the atmospheric spookiness of To Be Kind and the flashes of pop-tinged menace of You Won't Get What You Want, but it makes up for that with... View Source

A super-bright and heavy-duty rechargeable flashlight that won't break the bank... View Source

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to distinguish between radiation-made organics and those born in a subsurface sea... View Source

Adobe’s computational photography app, Project Indigo, had a bit of trouble adapting to the new square-format selfie sensor in the iPhone 17 series. For the last month or so, the app simply didn’t support Apple’s latest phones at all. Adobe was working behind the scenes to get things up and running, and posting occasional updates to the Adobe Community forums. But the company has decided to simply... View Source

"Sharp Dressed Man," by ZZ Top. Hard on a good day, Medium when my friends were over, Expert once and then never ever again. That was my Guitar Hero sweet spot. And for years, it seemed like everybody had one. The plastic guitar controllers became a staple of living rooms everywhere, and the songs - from big bands, small bands, and bands that didn't even actually exist - became huge hits. Long bef... View Source

South Africa is seeking private investment in its passenger rail system, saying national coffers aren’t deep enough for the type of cash required to modernize and expand the network... View Source

Google is rolling out out a new feature for Gemini's Canvas, the free interactive workspace inside the AI chatbot's app, meant for students and employees who need to create presentations. Gemini is now capable of generating slides with just a prompt, though users can also upload files like documents, spreadsheets and research papers if they want a presentation based on a specific source... View Source

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) will pass through the neck of the great celestial serpent represented by the constellation Serpens Caput on the nights of Oct. 26-27... View Source

The Australian government will convene a two-day meeting on Monday to explore changes to its copyright framework, as it seeks to meet the challenges posed by artificial intelligence... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the legal morass of AI, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The song was called "Heart on My Sleeve," and if you didn't know better, you might guess you were hearing Drake. If you did know better, you... View Source

Apple is working on a vapor chamber to improve cooling and performance in an iPad Pro slated for as early as 2027. Also: The company makes headway on a plan to bring ads to Apple Maps, and a foldable iPad with an 18-inch screen hits development snags... View Source

A new space debris removal project, ALBATOR, plans to tackle the growing debris problem in orbit... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 103, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry everything's so expensive this week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about gooning and Costco and protein bars and the Jonas Brothers, bingeing Nobody Wants This season two, trying to figure out... View Source

French lawmakers didn’t vote on a Socialist proposal for a wealth tax Saturday, delaying a possible compromise in a budget debate that risks toppling the fragile minority government of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu... View Source

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed... View Source

Suspects have been arrested on Saturday evening and taken into custody as part of the investigation in the Louvre museum jewel heist... View Source

Australia has earmarked A$83.5 million ($54.4 million) to build cyber-security capacity across the Indo-Pacific, saying global cooperation is key as online crimes become more complex and sophisticated... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. It's been a packed week with lots of tasty new games arriving, and news and reveals of upcoming projects. So, let's take a look at a bunch of them.Before we get started though, Engadget senior editor Jessica Conditt spoke with Maxi Boch, one of the core trio behind Baby Steps, about how the game came together... View Source

An AI expert from Anthropic predicts a mostly smooth transition for AI over the next 2-3 years where business adopts best practice AI that is unleashing 10X productivity. This will be great value creation that would payoff the trillions we are and will invest. Perfecting and scaling what AI is capable of now and what ... Read more... View Source

Super VC Marc Andreessen talks with Blake Masters and Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, a cloud-based coding platform. They talk about the transformative role of AI in democratizing programming, technical breakthroughs in agentic AI, historical parallels in computing evolution, debates on AGI timelines, economic implications, and Masad’s personal journey from Jordan to Silicon ... R... View Source

LEO mega-constellations are expected to deploy thousands of satellites to provide broadband services with data rates approaching several Gbps and latencies as low as 30–50 ms, significantly lower than traditional GEO satellites (500+ ms). Achieving 6G’s target of peak data rates up to 1 Tbps requires satellites to operate in high-frequency bands like Ka-band (26.5–40 ... Read more... View Source

A teaser shared at the end of the Indie Horror Showcase this week gives us a better idea of what the upcoming found footage Paranormal Activity game will be like. In the short trailer for Paranormal Activity: Threshold, we're introduced to an unfortunate couple who has purchased a home that not only needs some serious work, but is also very much haunted. Cue creepy faces appearing in doorways... View Source

We now know TESLA has world leading robotaxi safety. 250,000 Robotaxi Miles driven with 1 incident. Austin reveals the safety and Tesla revealed the miles. Putting the pieces together. We have the up to date public safety data. Tesla revealed the miles of robotaxi in Austin and in the SF Bay Area. We put this ... Read more... View Source

Recent announcements highlight Samsung’s development of an AI-powered modem chip designed to enable direct satellite-to-device (D2D) connectivity with SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. This chip uses AI to optimize signal processing, beamforming, and interference management, allowing unmodified smartphones and devices to connect to low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites at gigabit speeds—even... View Source

The hit horror comic series Something is Killing the Children is headed to the big (and small) screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blumhouse is developing a live-action movie and adult animated series based on the comics. There are no details yet on the release timeline or casting.Something is Killing the Children, created by writer James Tynion IV and illustrator Werther Dell’Edera, foll... View Source

The Commodore 64 is back in black, sort of. Retro Games and Plaion Replai released a limited edition redesign of the best-selling computer, called THEC64 - Black Edition. Like its name suggests, the console is a modernized version of the classic Commodore 64 in an all-black shell. THEC64 - Black Edition will come with 25 pre-installed games, but unlike the company's previous consoles, this on... View Source

Robots will be flipping your burgers soon. Right now, there are robots stocking convenience store shelves in Japan. We haven't embraced that tech here in America yet, but it's hard to imagine 7-11 or Walmart won't at least experiment with it soon. Walmart gave up on its shelf-scanning robots in 2020, but machine vision and AI have improved a lot in the last five years, and it's only a matter of ti... View Source

For roughly the same price as a flagship smartphone, you could instead buy an affordable humanoid robot that's meant for consumer and educational use. Noetix Robotics, a Beijing-based startup, revealed its Bumi robot that's priced at nearly 10,000 yuan, or around $1,400. Unlike higher-end robots, the inexpensive Bumi stands at around three feet tall and weighs about 26 lbs. You won'... View Source

Starting soon, Neato robovac owners will no longer be able to control their devices using the app. Neato Robotics, which shut down in 2023 due to declining sales, has notified customers that "cloud services are being phased out during Q4 2025," according to an email obtained by The Verge. While Neato's parent company Vorwerk Group initially said cloud support would continue for... View Source

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"... View Source

Just like a minor upgrade in specs, Apple's latest M5 MacBook Pro gets the slightest improvement when it comes to repairability. According to iFixit's teardown, the M5 MacBook Pro is the first of its kind that lets you replace the battery without having to remove the trackpad. However, Apple's official method of replacing the battery still requires navigating an arduous process that... View Source

A pocketable everyday carry (EDC) flashlight that comes with an IP68 waterproof rating, five lumen modes and is rechargeable using USB-C... View Source

MSI’s flagship is indeed titanic in stature, and certainly price. It's easy to get into the weeds on a hobby, especially if you're into PC gaming and dreaming of the highest levels of graphical performance. But how much is too much for hardware? Spending top dollar on graphics power, processing, RAM, storage, etc. - like many things - eventually leads to diminishing returns. When it comes to gamin... View Source

In the global portfolio of political ads that changed history, a handful stand out... View Source

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites from California today (Oct. 25). It was the 135th orbital launch of 2025 for the company, setting a new record... View Source

You can grab a four-pack of AirTags for just $64.99 right now. Apple’s AirTags have become one of my essentials while traveling, namely because they let me check whether my luggage is in the right place instead of panicking at the baggage claim. And right now, you can get a four-pack of AirTags at Amazon and Walmart for $64.99 ($35 off), which is just a few cents short of the bundle’s all-time low... View Source

On Episode 183 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Mike Wall to discuss NASA's pursuit to beat the Chinese to a human landing on the moon... View Source

This quiz will test your lunar savvy — from iconic craters and mysterious maria to the legendary Apollo landing sites... View Source

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal Labs, something Will Owen, the communications di... View Source

Spotify recently came under fire for running recruitment ads for ICE, which ask users to "join the mission to protect America" and to "fulfill [their] mission," in the US. Despite music labels calling on the streaming service to stop serving ICE recruitment ads, Spotify doubled down. A spokesperson for the company told The Independent that the ads are "part of a broad camp... View Source

Many on Wall Street like to style themselves as contrarians, but few are swimming against the current as hard as Jay Goldberg, the lone bear on high-flying Nvidia Corp... View Source

It took me a while to get into Ball x Pit. The new roguelike blends elements from games like Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and even city builders, creating a complex mix of ideas. But as is the case with many roguelikes, once I figured everything out well enough to get a taste of my first win, delving back into the pit for another round was all I could think about. Ball x Pit barely has a story - i... View Source

During a recent all-hands meeting, Waymo's chief winter weather expert laid it out for all the company's engineers and product managers: if Waymo wants to expand to new cities and new markets, it's robotaxis will need to be able to confidently and safely handle the snow. In its first few years of operation, Waymo has strategically stuck to cities with warmer, drier climates - places like Phoenix,... View Source

If you’re moving on to a new Apple Watch, selling your current one or fixing some software hiccups, you’ll probably need to disconnect it from your iPhone. Apple calls this unpairing; it’s the step that wipes your watch, breaks the connection to your phone and removes Activation Lock so the next person can use it. The good news is that unpairing is straightforward whether you have your iPhone near... View Source

Here's where 5 of NASA's most famous spacecraft can be found in the October sky... View Source

When people sign up for a dating site like Tinder, they don't expect their profiles and personal information to be searchable - especially by a scorned lover, or worse. But that's what popular apps like Cheaterbuster or CheatEye seem to be doing under the guise of being able to "catch cheaters." Last week, 404 Media published a report about apps that apparently use facial recognition technology to... View Source

Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will launch on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station today (Oct. 25), and you can watch the action live... View Source

It's dusk, and bugs are chirping all around me. I'm wandering through the middle of a big, virtual swamp toward the sound of thumping bass off in the distance. There isn't much else nearby - some trees, a couple of other players. It's mostly just me and the sound emanating from a large wooden structure strung up with lights sitting farther out into the swamp. When I finally arrive, it rises above... View Source

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s VP of Autopilot Software, delivered a keynote titled “Building Foundational Models for Robotics at Tesla” at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Tesla FSD camera inputs feed into a large-scale neural network (with expanding parameter counts, soon to scale 10x via new hardware). Future Outlook Scale robotaxi to unsupervised, nationwide... View Source

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs brain-computer interface startup he's set to announce soon with co-founder Alex Blania. While Shapiro's official title is unclear, sources say he will be... View Source

Earlier this week, Jon Prosser, who is being sued by Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets, told The Verge that he has been “in active communications with Apple since the beginning stages of this case.” But Apple, in a new filing on Thursday that was reported on by MacRumors, said that while Prosser has “publicly acknowledged” Apple’s complaint, he “has not indicated whether he will file a re... View Source

Want to flex your Wordle habit beyond just keeping your streak? The New York Times has added badges to recognize certain achievements in Wordle, Spelling Bee, and Connections. “Have you achieved the infamous Wordle in 1? What about the Perfect Connections Puzzle? How many Pangrams are under your Spelling Bee belt? Badges are rewards you can earn through gameplay that let you look back on the momen... View Source

This new analysis could be used to test the physics of quantum chromodynamics in the future... View Source

Behind the scenes of placid Wall Street markets, drama is unfolding for some heavy-hitting professional investors... View Source

Before there’s a new Halo game, Halo Studios is revisiting the past. Xbox has announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the first game in the storied shooter series, Halo: Combat Evolved, developed by Halo Studios and coming to Xbox, PC and PS5 in 2026.Halo: Campaign Evolved is described as “a faithful yet modernized remake” of the first game’s campaign, with updated visuals and cinematics, “r... View Source

The Xtra Muse and the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, both of which are on sale. I use a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 every single week to help film Today I’m Toying With, and I love it to pieces. The baby steadicam’s one of the most popular gadgets the company’s ever sold, because it’s so good at automatically capturing stabilized video of whatever I want, far better than a phone. What I don’t love is how DJI jacked up... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Intel’s earnings, as the chipmaker returned to profitability and gave an upbeat revenue forecast. Plus, banks are preparing to launch a $38 billion debt offering to help fund data centers tied to Oracle. That comes as the Bank of England begins to probe data center lending amid fears of an AI bubble. And, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch discusses the compa... View Source

A federal court ruled that Facebook parent Meta can't use attorney-client privilege to block internal documents and research related to teen harm, Bloomberg Law reported. The decision is a setback to Meta in its lawsuits against multiple states that accused the company of making its platforms addictive despite knowing they were harmful to teenagers.  Judge Yvonne Williams of the Washingt... View Source

New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed... View Source

Halo Studios has created something special for the 25th anniversary of Halo next year. Halo: Campaign Evolved is a full remake of the original Combat Evolved that launched alongside Microsoft’s first Xbox console in 2001. It has a fully rebuilt campaign with 4K visuals, new weapons and vehicles, a four-player online co-op mode, and brand-new story content. And it’s all coming to the Xbox Series X... View Source

We finally have a release date for Mouse: P.I. for Hire. The delightfully animated game, which marks Troy Baker's first time playing a rodent private eye, is slated for March 19, 2026. Based on its trailers, you'd be forgiven for viewing Mouse: P.I. for Hire as Cuphead meets Doom. Although it does include FPS action, Engadget's Jessica Conditt discovered surprising depth behind its... View Source

The rigged-poker-game indictment unveiled on Thursday reads like a Hollywood heist film, featuring NBA stars and famous Mafia crime families. It also involves the high-tech hacking of casino-quality card shuffling machines... View Source

We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature about the sycophantic nature of AI chatbots and the results should surprise no one. Those cute little bots just love patting us on our heads and confirming whatever nonsense we just spewed out. The res... View Source

Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon... View Source

Things seem to be escalating quickly…... View Source

Outlook users have only just got over the webification of Microsoft's email client in recent years, and already there are major changes on the horizon. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell me that the company recently reorganized its Outlook team under new leadership with a focus on rebuilding the email client for the AI era. "Instead of bolting AI onto legacy experiences, we have the chan... View Source

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn't left... View Source

High-resolution audio on the go isn’t very convenient. It typically involves wired headphones and a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) of some kind, plus your phone or another device to access files or a streaming service. All of this is necessary since Bluetooth compresses an audio signal by design, to allow for low-latency transmission and minimize battery draw. Simply put, wireless headphones ha... View Source

Disease-causing bacteria that have been recently discovered in the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers may have spurred the massive infantry’s demise during its retreat from Russia... View Source

Comet 3I/ATLAS is warming up as it approaches the sun, causing a jet to emerge. The jet is visible in a dramatic new image... View Source

Two years after US-based Neato Robotics closed up shop in 2023, its robot vacuum cleaners have reached the end of the road (or rather, hallway). Users are receiving emails notifying them that their Neato robovacs will no longer have access to cloud services, meaning they can’t be controlled through the robots’ MyNeato app anymore.  In an email obtained by The Verge, Neato Robotics explained t... View Source

There's been another turn in WordPress creator Automattic's ongoing legal battle with WordPress provider WP Engine. In a counterclaim Automattic filed as part of WP Engine's lawsuit against the company, the WordPress creator claims investment from private equity firm Silver Lake led WP Engine to violate its trademarks and fail to contribute to the open-source WordPress project.Autom... View Source

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements originating from the rocky body... View Source

Halloween parties are fun. The preparation and cleanup? Not so much. Luckily for those looking to make life a little easier next week, Eufy’s X10 Pro Omni is available from Amazon for $499.99 ($300 off) when you clip the on-page coupon, which matches the all-time low we last saw during Amazon’s October Prime Day event. If you prefer a different retailer, can also pick up the robovac directly from... View Source

Instagram's latest feature should make it easier to resurface videos you've viewed. On Friday, Adam Mosseri revealed a new watch history for Reels. "Hopefully, now you can find that thing that you were trying to find that you couldn't find before," the Instagram CEO said. We could see the feature coming in handy. For example, when you see something interesting but lose it... View Source

Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind the mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, according to posts from staffers on LinkedIn. Netflix acquired Boss Fight in March 2022, with an executive saying at the time that the studio’s “extensive experience building hit games across genres will help accelerate our ability to provide Netflix members with great games wherever they want... View Source

Rivian has agreed to settle a 2022 shareholder lawsuit. The automaker will pay out $250 million to qualifying investors if the agreement is approved. The lawsuit stemmed from alleged deception surrounding a March 2022 price hike for the R1S SUV and R1T truck. The class-action lawsuit alleges that Rivian misled investors around the time of its 2021 IPO. The core accusation is that the automaker fai... View Source

DeepSeek’s announced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) model compresses text-heavy data into images and reduces vision tokens per image by up to 20x while retaining 97% accuracy (10x compression) or ~60% at 20x. This outperforms competitors on efficiency-performance charts. arxiv – DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression We present DeepSeek-OCR as an initial investigation into the... View Source

Satellite photos taken by Planet depict the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for the planned Trump Ballroom... View Source

When the Epomaker P75 launched last year, it impressed us with its build quality and laundry list of features, especially for a board that retails for less than $100. And while the mechanical keyboard has since been discontinued, it remains an excellent choice you can still pick up with either the linear or tactile switches at Amazon for $79.99 ($20 off), which nearly matches the board’s all-time... View Source

China’s Wingtech Technology Co. warned the Dutch government’s seizure of chipmaking unit Nexperia may hit its bottomline if it cannot take back control by end of the year... View Source

The federal government has released a list of all of the entities helping to pay for President Trump's lavish White House ballroom, according to reporting by Business Insider. Big tech is all over this thing, with companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft all shelling out cash to fund the 90,000-square-foot ballroom. It's not just big tech. Defense firms are also helping t... View Source

The latest Nintendo Direct on October 23rd brought us an hour-long dive into Kirby Air Riders, as well as a surprising accessibility announcement. Hosted by game director Masahiro Sakurai, the Direct showed off more features, gameplay, and modes for the racing game releasing for the Switch 2 on November 20th. Tucked toward the end of the presentation, however, Sakurai devoted a few minutes to Kirb... View Source

For most of the year, it looked like power demand from AI was insatiable, sending investors rushing into shares of the companies that generate electricity. Whether coal-fired, wind-driven or nuclear, generators across the board saw dizzying rallies... View Source

Amazon is offering a hefty discount on the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus. The video doorbell has dropped from its regular price of $150 to $80 in a limited-time deal. That's a discount of 47 percent for this particular model. It also matches the record-low price we saw for the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus during the Prime Day event earlier this month. The Ring Battery Doorbell Plus has a more expanded... View Source

Nike’s new “neuroscience-based footwear” is designed to activate an athlete’s brain before and after a big game. The two shoes, a mule (the $95 Mind 001) and a lace-up sneaker (the $145 Mind 002), feature a distinctive array of 22 orange foam nodes embedded in each sole. Nike says the nodes each move up and down independently, like “pistons and gimbals,” as the athlete walks, mimicking the feeling... View Source

Measles outbreaks have spread across the US to reach 41 states. The largest ongoing cluster in Utah and Arizona has now grown into the second-biggest outbreak of the year... View Source

Stop me if you've heard this one before: YouTube TV may lose a provider's content because a deadline is approaching without a deal in place. This time, the media company is Disney. It's warning (via Variety) that its networks could soon go dark on Google's streaming service. The two sides are negotiating ahead of an October 30 midnight ET deadline. If they can't agree by t... View Source

Nike’s next inflatable jacket will make its first public appearance at the Olympics. | Image: Nike Alongside a powered footwear system called Project Amplify and new performance apparel with improved airflow, Nike yesterday debuted a new jacket allowing athletes to regulate their body temperature without having to add or remove layers of clothing. Leveraging the company’s longtime use of air bladd... View Source

The value of digital items in the popular video-game Counter—Strike has fallen 48% following an update by the title’s developer Valve Corp... View Source

Netflix is reportedly closing its Boss Fight Entertainment game development studio, according to various LinkedIn posts by staffers. The streaming giant bought the company back in 2022 and it has been responsible for games like Squid Game: Unleashed and the interactive narrative Netflix Stories. This is relatively surprising, as Squid Game: Unleashed was something of a hit. It launched alongside s... View Source

Blue Origin has a critical next flight in November for New Glenn. It will determine if they have a chance for 4 flights in 2026 or 8. They have to be able to cleanly fly and land the booster stage. This will determine if they can reuse the booster every 6 months. Any flight problems ... Read more... View Source

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncover a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 ancient shoes in vulture nesting sites... View Source

Light from the ancient supernova remnant was captured over the course of 50 hours in September 2025... View Source

Web browsers have looked and worked basically the same way for more than a decade, to the point where they all have roughly the same features, in the same places, and are often even built around the same engine. But just about every company in tech suddenly wants to change them, all spurred by AI and the possibility of controlling one of the most important surfaces on any device. And that means no... View Source

Europe’s auto industry is working around the clock to prevent the conflict with China over chipmaker Nexperia from triggering production outages... View Source

The era of AI video is upon us, and honestly it's kind of terrifying. Between OpenAI's Sora and official communications from the Trump White House, it's clear that we're not ready for an unending onslaught of AI video. In this episode, Devindra and producer Ben chat with the Washington Post's technology reporter Drew Harwell and Jeremy Carrasco (AKA "ShowtoolsAI"... View Source

This is the third Salmonella-related egg recall of 2025. Here’s what to do if you haverecalled eggs... View Source

Snacking giant Mondelez is using generative AI to slash marketing costs and is preparing to release AI-generated TV ads next year, a senior executive told Reuters. Jon Halvorson, Mondelez’s global senior vice president of consumer experience, said the company has spent more than $40 million on an AI video tool that can halve production costs. TV ads made using the tool should be ready to air in ti... View Source

The well-received sequel will be out next week, six years after the original title... View Source

Amazon has published a lengthy report about the outage that knocked numerous websites, services, apps and games offline on October 20. It all started with a bug in its automation software DynamoDB, where its AWS customers store their data, which then triggered more issues in its other systems that relied on the software.  As Amazon explains, DynamoDB maintains hundreds of thousands of DNS rec... View Source

After a short-lived maiden flight in late July, Australia's Gilmour Space is rebuilding for a second orbital attempt and a stronger domestic launch ecosystem... View Source

Verizon is launching a new “Lite” home internet plan for people in areas previously not covered by its fiber and 5G internet. The new plan offers download speeds of up to 25Mbps, but it costs as much as $60 per month without any discounts. Verizon says its Lite plan is best for “light” internet usage in homes limited to “older, less reliable options like DSL or satellite.” Customers who already us... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has hired veteran technology dealmaker Kevin Brunner from Bank of America Corp. as a global chair of investment banking and mergers and acquisitions... View Source

The League Championship Series are history, and the final two teams have emerged: The 2025 Fall Classic will see the Los Angeles Dodgers face the Toronto Blue Jays. Game 1 of the 2025 MLB World Series begins tonight — Friday, Oct. 24 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT, with the Blue Jays getting the initial home field advantage at Rogers Centre, Toronto. Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers are aiming to win their secon... View Source

DJI’s new smartphone stabilizer supports Apple’s DockKit so it can track and follow subjects using a variety of iPhone camera apps. | Image: DJI Just eight months after introducing the Osmo Mobile 7 Pro, DJI has already announced a follow-up. The new Osmo Mobile 8 doesn’t reimagine the now well-established design of the company’s smartphone stabilizers. But it introduces new functionality, includi... View Source

Canal+ SA is studying the possibility of buying out the remaining stake in African streaming platform Showmax from Comcast Corp., people familiar with the matter said, as the French media firm looks to consolidate its operations in the continent... View Source

In recent weeks, OpenAI has signed blockbuster deals with AMD and Broadcom to build vast numbers of AI chips. Much of the focus has been on the financial implications, since OpenAI will need hundreds of billions of dollars to make good on its promises. As important as it is to look at the quite implausible financials, we also need to look at the broader implications for the industry. Like, the chi... View Source

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Should you take vitamin C or zinc when you are sick with a common cold or influenza? Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains which at-home remedies actually help... View Source

If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title would have to go to Fomalhaut... View Source

We are saturated with superhero media to the point where even self-criticism has been done to death with franchises like Watchmen and The Boys. But with its debut choice-driven narrative adventure, AdHoc Studio has managed to find a unique angle for the superhero genre. In Dispatch, the story focuses on an office-based lackey and corporate manager of said superheroes, rather than the heroes themse... View Source

Over the past few years, few stocks in the US have been hotter than AppLovin Corp... View Source

Bethesda has announced that it's releasing a 10th anniversary version of Fallout 4 on November 10, similar to what it did for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition bundles the base game with Automatron, Far Harbor, Nuka-World and the Workshop expansions. The original open world game was released in 2015 and takes place in the year 2287, 210 years after the Great War. Lik... View Source

After a quiet summer, bird flu cases are rising again. Scientists expected the development, but what happens next is still uncertain... View Source

Here are some of the third-party workspace apps that are available for company knowledge. OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that makes it easier to search for workspace information without switching between apps. The “company knowledge” ChatGPT update for Business, Enterprise, and Education users is powered by a version of GPT‑5 that directly connects with tools like Slack, SharePoint, Goo... View Source

The company that basically invented the cloud business is widely perceived as trailing its rivals in artificial intelligence. ... View Source

The European Commission has found that Meta and TikTok had violated rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA) and is now giving them the chance to comply if they don't want to be fined up to 6 percent of their total worldwide annual turnover. According to the Commission, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have "put in place burdensome procedures and tools" for researchers who want to r... View Source

Despite the widespread use of medication during pregnancy, a lack of clinical research leaves patients and doctors navigating treatment with dangerously few data... View Source

Perched high in Chile's Andes, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory sees a breathtaking view of the Milky Way's southern arc... View Source

OpenAI, Founders Fund and Lux Capital have invested in Valthos, a startup using AI to try to prevent AI-enabled destruction. ... View Source

A comet’s brightness depends on how it’s made, how and when we see it, and even a bit of unpredictable luck... View Source

The Unistellar Envision smart binoculars use Augmented Reality to identify night sky and terrestrial targets, second-stage pre-orders are live now but only until Nov. 2 and there are under 200 units left... View Source

Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a gilded grand ballroom. The president says taxpayers won’t be footing the $300 million bill and that private donors, himself included, will pick up the tab.  Big Tech will be paying for a lot of it, if the list of donors released by the White House Thursday is anything to go by (though it does not say how much each contrib... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kate Clark reports on how venture capital firms are using artificial intelligence technology as they flood AI startups with money... View Source

This week, Samsung showed off Galaxy XR, its Vision Pro-troubling headset, and you can bet we’ve done a deep dive. Sam Rutherford got one of these strapped to his head and has plenty of feelings about the new hardware. The headset is lighter, more comfortable and easier to live with than Apple’s Vision Pro, even if it lacks many of its headline features. The software ecosystem is already pretty br... View Source

Facebook and Instagram are breaching Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) rules related to the handling of illegal content, moderation, and transparency, according to a preliminary decision issued by the European Commission. TikTok and Meta have both also been found to be violating transparency obligations under the DSA.  The Commission says that Meta is imposing “confusing” obstacles for Facebook... View Source

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation... View Source

The Trump administration is pushing regulators to accelerate the process of allowing for data-center connections to power grids, proposing a 60-day limit to reviews. Matthew Bloxham of Bloomberg Intelligence has more... View Source

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest known asteroid in the solar system... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok have breached European Union rules on illegal content, according to early findings from the bloc... View Source

Save a huge 74% on the VPN TechRadar consistently ranks as its best overall. The price cut applies across all NordVPN plans... View Source

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war... View Source

Valeo SE has found replacements for chips supplied by Nexperia for almost its entire automotive product range, indicating industry progress on efforts to ward off looming output stoppages... View Source

Whether you’re already an avid runner or hope to be one as you start a new training regimen, you’ll get more out of your exercise routine if you have some good music to accompany you. Getting into the zone during a long run with your preferred music, be it rap, classic rock or today’s pop hits, can totally change your experience for the better. To do that, you have to start with a good pair of run... View Source

Thailand’s government revoked citizenship of a Cambodian high-ranking businessman after he was accused of being involved with cyber-scam operations and human trafficking networks... View Source

China will seek to maintain a certain rate of growth and expand consumption’s share of the economy as authorities draft the next five-year development blueprint, a senior official said... View Source

The crypto trading market is often divided into two main constituents: Bitcoin and so-called altcoins, which covers more or less every other token... View Source

Former Bundesbank chief Axel Weber has warned the coming disruption from artificial intelligence could usher in the rise of a new global elite that profits disproportionately from the adoption of the cutting-edge technology while leaving the rest worse off... View Source

As we've seen with Toyota's Prius Prime, putting a solar panel on a car's roof is a nifty idea but can only gain you a few free miles a day due to the limited size. With a new prototype of its hyper-popular Sakura "kei" EV, Nissan has the answer: a bigger solar panel roof called the AO-Solar Extender. When fully stretched out on a sunny day, it can add about 1,864 miles of... View Source

Nidec Corp. shares tumbled after it withdrew full-year guidance and canceled its share buyback program as an accounting crisis at the manufacturer of precision motors deepens... View Source

China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has visited the offices of the country’s leading food-delivery platforms as part of an investigation into their practices, according to a report by the Economic Observer... View Source

A dearth of African-language content is delaying the uptake of artificial intelligence on the continent, compounding a lack of access to the technology, according to mobile industry body GSMA... View Source

Competition in Latin America’s digital market has entered a new phase as MercadoLibre Inc. joins forces with Grupo Casas Bahia SA to boost e-commerce in Brazil, the region’s largest economy... View Source

Alberta’s government kicked off a new legislative session pledging to build new pipelines and deploy its vast natural gas reserves to become a major player in artificial intelligence... View Source

After detailing its plans to revamp its game streaming service at the beginning of October, Amazon is finally ready to relaunch Luna. The new Amazon Luna is available at no additional cost for Prime subscribers, and now includes new beginner-friendly multiplayer games.If you've tried Luna in the past — or most other game streaming services for that matter — the biggest change Amazon is making... View Source

Intel Corp. shares surged after the chipmaker returned to profitability and gave an upbeat revenue forecast, suggesting that it’s making progress on a long and challenging comeback attempt... View Source

Dropbox is integrating some of Dash's AI features into its main app, giving its users access to a smarter search function, summaries and contextual answers from the files they've uploaded to the app. The company launched Dash back in 2023 as an "AI-powered universal search bar" that people can use to find information in their work-related apps like Slack, Canva, Google Workspac... View Source

Elon Musk’s Starlink is starting security tests in India, one of the final hurdles for the company as it prepares to provide commercial satellite broadband services in the world’s most populous country, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Europe's big three aerospace manufacturers are combining their space divisions to create a joint business. This "leading European player in space" could be a real rival to America's SpaceX, according to reporting by Financial Times. The companies Airbus, Leonardo and Thales have finalized this deal. The new unnamed entity will be based in France and will employ around 25,000 pe... View Source

Chinese food delivery company Meituan is looking to raise 9 billion to 10 billion yuan ($1.26 billion to $1.4 billion) in its maiden dim sum bond offering, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a wave of recent issuance in the increasingly hot market... View Source

The family of Adam Raine has filed an amended lawsuit against OpenAI. Raine died by suicide in April, and his family claims ChatGPT enabled the tragedy. The updated lawsuit accuses the company of weakening self-harm safeguards in the period leading up to Raine's death, according to Financial Times. In addition, the company reportedly asked for a list of attendees and documents from Raine... View Source

Xendit, one of Southeast Asia’s largest digital payments companies, is expanding into Latin America as it seeks to replicate the success in its home region in other emerging markets — a test of whether its all-in-one payments infrastructure can find traction in a region still catching up in digital finance... View Source

Back in August, Anthropic made Claude capable of remembering past conversations. With the update, people could reference specific chats, so that they wouldn't need to repeat themselves when revisiting a topic. Today, the company has begun out a new, enhanced memory feature set, with the included improvements coming to all paying users.    Plenty of chatbots, including ChatGPT a... View Source

Advantest Corp. faces a major challenge this earnings season as the nearly 80% surge in its share price this year has pushed its valuations past those of its key customer Nvidia Corp... View Source

An environmental watchdog group has suggested that millions of tons of discarded electronics from the US turn up in Asia and the Middle East each month, according to a report by ABC News. This has created a "hidden tsunami" of e-waste. The Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN) conducted a two-year investigation into the matter and reportedly discovered at least ten US companies that e... View Source

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock highlighted four key areas of focus in work between policymakers, the government and industry to modernize the nation’s payments system, while reiterating the importance of security... View Source

What if Clippy were powered by AI? That seems to be the pitch behind Microsoft's new "expressive, customizable and warm" face of Copilot's voice mode. The friendly blob listens, reacts and changes color in response to user interactions. Microsoft sees Mico as an answer to what an "AI companion" looks like. The "optional visual presence" aims to listen and su... View Source

In an AI chip industry that’s almost entirely commanded by Nvidia Corp., a Google chip first developed more than 10 years ago especially for artificial intelligence tasks is finally gaining momentum outside its home company as a way to train and run complex AI models... View Source

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, the White House said. Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering charges in 2023 and he was sentenced last year to four months in prison. He was released in September 2024. As part of his plea deal, Zhao stepped down as CEO of Binance and he was banned from having any involvement with the company for three years. Both Zh... View Source

Troubled digital-asset custodian Fortress Trust — more recently known as Elemental Financial Technologies Inc. — is on the verge of insolvency and facing a significant mismatch between assets and liabilities, according to a court filing... View Source

OpenAI’s relentless push for growth took another turn on Thursday when the company said it had bought Software Applications Incorporated. The company is perhaps best known for making Workflows. Apple bought that iOS automation app in 2017 and turned it into Shortcuts. This year, though, Software Applications Incorporated unveiled Sky, a new automation app for Mac. Given its focus on agentic AI — a... View Source

With Windows 10 on its last legs, Intel is looking forward to the PC industry growing more than it has in years - the most since 2021, when the covid-19 pandemic revived the industry by creating a huge surge in demand. But it seems the struggling Intel, which just received lifelines from Nvidia, Softbank, and the US government, isn't fully ready to take advantage and is prioritizing AI instead. To... View Source

Banks are preparing to launch a $38 billion debt offering as soon as Monday that will help fund data centers tied to Oracle Corp. in what would be the largest such deal for artificial intelligence infrastructure to come to market, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Nike is no stranger to a unique footwear concept, be it self-lacing shoes or a "Hyperboot" that can speed up recovery. The company claims its Project Amplify and new "neuroscience-based" footwear take things a bit further, though, by actively augmenting your body and mind while you're wearing them. Developed with robotics startup Dephy, Project Amplify acts as "a... View Source

Google’s latest pledge to support a new clean energy technology is… a gas project? To be precise, it’s a gas-fired power plant outfitted with filtering devices to capture its planet-heating carbon emissions. Is this just a polluting fossil fuel project in sheep’s clothing?  Google just inked an agreement to support the development of a new gas-fired power plant in Illinois called the Broadwin... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will supply up to 1 million of its specialized AI chips to Anthropic PBC, a deal worth tens of billions of dollars that deepens its partnership with the fast-growing artificial intelligence startup... View Source

Electronic Arts has announced a new partnership with Stability AI, the creator of AI image generation tool Stable Diffusion. The company will "co-develop transformative AI models, tools, and workflows" for the game developer, with the hopes of speeding up development while maintaining quality."I use the term smarter paintbrushes,” Steve Kestell, Head of Technical Art for EA SPORTS s... View Source

Microsoft is joining the AI browser wave with the official launch of a new “Copilot Mode” in Edge. The option, first announced in July, turns Copilot into your portal to the web, with each new tab opening a chat window where you can either ask a question, conduct a search, or enter a URL. Copilot Mode ties Microsoft’s AI assistant more closely to Edge, as it combines AI-generated responses, search... View Source

Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and ABC channels are at risk of going dark on Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV service when a deal between the two companies expires next week... View Source

Confession time: I’ve had the Sleep Awake Steam page open in a tab for about a month (hey, we all organize our thoughts in unique and beautiful ways), just so I don’t forget about it. The past year has been stacked with fabulous original games across a wide range of genres, including horror, and this is one I didn’t want to miss. Now, I can close the tab and put a firm release date on the calendar... View Source

The race to make the Lego Game Boy play actual Game Boy games ended before it even began. The same day Lego officially launched the set, Natalie the Nerd revealed she'd already transformed it to play real Game Boy cartridges on real Game Boy chips. Turns out she's not stopping there! Natalie is now working on complete drop-in upgrade kits for the Lego Game Boy - no soldering required - and partner... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the plunge in Tesla’s profits that came despite record vehicle sales and the ongoing debate around the proposed trillion dollar pay package for Elon Musk. Plus, the White House says it may impose broad software restrictions against China, as the country pushes for tech self-reliance. And T-Mobile’s incoming CEO Srini Gopalan discusses the company’s t... View Source

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is undergoing a major overhaul, according to a report by the affiliated publication Game Developer. The "reimagined" conference is getting a name change, as it'll now be called the GDC Festival of Gaming. It's also changing up how passes work and transitioning the shift of its focus to "meet today's broader, interconnected games in... View Source

Melissa is currently a slow-moving tropical storm that is expected to rapidly intensify to a major hurricane—a brutal combination will drench Jamaica and other Caribbean islands... View Source

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue... View Source

Nike announced its new Aero-FIT performance cooling technology. Nike is showing off new performance apparel today that it says it designed with climate change in mind. It introduced its new Aero-FIT performance cooling technology today, which it says will make its debut in football kits Nike federations wear in 2026.  The company claims the technology boosts sweating efficiency by allowing fo... View Source

Applied Materials Inc., the largest US producer of chipmaking equipment, plans to cut 4% of its global workforce as it copes with a sales slowdown and trade turmoil... View Source

Strava's big attack on Garmin didn't last long. On Tuesday, the former filed paperwork to dismiss its patent infringement lawsuit against the latter, according to DC Rainmaker. The battle, which included a "Setting the record straight" Reddit post from Strava's chief product officer, lasted all of 21 days. The lawsuit accused Garmin of infringing on patents related to heat... View Source

If you’re tight on time to read through your backlog of books, audiobooks might be a more convenient way to get caught up. Amazon is offering a steep discount on Audible Premium Plus that lets new and lapsed subscribers pay $.99 (usually $14.95) per month for three months. The subscription includes one credit per month, enough for one audiobook, and each redemption will remain in your library even... View Source

The creators of “Granny Spills” and Xania Monet are making thousands of dollars and reaching millions of people... View Source

I know there are bigger fish to fry, but I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't draw your attention to this travesty of a commercial Verizon just released. It's only 30 seconds long but may go down as one of the worst ads I've ever seen.  What’s so offensive, you ask? Well, the carrier (and one-time parent company of Engadget) wants to promote the fact that it will give AT&T and T-Mo... View Source

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed... View Source

The Orionid meteor shower hit its peak during the dark nights surrounding October's new moon phase... View Source

EA is partnering with Stability AI, the company that develops the Stable Diffusion AI image model, to help infuse AI into its development processes. The two companies will “co-develop transformative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower our artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how content is built,” EA says. The company says that humans will still be “at the center of storytellin... View Source

The Trump administration is in early-stage conversations with quantum computing companies to discuss potential financial support for an industry that’s part of the growing race with China for technology supremacy... View Source

China's new five-year plan — an overarching policy proposal for the next term of Chinese Communist Party leadership — is focused on making the nation technologically self-reliant and less vulnerable to foreign pressure, Bloomberg reports. The plan has yet to be officially adopted, but is being released ahead of a summit between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping in South Korea.Th... View Source

The portable speaker can also charge your phone in a pinch. | Image: The Verge As much as I love decorations, it’s the music that really gets me into the holiday spirit. Luckily for those looking to capitalize on the upcoming holiday season, JBL’s newer Charge 6 is on sale at Walmart for $154 (about $46 off), which is one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for the portable Bluetooth speaker. Now, you... View Source

Crusoe, which is operating a major data center complex in Texas for OpenAI and Oracle Corp., said it has raised $1.38 billion in equity, valuing the firm at more than $10 billion... View Source

When you're trying to keep Leica's digital camera lineups straight, the M-System was always the one with optical rangefinder display (and high price tag). However. the company just upended that precedent with the M EV1, a 60MP mirrorless camera with a classic M design but an electronic viewfinder (EVF) in place of the rangefinder.  It may upset purists, but it's a move that makes sense from a... View Source

An NVIDIA GPU is heading toward its record-setting orbital debut, a trip that will test how data centers could work in the final frontier... View Source

On Thursday, Nike announced Project Amplify, “the world’s first powered footwear system,” which it says isn’t intended for pros—in fact, quite the opposite. Much like e-bikes provide pedal assistance, Project Amplify uses a lightweight robotics system to boost running and walking speed.  “The first-generation product, created alongside robotics partner Dephy, isn’t designed for competitive, f... View Source

Cameroonian authorities blamed an internet disruption in the central African nation that’s facing post-election unrest on a submarine cable cut... View Source

Apple will owe money to UK users after losing an App Store antitrust lawsuit there on Thursday, according to Financial Times. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled that the iPhone maker abused its dominant market position to inflate developer fees. The tribunal found that the company has "near absolute market power" for iOS app distribution and in-app payments. The decision declared that... View Source

No one wants to set the world on fire, but Fallout’s post-apocalyptic world is a fun one to explore. Here’s how to get through the entire series in order... View Source

Fallout 4 will turn 10 on November 10th, and to celebrate the milestone, Bethesda is releasing a new anniversary edition of the game that same day on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X / S. With Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, you’ll get the base game, six official expansions, more than 150 pieces of Creation Club content (including new options to switch what breed of dog Dogmeat is), and a... View Source

Cargill Inc. is turning to artificial intelligence to ensure it gets more beef from its processing plants as the US cattle herd dwindles to the lowest level in seven decades... View Source

If Amazon's new lineup of Kindle Scribes didn't pique your interest, Boox, a long-time player in the E Ink gadget space, might have what you're looking for. The company's recently announced Boox Palma 2 Pro and Note Air5 C offer color E Ink displays in two distinct sizes, and unlike the Scribe or reMarkable Paper Pro Move, let you run any Android app you want.The Palma 2 Pro is... View Source

Forget fake profile pics on dating apps—AI is now doing the talking, and we can’t tell the difference... View Source

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe... View Source

Krafton, the company behind games such as PUBG: Battlegrounds and the Sims-like InZOI, is making a big push into using AI within the company. Under this new “AI First” strategy, Krafton plans to use agentic AI to help automate work and implement an “AI-cenetered” management system, according to a translation of a press release. The company also plans to spend more than 100 billion Korean won, a fi... View Source

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops, part of a push by the ChatGPT maker to improve how artificial intelligence tools field tasks on a computer. Software Applications was founded in 2023 by a group of former Apple Inc. employees, some of whom helped create the technology behind the iPhone’s Shortcuts app, which is designe... View Source

Meta is bringing more of its generative AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly to Instagram Stories. With the changes, you can now use text prompts to remove or change objects in your photos or "restyle" the image completely.The new tools live in a new "restyle" menu at the top of the Stories composer. You can select "add," "remove" or "chang... View Source

Anthropic is rolling out an update for Claude that will let the AI chatbot “remember” past conversations without prompting. The upgrade for all paid subscribers should make Claude more useful and convenient.  Max subscribers will be able to turn on Claude’s “memory” in their settings from today, Anthropic said. The feature, which has been available to Team and Enterprise users since September, let... View Source

When Apple Inc. released the Vision Pro last year, the headset had three main drawbacks: a $3,499 starting price, an uncomfortable design and a limited selection of content... View Source

Assasin’s Creed Shadows is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 on December 2, Ubisoft announced today in its fall roadmap update. The Switch 2 drop will include all of the game’s updates aside from the recent Claws of Awaji expansion, which will be added in 2026. It’ll also support cross-progression through Ubisoft Connect, allowing players to continue a current game on the new platform. The Switch 2... View Source

Less than 1 percent of clinical trials include pregnant or breastfeeding people. Experts say that needs to change... View Source

Russia is targeting UK space infrastructure, and in particular military satellites, on a weekly basis, according to the head of UK Space Command... View Source

Three of the rumored potential buyers for entertainment titan Warner Bros. Discovery are tech companies. Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are all interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery as a whole or acquiring pieces of the company, like its content libraries and production assets, according to Bloomberg.  Earlier this week, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it was launching a “review of strateg... View Source

Apple Inc. lost a class-action in the UK after a court ruled that it abused its dominant position to charge excessive commission from app developers... View Source

People are evidently never buying quite enough stuff from Amazon to keep the company entirely happy, and it's calling on AI once again to push indecisive shoppers into locking down the purchase they’ve been eyeing up. The new tool, which Amazon calls Help Me Decide, gives shoppers in the US personalized recommendations of products they should buy by analyzing their browsing history, searches... View Source

Microsoft is rolling out some significant changes to its Copilot AI assistant today. There’s a new groups feature that connects multiple people into a Copilot chat, memory to let Copilot learn things about you, a new “real talk” mode that will bring back some of Copilot’s early personality, and more. Copilot Groups is designed for groups of friends, classmates, and even teammates to use Copilot in... View Source

France said the European Union must retain a degree of “flexibility” as the bloc seeks to implement tougher C02 emissions rules for new car sales, a clear signal in support of the country’s troubled industry... View Source

Apparently, web browsers are cool again. Two days after OpenAI launched its AI browser, Microsoft has some updates for its Edge's AI mode. (Fancy that!) Copilot Mode, introduced in July, now has several features that were teased at launch. First up: Copilot Actions, which is Microsoft's branding for AI-assisted, multi-step tasks. This feature is already available in the standard version... View Source

SpaceX will launch its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Nintendo Switch 2 owners will have just a little bit longer to venture into The Lands Between. Developer FromSoftware announced today that its upcoming port of the open-world RPG Elden Ring — dubbed “Tarnished Edition” — won’t be launching in 2025 as originally planned. Instead, it will be out at some unspecified point in 2026. No specific reason was given for the delay other than “to allow time f... View Source

In the 24 hours after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire was announced, Michael Eisenberg of Tel Aviv-based venture fund Aleph said his phone kept ringing... View Source

You'll have to wait a bit longer than expected to explore the Lands Between on Nintendo Switch 2. FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco have delayed Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition — the Switch 2 version of the massively successful action RPG — until 2026. The port was announced back in April and it was originally slated to arrive sometime this year."While development on #ELDENRING Tarni... View Source

The BrickBoy takes about five minutes to install on an already build Lego Game Boy. | Image: Kickstarter Talented Game Boy modder Natalie the Nerd was the first to turn Lego’s impressive brick-built replica into a functional Game Boy. She’s currently developing a kit so anyone can upgrade Lego’s Game Boy to actually play games, but the creators of the BrickBoy have beaten her to the punch by takin... View Source

A director at a company that sells computer vulnerabilities has been charged with stealing secrets to sell to an unspecified buyer in Russia, according to a court document and people familiar with the matter... View Source

The last 12 months have been pretty depressing for anyone invested in the long-term future of Xbox and the general health of the games industry. Back in May, Microsoft laid off 3 percent of its global workforce, with the company’s gaming division being one of the big casualties, and a number of upcoming titles were subsequently canceled. It painted a picture of a brand in crisis, but according to... View Source

Chiron is forming a ring system, and scientists seem to have caught the action... View Source

Amazon is launching a new AI-powered tool that’s supposed to help you choose which product to buy. Now, when you look at multiple similar items on Amazon’s app or mobile website, it may display a “Help me decide” button that picks one for you based on your browsing activity, searches, shopping history, and preferences. As an example, Amazon says if you’re buying a new camping tent, its AI tool wil... View Source

A revamped visa program launched by China earlier this month threatens to lure away American technology talent just as the Trump administration is raising barriers for skilled workers and graduate students to enter the US, the top Democrat on the House China committee said... View Source

If you're in the market for a budget-friendly home security camera (or even several), the Blink Mini 2 may be worth considering. A two-pack of the cameras is on sale at Amazon as the bundle has dropped from $70 to $28. That's a discount of 60 percent, which is certainly nothing to shake at. This is also a better price than the $35 we saw for the cameras during Prime Day. Amazon recently revealed a... View Source

The Potensic Atom 2 is an affordable sub-250 g drone with performance, features and functionality seen with mid-range drone models within this competitive category... View Source

The Razer logo on the trackpad is less apparent on the black version (also, Razer got the stick layout right this time). | Image: Razer Razer is launching the Raiju V3 Pro, a $219.99 wireless controller made for the PlayStation 5 and PC. It’s an alternative to Sony’s $199.99 DualSense Edge, which it shares many traits in common with, like adjustable trigger pull distances, swappable rear paddles,... View Source

It would have seemed almost unthinkable for most private credit managers just a few years ago: Updating the value of their portfolios on a monthly basis... View Source

Maxi Boch isn’t done with Baby Steps. Boch has enjoyed a productive career in game development and she knows how it feels to be creatively finished with a project. She experienced it at various points with Rock Band, Dance Central, Fantasia: Music Evolved and Ape Out, but on Baby Steps’ launch day, done was not the vibe.“I've been in the industry for a long time; I shipped broken strumbars fo... View Source

The super-Earth exoplanet is "one of the best candidates in the search for an atmospheric signature of life."... View Source

The new X-T30 III is the same size as the previous model and features the same 26.1MP sensor. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has announced the third iteration of its entry-level X-T30 interchangeable lens camera. The original debuted in 2019, while the X-T30 II launched in 2021 with minimal upgrades. The new Fujifilm X-T30 III also isn’t a complete reimagining of the camera, carrying forward the previ... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out a new AI-powered tool that will recommend a specific product when shoppers are feeling overwhelmed with options... View Source

Meta has removed a deepfake AI video of Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly, which featured a false depiction of the politician saying that she's withdrawing from the election. According to The Irish Times, the AI-generated video was shared nearly 30,000 times on Facebook just days before Ireland's election on October 24 prior to it being removed from the website. Connolly ca... View Source

Netflix is bringing the Stranger Things series finale to theaters. The show’s final episode will hit theaters at the same time it premieres on the streaming service on December 31st at 8PM ET. It’ll be available in more than 350 theaters across the US and Canada, and will run through January 1st, 2026. The finale, titled “The Rightside Up,” is two hours long and marks the first time a Netflix epis... View Source

It’s been one year since Nike CEO Elliott Hill took the helm of the world’s largest sportswear company, with the one-time intern helping blunt a long-time sales slump. Bloomberg TV's Romaine Bostick sits down with three key players in Hill’s offensive strategy: Nike President Amy Montagne, Chief Innovation, Design & Product Officer Phil McCartney and Nike Chief Science Officer Matt Nurse. They... View Source

Tesla said it "achieved record vehicle deliveries globally" for the third quarter of 2025 with a total of 497,099 vehicles delivered. It also reported a record-breaking revenue of $28.1 billion, which is 12 percent higher than the same quarter in 2024. Tesla's net income, however, slid by 37 percent year-over-year, due to several factors, namely lower EV prices, an increase in spend... View Source

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Prime Video's post-apocalyptic saga returns in December and heads straight for Sin City... View Source

Clean and simple? Yes. Weird and jarring? Also yes. Leica is announcing a new type of M-mount camera, its first that’s not actually a rangefinder. The new M EV1 is based on the M11-P from 2023, but it strips out the traditional rangefinder in favor of a 5.76-million dot electronic viewfinder — hence the omitted viewfinder window on its front. The new camera is launching in Europe and other markets... View Source

Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects... View Source

The base is the hub of the ADT Plus system. My front door unlocks automatically as I walk up to it, and the home security system disarms itself - no code or app required. The system has recognized me using the Google Nest Doorbell's Familiar Faces, and confirmed I'm me using my phone's location. The dual-factor authentication triggers the automatic disarming and unlocking, so all I have to do is w... View Source

Grab Holdings Ltd., Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing and delivery company, is backing driverless technology developer May Mobility Inc. with the goal of bringing robotaxis to the region as soon as 2026... View Source

Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment, the developer of The Division series, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is offering some employees volunteer buyouts as it attempts to "realign" its teams, the company said in a post on X. The move is designed to "strengthen our roadmap," Massive wrote, as it focuses on The Division series along with its Snowdrop engine and... View Source

A new image from NOAA's GOES-19 satellite has captured a rate celestial cameo: Earth itself appearing in the view of the spacecraft's solar coronagraph... View Source

This week, OpenAI debuted its long-rumored AI browser that aims to put its AI chatbot at the center of the internet. The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is entering a space that's already occupied by Perplexity's Comet and Google Gemini in Chrome. OpenAI is likely betting that putting ChatGPT front and center is enough to draw users in, but the overall experience falls short when compared to rivals... View Source

T-Mobile US Inc. gained 1 million new mobile phone subscribers in the third quarter and raised its outlook for the year, buoyed by its recent acquisition of smaller competitor US Cellular... View Source

Deal between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales is expected to create company with annual revenue of £5.6bnAirbus, Leonardo and Thales have struck a deal to combine their space businesses to create a single European technology company that could rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX.The deal is expected to create a company with annual revenue of about €6.5bn (£5.6bn). The French aerospace company Airbus will own 35%... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner reports that Meta’s continued big spending for artificial intelligence is likely to be a focus of investors in the company’s coming quarterly earnings... View Source

So Samsung made a "Vision Pro Lite." That was my immediate takeaway after this week's debut of the Galaxy XR, the first Android XR device to hit the market. While Samsung deserves credit for offering something close to the Vision Pro for nearly half the price, an $1,800 headset still won't get mainstream consumers rushing out the door to experience the wonders of mixed reality... View Source

These Worms Use Static Electricity like a Sci-Fi Tractor Beam... View Source

Less than two days ago, OpenAI came out swinging in the fight for the future of the internet with the release of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser it hopes will topple Google Chrome. Adam Fry, OpenAI’s Atlas leader, says the team is already “heads down making it better” and teased a bunch of new features on the way.  “Profiles coming!” Fry said. Tab groups and an opt-in ad blocker are... View Source

One Nuclear Energy LLC has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-check company in a deal that valued the developer of nuclear and natural gas power plants at about $1 billion on an equity basis... View Source

Investors will be looking beyond the bottom line in chipmaker Intel Corp.’s third-quarter earnings after a wave of investments from the White House, Nvidia Corp. and Softbank Group Corp. sent the stock soaring 86% in less than three months... View Source

The new technique could one day be used to create less expensive astronomical sensors... View Source

China vowed to seek technological self-reliance and grow the domestic market in the next five years, as it looks to both insulate the economy from foreign pressures and build a sustainable engine for growth... View Source

The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro monitor will change your flow. Most gadgets are iterative in the value they bring to our lives. The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro portable monitor is different, having utterly transformed the way I work remotely over the last month of testing. See, I spend a lot of time working from my van, which makes me miss my dual-monitor setup at home - it's hard to adapt to a single 14-in... View Source

Taiwan’s chipmakers are worried about the feasibility of a government plan to deliver new green power supplies, casting doubt over efforts to satisfy energy security concerns... View Source

Nexperia notified its Japanese automotive customers that it may no longer be able to guarantee supply, triggering renewed concern about upheaval at the Dutch chipmaker snarling global supply chains... View Source

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, spent the end of Tesla Inc.’s earnings call pleading with investors to ratify his upcoming $1 trillion pay package and blasting the shareholder advisory firms that have come out against the plan... View Source

When Fujifilm launched the X-T50 last year, no one was sure what would happen with its aging X-T30 lineup. The company just answered that question with the launch of the X-T30 III, boosting the speed and improving autofocus of the last model, while adding a film simulation dial seen on other recent models. It's very light for travel or street photography, but has some powerful features like 6.2K v... View Source

Banks face a hit to their bottom lines of as much as $170 billion if they don’t adapt their business models to respond to customers turning to artificial intelligence to optimize their finances... View Source

Leonardo SpA, Airbus SE and Thales SA sealed a long-awaited agreement to merge their satellite operations and create a European joint venture that aspires to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX... View Source

STMicroelectronics NV forecast fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ expectations, a signal that a long-awaited recovery in the industry may be faltering... View Source

Nokia Oyj’s adjusted profit for the third quarter beat estimates, thanks to growth in its network infrastructure and optical networks businesses... View Source

AI companies are in a race to create artificial general intelligence, seeing it as the catalyst for an “intelligence explosion” that reshapes the economy and society. If only they could agree on what AGI would actually look like, and how it might be achieved... View Source

Amazon has revealed that it's currently working on smart glasses designed for delivery drivers, confirming previous reports about the project. The company said that glasses use AI-powered sensing capabilities and computer vision to detect what their cameras are seeing. Drivers then get guidance through the glasses' heads-up display (HUD) embedded right into the lens. Based on Amazon... View Source

The same Nobel-winning mRNA technology that helped curb the Covid-19 pandemic may be poised to transform cancer care... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow looks at the impact of discussions between Anthropic and Google for the AI startup to take additional computing power from Google, valued in the high tens of billions of dollars. Plus, tech earnings season is underway with Netflix and Texas Instruments disappointing investors. And, AT&T CEO John Stankey discusses the impact of the iPhone 17 launch and growth of broadband... View Source

Two former bankers at Citigroup Inc. and Julius Baer Group Ltd. are set to plead guilty for their alleged roles in aiding the movement of illicit funds by several people convicted in Singapore’s biggest money laundering case... View Source

Elon Musk said the Tesla Robotaxi in Austin will have no safety monitor by end of 2025. No other human in the car which means Tesla robotaxi can scale to about 10 cities with thousands of cars each by mid 2026. Elon Musk greenlighting car production with autonomy solved means tens of thousands of Cybercabs ... Read more... View Source

A New York Times report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring more people, but today the company has issued a PR blast about robotics and delivery tech that is much sunnier. Along with a tease of AI-connected augmented reality smart glasses and VR training for its drivers, Amazon showed off 10 robots it’s us... View Source

The prediction market Polymarket is holding early conversations with investors and looking to raise money at a valuation between $12 billion and $15 billion, more than 10 times its value just four months ago, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

A rule aimed at curbing exposure to overvalued stocks is posing another challenge to China’s market, just as renewed Sino-American trade tensions have abruptly stalled the rally this month... View Source

HBO Max is rolling out a new rating system that allows you to share feedback about the shows and movies you watch. The streaming service will tweak your recommendations based on whether you select the “Love,” “Like,” or “Not For Me” options. When you say that you “Love” a show or movie, HBO Max will suggest titles to watch in a “Because You Love” carousel on the homepage, while deprioritizing titl... View Source

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said that Samsung Electronics Co. is taking a bigger role in manufacturing the carmaker’s chips, signaling that the South Korean company is making inroads in a market dominated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... View Source

Criterion recently kicked off its semi-annual sale that slashes the cost of all of its in-stock Blu-rays, DVDs, and box sets. The sale will last through 12PM ET, October 23rd. This a great opportunity to save on deep cuts that aren’t typically discounted. However, it likely won’t be the last chance to get a deal on Criterion’s catalog of films; Barnes & Noble likely has another sale up its sle... View Source

The recent wave of cyberattacks against Japanese businesses has exposed critical weaknesses in the country’s corporate digital defenses, fueling fears of further disruption to sales and supply chains... View Source

The most important highlights of the Tesla Q3 earnings call. Tesla robotaxi miles were 250,000 in Austin and over 1 million in the SF Bay area. This is a significant ramp from about 7000 miles in Austin. This means about half of the miles were likely in the October. The SF bay area started at ... Read more... View Source

Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the company would be able to remove the safety monitors from its robotaxis "by the end of the year." He also said Tesla would launch a robotaxi service in 8-10 new markets also before the end of 2025. "We are expecting to have no safety drivers in at least large parts of Austin by the end of this year," Musk said in an earnings call with investors. "So within a few mo... View Source

By making AI cheaper and less power-hungry, DeepSeek has put the technology within reach of millions of people... View Source

These days, thanks to smartphones, almost everyone has a camera with them and that’s mostly a good thing. At any time, you can capture memories with family and friends, painterly sunsets and crazy spontaneous moments. The problem is most of us have endless bland photos in our camera rolls because we simply don’t know how to take great shots. When you’re on vacation or gathering with friends and fa... View Source

Remember when word got out that Amazon was building smart glasses for its delivery drivers before possibly launching a version for consumers as well? Amazon has just revealed those “Amelia” glasses to the world — with a built-in display and an always-on camera to assist drivers as they go. They can help drivers find the right packages inside their delivery vans, give them turn by turn directions t... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. expects to begin asking would-be bidders for the film and TV giant to sign nondisclosure agreements as early this week, according to a person familiar with its plans... View Source

Sonic Rumble has a new worldwide launch date: November 5. The game, which we've previously likened to Fall Guys, was supposed to come out last winter before its release was rescheduled for May 8 this year. By the end of April, however, Sega announced that its global launch had been postponed yet again because its developers needed more time to "build the kind of high-quality, long-lastin... View Source

Boxy can be beautiful. Lomography announced a new Lomo MC-A film camera, a 35mm format point-and-shoot with a fixed 32mm f/2.8 lens and metal body. It’s a charmer of a new film shooter, complete with a built-in flash, autofocusing glass lens, manual film advance lever, and an included CR2 battery that recharges via USB-C. The MC-A is available for preorder now for $549 in black or silver, and it’s... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo will begin manually testing its autonomous vehicles with human drivers at Newark airport, laying the foundation to eventually ferry passengers to and from the transit hub... View Source

The Spotify app has been freezing and crashing on some Android devices, according to multiple users and a report by 9to5Google. This is happening only when a phone or tablet is connected to Wi-Fi, so keep on listening to Spotify while out and about. Users first took note of the problem around two weeks ago, taking to Spotify forums to address their concerns. Many folks say that the app becomes ess... View Source

Footage appearing to show a number of "double fireball" events may have been caused by a simple quirk of equipment... View Source

After six years as Fandom’s CEO, Perkins Miller is parting ways with the popular wiki hosting platform. While there has yet to be an official announcement, The Verge has learned that Miller is no longer working for Fandom as of last week. In a statement sent to The Verge on Fandom’s behalf, Katie Schroeder confirmed Miller’s departure and noted that, while the company is currentl... View Source

International Business Machines Corp. reported disappointing revenue in its closely watched Red Hat unit, sparking concerns among investors who see the software business as among the keys to the company’s growth... View Source

Reddit is suing companies SerApi, OxyLabs, AWMProxy and Perplexity for allegedly scraping its data from search results and using it without a license, The New York Times reports. The new lawsuit follows legal action against AI startup Anthropic, who allegedly used Reddit content to train its Claude chatbot. As of 2023, Reddit charges companies looking access to posts and other content in the... View Source

Amazon and Rivian are back together again. The e-commerce giant is collaborating with Rivian’s Also spinoff on a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The bike would likely be based on the TM-Q quad vehicle that was unveiled by Also today in San Francisco. Amazon says it wants to expand its fleet of micromobility vehicles with “thousands of quads” that it will deploy across Europ... View Source

SAP SE, Europe’s most valuable software company, reported third-quarter cloud revenue that missed analysts’ estimates in a sign that trade disputes and a weaker economy are weighing on sales... View Source

One of the greatest comeback stories in the history of video games just keeps writing itself new chapters. If you’ve checked in on the wildly ambitious space sim, No Man’s Sky, in the last few years then you’ll know just how much UK-based developer Hello Games has turned things around for a game that was once the subject of a false advertising investigation. And its latest update introduces fully... View Source

The waxing moon will appear alongside Mars and Mercury as the sun sets on Oct. 23... View Source

Tesla reported a profitable third quarter today, as shoppers scrambled to snatch up the company’s EVs in record numbers before the federal EV tax credit expired. Tesla said it earned $1.4 billion in net income on $28.1 billion in revenue in the quarter that ended in September. That’s 12 percent increase in revenue but a 37 percent decrease in profits over the third quarter of 2024, when the compan... View Source

Prediction market Kalshi is receiving funding offers from venture capital investors that would value the startup at more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter — interest that comes just weeks after Kalshi announced a $300 million funding round at a $5 billion valuation... View Source

Enabled by the introduction of its Willow quantum chip last year, Google today claims it's conducted breakthrough research that confirms it can create real-world applications for quantum computers. The company's Quantum Echoes algorithm, detailed in a paper published in Nature, is a demonstration of "the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage running the out-of-order time correlato... View Source

Just a week after rumors about Samsung canceling the Galaxy S26 Edge due to low sales of the ultra-slim S25 Edge, Apple is reportedly notifying its supply chain partners of plans to scale back iPhone Air production. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is maintaining its overall production estimate for the iPhone 17 lineup, around 85 to 90 million units total, reports Nikkei Asia; h... View Source

The Federal Reserve is no longer receiving data on private-sector employment from an independent provider, adding to policymakers’ lack of timely information on the economy amid the ongoing federal government shutdown... View Source

Apple has removed dating apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for violating rules related to content moderation and user privacy. The company told TechCrunch that it pulled the apps as they broke several of its rules, including one mandating that apps can't share or otherwise use an individual's personal info without getting their permission first. Apple said they also violated... View Source

Meta has a joint venture agreement with Blue Owl Capital in a deal worth $27 billion to fund and develop the social media company’s massive Hyperion data center in rural Louisiana. The deal will see Blue Owl own 80% of the Hyperion data center, with Meta taking the remaining 20% stake. Blue Owl contributed about ... Read more... View Source

Uncovering the CIA’s Kryptos puzzle took three parts math and one part sleuthing... View Source

The national database on billion-dollar weather and climate disasters has found a new home after the Trump administration decided to ax it earlier this year. Thanks to researchers continuing the work despite a lack of federal support, we can keep the tally going this year — which is already proving to be one of the costliest on record.  Until recently, the National Centers for Environmental Inform... View Source

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YouTube is adding a timer to Shorts to help curb all of that incessant doomscrolling, according to a report by TechCrunch. This feature is rolling out to all users after being spotted in an Android APK file earlier this year, which was originally reported on by Android Authority. Here's how it works. Users set a daily time limit for Shorts via the app's settings. Once reached, they'... View Source

Elon Musk has hammered acting NASA chief Sean Duffy repeatedly on social media over the past few days, calling him "Sean Dummy" and claiming he's "trying to kill NASA." Here's what may be going on... View Source

If you’re looking to play games like Ghost of Yōtei or Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, you’re going to need a PlayStation 5. Luckily, right now, you can grab the console for as low as $374 directly through the PlayStation storefront with the code PS5KLARNA — and it doesn’t appear as though you need to use Klarna’s payment service to get the discount. The code works with the PS5 Digital Edition an... View Source

Tinder, the world’s most popular dating platform, will soon require all new users in the US to verify their identity through a biometric video face scan... View Source

Google Gemini is coming to GM vehicles in 2026. The company will be integrating a conversational AI assistant powered by Google's platform into many of its cars, trucks and SUVs. GM says this assistant will be able to access vehicle data to suss out maintenance concerns, alerting the driver when necessary. The company also promises it'll be able to help plan routes and explain various fe... View Source

Scattering microscopic particles of sulfur in the atmosphere might slow down climate change. It might also change weather patterns... View Source

When it comes to inventive USB-C accessories with rad designs, nobody does it like Sharge. Now it’s following up its classic Mac-inspired chargers, its Braun turntable-inspired battery, and whatever the heck this is supposed to be, with a new MagSafe battery that specifically echoes Sony’s classic T-Series Cybershot cameras. It’s called the Icemag 3, and it’s a 39.1Wh battery (10,000mAh, if you mu... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is considering equipping its contract delivery drivers with augmented-reality glasses that would help them find the right spot to drop a package... View Source

Ever since Rivian spun off its "micromobility business" into a standalone startup called Also earlier this year, there's been much speculation about what kind of vehicles the company is working on. Now, Also is showing off its first products: a lineup of e-bikes and two pedal-assisted electric quads. The TM-B e-bike is Also's attempt at a do-it-all e-bike that can adapt to... View Source

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the complaint. The company equates the data scraping companies — SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy — to “would-be bank robbers” who... View Source

Reddit Inc. sued Perplexity AI Inc. and three other companies over alleged data scraping from the discussion site without permission, a sign of the growing demand and value of original data in the burgeoning AI industry... View Source

It’s shaping up to be a shockingly good year for former arcade-dwelling beat-‘em-up fans. This month saw the arrival of the excellent Absolum, which infuses old-fashioned 2D combat in a cartoony high fantasy setting with roguelike elements to great effect. And now we also have a release date for Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Out December 1 on practically every platform, Marvel Cosmic Invasion lets you c... View Source

Reflect Orbital plans a constellation to enable solar power generation at night, make crops grow better and stronger, possibly replace urban lighting, provide emergency illumination in disaster zones and enable people to work into the night. By 2030, Reflect Orbital the plan is for constellation of 4,000 of giant mirror satellites, circling Earth in a ... Read more... View Source

Jamie Siminoff’s new book charts the highs and lows of making the world’s first video doorbell. Jamie Siminoff has returned to Ring, the company he founded, with a renewed focus on its mission statement to "Make neighborhoods safer." Talking to The Verge ahead of the release of his new book Ding Dong, Siminoff says he believes the new wave of AI could finally help him fulfill that vision. "When I... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path for useful applications of quantum technology within five years... View Source

Nintendo has announced a free update for Pikmin 4 that could remedy one of fans' biggest complaints about the game. (Yes, free. From Nintendo. We're shocked too, but we'll take it.) The update, which arrives in November, adds Fierce mode to make the game more challenging for those who want it. We don't know exactly what that will look like yet, but a higher difficulty level is... View Source

I, Brian Wang, am one of the main co-authors for AI RISING: How To Thrive In The Age Of Abundance Randy Kirk (Author), Brian Wang (Author), Cern Basher (Author), Phil Beisel (Author), Bradford Ferguson (Author), John Gibbs (Author), Nicholas Gibbs (Author), Larry Goldberg (Author), Brian White (Author) Artificial intelligence is reshaping every corner of our ... Read more... View Source

Astronomers have sighted Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion — and it’s turning out to be full of surprises... View Source

GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra. In Decoder interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, published Wednesday, Barra confirmed GM will eventually end support of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on both gas-powered and electric cars as the company proceeds to a major rollout of it’s ca... View Source

AI is part of the country's defense against Russia... View Source

If you use ChatGPT in WhatsApp, it's about time to make other plans. OpenAI said its ubiquitous chatbot will stop working in Meta's ubiquitous chat app on January 15, 2026. According to OpenAI, the change is due to a policy and terms change from WhatsApp. OpenAI announced the change in a blog post. "While we would have much preferred to continue serving you on WhatsApp, we are focused on making th... View Source

SpaceX and Elon Musk can replace SLS, Space Launch System, with the fixed priced $100 million per ton moon missions from 2028 and beyond. This would still be $10 billion for a full 100 ton payload to the moon and $7 billion if the same costs were used but scaled based on fewer refueling launches. ... Read more... View Source

“Quantum echoes” rippling through Google’s quantum computer chip Willow could lead to advances in molecular chemistry and the physics of black holes... View Source

Robby Starbuck is suing Google, claiming that its AI search tools falsely linked him to sexual assault allegations and white nationalist Richard Spencer. This is the second case that Starbuck, known for his online campaigns against corporate diversity efforts, has brought against a major tech company over its AI products. In April, Starbuck sued Meta, claiming that its AI falsely insisted that he... View Source

A wave of successful initial public offerings is driving a surge of interest in private companies, as investors clamor for exposure to artificial intelligence-related firms before they hit public markets... View Source

After nine years as CEO of the studio behind Control and Alan Wake, Tero Virtala has departed the role. Remedy cofounder Markus Mäki is taking over on an interim basis (and stepping down as chairman of the board) while the company looks for a permanent CEO. Henri Österlund, a board member since 2017, is Remedy’s new chairman.“I want to thank Tero Virtala for his substantial contribution to the man... View Source

The planet’s brightness is dimming—changing rainfall, circulation and temperature... View Source

Today, Nintendo announced free updates coming to the Pikmin games in November and posted the full version of its “Close to You” Pikmin short film on YouTube, after it was initially released in the Nintendo Today app a few weeks ago.  For starters, Pikmin 4 is getting a little more beginner-friendly with a new “Relaxed” mode that dials back creature hostility so you won’t be attacked unless you str... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting approximately 600 jobs from the company’s artificial intelligence unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs, as it aims to move more quickly in the competitive AI race... View Source

The Anker MagGo Power Bank (10K) is on sale via Amazon for just $57. This is a discount of 37 percent, which is nothing to sneeze at. The sale applies to multiple colorways. This model topped our list of the best power banks, and with very good reason. It's a workhorse that gets the job done. It includes Qi2 tech for fast wireless charging and ships with a sturdy kickstand to prop up smartphones d... View Source

Dynetics Alpaca and Blue Origin both look like possible 2029-2030 lunar landers if they get funded. The developments are not certain. Reviving the competition will be a $2-5 billion cost. Dynetics original bid was $9 billion. The $2.45-4 billion cost is only for the unmanned certification of the lunar lander with Leidos picking up some ... Read more... View Source

Australian “sleepy” lizards are not so sleepy when it comes to fire... View Source

Eight Sleep Pod mattress toppers can now be controlled offline in the event of future outages. Some smart bed users were quite literally losing sleep over the massive AWS outage on Monday. Eight Sleep’s elevating, temperature-controlling mattress systems were temporarily knocked out of service by Amazon’s server issues, with users on Reddit and X reporting their smart beds were stuck at sweltering... View Source

Banks are using generative artificial intelligence to make sending money to anyone in Brazil as easy as sending a text, an advance that’s helping cement the nation’s place among global leaders in AI-powered financial services... View Source

Uber Green is rebranding to Uber Electric, and to coincide with the name switch — a move designed to make it clearer for Uber users preferring to hail zero-emissions rides — the company will incentivise its drivers to swap their current vehicle for an EV by way of a $4,000 grant. According to Uber’s numbers, there are currently more than 200,000 EVs on its global network, and drivers are switching... View Source

Tero Virtala, CEO of Control developer Remedy Entertainment, is stepping down from his position immediately. The news comes in the aftermath of a disappointing launch for FBC: Firebreak, the Finnish studio’s first foray into multiplayer gaming. Virtala will be replaced on an interim basis by Markus Mäki, Remedy’s chief product officer and one of the studio’s co-founders. The studios says it will “... View Source

AT&T Inc. added more mobile phone and home internet subscribers this summer than analysts expected, amid a heavy promotional push to keep competitive pressure on its two main rivals... View Source

If I had a dollar for every time a vehicle manufacturer launched a new in-car software experience designed to achieve the same levels of user experience as your average tablet or smartphone, I'd probably have about enough cash for a decent lunch at a middling restaurant. It's a common refrain, and yet after years of hearing that same story over and over, I still find myself firing up And... View Source

In a letter to Congress, museum officials have warned the shuttle may need to be partially disassembled in order to be transferred, risking irreversible damage to one of the most meticulously preserved pieces of spaceflight history... View Source

Kin Lane fondly remembers working on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in 2013. FAFSA is used by millions of college students each year to help access scholarship money, and Lane, an API expert, had an up-close look at the system. He saw the importance of ensuring financial data remains stored securely and can be accessed by Internal Revenue Service tools. The job wasn't flashy, but it... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. and Nebius Group NV are committing as much as $375 million to develop Avride, the Dutch cloud infrastructure company’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary... View Source

The iPad Pro is about to turn 10, so hopefully you’ll forgive me for pulling out this well-worn Apple truism one more time. No, it’s not Steve Jobs saying “if you see a stylus, they blew it” (a quote continually used out of context.) It’s the tale of how since day one, the iPad Pro’s hardware often felt far more powerful and capable than the software it runs. If you recall, iPadOS was initially a... View Source

Casio’s new ring watch features an adjustable strap to accommodate smaller fingers. | Image: Casio Japan After bringing its novel digital ring watch to the US last December, Casio has announced a new version debuting later this year. Although the original was loosely based on the Casio GMW-B5000, the new wearable is inspired by the iconic DW-5600, and this time Casio’s ring watch fully embraces th... View Source

Unity Software Inc. is launching a free payments product that will allow video game-makers to get around the high fees charged by distribution platforms like Apple Inc.’s App store... View Source

You'll be able to play the first game in the Luigi's Mansion series on the Nintendo Switch 2 starting on October 30, just in time for Halloween. The gaming company is adding the title to its GameCube library for the Nintendo Switch Online streaming service. Take note that that service's GameCube titles are exclusively available on the Switch 2 and require a subscription to the $50-a... View Source

Meta is planning to axe around 600 roles within its legacy AI research division, according to a report from Axios. The layoffs will reportedly impact Meta’s Fundamental AI Research unit, also known as FAIR, while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. Meta kicked off an AI hiring spree after investing $14.3 billion in Scale AI and hiring CEO Ale... View Source

Lenders are ramping up bankruptcy protection measures as they position for further distress in the wake of high-profile implosions, according to an analysis of credit documents conducted by an artificial intelligence model... View Source

More than 800 public figures including Steve Wozniak and Prince Harry, along with AI scientists, former military leaders and CEOs signed a statement demanding a ban on AI work that could lead to superintelligence, The Financial Times reported. "We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely a... View Source

Gimlet is building software that will chop up AI tasks and send them to the most cost-effective chips... View Source

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable CyberGhost. It's one of the cheapest VPNs out there, its interfaces hold together and it boasts plenty of server locations. Sadly, I was either misremembering PIA, or it used to be better until someone at... View Source

New satellite imagery from the European Space Agency reveals nearly four decades of dramatic ice loss for two of Patagonia's largest glaciers... View Source

Lyft Inc. is piloting a program that offers some customers cash back on future rides, the latest effort to win over users from rival Uber Technologies Inc... View Source

As the holiday season approaches, Sony is offering exceptional deals on two of its best full-frame mirrorless cameras. The A7R V, which offers exceptionally sharp photos thanks to the 61MP sensor, is on sale for $3,298 ($902 off), its lowest price ever. And the mainstream 33MP A7 IV, great for both video and photos, has also dropped to a new low of $1,998 or $702 off (28 percent).  Sony's A7R... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Vlad Savov reviews the reverberations of Xiaomi’s aggressive move to go head-to-head with the iPhone... View Source

With Galaxy XR, you can split screen between a game like Stardew Valley and a real-time video chat.Samsung After dropping hints for over two years, Samsung, in partnership with Google, finally revealed its first-ever Android extended reality headset Tuesday night. The new device, dubbed Galaxy XR, will run you $1,800 and you can actually buy it today. Due to its collaboration with Google, it'... View Source

The words we choose when apologizing—especially longer, effortful ones—can signal sincerity and make our apologies feel more authentic... View Source

As it rushes to meet its pledge for “100 percent” of trips in electric vehicles by 2030, Uber is offering grants of $4,000 for drivers to swap their gas-guzzlers for zero-tailpipe emission vehicles. The company is also dropping its “Uber Green” branding in favor of the more simple “Uber Electric.” Uber has said it will be completely carbon neutral in North America and Europe by 2030 and... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Google on a deal to provide the artificial intelligence company with additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars. Matthew Bloxham of Bloomberg Intelligence has more on Bloomberg Television... View Source

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, a new study finds... View Source

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Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. is considering an initial public offering in mainland China at a valuation that could exceed $40 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be one of the biggest listings there in years... View Source

Sean Duffy called out SpaceX for being “behind schedule” on a lunar lander and said he’d explore other options... View Source

Leju Robotics raised more than $200 million in fresh funding ahead of a planned listing, demonstrating sustained investor interest in China’s emerging humanoid robot sector as it competes with US rivals... View Source

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health Organization—all related to a variety of common diseases globally... View Source

In the stock market’s rarefied air where mega-cap technology behemoths reside, Tesla Inc. stands out — but for all the wrong reasons. Chief among them is its stunning lack of earnings growth while its stock price continues to soar... View Source

Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. and a Swiss Post subsidiary will start autonomous vehicle testing in Switzerland by the end of this year as they seek to launch the world’s first robotaxis without steering wheels to the public in 2027... View Source

GetYourGuide said it’s become profitable for the first time and is nearing €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in revenue after the 16-year-old online travel operator’s business recovered from a drastic slowdown during the pandemic period... View Source

Apple Inc.’s iPhone Air went on sale in China on Wednesday, eliciting a subdued consumer response in the world’s biggest smartphone arena... View Source

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Steve Bannon and artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton are part of a group calling for a ban on AI superintelligence until that technology can be deployed safely... View Source

As part of its Galaxy XR headset presentation, Samsung also briefly teased another wearable product. It's working in collaboration with two eyewear companies, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, on AI-powered smart glasses to go up against Meta's Ray-Ban models, Samsung's head of customer experience Jay Kim announced at the end of the livestream.  "We're also really exci... View Source

SpaceX will launch its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of 2025 today (Oct. 22), and you can watch the action live... View Source

By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction... View Source

The co-head of Europe’s most valuable defense startup said the industry is in a bubble and some investors are going to lose money... View Source

We've known for a while that the first extended reality (or XR) headset from Samsung and Google would debut in 2025. During an event on Tuesday night, Samsung at long last shared more details about the first Android XR device that you'll be able to purchase.  The company got really wild and original with the headset's name. You're truly not going to believe what it's called... Actually, it's... View Source

Innorna Co., a Chinese developer of messenger RNA drugs backed by buyout firm CDH Investments, is planning an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Samsung's take on the Vision Pro is here — and you can already order it. Costing just over half as much as Apple's reality machine, the Galaxy XR has a 4K micro-OLED screen and a 100-degree horizontal field of view. The $1,800 mixed reality headset is available now for pre-order on Samsung's website. The Galaxy XR isn't only a Samsung product. The company developed the long-rum... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is returning to the overseas bond market for the second time this year, amid an aggressive fundraising push for AI, led by its bet on OpenAI... View Source

Apple's Vision Pro was meant to usher in a new era for headsets. However, its high price and somewhat limited utility resulted in what may be the company's biggest flop in years. Now it's time for Samsung to give things a go with the Galaxy XR. It's a fresh take on modern mixed reality goggles developed through deep partnerships with Qualcomm and Google and it attempts to addre... View Source

The $1,800 headset is a precursor to smart glasses launching “pretty soon.”... View Source

The Samsung Galaxy XR is designed to be a showcase for Android XR, Google's new AR / VR operating system, but unlike competing mixed reality headsets, Google says there will be few limits on the apps the Galaxy XR will actually be able to run. In fact, a Google spokesperson tells Engadget that "almost all Android apps will automatically be made available without any additional developmen... View Source

Watching the first few minutes of KPop Demon Hunters on Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, I think Apple's Vision Pro might be cooked. It's not because the Galaxy XR - which Samsung formerly teased as Project Moohan - is that much better than the Vision Pro. It's that the experience is comparable, but you get so much more bang for your buck. Specifically, Galaxy XR costs $1,799 compared to the Vision Pr... View Source

OnlyFans Chief Executive Officer Keily Blair said that the company has paid out $25 billion to creators since it was founded in 2016... View Source

Pacific Investment Management Co. is already cashing in on the $27 billion debt package it led for a Meta Platforms Inc. data center... View Source

LG Chem Ltd. shares surged to the highest in more than a year after UK-based activist fund Palliser Capital UK disclosed a stake in the South Korean firm and urged changes including a board shakeup... View Source

In 2022, the National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended exploration of Uranus as its highest priority Flagship mission for the 2030s. The Decadal recommendation relied on the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) concept as its baseline for the mission. UOP assumed a launch in 2031 on a Falcon Heavy Expendable rocket and ... Read more... View Source

The trading volume on the leading prediction markets platforms, Polymarket and Kalshi, has hit a new record high, surpassing the previous peak reached during the US presidential election last year... View Source

SpaceX’s $17 billion acquisition of EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum enables broadband DTC (direct to cellphone) with 20x throughput over prior low-band spectrum from T-mobile. This mid-band S-spectrum offers excellent propagation characteristics but phones will need new chips to work with the spectrum band. DTC is an emerging service and we are going from it ... Read more... View Source

Apple Inc.’s new Vision Pro headset doesn’t offer much in the way of fresh features, but the company made a notable change to its production... View Source

Francisco Pinto Balsemão, one of Portugal’s most influential political figures and builder of a domestic media empire, has died. He was 88... View Source

We already know that the next-gen Xbox console isn’t locked to a single store, will use an AMD chip inside, and will maintain compatibility with an existing library of Xbox games. Now, Microsoft appears to be teasing that the next-gen Xbox will be some type of hybrid console and PC. Xbox president Sarah Bond sat down with Mashable this week to discuss the latest Xbox Ally X handheld, and dropped s... View Source

Netflix Inc. said a tax dispute with Brazil cut into third-quarter earnings, marring results that otherwise fell in line with Wall Street estimates... View Source

Samsung is partnering with Perplexity to bring the startup’s AI Search engine to its smart TVs. If you own a 2025 Samsung TV, you can start using the app today. The company will bring the software to older 2024 and 2023 sets later this year via an OTA update. As part of today’s announcement, Perplexity is also offering free 12-month subscriptions to its Pro plan. To redeem the offer, you’ll need t... View Source

There is an intensifying race to return humans to the Moon, pitting the US against China and now NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy will have SpaceX race Blue Origin and other bidders. China is aiming for a crewed lunar landing in 2029–2030. There are developing a Long March 10A super heavy lift rocket (70 tons), ... Read more... View Source

A screenshot from Lego Party!, which will be available on Netflix. Netflix has been investing a lot of time and energy into gaming, but the company sees its work on games as part of a broader initiative around interactivity, co-CEO Greg Peters said in today’s Q3 2025 earnings call. “We’ve mostly talked so far about our work in this space as games because that’s an easy shorthand,” he s... View Source

Halliburton Co. is diversifying into data-center power generation amid slackening worldwide demand for oilfield fracking... View Source

Aura just announced the Ink, a 13-inch color e-ink photo frame. The company says it's the "thinnest e-paper frame available" that is "designed to join a gallery wall or stand alone." Aura isn't kidding here. This thing is just 0.6-inches thick. One of the primary pain points of traditional digital photo frames is that many require constant power via an outlet. This creates an aesthetic problem, as... View Source

iPhone 17 Pro owners are still waiting for Project Indigo support. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The iPhone 17 series launched just over a month ago, but Adobe’s camera app Project Indigo still doesn’t support the latest iPhones — you can run it on an iPhone 12 Pro if you have one handy, but I can’t use it on the iPhone 17 Pro on my desk. The holdup seems to be due in part to trouble with the... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in discussions with Alphabet Inc.’s Google about a deal that would provide the artificial intelligence company with additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

There was no massive event announcing the M5 MacBook Pro, not even a short promotional video for social media. Instead, Apple dumped all of its new M5 devices on us with a few press releases, a clear sign that there's not much to celebrate this year. But while the new 14-inch MacBook Pro appears to be more of the same on the surface, it also features an impressive graphics upgrade that makes it a... View Source

LandSpace conducted a static-fire test with its Zhuque-3 rocket recently, an important step in the prep work ahead of the partially reusable rocket's debut launch... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration's power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile apps from its stores could have been connected to a legal battle over Fortnite V-Bucks. Yes, we are talking about the in-game digital currency that Fortnite players can use to buy taco hats and t... View Source

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella’s pay package jumped to $96.5 million for fiscal 2025, his highest compensation since he became CEO more than a decade ago, with the board citing the company’s progress in artificial intelligence... View Source

Google just announced several updates for its digital telecom provider, Google Fi. It's introducing AI-enhanced audio for better sound quality during calls. The company says this will ensure "optimized audio quality for every call, so you can confidently take calls from a windy park or busy cafe." This feature rolls out sometime in November. Google Fi is getting HD/HD+ calling, whic... View Source

SpaceX owner said Sean Duffy was ‘trying to kill Nasa’ after acting head said agency would reopen contracts for Artemis missionUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk attacked Sean Duffy, the US secretary of transportation, on Tuesday in a series of posts on X, accusing him of trying to “kill NASA”, suggesting he should be fired and calling him “Sean Dummy”. The posts intensified a long-running... View Source

Starting today, creators in YouTube’s Partner Program are getting access to a new AI detection feature that will allow them to find and report unauthorized uploads using their likeness. As shown in this video from YouTube, after verifying their identity, creators can review flagged videos in the Content Detection tab on YouTube Studio. If a video looks like unauthorized, AI-generated content, crea... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses OpenAI’s secretive project to train its artificial intelligence to build financial models and what that could mean for junior bankers. Plus, President Donald Trump announced a deal with Australia on rare earths to counter China's dominance. And shares of Warner Bros. Discovery jumped after the company said it has expanded a strategic review of the business to maximi... View Source

GM is ending production of the Chevy Brightdrop electric van, according to portions of a transcript of a recent earnings report published by The Verge. The decision was made due to slowing demand in the EV market, as hundreds of Brightdrop vans have begun piling up in dealer lots. “This is not a decision we made lightly because of the impact on our employees,” CEO Mary Barra said in the earnings c... View Source

At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS’ ion tail — but will any of the charged particles reach the spacecraft, and will the spacecraft be ready to receive them?... View Source

I promise I photographed the M5 model. But the M4 could stand in as a stunt double just fine. Last year's entry-level MacBook Pro was an impressive return to form for Apple's Pro laptop. Between the M4 chip, increased RAM, improved webcam, and a third Thunderbolt 4 port, the most affordable MacBook Pro was also one of the best deals in Apple's lineup. The M5 sequel is mostly a copy-paste of the sa... View Source

Texas Instruments Inc., the biggest maker of analog chips, gave a lackluster forecast for the current period, adding to concern that a semiconductor industry recovery is sputtering... View Source

Brian Haidet, a scientist creating videos on YouTube under the handle AlphaPhoenix, showed off a camera in a new video that can capture footage of a laser pointer at the speed of light. The camera is an update on a previous design that could capture footage at one billion frames per second, but it comes with a major caveat: it can only shoot one pixel at a time.Haidet's camera is made from a... View Source

Everything has to go right for China to launch a human moon mission in 2029 or even 2030. China is also building a new rocket and they have not assembled it yet or flown it. China is still testing a lunar lander. Long March 10 Rocket Certification (2026–2027) Verification: On Track, with Accelerated 2025 Testing. ... Read more... View Source

Although Apple said in a recent court filing that Jon Prosser “still has not” replied to the company’s July lawsuit against him for allegedly stealing trade secrets, Prosser tells The Verge that he is in communication with Apple about the case. “All I can tell you is that regardless of what is being reported, and regardless of what the court documents say — I have, in fact, been in active communic... View Source

The clock just ticked past noon here in Houston, Texas, so it’s acceptable to have a drink, right? Because after another turbulent morning of closely following the rough-and-tumble contest to become the next NASA administrator, I sure could use one. What has happened now? Why, it was only SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who is NASA’s most important contractor, referring to the interim head of the space... View Source

Apple Inc. is back before a US federal appeals court Tuesday contesting an order forcing it to open its lucrative mobile App Store to links to cheaper payment options... View Source

Players aren't the only ones facing higher price tags from Xbox. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft has upped the cost of the Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000. That's a 33 percent jump in cost for these custom hardware kits, which are essential for devs to make and test games for release on the console. "The adjustment reflects macroeconomic developments,... View Source

As of October 21, 2025, Blue Origin has conducted only one New Glenn launch to date. The maiden flight occurred on January 16, 2025, from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-36, successfully reaching orbit with a prototype Blue Ring payload, though the first stage was lost during reentry. The second Blue Origin launch of New Glenn is taking ... Read more... View Source

The Soundcore Sleep A30 sit flush in your ear and are comfortable enough to wear all night. | Image: The Verge If you’re a light sleeper who needs complete silence before dozing off, Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A30 are built for you. Luckily, right now, the wireless sleep buds are on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for $193.99 ($36 off), which is just shy of the price drop we saw during Amazon’... View Source

Worldline SA said a review following allegations it had turned a blind eye to fraud discovered “uneven” implementation of anti-financial-crime controls across the company... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will have to testify in an upcoming trial that deals with social media safety and whether the executives' platforms are addictive. A Los Angeles judge ruled that the three men will need to testify in the trial set to begin in January, according to CNBC."The testimony of a CEO is uniquely relevant, as that of... View Source

We spoke with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new Q&A book "Just Visiting This Planet: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin From Omniscia" arriving on Oct. 21, 2025... View Source

Yesterday, we learned how Google plans to let 15 lucky fans try new Pixel phones while they're still in development, thanks to a Bloomberg scoop. We have now obtained copies of the official rules and entry form for that contest, as shared with fans by the head of the Pixel Superfans program, and you can read the full versions at the bottom of this story. TL;DR: Google wasn't asking for much! To ge... View Source

OnlyFans Chief Executive Officer Keily Blair said that the company has paid out $25 billion to creators since it was founded in 2016. “There’s not very many companies that can talk about creating wealth for others rather than just profiteering,” Blair said at Bloomberg Tech in London on Tuesday.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix, no stranger to adapting games into streaming hits, has announced that it's partnering with game publisher Asmodee to create new TV shows and films based on the board game Catan, with multiple projects already in development. While the streamer has primarily specialized video game adaptations, the belief in post-Barbie Hollywood is that any recognizable IP could be the source of a fut... View Source

NASA’s acting administrator Sean Duffy says he plans to “open up the contract” SpaceX holds to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis 3 mission because the company has fallen behind schedule. Duffy previously maintained that Artemis 3 would launch in 2027, the agency’s official target, even as multiple Starship test flight failures earlier ... Read more... View Source

The ornament also plays the console’s startup sound. | Image: Hallmark The Halo 3 soundtrack could soon be joining classics like “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Deck the Halls” on your holiday playlist, if you deck your halls with Hallmark’s new Xbox 360 Keepsake ornament. It’s now available from Hallmark’s online store and Amazon for $28.99 and pressing its power button plays the console’s swooshy startu... View Source

Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to offspring... View Source

Apple Inc.’s effort to reinvent the iPad by adding a giant foldable screen has hit development hurdles, potentially delaying the planned launch... View Source

When AI tools first began proliferating around the web, worries about deepfakes quickly rose alongside them. And now that tech such as OpenAI's recently released Sora 2 is getting more capable and more widely available (and being used exactly as irresponsibly as you might have guessed), both famous and ordinary people may want more control over protecting their likenesses. After teasing the f... View Source

Titan's chemical inventory is believed to bear some resemblance to the prebiotic soup on the early Earth... View Source

Last month, my colleague Liz Lopatto explained how a gummy bear battery bank was taking over the ultralight backpacking world. I'm talking full-grown, outdoorsy adults nerding out about gummy bear merch beating the battery pros at their own game! Liz and I quickly agreed: We should put it to the test. Could the gummy bear company truly have the best ultralight battery, and could I bring some hard... View Source

Microsoft Corp. will exempt many sales roles from its coming return-to-office mandate, offering a more flexible approach than many of its tech industry peers... View Source

Apple's war of words with Europe over its Digital Markets Act (DMA) is bleeding into the court system. Bloomberg reports that the company criticized the regulations at the General Court in Luxembourg. The European Commission is currently conducting its first formal review of the law. Apple lawyer Daniel Beard told the court reviewing the DMA that it "imposes hugely onerous and intrusive... View Source

Google announced several upgrades and new features coming to its Google Fi Wireless phone plans, including an update to web calls and messages with a new interface that now fully supports RCS messaging so you can share high-quality photos and videos in message threads, even when your phone isn’t nearby. That functionality is expected to be available in early December at no extra cost. Call quality... View Source

China’s Commerce Minister warned that the Dutch state’s move to take control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia has “seriously affected” the stability of the global supply chain... View Source

OpenAI's long-rumored browser has a name, and you can try it out today — provided you're an Apple user. ChatGPT Atlas is available to download on macOS, with the company promising to bring it to Windows, Android and iOS soon. Atlas integrates ChatGPT directly within the browser interface, allowing users to engage with the chatbot while they're surfing the web — no need to jump betwe... View Source

Not even Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can save you from this Martian disaster... View Source

OpenAI’s next move in its battle against Google is an AI-powered web browser. The tool, dubbed ChatGPT Atlas, is out today. The company announced it in a livestream after teasing it earlier Tuesday via a mysterious video of browser tabs on a white screen. ChatGPT Atlas is available “globally” on macOS starting today, while access for Windows, iOS, and Android is “coming soon,” per the company. But... View Source

OpenAI is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence-powered web browser, putting the ChatGPT maker in competition on a new front with Alphabet Inc.’s Google... View Source

If you’re on the go a lot, a power bank is practically a backpack essential, and while a chunkier device is sometimes necessary for power users, if you just need something to juice up your phone you can easily stay within the realms of pocketability. Baseus’ Picogo 5K belongs to the latter category, and right now you can pick one up for $36, which is a record low price. While this particular acces... View Source

After raising prices on Xbox consoles and subscriptions, Microsoft is now turning its attention to Xbox developers. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the company is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit (XDK) - the custom hardware used by developers to build Xbox games. The current Xbox dev kit is moving from $1,500 to $2,000, a 33 percent jump in... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google moonshot factory plans to review Rio de Janeiro’s power grid ahead of the potential construction of data centers that would put the city at the forefront of Latin America’s artificial-intelligence industry, according to the city’s vice mayor... View Source

Yet another streaming platform is asking people to dig deeper into their wallets and pay more to keep using the service. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has jacked up the prices of all HBO Max plans, 16 months after the last increase to the ad-free offerings. The entry-level, ad-supported plan is now $11 per month (an extra $1) or $110 per year ($10 more). HBO Max Standard will run you an extra... View Source

An electronic retinal implant has improved vision in people with age-related macular degeneration—but it isn’t a full restoration, and it didn’t improve participants’ quality of life... View Source

Another day, another price increase for a streaming service, and this time it’s HBO Max, which has higher prices for everyone at the same time that its parent company puts everything up for sale. The first price hike for HBO Max hit in early 2023 before the service changed its name, and while that decision was rolled back in a re-re-branding, the prices still keep going up even after last year’s i... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to McDonald’s Corp. to Epic Games Inc... View Source

Amazon is reportedly moving towards an era of unprecedented automation that would put half a million jobs in the US at risk. According to a series of interviews and internal documents referenced in an extensive report from The New York Times, Amazon executives expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. But by scaling up its robotics operations believe it could avoid the 600,000 hires it would... View Source

General Motors has parked many unsold BrightDrop electric delivery vans on vacant lots in Flint and in Canada. | Image: Getty General Motors will end production of its Chevy Brightdrop electric vans at its factory in Ingersol, Ontario, the company said during its third quarter earnings call Tuesday. The decision was made as slow demand in the electric van market led to hundreds of Brightdrop vehic... View Source

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei put out a lengthy blog post pushing back at “inaccurate claims” about its policy positions days after White House AI czar David Sacks criticized the company’s calls for more AI regulation... View Source

Nintendo has another livestream planned for the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders. This one takes place on October 23 at 9AM ET. That's less than a month before the game will be available for purchase. The company also says the stream will be a full hour, which is a heck of a long time to spend on just one game a few weeks before launch. It's worth noting, however, that Kirby... View Source

OpenAI has started teasing a livestream today that will likely be related to its rumored web browser. A mysterious teaser with a set of browser tabs appeared on OpenAI’s X account today, signaling that a livestream will reveal all at 1PM ET / 10AM PT today. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the announcement is about “a new product I’m quite excited about.” Reuters reported in July that OpenAI was p... View Source

Cohere Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aidan Gomez said the artificial intelligence startup hopes to make its public market debut “soon,” in what would be one of the first IPOs from an AI model maker... View Source

Portable chargers are great and all but, between a hefty weight and a tangle of cords, many are more of an annoyance than anything else. Anker's Nano Power Bank has served as the solution to all that for me, with a charger built-in to a device that's barely bigger than a lipstick.  Now our choice for best portable charger for Android is even more tempting, thanks to a 36 percent markdown. The... View Source

The first official look at the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome (pictured). Ricoh is developing a new addition to its GR compact digital camera series that’s designed specifically for black and white photography. The GR IV Monochrome is expected to launch sometime in Spring 2026, and aside from a new monochrome CMOS sensor, it shares many of the same core features as the GR IV model that Ricoh released last... View Source

Playtech Plc shares fell as much as 39%, erasing more than £400 million ($535 million) of market value, after Swedish rival Evolution AB accused the British gambling technology group of commissioning a smear campaign in an attempt to “destroy its reputation.”... View Source

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the Earth... View Source

Tapo’s new solar-powered pan-tilt camera adds a bright floodlight. | Image: Tapo TP-Link’s Tapo smart home brand announced a new solar-powered outdoor security camera with pan-tilt capabilities, 2K video recording, and an 800-lumen LED floodlight. Tapo says the C615F can operate for as long as 24 hours with just 45 minutes of sunlight, and it’s now available through Tapo’s online store and Amazon... View Source

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is testing a new system to streamline how medical claims are processed, an early example of what the company says is the potential for artificial intelligence to smooth out friction in billing... View Source

Test your knowledge of NASA's triumphs, setbacks, and space-age breakthroughs that define this space agency's legendary history... View Source

What do you get the tablet that has everything? Last year, Apple debuted a massive overhaul to the iPad Pro, with a thin new design, a gorgeous new screen, a bunch of updated accessories, and a speedy new chip. I called it the best iPad ever. I also wondered how it could even get much better. The answer, at least this year, is apparently it couldn't. The new iPad Pro is, in every way that matters,... View Source

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller says the agency will be more active in studying ways to embrace innovative advancements in payments... View Source

Apple is back with the latest version of the iPad Pro, and like the iPad Air earlier this year the surface-level changes are minimal. Like that iPad Air, there’s a new chip on board here. It’s the M5, which was also added to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and Vision Pro. There are new Apple-designed networking chips: the N1 handles Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and Thread, while the C1X handles 5G connectivity. B... View Source

The Artemis 2 SLS rocket that will launch the next astronauts around the moon is all put together inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building... View Source

This automatic litter box can monitor multiple cats’ toilet habits using AI-powered cameras. The Litter-Robot 5 Pro is the newest poop-scooping machine from Whisker, makers of the excellent Litter-Robot 4, and it brings facial recognition for your cats to the self-cleaning litter box line. The company is also introducing an optional subscription service, Whisker Plus, that monitors and tracks your... View Source

Veeam Software, owned by private equity firm Insight Partners, agreed to buy Securiti AI for about $1.73 billion in cash and stock, adding software that helps secure corporate data used in artificial intelligence applications... View Source

AI is the star of Yelp's fall product update. The review site has updated Yelp Assistant, its chatbot to answer users' questions, rolling the tool out for all business categories. Its responses will draw on information from the business' website as well as posts by other Yelp users. The chatbot will also remember past queries and preferences when it's used for finding services... View Source

Your TV is an Xbox. Your computer is an Xbox. Your phone, your crummy Android tablet, your car's infotainment display, oops all Xboxes. If Microsoft is right about the future of gaming, your game console might soon be an Xbox even if it's not an Xbox. It's an interesting idea, and raises some fascinating questions about the gaming industry. Here's one of those questions: shouldn't an Xbox play Xbo... View Source

Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky said he didn’t integrate his company’s online travel app with OpenAI’s ChatGPT because the startup’s connective tools aren’t “quite ready” yet... View Source

Meta is launching new tools aimed at trying to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. The company says its teams have "detected and disrupted" nearly 8 million accounts associated with scam centers in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines since the beginning of 2025. It has also taken action on over 21,000 Pages on Facebook pretending t... View Source

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JAXA has successfully deployed three new Cubesats from the International Space Station's Kibo module, marking another step in democratizing access to space... View Source

Investors are betting on new software tools to grapple with one of the thorniest problems in business and life — taxes... View Source

If you're not a big fan of the, well, glass in iOS 26's Liquid Glass interface, Apple has apparently heard you. The latest iOS 26.1 Beta 4 has a new toggle that lets you apply a "tinted" setting to boost the opacity of elements and add contrast, making them stand out better against the background, MacRumors reported. "Choose your preferred look for Liquid Glass. Clear is m... View Source

Yelp’s Host AI will speak to customers for restaurants. Yelp’s AI-powered solutions promise to answer calls, take reservations, and manage bookings for “understaffed” restaurants. Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist are part of a broader push from the company and similar platforms embracing AI to streamline customer management “around the clock.”  Host is an AI agent that can answer calls from gu... View Source

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he’s asked Deputy Finance Minister Vorapak Tanyawong for a written response to allegations that he’s linked to Southeast Asian scam networks... View Source

A decent-sized chunk of the internet stopped working after a fairly massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. This included Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite — even Amazon’s own products went on the fritz. Your humble narrator’s Ring Chimes started turning their night lights on and off entirely at random, with no prompting from yours truly. The company has already fixed the DNS issue that caused... View Source

Amazon has deployed over a million robots to its facilities, and is testing bipedal bots like Agility Robotics' “Digit” (pictured). | Image: Jason Redmond / Getty Images Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hopi... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. won’t increase its $9 billion offer for data center provider Core Scientific Inc., despite opposition to the deal from major shareholders... View Source

Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules... View Source

Reflect Orbital has applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a giant mirror to space next year... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Mark Bergen previews the Bloomberg Tech summit in London, which focuses on the future of European tech sovereignty... View Source

Whether you’re into adventure sports or just want to log your day-to-day activities, an action camera is the way to go. On top of regular models from the likes of GoPro, DJI and Insta360, you can film your adventures with 360-degree models and a new class of tiny cams that can even be attached to kids or pets. In other words, there are more options than ever for types of action shooting or vloggin... View Source

An archaeological mystery gets one step closer to being solved... View Source

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Ming Yang Smart Energy Group announced plans to build the world’s largest floating wind turbine, as Chinese firms seek a larger share of the global market while rivals grapple with rising costs... View Source

A South Korean court dismissed the stock manipulation case against Kakao Corp. founder Brian Kim, clearing the billionaire of charges that marred his reputation as an internet pioneer... View Source

Lifeline Ventures raised €400 million ($470 million) to create Finland’s biggest fund investing in European technology startups, building on its track record of identifying unicorns... View Source

Visa Inc.-backed fintech Moniepoint has raised an additional $90 million in investment to accelerate the startup’s African expansion plans, taking its latest funding round to $200 million... View Source

A European push to stop relying on the US military has spawned a new generation of companies... View Source

Sea Ltd. founder Forrest Li told employees a trillion dollar market capitalization — an increase of about 10 times — is possible as the Southeast Asia e-commerce leader joins tech companies globally betting on artificial intelligence for growth... View Source

Fintech firm GCash is aiming for an initial public offering in Manila in the second half of 2026, according to people with knowledge of the matter, later than previously anticipated as the Philippine stock market sags... View Source

The mysterious impact of a United Airlines aircraft in flight last week has sparked plenty of theories online, from space debris to high-flying birds. However the question of what happened to flight 1093, and its severely damaged front window, appears to be answered by a weather balloon. “I think this was a WindBorne balloon,” Kai Marshland, co-founder of the weather prediction company WindBorne S... View Source

Haier Smart Home Co. is considering an initial public offering of its internet-of-things unit Cosmoplat, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

The US and its hyperscalers are spending more money on AI and AI data centers. The US hyperscalers have huge capacity for $400 billion on capital expenditure and hundreds of billion on research. The US hyperscalers have more free cashflow to expand AI investments towards $1 trillion per year and beyond. China is getting Nvidia ... Read more... View Source

Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now a joint statement from actor Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, the union, and others says that after videos of him appeared on Sora — one even showed him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson — the company... View Source

Two days from today, October 22nd, was Google’s deadline to begin opening up its app store, stop forcing developers to use Google Play Billing, let them set their own prices, and more, following Epic’s repeated wins in Epic v. Google. But both Epic and Google have just successfully and mysteriously argued for one final week’s delay. US District Court Judge James Donato has just agreed to push back... View Source

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are very clear for population impacts on workforce and retirement. People who will be 20 years older are alive today. ... Read more... View Source

Home products company Kohler is launching a new Kohler Health division, and its first product is a $599 camera for your toilet. The item, dubbed Dekoda, is equipped with sensors that analyze whatever liquid or solid waste goes into the toilet bowl with "validated machine learning algorithms." The data, which can offer insights on hydration and gut health as well as detecting the presence... View Source

When the first 3D Ninja Gaiden came out on Xbox in 2004, I really wanted to play it; though the game looks a little antiquated now, at the time, teenage me thought that ninja protagonist Ryu Hayabusa was cool as hell. But alas, I didn't have an Xbox, and I don't think I could have convinced my parents to let me get such a (for the time) violent game. Even as an adult that could buy whatever game I... View Source

X is finally following through on its long-rumored plans to sell old user handles, and some of the most sought-after usernames could fetch millions of dollars. The company shared more details about and opened a waitlist for its "handle marketplace," that will enable paying subscribers to request and buy "inactive" handles. According to the company, X will make two types of... View Source

In August 2016, my son and I met Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky. Daniel has sadly died at the young age of 29. I only got to see him for a couple of hours but he was already a great chess communicator and educator. He reached as high as 18th in the world rankings. Naroditsky was ... Read more... View Source

A new study finds that even elite endurance athletes run up against a hard metabolic ceiling... View Source

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories... View Source

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to the Moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the secretary of transportation frequently appears in his acting role as NASA chief, Duffy said SpaceX has fallen behind in its efforts to develop the Starship vehicle as a lunar lander. Duffy also indirectly... View Source

A plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of buyouts of young companies in Japan, reflecting Tokyo’s push to create more billion-dollar startups to better match the country’s global standing in scientific research... View Source

LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) Telescope Mirrors for the LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) Telescope. NASA Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The OLI telescope uses a four-mirror compact design. The optics are positioned inside a lightweight, yet highly stable, carbon composite optical bench (i.e., a substrate on which the optics are mounted) that has special features to control undesir... View Source

Massive marches nationwide in the U.S. marked a turn against an increasing acceptance of political violence among protesters, report sociologists... View Source

British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to artificial intelligence data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects... View Source

Meet the “Scene Select Mechanism”—Part of the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor Engineer (in a “bunny suit”) working on the Scene Select Mechanism of the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on LDCM. NASA Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Scene Select Mechanism is an apparatus that rotates the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) mirror among three scenes: the Earth view (“nadir;” whe... View Source

A piece of smoldering wreckage found in Western Australia is likely part of a Chinese rocket that crashed to Earth on Saturday (Oct. 18), experts say... View Source

There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been publicly unboxed, disassembled, and even reviewed before Google can show them off.) But it seems Google doesn’t want leakers to have all the fun — it plans to let 15 lucky fans try new Pixel phones while the... View Source

As Europe pushes to build sovereign AI, there’s plenty of disagreement about what the term even means. But first…... View Source

There's a lot to like about NordVPN, as I covered in my full NordVPN review. It's one of the fastest among the best VPNs, and it's got a bunch of cool, specialized servers for various VPN tasks. But the apps can be frustrating, and beyond that, no VPN is perfect for everyone. If you've decided NordVPN isn't for you, here's how to cancel your subscription and get your... View Source

Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory TIRS being hoisted into place on the LDCM satellite in Gilbert, Ariz. Orbital Science Corp • Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and TIRS instruments... View Source

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is — early on, there were some legibility issues — but this new setting gives you the choice of making things more transparent or more frosted. The option is available now in... View Source

Bed bugs: the nightmare of any city dweller, frequent traveller, and now Google employee. The team at the company's Chelsea campus were notified on Sunday that a possible bed bug infestation had been discovered in the building and were told to remain at home so the location could be treated. As if working over the weekend wasn't enough of a bummer. Fortunately, exterminators collected th... View Source

Patients wore these smart glasses that paired to a retinal implant in their eye. Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired with a set of smart glasses. The study was published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and researchers report that patients could see well enough using the technology to fill out crossword puzzles and read re... View Source

Cohere Inc., the Nvidia Corp.-backed artificial intelligence startup that raised funds at a $7 billion valuation a month ago, is holding a so-called tender for employees who want to sell their stakes in the company to outside investors... View Source

Five years after the release of the Galaxy S20 FE, Samsung has settled into a predictable pattern with its "Fan Edition" line of phones. Each new phone doesn't offer much new or different from its immediate predecessor, with the company opting to offer iterative updates instead. That might have been fine before, but with the arrival of the Nothing Phone 3a Pro and Pixel 10 — devices that changed t... View Source

SpaceX has long held the contract to land NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts on the moon a few years from now. But the agency plans to reopen the bidding, according to acting NASA chief Sean Duffy... View Source

Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above 30,000 feet... View Source

Samsung is set to officially reveal its long-anticipated Android extended reality (XR) headset, which has been codenamed Project Moohan. The company has scheduled a livestream event for October 21 at 10PM ET. The event will be streamed live via the company's YouTube page and on the official Samsung Newsroom site. We don't know how long the stream will be, but Samsung promises that Projec... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company’s next handset ahead of its public introduction... View Source

At the end of February, Anthropic announced Claude Code. In the eight months since then, the coding agent has arguably become the company's most important product, helping it carve out a niche for itself in the highly competitive AI market. Now, Anthropic is making it easier for developers to use Claude Code in more places with a new web interface for accessing the agent.  To get started... View Source

Mathematician Thomas Bloom, runs erdosproblems.com, explains that OpenAI surfaced erdos problem solutions that were not unsolved. OpenAI GPT-5 simply surfaced existing papers solving them that he had personally overlooked, mislabeling them as “open” on his site. No new mathematics was generated—GPT-5 acted as an advanced search tool. OpenAI’s Mark Sellke and Sebastien Bubeck prev... View Source

A physicist explains the idea of virtual particles and why they are important to study... View Source

The Sims Mobile is going away as EA will shut it down on January 20, nearly eight years after its debut in March 2018. An update that went live on Monday is the final one and the company is delisting the game on October 21. Since the game requires online servers (game progress is stored there), it'll no longer be possible to play The Sims Mobile in three months' time. "The Sims... View Source

As of September 2025, the total amount of gold ever mined and remaining above ground (the investable stock used for market valuation) is approximately 218,000 metric tonnes. This figure accounts for all gold in forms like jewelry, bars, coins, central bank holdings and industrial uses. At the current gold price of $4,307 per troy ounce ... Read more... View Source

Cards Against Humanity, the irreverent party game company known for its provocative humor, has settled its trespassing lawsuit against SpaceX, one year after filing the complaint and launching a profanity-laced marketing campaign against Elon Musk’s rocket company. The dispute centered on a plot of land along the Rio Grande River in Cameron County, Texas, that […]... View Source

If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ads in the tunnels, tried to avert your eyes from the near-constant presence of the device pictured on all the ads inside subway cars, or had a friend text you, “What is that thing?” Although Friend was fo... View Source

Oura has redesigned its official app with a refreshed visual interface and new health-tracking insights. The company boasts that the app refresh offers "modern visual language with deeper personalization." To that end, there are now three main and easily identifiable tabs. The "Today" tab includes only the most relevant data to help inform daily decisions. The "Vitals... View Source

TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix celebrates the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil. The US Nvidia Blackwell has reached volume production. The chip packaging is still done in Taiwan. TSMC Arizona will produce advanced technologies including two-, three- and four-nanometer chips, as well as A16 chips, all essential for applications like AI, ... Read more... View Source

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the moon-forming impact, a new study reports... View Source

Nasa head said agency is opening up contracts for crewed lunar program Artemis after SpaceX had to delay timelinesNasa is looking to contract with other companies for its crewed lunar program as Elon Musk’s SpaceX is “behind” on its timeline, the space agency said Monday.In an interview with CNBC, Sean Duffy, transportation secretary and interim head of Nasa, said the agency is “not going to wait... View Source

Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime Day sale, but a fresh discount has now made the power bank cheaper than ever. Right now, you can pick it up at Amazon in black for just $13.74 (a little over $19 off) after applying the automatic 45 p... View Source

A company whose primary purpose is to hold the cryptocurrency tied to the Ripple payment network, XRP, is set to go public via a blank-check company... View Source

Meta is getting ready to pull support for its desktop Messenger apps on Windows and macOS. Both apps have already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, and existing users are starting to get notifications that the desktop apps will disappear fully in December. A Meta support page, first spotted by Apple Insider, reveals that Mac Messenger app users will have 60 days to use the a... View Source

Canada is launching a new financial crimes agency and making changes to banking laws to clamp down on online fraud and other scams... View Source

Using an expanding clamping mechanism the Kohler Dekoda installs on most toilets without tools. | Image: Kohler Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as being choosy about what goes into it. As part of a new initiative focused on “turning the bathroom into a connected, data-informed health and wellness hub,” Kohler has announced a health t... View Source

NASA wants companies to compete with SpaceX over a contract it holds to put astronauts on the moon, a fresh sign of blowback over delays with Elon Musk’s Starship spacecraft... View Source

Spotify just introduced a feature that lets users follow their favorite concert venues. This will provide people with updates and details about upcoming concerts. Once a venue is selected as a favorite, it gets saved in a user's library. Browsing each venue provides information on scheduled concerts, general announcements and other stuff. Folks can even filter upcoming shows by genre. Clickin... View Source

The Anbernic RG DS will launch in four colors including blue and one with a translucent white shell. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has shared footage of its upcoming RG DS dual-screen clamshell handheld playing a selection of emulated games, including stylus-driven titles like Kirby: Canvas Curse from the Nintendo DS and 3DS games like Shovel Knight. Anbernic announced the RG DS earlier this mont... View Source

Blackstone Inc. has completed its second debt sale of 2025 linked to UK warehouses, according to a person familiar with the transaction, as it capitalizes on relentless demand for online shopping logistics... View Source

The Sims is in a period of transition — and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. EA announced that today’s update for The Sims Mobile will be its last, and that on January 20th, 2026 the game “will no longer be accessible to play and will be sunset.” The mobile iteration of the franchise first launched in 2018, and has seen more than 50 updates since t... View Source

The S&P 500 rose into a second day, helped by signs trade tensions with China may be easing. Better-than-expected corporate earnings trends and a rally for Apple Inc., which neared a record as analysts highlighted improving iPhone demand trends, also boosted sentiment... View Source

On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running. According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the U... View Source

You can grab the AMD-based model, or spend an extra $150 on the slightly faster Intel version that also has double the internal storage. | Image: The Verge As part of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days coverage earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening at Walmart. My favorite was the $600 off deal on Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming laptop, which has a 15.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600... View Source

"The Russians and the Chinese are demonstrating more sophisticated orbital maneuvering abilities. There's no denying that,"... View Source

On August 19th at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message from his roommate. A man, the text said, was knocking on their door with legal documents to serve. Johnston is the founder and sole employee of The Midas Project: a nonprofit that monitors the practices of "leading AI companies to ensure transparency, privacy, and ethical standards are maintained." The Midas Project is behind The OpenAI F... View Source

Panama will require that any agreement to restart the $10 billion Cobre Panama copper mine clearly stipulates that the country is the owner of the land and the resources, the country’s finance chief said in an interview... View Source

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.  You’re almost certainly familiar with Zocdoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and book appointments with doctors. It’s a classic of the early app economy, right alongside Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and others — it’s a friend... View Source

A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data... View Source

Oura Health Oy, the Finnish smart ring maker, is the latest wearable company seeking to move into blood pressure monitoring... View Source

A new WHO report warns of rising antimicrobial resistance, and researchers uncover satellite data leaks and insect surprises... View Source

The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red star Antares for observers in South America... View Source

The redesigned Oura app includes new features to help users track and manage their stress levels. Oura is launching a redesigned app with expanded stress-tracking insights as it develops new blood pressure features that could identify signs of hypertension. The updated Oura app will introduce a new Cumulative Stress feature that provides a weekly overview of how the body manages and recovers from... View Source

A special class of immune proteins protect us from pathogens but also drive inflammation and cell death... View Source

Revolut Ltd was cleared to start its banking operation in Mexico, heating up the fintech race with Nu Holdings Ltd and MercadoLibre Inc in Latin America as it receives its second regulatory green light in the region this month... View Source

Beats devices have been the more colorful, full-of-personality complements to Apple’s clean-and-minimal gear ever since Apple bought the company back in 2014. Beats earbuds and speakers are the more flexible alternatives to things like AirPods and HomePods, and the new Beats Powerbeats Fit keep that tradition alive. Some six months after the Powerbeats Pro 2 debuted earlier this year, Beats now ha... View Source

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 6951, where a central bar fuels a spectacular ring of newborn stars... View Source

In 2022, Jake Clay started an Amazon delivery firm in Odessa, Texas, after hearing about the company’s program from a friend. He sank $75,000 into the business and earned more than $200,000 in the first year. An Air Force veteran, Clay, 50, felt like he’d joined an elite unit... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow talks with executives at space tech startups about their companies’ work with the US military... View Source

Here's what to expect when the Orionid meteor shower peaks on Oct. 21-23 in a dark, moonless sky... View Source

US investigators are advancing a criminal probe into Builder.ai, demanding a former executive’s communications with the firm’s UK auditor and with others involved in the financial reporting for the artificial intelligence startup ahead of its June bankruptcy... View Source

Starlink satellites awaiting deployment. | Image: SpaceX On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of those 10k satel... View Source

Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest social media companies... View Source

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, suffered a widespread disruption on Monday morning that degraded services for several companies, including artificial intelligence company Perplexity and the Coinbase and Robinhood financial platforms... View Source

Here are just a few of the services impacted by the outage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multi... View Source

Early birds on the east coast will have the best chance of seeing this annual astral light showFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEarly rising stargazers in Australia will be in prime position to catch a glimpse of the Orionid meteor shower, which will this week pass through our atmosphere.Those who tend to wake before d... View Source

This hybrid documentary about the Cree astronomer offers evocative, poetic insight into a formidable community leaderFor Cree astronomer Wilfred Buck, the stars hold an immense power that extends beyond the realm of science. Coming from an Indigenous group whose stories have been systematically effaced by official narratives, he looks to these clustered dots of light as both historical document an... View Source

The Chinese unit of chipmaker Nexperia said operations continue as normal and employees should follow the guidance of local leadership, highlighting tensions with the Dutch headquarters after the Netherlands government’s seizure of the company... View Source

The speed of the shower creates swift, bright streaks across the night sky, at a typical rate of 20 meteors an hourAs seasoned meteor spotters will tell you, each meteor shower has its own peculiar characteristics. Earlier in the month, the Draconids were characterised by their slow-moving meteors. The Orionids, on the other hand, are zippy.Barrelling into the atmosphere at about 66 km/s, they cre... View Source

Vietnam’s government is targeting annual economic growth of at least 10% over the next five years, even as US tariffs and global trade uncertainty threaten to weigh on exports and investments flows... View Source

Muji-brand retailer Ryohin Keikaku Co. suspended its e-commerce site late Sunday after its logistics supplier Askul Corp. was hit by a cyber attack... View Source

Masan Group is in talks with Costco Wholesale Corp. to sell its branded noodles, fish sauce and coffee in the retailer’s US stores as the Vietnamese conglomerate accelerates its global expansion... View Source

Apple Inc.’s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity... View Source

Toyo Tire Corp. Chief Executive Officer Takashi Shimizu expects the tiremaker to exceed its profit guidance this fiscal year and plans to start buying back shares, helped by resilient US demand... View Source

Software and computer services companies saw the biggest rise in profit warnings among UK-listed firms last quarter, according to a report from consultancy EY-Parthenon... View Source

X is testing a change to the way it handles links on iOS so that the buttons to like, reply, and repost will always be visible. Normally, when you click a link on X the page opens up and completely covers the original post. Apparently, this leads to fewer people clicking like or otherwise engaging with the content.  A good chunk of people probably just don’t return to Twitter at all after fol... View Source

Kering SA agreed to sell its beauty division to L’Oreal SA as part of a long-term strategic alliance, with Chief Executive Luca de Meo seeking to turn around the French luxury giant’s fortunes... View Source

Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement. On platforms like Threads, data suggests that people often don't click the links in posts, and creators on X have complained that posts including links don't get as much visibility. X is now trying to solve that. Head of product Nikita Bier shared that the platform is "testing a new link experience... View Source

Burning object made of carbon fibre discovered on desert road near mine site close to Newman on 18 OctoberFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAuthorities are investigating how suspected space debris ended up in outback Australia after mine workers found burning items.Western Australia police are leading the response after... View Source

Premium Plus and Premium Business users will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace. Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories. Priority handles will be free and “often include full names, multi-word phrases, or alphanumeric combinations.” Rare handles, on the other hand, will be a paid option, and “may be priced anywhere from $2,500 to... View Source

As political tensions between the two global superpowers grow, China's State Security Ministry accused the US' National Security Agency of a cyberattack operation that took place between 2023 and 2024. As first reported by Reuters, the Chinese agency posted on WeChat that the NSA targeted the country's National Time Service Center. As part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the cen... View Source

Japan’s Ishin opposition party held an executive meeting on Sunday as it mulled the possibility of joining forces with the ruling party, a decision that could determine the country’s next prime minister... View Source

We still have a few months to wait before the next Cult of the Lamb DLC, Woolhaven, arrives, but the Massive Monster team just shared a closer look at one of the new experiences the expansion will bring and, oh boy, I cannot wait to play this. In addition to adding a new mountain area with two new dungeons, Woolhaven will introduce ranching, so you can raise animals — the regular, non-anthropomorp... View Source

Violent video games have found themselves in the crosshairs of politicians yet again, but this time with Mexico's government. Earlier this week, Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a comprehensive financial package that includes an eight percent tax on video games with mature content. As first reported by Insider Gaming, the proposed tax covers games that have a C or D rating under Mex... View Source

Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk defines AGI as capable of doing anything a human with a computer can do, but not smarter than all humans and computers ... Read more... View Source

Elena Vera, a growth leader at Lovable with 10+ years running growth teams, argues that distribution—not just product quality—determines company success. Great products fail without it, while mediocre ones thrive with strong distribution. She defines growth as answering four questions predictably: Acquire, Activate, Monetize, and Retain customers. Fast-growing companies succeed via growth loops (c... View Source

By the time I arrived, the waterfront park in downtown Portland, Oregon was already awash with people as far as the eye could see. The No Kings protest in June had turned out around 10,000 people across the city; this one saw several times that number just downtown, with thousands more choosing to join localized protests in their neighborhoods or in the suburbs. Unable to get a precise crowd estim... View Source

Nearly four years after the release of Halo: Infinite, the sixth installment in the franchise has failed to live up to its name. Instead, the studio behind the sci-fi series may be working on a "live service, long-term updating multiplayer" Halo game that could do just that. According to YouTuber Rebs Gaming, a source claimed that Halo Studios, previously known as 343 Industries, is work... View Source

I've read a lot of horror books over the last two years. But my absolute favorite is easily Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night. The book was originally published in 2019 in Argentina, but it only got an English translation in 2023. While it doesn't quite reach Stephen King lengths, at nearly 600 pages, I'd say it still counts as an epic. There are certainly scary and gruesome moments in the stor... View Source

This quiz will test your knowledge of 'Star Trek' ships, species, episodes, and the ideals that explore the final frontier... View Source

Fallout Season 2 is taking us back to New Vegas as the legendary RPG turns 15, but there are more reasons to return to the Mojave... View Source

European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel warned that financial markets should be watched carefully for signs of instability... View Source

No Kings protest in Chicago. Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million people took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president, his policies, and his tactics. Indivisible, the group behind the protests, claims that there were over 2,700 events in all 50 states. That... View Source

From Apple TV Plus to Peacock, a number of streaming services have recently increased their pricing — and Disney Plus is no exception. Starting on Tuesday, October 21st, the standalone plan with ads will jump from $9.99 to $11.99 a month, while the ad-free Premium tier will increase by $3 to $18.99 a month. The ad-free annual plan is also going up by $30, at which point it will cost $189.99 a year... View Source

To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when "TV" wasn't just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and 89 minutes, available on every screen everywhere for a few bucks a month. In 1982, when Sony first started selling its new device, "TV" was a piece of furniture. It was probably humungous, and often made largely of wood. Sony helped change all that. Fo... View Source

Techtober is a busy time for our reviews team as a deluge of new devices arrive before the holiday season. We’ve been hard at work conducting our in-depth testing, but it’s understandable if you missed a review or two over the last few weeks. Read on to catch up all the reviews you might’ve missed, including the latest trio of Google Pixel devices. Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel... View Source

The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser is recognizing that it's not just a browser with an AI bot added to it, but a browser with three AI bots all living side by side. This is both a strength and a weakness, because while you don't have to leave to do all the AI things you want, knowing where to go for which AI tasks can be really confusing. Opera began taking people off the waitlist for... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 102, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy spooky season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about personal chefs and TikTok's algorithm and deep sea divers, tearing through Cory Doctorow's fabulous Enshittification book, helping curate the... View Source

Apple’s range of M5 products has a new chip — and little else to entice typical shoppers. Also: The company’s AI division brain drain continues, and Apple gears up to launch a touch-screen MacBook Pro... View Source

The livestream is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT) on Oct. 20... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry's power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Since ChatGPT became a household name, people have been trying to get sexy with it. Even before that,... View Source

The Heart Nebula shines 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia... View Source

China said it’s uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of US government cyber attacks on the country’s main agency responsible for timekeeping... View Source

SpaceX will launch its 10,000th Starlink satellite today (Oct. 19) on the record-breaking 31st flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and you can watch the action live... View Source

A pivotal political gathering in Beijing this week could deliver fresh policy measures to extend China’s strongest equity rally in eight years and shore up the yuan, as investors weigh risks from escalating US trade tensions... View Source

Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read Near Flesh, a collection of short stories by the late Katherine Dunn, and 30 Days of Night: Falling Sun, the revival of the hit horror series. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-near-flesh-and-the-return-of-30-days-of-night-215141747.h... View Source

Arrow Electronics Inc. said its affiliates will be dropped from a US Commerce Department sanctions list, sparing the Colorado-based chip distributor’s subsidiaries from a possible ban on purchases of American technologies... View Source

NVIDIA has taken a big step towards strengthening its domestic chip manufacturing, revealing the first Blackwell wafer made in the US. The hardware company assembled the wafer, which is the base material for NVIDIA's AI chips, in TSMC's semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.  NVIDIA revealed its Blackwell platform last year, boasting a goal of revolutionizing the... View Source

Taiwan, South Korea and China have critically low fertility rates below 1.0. Japan is also very low (1.15) and has had low fertility for longer. By 2070, the countries could halve their current populations. A fertility rebound could avert 30-70% of projected population losses by 2100. This might stabilizing societies at near-current sizes—but only if ... Read more... View Source

It's been 40 years to the day since the Nintendo Entertainment System made its US debut, and to celebrate, gaming accessory maker 8BitDo has unveiled a line of NES-themed products. The NES40 collection includes a limited edition version of the company's Ultimate 2 controller that comes with an NES Retro Receiver, so it can be used with the classic console. There's also the NES-inspired Retro Cube... View Source

The state-backed hackers who breached cybersecurity company F5 Inc. broke in beginning in late 2023 and lurked in the company’s systems until being discovered in August of this year, according to people who were briefed by F5 about the incident... View Source

To meet its massive energy demand for its AI and cloud services, Amazon is investing in nuclear power as a cleaner option. After signing agreements to help build nuclear energy projects last year, the tech giant revealed plans for an upcoming small modular reactor, or SMR, in Richland, Washington. Amazon is working with Energy Northwest, Washington state's utilities agency, and X-energy, an S... View Source

US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton has reduced the damages Meta is getting from the NSO Group from $167 million to $4 million, but she has also ordered the Israeli spyware maker to stop targeting WhatsApp. If you'll recall, Meta sued the NSO Group in 2019 over its Pegasus spyware, which it said was used to spy on 1,400 people from 20 countries, including journalists and human rights activists... View Source

Texas could have a serious legal battle on its hands thanks to an age verification law for app stores that it recently enacted. In response to the Texas App Store Accountability Act, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) filed a lawsuit that argues the new order goes against First Amendment rights. The not-for-profit trade association has Amazon, Apple and Google amongst it... View Source

Major breakthroughs in AI across science, productivity, and social platforms: 1. AI Turns Research Papers into Interactive Agents A new system called “Paper-to-Agent” converts academic papers into live, interactive AI agents. These AIs can: Answer complex questions about the research. Visualize data and models dynamically. Update themselves with new findings. Interact with other research AIs ... R... View Source

TiVo could have been a contender. In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to "TiVo" the new episode of Battlestar Galactica or game 4 of the Red Sox vs. Cardinals, not "record" it. While it didn't invent the DVR, TiVo popularized it and many of the features we would eventually take for granted, like the ability to pau... View Source

The latest Motorola Razr is $300 off in multiple colors. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can rival the 2025 Motorola Razr Ultra, which is currently on sale at Amazon and Best Buy with 16GB of RAM and 512GB starting at $999.99 ($300 off), its lowest price to date. If you can’t tell from the image below, Razr’s latest handset... View Source

As part of its NES40 collection, 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller is getting its most dramatic makeover yet. | Image: 8BitDo Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America, and to help celebrate the anniversary, 8BitDo has announced a new NES40 collection. It features updated versions of three of 8BitDo’s existing products, including its Ultimate 2 wireless contro... View Source

The cosmos is getting its own red carpet. The inaugural Global Space Awards will launch later this year with world-renowned physicist and science communicator Brian Greene set as the host... View Source

Pokémon Legends: Z-A hadn't been out even a few hours before the tweets started rolling in: Shiny pokémon don't despawn. You can walk away from a shiny, and it'll still be there when you come back. To shiny collectors, this is big news. In other Pokémon games, like Scarlet and Violet, pokémon despawn after you get a certain distance away from them or trigger a loading s... View Source

Emirates NBD Bank PJSC will invest as much as $3.05 billion in Indian private lender RBL Bank Ltd., underscoring continued foreign investor interest in India’s financial sector... View Source

On Episode 182 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Hart to discuss his career from a fighter jet pilot to a NASA astronaut... View Source

Google's Privacy Sandbox is officially dead. In an update on the project's website, Google Vice President Anthony Chavez has announced that the company was sunsetting the remaining technologies developed for Sandbox due to their "low levels of adoption." A spokesperson has confirmed to AdWeek that Google isn't just killing those technologies, it's retiring the whole i... View Source

An academic looks at the risks of drone aircraft, from airplanes to civilian attacks and injuries... View Source

I have been a fan of David Lynch ever since a friend's older brother interrupted a 13th birthday celebration to insist we all watch Eraserhead. In the realm of horror movies, it's a common way to be introduced to a seminal film: be it in a friend's basement, illicit underage viewings, or a stray recommendation from a pot-smoking sibling. It feels apt, then, that my first introduction to Easy Deliv... View Source

Watch this stunning pairing in the pre-dawn sky... View Source

Can you tell if I’m looking at a display, or just pretending for the camera? Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in the sun. It's unseasonably warm for early October, so there's a veritable crowd of car enthusiasts snapping photos of Ferraris, Porsches, and a vintage Alfa Romeo. Patient girlfriends and wives roll their eyes, sipping on maple matcha la... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. I've reluctantly paused Ball x Pit for long enough to share some neat new releases and more details on upcoming games — some of which are arriving very soon. We've got a notable update for a classic as well. Steam Next Fest is taking place at the minute, and you still have until Monday to join in by check... View Source

Battery development in the GM Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. | Image: Steve Fecht / General Motors Inside General Motors' fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are analyzing stresses on lithium-ion cells: desert heat, arctic cold, jungle humidity, enough charging and discharging for a half-dozen Frankenstein reboots. For The Verge's exclusive tour of thes... View Source

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit today (Oct. 18), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Get a free Northern Lights diorama set and double loyalty points with purchases over $150 until October 20 and it's free to sign up to Lego Insiders... View Source

Thai and Singapore authorities are looking into a Cambodian real estate group after the US and the UK imposed sanctions on the company’s chairman on allegations of fraud and money laundering... View Source

The Philippines will investigate the source of a shipment containing zinc powder contaminated with a radioactive material that affected nine people in Indonesia, according to a top government official... View Source

Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phone’s camera roll — not the media you’ve already uploaded to Facebook. If you opt in, Meta’s AI will comb through your camera roll, upload your unpublished photos to Meta’s cloud, and sur... View Source

Poland is getting serious about declining fertility rates which hit a record low of 1.16 births per woman in 2024. On October 16, 2025, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed the PIT Zero for Large Families initiative into law. It exempts parents raising at least two children from personal income tax (PIT). This builds on earlier ... Read more... View Source

Bloomberg Tech's Caroline Hyde discusses the growing China-US trade tensions as President Donald Trump gets set to meet China's Xi Jinping. Plus, billions of dollars in the crypto markets disappear as altcoins fall. And, Apple gets into touch with plans to revamp its MacBook lineup with touch displays. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ace Frehley passed away on Thursday (Oct. 16), leaving behind a cosmic legacy... View Source

Guests await the beginning of a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The officials announced that experiments at the National Ignition Facility at the LLNL achieved ‘ignition.’ | Photo: Getty Images The Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap for the US to realize the decades-long dr... View Source

SpaceX may be violating international telecommunication standards by allowing its Starshield satellites to transmit to Earth on frequencies it's not supposed to use, NPR reports. Starshield is a classified version of SpaceX's Starlink satellite network offered on contract to government agencies "to support national security efforts," according to the company's website.The... View Source

EagleEye is a family of Warfighter Augments, powered by Lattice, that equip warfighters with enhanced perception, lethal connectivity, heightened survivability, and mission planning to see the fight earlier, decide faster, and act with better information. EagleEye consists of heads-up displays, integrated helmets, and compute armor — all architected from the ground up to meet fit ... Read more... View Source

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) can be life-threatening, but there are new treatments to prevent and treat the disease... View Source

Science and maintenance work continue on the International Space Station, but updates are still halted due to the U.S. government shutdown. A JAXA astronaut's social media posts are the exception... View Source

Walmart Inc. named a company veteran to lead the expansion of drones and other new technologies for the big-box retailer to bring products to shoppers... View Source

Venus Aerospace has made the most efficient rocket engines ever flown. They will go from runway to mach 9 hypersonic speed. The Venus Aerospace Stargazer M4 is designed to reach a top speed of Mach 9, which is approximately 6,900 mph. While its cruise speed is planned to be around Mach 4-5, the engine combination ... Read more... View Source

The FDA wants to reevaluate the use of aluminum adjuvants despite a long record of safe use in vaccines... View Source

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet’s icy surface... View Source

Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff apologized for calling on President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco, after almost a week of public criticism from local allies and government officials for his statements... View Source

I've been wearing the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses daily for ten days and I'm still a bit conflicted. On one hand, I'm still not entirely comfortable with how they look. I've worn them on the bus, at the office, on walks around my neighborhood and during hangouts with friends. Each time, I'm very aware that I probably look a bit strange. On the other hand, there's a lot I really like about us... View Source

Tesla’s imminent wide release of FSD (Full Self-Driving) update to version 14.1.2. Some testers believe FSD 14.X will enable unsupervised driving by December. Chuck Cook is confident about FSD progress. Backseat driving demos could supercharge word-of-mouth sales, making FSD irresistible and potentially overwhelming Tesla’s production capacity. Today’s stock rally (from ~$423 to... View Source

'Building that was a very careful and sensitive process because I had to imagine everything'... View Source

A Facebook feature that scans your phone's photo library to make AI collages and edits is now available in North America. Meta tested it earlier this year. It's an opt-in feature, but the company may train its models on your media if you use its AI editing or share the results. From a user experience perspective, the idea is to help you find "hidden gems" in your library and tu... View Source

In this quiz, you'll be asked to pair famous sci-fi titles with their creators... View Source

Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature extremely cool gadgets that we just wish were real, whether it’s an impossible VR headset or a smartphone powered by a ghost. So, every so often, we decide to treat them as if they were real, and review science fiction gizmos t... View Source

Suno Inc., a startup that generates music using artificial intelligence, is in talks to raise over $100 million at a valuation of more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, quadruple its previous valuation... View Source

Amazon's Ring brand is entering into a new partnership with surveillance company Flock Safety to make it possible for law enforcement to request footage from smart doorbell owners. The move is part of a pivot back to collaborating with police, after Ring spent several years distancing itself and its products from law enforcement agencies.As part of the partnership, "public safety agencie... View Source

The 10th TwitchCon is underway. The weekend's opening keynote covered new features for streamers and some enforcement changes. As for the latter, Twitch is, in most cases, moving away from blanket bans and toward targeted enforcement. So, a chat violation may not affect an account's ability to stream, or vice versa. Dual-format streaming, which lets you go live in vertical and horizontal... View Source

Two academics look at the stakes involved with air and water pollution if the EPA's budget is cut... View Source

The US and Saudi Arabia have managed to derail negotiations regarding a landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions, according to a report by the BBC. The deal had already been approved and would have made shipping the world's first industry to adopt internationally mandated emissions guidelines. Representatives from more than 100 countries had gathered in London to formally approve the so... View Source

Image: Nintendo | Image: Nintendo Though the Pokémon games' Rotom Phones haven't really changed all that much design-wise over the past few years, each generation has introduced new functionalities that made upgrading a no-brainer. Sword / Shield's Rotom Phone - the very first one - came with a bare-bones camera that made it easy to snap wide-angle (screen)shots out in the Galar region's Wi... View Source

Blizzard developers working on Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble have formed a new union, the latest in a series of labor wins at the Microsoft-owned studio. The over 100-person unit is represented by the Communication Workers of America (CWA), and counts "software engineers, designers, artists, quality assurance testers and producers" among its members.Inspiration to form the new union ca... View Source

AI productivity has been heavily dependent on prompt abilities and how people gave instructions to AI. Claude has introduced skill files (portable to other LLM- large language models): Automatically invoke predefined capabilities when a relevant task is mentioned Handle multi-step projects like job candidate research, spreadsheet automation, or report generation using stored logic Provide consiste... View Source

V883 Orionis is a young star that formed in the Orion Nebula half a million years ago... View Source

Ex-Luminar CEO Austin Russell is trying to wrest back control of his company. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell abruptly resigned from his position after it was revealed he was the target of an ethics inquiry. Now, the 30-year-old billionaire is trying to wrest back control of his old company, which made him a fortune by designing lida... View Source

When Viking Global Investors rolled out its latest in-house artificial intelligence chatbot, traders and dealmakers wasted no time putting it to work... View Source

Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring is now working with the AI-powered surveillance camera company Flock. According to a letter sent to the company by Sen. Ron Wyden, Flock had allowed data access to the Secret Service and the Navy — as well as ICE, as previously reported by 404 Media. The partnership is through Ring’s Community Request program. In April, Ring announced another partnership with A... View Source

'Alabaster Dawn' will build on the combat and puzzles of 'CrossCode' but present an entirely new setting... View Source

Atari just revealed the Intellivision Spirit, a modern refresh of the classic Intellivision gaming console from 1980. The new console certainly looks like the original. You can practically smell the cigarette-soaked carpeting from here. Beyond aesthetics, this console includes plenty of newfangled bells and whistles. The controllers are wireless, which is a technology that didn't quite exist... View Source

This Ryan Gosling-led standalone 'Star Wars' movie is coming to theaters in our galaxy in 2027... View Source

CNN has announced a new subscription service called All Access that will launch in the US on October 28th, 2025. It will cost $6.99 per month, or $69.99 annually, with a special introductory price of $41.99 for the first year for those who sign up by January 5th, 2026. Plans for the new subscription were first revealed in an internal company memo from CNN CEO Mark Thompson that was shared with The... View Source

WhatsApp is taking a new anti-spam feature for a spin. On Friday, TechCrunch reported that the trial limits the number of messages accounts can send without a reply from the recipient. The company is currently experimenting with different limits. But it's aiming for a number that only targets high-volume senders and spammers. All messages from individuals and businesses are said to count towa... View Source

SpaceX had three Falcon 9 launches in the last three days. They have had 130 launches in 2025 and are on track for about 170 launches in 2025. October 14, Project Kuiper KF-03 Mission. A Falcon 9 launched Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites from Florida’s SLC-40, with successful deployment confirmed and the first stage landing on ... Read more... View Source

Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date. Reichardt even set out to make something different from her previous work - which includes First Cow, Showing Up, and Wendy and Lucy - only t... View Source

Bose took a different approach with its new products in 2025. Instead of entirely redesigning  its QuietComfort Ultra lineup, the company unveiled upgraded second-generation models of the flagship-level earbuds and headphones. Like the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds that debuted earlier this year, the new Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones ($449) don’t offer a comprehensive overhaul. However, the cha... View Source

SpaceX released photos and videos of the Flight 11 ocean landing. Super Heavy hover pic.twitter.com/VLczlgdeH8 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 15, 2025 Starship successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown pic.twitter.com/ftAWwk3B33 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 16, 2025 SpaceX is making sci-fi real. pic.twitter.com/uneAQCldK5 — DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October... View Source

The U.S. Air Force has approved SpaceX's proposal to launch up to 100 rockets per year from Vandenberg Space Force Bas, which sits on California's rugged, beautiful and often cloudy central coast... View Source

It's a testament to the developers at Double Fine that it doesn't take long before controlling a sentient lighthouse with spidery legs starts to feel almost normal. Keeper, the latest from the studio behind Psychonauts and Grim Fandango, is obviously a strange game. You play as a building that can walk and solve puzzles and which befriends a cute bird while on a quest to rid a fantastical realm of... View Source

Samsung's 2025 The Frame Pro QLED Mini LED Smart TV is on sale for a record-low price. The 65-inch model that normally retails for $2,200 is on sale for $1,760, which is the lowest we've ever seen it. The 1-inch-thick "art" TV uses Samsung's impressive 4K Neo QLED panel, which is a quantum dot LCD panel with a Mini LED backlight array. The Frame Pro can display lifelike art pieces when the TV isn'... View Source

A Long March 8A rocket lofted another batch of China's Guowang internet satellites on Wednesday evening (Oct. 15). It was the 600th launch overall for a Long March vehicle... View Source

The Arctis Buds are great for gaming, whether you use a Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, or Steam Deck. | Image: The Verge When I have to decide which wireless gaming earbuds that I want to use, it’s a tough choice between the SteelSeries Arctis Buds and the Sony InZone Buds. Both have a comfortable fit, active noise cancellation, great sound quality, and their USB-C transmitters work with ev... View Source

After making its name on millennials and meme stocks, the popular brokerage app is riding its Trump bump into the S&P 500 and beyond... View Source

Newegg is selling three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $52, which is a fantastic deal. The list price is $60, but drops down to $52 by entering the code SSE2589 at checkout. The sale ends soon, so don't dilly-dally. This is a discount of $38, thanks to Microsoft mandating a price hike that brought a single month of Game Pass Ultimate up to $30. That controversial move has irked fans of the... View Source

Join Space.com's monthly, virtual reading community where we enjoy science fiction one short story at a time... View Source

The Intellivision Sprint features the same unique controllers as the original, but they’re now wireless and rechargeable. | Image: Atari Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this time it’s launching hardware from an old competitor. Atari and Plaion, a company that develops, publishes, and distributes games, have collaborated on the new Intellivision Sprint that blends ‘80s co... View Source

As expected, CNN has unveiled its new All Access subscription streaming service that will cost $6.99 per month or $69.99 annually. The new tier will include a "selection" of CNN's live programming along with originals and more — but it doesn't appear to offer a live CNN feed.  "No one covers the world like CNN," said VP of digital products Alex MacCallum. "T... View Source

A real, and not AI generated photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Image: Getty Images OpenAI said on Thursday night that it has “paused” deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. on its social app Sora after users created “disrespectful” AI-generated videos of the late civil rights leader. It said representatives or estates of other historical figures will now be able to opt out of their likeness being us... View Source

Apple Inc. secured the exclusive rights to air Formula One races in the US, adding to a sports streaming slate that already includes Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball... View Source

Apple has secured an exclusive deal for the US broadcast rights to Formula 1 racing. Under the terms of a five-year pact with F1 parent company Liberty Media, Apple TV will air every F1 race starting in 2026. The company says subscribers to the newly rebranded Apple TV will be able to watch every Grand Prix, along with each practice, qualifying and sprint session. Non-subscribers will be able to w... View Source

The world's first commercial astronomy space telescope will look for stars that may host habitable exoplanets... View Source

There’s a display but you’ve got to lift your head up to activate it. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. We'll be off for... View Source

Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia's senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out the impact on page views that the foundation attributes to the rise of LLM chatbots and AI-generated summaries in search results.  "We believe that these declines reflect the impact of gene... View Source

Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year partnership today that will bring the races exclusively to Apple TV in the US, starting in 2026, when it will replace the series’ current deal with ESPN. Apple: Apple TV will deliver comprehensive coverage of Formula 1, with all practice, qualifying, Sprint sessions, and Grands Prix available to Apple TV subscribers. Select races and all practice ses... View Source

AT&T has been sending out emails to its home internet subscribers, notifying them that their plans will cost $5 more a month starting on December 1. The company has confirmed the price hike to The Verge, who noted that it already raised its prices by $5 a month in November 2024 and that it's raising prices again despite earning $4.9 billion in profit last quarter. AT&T wrote in its em... View Source

One of the more reliable annual meteor showers, the Orionids, peaks during a new moon, making 2025 an excellent year to watch for shooting stars in the autumn sky... View Source

What looks like the spot for Qi2 charging is actually an excuse to show off the liquid cooling. Redmagic’s latest gaming phone has arrived in China with a neat trick up its sleeve: liquid cooling. It’s an active liquid cooling system, as opposed to the passive vapor chamber systems that have become pretty common in high-end Android phones over the last few years, with a ceramic micro-pump to push... View Source

Verisure PLC has reported a data breach to the Swedish police after information connected to one of its Swedish subsidiaries was accessed by an unauthorized party, just over a week after the firm successfully listed its shares on the Stockholm stock exchange in a blockbuster IPO... View Source

Apple just announced its fall slate of devices powered by its new M5 chip: A 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and revamped Vision Pro. In this episode, Devindra and Sam Rutherford dive into what's actually new this time around. (Spoiler: It’s really all about the new GPU.) Also, Sam goes deep on his review of the ROG Xbox Ally X, Microsoft’s first stab at a portable “Xbox.”Subscribe!iTunesSpotif... View Source

Large language models are currently everyone's solution to everything. The technology's versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then you use the stuff, and not enough of it works very well. And you wonder what we're really accomplishing here. On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay rejoins the show full of thoughts about the current state... View Source

Car loans have gone from the safest consumer credit products to among the riskiest over the last 15 years as delinquencies rose more than 50%, driven by soaring car prices and rising interest rates, a new study shows... View Source

Nintendo has asked suppliers to build 25 million Switch 2 console by the end of March 2026, Bloomberg reported. According to people familiar with the matter, the company has requested the boost because it believes the console will continue its torrid sales pace through the holiday season. Nintendo could easily exceed its own forecast of 15 million Switch 2 units sold within its first fiscal year (... View Source

School closures and hospitalizations from an unexpected early spike in flu cases in Japan has experts concerned about what lies ahead for other countries... View Source

A striking new image from the Gemini North telescope captures the changing face of the night sky, where stars mingle ever more frequently with satellite trails... View Source

Cambricon Technologies Corp. reported a 14-fold surge in quarterly revenue, one of the starkest signs yet of how China’s chipmakers are benefiting from a national drive to replace restricted Nvidia Corp. gear during a domestic AI development boom... View Source

OpenAI has paused video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sora at the request of King Inc., the estate that manages his legacy. The company said in an announcement on X that it worked with the estate to address how his "likeness is represented in Sora generations" after people used the app to create disrespectful depictions of the American civil rights leader. It's not quite... View Source

Voracious supermassive black holes light up the cores of “active” galaxies across the universe. How we see them, however, is a matter of perspective... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Carmen Arroyo reports on one of the little-known beneficiaries of the AI boom... View Source

This week, Apple announced fall hardware updates across multiple devices — pretty much every major category, besides iPhones and AirPods. Don’t get too excited: It’s not a redesign reveal, but we’re expecting a tangible performance jump for both the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro. With the new M5 chip (no Pro or Max versions so far), Apple used the same 3-nanometer fabrication process for the M5 as it d... View Source

A comet visible to the naked eye will make its closest approach to Earth on October 21... View Source

OpenAI’s agreements to buy chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Broadcom Inc. are demonstrating how much room the artificial intelligence industry has to grow beyond top dog Nvidia Corp... View Source

Right now, you can save $130 on the best binoculars we've tested for on-the-go stargazing... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Ant Group Co. have agreed to acquire several floors of an office tower in one of Hong Kong’s priciest districts for HK$7.2 billion ($925 million), as the Chinese tech leaders ramp up investment in the Asian financial hub... View Source

Meta is working on new supervision controls that will allow parents to cut off their teens' access to AI chatbots on its platforms completely. While the tools can remove teens' ability to engage AI characters on one-on-one chats, they'll still be able to access the general Meta AI chatbot. If parents don't want to block their teens from being able to access AI bots altogether,... View Source

A massive Somali meteorite containing never-before-seen-on-Earth minerals vanished into the black market, raising ethical questions about science and ownership... View Source

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will make a close flyby of Earth on Oct. 21... View Source

An early look at Instagram’s parental controls for teen AI use. After enthusiastically rolling AI chatbots out everywhere, Meta has announced new options for parents to get an idea of how teens are chatting with the digital characters and set some limits on use. The move comes as Meta works to rehabilitate its image after disturbing reports of its tools’ romantic interactions with minors and faces... View Source

OpenAI has paused depictions of Martin Luther King Jr. after users generated “disrespectful” deepfake videos of the civil rights leader using its artificial intelligence tool Sora... View Source

This long-duration comet will make its closest approach to Earth this fall, before disappearing into the outer solar system for another 1,000 years... View Source

Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365 services so it can surface content from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails in conversations with the chatbot. It’s part of a series of updates to Claude to make the chatbot more useful at work. Claude will now connect with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive to search and analyze documents without you needing to uplo... View Source

Stock moves following Indian software exporters’ second-quarter earnings show lingering investor caution, as sluggish client spending and global uncertainties weigh on the sector... View Source

Everything seems to be getting back-to-back price hikes right now, why not your home internet bill too? AT&T is raising prices by $5 a month on all AT&T Internet plans, the company confirms to The Verge. That’s on top of its $5-a-month increase from November 2024, and, it appears, a $5-a-month increase on some customers in 2023 as well. “To ensure we continue providing the quality service... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil its highly-anticipated trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea later this month... View Source

Nigeria is drawing millions of dollars into new data centers, propelled by the voracious online habits of its young, tech-savvy population and a push to harness artificial intelligence to power the next wave of its digital boom, reinforcing its position as one of Africa’s top technology hubs... View Source

Rakuten Group Inc. priced a local bond at the year’s highest coupon of 4.691%, giving Japan’s credit market the clearest sign yet of the impact of rising rates on corporate borrowing costs... View Source

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Around the middle of last year, Pim de Witte started reaching out to a handful of prominent AI labs to see if they'd be interested in using data from Medal, his popular video game clipping platform, to train their agents. Within weeks, it became clear tha... View Source

Peyush Bansal founded eyewear-maker Lenskart Solutions Ltd. more than 15 years ago with partners he met on LinkedIn and grew it into a multi-billion dollar business. Now the 41-year-old entrepreneur and Indian television star is in line for a windfall... View Source

The S-70UAS U-Hawk™ is a complete conversion of a UH-60L Black Hawk® helicopter into a pilotless, battle-ready utility platform. Announced on October 13, 2025, at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) exposition, the U-Hawk removes the cockpit, crew stations, and seats to prioritize payload capacity and autonomy. It has 95% common parts with ... Read more... View Source

Nintendo Co. has asked suppliers to produce as many as 25 million units of the Switch 2 by the end of March 2026, setting the company up for record first-year sales of a console that’s already reached high-water marks for the global gaming sector... View Source

Tesla is test driving the cybercab in Fremont. Various drone footage from youtube. Stopped by Giga Texas this afternoon and there was a Cybercab test vehicle driving on the S River Road and to the W side. This is the 1st one I’ve seen driving here in a while. Much more I’ll share soon! pic.twitter.com/tP1kjBQziB ... Read more... View Source

Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that add a new generation M5 processor, faster storage, and a promise of 24-hour battery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports next year’s refresh will be more thorough. For several years, Gurman has said that, according to his sources, the next major MacBook Pro revamp would add touchscreens, OLED displays, and a lighter, thinner frame. He... View Source

Australia’s top pension funds cut holdings in the US mega-cap tech stocks known as the Magnificent Seven before the group raced to new highs, underscoring the challenge of keeping pace with the AI-fueled bull market... View Source

Publicly traded quantum companies, particularly the pure-play innovators, have delivered insane stock price runs over the past 1-2 years despite revenues that barely register. IonQ (IONQ), Quantum Computing (QUBT), Rigetti Computing (RGTI), and D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) dominate as publicly traded companies. The market caps collectively exceed $50 billion but with revenues totaling under $100 million... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is trying to get people to talk to their computers, betting that voice and artificial intelligence software is powerful enough to make such interactions as effective as a keyboard or mouse... View Source

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky worked outside the International Space Station on Tuesday (Oct. 16), conducting a spacewalk to install, retrieve and jettison equipment... View Source

The consortium buying Electronic Arts Inc. is set to add more than a dozen banks to its underwriting group after JPMorgan Chase & Co. put up $20 billion of debt to bankroll the leveraged buyout... View Source

We've seen artificial intelligence give some pretty bizarre responses to queries as chatbots become more common. Today, Reddit Answers is in the spotlight after a moderator flagged the AI tool for providing dangerous medical advice that they were unable to disable or hide from view. The mod saw Reddit Answers suggest that people experiencing chronic pain stop taking their current prescri... View Source

Mexico-based Plata raised $250 million through a new equity funding round valuing the company at $3.1 billion, as the fintech seeks to expand its business and transition into a full-fledged bank... View Source

The FCC is moving to expel Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) from US telecom networks, citing national security concerns. The agency sent HKT an "Order to Show Cause," which directs the company to explain why the FCC should not begin revocation proceedings against it. The 30-page order outlines the agency's reasoning, including a focus on applying new certification and disclosure requirements... View Source

A rendering of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility. | Image: X-energy via Amazon Amazon shared some new details about its plans to help deploy more nuclear energy across Washington State, where the company is headquartered. About a year ago, Amazon announced an agreement with Energy Northwest, a consortium of public utilities in Washington, to support the development of up to 12 advanced reactors... View Source

CME Group Inc. is planning to debut financial contracts tied to both sports games and economic indicators by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

One of Google's Gemini-powered photo features is MIA in Texas and Illinois. The company confirmed to Engadget that Ask Photos is currently unavailable in the two states. It didn't say why. Google Photos' Conversational Editing is reportedly missing in those states, too. "The ability to ask Photos to edit your images is not available to users in Texas and Illinois at this time,... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc. is set to seal an almost $30 billion financing package for its data center site in rural Louisiana, marking the final step for the largest private capital deal on record... View Source

Waymo has announced a new partnership with DoorDash that will make the company's self-driving cars a delivery option for users in Phoenix, Arizona. You can already hail a ride in Waymo’s Arizona service area, but this new partnership will give the company's cars something to do when they're not transporting human cargo.To start, Waymo says that deliveries will be limited to things y... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss TSMC's third-quarter results, which beat expectations and provided a positive outlook buoyed by strong AI demand. Plus, China unveils export controls on its rare-earth supply chain, sparking a global pushback. And the head of Apple’s ChatGPT-like search effort leaves in another blow to the company’s AI ambitions. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Crew 2 was updated today to include Hybrid Mode, adding an offline mode to the driving game. Online and offline modes are separate saves, so if you snag a sweet ride while playing offline, it won't be available the next time you join an online session. Players will have the option to re-export their online save to the offline one, but it will overwrite and erase all offline-only progress... View Source

Photographer Josh Dury has captured a gorgeous view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) brightening the skies above the UK as it nears planet Earth... View Source

On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. New York is the first state to outlaw algorithmic pricing by landlords, following a number of city-wide bans in Jersey City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle.  Software companies such as RealPage offer landlords algorithms that can set rental prices... View Source

OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chips deal marks a new direction for the company. But first…... View Source

Apple insiders are pointing to a tactile new future for the company's laptops. Last month, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggested that Apple would incorporate touchscreens into MacBooks some time in the next few years, "further blurring the line with the iPad." Today, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg confirmed that prediction, sharing even more specifics about the touchscreen approach for a MacBook... View Source

SpaceX video from Starship's Oct. 13 launch shows the rocket's Super Heavy booster hovering over the gulf before its dive into the deep... View Source

Venture capitalist Ron Conway is leaving the board of Salesforce Inc.’s philanthropic foundation after blasting Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff for calling on President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco... View Source

Meta is shutting down its Messenger app for macOS and Windows and pushing users to the web. Meta confirmed over email to Engadget that the app will be fully shutdown on December 15, after which the easiest ways to access Messenger chats when you're not on your phone will be the Facebook app on Windows, or the Facebook and Messenger websites.The company hasn't provided an explanation for... View Source

New data from Edison Research reveals that the conservative talk show continues to climb the charts... View Source

Spotify sees the music industry's AI problem, and it's going to do… something about it. On Thursday, the company published a blog post heavy on principles, partnerships and vague plans. Unfortunately, it's practically devoid of specifics. The most explicit bit is that it's partnering with the big three music labels. Together, they'll "develop responsible AI products that empower the artists and so... View Source

Residents And Protesters Clash With Federal Agents In Chicago, Illinois. | Getty Images Judge Sara L. Ellis of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said during a hearing Thursday morning that she would require ICE agents in Chicago engaged in “Operation Midway Blitz” to use body cameras.  But the logistics of enforcing her order are yet to be worked out, since Chic... View Source

Apple Inc. and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal are teaming up to launch a new streaming bundle that will offer wide-ranging content from live events like the NBA to popular franchises like Ted Lasso and blockbuster movies for $15 a month... View Source

Tesla has added another brazenly stupid new entry to its dubious safety record. The latest update to Tesla's Full Self-Driving System adds a mode called Mad Max, "which comes with higher speeds and more frequent lane changes" than the system's Hurry mode. This feature isn't new; it was part of the Autopilot mode in 2018 that pre-dated FSD. According to Electrek, the re-int... View Source

After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the Kryptos code’s final cipher... View Source

The Trump administration’s heightened monitoring of immigrants’ social media accounts seeking grounds to revoke their visas stifles the speech rights of both noncitizens and citizens alike, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) alleges in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks to end the State Department’s “Catch-and-Revoke” policy, which threatens to strip visaholders of their legal status to stay i... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing to finally launch a touch-screen version of its Mac computer, reversing course on a stance that dates back to co-founder Steve Jobs... View Source

OnePlus has finally shown off its take on Android 16. OxygenOS 16, first shipping on the upcoming OnePlus 15, combines the new customization options of Android, with smoother animations and a take on AI that seems directly lifted from Nothing OS.The centerpiece of OxygenOS 16 is a deeper integration between OnePlus' "Mind Space" app and Google Gemini. Mind Space debuted alongside the Plus Key... View Source

Pinterest is rolling out a tool that allows users to “dial down the AI” in their feed, the company says. Users can select which categories they want populated with more or less AI-generated content. But Pinterest stops short of promising a feed that’s completely free of AI: the tool will work only on “eligible image Pins” in categories prone to AI content, including beauty, art, fashion, and home... View Source

Crypto firm Ripple said it has agreed to buy treasury management software provider GTreasury for $1 billion... View Source

EA has had quite the month, and the numbers tell its story. A few weeks ago, the company confirmed an agreement to go private in a $55 billion sale. And now we know that Battlefield 6 sold over 7 million copies in its first three days. The game also had over 172 million online matches played during the holiday weekend. On top of that, it logged 15 million hours watched on streaming services. Battl... View Source

The Dark Eagle, Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), is a road-mobile system capable of striking targets up to 1,700 miles away. Each battery has eight missiles on mobile trucks. This setup allows for quick deployment and fast strikes. The US Military is deploying the first missile battery. The LRHW is a road-mobile and air-transportable weapon system, ... Read more... View Source

Blocks of carbon dioxide ice appear to carve mysterious gullies on Mars as they melt down dune slopes and blast away sand... View Source

The LiPlay Plus is designed to be held vertically, but can be used to snap photos in a landscape orientation, too. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has announced an update to its Instax Mini LiPlay that first launched in 2019. The new Instax Mini LiPlay Plus offers similar functionality as the original with the ability to snap digital photos that can be immediately printed on the company’s Mini instant... View Source

Oracle Corp. spiked after sharing its margin expectations for large AI infrastructure projects, easing some of Wall Street’s concerns about the profitability of a crucial new business unit... View Source

Snap is continuing to lay the groundwork for its first consumer-ready AR glasses called Specs. While the company has still revealed few details about the device set to launch next year, it used its Lens Fest event to preview new features and apps that will work on the new hardware.At the event dedicated to AR developers and creators, Snap said it would enable Specs users to buy items directly from... View Source

The Chinese company Orienspace's Gravity-1 solid rocket launched for the second time ever on Oct. 10, sending three satellites to orbit from the deck of a ship... View Source

Starting next week you can bundle Apple TV and Peacock with a significant discount. | Image: Apple Apple has partnered with NBCUniversal for a new subscription bundle that includes Apple TV and Peacock Premium for $14.99 per month, or Apple TV and the mostly ad-free Peacock Premium Plus for $19.99 per month. The newly rebranded Apple TV is $12.99 per month on its own following a price increase thi... View Source

Ghana expects to have a law to regulate cryptocurrencies and virtual assets in place by the end of December, Johnson Asiama, governor of the West African nation’s central bank, said on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund’s meetings in Washington on Thursday... View Source

There's a new streaming bundle in town. Apple TV and Peacock are teaming up to offer a combined subscription that starts at $15 per month. This will allow access to all original programming from both platforms, in addition to Peacock's stable of network and cable shows. This is a mighty fine deal, given that Apple TV recently changed both its name and price. The platform costs $13 per mo... View Source

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jake Kastrenakes, executive editor at The Verge. I’m filling in for Nilay for one Thursday episode while he’s settling back into full-time podcast hosting duties.  We’ve got a very good episode for you today. My guest is Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins, and we’re talking about the federal EV tax credit. The tax credit expired at the end of Septe... View Source

Electronic Arts Inc. sold more than seven million copies of its new Battlefield 6 title in the first three days of release, a record for the first-person shooter franchise... View Source

What’s in a name? Apparently quite a bit, according to Amazon. The company recently announced yet another change to its Fire TV devices lineup, which just means they renamed a few things yet again. The family now includes the $35 Fire TV Stick HD, the $40 Fire TV Stick 4K Select, the $50 Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, the $60 Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the $140 Fire TV Cube. That was a pain to type out and... View Source

Ugreen’s Revodok Max 208 is on sale for $169.98. If your laptop doesn’t have enough ports, you can fix that issue with Ugreen’s Revodok Max 208, an 8-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 dock that’s on sale for $169.98 ($80 off) at Amazon and from Ugreen. The Revodok Max 208 has four Thunderbolt 4 ports and a gigabit ethernet port on the back, and three USB-A ports on the front. The Thunderbolt 4 port designated fo... View Source

Retired US Air Force Lieutenant General Joseph Guastella is being considered for the top job at NASA, according to people familiar with the discussions, adding to the pool of candidates in contention for the administrator role... View Source

Twitch will now allow its users to buy products without dragging them away from the stream they’re watching. Announced ahead of TwitchCon, which kicks off today in San Diego, Twitch is launching the live-shopping feature in partnership with e.l.f. Cosmetics, a sub-brand of e.l.f. Beauty. The tech is powered by Amazon Ads. The brand’s eyes.lips.first. shoppable element will appear on its official T... View Source

Brad and Bill on the BG2 Podcast describe the AI CapEx bubble. The explosive growth in AI investment—especially in data centers, chips, and model training—shows potential signs of historical overreach. They increase the odds of overbuilding and reduce the quality of revenues. Gurley identifies round-tripping deals like the original deal between Microsoft and OpenAI, where ... Read more... View Source

Vast's Haven-1 is poised to become the first privately built space station, marking a turning point in the post-International Space Station era... View Source

AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their agents actually useful for end users, whether they’re consumers or professionals.  Anthropic on Thursday announced its next step toward that goal: Skills for Claude. The tool is made up of “folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources... View Source

DoorDash Inc. customers in the Phoenix area may have their orders delivered by a Waymo autonomous vehicle as part of a new partnership that will help keep the robotaxis busy when there’s a lull in demand from passengers... View Source

EA employees involved with the Communications Workers of America union have issued a sternly-worded statement against the recently-proposed private acquisition of the company by Saudi-backed investors, according to a report by Eurogamer. The complaints don't involve Saudi Arabia's long history of human rights violations, but rather that workers weren't represented in any negotiation... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Big hero images highlighting select TV shows and movies, a row of app icons, a bunch of additional content recommendations: At first glance, Meta's new Horizon TV app looks a lot like the homescreen of your typical smart TV. Something... View Source

Automakers are bracing for fresh potential chip disruption, with China’s retaliatory export controls on an obscure Dutch supplier threatening to set off a chain reaction that could halt production lines... View Source

It's been quite a while since we've heard much about Quantic Dream's Star Wars: Eclipse. The studio revealed that project at The Game Awards back in 2021 and details have been scarce since then. As it turns out, the developer of Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human had been working on a second game this whole time. It's one that sees Quantic Dream venturing into entirely new te... View Source

The so-called tidal disruption event also produced two puzzling delayed outbursts... View Source

OxygenOS 16 brings with it some wide-ranging upgrades. OnePlus has announced OxygenOS 16, its take on Android 16, with upgrades to its Mind Space AI tool including complete integration with Google Gemini. Other updates include new lock screen customizations, improved connectivity options, and design tweaks throughout. Mind Space is where the biggest changes have been made. When it launched in June... View Source

As it pitches Tether Holdings to investors, Cantor Fitzgerald LP faces the pressure any investment bank would feel trying to pull off a huge private deal at one of the highest valuations ever. And then there’s $25 billion... View Source

Buried in the press release for the upgraded Vision Pro headset that Apple announced yesterday was the news that the dedicated Apple Vision Pro app is making its way to iPad via iPadOS 26.1 later this fall. This means iPad users can browse Vision Pro content like apps and games from their tablet and queue downloads for the headset without needing to put it on each time. The Vision Pro app has been... View Source

Google is trying to capitalize on what it calls “frequent and severe” Microsoft 365 outages by offering up services like email, storage, and videoconferencing to businesses in the event of a Microsoft outage. The search giant’s new Business Continuity plan runs a Google Workspace in parallel with Microsoft 365, so if there’s an outage then businesses just switch over to Gmail and Google Meet inste... View Source

Deel Inc., a human resources software startup embroiled in a bitter legal battle with rival Rippling, has raised $300 million in a new round of funding that boosts the company’s valuation to $17.3 billion... View Source

Pinterest is taking new steps to reduce the amount of AI slop its users are seeing. The service is adding settings that allow people to "dial down" AI-generated content in a number of categories that are "highly-prone" to such imagery, the company said in an update.While most social platforms have grappled with how to deal with the rise of AI-created content, Pinterest has been... View Source

PLATO powered up and extended its solar panels as the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft readies for launch as soon as December... View Source

Casio’s new calculator watch features design details inspired by Back to the Future’s DeLorean. | Image: Casio It wasn’t the first watchmaker to release a wristworn calculator, but by making them affordable, Casio’s calculator watches became an icon of ‘80s technology. It was even the timepiece of choice for Back to the Future’s Marty McFly, and as 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of that film’s re... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is giving some drivers in the US the option to earn money by completing tasks related to the company’s nascent data labelling business, an area where the rideshare giant sees an opportunity to shine in the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Over a decade since Microsoft tried to make talking to Cortana on PCs a thing -- and spectacularly failed in the process -- the Windows giant is taking another swing at voice commands with its Copilot AI assistant in Windows 11. Starting today, the company is rolling out an upgrade to its existing Copilot Voice and Vision features which will let you say "Hey, Copilot" and then ask your P... View Source

A brilliant focal point for any Star Wars Lego collection, this 700-piece set has a 20% saving in this Amazon deal... View Source

In its quest to become the ultimate app for “flexible work,” Uber launched today a new pilot to allow its US drivers and couriers to earn extra money by performing “microtasks” to train AI models. These tasks include audio voice recording, capturing and uploading images, and submitting documents in certain languages. The prompts will vary, but some examples include “upload images of cars” or “reco... View Source

Online retail brokerage Webull Corp. is starting to offer corporate-bond trading for US customers... View Source

Ever since since 2018, the United States Mint has issued special $1 coins every year to honor American innovation and the "pioneering efforts of individuals or groups." The Mint has just revealed the designs for 2026 $1 Innovation coins, and one of them features Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs. It features a young Jobs sitting cross-legged in front of a quintessential Californ... View Source

Hundreds of people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended... View Source

Humanity has a new tool in the fight against space junk — "Space Armor," a multi-functional composite that could protect both spacecraft and astronauts... View Source

The recently-rumored AI partnership between Spotify and the major record labels is now a reality. The streaming service announced today that it’s entering into an agreement with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible AI products.” Unfortunately, your guess is as good as ours as to what exactly that means. Spotify didn’t detail any s... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is escalating its battle with Microsoft Corp. for corporate customers, adding two new products designed to keep businesses online if Microsoft 365 productivity software goes out of service... View Source

ExpressVPN is one of the best VPNs on the market, with user-friendly apps, excellent speed test scores and a strong security record. In my ExpressVPN review, I found it to live up to its positive word of mouth, especially when unblocking foreign streaming sites. But no service is perfect, and my cup of VPN tea is not everybody's. If you're looking to switch away, follow this guide to can... View Source

Luxembourg — one of the world’s smallest nations — has positioned itself at the forefront of asteroid mining. But extracting minerals and precious metals from space throws up all sorts of ethical and legal questions, such as who can lay claim to an asteroid and all of its extractive wealth, and should space benefit “all of humankind”, as the international treaties signed in the 60s intended? Never... View Source

It’s Android flagship season in China right now, and today is Oppo’s turn. It has revealed the Find X9 and Find X9 Pro, with industry-leading specs for both the cameras and batteries. Unlike sister company OnePlus, Oppo has maintained its relationship with Hasselblad, now extending it to a branded telephoto extender lens. Oppo also promised a global launch to come later this month. I’ve had the Fi... View Source

Phone financing company Glow Services Corp. has raised $65 million in equity funding from backers including cable billionaire John Malone and Apollo Global Management Inc., as it looks to expand into new markets and develop new products... View Source

The difference in emissions between plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and gas cars is merely 19 percent and not 75 percent as lab tests show, according to a report by a group of European transport and environment NGOs. They analyzed data transmitted by the onboard fuel consumption meters of 800,000 plug-in hybrids registered in the continent between 2021 and 2023. What they found was that t... View Source

In certain circumstances, losses create a sure path to victory, an idea with implications for biology and cancer therapy... View Source

From above Earth, LandSat 9's keen eye captures a stunning Y-shaped meeting of ridge and river in China's Tarim Basin... View Source

Ekko Astral is not a trans band. They may have a trans frontwoman in Jael Holzman. Much of their material may deal with being trans. Plus, they may have grown their fan base from word of mouth online in spaces such as trans Twitter. But at the end of the day, they are not a trans band. This three-piece punk band is going to remind you of the bullshit that consumes everyday life, but give you “powe... View Source

Venture capitalists are among investors putting $75 million into a US startup’s push to install home solar and batteries for an electricity subscription — just as the residential market shrinks... View Source

Struzan's signature artwork defined an entire generation of Hollywood filmmaking... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner reports on Instagram’s plans for a TV app... View Source

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year—and some companies are already trying it... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Iowa as geomagnetic storm conditions are predicted for tonight... View Source

New video apps like Sora could turn faces into moneymaking assets and hint at a future where everyone can rent out their digital likeness... View Source

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritskiy will conduct a spacewalk outside the ISS today (Oct. 16), and you can watch it live... View Source

The Mint’s design for the $1 Steve Jobs commemorative coin. The US Mint has revealed the design for a commemorative $1 coin honoring late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs.  The coin features a young Jobs sitting crosslegged in front of a California landscape of rolling hills, the Mint said. Of course, he’s wearing a turtleneck. There’s also an inscription: “Make something wonderful.” The 2... View Source

Zepto has secured $450 million in funding ahead of a public listing set to take place next year, underscoring growing investor interest in a fast-growing corner of Indian e-commerce... View Source

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday morning (Oct. 16), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast... View Source

As trade tensions grow between the US and China, Microsoft is reportedly preparing to move the manufacturing of its Surface laptops and tablets out of China. Nikkei reports that Microsoft is aiming to move manufacturing of Surface devices and data center servers out of China “starting from 2026 at the earliest.” The move will reportedly include components, parts, and product assembly for future Su... View Source

Kraken has acquired a US-licensed futures exchange from IG Group as the crypto heavyweight seeks to broaden the range of products it can offer directly to US customers... View Source

Singapore will create an agency with powers to block harmful online content on platforms including TikTok and Facebook, saying it’s stepping up efforts to fight threats from deep fakes to online bullying... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. posted a better-than-anticipated 39% jump in quarterly profit, the latest sign of rising demand for components like Nvidia Corp. chips that power AI... View Source

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has sued Nio Inc. in a US court, accusing the Chinese electric vehicle maker and executives of violating securities laws by inflating revenues... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is partnering with Australian startup Firmus Technologies Ltd. to create a massive fleet of renewable energy-powered artificial intelligence data centers across the country... View Source

Ford year-to-date has around 115–117 recalls as of October 15, 2025. The total vehicles affected year-to-date now exceeds 10 million, with Q3 2025 alone accounting for over 5 million vehicles impacted across Ford’s campaigns—the highest quarterly figure for any manufacturer and representing nearly 60% of all U.S. vehicle recalls in that period. This surge continues ... Read more... View Source

Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed a ride-hailing service bill requiring platforms such as Uber Technologies Inc. to be licensed... View Source

A potentially “catastrophic” breach of a major US-based cybersecurity provider has been blamed on state-backed hackers from China, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

UK prosecutors are looking to confiscate Bitcoin worth about $6.8 billion tied to a massive fraud in China uncovered at criminal trials, as they plan a victim compensation plan to repay duped investors... View Source

Salesforce Inc. projected revenue growth will accelerate to double digits in the coming years, potentially easing investor concerns about the pace of business at the software company... View Source

Tekscend Photomask Corp. shares gained 19% in their debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday after the maker of semiconductor material concluded a $1 billion initial public offering last week... View Source

The Apple Inc. executive leading an effort to develop AI-driven web search is stepping down, marking the latest in a string of high-profile exits from the company’s artificial intelligence division... View Source

Generative artificial intelligence isn’t helping hedge funds produce market-beating returns and isn’t meaningfully impacting the industry so far, according to billionaire Ken Griffin... View Source

Every now and then, you review a product you can’t get along with in any way, shape or form. Sometimes, it’s about the quality of the hardware, but more often it’s about the philosophy of its makers. Imagine trying to review a toilet built by, and for, aliens from the planet Zog: You can appreciate the intention behind it, but you’ll never be able to praise it. That’s the issue I’ve had with Halli... View Source

A battery-metals recycler that saw a 1,000% jump in its stock price in a year plummeted after a key US government grant was canceled... View Source

Apple has been expected to widen its smart home offering for a long time now, and if a new report is accurate, we could be getting a trio of new devices fairly soon. According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on an indoor camera and a smart display to arrive in 2026, as well as a tabletop robot, with the latter expected to launch in 2027. An Apple-made smart display in particular has featured heavil... View Source

Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos and other investors are backing the health-care company HistoSonics Inc. at a $3 billion valuation — betting that its technology that can help treat tumors using sound waves... View Source

In an embarrassing error, PayPal blockchain partner Paxos accidentally minted 300 trillion of the PYUSD token today. PayPal's stablecoin, which it debuted in 2023, is supposed to be redeemable at a 1:1 rate for US dollars. $300 trillion is more than double the entire world's current GDP of $117 trillion. In short, that's a really bad mistake from Paxos.At least the action did appear... View Source

The US Federal Communications Commission took steps to block one of Hong Kong’s largest phone companies from accessing domestic telecom networks, citing national security concerns... View Source

Google has released a new update to its Veo AI video generation model that should make it do a better job of sticking to prompts and converting images into videos. Veo 3.1 is available to try today through Google's Gemini API and is now also powering the company's Flow video editor.Veo 3.1 builds on the new capabilities Google introduced with launch of Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025. The new m... View Source

Oklo’s market capitalization has ballooned to $25 billion. The NRC denied Oklo’s custom combined license application in Jan 2022, citing insufficient information on maximum-credible-accident (MCA) analyses, safety classification of SSCs (systems/structures/components), QA implementation, and other key technical topics. The denial and associated letters are public. Oklo has since restructured its l... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde breaks down ASML’s earnings as the AI boom continues to fuel demand for its cutting-edge chip-making machines. Plus, deals to develop data centers just keep coming, among them Microsoft and UK startup NScale inking a fourth deal. And, Apple updates its top-of-the-line iPad Pro and other products with its own in-house chip. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Razer is updating its lineup of creator-focused webcams with two new models, the Razer Kiyo V2 and Razer Kiyo V2 X. The webcams offer new AI-powered features and 4K streaming at a more affordable price than the company's Kiyo Pro webcams.The $100 Kiyo V2 X is capable of capturing 720p video at either 60 or 30 frames per second, 1080p video at 24, 30 or 60 frames per second and 1440p video at... View Source

Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The company announced Wednesday that users can add in and change the shadows and lighting of their AI videos. The expanded editing features in Flow are tied to the Veo 3.1 update, also announced on Wednesday, which Google says does a better job of making a... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gave an outlook for profit and cash flow for its upcoming fiscal year that fell short of analysts’ estimates, reflecting a margin crunch in the AI era. The shares fell in extended trading... View Source

Heads up, indie game fans: 1000xResist will arrive on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 on November 4. The title, which is already out for PC and Nintendo Switch, will also be available through Xbox Game Pass on the same date. The game is also adding more localization support, bringing Brazilian Portuguese, French and Korean languages, so more players around the world can experience the story... View Source

A new study suggests dark matter could subtly tint or polarize light, leaving faint color clues that next-generation telescopes might detect... View Source

Don’t let pings spoil the dingers. When my household quit cable four years ago and I lost access to Seattle Mariners games on TV, I started streaming the radio broadcast on the Google Home speaker in my kitchen. Honestly? Baseball on the radio rules. You get to walk around and do stuff to the pleasant background sounds of the crowd. Sometimes you hear the crack of Cal Raleigh's bat hammering the b... View Source

Orange SA is seeking to raise €400 million ($465 million) to €500 million in a stake sale in some of its data centers in France, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Tucked away in Apple's announcement of a second-generation Vision Pro was news on the controller front. First, we already knew that, with visionOS 26, Apple's headset supports PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. But now you can get them without Sony's headset. The Apple Store will soon begin selling the PS VR2 Sense controllers for $250. (Cue spit take.) The $400 PS VR2 headset bundl... View Source

This official tie-in title was created in collaboration with the film's director, Dan Trachtenberg... View Source

The M5 MacBook Pro, which starts at $1,599, is available for preorder starting today. | Image: Apple Apple recently announced revised 14-inch MacBook Pro and iPad Pro models, each equipped with the new M5 processor. As expected, Apple's new M5 chip is supposedly faster than the M4, with better performance for graphically demanding applications. Apple also says the M5 is significantly better at han... View Source

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big rocket lifts, the smaller spacecraft flies, and Congress keeps the money rolling in. But now there are signs that the twain may, in the not too distant future, split. This is because Lockheed Martin has begun to pivot toward a future in which the Orion spacecraft—thanks to... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is building a new gigawatt-sized data center in Texas to advance its artificial intelligence efforts, the latest in a string of significant investments by the company as it looks to keep pace in the competitive AI industry... View Source

Device maker Honor has revealed that one of its upcoming smartphones will offer an unusual design choice. While many manufacturers push to have more numerous and powerful cameras in their products, the Chinese company will put the camera for its new phone on a pop-out mechanical arm. According to CNBC, the design of this so-called "robot phone" is meant to showcase Honor's AI capabi... View Source

New SpaceX footage from Starship Flight 11 shows the final moments of Oct. 13 mission, which ended with a picture-perfect splashdown in the Indian Ocean... View Source

Sundar Pichai at Trump’s inauguration, alongside other Big Tech CEOs. A group of Democratic lawmakers are asking questions about YouTube’s $24.5 million settlement with President Donald Trump. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, five Senators — Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) — aske... View Source

Chinese state actors systemically and successfully compromised classified UK government computer systems for more than a decade, according to two former senior security officials and other government officials familiar with the matter... View Source

Like clockwork, Apple has introduced a new M-series chip on updated versions of the iPad Pro, MacBook Pro and for the first time, Apple Vision Pro. The new M5 chip shares plenty of similarities with the M4 chip Apple introduced in 2024, but the biggest seems to be a focus on improving graphics and AI performance.The M5 chip is made using a new third-generation 3nm process, according to Apple, with... View Source

A fireball flared to life in the skies over southern America in the early hours of Oct. 14, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting as it neared the surface... View Source

(From L) Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, US conservative activist Scott Presler, commentator Liz Wheeler and US conservative political commentator Chad Prather carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” as they walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025. (Ph... View Source

OpenAI said that Oracle Corp. has been helping the fast-growing startup expand the build-out of its data centers outside the US, including by dealing with export controls on chips for artificial intelligence work... View Source

It's that time of year when trick-or-treaters are finalizing their costumes and horror movie streaming service Shudder surely sees an uptick in usage. Yes, spooky season is upon us and Sony is getting in on the fun with its PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions for October.Starting on October 21, Extra and Premium subscribers will be able to play the remakes of Silent Hill 2 and Until Dawn... View Source

October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky... View Source

The Apple-designed N1 wireless networking chip brings Thread to the iPad Pro. | Image: Apple Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is the first iPad to officially support the Thread smart home protocol. It comes with Apple’s new N1 wireless networking chip, which adds Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread — the three wireless protocols the Matter smart home standard runs on. While other iPads and Macs... View Source

Global investors are ramping up bets on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. ahead of its earnings, confident that the world’s leading chip foundry will remain one of the biggest winners from the AI spending boom... View Source

Roku just announced a robust software update coming to many of its devices. These are free upgrades, with search getting a major AI boost. First of all, the pre-existing voice search feature is getting "AI smarts." This means that users will be able to ask contextual questions about movies, actors and shows. It's worth noting that the bot will deliver the answers on-screen and not v... View Source

Identifying the gravitational waves from black holes binaries could also make it clearer to detect primordial gravitational waves that date back to inflation at the moment of the Big Bang... View Source

Same device, different packaging. | Image: Amazon Following the debut of Amazon’s $39.99 Fire TV Stick 4K Select, the company told The Verge that a name change was coming to the existing “Fire TV Stick 4K” to clarify where it sat in the lineup. Now, Amazon has introduced that new branding, relaunching the product as the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus. Sure, the original name was confusing (is 4K bet... View Source

EssilorLuxottica SA said it bought RetinAI, a company specializing in artificial intelligence and data management in eyecare, according to a statement... View Source

The VSCO photo editing and sharing app has been around for nearly as long as Instagram, positioning itself as the serious photographer’s choice for mobile editing. The original focus was on tasteful filters and editing tools, all of which got significantly more powerful and flexible over time; VSCO has long been doing the same sort of film emulations that have made Fujifilm’s cameras so desirable... View Source

It’s-a-me, Ally-o. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Hey! I'm Sean Hollister, and I've been The Verge's unofficial handheld gaming PC reviewer since 2022, when the Steam Deck and kin took over my life. (I also helped launch this website back in the day!) And I've just spent the past week reviewing the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, Microsoft's very first "Xbox" handhelds that are built and co-deve... View Source

Anthropic recently held early funding talks with Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX, barely a month after the OpenAI rival closed one of the largest financing rounds ever for a technology startup... View Source

Proton VPN currently tops my list of the best VPNs, and I gave it a glowing recommendation in my detailed Proton VPN review. It's easy to use, fast, cheap and secure, with a large server network and one of the industry's best scores at unblocking streaming sites. All that said, there's no such thing as a perfect VPN, and you may find that Proton isn't working for you. If that h... View Source

If you’re looking for a great 360-degree action camera for your next adventure, the Insta360 X5 is an excellent pick that’s on sale in black at Amazon and Best Buy for $499.99 ($50 off) through October 16th, which is an all-time low. It’s also available directly from Insta360’s online storefront for the same price with a free hardshell case. In his review, former Verge staffer Vjeran Pavic remarke... View Source

MuniOS.com, a distribution platform for state and local government bond offering documents, has been out of service for several days due to a ransomware attack, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

For as long as I can remember, I've had trouble going to sleep. When I lay down, my mind inevitably starts racing a thousand miles an hour, thinking about anything and everything. On several recent nights, though, my pre-slumber thoughts had a singular focus. I mulled over possibilities like, "What if I fuse a ball that heals my character with one that splits into smaller balls with... View Source

A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, will safely fly by our planet Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon... View Source

On Wednesday, the largest US group of unions called on employers and policymakers to join in an effort it’s calling the “workers first initiative on AI.” Functionally, the effort by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) amounts to strengthened collective bargaining in the workplace and advocating for regulations to limit the negative effect of AI on wo... View Source

Poolside, an AI coding startup that only launched its first product a year ago, is partnering with CoreWeave Inc. to develop what would be one of the largest data centers in the US, the latest sign of an investment frenzy in infrastructure for artificial intelligence... View Source

Fujifilm just announced the Instax mini LiPlay+ instant camera, which is a refresh of the original mini LiPlay from 2019. It's been six long years, so the company has added some nifty features here. First of all, there's a second camera on the rear that's intended for selfies. It features a wide-angle lens and joins the pre-existing front-facing camera. There's a new functional... View Source

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Logitech is launching a digital stylus for Apple Vision Pro that makes it easier to write, draw, and manipulate 3D designs. The Logitech Muse is essentially a pen-shaped Vision Pro controller that can be used like a paintbrush or pencil when navigating apps, making annotations, or creating art, providing a more natural experience in mixed reality environments compared to just using your hands.  Lo... View Source

Officials in Belgium warn of danger... View Source

Xbox is at a crossroads. While the PlayStation 5 and Switch 2 continue to gain popularity, multiple price hikes for the Xbox Series S and X have killed their momentum. And with several big box retailers like Costco deciding to drop Microsoft’s console from their shelves, the current-gen Xbox may be dead in the water. So what should the company do? Microsoft’s most straightforward option would be t... View Source

Minternet is an unforgivable portmanteau. Mint Mobile is trying something a bit less “mobile” with its new prepaid 5G home internet plan that goes for as little as $30 a month. To get that price, you will need to also have a Mint phone plan and pay for at least three months up front. But it’s still one of the cheapest 5G at home plans out there even if you can’t lock in the lowest price.  5G... View Source

Apple Inc. updated its top-of-the-line iPad Pro, Vision Pro headset and 14-inch MacBook Pro, rounding out a series of product refreshes ahead of the crucial holiday-shopping season... View Source

It took two years for Threads to get messaging, but you thankfully don't have to wait that long to be able to start group DMs. Meta has started rolling out group chats for the app, which lets you add up to 50 of your followers to a single conversation. Just start a new message and add anybody who follows you on Threads. The company says that you'll also be able to share a link that your... View Source

Women’s brains age more slowly than men’s, but they still have higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease... View Source

Japan’s government is dialing up the heat on OpenAI, formally asking it to stop ripping off Japanese artwork, according to ITMedia and reported by IGN. The company has been in copyright hell after the launch of its social video app Sora, which users swiftly filled with questionable AI-generated material. Minoru Kiuchi, whose many Japanese ministerial positions include leading on intellectual prope... View Source

AppLovin Corp. said it has shut down a product linked to user and short-seller allegations that apps were being downloaded to mobile phones without consent... View Source

The Ring Battery Doorbell is on sale via Amazon for just $50. This is half off and matches the Prime Day price, only now the deal is available for everyone. The sale applies to both colorways. This is the company's entry-level video doorbell but it's still got some nifty features. First of all, it's powered via a rechargeable battery, so users don't have to do any wiring to get started. It charges... View Source

Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just announced that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier... View Source

The ability to add users to group chats via shared links is coming in a future update. Meta is adding group chats to Threads, allowing users to message multiple friends in shared conversations instead of sending separate DMs. Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message and adding up to 50 people who follow their Threads account. The group chat name can be customized to make it... View Source

A startup backed by Wall Street’s biggest banks is making headway in a push to bring electronic trading to one of the final holdouts... View Source

Apple's latest 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros have arrived, and though they're the first with the company's all-new M5 chip, they're otherwise largely identical to last year's models. The main reason to buy one, then, would be for the extra performance over the M4 — something that may be worthwhile to content creators and other power users looking for a tablet instead of a laptop.  Last year Apple... View Source

SpaceX plans to launch 21 satellites for an advanced new U.S. military constellation this evening (Oct. 15), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Kobo announced an official remote control for its e-readers, allowing you to turn the page easily even when you don’t have the e-reader to hand. While it won’t quite allow you to read ebooks hands-free, it will help if you’re trying to read while your hands are otherwise occupied by cooking or cats, or when you just have the e-reader propped up at a distance on a treadmill or coffee table. An incl... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. removed a Facebook group used to share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after a request from the Justice Department... View Source

Waymo is bringing its autonomous taxis to the UK in 2026, marking the company’s first major expansion outside of the US. Waymo has selected the mobility company, Moove, as its fleet operations partner, and is currently working with local and national authorities in the UK to gain the necessary permissions to launch a robotaxi service in London first next year. Right now, you won’t find any fully d... View Source