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Neon has won Oscars three years in a row, but it makes more money from horror films and streaming... View Source

Samsung will reportedly end Galaxy Z TriFold sales in South Korea on March 17, three months after the device went on sale, according to South Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo. Samsung has not yet confirmed the report, but Engadget has reached out for comment. In the US, where the TriFold arrived in January, the phone will remain available until existing inventory runs out. A unit at retail (if you can... View Source

The pre show is done. Which had Gavin Baker and Alfred Lin. And many CEO of Robotaxi and AI companies The AI YouTuber and venture capitalist who headed up (or co-hosted/led) the NVIDIA GTC preshow is Sara Guo the GTC Pregame Live with Alfred Lin (Sequoia partner) ahead of a recent GTC event. Sarah Guo, ... Read more... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like rotten eggs... View Source

Sony's upgraded PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technology is rolling out to several titles on the PS5 Pro, including Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Silent Hill 2, and more. Digital Foundry got a chance to test some of them and found that the "new upscaler delivers the kind of upgrade we were looking for from PS5 Pro." Problems with shimmering, flickering, and other visual... View Source

The IPO market will be slow until big names like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Databricks go public, says Matthew Witheiler, head of late-stage growth at Wellington Management. He discusses what will drive some of these high value startups to go public and what potential returns are still to be had, with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple's latest acquisition could be a hint towards improvements for Final Cut Pro. The tech giant acquired MotionVFX, as seen on the company's website and first reported by MacRumors, which is known for providing plugins, templates, visual effects and more to video editors. MotionVFX currently offers its software for a handful of video-editing apps, like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere, but is... View Source

Since Amazon rolled out its redesigned Fire TV OS, Amazon’s latest streaming sticks are even better than ever. And right now, both the Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Fire TV Stick 4K Plus are back at their best prices yet during Amazon’s early Big Spring Sale event. You can buy the Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $34.99 ($25 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, while the Fire TV Stick 4K Plus is down to $24.9... View Source

Companies should be actively prepared for cyberattacks in this threat environment, says Allie Mellen, a cyber analyst at Forrester Research and author of the new book, "Code War." Mellen discusses the rise in cyber spending, the use of AI, and what companies are likely to be targeted for. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it used their copyrighted content to train its AI, then generated responses that were "substantially similar" to their content, as previously reported by Reuters. According to Britannica, OpenAI repeatedly copied its content without permission, stating, "GPT-4 itself has 'memori... View Source

Ted Gill, former boss of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, had sued parent company Krafton for breach of contract ... View Source

OpenAI has been hit with another lawsuit. This time, Encyclopedia Britannica took legal action against OpenAI, accusing the company of copyright and trademark infringements, as first reported by Reuters. More specifically, Britannica alleged that OpenAI illegally used its "copyrighted content at a massive scale" when training its AI models. Not just with training, the encyclopedia company claimed... View Source

Grindr Inc. unveiled a handful of new app features and shared more details around its premium subscription tier as part of a larger effort to integrate artificial intelligence across its LGBTQ dating platform... View Source

'It promises that this is just the beginning of the story for these characters. There's so much more to tell.'... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is planning layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company according to Reuters. That would work out to about 15,000 jobs. Kurt Wagner reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Subscriptions are out of control. I can remember a time when the monthly payouts were few: just Netflix, a couple of magazines and a mobile plan. Now we have subscriptions for music, security cameras, cloud gaming, AI chatbots, meal kits, LinkedIn, DoorDash, Uber, Photoshop — the list is long. Basically, if there’s an app for something, there’s likely an associated subscription available, too. Thi... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. You’ll hear Jim refer to that deal as Yahoo’s original sin, actually. After a long series of mergers and spinouts and an extrem... View Source

Spending on data center projects in the US has exploded, surpassing offices for the first time at the end of last year. It’s a trend Matt Kunz saw early on when Meta Platforms Inc. built a computing hub outside Columbus, Ohio... View Source

OpenAI's forthcoming "adult mode" will allow users to engage in lewd conversations with ChatGPT, but not use the chatbot to generate explicit images, audio or video. In response to reporting from The Wall Street Journal, an OpenAI spokesperson characterized the upcoming release as capable of producing smut rather than pornography. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first floated the idea of allowing people to... View Source

While Amazon’s previous lineup of Echo speakers and smart displays was boring, frankly, its late 2025 hardware refresh brought better hardware, improved performance, and Alexa Plus to several models. If you feel like your room(s) could benefit from speakers to deliver tunes, audiobooks, or podcasts to more corners of your home, or screens to show recipes, photos, or videos, there are some great ea... View Source

Apple Inc. introduced the AirPods Max 2, upgrading its over-ear headphones with more powerful noise cancellation and a handful of features that have already rolled out to the AirPods Pro line in recent years... View Source

A coalition of Big Tech companies is working on a more comprehensive solution to combat online scams. As first reported by Axios, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe and Match Group announced the signing of the Online Services Accord Against Scams. The new agreement is meant to put up a united industry-wide front against online fraud and scams, particularly those from sophisti... View Source

Download PDF: A Combination of Techniques Leads to Improved Friction Stir Welding The NESC developed several innovative tools and techniques during an assessment to find the root cause of poor tensile strength and low topography anomalies (LTA) in welds formed using a solid-state welding process called self-reacting friction stir welding (SRFSW).    Using a combination of machine le... View Source

Scientists are searching for evidence of microbial life left behind in these mineral deposits... View Source

Lets be honest, most of us are probably tossing our half-clean clothes on furniture or flooring anyway. | Image by Simone Giertz / Yetch Seating technology may have reached its peak for those of us who struggle to keep our lightly worn clothing piles away from furniture. The Laundry Chair - developed by YouTuber and viral inventor Simone Giertz - is now available to buy through a Kickstarter campa... View Source

Meta will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years to access artificial intelligence infrastructure from Nebius Group. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Dr. Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16, 1926, at Auburn, Mass.Esther Goddard, from the Clark University archive From the voyages of spacecraft to the Moon and beyond, to the launches of satellites that help us navigate, communicate, and understand our planet and the universe, the use of liquid-fueled rockets has been key to humani... View Source

Siril stands out as one of the best pieces of open-source software available for astrophotographers... View Source

OpenAI is in advanced discussions to form a joint venture with private equity firms, including TPG Inc. and Bain Capital, that would focus on bolstering adoption of its AI software across their portfolio companies, Reuters reported on Monday... View Source

The AirPods Max 2 are almost here. Apple announced this morning that the first true update to its over-hear phones are up for pre-order on March 25 and will be shipping in early April. They look identical to the predecessor, with large, colorful earcups and a matching headband. But inside is the H2 chip that Apple first introduced with the AirPods Pro 2, which enables a host of new features. Chief... View Source

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Apple has just announced the AirPods Max 2 with better noise cancellation and sound quality. The second generation of Apple's over-ear headphones starts at $549 and comes equipped with an H2 chip that powers a bunch of new features, including AI-powered live translation, which translates speech to your preferred language in real-time. As noted by Apple, the AirPods Max 2 offer active noise-cancell... View Source

Peloton Interactive Inc. introduced a new bike and treadmill designed to be used in gyms, its latest effort to deliver on a long-promised turnaround... View Source

We've loved Apple's 2021-era MacBook Pro design from the start, and the M5 Max edition is once again the professional notebook to beat. But it's hard to deny that the star of Apple's recent laptop rollout wasn't its most powerful Pro systems — all eyes were on the $599 MacBook Neo. The MacBook Pro's next time to shine is likely this fall, when Apple is expected to finally deliver OLED models and a... View Source

Download PDF: NESC Develops Method for Estimating Risk When Reducing NDE  Performing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) can have both cost and schedule impacts, leading some to question whether descoping (i.e., reducing or eliminating) NDE inspections on certain spaceflight hardware could be possible. However, this approach would be counter to NASA’s Technical Standard NASA-STD-5019A, which... View Source

'That truth will upend all established order across the entire world.'... View Source

As the war in the Middle East stretches into a third week, the global semiconductor industry is facing mounting threats the conflict will choke off key supplies vital for chipmaking and spike the cost of power in Taiwan — the foundation of today’s technology industry... View Source

In good news for our wallets and the environment at large, many electronic devices like phones and tablets last longer now than they once did. That means refurbished gadgets can have more life than ever before. There are no laws governing the terms, but refurbished or renewed devices tend to be a level above just plain “used.” At minimum, refurbished tech should have undergone cleaning and diagnos... View Source

Last week, a few posts about a so-called virtual "embodied fly" tore through X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn't seem to understand what it was they were excited about. The videos came from San Francisco-based Eon Systems, which says it's working toward "digital human intelligence" and claims it wants to build a full digital emulation of a mouse brain within the next t... View Source

Frore Systems Inc., which makes liquid cooling technology for AI chips, raised $143 million in a funding deal that values the startup at $1.64 billion... View Source

Firefly aired for just one season in 2002 before Fox canceled it. In the 24 years since, the sci-fi show has skyrocketed in popularity and now fans are finally getting more. Nathan Fillion has announced that an animated Firefly series is currently in advanced development, Deadline first reported.  Fillion shared the news at AwesomeCon during a live taping of his podcast Once We Were Spacemen... View Source

Exomoons orbiting rogue planets could host liquid water for billions of years, offering potential habitats for life deep in interstellar space... View Source

If you've already given your iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max a retro '80s facelift with Spigen's Macintosh 128K and Apple Lisa-inspired Classic LS cases, you might as well make your wireless earbuds match. But instead of making the AirPods Pro 3 look like a decades-old desktop computer, Spigen's case turns them into a replica of the Macintosh's iconic single-button mouse. The $29.99 case is available th... View Source

European regulators should avoid adjusting electricity pricing in case it puts at risk investment in clean energy, according to Statkraft AS, the region’s top producer of renewable power... View Source

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago. It was not an overly impressive flight. The rocket, fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen, rose just 41 feet into the air, and the flight lasted 2.5 seconds before it struck ice and snow. Nevertheless, this rocket, named "Nell," represented a historic achievement that would he... View Source

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is looking to hire bankers and private credit lenders to make its Grok chatbot better at finance strategy, joining rival AI firms in pushing software for investing professionals... View Source

So when exactly is smut considered porn? | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images OpenAI's delayed "adult mode" for ChatGPT is expected to support saucy text conversations at launch, but not the chatbot's ability to generate images, voice, or video. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, an unnamed OpenAI spokesperson described content that will be provided by the upcoming feature as s... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is setting up a business unit to bring its sprawling AI services and development endeavors under a single umbrella, signaling its determination to profit off artificial intelligence... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. will pay as much as $27 billion over the next five years for access to cutting-edge artificial intelligence infrastructure from cloud provider Nebius Group NV as it spends aggressively to compete with the industry’s top frontier models... View Source

Robert Goddard's innovations in liquid-fueled rockets — assisted by his wife, Esther — still resonate 100 years after his pioneering flight... View Source

Latest observations of L98-59d, about 35 light years from Earth, suggest it could be different to anything seen beforeAstronomers have identified a planet composed of molten lava, suggesting the existence of an entirely new category of liquid planet.The distant world, known as L98-59d, is about 1.6 times the size of Earth and orbits a small red star 35 light years away. Astronomers initially thoug... View Source

Arielle Duhaime-Ross does a bike tune-up. | Photo by Evan Ortiz / The Verge One of the first major crashes I experienced as a chronically ill person happened on an unusually sunny January day in New York City. It was 2023, and I was riding my bike with a friend, flying high from the exercise. We'd covered just over 40 miles on mostly flat ground, a longish ride, but not out of ordinary for me. And... View Source

Ant Group Co. is close to completing its purchase of Hong Kong-listed brokerage Bright Smart Securities & Commodities Group Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter, having agreed on the deal almost a year ago... View Source

Ahead of its acquisition by Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. dominated the 2026 Oscars with 11 wins primarily for Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. Netflix also put in a strong showing with seven Academy Awards, including two for KPop Demon Hunters and three for Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein.  All told, dedicated streaming services... View Source

The war in Iran has been fought almost entirely in the skies, with both offensive missiles, as well as anti-missile defense systems. But the math is brutal. The war in Ukraine has already put a dent in American stockpiles, and now it is proving costly to protect American bases and their allies in the region against Iranian drones. On this episode, we speak with Tom Karako, a senior fellow and dire... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. posted a 2.4% drop in quarterly profit, suggesting weakening demand for Nvidia Corp. servers at the heart of the AI boom... View Source

Having navigated some of life’s most defining transitions, Melinda French Gates reflects on the choices that set her path—from Microsoft executive to philanthropist and now founder of Pivotal. She shares how values-based leadership, resilience and the courage to embrace “the next day” have guided her through change, power and public scrutiny. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After sunset on 20 March, look up to catch the earthshine, when the unlit face of the moon will be faintly visibleLook west after sunset on 20 March and you will find a beautifully slender crescent moon in conjunction with the glorious beacon of Venus, low in the evening twilight.Venus has been prominent in the dusky skies for several weeks now, outshining every star. On 20 March it will be joined... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to release an agentic AI service for companies, banking on national enthusiasm around artificial intelligence assistants like OpenClaw that help users perform actual tasks... View Source

MTN Group Ltd.’s dividend beat estimates as Africa’s largest wireless carrier surged back into profit... View Source

Bitcoin has spent most of this year trapped between $60,000 and $75,000, repeatedly teasing a breakout but never quite delivering one... View Source

BioMap Beijing Intelligent Technology Co. has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise a few hundred million dollars this year, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

JD.com Inc. is launching in the UK and other European countries, part of an overseas expansion as China’s answer to Amazon faces intense competition in its home market... View Source

Ford has three separate issues requiring recalls. They affect more than 2.3 million of its SUVs in all, including models from Lincoln, the Blue Oval’s luxury brand. Ford has issued 18 recalls so far in 2026 affecting 7.4 million vehicles and one tiny engine-block-heater campaign. This new 2.3 million SUV batch is just the latest ... Read more... View Source

Bill Gates is down to 19th richest person in the world. He has a little more than three times as much as his x-wife. Bill has one eighths of the wealth of Elon Musk. Bill got out of Microsoft shares and into railroads and conservative mostly non-tech investments. Bill has also been shorting Tesla. SpaceX-XAI ... Read more... View Source

Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other public records. It offers a pretty full suite of apps, 42 in total, covering text editing, task management, and social media. There's even a rudimentary tracker for making chiptunes, a DAW, and a video editor. Of course, part of the appeal is also... View Source

In an unexpected twist, humans have taken some jobs back from AI. Embark Studios' CEO Patrick Söderlund recently told GamesIndustry.biz that the studio "re-recorded" some of the AI-generated voice lines in Arc Raiders with human voices, only after its successful launch in October. "There is a quality difference," Söderlund told GamesIndustry.biz. "A real professional actor is better than AI; that'... View Source

To capitalize on Claude's recent spike in popularity, Anthropic is offering a limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for anyone using its AI chatbot during off-peak hours. From March 13 to March 27, users on Free, Pro, Max, and Team plans will get double the usage limits in a five-hour window when using Claude outside weekday hours between 8 AM and 2 PM ET. According to Anthropic, the pr... View Source

Can’t. Stop. Dancing. | Image: Wonderwheel Recordings Shout out to subscriber N_Gorski for today's pick. They popped into the comments on last week's recommendation to ask what I thought of the new Sotomayor record. Well, I hadn't actually heard it yet, but now I'm obsessed. The group consists of siblings Raul and Paulina Sotomayor from Mexico City. Wabi Sabi is their first record since 2020's Ori... View Source

If you've got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character's voice throughout a scene, there's a job listing calling for your experience. The catch: You won't be performing in a theater, a film studio, or an underground performance space. You'd be using your talents to train an AI model for "one of the leading AI companies,... View Source

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars... View Source

He might have realized he’s about to lose a lot of money. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto czar, has warned that a continued war in Iran could be catastrophic. On the All In podcast, Sacks said that "we should try to find the off-ramp." He expressed concern that Iran could demolish oil and gas infrastructure across the Middle East, but m... View Source

Attempts to provide upgraded software for F-35 jets have “stagnated” and no new combat capability was delivered last year, according to the annual report by the Pentagon’s testing office, even as the fighter jets fly missions over Iran... View Source

The Galaxy Buds Pro 4 are a nice improvement over the Buds 3, but still require a Galaxy device to use all their features. Samsung promised "more than a design refresh" for its new top-end Galaxy Buds - it added upgraded woofers for improved, dual-amped hi-fi sound, a new blade design, clearer call performance, and better noise cancellation. Ultimately, while the $249.99 Galaxy Buds 4 aren't a hug... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the slow-motion disaster of live-service games, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Two years ago, I stood at the top of the iconic red stairs in Times Square to experience the weirdest concert of my... View Source

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Astrophotographer Emil Andronic captured a gorgeous blue reflection nebula glowing inside the red clouds of Orion's Head in the constellation Orion... View Source

In 2020 and 2021, the social media world seemed to be on the verge of complete change. A new app called TikTok was ascendant, bringing a whole new kind of vertical video to phones everywhere. And another app - not as popular, but growing fast, and already hugely influential among the tech set - looked like it might have an entirely new social idea on its hands. It was called Clubhouse, and it was... View Source

Last fall, President Donald Trump's executive order raising the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 - like many of his immigration policies - led to near-immediate chaos. Thousands of workers who had flown overseas to renew their visas ended up stranded abroad. Details about who would be affected only emerged after the fact. Six months later, the disorder from the initial announcement has mostly subsid... View Source

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them... View Source

The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely... View Source

The prospect of a prolonged Iran war and elevated oil prices is prompting stock investors to reassess a broader array of industries, including less obvious targets from food delivery firms to cosmetics makers as supply disruption intensifies... View Source

In September, Donald Trump claimed that "the United States is getting a tremendous fee" for brokering the TikTok deal. Now sources tell the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that fee is expected to be in the range of $10 billion. The money is supposedly being paid by new investors, including Oracle and Silver Lake. Reports are that $2.5 billion was already paid to the Treasury when the de... View Source

A month after Seedance 2.0's launch in China sparked cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount Skydance over its use of copyrighted materials, its developer ByteDance has reportedly hit pause on the release of the AI video tool in other regions. According to The Information, which spoke to two anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, ByteDance has suspended Seedance 2.0's global ro... View Source

You're responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify's co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly what they want to listen to, whether it's music, audiobooks or podcasts. This AI-powered feature is still in beta, and it will be available to Premium users in New Zealand in the coming weeks. From its... View Source

According to Reuters, Meta is looking to offset spending on AI and data centers with a massive round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the matter say the company could lay off as much as 20 percent of its staff, eliminating roughly 15,800 positions. That would be the largest series of layoffs at the company since it terminated 22,000 workers over just a few months between November 2022 and early 2... View Source

There may have been some extra incentive for the Trump administration to get the TikTok US deal done. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is set to receive a total of $10 billion in the deal that allowed TikTok to remain in the US. The new investors who acquired stakes in the US entity of TikTok already paid a $2.5 billion fee to the administration when the... View Source

Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend A.D. Sui's The Iron Garden Sutra, a meditative horror sci-fi/fantasy and murder mystery. I don't typically gravitate toward locked room mysteries, but the description of this book ticked all the right boxes to win me over: "a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of the dead encounter something beyond huma... View Source

Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 13 and 14, 2026... View Source

Elon Musk dropped huge news that changes everything. 7GWs of data center that would be 5 times bigger than XAI colossus and would keep growing faster. Accredited Investors can sign up for educational discussion and Q&A with Brian Wang. Tesla and XAI digital optimus will start in about 6 months... View Source

Meta could be preparing for one of the largest layoffs in its history, according to a Reuters report. The tech giant is planning to cut about 20 percent of its workforce, according to the outlet's sources. According to the report, neither a date nor the exact number of layoffs has been finalized yet. However, Reuters reported that Meta's top executives have told "other senior leaders" to start "pl... View Source

On Episode 201 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Jay Gallentine to talk about former Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manager John Casani... View Source

Though it was weird to see the Golden Globes partner with Polymarket for its most recent awards show, the collaboration wasn't shocking given the way that people have begun using prediction markets to gamble on basically anything. Prediction markets are being used to bet on everything from when wars might break out to who will win the Nobel Peace Prize, so why wouldn't people also be interested in... View Source

Digg has shut down, for now, just a few months after its open beta launched. Justin Mezzell, the company’s CEO, has explained on the home page that it noticed hours after the beta launched that it was already being targeted by SEO spammers. “The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts,” he wrote. Apparently, the Digg team wasn’t ready for th... View Source

x-Admiral Montgomery’s sees a 2-3 week timeline to US control of Hormuz. Conditions must be set for control, if they are not set then it will very difficult to end the war. The degradation strikes continue (including on all the island sites) could reach the knock-down point by ~March 21–28. After the missiles, drones are ... Read more... View Source

Happy Saturday, all! This week, we found a number of deals that should help you unwind and relax over the next few days (and beyond). If you’re planning to stream the Oscars on Sunday, there’s still time to take advantage of a great deal on Hulu and Disney Plus, as well as Google’s latest 4K streaming device. Speaking of Google, you can also currently save $60 on the Pixel Watch 4; there are also... View Source

Follow these tips for cleaning the different parts of your camera lens, without risking damage... View Source

Neo to the left of me. Pros are to the right. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Not much has changed in the new MacBook Air for 2026: It now has the M5 chip, Wi-Fi 7, and faster storage starting at 512GB instead of 256GB. It's just as outstanding a computer as last year's model, even if it's a shame it's $100 more expensive. The bigger change has happened to the Air. The MacBook Neo now... View Source

Red Dwarf's scouse technician Dave Lister was the last human alive, a down-on-his-luck slobbish space-hero long before Peter Quill guarded the galaxy... View Source

You may recognize Jonathan Djob Nkondo's work from animated projects like the surreal sci-fi series Scavengers Reign or the recent Gorillaz short film The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God. But before that the French artist and animator made self-published comics that depicted strange alien worlds and future societies. Now he's revisiting that work with a lush release of two graphic novels... View Source

Super Heavy booster has been ready to continue preflight testing for 5 days and has been testing. SpaceX is conducting a series of tests to activate Pad 2 at Starbase, exercise new propellant loading operations, and operate a vehicle with new Raptor 3 engines installed for the first time. Super Heavy booster ready to continue ... Read more... View Source

A notable phone. "Someone might be watching everything I'm doing on my screen," I tell myself in public. Even when I'm doing nothing of consequence - just making my little Wordle guesses - there's a sense of unease that stays with me. It's never bothered me too much, and I generally save the sensitive stuff like banking for when I'm home, but I realize it's a feeling I've internalized whenever I'm... View Source

So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month after month, while the Big Dipper always is?... View Source

They look like your average open earbuds, but with optional RGB LED effects. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The Cetra Open Wireless aren’t like most other gaming earbuds. They’re large, with an open-style design that rests just outside of your ears, letting game audio mix with sounds in your environment. These allow for immersion, but only if your environment is quiet enough. And turning... View Source

Having recently updated the regular iPhone with a raft of meaningful upgrades, Apple Inc. set a high bar for its entry-level “e” series... View Source

I just got back from the GDC Festival of Gaming, a big industry-focused event in San Francisco that was formerly known as the Game Developers Conference. While the show is mostly about educational sessions and networking opportunities for working developers, there were also a bunch of games that I got to play. Here are some of my favorites, listed alphabetically. Best of all, these could all launc... View Source

The latest jobs data is pointing to a softer US labor market, even as overall economic conditions have remained relatively solid. Steven Rattner of Willett Advisers unpacks what is driving that disconnect, why tariffs may be adding pressure on employers, how AI is already influencing hiring decisions, and why the combination of forces could create a challenge for the Fed and for investors. (Source... View Source

Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Pixar's future and flight MH370 and sports gambling and YouTube Face, finally digging into Dungeon Crawler Carl after you recommended it... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of intriguing games arrived this week, including a mobile port of one of the most absorbing things I’ve played in years and two completely different titles with the same name. Let’s get things started with a look at a few projects that were featured in the latest edition of the Future Games Show.Hyperwired (from Sidr... View Source

Some European retailers have stopped selling certain headphones after an EU-funded study found that they contained hormone-disrupting chemicals. The study included leading brands such as Apple, Beats, Samsung, Bose, JBL, and Sennheiser. Online stores Bol.com, Coolblue, and Mediamarkt didn't respond to inquiries from The Verge about which headphones they pulled, but local news outlets report that t... View Source

Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles?... View Source

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say... View Source

Moonshot AI is seeking to raise as much as $1 billion in an expanded funding round that would value the startup at about $18 billion, more than quadrupling its valuation in just three months and underscoring growing interest in Chinese AI developers racing to rival Silicon Valley leaders... View Source

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology... View Source

A few weeks after allegations surfaced in the global media that Jeffrey Epstein forced a teenager to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew, the financier contacted tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel to say he had two finance ministers and “a bunch of bankers” for him to meet in New York.“does my bad press give you pause.” Epstein added in the 2015 message... View Source

The has struck all military targets on Kharg Island in the last 2 hours or so. Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island. Our Weapons ... Read more... View Source

Jeremy Allaire, co-founder, CEO and chairman of Circle which operates the world's largest regulated stablecoin network, sits down with David Rubenstein to discuss the company's IPO last year, his long-term vision for Circle, and the role of artificial intelligence in the labor market. He's on this week's episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations." This interview was recorde... View Source

Elon Musk’s use of the drug ketamine will be off limits to attorneys for OpenAI Inc. and its chief executive officer Sam Altman during an upcoming jury trial over claims that the generative AI company defrauded Musk by abandoning its nonprofit roots... View Source

The US Commerce Department has pulled a draft regulation that would have restricted exports of artificial intelligence chips to anywhere in the world without US approval, according to an electronic notification posted on a government website... View Source

US equity futures fall as Brent oil hits $100 a barrel, deepening fears of a global inflation spike. Daimler Truck plans to offset its tariff expenses with CFO Eva Scherer saying in an exclusive interview that the biggest Iran risk is on macro sentiment. Seema Shah of Principal Asset Management discusses when the market will recover from the war with Iran. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Kayne Anderson Rudnick’s Julie Biel, The Conference Board’s Dana Peterson, JPMorgan’s Nathaniel Rosenbaum, CUNY Graduate Center’s Paul Krugman, Proshares’ Mo Haghbin, S&P Global Ratings’ Nora Wittstruck, 22V Research’s Mic... View Source

2 min read Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields take at least a m... View Source

The US is slated to receive around $10 billion as a fee from investors as part of the recently completed deal for China’s ByteDance Ltd. to sell the American operations of the social video app TikTok to a consortium of US investors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday... View Source

OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it launched alongside Sora 2 in September 2025, but interest in the video generation app has fallen in the time since as users ran into limits on the amount and kinds of videos they could create.Adding Sora to the ChatGPT could give the model a s... View Source

It's only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the link-sharing site would relaunch, promising a "social discovery built by communities, not by algorithms." Now, two months after opening its Reddit-like platform to the public, Digg is announcing a "hard reset" that's shutting down operations and will "significantly downsize the Digg... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Iran’s Supreme Leader reportedly wounded, as President Trump issues a stark new warning to Tehran. Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett says markets are flashing 2008-style signals, with oil near triple digits and private credit risks rising. And a wave of fresh data shows the US  economy losing ste... View Source

2 min read Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet! The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The Bok is a mighty telescope run by the Un... View Source

The Live Nation-Ticketmaster trial is back on. Dozens of states are expected to move forward with their claims against the company's alleged concert industry monopoly beginning on Monday, following a brief hearing on Friday. The Justice Department and a handful of states have accepted settlements with the company, but the majority of the 40 state and district attorney general plaintiffs - as of no... View Source

MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes discusses Oscars weekend, rebounding box office sales, and the rise of a 'new crop of stars' in Hollywood. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new deals with publishers. The company announced new agreements with international outlets and offered additional details on its recent deal with News Corp. The latest deals bring French newspaper Le Figaro, Spanish media company Prisa and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung into the fold. Together, alon... View Source

Less slop please. | Image: Spotify Spotify Premium users in New Zealand will be the first to experience the service's latest personalization feature. The company is letting users view and make changes to their Taste Profile directly. If your algorithm is serving up too much Bieber, you can politely tell the algorithm to ease up. Beta testers will be able to access the feature by tapping on their p... View Source

S&P Dow Jones Indices is considering changes, according to people familiar with the matter, that could fast-track SpaceX onto the S&P 500 index after its IPO. Peter Singlehurst, head of the private companies team at Baillie Gifford, an investor in SpaceX, discusses the rocket company’s future and what is driving high private market valuations more widely. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg T... View Source

Adobe has agreed to pay the US government $75 million to settle its lawsuit over the company's allegedly harmful approach to subscriptions. The suit started in 2024, when the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission filed a joint complaint alleging the company deliberately made it difficult to cancel subscriptions and obscured the frequently expensive "early termination fee" custo... View Source

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. This week, I wanted to see how Trump Mobile stacks up to its conservative carrier competition. Trump Mobile isn't unique. I mean, it is in some pretty specific senses - it's not every day the president's family launches a phone company while he's in office - but it's far from the first company to offer a mobile carrier targe... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses the impact the conflict with Iran is having on AI investments in the Middle East, as Meta pauses part of its major internet-expansion efforts in Africa. Plus, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will resign amid skepticism about the company's ability to thrive in the AI era. And, S&P Dow Jones Indices is considering changes to rules governing how companies join its index... View Source

Apple's cheapest laptop is also its most repairable. iFixit gave the new MacBook Neo a 6/10 repairability score. Although that number would only be mediocre for, say, a game review or final exam grade, it's the MacBook line's highest iFixit score in about 14 years.As always, iFixit goes into great detail about the product's repairability, but a few points stand out. First, the MacBook Neo's batter... View Source

Xbox is getting ready to launch its Gaming Copilot AI assistant on "current-generation consoles" this year, according to a report from GamesRadar. Sonali Yadav, Xbox's product manager for gaming AI, revealed the news during a panel at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), adding that the company will also add the assistant to "more services that players are playing." Microsoft has been working on... View Source

The Indian government on Friday announced changes to listing rules, clearing the way for billionaire Mukesh Ambani to go for an initial public offering of Jio Platforms Ltd., the digital arm of his conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd... View Source

In the mad dash many companies have made to incorporate AI features into their phones, Nothing arrived at one of the better ideas with Essential Space on the Nothing Phone 3a in 2025. The AI-powered app turns screenshots and voice recordings into actionable to-do lists and transcriptions, and now Nothing is rolling out an update to make the app easier to search and capable of recognizing new kinds... View Source

It's just a prank, bro!... View Source

GDC in San Francisco this week was full of job-seekers, co-development studios and AI... View Source

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an update on its support page. Unlike WhatsApp, Meta never made encryption available to all Instagram users and it was never a default setting. Instead, users in "some areas" had the ability to opt-in to encryption on a per-chat basis.In a statement, a Meta spok... View Source

Image Credit: National Institute of Aerospace NASA has selected eight student teams as finalists in the 2026 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, giving them the resources to help address a critical challenge for U.S. aviation: maintenance.  Challenges facing the commercial aviation industry include a shortage of qualified maintenance workers a... View Source

Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union's legacy of exploring there in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s... View Source

Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because "very few people" were using E2EE in their DMs. Instagram has begun notifying impacted users about the change inside its app, and has also posted an update to its support page, suggesting that use... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick has launched a new venture that will focus on creating “gainfully employed robots” for the food, mining and transport industries... View Source

4 min read Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder testing hardware, and a full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe are now on display inside the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum A test... View Source

Bloomberg's Michael Shepard discusses the implications of the ongoing lawsuit involving Anthropic and how the company is addressing concerns related to its supply chain and strategic positioning in the technology sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

2 min read NASA Volunteers Study Biofilm Adaptability in Space Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that stick to one another and also adhere to a nearby surface. They are intricately associated with life on Earth, enabling functions essential to human and plant systems. NASA’s Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) Analysis Working Groups study biofilms and many other biological phenomena in a... View Source

I'm not entirely sure why the Pixel 10A exists. Google hasn't upgraded the chipset, cameras, or battery in the new phone, and the tweaks it's made elsewhere are minimal at best. The flatter camera island is good, I guess! In one sense this isn't a big problem: The Pixel 9A is an excellent device, and for the last year was easily the best phone you could buy for $500 in the US. The new 10A is avail... View Source

Brian Carbaugh spent years living and traveling abroad in a variety of alias personas as a CIA officer. Now he’s fronting investor meetings and raising capital as CEO of Andesite, a Virginia-based data analytics startup, one of several recently retired spies taking their field experience from the CIA to the C-suite. Former CIA officer Brian Carbaugh, co-founder of the data analytics startup Andesi... View Source

Super Therm has been applied in several places, including handrails on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge over the Colorado River. The selection of its makeup of ceramic and polymeric materials was assisted by NASA scientists. Credit: Superior Products InternationaI II, LLC NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government... View Source

Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi with a somber UFO invasion flick this summer... View Source

Adobe says it will pay $75 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the US government alleging that the creative software giant harmed consumers by making its subscriptions intentionally hard to cancel and concealing termination fees. The payment aims to resolve the complaint raised in June 2024, in which the US Justice Department accused Adobe of breaking federal consumer protection laws by failing... View Source

Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid has laid out a path to becoming cash flow positive and it has introduced a robotaxi partnership with Uber. Lucid's CFO Taoufiq Boussaid joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon is raising the price of its ad-free Prime Video subscription and locking 4K UHD streaming behind this new tier. Starting April 10 for US customers, a rebranded Prime Video Ultra subscription will cost $5 per month, up from $3 per month. For that extra $2, you get a download capacity increase from 25 to 100, and you can now run five streams concurrently instead of three. Whether those "... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Graphics NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, invites innovative companies, government agencies, and organizations to attend Partnership Days, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, April 15 and 16, at the center. The event offers a unique opportunity to explore collaboration with NASA on... View Source

Mobile gaming has come a long way over the course of the last decade or so, but we all know that smartphones simply can’t match the visceral, tactile feel you get while playing with a dedicated controller. Luckily, Backbone makes some excellent mobile options — including last year’s Backbone Pro, which is on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target right now for $139.99 ($30 off), its second-best pric... View Source

Fintech startup Ramp is looking to crack open the European market with the acquisition of UK and Swedish-based payments platform Billhop. Ramp CEO Eric Glyman discusses the deal with Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A clump of sargassum – an invasive species of algae – floats along in the current off the short of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. NASA/Milan Loiacono NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced challenges on behalf of... View Source

Ninja’s Creami 5‑in‑1 Ice Cream lets you make everything from sorbet to smoothie bowls. | Image: Ninja If you’ve ever wanted more control over what goes into your ice cream, the Ninja Creami 5‑in‑1 Ice Cream Maker makes it easy. The ice cream maker lets you whip up dessert exactly as you want it from the comfort of your home, and right now it’s on sale for $169 ($30 off) at Walmart.  Ninja Cr... View Source

Elon Musk said he intends to rebuild his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, after a series of departures sparked uncertainty about the company’s employee turnover and trajectory... View Source

Parallels, the company best known for making the virtualization software that enables you to run Windows and other operating systems on a Mac, has confirmed that Parallels Desktop is compatible with the MacBook Neo. At launch it was unclear if Apple's new $600 laptop possessed the under-the-hood heft to run Windows apps, but in a recently updated post on its website, Parallels said that initi... View Source

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Intuitive Machines Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The image was taken on August 30, 2023, by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera). LROC is a system of three cameras and one of the seven instruments aboard NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) missi... View Source

I upgraded from the Pixel A-series buds released in 2021 to the Pixel Buds Pro 2, and two things were immediately apparent: the A-series buds have no business sounding so good for their sub-$100 price, and the Pixel Buds Pro 2 were everything I wanted in a successor. They’re even smaller and have a silicone ear fin to ensure a snug fit, but their upgraded features — better sound quality, active no... View Source

Goodwill is more than a thrift store. CEO Steven Preston joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how the nonprofit is tackling America’s labor shortage by training workers for better-paying jobs,  while also addressing a growing AI skills gap. As inflation drives more shoppers to thrift, store revenue is up nearly 50% since pre-Covid, helping fund hundreds of millions in local workforce programs... View Source

El emblema de la misión Artemis II se observa en el hombro derecho de los trajes sistema de supervivencia de la tripulación de Orion que llevarán los astronautas de la NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover y Christina Koch, así como el astronauta de la CSA (Agencia Espacial Canadiense) Jeremy Hansen, durante el vuelo de prueba de Artemis II. La imagen fue tomada el 17 de enero de 2026 en la sala de equ... View Source

Saharan dust and atmospheric filtering combined to give the moon a dramatic red hue... View Source

They may be great for fan engagement and selling ads, but the Big 12 has decided to replace the innovative glass-covered LED floors at Kansas City's T-Mobile Center with a traditional hardwood finish. It will be used for the remainder of the tournament during semifinal matches and the championship game. The LED floors, which were previously used during the 2024 NBA All-Star game at the Lucas Oil S... View Source

Veon Ltd., a Dubai-based telecommunications company, expects the Middle East conflict to raise costs, even as its expanding range of services — including digital offerings — should help cushion the impact... View Source

TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance has figured out a way to access NVIDIA's latest AI chips despite export restrictions, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company is working with a firm called Aolani Cloud and building out Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia. This should give ByteDance access to around 36,000 B200 chips. That's NVIDIA's most powerful processor... View Source

The Artemis II mission patch is seen on the right shoulder of the Orion Crew Survival System suits that NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will wear on the Artemis II test flight are seen, Jan. 17, 2026, in the suit-up room of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center i... View Source

Amazon Prime Video is raising the price of its ad-free plan in the US and adding several new features. Starting April 10th, Prime Video's ad-free tier will cost $4.99 per month instead of $2.99, and include "exclusive" access to 4K/UHD streaming. The price increase comes two years after Amazon switched all users on Prime Video - which comes as a perk with a standard Amazon Prime subscription - to... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. plans to use chips from startup Cerebras Systems Inc. alongside its own Trainium processors, a combination that the companies say will be able to better run AI software... View Source

Inevitably, the more you use something — your Mac included — the more dirty and cluttered it’s likely to become. At that point, you can buy a new machine, but the more economical move is to make what you have already work better. To help your computer feel new, or at least a little cleaner and less chaotic, we put together this guide with techniques and useful apps that have helped us maintain a m... View Source

4 Min Read GVIS Virtual Systems Simulations High-Efficiency Megawatt Motor (HEMM) Visualization Credits: NASA GVIS The Graphics and Visualization Lab (GVIS) at NASA Glenn Research Center creates a variety of immersive visualizations and simulations in support of NASA’s missions, projects, and future innovations. These visual tools help scientists, engineers, and researchers develop new solut... View Source

Here are some of the best model rocket kits for those counting down to their first blast off... View Source

On Thursday, Rivian revealed its most important vehicle to date: the R2, a midsize SUV that eventually will start at under $50,000. As a distinctive EV with an attractive sticker price, the R2 is designed to take Rivian to the next level. In fact, the company is banking on it. If they succeed, then Rivian would be well positioned to usurp Tesla's status as the most important EV company in America... View Source

Adobe Inc. will pay about $150 million to settle a complaint from US regulators that the creative software company made it too difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions... View Source

It's already smartphone season. Samsung's annual deluge encompasses three new phones for 2026: the frontier-pushing S26 Ultra ($1,300) with its innovative Privacy Screen, the S26 ($899) and the S26+ ($999). The smaller flagships, yet again, are iterative versions of what came before, with the major differences centering on bigger batteries and brighter screens. I'm getting waves of deja vu as I re... View Source

Artemis 2's launch may have been pushed back but you build your own adventure with these Lego Ideas and Lego Technic Artemis Space Launch System sets, up to 20% off in Amazon UK's Big Spring Deal sales... View Source

When you open your Peacock mobile app this summer, you might see a portal leading to the AI likeness of TV host Andy Cohen on your homepage. In an announcement on Friday, NBCUniversal said Cohen's avatar will serve as a guide through Peacock's "infinitely swipeable" feed of clips from Bravo shows, like Love Island, The Real Housewives series, and Below Deck. The feed, called "Your Bravoverse," wil... View Source

Last year, Peloton Interactive Inc. was preparing a sweeping overhaul of its equipment and software for the AI era. The plan was a suite of cool new products and features that would help it capture new customers while locking in the already faithful... View Source

Somehow, Apple made a $599 laptop that's actually a joy to use. In this episode, Devindra and Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham chat about what makes the MacBook Neo so great. And they also dive into the new M4 iPad Air, M5 MacBook Air and M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pros. Also, Roberto Baldwin, SAE International's Sustainability Editor, joins us to chat about the state of EVs today as gas prices explode.Subsc... View Source

A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space... View Source

Epic Games announced this week that Fortnite's in-game V-bucks currency would be getting more expensive with a somewhat glib statement: "The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we're raising prices to help pay the bills," the company wrote. The price hike will go into effect on March 19th, the same day the next major Fortnite season debuts, and enough users have complained about the inc... View Source

Trump’s push for $1.5 trillion defense budget could open new opportunities for AI, emerging tech... View Source

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost four years since Apple gave the MacBook Air a serious glow-up. The 2022 model was a total redesign that bumped its performance with the M2 chip and also improved a number of key components. It was also the first MacBook Air to drop the signature tapered design, and Apple added a 15-inch model one year later to boot. Since then, Apple’s primarily focused o... View Source

It’s a TriFold, alright. But I don’t trust it. I had to buy Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold from eBay for $4,399 and I'm pretty sure that's because Samsung doesn't want anyone to actually have this phone. I'm also afraid to turn it on. Not that turning it on does much good. Whenever I tap "start" to set it up, a prompt to supply a "USIM" pops up and refuses to let me progress without one. I do not trus... View Source

Disillusioned with corporate culture, a new generation of women is using social media to monetize work that has always gone unpaid. But don’t call them tradwives. Irina Anghel explores the rise of the “breadmakers." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple is lowering its developer fees in China following discussions with the Chinese regulator. From March 15, the commission rate for standard in-app purchases (IAPs) will be reduced from 30 percent to 25 percent on its mainland China App Store storefront for both iOS and iPadOS. In a Developer blog, Apple also said that developers belonging to its App Store Small Business or Mini Apps programmes... View Source

Dragonfly will explore the giant Saturn moon Titan by air, helping scientists learn about the proto-ingredients of life on the satellite's hazy surface... View Source

It was a little surprising to see Apple decide to leap fully into the affordable laptop market, to try and compete with devices the company typically prefers to just look down its nose at. It was also a little surprising to see Apple basically nail it on the first try. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a sub... View Source

A startup backed by Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz plans to revive an abandoned copper mine in Utah to test new technology aimed at automating operations... View Source

Uber’s and Motional's Hyundai Ioniq 5 autonomous EVs will start appearing as an option for riders in Las Vegas. Passengers requesting for an UberX, Uber Electric, Uber Comfort or Uber Comfort Electric ride may be matched with a Motional robotaxi. They will not be forced to take it, though, and will be notified and given the option to decline and choose a regular ride instead. But if they want... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine tonight and tomorrow as a speedy solar wind stream is due to arrive... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is relaunching a robotaxi service with the Hyundai Motor Co.-backed company Motional in Las Vegas, adding to the growing list of autonomous vehicles that are available to customers on its app... View Source

Apple's new family of laptops might have a cringeworthy name, but don't let it fool you. Despite the MacBook Neo running on a built-for-iPhone A-series processor and being limited to 8GB of RAM, it delivers on what Macs do best. It has a capable screen, keyboardand trackpadand its overall build quality should embarrass other laptop-making rivals that have compromised on those areas with... View Source