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Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? Well, we hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but a new piece from Politico makes it sure sound like that Congress is completely stumped by how to tackle AI, with over a dozen lawmakers and congressional aides venting to the newspaper about the lack of urgency on the Hill... View Source
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would we have any way of knowing it did? A team of astronomers believe that the answer to both of those questions is “yes.” Like investigators at a crime scene, a team of researchers say they’ve discovered a method to dust for “fingerprints” in the Sun to find strong evidence of planetary filicide in its pa... View Source
Oracle Corp. said on Saturday that Chairman Larry Ellison canceled his plan to sell up to 50 million shares of the company... View Source
Sylvan Esso preparing to attend a frutiger aero renfaire. Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, better known as Sylvan Esso, have been bringing their low-key electro-pop to the masses since 2014, bursting onto the scene with their self-titled debut album and the single "Hey Mami." Over the years, they've put out a number of excellent records, dabbling in dustier, more fragile textures on Free Love, going... View Source
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply means to slow the pace of training and development to give companies time to build safeg... View Source
GLP-1 weight loss drugs are changing lives in more ways than one. In a new piece for The Guardian, the newspaper’s readers share how the weight loss journey that drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro have set them down on have drastically affected their interpersonal relationships — sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. Many of the GLP-1 users seem to harbor a sense of shame,... View Source
Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG's TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the company is pushing back against those allegations, saying that "Some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work." LG released a statement in which it claims that its "... View Source
You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from their nosy pedagogues. New York Magazine interviewed some of these clever cheats in a recent piece, who are well aware that by by now, many professors are wise to students’ tricks and are changing t... View Source
Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that the artificial intelligence industry must slow the pace of development for new models, citing growing concerns about the “serious” risks to humans... View Source
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 28, 2026, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a United States Space AcademyThe proposal, which would establish a NASA-led institution set up along the lines of a... View Source
President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection Pledge" to signal that the administration is taking the environmenta... View Source
On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go to space.In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't send a woman to space until the seventh space shuttle mission in 1983. NASA launched the first Black man in space, astronaut Guion Bluford, on the following mission that same year.Women in Space: A Galle... View Source
The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ financial activity and using it as a pretext to pull them over — even if they’re not suspected of a specific crime. Predictive policing, the practice of identifying possible criminal activity by analyzing broader pattern... View Source
Raise shields and charge phasers, because we're running down the best "Star Trek" spaceships from across the galaxy.When Matt Jefferies started designing the original USS Enterprise, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry told him he didn't want to see rockets or jets propelling the ship. "I bought whatever I could find on 'Buck Rogers' and 'Flash Gordon' and pinned it up on the wall," Jefferies exp... View Source
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On Episode 227 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Michael Okuda, who with wife and others have been central to the look, feel, and substance of the Star Trek universe.Hold onto your phasers, but it's been 60 years since Star Trek's debut, and the franchise is still going strong.From the LCARS computer graphical system to alien languages to the designs and color schemes,... View Source
Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto International Film Festival - but I did manage to get an early look at and some fascinating details on one of my most anticipated films this year. Even if you don't know the name Laika, you probably know the studio's work; it's the animation house behind stop-motion hits like ParaNorman, The Boxtrol... View Source
The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space junk. Even now, it’s a considerable danger for any spacecraft that dares to orbit the Earth in a cluttered environment. According to the European Space Agency, more than 60 years of space activity have resulted in over 56,000 tracked objec... View Source
Astrophotographer Osama Fathi created this incredible view of Perseid meteors streaking through circling star trails above Egypt's Western Desert on Aug. 13-14, the night following the shower's peak under dark new-moon skies.Fathi imaged the star trails in 240 consecutive 25-second exposures, which captured the apparent motion of the stars in Earth's sky as they seemed to circle the celestial nort... View Source
Which color suits you best? | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are almost here. Announced at Apple's September 2026 "Sunrise and shine" event alongside the iPhone Duo and other new gear, the two upgraded phones feature the faster A20 Pro processor with more GPU power as well as more neural cores for AI-related tasks, plus some welcome improvements to the camera. The... View Source
The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI to imitate their inspirations — one of those inspirations being himself. In an interview with IndieWire, the 84-year-old — whose wide-ranging filmography includes 1982’s “Fitzcarraldo,” 2009’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” and 1979’s “Nosferatu the Vampyre“ — was asked abo... View Source
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI's relentless advance with growing unease. To them, th... View Source
Elon Musk’s Tesla has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to its Robotaxi autonomous ride-hailing network. The company is currently operating a fleet of just 45 of its cramped Cybercabs in Austin, Texas, still falling well short of investor and Tesla bull Dan Ives’ lofty expectations of the company adding “$1 trillion of value” for Tesla “over the coming years” with the service. And unlike th... View Source
We've been studying the moon for a long time. NASA has gathered mountains of data over decades of lunar missions and studies. The data collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) alone, for example, exceeds that of all NASA's other planetary missions combined. Analyzing all this information takes lots of time and effort from researchers. So, NASA and IBM have developed an AI model to help... View Source
Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work... View Source
As the triple-threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights take their toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. According to a new survey by polling firm Gallup, a full 47 percent of Americans now say they want unions to have more influence than they do today. That’s up from 43 percent in 2023 and a... View Source
China’s artificial intelligence industry is shifting from competition in large models and computing power toward the deployment and commercialization of AI agents, according to a report by the China Telecom Research Institute cited by China Central Television on Saturday... View Source
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A NASA NIAC project will try to Mapping Alien Continents using formation-flying optical interferometer. Two hierarchical nullers ~100 km apart that first suppress the host star by ~10¹⁰ in visible light, then combine the leftover planet light as a Michelson interferometer. That baseline gives an angular resolution of order 1 µas at 500 nm. An ... Read more... View Source
NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration–potentially up to 2 mm/s²–and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m², to support future ultra–high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond th... View Source
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Broadcom Inc.’s licensing overhaul for VMware Inc. software after its $61 billion takeover is attracting deeper scrutiny from European Union antitrust watchdogs amid concerns customers are being made to suffer... View Source
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Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc. is in advanced talks to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, according to a report from the Globe & Mail... View Source
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OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge AI. In a company-wide meeting this week, Altman told employees that OpenAI could potentially pace its AI development - perhaps even in conjunction with several other AI labs, according to sources. Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary has the scoop and joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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Oracle’s latest results helped ease concerns around its massive AI infrastructure buildout, with cloud infrastructure revenue growing 120% and the company bringing roughly 850 megawatts of new capacity online. BNP Paribas Global Head of Software Research Stefan Slowinski sees a more constructive setup as Oracle moves toward positive free cash flow, but says its upcoming Financial Analyst Day will... View Source
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Nvidia Corp. is considering investing as much as $10 billion in Anthropic PBC’s initial public offering, which could become the biggest IPO of all time, Reuters reported... View Source
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Apple may be late to the foldable smartphone market, but its first attempt is already raising the bar. Bloomberg's Chris Welch takes an early look at the $1,999 iPhone Duo, from its carefully engineered hinge and 7.6-inch inner display to a redesigned iOS experience that takes advantage of the foldable form factor. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
What has already been proven wrong about doubters think about SpaceX ? What will get proven wrong in the next 150 days. Count down of 14 SpaceX bear claims. Following the engineering into the revenue and profits. Starship’s commercial payload, booster recovery, engine reuse, AI compute hosting, and the buildout behind my forecast of $120B+ ... Read more... View Source
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As debate intensifies over the risks of advanced AI and the rapid expansion of data centers, Eclipse CEO Lior Susan venture argues the industry needs collaboration rather than a retreat to avoid ceding the US's technological lead over China. He also says the tech industry needs to do a better job explaining the benefits of data centers to local communities and how physical AI could become a major... View Source
This is the nextbigfuture GDP PPP forecast scenario, not an IMF, Anthropic, or consensus forecast. It took the Anthropic economic forecasts for their base case and their bullish case. I then aligned national data for Taiwan and other countries as of this year. I then used OpenAI GPT 6 to build the scenario where AI ... Read more... View Source
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Apple Inc.’s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts... View Source
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Rocket Lab still holds out hope that it can build NASA's next Mars orbiter.The agency picked Blue Origin for that job earlier this month, awarding Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company $700 million to develop, launch and operate the Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN).Today (Sept. 11), however, Rocket Lab announced that it has challenged that decision, filing a formal protest with the Government Accou... View Source
Oracle Corp. earnings calls this year have been missing a familiar voice: Larry Ellison’s... View Source
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Oracle Corp. increased the scale of its planned job cuts while the company grapples with a cash crunch tied to development of large-scale data centers for artificial intelligence work... View Source
Explore This Section Science Citizen Science Help Refine Data from Space… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to help missions lik... View Source
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Kalshi Inc. is filing for regulatory approval to offer the first single-stock perpetual futures in the US and is looking to expand the contracts in commodities to include agriculture, said Tarek Mansour, the company’s co-founder... View Source
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New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief." The filing says the bri... View Source
Russia and its partners in the BRICS group of countries are moving toward creating a council to coordinate cooperation in space, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov said in an interview in New Delhi... View Source
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An extraordinary exploding star has been spotted in a distant galaxy, and astrophotographers are racing to capture it before it fades from view.The supernova, called SN 2026aaiv, was first seen by the ATLAS survey on Sept. 1 in NGC 7331 (also known as Caldwell 30), a spiral galaxy about 45 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, visible in the Northern Hemisphere and at mid-latitude... View Source
Tesla’s mawkishly sleek new Cybercab has begun rolling out to Austin, Texas this week, with more sighted in cities like New York, Washington DC, and San Diego. It’s the latest development in the world of self-driving taxi cabs — and in one dubious economic indicator, the nation’s personal injury attorneys are on high alert. Case in point, the New Jersey based law firm Sarofiem and Antoun already h... View Source
As one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, Greg Jensen has seen AI development up close. Now, he's among the tech insiders more worried than ever about AI's human extinction risks. The managing CIO of Bridgewater joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how AI discourse is starting to resemble the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and why the... View Source
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US Senator Steve Daines said the US may be misjudging the sophistication of China’s technology sector... View Source
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Rocket Lab just launched a mystery mission to orbit.An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Thursday (Sept. 10) at 11:28 p.m. EDT (0328 GMT and 3:28 p.m. local New Zealand time on Sept. 11).The launched kicked off a mission the company called "Happily Ever Faster," which we know little about.'Happily Ever Faster' to orbit 🌌✨ Today we launched our 95th Electron at 3:28 p... View Source
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Oracle's latest results and how they are helping ease concerns around the company's massive AI infrastructure buildout. Plus, the debate around AI's societal risks and the backlash against the global data center build-out grow louder. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, make... View Source
The new AirPods 5 in their charging case. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The Apple AirPods 5 are bringing active noise cancellation to the masses, and they're now available for preorder at a variety of retailers. They'll officially launch on September 18th, the same day as the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, as well as the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. There are two versions this tim... View Source
Months after China’s Intermediate People’s Court ruled against a company using AI to liquidate an employee’s position, the country’s highest judicial body has come out with another whopper: a massive crackdown on AI deepfakes. In a new ruling on Monday, China’s Supreme People’s Court — the top judicial organ in the country — issued new guidance on how judges in lower courts should handle civil iss... View Source
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity to help overcome a computing shortage that has forced it to turn away some AI and cloud business. Bloomberg's Brody Ford joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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The Star Trek franchise has hit the ripe old age of 60 this week. September 8 is the official 'Star Trek Day' and marks the anniversary of the 'Original Series', which first broadcast in 1966. For fans of all things Star Trek, Paramount+ is the place to be with all seasons of the 'Original Series', plus the new series 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds', which is currently in Season 4 and hits its exc... View Source
Frank Shaw in 2025. | Image: Microsoft Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer. In an internal note to his team, Shaw says he's "decided it is time for me to move on and try new things," after supporting Microsoft's communications for 29 years - nearly 20 years as a Microsoft employee plus time at the Waggener Edstrom agency (now We. Communications) before th... View Source
Anthropic PBC uncovered a group in northern Yemen — where Iran-backed Houthi militants operate — using its Claude AI model to support the development of missile and rocket systems, highlighting growing concerns over the use of advanced AI in military programs and by non-state actors... View Source
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and J. Major Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096 system. This and several other images of both visually and scientifically interesting galaxies were released by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. Chandra X-ray data... View Source
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After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies' systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models' single-minded "recklessness" - and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. In Anthropic's report, it detailed... View Source
Tesla’s flashy gold Cybercabs are rolling out to the streets of Austin, their butterfly doors glowing under the Texas Sun. The city’s firefighters, however, have one small quibble with the new self-driving vehicle: there’s no steering wheel. In an interview with NBC, Austin Fire Department chief Matthew McElearney expressed concerns that the Cybercab’s manual controls are tied to the on-board touc... View Source
India’s central bank should explore greater adoption of its wholesale and retail central bank digital currencies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Friday... View Source
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Two days after being placed on a paid leave of absence, Matt Mullenweg says he has been reinstated as CEO of Automattic, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. As 404 Media reported on Wednesday, Mullenweg had told staff in Slack that CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with the board of directors, who voted to "put me on a paid leave of absence." (Mullenweg said he voted against that.) He also... View Source
Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely. As a recent Futurism investigation found, many Facebook accounts have been flooding the platform with horrid videos depicting violent child abuse, and Meta appears to be woefully unprepared — and downright unwilling, judging by its ambiguously-phrased policies — to do anything meaningful about it. At the sa... View Source
Microsoft Corp. plans to more than triple its data center capacity to help overcome a computing shortage that has forced it to turn away some AI and cloud business. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, provided to The New York Times by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, is at odds with the user counts from some of the biggest social media platforms on the web. Data gathered by Search Engine Land shows YouTube is the most popular platform in the world... View Source
NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it's clear that the space agency wants to move quickly in establishing the institution. According to the document's timeline, NASA seeks a groundbreaking for a permanent campus no later than next year, the first class to be enrolled and begin studies in temporary facilities in 2028,... View Source
Nscale Global Holdings appointed former OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. executive Fidji Simo to its board as the data center startup bolsters its ranks of directors ahead of an initial public offering... View Source
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Our star and primary energy source that makes life on this planet possible may also be a cosmic cannibal. That's according to new research that suggests the sun may have swallowed a super-Earth planet billions of years ago in its early history. And our star may still be hiding the evidence.The scientists behind this research think that the fingerprints of this violent consumption of a planet may s... View Source
You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple's first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple's CEO. On The Vergecast today, we're talking all about Apple's launch event: how John Ternus did in his first appearance as CEO, what we make of the new iPhones, and whether Apple is stepping into dangerous territory with its new AI features on... View Source
A record jump in the price of cellular phone services helped tip a key measure of US inflation above forecasts, likely sealing the deal for a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next week... View Source
Poynting crater and Keeler crater are visible side by side in the lower right portion of this image of the Moon’s far side highlands. Poynting, positioned above, is a large impact crater with a well-defined rim and relatively smooth interior, indicative of material that has settled following the initial impact. Just below it, Keeler crater appears slightly smaller, with a sharply outlined rim and... View Source
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Just a couple of weeks before Meta Connect starts on September 23rd, UploadVR posted images seemingly revealing the design for Meta's "Project Phoenix" headset. The images, which UploadVR says were "found in the HorizonOS Prescription Lens firmware package," suggest Meta may be looking to compete with devices like those from Xreal or Viture. These companies' mixed reality glasses are a bit bulkier... View Source
Does Elon Musk, who claims to be so smart that chess bores him, understand what the Streisand effect is? We’re skeptical, because he’s now threatening to sue the Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney over his new documentary about the controversial business magnate — which Musk has been fuming is a “hit piece.” The film, simply titled “Musk,” is a four hour examination of the centibillionaire’s life... View Source
As the AI boom continues, America's legal system finds itself grappling with cases where chatbots act as lawyers, witnesses or even allegedly help plan a mass shooting. Bloomberg Businessweek contributor Evan Ratliff joins Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin on the Everybody's Business podcast to discuss how US courts are dealing with AI's involvement in crimes. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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To boldly dress as no one has dressed before… In another universe, that could have been the "Star Trek" mission statement. Sure, the veteran franchise has spent much of its 60-year lifetime seeking out new life and new civilisations, but it's also been preoccupied with keeping crews fashionable as they explore the final frontier. It seems that nobody wants to make first contact sporting last year'... View Source
On September 6th, YouTuber Nicholas Light posted a video to one of his channels that made it seem like all of his content was about to be removed from the platform. In the video - ominously titled "My Channel will be Deleted Today" - Light alleges that he was on the receiving end of some of the "thousands upon thousands of false copyright strikes" recently initiated by a company called Remove Your... View Source
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Anker’s Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro came out swinging in May with incredible call quality, something that competing ear buds have struggled to get right. They’ve become part of our reviewer John Higgins’ rotation of earbuds for more than just taking calls; The Liberty 5 Pro have fantastic audio once you make some tweaks in their app, and they stand out thanks to an IP55 rating and LDAC high-res audio... View Source
At this point, if you’re not using personal access to political power to run billion-dollar crypto scams, you’re seriously missing out. Previously, it was the Trump dynasty cashing in, using the family name to rake in over $1 billion off the backs of gullible crypto bros. Now, it’s former president Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose memecoin $LAPTOP is following the tell-tale signs of a cyrpto rug pull... View Source
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A dune field on Mars, as seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)Are those purple, wavy, alien thumbprints? Or perhaps an otherworldly ocean? Nope! It's actually a dune field on Mars, colored purple.What is it?Across the Martian surface are all sorts of unique features in the rocky, dusty surface material. In this false-color image, snapped by... View Source
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should have prompted the individual with questions like that." Last... View Source
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That isn't Apple's former CEO promoting the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in a new Samsung ad - "Tim Cook from Palmerston North" just happens to have the same name and look a lot like him. Released right as Apple announced its iPhone Duo, the ad mimics Apple's cinematic product launch videos, with "Tim Cook" saying "the future is here." Samsung also takes a jab at Apple's Tim Cook with a reference to his recent... View Source
It’s no secret that car owners have handed an immense amount of control over their vehicles to software. From infuriating touchscreens and convoluted user interfaces, to advanced — albeit flawed — driver assistance programs, we’ve never been more removed from the actual driving experience. The situation become particularly harrowing for Sydney native Narghiza Ergashova, who watched helplessly as h... View Source
US schools across the nation are curbing their use of technology amid mounting parental concerns. This is happening as districts look to boost enrollment and cut costs while grappling with a dwindling pool of students... View Source
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A pair of private spacecraft just showed off some impressive maneuverability high above Earth.The two probes — Mira satellites operated by the California startup Impulse Space — zoomed within 650 feet (200 meters) of each other in low Earth orbit (LEO) recently. The rendezvous demonstrated skills that could be useful to a variety of customers down the road, according to the company."These types of... View Source
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Anthropic says it stopped several instances of foreign scientists using its AI agents to create possible biological weapons, the New York Times reports. The alarming news was revealed in a lengthy report released by the Claude chatbot-maker on Thursday. Notably, it comes amid heightened AI safety concerns after a former Anthropic employee accused the company of irresponsibly building powerful AI s... View Source
Anthropic PBC says its artificial intelligence model Claude has been misused in attempts to develop a wide range of potential military applications, including kamikaze drone swarms, missile navigation systems and biological weapons... View Source
The Vikings beat Columbus to North America by centuries, but identifying the exact year is proving much harder. A surge of carbon-14 could help... View Source
Frank Culbertson had a birds-eye view of one of the most memorable and tragic events in American history.The NASA astronaut was the only American off of Earth on Sept. 11, 2001. He was circling the planet aboard the International Space Station (ISS) when terrorists flew commercial jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing more than 2,700 people.The ISS passed ov... View Source
Water intake towers at the Hoover Dam stand next to a bleached "bathtub ring" on the banks of Lake Mead on September 1st in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona. The reservoir has hit historic lows as the Colorado River experiences unprecedented drought. | Photo: Getty Images Arizona, an epicenter for the bipartisan push to revive American chip manufacturing, is about to lose more than a qu... View Source
This episode of Bloomberg Tech: Europe looks at how technology is reshaping healthcare, with the goal of helping us live longer, healthier lives. From wearables and continuous blood pressure monitoring to full-body scans, Tom Mackenzie explores how new tools are giving us an unprecedented view inside our bodies. We ask whether better data, earlier detection and AI can shift medicine from treating... View Source
Welcome to Edition 9.10 of the Rocket Report! This week we're celebrating a historic moment in Europe when a German rocket company successfully put its launch vehicle into orbit. Isar Aerospace became the first purely commercial European company to reach orbit, and impressively it did so on just its second launch attempt. How quickly can they scale up operations? How quickly will the second Europe... View Source
The company plans to triple the size of its data center fleet by 2032... View Source
Jase Parnell-Brookes has reviewed a huge range of skywatching optics, including the best telescopes, binoculars and image-stabilized binoculars. As our trusted authority and expert tester, when they recommend a product and you're in the market for it, their opinions and recommendations are worth paying attention to.In their Nikon Stabilized 12x25 binoculars review, Jase reckoned they were without... View Source
I saw the Luna Pro briefly at the IFA trade show, and it looks and feels a lot like the Ultra. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge Insta360's first compact steadicam, the Luna Ultra, made a splash this year by beating DJI to launch with two lenses. Now it's followed the Ultra with a slightly stripped back Pro model, which drops to one lens but has a unique advantage: it can shoot vertical video i... View Source
CEO Sam Altman hopes that other companies will do the same... View Source
Moonshot AI is targeting a manifold jump in annualized revenue to $2 billion by the end of the year, using the breakout success of its Kimi K3 model to dial up the heat on rivals from Anthropic PBC to Z.AI Co... View Source
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a brand new type of an otherwise familiar object – compact binary systems that steal gas from other stars, but which do so while emitting very low-energy X-rays but copious amounts of ultraviolet.Chandra spotted 84 suspicious object emitting very low-energy X-rays in six galaxies – four evolved ellipticals and two spirals, namely our near-neighbor the And... View Source
John Ternus, Apple CEO, holds an iPhone Duo at the launch event. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple was far from the first company to announce a passport-shaped folding phone this year, but that doesn't mean it wasn't copied. As my colleague Dom Preston already explained, it's almost impossible to keep product development secret when Apple and its competitors all share the same global suppliers. A... View Source
Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc. is poised to offer improved remedies to allay European Union concerns over its planned €2.2 billion ($2.6 billion) takeover of Ceconomy AG, the bloc’s biggest electronics retailer... View Source
BRICS finance chiefs and central bank governors on Friday reiterated calls for urgent reform of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to give emerging and developing economies a greater say in the two institutions... View Source
Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund's AI strategy. As an early adopter of the technology, he has a lot of thoughts on where things stand right now in terms of model capability and safety, as well as the broader economic impacts of AI. Just recently, he published an o... View Source
OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, with CEO Sam Altman hoping other AI companies will do the same. In recent weeks, employees of leading firms have raised public concerns about the increased risks of advanced AI systems. Bloomberg Intelligence's Matthew Bloxham breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. has fewer than 900 employees, one major customer, and has never turned a profit since the Chinese computer chip manufacturer began in 2018... View Source
Adobe Inc. gave an outlook for sales that narrowly missed analysts’ estimates, adding fuel to concerns that artificial intelligence upstarts are hurting the software maker’s business... View Source
Today on the Big Take: A recent hacking incident and a strongly-worded warning from a researcher have invited new scrutiny on the AI industry... View Source
Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Riot Games, maker of the popular video games League of Legends and Valorant, has discussed esports sponsorship deals with two of the leading prediction market operators, Kalshi and Polymarket, according to people with knowledge of the conversations... View Source
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 11 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. M83: The Southern Pinwheel Explanation: Beautiful and bright spi... View Source
Flipkart-owned digital payments platform Super.money is rolling out artificial intelligence agents that can autonomously shop for products and buy gold, betting that the technology can help it stand out from larger rivals... View Source
Japan’s Digital Agency said it suffered unauthorized access to its servers and personal data on about 246,000 people may have leaked... View Source
Micron Technology Inc. is set to provide its engineers in Taiwan a cash bonus of NT$1 million ($31,600) plus equity rewards, as the company’s local unions are demanding additional payout to reflect their contribution to the chipmaker’s blowout profits... View Source
South Korea is tightening its defenses against industrial espionage with a revised law on spying taking effect this weekend, as the home of global chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. seeks to safeguard advanced memory technology from increasingly formidable Chinese rivals... View Source
Tokyo-based startup MW Inc. is offering homes with built-in robotic housekeeping arms, a counter to a global embrace of humanoids... View Source
OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, with CEO Sam Altman hoping other AI companies will do the same. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
The yen’s surge is putting the carry trade back in focus, raising questions about whether a bigger unwind could dent the rally in global stocks... View Source
Shanghai Enflame Technology Co., backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., is set to begin trading in Shanghai Friday after raising about 6.12 billion yuan ($911m), as the last of the so-called “four little dragons” of leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmakers enters the public market... View Source
OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and the ChatGPT maker’s Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is hoping that other AI companies will do the same... View Source
Shortages forced the company to turn away some AI and cloud business. Now it’s planning for 38 gigawatts of data center capacity to meet demand... View Source
Rishi Jaluria, RBC Capital Markets software equity research managing director, reacts to Oracle’s first-quarter earnings. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Jaluria also says the overall AI trade is more durable than the market is giving it credit for right now. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Ashwini Kumar Tewari, managing director at the State Bank of India says that corporate spending on new-age industries such as data centers is emerging as a key driver. Tewari speaks exclusively with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Thoma Bravo has begun making concessions to lenders in a bid to refinance the debt of cybersecurity firm Sophos, marking the private equity firm’s latest effort to assuage creditors concerned about AI disruption... View Source
AirTrunk, a data center operator owned by Blackstone Inc., is in talks with banks to borrow about S$2 billion ($1.6 billion) to help finance the public listing of a real estate investment trust backed by its assets, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source
Constance Schwartz-Morini, cofounder and CEO of SMAC Entertainment, joins the program to discuss how the business of sports has shifted from simple endorsement deals to the “athlete as an enterprise” model. Schwartz-Morini notes that athletes once viewed a Nike or Wheaties deal as the peak of commercial success, but now many can generate income through owned media, consumer brands, licensing, and... View Source
Credit: NASA The Republic of Djibouti will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 11 a.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 14, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 72nd country signatory. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Ambassador of Djibouti to the United States Mohamed Siad Douale for the ceremony, together with U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for African Affairs... View Source
Weather emergencies happen in every season. Here are our top picks for radios to stay on top of what’s happening... View Source
A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will use AI to gather information from relevant conversations and connected apps, like Google Drive or Salesforce, to create it. Once Slackbot creates a Surface,... View Source
If Anthropic’s leaders are truly frightened by existential risk, they should do more to reconcile the strange logic that propels them, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
3 Min Read NASA’s Life-Saving Technology Where Cell Signals Can’t Go Rescued after more than four hours in the water, Easton Barrett (center, red shorts) and his friend were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard thanks to a personal locator beacon (PLB). The devise sends a distress signal to satellites that are relayed back to Earth, launching a rescue operation. Credits: Easton Barrett Memorial Day w... View Source
Oracle Corp. reports fiscal first-quarter earnings of $1.92 per share topping estimates. Sales rose 30% to $19.3 billion. Bloomberg's Romaine Bostick has the numbers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
President Donald Trump presents an executive order establishing the United States Space Academy during an event to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew as Michael Kratsios, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, left; Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, third from left; and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, right, applaud, Fri... View Source
Catch (and build) ‘em all... View Source
Oracle Corp. reported growth in its cloud computing business that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting the company’s large AI data center projects are helping boost its financial results... View Source
Christmas came early!... View Source
On clear September evenings, I often find myself looking up just after dusk, expecting the sky to feel a little less like summer. Yet there, still commanding the overhead darkness, are Vega, Altair, and Deneb — the three brilliant stars of the famous Summer Triangle. Their familiar pattern can make the season feel as though it is lingering above us, even as cooler nights and earlier sunsets sugges... View Source
While the strengthening El Niño helped boost temperatures, climate change is the main culprit for making August so hot... View Source
The company’s $1,999-and-up foldable handset makes a strong first impression... View Source
Most families say the same thing too late. They wanted to know their grandparents better. They wanted the stories while the person was still in the room. Then the person is gone, and what is left is three anecdotes and a box of unlabeled photos. The point is not a prettier keepsake. It is to ... Read more... View Source
Apple’s newest devices are about to drop, which means existing models may be the smartest buy... View Source
It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the narrative AI companies are pitching schools on right now, but according to New York Times education technology reporter Natasha Singer, it's... View Source
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for a famous unsolved problem in mathematics by using a swarm of advanced AI agents. But the occasion quickly unraveled into an explosive scandal, with mathematicians accusing the company of stealing their work. OpenAI’s purported solution was for one of the so-called Navier-Stokes equations, which mathematically describe how fluids, rangin... View Source
Deepwater Asset Management Managing Partner and co-founder Gene Munster says Apple's foldable iPhone Duo will eventually make up 10% of all iPhone sales. He says the higher price point won't keep customers away. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
As wealthy tech companies scramble to reach early adopters, two tech podcasters are nearing a deal that could be worth up to $5 million a year... View Source
LINK, the satellite sent to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift Observatory, may have had to give up on its mission, but LINK's manufacturer and operator Katalyst Space hasn't completely abandoned the spacecraft to its cosmic demise.NASA called off LINK's mission to rendezvous with its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory when the specialized probe encountered a thruster control issue. LINK was delivered to... View Source
The Apple iPhone Duo features a passport-style folding hinge. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple's foldable phone is finally here - well, almost. The iPhone Duo, coming October 23rd, follows in the footsteps of past folding devices from Android phone makers like Samsung, OnePlus, and Google, with a $1,999 price tag that sits just above the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 8. Whi... View Source
With his approval ratings in the gutter, US president Donald Trump is cooking up another cash advance for the American people, and it’s a doozy. At the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas — which is really more of a MAGA pep rally than a legitimate party assembly — President Trump promised that “if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate,... View Source
Brazilian identity verification company Unico agreed to acquire an Argentine competitor as part of its broader expansion in Latin America... View Source
The Bom Jesus set sail in March 1533, but it wrecked before it could return with its riches. Those riches took almost 500 years to resurface... View Source
On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA's GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! GRAIL, which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, was sent to the moon to map its gravitational fields. Scientists could study the moon's interior structure by looking at maps of the moon's gravity. Asteroid impacts from billions of years ago left dense pockets of material under the lunar surface, which c... View Source
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day, everyone. And Hi, Nilay. Nilay is here too. He is the person who hosts the show, and his name is also in the show. So it mak... View Source
It’s no exaggeration to say that if you own an LG smart TV, it might be spying on you. The widely respected computer hardware experts at the YouTube channel Gamers Nexus found that the company’s boob tubes and pricey OLEDs can scan your Wi-Fi network to search for the devices you own, secretly record audio logs of your conversations using built-in microphones, and keep tabs on what you’re watching... View Source
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses Apple's iPhone Duo with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, from its anticipated reception with consumers to what it means for Apple's new era under CEO John Ternus. Plus, the AI chip race is moving to inference. And, Elon Musk's Boring Co. reaches a $23 billion valuation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
A football floats in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, high above the Earth.Credit: NASA Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency will soon bring America’s strengths in space exploration and aeronautics innovation to the football field. NASA will conduct flyovers, astronaut appearances, and fan engagement at NFL games across the... View Source
The iPhone Duo was the unequivocal star of Apple's "Surprise and shine" event, but not for people who were mostly paying attention for news on wearables. Thankfully, Apple had a lot to share about its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. There's no update to the SE model for 2026, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (the SE 3 rules). Also, no price changes either, which can't be said for the ent... View Source
Elon Musk is reportedly “freaking out” over a new documentary by documentarian and investigative journalist Alex Gibney. And by all accounts, there might be a good reason for why Musk is lashing out at Gibney, calling his work a “hit piece” and “boring af.” The four-hour documentary, which had its world premiere today at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week, featured interviews with Musk’s f... View Source
Cybersecurity is the next big market for artificial intelligence, with advances in the technology set to disrupt an industry geared to defending computer systems, said Nvidia Corp. co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang... View Source
Marvel's Wolverine captures just how angry its lead character is. The latest PS5 exclusive from Spider-Man developer Insomniac, Wolverine is a straightforward action game that is at its best when you're (literally) slicing through enemies or thrust into a sequence pulled from a blockbuster movie, like climbing the fuselage of a plane as it careens toward land or racing a motorcycle across rain-sli... View Source
Nvidia is embracing the rise of custom AI chips as demand shifts toward specialized systems built for inference. d-Matrix CEO Sid Sheth discusses the startup’s new partnership with Nvidia, which will integrate its inference-focused XPUs with Nvidia GPUs using NVLink Fusion, and why inference is emerging as the next major battleground in AI compute. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source:... View Source
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan A brilliant concentration of stars takes center stage in this Aug. 11, 2026, image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb observed IRS 3, a star near the end of its life cycle, located within this starfield. Webb’s mid-infrared data revealed the clear signature of oxygen-rich silicate dust, as well as, for... View Source
Using this method showed “the largest improvement in memory” anyone has ever found, according to one expert... View Source
Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is fast and capable. | Image: The Verge Looking to take full advantage of your 4K television, but your current streaming stick doesn’t have the right features? Through September 13th, you can grab an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K from Woot for just $16.09 when you use the coupon code FIRE30 at checkout. With support for Wi-Fi 6 and 2GB of memory, it’s fast enough for streaming... View Source