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Tinder announced a handful of new app updates — including several AI-powered features — marking its latest attempt to reinvigorate the brand for the crucial Gen Z audience... View Source

Bumble is testing an AI dating assistant called "Bee" that it hopes will get users on dates without them having to swipe through profiles, Bloomberg writes. The company announced the AI assistant during its fourth quarter earnings, and intends to use the AI in a new experience it calls "Dates."When a user opts in to Bumble's Dates feature, Bee performs an onboarding chat w... View Source

Loot boxes like the virtual card packs featured in EA’s FC franchise will soon be taken into consideration for PEGI age ratings. | Image: EA The Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) body previously assigned its age ratings based on the presence of sex, drugs, violence, bad language, and fear. Now it's adding four new options that tie age suitability to interactive features, like rating games that... View Source

For the past few years, the largest US technology companies have been in a costly race to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems while at the same time providing computing power to a burgeoning field of startups. To chase these goals, they have radically changed how they finance their growth. Long reliant on rich revenues and share price increases, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms... View Source

It’s already been a busy year for high-profile Microsoft departures, with longtime Xbox chief Phil Spencer bowing out last month alongside his expected successor Sarah Bond. Today it’s the turn of Microsoft's head of Experiences + Devices, Rajesh Jha, who leaves after more than 35 years at the company. Jha, who oversaw some of Microsoft’s most important products and services, including Windows, Of... View Source

Facebook Marketplace is adding a bunch of new AI-powered tools that are supposed to make selling items on the platform a little more efficient. One feature will use Meta AI to automatically respond to those annoying "Is this still available?" messages. You can toggle on the auto-reply option when creating a listing, and Meta AI will draft an editable response to any questions related to availabili... View Source

Shares of PayPay Corp. jumped 19% in its trading debut Thursday after the digital payments firm’s $879.8 million US IPO, the biggest listing for a Japanese company on a US stock exchange in a decade... View Source

Amazon just unveiled a new personality type for Alexa+. The "sassy" option is reserved for adults and the company claims it will throw out censored curse words from time to time. Amazon describes this option as a combination of "unfiltered personality" and "razor-sharp wit, playful sarcasm and occasional censored profanity." We aren't yet sure how the chatbot han... View Source

This pair of images shows stars observed Feb. 6, 2026, by the SPARCS space telescope simultaneously in the near-ultraviolet, left, and far-ultraviolet, right. The fact that one star is seen in the far-UV while multiple are seen in near-UV offers insights into the temperatures of these stars, with the one visible in both colors being the hottest.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU With the first images from the s... View Source

A photo captures Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL freighter being jettisoned away from the International Space Station carrying thousands of pounds of garbage, headed for a fiery demise... View Source

Between March Madness and the Oscars, now might be a good time to improve your TV setup. Google’s TV Streamer 4K is currently on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, Target, and Walmart, which is its second-best price to date and only $5 more than its all-time low. As a streaming device, it’s terrific. Getting started is easy; it took us only about 10 minutes to set up, and the Google Home app eve... View Source

Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary speaks at an event for subscribers in Washington, DC on March 11. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ukraine's four-year war with Russia has made it the world leader in battlefield drone technology. One byproduct of that is that the data it collects has become one of the country's most valuable assets. On Thursday, Ukraine played that card, saying it will begin sharing its battlefield data with allies to train drone AI software."In modern warfare, we must defeat Russia in every technological cycl... View Source

1 min read Help Galaxy Zoo: Tidal Tales Open Cosmic Storybook Galaxies carry the imprints of past encounters. When they pass near one another or collide, gravity pulls their stars into long tails, thin streams, and faint shells – features that preserve the history of these dramatic events. Thanks to deep, high-resolution images from the Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) missio... View Source

Computers ordering cappuccinos. A couple of weeks ago, Google and Samsung announced a big Gemini development coming to their newest devices: task automation. Starting with food delivery and rideshare apps, Gemini would be able to use certain apps on your behalf in a virtual window to take care of things like ordering dinner or getting a car to the airport - all based on simple prompts. You know, a... View Source

While struggling to log into their work computers this week, some employees of the medical technology company Stryker Corp., were met by an unfamiliar black-and-white cartoon figure: the logo of a shadowy pro-Iranian hacking group... View Source

After spending many years as the public face of Overwatch, Jeff Kaplan stayed well out of the limelight after leaving Blizzard in 2021. Five years later, the former Blizzard vice president and Overwatch lead director is back with his own studio and a new game, which you might be able to play pretty soon.The Legend of California is billed as an open-world, action-survival shooter. It looks like a m... View Source

Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral galaxy is named NGC 5134, and it’s located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, im... View Source

NASA is canceling the AXIS X-ray space telescope mission concept, saying it failed to meet key requirements. But the project leader thinks there's another reason... View Source

Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than in its side panel. As an example, Anthropic says a conversation about the periodic table could lead Claude to generate a visualiz... View Source

The impact of artificial intelligence on the software industry will not be severe enough to cause a sector wide wave of credit rating downgrades, S&P Global Ratings said... View Source

Honda has announced it is canceling three electric vehicles it was months from starting production on at its EV Hub in Ohio. The Honda 0 SUV, the Honda 0 sedan and the Acura RSX are all being wound down. The company showed off all three models, and touted them as in near-production form at CES 2025. Unlike the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX, which run on GM's Ultium platform, the scrapped models wer... View Source

Here's how to clean your camera sensor to get a crisp picture every time... View Source

Free-to-play titles like GorillaTag are popular with young teens with little disposable income. | Image: Another Axiom Inc. This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. "It is a pretty rough time for the game industry." Meta Reality Labs director of games Chris Pruett did not min... View Source

Anna Wong of Bloomberg Economics talks about how AI and innovation will impact job markets at an event for subscribers in Washington, DC on March 11. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool it claims can help make sense of your medical records, health history and fitness data from wearables, should you grant it access to that information. The company said it will be in a "separate, secure space" in the Copilot app and that the idea is to help provide you with more context and insights so you can ask your doctor the right quest... View Source

The Yachance Night Light star projector is a geared firmly towards children... View Source

Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of Microsoft's experiences and devices group, is retiring after more than 35 years at the software giant. Jha was a big part of the team that helped move Microsoft's Office suite to the cloud, and has recently been overseeing Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows, Office, and more. "After 35+ years at Microsoft, I am moving into retirement," says Jha in an internal me... View Source

Private credit may be heading for a shakeout. Mark Benedetti, the Executive President at Ardian, breaks down rising stress in the market, heavy exposure to software, and whether today’s risks echo 2008. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about why AI could create both big winners and painful losers — and the rising importance of diversification and discipline. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google has announced that GFiber is merging with Astound Broadband, in an agreement that sees Astound’s parent company Stonepeak become the majority owner, with Alphabet retaining a minority stake. No financial specifics were detailed in a press release, but the new combined business will be an independent provider led by GFiber’s executive team, who Google says will use its "expertise in high-spe... View Source

Download PDF: Efficient Large Displacement/Large Rotation Dynamic Simulations Using Nonlinear Dynamic Substructures Utilizing reduced-order dynamic math models (DMM) in linear system-level dynamic analyses is a well-known practice that enables extreme computational efficiencies. But what about nonlinear system dynamics? Reduced-order DMMs have found their way into contact dynamics. The engineer mu... View Source

Farewell, Honda Zero. We never knew thee. Honda is cancelling its Zero Series SUV and Saloon, as well as the Acura RSX EVs, citing an "extremely challenging earnings situation." The Japanese automaker, which unsuccessfully tried to merge with Nissan last year, said it expected to make a net loss of ¥360 billion (~$2.5 billion) to ¥630 billion (~$4.4 billion) in the full year ending this mo... View Source

Brent crude oil is trading near $100 as the IEA says this is the largest supply disruption ever in the history of the global oil market. Bloomberg's Alaric Nightingale reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The first season of a TV show is a tricky thing. It has to convince people to watch it and justify the show’s existence to the network (or streaming service) execs. It has to deal with actors and writers who may not have fully dialed into the characters and world yet. There are some shows with absolutely stellar first seasons — Stranger Things, Veronica Mars and Ted Lasso are a few — but many othe... View Source

It’s pretty easy to get an affordable phone case that looks good, no matter the device you have. Yet, that doesn’t stop some companies from selling theirs for about the same cost as a dinner for two. Well, thanks to Woot, we now have a wider selection of affordable phone cases to choose from, with a huge catalog of price-slashed models from Speck, OtterBox, and more made for a range of devices. It... View Source

Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie speaks to Jarad Cannon, Chief Technology Officer of Humanoid at Citi's flagship EMEA tech conference in London about the UK-based AI and Robotics firm's progress toward real commercial uses for humanoid robots. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It’s not just the major social platforms that know how effective an endless scroll of short videos is at hijacking your dopamine system. Disney+ is adding Verts, a selection of short vertical clips you can scroll through to keep your brain chemistry happy when you are in the bathroom so inclined. The company says it’s a “dynamic feed” to help users “quickly find their next favorite watch,” letting... View Source

The impetus for establishing a "Lunar Surface Moon Base" is that America is in a space race with China... View Source

Though many AI boosters have convinced themselves that the technology can spit out films and television series whole cloth, claims of Hollywood being cooked feel very premature when you see what people are making with the most popular image/video models on the market. Models like Sora, Veo, and Runway just do not seem all that great for entertainment production. But we're starting to see more AI f... View Source

Cambricon Technologies Corp. reported its first-ever annual profit after Beijing encouraged China’s leading artificial intelligence developers to adopt locally made chips given restrictions on Nvidia Corp... View Source

Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago... View Source

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it's launching Copilot Health, a "separate, secure space" in Copilot for asking questions about lab results and medical records, searching for providers, analyzing data from wearables, and other health-related chats. The feature will have a phased rollout, so it won't be available to everyone immediately, but users can join a waitlist to get access. Microsoft s... View Source

Swedish startup Lovable has hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue, as companies and users flock to artificial intelligence tools that make it easy for beginners to code... View Source

In recent weeks, Google has been busy adding AI features to all of its most popular apps. Following Gmail and Chrome, Maps is now the latest service to get a Gemini makeover, with a redesign of the driving experience headlining the update.       Google is billing the new "Immersive Navigation" mode as the most significant update to driving directions in... View Source

Google is continuing to weave Gemini into the firmament of its most-used products. Today, it announced that Google Maps was getting a new AI-powered "Ask Maps" feature that allows for "complex, real-world questions" with highly detailed, personalized responses. In the past, Google Maps would struggle with hyper-specific questions like "where can I charge my phone without having to wait in line for... View Source

Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, underscoring an escalating bet the tech industry is making on artificial intelligence... View Source

JBL just released two new pairs of headphones in its pre-existing Live line. There's the over-ear Live 780NC and the on-ear Live 680NC. Both sets of headphones have similar specs, despite the difference in design. The biggest news here is likely the battery life. They max out at 80 hours per charge with regular use, which is a fantastic metric. This shrinks to 50 hours when using ANC, but tha... View Source

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas... View Source

Perplexity wants to be more than just an answer engine. On Wednesday, it launched Personal Computer, a new AI agent tool that can turn a spare Mac into a locally run AI system, pitching it as "a digital proxy for you." Personal Computer will run 24/7 on a dedicated device on your local network, have full access to your files and apps, and be controllable from anywhere and on any device, Perplexity... View Source

US equity futures fall and oil briefly tops $100 a barrel as Iran escalated attacks on parts of Dubai, causing disruption in shipping. The Trump administration begins the first of several sweeping trade investigations that sets the stage for new tariffs. Max Kettner of HSBC discusses the market uncertainty as geopolitical risks mount. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie speaks with Deel President & CFO... View Source

Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie speaks to Deel President and CFO Joe Kauffman at the DisrupTech conference in London on the company's growth and how the AI changes in the labor market are helping their business. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Uber has teamed up with UK self-driving car startup Wayve and Nissan to launch a pilot program for a robotaxi service in Tokyo in late 2026. The program will use Nissan Leaf EVs powered by Wayve’s AI Driver automated vehicle technology, which will then be connected to Uber’s platform. Trained drivers will be behind the wheel at first, as the deployed vehicles gather real-world data to be able to n... View Source

The DJI Mini 5 Pro is the best sub-250g drone ever made and now $500 off at Amazon; this Fly More Combo bundle packs in extra batteries, an LCD remote and more!... View Source

This marks Iran’s first significant cyberattack against the US since the war started. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images US medical equipment provider Stryker said its global networks were disrupted by a cyberattack on Wednesday, allegedly carried out by a hacking group linked to Iran. The attack impacted Stryker's internal Microsoft environment and deleted information from devices,... View Source

Big Tech’s power across the full chain of AI technologies is under scrutiny for possible competition distortions, according to the European Union’s antitrust chief... View Source

NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live... View Source

Our sun and a host of "solar twins" may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life... View Source

India plans to unveil a more than 1 trillion rupee ($10.8 billion) fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, advancing its ambitious bid to become a global manufacturing hub... View Source

US self-driving startup Nuro, which is backed by the likes of NVIDIA, Toyota and Uber, has started testing its autonomous vehicles on Tokyo's challenging streets, Bloomberg reported. The company, which plans to launch a robotaxi service with Uber and Lucid in San Francisco this year, will be testing a "handful" of vehicles in the city. Human safety drivers will be at the wheel, as i... View Source

PixVerse has raised $300 million in fresh funding, people familiar with the matter said, elevating the startup backed by China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to unicorn status as the race to dominate AI-generated video intensifies... View Source

Finnish satellite intelligence company Iceye Oy is on track to grow revenue to more than €1 billion ($1.2 billion) next year as a raft of government orders allows it to ramp up production... View Source

Munich Re’s asset manager MEAG plans to double investments in infrastructure debt, as it increasingly targets new markets such as Canada and explores smaller financing opportunities... View Source

Michelle Volz, a former partner in the American Dynamism team at Andreessen Horowitz, has launched a new firm targeting early-stage startups that focus on addressing the costly, slow, or missing parts of the US industrial base. Volz joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools as the US tech giant competes with China’s DeepSeek for customers from the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population... View Source

India is drafting a new round of smartphone manufacturing incentives that would link government subsidies to exports and deeper use of locally made components, in a move that will benefit Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and their suppliers, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google Play has introduced a new feature called Game Trials, which will let you play a portion of paid games for free before you commit to buying them. It’s now rolling out to select paid games on mobile, and it’s coming soon to Google Play Games on PC. Titles that offer Game Trials will show a button marked “Try” on their profile pages. When you click it, you’ll see how long you can play the game... View Source

Bridge Data Centres plans to invest as much as S$5 billion ($3.9 billion) in artificial intelligence technology development in its home market of Singapore, seeking to accelerate its growth across Asia... View Source

Prosecutors say FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial should be rejected because he has failed to show how his conviction was unfair... View Source

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Indonesia's GoTo Group expects full-year earnings to exceed forecasts, driven by strong business momentum. However, CEO Hans Patuwo says the company is keeping a close eye on oil prices and their impact on demand amid the war in the Middle East. In an exclusive interview, he also says GoTo may consider oil surcharges for certain users. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Middle East conflict won’t significantly hamper the technology supply chain in the short run, according to a senior Seagate Technology Holdings executive addressing concerns that the war could begin to choke off the supply of vital materials such as helium... View Source

Databricks has launched Genie Code, a built-in autonomous AI assistant for technical talent, and announced the purchase of Quotient AI. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi discusses the moves with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ripple has kicked off a share buyback that would value the company at $50 billion, cementing it as one of the most valuable digital-asset firms at a moment of uncertainty for the cryptocurrency sector... View Source

War in the Middle East is causing concern for the people behind Saudi Arabia’s plans to invest $38 billion to become a global video-game hub... View Source

Matthew Weir, Managing Director and senior investment strategist in the Investment Strategy Group at Goldman Sachs, discusses how investors are trying to assess the health of big tech companies in the midst of rising AI investments and geopolitical uncertainty. He joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket launched for the seventh time ever today (March 11), bouncing back from two explosive mishaps in 2025... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Oracle’s strong third quarter sales and full year outlook as demand for AI computing shows no sign of letting up. Plus, Meta plans to deploy four new generations of its in-house AI chips by the end of 2027 to help power its rapidly expanding AI workloads. And the CEOs of Uber and Zoox discuss their new partnership that will allow Uber customers to ge... View Source

Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in talks with investors for a funding round that would value the startup at about $50 billion, nearly double the valuation it secured last fall, according to people familiar with the efforts... View Source

Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. is set to receive as much as C$390 million ($287 million) in government financial aid to build the engineering and domestic manufacturing capabilities for its first quantum-powered data center in Ontario, a deal that’s being negotiated just as the company is about to go public... View Source

Buyers are joining special purpose vehicles to get a piece of the hottest companies before they go public. Sometimes the funds don’t actually own any shares... View Source

In 2024, Microsoft caused a lot of head-scratching and general bemusement with the launch of its "This is an Xbox" marketing campaign. Now, though, it appears the quandary over what is and isn't an Xbox has been resolved. Game Developer noticed that the original blog post on Xbox Wire that kicked off the whole affair has been removed. It seems Xbox will be going a new direction... View Source

China is increasingly clawing back profits from state companies to cover some of the government’s spending needs, drawing on them more than ever during a year that saw an almost unprecedented decline in budget revenue... View Source

Journalist Julia Angwin is one of the writers whose likeness was used in Grammarly’s “expert review” feature. | Photo: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile via Getty Images For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its "Expert Review" AI suggestions without getting their permission, and now it's facing a lawsuit from one of the journalists included, as previously repo... View Source

It is fairly common for satellite companies to verbally spar over constellations, battling over territory such as preferred orbits and the electromagnetic spectrum for data transmission. The venue for such disputes is often the Federal Communications Commission, which has regulatory authority over satellite communications. Everyone pretty much fights with everyone, but of late, the exchanges betwe... View Source

Atlassian Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Cannon-Brookes announced plans to cut about 1,600 workers, saying the shift to artificial intelligence was a key factor behind the move... View Source

The folding iPhone might come with an inner display the size of an iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. Apple's rumored foldable iPhone will come with an iPad-style interface that will allow users to view apps side-by-side, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman also reports that the outer display will be around the size of a small iPhone. The inner display will reportedly come w... View Source

The biggest US measles outbreak in decades may be over sooner than expected... View Source

Bumble Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered assistant designed to act as a personal matchmaker, the company’s latest effort to reinvigorate itself at a time when many users have shown dating-app fatigue... View Source

Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors Pack, all four Amnesia titles (The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, The Bunker, and Rebirth), and Soma, which I consider to be its opus in terms of visual aesthetics. All six games are $15 each and redeemable on Steam (buying the same set on Ste... View Source

People have flocked to the OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent since it was launched in November by Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger. The digital assistant can use your computer to handle complex tasks that previously only a human could undertake, such as making travel bookings, prioritizing emails and drafting replies, surveying product catalogs and emailing vendors... View Source

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Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics... View Source

Valve wants players to know that it plans on fighting New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, which last month accused the company of promoting "illegal gambling" through its in-game loot boxes. In an email sent to Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 players in New York, Valve says it's "disappointed" in the lawsuit's claims, arguing that mystery boxes are "widely used" across... View Source

Petco Health & Wellness Co. forecast annual earnings above analyst estimates, signaling that consumer pet spending remains durable despite tariff and economic uncertainty. The shares surged as much as 20% in postmarket trading... View Source

Fortnite's original Save the World game mode will be free to play beginning on April 16. This is not the battle royale mode that went on to take over the world, but rather a PvE co-op campaign that focuses on crafting and survival. It currently costs $9 but that ends soon. As a matter of fact, Epic Games will stop selling the paid version of the content tonight, March 11, at 8PM ET. If you ha... View Source

NASA’s University Innovation (UI) project funds university-led innovation to address the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s system-level challenges via independent, NASA-alternate-path, multi-disciplinary awards. Strategic Goals The UI portfolio’s strategic goals in descending order of importance are: 1.    Assist in achieving aviation outcomes def... View Source

Apple Inc.’s forthcoming foldable iPhone will include updates to the iOS operating system that enable iPad-like layouts and side-by-side apps for the first time, enhancing the device’s appeal for multitasking... View Source

Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools. In August, the company launched a feature called Expert Review that would offer feedback on your writing, offering AI-generated feedback that would appear to come from a famous writer or academic of note. These recreations were based on "publicly available information from thir... View Source

Netflix Inc. will pay as much as $600 million for InterPositive, the AI moviemaking company founded by Ben Affleck, according to people familiar with the matter, making the purchase one of the biggest ever by the streaming leader... View Source

Microsoft plans to begin shipping early units of its next generation console, codenamed Project Helix, to game studios starting sometime next year. “We're sending alpha versions of Project Helix to developers starting in 2027,“ said Jason Ronald, vice-president of next generation for Xbox, according to IGN, which was present at the company’s GDC 2026 presentation where it shared early details... View Source

Instead of moving forward with a jury trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster as expected, the Justice Department announced a settlement Monday that omitted what used to be on the top of its wish list: a breakup. What the DOJ did get was a series of concessions that some industry stakeholders found unsatisfying and even baffling. There are a few bright spots, those who spoke to The Verge said: a 15... View Source

Neither the company nor any cyber agencies have confirmed Iranian involvement in the outage... View Source

It must be 2017 because loot boxes are back in the news again. Two weeks after New York's attorney general sued Valve over its use of the gimmick, the company has responded. In short, the Steam maker essentially said, "See you in court."New York's lawsuit accuses Valve of promoting illegal gambling through its games. AG Letitia James called the loot boxes found in titles like C... View Source

Northrop Grumman's first "Cygnus XL" cargo ship will depart the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Millions of people are on the job hunt right now - and for many people, landing a job in the AI era feels more intimidating than ever. That's why the onset of AI avatars running your job interview via one-on-one video call, asking you questions, and analyzing how well you respond has generated a lot of discussion - and controversy. There are a handful of companies behind the rise in AI-led intervi... View Source

Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division plans to send an early version of its next console to game developers in 2027, kicking off a new generation of hardware that will feel drastically different than previous iterations... View Source

TikTok will soon let you stream full songs in its app via a new integration with Apple Music. The company's new Play Full Song feature makes it possible to link your Apple Music account toTikTok, and play any song that strikes your fancy directly in the app while you're scrolling.Starting a song is as simple as tapping a button in the Sound Details page or your For You page. Assuming you... View Source

Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's "expert review" AI feature that said its edit suggestions were "inspired by" real writers, including our editor-in-chief and other Verge staff members. "After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review as we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users, while giving experts real control over how they want to be represented... View Source

Jeremy Allaire, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Circle discusses his motivation for building Circle, the world's largest regulated stablecoin network. Despite Circle's significant market capitalization and successful IPO, Allaire views the company as still being in its very early stages, with another 10 to 20 years of foundational work ahead to realize its full potential. He's on this week's epis... View Source

Microsoft first debuted its full screen Xbox experience for Windows in the ROG Ally Xbox handheld, in a bid to compete with Steam's nearly 15-year-old Big Picture Mode. That Xbox interface eventually made its way to other Windows 11 gaming portables last year. Today at GDC, Microsoft revealed that its big screen Xbox UI is headed to all Windows 11 devices (including laptops and desktops) in A... View Source

Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for future missions to the moon... View Source

Microsoft seems more determined than ever to combine Xbox and Windows - to the point that its next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will play PC games too. Today, we learned Helix will go alpha in 2027. But the company isn't waiting for Helix before it points Windows gamers in the Xbox direction. Starting in April, it's bringing its full-screen Xbox mode to every kind of Windows 11 PC, including... View Source

Three months after Australia’s social media restrictions for people under age 16 came into force, teenagers are circumventing the blocks with virtual private networks and by tricking age verification services, according to the country’s digital regulator... View Source

A new company called Musical Beings has officially unveiled the Tembo, which might be the cutest drum machine ever made. Just look at this thing! It's got a wooden chassis that resembles a standard drum machine, but with one key difference. The sequencer is tactile. Users arrange beats by placing magnetic pucks that trigger samples. This seems like a really good way to introduce the basics of... View Source

OpenAI's Sora video generator could soon become a built-in feature in ChatGPT, as reported by The Information. Sora is currently only available on its website or as a standalone app, which has fallen shy of the popularity of ChatGPT. This update would allow users to access Sora's video generation capabilities directly within ChatGPT itself, much like the addition of image generation capabilities i... View Source

After a flurry of IPOs that raised $11.7 billion this year, a new crop of blank-check firms are joining a long queue: all the other vehicles waiting for the chance to take a company public... View Source

Meta has announced that it’s introducing parent-managed accounts on WhatsApp. Designed to allow young people under the age of 13 to use the messaging platform more safely, these accounts feature new controls that enable a parent or guardian to restrict who can send them messages. Parent-managed accounts can also only be used for messaging and calling, so additional features like Channels, location... View Source

We're here at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, where Microsoft "VP of Next Generation" Jason Ronald is talking about a topic near and dear to many gamers' hearts: the future of Xbox. Ronald says the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip with "an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance" up to and including path tracing, and a next-gen version of AMD's FSR... View Source

The head of the Federal Communications Commission chastised Amazon.com Inc. for filing a petition critical of rival satellite operator SpaceX while Amazon itself is behind on meeting deployment obligations... View Source

Eight of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers, according to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), in partnership with CNN. While both Snapchat's My AI and Claude refused to assist with violence the majority of the time, only Anthropic's Claude "reliably discouraged" these hypothetical atta... View Source

Checkers? Go? | Image: Alon Daniel / Musical Beings Tembo looks like a toy, but one of those bougie wooden toys you get on Crate & Kids, not some cheap plastic garbage. Despite its appearance, it is a fully functional drum machine and sampler. Rather than a bunch of buttons and a screen, you build beats on Tembo by placing what are essentially wooden checkers on a board. The point is to be app... View Source

McAfee bought back about $287 million of unsecured notes at a discount, taking advantage of a software rout that hit its debt stack, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

Sony has announced its latest additions to the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. While they might not top last month's introduction of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Extra and Premium subscribers are still getting access to some notable games. In March, the new additions include Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (PS5), one of Engadget's picks for the Best Games of 2024, and Persona 5 Royal (PS5... View Source

Elon explicitly pushed back on today’s Business Insider “Macrohard stalled → pivot to Tesla” FUD. XAI minor staff churn, departures did not delay the project. Macrohard project is not dead or abandoned. It’s been integrated as the planned joint architecture all along. The XAI digital robot that watches the last 5 seconds of your screen ... Read more... View Source

'The scope of ''Starfleet Academy' in terms of design, art direction, visual effects, practical effects, and graphics is massive.'... View Source

AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that users across Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky can now interact with apps that developers choose to federate on its explore.alt.store website. Any likes from the social web will appear on AltStore PAL, according to creator Riley Testut,... View Source

US medical technology maker Stryker Corp. was hacked in an attack that’s crippled the company’s global operations, according to a person familiar with the matter and a memo seen by Bloomberg News... View Source

Phil Spencer leaving his long-held role at Xbox might have made all the headlines last month, but a few years ago the big story was company veteran Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb’s departure from Microsoft. Hryb recently seemingly hinted at a return to the company at which he spent more than two decades, but he’s now landed at Commodore instead. The ex-Xbox icon joins the recently revived 80s... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov This March 3, 2026, image combines views from ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to feature one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. This extraordinary pl... View Source

The first Lego Smart Brick sets, based on Star Wars, aren't quite what my kids and I hoped, and I suspect much of that's down to programming. But the Smart Bricks may also have some technical limitations out of the gate. The first sets don't ship with a number of their sensors enabled, including the sound-detecting microphone, the ambient light sensor, fine distance measurement, position, and orie... View Source

Meta plans to deploy four new generations of its in-house artificial intelligence chips by the end of 2027 as the company turns to custom silicon to help power its rapidly expanding AI workloads. Ed Ludlow goes inside the social media giant's AI chip lab. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

When you think of an AI-forward PC, you might think of something like NVIDIA's $3,999 DGX Spark — a computer with enough computing power to run complex large language models locally. That's not what Rabbit is trying to build with Project Cyberdeck. Instead, the company's goal is to produce a device tailored for vibe coding, and Engadget was given an exclusive first look at the upcom... View Source

Our how-to for observing a meteorite through a microscope... View Source

Canva introduced a new feature that separates flat image files and AI-generated visuals into layered, fully editable designs. The Magic Layers tool is launching in public beta today in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, allowing design components like objects, text boxes, and other graphics to be selected individually while preserving the original layout. "After a breakthrough from our AI research... View Source

AI anxiety is sweeping through markets, IT spending is racing toward the trillion-dollar mark, and private equity–backed tech firms are facing a new valuation reality. Coupa CEO Leagh Turner explains why companies with strong data moats and cloud-native architecture are pulling ahead, how AI is reshaping the workforce and why being private is giving her company the freedom to invest aggressively i... View Source

There are lots of options for video doorbells that store footage locally — including these from Eufy, Reolink, SwitchBot, Tapo, and Aqara. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Recently, Ring ran a Super Bowl ad for its Search Party feature showing how it uses AI to scan footage from Ring cameras and video doorbells to help find lost dogs. It sounds neighborly — until you consider that t... View Source

The state’s $70 billion oil fund wants to reap the rewards from venture capital’s bet on defense, nuclear fusion and advanced manufacturing in America... View Source

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy... View Source

I love Godzilla Minus One. Granted, it’s only the second Godzilla movie that I’ve watched, the other being 1998’s terrible Godzilla featuring Matthew Broderick (the soundtrack has bangers, though). While I may not exactly be an expert, this is a good movie, whether you’re a first-time Godzilla viewer or a longtime kaiju fan. If you’ve been wanting to watch it for the first time, or just own it on... View Source

Salesforce Inc. kicked off its first US investment-grade bond sale since 2021 to fund a share buyback, testing investor appetite for software-sector debt... View Source

ESA’s Planetary Defence team allays fears 100-metre-wide object could hit Earth’s moon and disrupt satellitesFears that a 100-metre-wide asteroid could be on course to collide with the moon appear to have been misplaced, according to new observations.Discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 was briefly considered the “most dangerous asteroid” in decades after scientists initially estimated i... View Source

For the fourth month in a row, Framework is increasing prices on RAM and storage for its modular PCs due to ongoing shortages from suppliers. An update to Framework's blog on Tuesday states that DDR5 RAM will now cost $13 to $18 per GB, up from February's rate of $12 to $16 per GB. This is partly due to the company selling out of older, less expensive inventory, which has also pushed Framework to... View Source

Jeremy Allaire, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Circle, said stablecoins are a superior alternative to traditional banking for moving money, offering faster, cheaper, and more direct transactions with fewer intermediaries, as seen in markets like Turkey. He's on this week's episode of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations. This interview was recorded January 15 at the Economic Clu... View Source

Looking Glass has been doggedly committed to making holographic displays the next big thing since 2019, and with its new Musubi digital photo frame, it might finally be offering its tech at a price that's hard to deny. Musubi is scheduled to start shipping in June, and unlike the company's previous, more developer-focused kits, the company's new display only costs $149.Musubi is a 7... View Source

Autobots, roll out – out of the way, that is, because War Machine is proving how to do human vs intergalactic machine conflict better... View Source

Department of Homeland Security. | Image: The Verge Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter that takes Verge subscribers into the smoke-filled back rooms of Washington as they become the Zyn-filled back rooms of Washington. (Although Tucker Carlson's ALP is more popular among a certain set.) Not a Verge subscriber yet? Sign up here today! I'm not exposing myself to all these carcinogens for n... View Source

Grubhub will test drone delivery of takeout orders for the first time, marking the latest effort from the company to experiment with automation technologies... View Source

It was a little after 1PM on Friday, February 28th, and Samantha Lujano was about to board her flight from Dubai to Colombo, Sri Lanka, when the drone attacks began. She had already received her boarding pass and gone through customs. Her flight was at the gate and her bags were loaded. She was simply waiting for the gate agents to open the flight for boarding. So she opened TikTok and started scr... View Source

Nvidia Corp. will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group NV as part of a strategic partnership to develop and build artificial intelligence data centers, as the world’s most valuable firm continues to pour money into companies that buy its chips... View Source

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years... View Source

Every six months or so, Nvidia's head of automotive, Xinzhou Wu, invites CEO Jensen Huang to go for a ride in a vehicle equipped with the company's hands-free autonomous driving system. But only when Wu has "good confidence" in the system's driving capabilities. Recently, the two went for a drive from Woodside, California, to downtown San Francisco in a Mercedes CLA sedan with MB.Drive Assist Pro,... View Source

Big Tech is getting boatloads of AI data from India — all for free. That’s a problem, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic has launched a new research initiative called Anthropic Institute and has revealed that its Public Policy team is opening its first office in Washington, DC this spring. The company has made the announcement just a couple of days after it sued the US government to challenge the supply chain risk designation it received from the Defense Department. As Axios notes, Anthropic is tripling it... View Source

The S26 phones feel awfully familiar. While Samsung has treated its Flips and Folds to a few major hardware upgrades over recent years, the Galaxy S flagships have often felt like a long, unbroken line of minor spec refreshes. The S26 and S26 Plus do nothing to change that trend. The Galaxy S26 Ultra at least benefits from the company's new privacy display, but the two smaller S26 phones lack a ki... View Source

The company says data center customers will pay the upfront cost of expensive AI chips... View Source

Meta announced new features today aimed at cracking down on scams perpetrated via its platforms. First, Meta is launching AI tools for identifying impersonator of brands and celebrities, as well as for detecting deceptive links, which should help it to quickly take down frauds. Second, it is adding new alerts to caution against interacting with a potentially fraudulent account. Facebook will roll... View Source

Ready to launch your support? Check out this stellar collection of space-flight merch I've personally picked to back the amazing team of the NASA Artemis 2 mission... View Source

Meta is adding more scam detection tools to Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp that can help users protect their accounts. In its announcement, Meta says the new features aim to alert users about suspicious activities before they engage with them, such as unrecognized friend requests and device linking notifications, because "we know that scammers try to avoid our detection and may not immediately... View Source

GoTo Group forecast earnings for this year above analysts’ estimates, giving the Indonesian ride-hailing and food delivery provider fresh momentum in its rivalry with Grab Holdings Ltd. even as pressures mount for a takeover... View Source

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form around other stars... View Source

It’s like Reddit, but for bots... View Source

Amid a weekslong conflict with the Pentagon, resulting in a blacklist and a lawsuit, Anthropic is shaking up its C-suite and research initiatives. The company announced Wednesday that it's launching a new internal think tank, called the Anthropic Institute, that combines three of Anthropic's current research teams. It will focus on researching AI's large-scale implications, such as "what happens t... View Source

Vnet Group Inc., one of China’s largest data center operators, is weighing funding options including a dollar bond sale to expand capacity as a race for dominance intensifies in the country’s AI industry... View Source

Let’s play a game of “spot the crease.“ The first thing most people seem to do when they try out a foldable phone I'm reviewing is look for the crease in the screen. In the case of Oppo's Find N6, it might take them a while. Oppo claims that the Find N6, launching in full next week on March 17th, has the world's first "zero-feel crease" foldable display. Let's get one thing out of the way early: "... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is making its debut in the euro bond market with a record eight-part sale, aiming to raise around €10 billion ($11.6 billion) to pay for investments in artificial intelligence... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. has raised $37 billion from a US dollar bond sale that, combined with a planned euro sale, could swell to nearly $50 billion... View Source

Online retailer Flipkart Internet Pvt is set to start the formal process for banks to pitch for work on its potential initial public offering as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri discusses the demand for AI hardware that drove the company’s sales forecast above analysts’ estimates. Neri joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Craig Donohue, CEO, Cboe joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They spoke about new products in development and Cboe's position on sports betting markets at the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Alex Yang, Co-founder, COO and CFO of Tuya Smart, discusses how the company is extending beyond Internet of Things to grow its AI business. He speaks with David Ingles and Yvonne Man on Bloomberg's The China Show. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tarek Mansour, CEO, Kalshi, speaks with Tim Stenovec at the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. Mansour made the case for the value of prediction markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nasdaq said Monday that partner Payward, the parent company of global crypto platform Kraken, will design a gateway for tokenized equities to move between regulated markets and on-chain markets. Arjun Sethi, co-CEO, Kraken, speaks with Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto" at the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nadine Chakar, Global Head of Digital Assets, DTCC, speaks with Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." They spoke at the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. She shared her perspective on the benefits and use cases of tokenization. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Most Unusual Lake Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next G... View Source

Chinese authorities moved to restrict state-run enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI apps on office computers, acting swiftly to defuse potential security risks after companies and consumers across China began experimenting with the agentic AI phenomenon... View Source

For months, OpenAI’s Sam Altman has been talking up plans to spend trillions of dollars on an unprecedented buildout of data centers stocked with advanced chips to power AI... View Source

SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander for NASA still faces numerous technical challenges and likely more delays ahead of a planned 2028 moon landing, according to a new government audit released Tuesday... View Source

At the start of the year, Google brought a host of new Gemini-powered features, including built-in Nano Banana image generation, to Chrome. After debuting in the United States, those features are now making their way to Chrome users in Canada, India and New Zealand, with support for 50 additional in tow. Among the new languages Gemini in Chrome can now converse in are French, Gujarati, Hindi and S... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An advanced vehicle concept.NASA Project Overview NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies and tools for various types of aircraft that fly in different speed regimes, including next-generation vertical take-off and landing and fixed-wing subsonic aircraft. The research a... View Source

Singapore’s Princeton Digital Group plans to raise as much as $5 billion in debt this year to fund a data center buildout across several countries in Asia, another sign of the capital pouring into expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Nintendo Co. shares soared as much as 10% in their steepest climb since April as the surprise success of its new Pokémon game helped offset worries around the rising cost of memory chips... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Amazon’s bond sale that is set to be one of the biggest corporate debt offerings ever, as it looks to fund the AI boom. Plus, Google introduces AI agents across the Pentagon's workforce to automate unclassified tasks. And, Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri discusses the company’s sales forecast that topped estimates on AI hardware demand. ... 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 Blackrock’s Stephen Laipply, BNP Paribas’ Laurent Vasilescu, KPMG US Chair & CEO Tim Walsh, CBOE’s Mandy Xu, RBC Capital Markets’ Rishi Jaluria, Recognize Co-Founder Charles Phillips, Achilles Founder & CIO Sachin Khaj... View Source

Household-help app Snabbit is in talks for fresh funding at a valuation of about $450 million, the latest to tap investor interest in the burgeoning market... View Source

Claude AI tool maker Anthropic PBC is set to open a Sydney office in the coming weeks as it expands into Australia and New Zealand, the company said in a statement... View Source

Anthropic PBC told a judge it could lose as much as billions of dollars in revenue this year and urged quick action on its request to block the Trump administration’s declaration of the company as a supply-chain risk after a blowup with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety issues... View Source

Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by commercial vehicles - including vehicle speed, seat belt activity, and engine health - and converts it into actionable items for fleet managers. The new system manifests as - what else? - an AI chatbot within Ford's Telematics so... View Source

Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta and former Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman are looking to raise at least $1 billion for a new company called Ithaca Holdings, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Was it a threat or a reality check? That's a key question in the government's anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after the Justice Department reached a settlement with the company and as dozens of states push ahead. The Verge obtained the audio of a 2021 call at the center of the case. The recording, a public exhibit that was played for jurors in the first week of... View Source

Oracle Corp. shares gained almost 10% in extended trading after the company posted strong results and gave an outlook that suggested there is little letup in demand for AI computing... View Source

Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought... View Source

A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai, on March 2nd, 2026. Increased maritime traffic led to a buildup of vessels waiting near Dubai, highlighting the strategic importance of the strait, which handles 20 percent of global energy trade. | Photo: Getty Images Soon after the Trump administration launched its war on Iran, I calle... View Source

Achilles Global Management Founder & CIO Sachin Kajuria discusses markets facing a 'poly-crisis' of risks, in part driven by geopolitical tensions related to Iran, which are exacerbating existing concerns in the private credit sector. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP. Variety reports that Watanabe has given his blessing and agreed to work on a new live-action Samurai Champloo adaptation from Tomorrow Studios, the same production house behind Netflix's Cowboy Bebop (which Watanabe wasn't directly involve... View Source

CME Group Global Head of Equities Tim McCourt says the firm is ready to trade Crypto futures and options, pending regulatory approval. He speaks to Tim Stenovec at the 2026 FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration is investigating allegations of a security breach by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency operation spearheaded by Elon Musk. A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer from DOGE said he possessed two databases from the SSA, "Numident" and the "Master Death File."... View Source

Anyone who finds themselves wishing they could spend less time on meal prep might have a solution in the form of the recently-launched Nosh One from Nosh Robotics, an AI kitchen appliance that can autonomously cook for you. All users need to do is load their ingredients into the robot's tray then select a recipe. The Nosh One adds the ingredients into its pot at the appropriate time, stirs everyth... View Source