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It might be near impossible to be a kid these days without a smartphone, but AT&T wants to offer parents a decent compromise. The wireless carrier launched its AmiGO Jr. Phone, which combines Samsung hardware and AT&T's app, to offer kids a smartphone that has parental controls baked right in. The AmiGO Jr. Phone is just a Samsung Galaxy A16, which still remains a solid budget smartph... View Source

It's about that time. Apple is gearing up for a slew of hardware announcements that will include upgrades for the entry-level iPad, iPad Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, according to Mark Gurman's Power On newsletter. In line with what we've seen in recent years, Gurman reports, "A product launch is currently slated for as early as the week of March 2."Apple unveiled the... View Source

Steam is adding a little more transparency when it comes to Early Access games. Announced in a blog post, Steam introduced a new feature for game developers to add the exact date of when their game would leave Early Access and see a version 1.0 launch. According to Steam, this feature stems from developers who requested a way to display an official launch date. While games still in Early Access gi... View Source

Apple is keeping the entry level for iPhones at $599, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In the latest Power On report, Gurman said that the iPhone 17e is "due imminently" and will keep the same price as its predecessor. Considering we’re about a year away from the iPhone 16e’s announcement, we’re due for a successor to Apple’s more affordable smartphone. According to Gurman, App... View Source

There are many sources like Our World in Data describe the cost to launch with SpaceX Falcon 9 as $2600 per kilogram or $1200 per pound but the cost to SpaceX is $900 per kilogram or $390 per pound. The ~$67–70 million external selling price is for about 30 out of the 170 missions in ... Read more... View Source

Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn't currently getting a ton of attention. But this week, I can't stop listening to the new Mandy, Indiana album long enough to even think about anything else. It's early still, obviously, but URGH is my favorite release of 2026 so far. The band that I fell in love with on I've Seen a Way has found an entirely new gear. Frontwoman Valentine Caulfiel... View Source

Ocado Group Plc is planning to slash a significant number of jobs as the grocery technology firm renews efforts to cut costs, the Times newspaper reported... View Source

Ready for Super Sunday? Huddle up for our out-of-this-world roundup of Big Game ads for the ages... View Source

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) using the LCARS in Star Trek: The Next Generation. | CBS via Getty Images One of my pandemic hobbies that stuck was home automation. I discovered Home Assistant - the popular open source, extremely customizable home automation platform - and all the intricate things you can do with it to make your home work better. I have ADHD and have found Home Assistant... View Source

Dongles have a well-earned reputation for being a nuisance. They're often costly and annoying to deal with, but for gamers, there's one that I love to recommend that's neither. 8BitDo's $20 USB Adapter 2 lets you wirelessly link controllers to the Switch 2 that would otherwise be unsupported, like the Sony DualSense (complete with rumble and motion controls), Microsoft's latest Xbox gamepads, and... View Source

The Orion constellation is home to some of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy... View Source

Close up of the hands of a person setting up a brand new iPhone 16e. (Photo by: Nano Calvo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) | Photo by: Nano Calvo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Almost exactly one year after launching the iPhone 16e, Apple is preparing to launch the 17e, according to Mark Gurman. The iPhone 17e will feature an upgraded A19 chip from the iPhone 17 l... View Source

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it... View Source

Expansion of space operations comes as ADF entering ‘most challenging strategic environment since second world war’, minister saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian defence force recruits are being asked to aim for the stars, with two new positions advertised in defence’s space command.Applicants were invited to apply directly for the two space specialist roles –... View Source

Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set off a chain of events that would make it a lightning rod for the techlash. The statute has survived everything from the dot-com bubble to a Supreme Court challenge that struck down the surrounding text in the CDA. But as it marks this major... View Source

Last month, over a dozen automobile and smartphone manufacturers gathered in Palo Alto, California, for the 16th annual "Plugfest," hosted by the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) to test out the latest in digital key technology. Digital keys, which allow vehicle owners to lock, unlock, and start their cars using smartphones or other digital devices, are becoming more commonplace. And the goal of... View Source

Apple is going to begin a 2026 product blitz with the iPhone 17e, updated iPads and fresh Macs. Also: Here’s exactly what CEO Tim Cook told employees about immigration, artificial intelligence and the company’s 50th anniversary during an all-hands meeting. Lastly, the iPhone maker scales back plans for a major new health service... View Source

Trapped somewhere between the big ideas of "2001" and the fun of a galaxy far, far away, this 1979 movie is a true space oddity... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming wars, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started From 2019 to around 2021, we were in the midst of a streaming renaissance. Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Apple TV, Peacock, and HBO Max all m... View Source

Falling launch costs and private innovation are fueling a new space race, transforming Earth orbit into a fast-growing global marketplace... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Feb. 7, 2025. The mission returned the Falcon to flight after an upper stage issue... View Source

There is accelerated funding for the F-47 (aka Next Generation Air Dominance or the NGAD). The F-47 is the first sixth-generation air superiority fighter, developed by Boeing under the NGAD program to replace the aging F-22 Raptor fleet. It has superior stealth to the F22 and F35. It have speeds exceeding Mach 2 and a ... Read more... View Source

Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI, said he is “not planning to purchase any property in the UK,” responding to a Bloomberg report that he had agreed to buy a penthouse overlooking London’s Hyde Park for about £57 million ($77.6 million)... View Source

BYD NEVs include both passenger and commercial vehicles recorded January sales of 205,518 units, down 30.67% year-on-year and down 50.45% month-on-month. BYD’s January sales of passenger battery electric vehicles (BEVs) totaled 83,249 units, down 33.60% year-on-year and down 56.35% from December. BYD’s power battery and energy storage battery installations in January totaled about 20.1... View Source

Jeff D’Onofrio in 2015, before ruining Tumblr. | Photo: Getty Images After what can generously be called a contentious tenure as the CEO of The Washington Post, Will Lewis is stepping down following mass layoffs this week. Jeff D'Onofrio, former CEO of Tumblr from 2017 to 2022, will step in as acting CEO and publisher. D'Onofrio has been CFO at the Post since June of last year, meaning he's had a... View Source

On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give time for impact assessments and to update regulations. The bill would require the Department of Environmental Conservation and Public Service Commissions to issue impact statements and reports during the... View Source

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. has been notifying hundreds of employees that their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews as the payments firm embarks on a broader business overhaul... View Source

The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you'll have to file a Freedom of Information Act request if you want to access any of the content it removed, according to NPR. The publication reports that the State Department is removing all posts from before President Trump's current term — a move that affects several accounts associated with the depar... View Source

Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery isn't quite a done deal yet. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Justice has started its probe of Netflix's proposed purchase, but is notably interested in whether the streaming giant was involved in any anticompetitive practices. According to the civil subpoena seen by WSJ, the Justice Department is look... View Source

GOG recently posted a job listing for a senior software engineer focused on porting its Galaxy desktop client to Linux. Now, in reply to a Reddit AMA, the GOG team has revealed that work on native Linux support is already underway. It's still too early to give an ETA, according to the Reddit thread. But founder and CEO, Michał Kiciński, said, "personally, I'm a big fan of Linux." The job... View Source

Even when it wasn’t failing quietly, Ubuntu was throwing truly useless errors. | Image: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge It's a complete coincidence that I installed Linux around the same time as my colleagues Nathan Edwards and Stevie Bonifield. A few months ago, I decided to breathe new life into a 2019 Dell XPS 15 that had been collecting dust for a couple of years. Despite its (at the time) high-e... View Source

The biggest tech companies are gearing up to spend even more on artificial intelligence than investors had anticipated, and money managers increasingly fear that whatever happens, credit markets will get hit... View Source

Trump Mobile is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report from The Verge. The report revealed the near-final design of the T1 smartphone and uncovered some major changes with pricing and manufacturing. The Verge spoke with Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas, two of the three execs behind Trump Mobile, about the company's first smartphone, which will get a... View Source

Analogue is back with another hit of N64 nostalgia, but with colorways that are deep cuts for even the biggest Nintendo nerds. Analogue announced its latest run of limited edition versions of its 3D console, this time drawing inspiration from a batch of prototype colorways for the original N64 that were manufactured but never hit the market. Now, the Analogue 3D will come in Ghost, Glacier, Extrem... View Source

Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines... View Source

It’s the first weekend of February, which can only mean one thing: The Super Bowl (or “Benito Bowl,” if you’re mainly tuning in for the Bad Bunny-led halftime show) is upon us. The game is Sunday, February 8th, at 6:30PM ET on Peacock, NFL Plus, and on live services that include NBC. With that out of the way, I’m here to surface this week’s best deals. There were plenty of good ones, from cheap ye... View Source

The Crew-12 astronauts will soon make their way to the ISS, joining the three remaining spacefarers on board after the previous mission was cut short due to a medical concern. NASA was originally planning a February 15 launch date for the mission, but it has moved it up to February 11. It’s now targeting a liftoff of no earlier than 6:01 AM Eastern that day from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The crew... View Source

The biggest con is this so-called Midnight Purple keyring is barely purple. It’s the iPhone 14 Pro Max Deep Purple all over again. In a somewhat controversial Vergecast episode, I declared that AirTags are a superior product to iPads. The iPad lovers roasted me across social media. I have heard and respect their opinions. But, I'm sorry - the second-gen AirTag has only deepened my conviction that... View Source

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously thought... View Source

Not every device needs a screen. The latest Anker 45-watt Nano charger, announced in January, which remains one of the smallest 45-watt chargers on the market, adds a full color screen displaying an animated character and a smattering of details about the device you're charging. Anker Nano 45W charger with display Anker Nano 45W charger with a built-in screen Where to Buy: $39.99 $29.98 at Amazon... View Source

We're going deeper underground; there's too much panic in this town... View Source

On Episode 196 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Scott Solomon, Rice Univeristy professor and researcher, about humanity's need to expand its presence into the solar system... View Source

I'm an awful rock climber. Being scared of heights probably doesn't help. But when I've tried it, I've loved the slow, methodical work of moving from one ledge to the next. It reminds me a lot of why I love running; in both sports, you achieve goals that seem insurmountable by taking them one step at a time. Cairn, a new game from The Game Bakers, is one of the few games I've played that truly cap... View Source

Apple Health brings sleep tracking, scheduling and long-term analysis into one place, with your iPhone acting as the hub and the Apple Watch doing the overnight monitoring. Once everything is set up, Apple Health can show how long you slept each night, how consistent your sleep schedule is and how much time you spend in different sleep stages. Here is how to get started, track your sleep and revie... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, go Seahawks I guess, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about The Washington Post and the Murdochs and Polymarket and whatever a "Soho House for creators" is, watching Independence Day for the first time... View Source

We’re starting to hit our stride in 2026. Now that February is here, our reviews team is flush with new devices to test, which means you’ve got a lot to catch up on if you haven’t been following along. Read on for a roundup of the most compelling new gear we’ve tested recently from gaming, PCs, cameras and more. Nex Playground If you still have a fondness for the Xbox Kinect, the Nex Playground mi... View Source

The salespeople on the front line of a private-markets push to win over the world’s wealthy are quite adept at fielding questions on opacity, liquidity and valuation. Their list of tricky talking points just got a new addition — the so-called SaaSpocalypse... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As always, we've got a bunch of neat games to tell you about. Perhaps I'll tear myself away from playing as Chappell Roan in Fortnite or Jetpack Cat in Overwatch long enough to check more of them out.Thanks to the folks at Aftermath, I learned about a short, text-based game from Woe Industries from a while bac... View Source

There are only three astronauts currently aboard the ISS, and two are Russian. Even so, NASA has plans to make sure the big game will be beamed up to orbit... View Source

Pare back what gear you take out with the Peak Design 7L sling bag... View Source

The rapid increase in data centers in Malaysia came under the microscope on Saturday, with the AI-driven buildout drawing its first public protest in the Southeast Asian country... View Source

Doctors all over Europe are writing prescriptions for mail-order marijuana... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. shares dropped the most in six months after the company announced plans to spend $200 billion this year on data centers, chips and other equipment, worrying investors that its colossal bet on artificial intelligence may not pay off in the long run... View Source

The sudden rise of prediction markets has sophisticated bettors scrambling to adjust their strategies... View Source

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AT&T Inc. launched a phone geared toward kids on Friday, adding a device aimed at keeping families within its ecosystem... View Source

The semiconductor industry will reach $1 trillion in revenue this year for the first time ever, fueled by artificial intelligence and the spread of computer chips to virtually every part of the economy... View Source

Nordic Capital is considering a sale of Danish cybersecurity firm Conscia and seeking a valuation of more than €2 billion ($2.4 billion), according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang finally got what he spent months lobbying for when the US government authorized the company to sell its workhorse artificial intelligence chip to China... View Source

Bitcoin reclaimed almost all of the losses registered during Thursday’s crypto market meltdown. Other tokens also recovered. Bloomberg's Emily Nicolle reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nvidia shares soared Friday as investors snapped up shares of companies positioned to benefit from the vast sum of money that big technology firms have said they’ll spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year. Amazon sparked the rebound after the technology giant said during an earnings call that it plans to spend $200 billion on data centers, chips and other equipment this year. All... View Source

Anthropic PBC is ironing out the final details on a funding round likely to raise more than $20 billion and slated to close as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Greg Hart, President and CEO of Coursera, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the firm's plans to merge with fellow online learning platform Udemy. Hart says he will remain CEO of the newly merged company as it continues to focus on providing AI-focused training tools and courses for its customers. He speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Gregory Daco, Chief Economist at EY, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the state of the US economy, saying that he currently sees a "paradox" of strong growth paired with underlying weakness and a bifurcated consumer. Meanwhile, US consumer sentiment unexpectedly improved to the highest in six months, largely propelled by wealthier Americans who have benefited from stock-market gains... View Source

A week of modest gains in the $30 trillion Treasury market is setting investors up for a trio of upcoming economic releases that stand to offer further reason to price in a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut in the coming months... View Source

Kris Marszalek, CEO and co-founder of crypto and stock trading platform Crypto.com, has bought an expensive website. In this case it's AI.com, valued at one point at $100 million, which will serve as the online home for his new company of the same name. The website launch is being paired with a Super Bowl ad that will air this Sunday.AI.com's main offering is an AI agent that "opera... View Source

The FAA has cleared the Falcon 9 rocket to return to flight, freeing NASA and SpaceX to target Feb. 11 for the launch of the Crew-12 astronaut mission to the International Space Station... View Source

Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 — a mind-boggling tide of cash earmarked for new data centers and all the gear housed within them. Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh joins Bloomberg Intelligence to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Video-game stocks inexplicably plummeted after Google revealed Genie, a tool for building virtual worlds... View Source

Digital photo frames like the Aura Aspen are down to some of their best prices. Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and if you haven’t started shopping yet, there are a lot of great gifts on sale that should still arrive in time if you order soon. Several Verge-approved gadgets are seeing some of their best discounts since the holidays, with options we think will appeal to a wide range of interests... View Source

Buy-now-pay-later company Affirm beat second quarter revenue expectations from Wall Street but offered what some analysts thought was conservative guidance. Affirm CEO Max Levchin joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models."... View Source

This is the final(ish) design of the T1 Phone, though it’s going to lose the T1 logo. | Screenshot: Dominic Preston / The Verge Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time, surprisingly, we received a response - and an interview. The Trump phone is real - maybe, sort of, soon? - and I'v... View Source

Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow take a look at shares of Amazon dropping after announcing plans to spend $200 billion this year on data centers, chips, and other equipment. Plus, Bitcoin rebounded after plummeting on Thursday and nearing the $60,000 level, and the CEOs of Roblox, Affirm, and Warner Music Group break down their companies' earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI apps in CarPlay, Bloomberg reports. Siri is the default voice assistant for things like controlling music and looking up directions, but future AI apps in CarPlay could handle the complicated, open-ended requests Siri can't answer.The expanded support would let developers like OpenAI or Google offer versions of their ChatGPT and Gemini apps... View Source

The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for a crew portrait inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space Agency) astr... View Source

CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot of choice instead of Siri. As Bloomberg reports, Apple is working to add support for CarPlay voice control apps from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others. Previously, users who wanted to access third-party chatbots in the car would need to go through their iPhone, but soon they may be able to talk with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini directly in Ca... View Source

Debt intelligence provider 9fin Ltd. is in talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation of as much as $1 billion as it seeks to gain a stronger foothold in the highly competitive market for credit research... View Source

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”... View Source

More than 900 employees at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed a petition demanding that the company sever ties with the US Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts... View Source

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Warner Music Group’s revenue for the first quarter rose 10%, which the company says is thanks to increases in digital, artist-services, and expanded rights and licensing revenue. Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech” to discuss how AI patterns are also going to pay off soon. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Noble Audio has announced the Sceptre, a pocket-sized USB-C Bluetooth transmitter meant to boost wireless audio quality from phones, laptops and tablets. The device is intended to exceed the quality offered by a device's existing hardware. Sceptre is powered by Qualcomm's QCC5181 Bluetooth chipset and supports LDAC, aptX Adaptive, AAC and SBC codecs. Of course, to take advantage of the h... View Source

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash toward the upper middle — on Feb. 4, 2026. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in blue and red.NASA/SDO This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erup... View Source

Master Chief is returning in 2026 with a ground-up remake of the original Halo that's promising new content on top of a totally remade presentation... View Source

Engineers at Blue Origin have been grappling with a seemingly eternal debate that involves the New Glenn rocket and the economics of flying it. The debate goes back at least 15 years, to the early discussions around the design of the heavy lift rocket. The first stage, of course, would be fully reusable. But what about the upper stage of New Glenn, powered by two large BE-3U engines? Around the sa... View Source

Four of the biggest US tech companies have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 for new data centers and gear, underscoring just how quickly the AI race is accelerating. Lei Qiu, AllianceBernstein CIO of Thematic Innovation Equities, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss what this wave of investment means for markets and disruption across industries on "B... View Source

Disney+ subscribers in some European countries have lost access to advanced HDR features like Dolby Vision and HDR10+, TechRadar and FlatpanelsHD report. The issue was first spotted by German Disney+ subscribers on Reddit, but currently also impacts subscribers in Portugal, Poland, France and the Netherlands, according to FlatpanelsHD."Dolby Vision support for content on Disney+ is currently... View Source

New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened during its farewell tour of the solar system... View Source

Fortnite developer Epic Games says the account some people believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a "ruse." In a reply on X, the developer writes, "an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username" to "littlestjeff1," an alias spotted in several emailed receipts from YouTube in the Epstein files. The email suggests that "littlestjeff1" may have been connected to Epstein's YouTube acc... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence apps from other companies in CarPlay, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that will let users query AI chatbots through its vehicle interface for the first time... View Source

The long wait for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is nearly over, as the film hits theaters on April 1. To keep the hype train rolling, Illumination and Universal Pictures have dropped a short new teaser. It's exactly 30 seconds long, so you'll probably be seeing it again on TV this Sunday during the Super Bowl. It does feature some nifty footage that we haven't seen before, including... View Source

300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who purchased the legendary publication in 2013, has driven his reputation into the ground by using his vast empire to churn out content designed to make President Donald Trump happy: Amazon MGM Studios spent $40 million to produce a fawning documentary about Melan... View Source

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices... View Source

Nvidia Corp. shares soared Friday as investors snapped up shares of companies positioned to benefit from the vast sum of money that big technology firms have said they’ll spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year... View Source

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation,” the question isn’t whet... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, facing concerns that customers are overspending on data centers, said that the level of expenditures is appropriate and sustainable... View Source

The Last of Us series co-creator Craig Mazin is teaming with Hasbro Entertainment to create an HBO series based on the popular (and spicy) Baldur’s Gate 3 game, Deadline reported. The show will be simply be called Baldur’s Gate and the story will resume where Baldur’s Gate 3 left off. Mazin will reportedly have full creative control and act as co-creator, writer, executive producer and showrunner... View Source

Extreme green looks hard to resist. | Image: Analogue Analogue has announced another collection of limited-edition colors for its modern remake of the Nintendo 64. Last December it introduced several transparent versions of the Analogue 3D inspired by Nintendo's Funtastic N64 series, but this time the company says it drew inspiration from colored versions of the nearly 30-year-old console that Nin... View Source

Musk's decision to merge SpaceX with xAI could be worth $1 trillion or more, based on his grandiose proposal to build AI data centers in space. Dana Hull joins Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith on the Everybody's Business podcast to discuss why the merger may be driven less by long-term growth ambitions and more by the financial pressures facing Musk’s more troubled companies. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A free trial to a virtual private network (VPN) can mean a few different things. Several of the best VPNs let you try them out without paying. A rare few, and only one on this list, let you try them without submitting payment information at all. Some VPNs have forever free plans that let you use them indefinitely without paying, as long as you're OK with some limits.For the most part, though,... View Source

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation,” the question isn’t whet... View Source

Teddy Swims hopes this song ‘resonates’ with listeners? You don’t say. Spotify is launching About the Song in beta today, which offers context and facts about the song you're listening to. Premium users can scroll down to the new About the Song section for information while in the Now Playing view. At launch, it's only available for a limited number of tracks, but there are plans to expand it. Bit... View Source

Bitcoin has fallen about 50% since its October peak. What went wrong for the world's biggest cryptocurrency? Anna Irrera explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Good deals on Apple products aren’t as frequent as we’d like them to be, but if there’s one of the company’s products that does seem to enjoy pretty regular price cuts, it’s the AirTag. Right now you can pick up a four-pack of Apple’s diminutive first-generation Bluetooth trackers for $64, which translates to 35 percent off and a near record low price. Bear in mind that this deal brings the price... View Source

The latest recipient of the Foundation's Live Long & Prosper Tribute Award is Jessica Schonhut-Stasik, an astrophysicist and neurodiversity advocate who is affectionately known as "Girl Spock."... View Source

The Aura Aspen is a sweet and sentimental gift that’s $199. | Image: Aura Aura’s Aspen digital photo frame is a great Valentine’s Day gift if you want something that’s slick and sentimental, and right now it’s on sale for $199 ($30 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Aura’s online storefront. That’s the lowest we’ve seen the frame sell for since the holidays. Aura Aspen Where to Buy: $229 $199 at Amazon... View Source

Roblox CEO and founder David Baszucki talks about new features that can help identify the age of users and restrict certain games for younger players. Daily active users rose to 144 million in the fourth-quarter, topping analysts' estimates. He speaks on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Spotify is rolling out a feature called About the Song which lets fans learn a bit more about their favorite tunes. This "brings stories and context" into the listening experience, sort of like that old VH1 show Pop Up Video. How does it work? The Now Playing View houses short, swipeable story cards that "explore the meaning" behind the music. This information is sourced from t... View Source

The FCC has given SpaceX a time-limited waiver for 18-24 months, effective January 9, 2026 to increase KU band transmission. This immediately authorizes SpaceX to exceed equivalent power flux density (EPFD) limits for KU-band operations in the US, enabling higher transmission power from Gen2 Starlink satellites. This will be made permanent during the next 6-12 ... Read more... View Source

An autonomous vehicle drives down a lonely stretch of highway. Suddenly, a massive tornado appears in the distance. What does the driverless vehicle do next? This is just one of the scenarios that Waymo can simulate in the "hyper realistic" virtual world that it has just created with help from Google's DeepMind. Waymo's World Model is built using Genie 3, Google's new AI world model that can gener... View Source

PJM Interconnection LLC, operator of the largest US grid, warned of a potential power supply shortfall of as much as 60 gigawatts over the next decade as data centers accelerate demand growth... View Source

Apple is no longer launching an AI service that can “replicate” a doctor and act as a personal health coach, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company has reportedly scaled back the unannounced initiative in recent weeks, following a recent organization reshuffling wherein services chief Eddy Cue took over the health division. While Apple has never officially announced the AI health coach,... View Source

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as disastrous for the field and likely to affect a generation of researchers... View Source

My shopping list in Apple’s Reminders app (left) and in Amazon’s Alexa app (right). A recent UI overhaul of the Alexa app has made the list a lot harder to add to and use. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images I've used Alexa to manage my shopping list for years. There are plenty of great list apps out there, but the convenience of adding items by voice anywhere in my house, pulling up... View Source

David Kelly, JPMorgan Asset Management chief global strategist, says investors are "prudently rebalancing" while reacting to the recent selloff in tech stocks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ford may be discontinuing its F-150 Lightning pickup but it hasn’t given up on electric cars. CEO Jim Farley just teased the automaker’s electric pickup based on its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform that he called “one of the most audacious and important projects in Ford's history.”The Universal EV platform will be used on a family of affordable EVs sold around the world, but will star... View Source

ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok has been warned by the European Union that it needs to overhaul the design of its platform over fears addictive features could “harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users.”... View Source

Most people wouldn't leave their phones behind when they so much as go for a drive, but NASA astronauts have had to leave their phones on Earth while they went to work 250 miles away at the International Space Station. That is, until now. In a post on X, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman shared that the Crew-12 and Artemis II astronauts will be allowed to bring smartphones along for the journ... View Source

For the fourth time in the last 19 months, the upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket experienced a problem during a mission. How long will the vehicle be grounded this time?... View Source

Science washing is afoot. | Image: The Verge, AG1 This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. I'm willing to bet you've been served an ad for Athletic Green... View Source

US hyperscalers announced huge expansions in capex, which Wall Street greeted with suspicion... View Source

One of the more surprising tech developments in 2025 was Google bringing two-way support for Apple’s AirDrop functionality to its Pixel 10 series of phones. At the time, Google said it intended to expand the feature to other devices at a later date, and that date could be just around the corner. At a press briefing attended by Android Authority at Google’s Taipei office, Eric Kay, Android’s V... View Source

EU regulators have declared that TikTok's "addictive design" may put it in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA), in the preliminary results of an ongoing investigation into the social media app. If those findings are confirmed, TikTok could face a major fine and be required to "change the basic design of its service" in order to comply with the law. The European Commission took particular issu... View Source

Priya Misra, core plus bond ETF portfolio manager at JPMorgan, sees markets in a “show me” state on AI capex. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Uber must pay a passenger who accused one of its drivers of rape $8.5 million, a federal jury in Phoenix has ordered. The jury found Uber liable for its driver’s misconduct, determining that the driver was an agent of the company. Part of Uber’s defense was that it’s not responsible for what its drivers do, as they are independent contractors. This decision is for but one of the 3,000 similar case... View Source

Astronomers witnessed a star emitting as much energy in mere moments as our sun puts out in a few months. The dramatic observation gives a direct look into the brutal physics of these stellar events... View Source

There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, on and on and on. These men (and they're pretty much all men) had wildly varying degrees of interaction with Epstein, and the details matter a great deal. But so does the totality of it: you spend long eno... View Source

China tightened curbs on cryptocurrencies and tokenized real-world assets, barring domestic entities from issuing digital tokens overseas and banning the offshore issuance of yuan-linked stablecoins without approval... View Source

If you haven't heard, there's now a social network for AI: Moltbook, a site that purportedly features AI agents talking to each other. That includes OpenClaw, a personal AI agent (formerly called Clawdbot and Moltbot) that's open source and free for anyone to run on their systems. In this episode, Devindra and Senior Reporter Karissa Bell discuss the rise of these services, and the... View Source

Is the long freeze on Chinese automakers selling cars in the US finally starting to thaw? China is the largest auto market in the world and now the largest car exporter, too. But high tariffs and geopolitical tensions have kept Chinese automakers away from US customers. Many of those cars are ready for primetime and are fully competitive with current offerings in the United States. Geely is among... View Source

Shares of India’s top IT firms slid as fears grow that AI could undercut the traditional software services model, raising questions about jobs, growth and the future of outsourcing. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

TikTok’s signature features that hooked users around the world are its algorithm and endless scroll. Now, though, the European Union has called those aspects of the app illegal and may order the company to alter them. “Today, the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design,” the EU’s regulator said in a press release. “This includes... View Source

Crew-12's timeline has been unusually dynamic... View Source

The boys’ club | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images He might be dead, but it sure seems like Jeffrey Epstein won. Sure, Epstein was arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors. Sure, he died in jail. (I am not going to wade into the debate about how.) But he subscribed to a racist, misogynist ideology that meant rich white men like him could do whatever they liked. And it seems he to... View Source

The spending planned by four of the biggest US technology companies together on capital expenditures is expected to reach about $650 billion in 2026. A tide of cash is earmarked for new data centers and artificial intelligence chips, among numerous other items. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NordVPN is offering a significant discount on its two-year plans, with 70 percent off its Complete tier and up to 78 percent off overall. For the Complete tier, the deal brings the total cost down to $130 for 24 months NordVPN regularly appears on Engadget’s list of the best VPN services thanks to its wide server network, strong security tools and consistent performance across devices. NordVPN’s l... View Source

A federal jury in Phoenix has found Uber to be liable for the sexual assault of one of its passengers, potentially setting a precedent for more than 3,000 similar cases consolidated in US federal court. As part of the verdict, Uber has been ordered to pay $8.5 million in damages to the victim, Jaylynn Dean, who said she was raped by her Uber driver during a ride to her hotel in November 2023. The... View Source

US stocks are set to recover as some confidence in the AI trade returns, but investors are still grappling with whether high spending and valuations are justified. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With over 155 million sold, Nintendo’s Switch is officially the company’s biggest console hit ever. It’s been a long road to surpassing the DS, which reached 154 million consoles over its seven-year lifespan. The Switch, meanwhile, is a year shy of its 10-year anniversary. We’ve seen the original console, the non-hybrid Lite and the OLED versions of the Switch over the decade, but despite bei... View Source

For years, quad axel jumps seemed impossible. Then Ilia Malinin landed one in 2022. As he heads to the Milano Cortina Games, everyone wants to know what’s next... View Source

"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops. Today's guests: Isabelle Mateos y Lago, BNP Paribas, Group Chief Economist; Luis Costa, Citi, Global Head of EM Strategy; Lindsay Newma... View Source

For two weeks, medical experts monitor the astronauts as they remain indoors, live in isolation, and avoid physical touch, all to prevent harmful microbes from traveling to space... View Source

Tesla Inc. isn’t waiting around to see if Elon Musk’s 100-gigawatt solar ambition is feasible — it’s already acting on it. The company is evaluating multiple sites across the US to begin manufacturing solar cells, according to people familiar with the matter, turning what sounded like a moonshot just weeks ago into an active industrial push... View Source

"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate."... View Source

Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions... View Source

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Transferring data between iPhones and Android devices is about to get a lot easier. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge After introducing AirDrop support to Pixel 10 devices last year, Google is now set to expand it to phones made by other Android partners. Eric Kay, vice president of engineering for Android, confirmed in a press briefing attended by Android Authority that "a lot more" Android de... View Source

Europe’s quest for sovereignty in critical infrastructure like power grids and digital networks risks unsustainable asset-price growth in the sector as cash continues to pour in, according to one of Europe’s largest private equity firms... View Source

Kuaishou Technology was fined 119.1 million yuan ($17.2 million) by Beijing regulators for hosting pornographic content on its video platform... View Source

Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI, has agreed to buy a penthouse overlooking London’s Hyde Park for about £57 million ($68 million), marking the most expensive UK home deal in more than a year... View Source

JPMorgan Private Bank Global Investment Strategist Madison Faller explains where she sees opportunities for active managers amid the equities selloff. "There are pressure points and we need to be aware of them as investors," Faller tells Bloomberg Television. "But at the same time, some of those challenges are also opening up a lot of opportunities." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. raised its full-year outlook even after its quarterly profit missed estimates and said it sees a surge in spending by chipmakers eager to ride an AI spending wave... View Source

Maser Group, a closely held Dubai-based company, is pivoting to investment in farmland and data centers across Africa as demand for technology infrastructure and the need for food security surge... View Source

Private credit giant Blackstone Inc. is finalizing a loan of more than A$5 billion ($3.5 billion) to fund the data center expansion of Australian startup Firmus Technologies Pty., people familiar with the matter said, the latest in digital infrastructure funding tied to the AI boom... View Source

Trumpf auf Erholungskurs. Der schwäbische Laserhersteller profitiert als einer der wichtigsten Zulieferer des niederländischen Halbleiterausrüsters ASML vom weltweiten Ringen um Chips. Der Hauptsitz nahe Stuttgart spielt dabei eine entscheidende Rolle. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

C.P. Gurnani, Co‑Founder of AIonOS and former CEO of Tech Mahindra, discusses whether AI could replace long‑standing IT workflows, how enterprise adoption is evolving, and why data security, infrastructure and AI-native platforms may drive future growth. He also explains why Indian I.T. firms could benefit despite short-term disruptions. He speaks on Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source... View Source

For years, governments have relied largely on platform-led safety tools to manage children’s use of social media. That approach has come under growing scrutiny... View Source

AI has been one of the best things to happen to Atlassian Corp., Chief Executive Officer Mike Cannon-Brookes said, as shares fell in the US in late Thursday trading following the company’s second-quarter results, amid a broader AI-driven tech sector slump... View Source

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Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for a virtual health coach, according to people with knowledge of the matter, part of an effort to rethink how the company approaches the burgeoning market for wellness services... View Source

Bill Barton, President and CEO of Bob’s Discount Furniture, says the company’s IPO proceeds will be used to pay off all long-term debt, allowing it to operate as a debt-free public company. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I Squared Capital is considering options for its Asian data center business BDx, including a sale, people familiar with the matter said, signaling another potential deal in an industry riding the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Joanne Crevoiserat, CEO of Tapestry, discusses the company’s strong second-quarter results, citing record sales and earnings. She tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that Tapestry remains focused on disciplined brand building and reaching younger consumers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A relentless selloff in BYD Co. shares is laying bare investor anxiety over the profit outlook for China’s electric-vehicle sector, as cooling demand at home and surging raw material costs trigger a brutal reset of expectations... View Source

Tesla is down to $1.24 trillion in market capitalization. After SpaceX bought XAI a few days ago the valuation of SpaceX is $1.25 trillion... View Source

A closed-door congressional meeting this week with South Korea’s top trade official was dominated by one topic: Coupang Inc., the Seattle-headquartered e-commerce platform best known as the “Amazon of South Korea.”... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s third-quarter earnings next week will be the first opportunity for the Japanese tech giant to respond to reports it’s considering raising its investment in OpenAI... View Source

Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 — a mind-boggling tide of cash earmarked for new data centers and the long list of equipment needed to make them tick, including artificial intelligence chips, networking cables and backup generators... View Source

Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian CEO, discusses the company’s strong financial performance and revenue growth. He tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that AI is one of the best things that has ever happened to Atlassian. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Surfshark’s One plan is heavily discounted right now, with an 87-percent discount on the two-year package, plus three extra months. The promo price comes out to $2.29 per month, or $62 for the first 27 months. We’ve generally liked Surfshark as a straightforward, speedy service for everyday use, and it’s one of the picks in our guide to the best VPNs. In our Surfshark review, we found it delivered... View Source

HBO is developing a Baldur's Gate TV show that will continue the story of Larian Studios' hit RPG Baldur's Gate 3, according to Deadline. The Last Of Us co-creator Craig Mazin will serve as the show's creator, writer, executive producer, and showrunner. While it's set to feature new protagonists, the plan is for existing characters from the game to return, and Mazin plans to reach out to cast memb... View Source

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, CEO of Xero, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss how the firm's small business tools won't be overtaken, but rather enhanced by AI. Cassidy mentions that Xero sees AI as a net benefit for its product suite because the firm builds its LLM "on the back of" AI models. Her comments come as AI fears consume investors in software stocks. Cassidy speaks with Carol Massa... View Source

The Bundeskartellamt, or the Federal Cartel Office of Germany, has prohibited Amazon from continuing its practice of using mechanisms to control the prices charged by sellers on its platform in the country. Germany’s competition regulator explained that the company uses “various price control mechanisms” to review prices set by third-party Markerplace sellers. If the website deems a specific listi... View Source

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field... View Source

Adam Greenblatt, CEO of BetMGM, discusses the company’s record 2025 performance and expectations for Super Bowl weekend. He tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that there’s concerns over the sports Prediction market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Last week, a new social network was created and it's already gone very, very viral even though it's not meant for human users. I'm talking, of course, about Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform that's populated entirely by AI agents. The platform has gained a lot of attention since it was created last week, thanks to a lot of wild posts from AI agents that have gone extremely... View Source

Elon Musk discusses the convergence of AI, robotics, energy, and space tech as critical to humanity’s future. There are bottlenecks in power, chips, and manufacturing. Elon predicts orbital data centers will become the cheapest and most scalable AI infrastructure within 30-36 months due to unlimited solar energy and regulatory ease, with SpaceX launching hundreds of ... Read more... View Source

Mario Harik, Chairman and CEO of XPO, says he’s confident in the company’s outlook after a strong earnings beat and record-high share price. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games kick off with the Opening Ceremony this Friday. Here's how to watch. (REUTERS/Claudia Greco) REUTERS / Reuters The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin this week, and this year's Opening Ceremony promises to be one for the ages. The three-hour event will feature performances from Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli, 3,000 athletes participating... View Source

After rolling out age verification last year, Roblox is aiming to grow the number of players over 18 on its platform. As noted in its 2025 year-end earnings report, 45 percent of Roblox's daily active users have completed an age check as of January 31st. Of those who have verified their age, 27 percent are adults. Roblox also reported that this age category is spending more money on its platform t... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. was hit with $8.5 million in damages in a trial over a 19-year-old woman’s claim that she was raped by her driver in Arizona, raising the rideshare giant’s risk of a costly settlement to resolve thousands of similar cases... View Source

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is heading to the Switch 2 on June 3. The news was dropped at this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. This is the second part of the FF7 remake-a-palooza. The first installment, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, was released for Nintendo's console on January 22. Only a six month wait between chapters? Sony fans had to wait four years. For the uninitiated, Fina... View Source

The path of first the SpaceX IPO and then the attempt to merge SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX and xAI merged pre-IPO to optimize AI operations in space, avoiding double taxation and enhancing margins by 5-10%. SpaceX builds satellites and xAI runs AI like Grok. XAI Grok AI would eventually be like Amazon AWS (web services) ... Read more... View Source

Tether co-founder William Quigley weighs in on the recent selloff in cryptocurrencies. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Quigley says he never expected crypto to be a long-term investment opportunity. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After celebrating its fifth anniversary earlier this month, the tough-as-nails survival Viking game Valheim is coming to Switch 2 this year. Initially launched as a Steam Early Access game in 2021, Valheim lets you team up with up to nine other players online as you explore a procedurally generated open world inspired by Norse mythology. Whether playing alone or with your Viking pals, survival dep... View Source

It's nicknamed Jetty McJetface... View Source

Each TV company has its own distinct personality and direction. These change over the years, with new technological breakthroughs or at least new business deals. New aspirations shake up the natural order. This year, for example, nearly every company has decided to make and heavily promote RGB LED TVs. Some of them, like Hisense, seem like they're doing it because they want to. LG's making one too... View Source

Roblox Corp. reported fourth-quarter users and bookings that beat analysts’ expectations thanks to a slate of hit games... View Source

With gaming becoming an ever-smaller part of NVIDIA's lucrative business, the company reportedly won't bother releasing new graphics cards this year. The Information reported on Thursday that NVIDIA has pushed back its plan to release an update to the RTX 50 line in 2026. This would be the first time in three decades that the company hasn't launched new gaming chips. The culprit? Wh... View Source

Credit: NASA Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. “NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to study our home planet to deliver life-saving data into the hands of disaster response and decision-makers every day for the benefit of all, while also informing... View Source

When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball. What started as a standard antitrust hearing relating to the Warner Bros. merger quickly devolved into a performative Republican attack about the spread of "woke" ideology on the streaming service. At the same time, arguably a much more influential platform was completely ignored: YouTube. Af... View Source

Blackstone Inc.-backed Liftoff Mobile Inc. postponed its initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, after tech stocks spiraled on concerns over the impact of artificial intelligence on operating companies... View Source

X is experimenting with a new way for AI to write Community Notes. The company is testing a new "collaborative notes" feature that allows human writers to request an AI-written Community Note. It's not the first time the platform has experimented with AI in Community Notes. The company started a pilot program last year to allow developers to create dedicated AI note writers. Bu... View Source

From spaghettified convicts to doomed interplanetary liners, these space movies really pile on the misery... View Source

As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable. It's a small-budget horror flick that has some cool ideas and pulls them off in an extremely efficient way, creating a sense of tension that unfortunately never turns into outright scares. But the most important thing about it is what it represents. At a time when movie theaters are dominated by only the biggest blockbusters a... View Source

Hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped off the value of stocks, bonds and loans of companies big and small across Silicon Valley, with software stocks at the epicenter. The spark for the selloff was AI startup Anthropic. Brody Ford explains why. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The upcoming science fiction film Project Hail Mary is getting a LEGO set. This is fascinating because LEGO typically makes sets based on long-standing franchises like Star Wars and Harry Potter. Project Hail Mary doesn't even hit theaters until March 20. It's not an entirely new IP. The movie is based on a 2021 book written by Andy Weir, the same author behind The Martian. It's coo... View Source

The European Space Agency and ClearSpace of Switzerland are targeting 2026 for a debris removal mission, in which a long-discarded payload adapter, at right in this illustration, will be grappled by a ClearSpace-made spacecraft equipped with an ESA-developed robotic arm. A Kessler Syndrome cascade is something that would play out over the course of decades ... Read more... View Source

On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a steady decline for the last several weeks. Here are some other crypto headlines that have popped up as Bitc... View Source