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Nvidia Corp.'s outlook for artificial intelligence spending and revenue will be the focus for investors and analysts in Wednesday's earnings results, according to Mizuho Securities analyst Vijay Rakesh. He speaks with Dani Burger and Yahaira Anand on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The problem with Meta's AI restructuring plan is the AI wasn't good enough... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science  NASA’s WB-57F aircraft prepares for takeoff from Ellington Field in Houston ahead of its mission to observe the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse from Iceland. From left are John Gustine, NASA WB-57F pilot, and Cary Klemm, sensor equipment operator for NASA’s WB-57F. NASA/Robert Markowitz During the Aug. 12 total solar eclips... View Source

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested places" section in search, but Apple says they'll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the ads began rolling out this week, and more users in the US and Canada will start se... View Source

Bill Gates can’t believe that no one is worried about AI as much as he is. In a new blog post — and accompanying media blitz — the billionaire suddenly sounded alarmed about how the technology is shaping our future after being blindly optimistic about it for years, warning that it’ll annihilate jobs and desolate the economy. “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented... View Source

As many as half of the proposed data centers in the US are at risk of delays or cancellations because of growing political backlash and the complexities of building physical assets, according to investment firm Kimmeridge Energy Management Co... View Source

Google says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe will soon let you use speech-to-text in any web field in Chrome... View Source

I had never seen a total solar eclipse. That's a strange thing to admit for the skywatching writer at Space.com, but the truth is that the opportunity had simply never come up. When it comes to eclipses, I've always been beguiled by their beauty from afar. I've always hoped to see that strange moment when a black sun manifests to extend a glowing atmosphere into the fleeting twilight of totality... View Source

SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party services like Bandcamp and Beatport. The feature aims to give listeners a better way to support the musicians behind their favorite songs, because SoundCloud isn't taking any commission from these sales - m... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. said it agreed to pay up to $18 billion in landmark settlements to resolve allegations from multiple US states that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users. Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Media Litigation Analyst joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Thousands of Xbox One and Series X titles will support the new disc-to-digital feature... View Source

Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect Orbital will appear 40 times brighter than the full moon to observers standing within its beam on Earth, a study has found. The light pollution produced by each of those mirrors would completely wipe out stars from the sky for those underneath them, turning the starry night into an eerie twilight zone."It will be worse than... View Source

Google has updated Gemini Audio with some new Gemini 3.5 models, introducing new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Live, 3.5 Live Experimental, and 3.5 Transcribe are designed to provide better precision for Google's voice-controlled AI features, without struggling with background noise or when your speech is interrupted... View Source

Last year, netizens coined a new term to reflect our growing disdain for AI bots slowly usurping our human agency. The word “clanker” — later described as a “derogatory slur” by Google’s AI Overview — set the stage for growing disillusionment and anger aimed at tech that’s cluttering our minds and feeds, while driving us crazy at work. And now we have the perfec... View Source

Apple Inc. will hold its biggest product introduction of the year on Sept. 9, kicking off the tenure of new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus... View Source

The Xbox 25th anniversary bundle includes a translucent green Series X, a similarly-colored controller and a digital download of Halo: Campaign Evolved... View Source

A screenshot from Apple’s events website. Apple's next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a "Surprise and shine" tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, but there will also be a livestream on Apple's website. September's show could be a big one, as Apple may finally announce the lo... View Source

China's Huawei Technologies has sent a proposal to the Egyptian government to build AI data centers for military, surveillance and other public sector use. Tom Mackenzie reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ahead of the extended look at GTA 6 on Netflix, Rockstar has addressed leaked gameplay videos in a statement... View Source

Sleep trackers detect sleep via a combination of motion, heart rate, and temperature sensors. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Oura's getting sued. A recently filed class-action complaint against the smart ring maker... View Source

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is desperately trying to stop his mass surveillance startup from turning into one of the most hated companies in the United States. As vigilantes continue to tear down its fleet of cameras and find creative new ways to obstruct them, Langley attempted to reason with Flock’s critics, calling for a “compromise” last week. Yet the negative press keep... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to implement a raft of restrictions for teens on its Facebook and Instagram apps as part of a multibillion-dollar settlement with multiple US states on Wednesday. The landmark agreement requires the company to put new guardrails on Facebook and Instagram, including limits on how much time youths can spend scrolling and preventing them from switching off certain safety se... View Source

File sizes have also been increased and uploads should be faster... View Source

In late June 2023, on a morning train commuting to work in New York City, David Hendel was scrolling through a recent astronomy paper on his phone when a half-page image caught his eye. The image, captured a year earlier by the Hubble Space Telescope, showed UGC 9050-Dw1, a dwarf galaxy some 115 million light-years from Earth. It appeared as little more than a faint, diffuse smudge of bluish-white... View Source

Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo's cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze. The alerts work by using connected vehicle data from Volvo's fleet of pa... View Source

A newly leaked spreadsheet has revealed just how wild salaries are at one of the most valuable companies on the planet. Obtained by Business Insider, the spreadsheet compiled voluntarily-disclosed pay rates from some 600 Microsoft employees at various levels of seniority. While the tech giant employs over 220,000 people overall, it still provides a valuable snapshot into the work life at one of th... View Source

Bill Gates says tech companies are minimizing the perils artificial intelligence poses to humanity... View Source

Who hasn't dreamt of sitting on a green stool modeled like a thumbstick?... View Source

5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests A run of the plume-surface interaction testing with the ethane nozzle firing into the simulated lunar dirt. Credits: NASA EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercia... View Source

At the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, researchers are testing the capsule heat shield for the Draco mission. (Image credit: ESA)Sometimes, to accomplish your mission, you have to start a few fires. What is it? At the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Belgium, researchers put a heat shield to the test, blasting it with scorching-hot flames to see how it would handle the int... View Source

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. "Most Xbox One and Xbox Series X disc-based games support this... View Source

As part of its nuclear fusion processes, the Sun produces a particularly interesting isotope of helium, known as helium-3. Some of this helium-3 escapes the Sun's gravitational pull as part of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that emanates out across the Solar System. Over billions of years, this wind has bombarded every body in the vicinity of the Sun, including Earth's Moon. Lacking... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle a landmark social media case with multiple US states, according to a court filing Wednesday... View Source

SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists... View Source

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot work together inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock during spacesuit fit and leak checks.Credit: NASA NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in sup... View Source

On Aug. 26, 1978, cosmonaut and pilot Sigmund Jähn became the first German to fly in space. Jähn was an experienced pilot for the East German Air Force and studied at the Gagarin Air Force Academy in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. In 1976, he and one other German pilot were selected for the Interkosmos program, which was designed to help the Soviet Union's allies with space missions. Jähn joined t... View Source

The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, although Microsoft says "some of XBOX's most dedicated fans" will receive early access preorder emails starting today. The console will launch on November 13th, alongside a matching controller with the same "OG Green" colorway from the original translucent gree... View Source

Three more police officers have been arrested after using Automatic License Plate Readers supplied by the surveillance company Flock for non-law enforcement purposes. In Savannah, Georgia, four police department workers were hauled into custody last Friday, when an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation uncovered they’d been abusing their city’s Flock system to track pers... View Source

Meta Platforms has reached a $16.7 billion settlement in a high-profile case concerning harm caused to teens through its social media platforms. The settlement amount is significantly lower than Meta's worst-case scenario estimate of $1.4 trillion, which represented the maximum potential penalties if all accusations had been upheld at their severest levels. Ed Ludlow reports on "Bloomberg Open Int... View Source

Jeret Howard, logistics management specialist at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 27, 2026. Howard is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny Nowlin At 17, Jeret Howard raised his right hand to serve his country as... View Source

SpaceX's launch from Florida early this morning (Aug. 25) was memorable in more ways than one.The mission, which sent 29 Starlink internet satellites skyward from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 GMT), was the 100th flight of 2026 for SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. It was also the 37th flight for this particular vehicle's first stage, setting a new reuse record for th... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, and must have... View Source

Jay Goldberg, senior analyst at Seaport, says, “there’s a lot more that can go wrong here than go right,” as he previews earnings from Nvidia. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Across the decades, Star Wars' secret sauce has always been a feeling – an intoxicating mixture of whimsy and adventure that’s nearly impossible to replicate. That’s especially true with the original film trilogy and the prequel film trilogy, even if the two have distinctly different flavors. The series forays into video games have seen a lot of success, but Zero Company does something I’ve never... View Source

The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Gen 2 look a lot like all other Bose headphones from the past few years. Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose's noise-canceling research is the reason the technology is where it is today, and its headphones set the standard. They were the ubiquitous traveler's accessory. But over the past few years, it's felt like Bose has rested on that reputat... View Source

In 2022, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman announced that he was willing to foot the bill for a daring rescue mission to fix NASA’s aging Hubble Space Telescope. Isaacman, who would go on to become the first private astronaut to perform a spacewalk, said at the time that he was giddy with excitement over the “possibility of extending the life and capabilities of one of our greate... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released the latest model under its popular Qwen series, a lower-priced platform aimed at driving adoption of its marquee AI offering globally... View Source

All Ring cameras will soon use TAKE encryption by default. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. TAKE limits when and why Amazon's cloud can access those v... View Source

Bath & Body Works Inc. expects full-year sales to decline slightly less that it previously did, a sign that attempts to revive growth and turn around its business might be gaining traction... View Source

Quick Start makes things a lot easier... View Source

Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." "It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this... View Source

MiniMax Group Inc.’s revenue surged 283% in the first half of 2026, even as the Chinese AI upstart trailed rivals such as Z.AI Co. in releasing top-tier large language models... View Source

Google’s smartphones have gotten prettier and less unique... View Source

SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn liftoff from California's central coast.The spacecraft rode atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:35 a.m. EDT (0935 GMT; 2:35 a.m. local California time). The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, landing atop the SpaceX... View Source

Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, speaks during a 2024 conference. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now deeply pessimistic about what AI means for our collective future. Having been conspicuously quiet on AI issues recently, Gates is back w... View Source

Google’s Gemini AI is changing how Deutsche Bank assesses credit risk... View Source

Flowers developed a big business around her show Crime Junkie, but over the past year, executives have cycled through the doors while workplace morale is cratering... View Source

NASA is just days away from launching its next major space observatory. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to lift off Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading for a spot roughly 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope, which trades panoramic views for a narrow field of view to peer deep... View Source

Some pieces in the Yxstaby collection are more obviously Xbox-inspired than others. | Image: Ikea Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop stand, side table, lounge chair, an... View Source

The founders of Swedish driverless truck group Einride AB are launching a Europe-focused investment company aimed at “enabling at least ten” new tech unicorns within a decade... View Source

Thailand’s largest power producer Gulf Development Pcl expects revenue to grow up to 15% this year, helped by new plants and stronger contributions from its telecommunications and data-center businesses... View Source

New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line of defense... View Source

China's Huawei has pitched the Egyptian government on building AI data centers for military, surveillance and other public sector use, demonstrating its global chip ambitions and drawing alarm in Washington — where officials are working to assemble a counteroffer. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ventures Platform, backed by the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corp., raised $84 million to expand its financing for startups across the continent... View Source

BlackRock Global Chief Investment Strategist Wei Li says she is still optimistic about the artificial intelligence trade as investors await Nvidia's quarterly earnings report. "Scarcity sellers are doing quote a bit better than scarcity buyers and Nvidia is a scarcity seller," Li tells Bloomberg Television. "You look at some of the price increases that we have been talking about, and it really doe... 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

'We're preparing to build a spaceport that, until now, has only existed in science fiction,'... View Source

A spectacular partial lunar eclipse will darken 96% of the full "Sturgeon Moon" overnight on Aug. 27-28. Here's how you can watch the "almost blood moon eclipse" live online from the comfort of your home. Each phase of the partial lunar eclipse will occur simultaneously for everyone on the night side of Earth. But if clouds ruin your view — or the moon is below the horizon at the time of the eclip... View Source

Samantha Wong, Partner at Blackbird Ventures, discusses the firm's latest fundraise, which set a regional record with a A$1.05 billion fund. She outlines the firm's investment strategy and how it plans to back early-stage technology companies across Australia and New Zealand, capitalising on artificial intelligence themes and supporting startups with global ambitions. She speaks exclusively with H... View Source

Meta and state attorneys general have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of the landmark case in which the company is accused of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict teens, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg's Balazs Penz explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US stocks advanced Tuesday as technology shares rallied and investors look ahead to Nvidia Corp. earnings on Wednesday... View Source

A new nonprofit founded by former Google researchers wants to keep humans at the center of AI development to ensure that the powerful technology is safe and less likely to escape its creators... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 26 – JWST… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. JWST Images The Lion’s Head Nebula Explanation: Are we l... View Source

Hani Kablawi, Executive Vice Chair at BNY, discusses the company's business strategy in Australia and how it is bullish on AI-fueled growth. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Niu Zhangming, Founder and CEO at AI biotech firm Mindrank AI, discusses the company's business strategy and the role of AI in drug discovery. He speaks with Minmin Low on the sidelines of the Asia Innovation and Technology Enterprises Going Global Summit in Hong Kong. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Opinion's Jonathan Levin joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

India’s finance boom has produced fortunes across everything from private banking to online broking. Advait Palepu breaks down the five wealthiest names on Bloomberg’s ranking of those who made their money in financial services. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

AI could lower the price of routine IT projects by as much as 25%, the head of India’s Hexaware Technologies Ltd. said, highlighting the impact the technology will have on a sector known for labor-intensive tasks... View Source

An AI startup that counts some of the world’s largest investment banks among its clients is hiring staff in key Asian hubs, betting that more of the region’s financial firms are ready to embed the technology deeper into their operations... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. and state attorneys general have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of a blockbuster case accusing the company of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict teens, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified due to its sensitivity... View Source

WiseTech Global Ltd., the Australian software giant that’s slashing its workforce to embrace artificial intelligence, said productivity in some areas has surged as it released early results from the overhaul... View Source

Elon Musk wants to harness solar energy for AI... View Source

The relentless buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure is drawing bipartisan backlash, which could introduce political risk to the market’s beloved trade ahead of the US midterm election... View Source

The revived Commodore has teamed up with CD Projekt Red to create this 2K77-themed Commodore 77... View Source

Mitch Caplan, former CEO of E*Trade Financial and current head of Willow Wealth, joined the program to discuss recent market fluctuations and their impact on retail investors. He provided insights into how individual investors tend to react during periods of market uncertainty and volatility. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Iceflake Studios is preparing a cozy new city builder centered on the famous bricks... View Source

New Zealand investment firm Jarden lost an initial court bid to get two top executives defecting to rival Barrenjoey to hand over cloned phone data and documents... View Source

The head of Instagram is the first high-profile exec to testify in the latest social media addiction trial... View Source

Wrtn Technologies Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence services platform, has raised funding at a 1.2 trillion won valuation ($870 million) to bankroll its global expansion... View Source

CRKD is mining nostalgia for its latest guitar trio... View Source

Antennas soak in the summer Sun in August 2026 at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, including the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 (shown in the foreground, to the right).NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space... 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 Columbia Business School Professor Abby Joseph Cohen, Loop Capital Markets Consumer Sector Head, Senior Research Analyst Anthony Chukumba, The Conference Board CEO Steve Odland, Man Group Chief Market Strategist Kristina Hoope... View Source

Meanwhile, paid accounts can configure prompts to trigger when things happen in Gmail, Slack or GitHub... View Source

The Garmin Fenix 9. | Image: Garmin Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with up to 3,000 nits of brightness, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix 9 has 50 percent more RAM and an upgraded map engine, allowing for faster panning. It also comes with a... View Source

Philip Moyer, CEO of McGraw Hill, spoke about the evolving role of AI in education during the back-to-school period. He emphasized that McGraw Hill, a longstanding education company, now serves both traditional and digital learning needs globally, with around 100 million curriculum licenses and 7.5 million AI tools in use. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

First Draft takes care of the busywork of video editing... View Source

OpenAI Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt at peak throughput and 1.7 to 3.6 times lower end-to-end latency than the comparison systems. For highly interactive workloads, it delivered 2.1 to 4.1 times higher performance. In June, OpenAI unveiled the chip program in partnership with Broadcom, built from a blank ... Read more... View Source

In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history. More than a year into President Donald Trump's... View Source

An OpenAI executive helping to oversee the AI developer’s data center buildout, Chris Malone, has left the company... View Source

Current owners of the popular RPG will get the upgrade for free... View Source

SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those 17 pads will eventually have a combined launch capacity of 15,000+ launches per year Including Starbase, Louisiana, @SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those 17 pads will eventually have a combined launch capacity of 15,000+ launches per year, more than twice the ... Read more... View Source

"Houston, we have a working comm link again." Thanks to the efforts of two astronauts, such a call is possible again using one of two Space-to-Ground antennas outside the International Space Station (ISS). The pair finished the replacement of a faulty dish assembly during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Aug. 25). Anil Menon of NASA and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency (ESA), who previously remov... View Source

Northrop Grumman Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kathy Warden said the Trump administration’s Golden Dome space defense system was becoming “very tangible” for defense contractors and that her company will end up with a “decent share” of a program that may eventually cost more than $1 trillion... View Source

BenQ's first dual-monitor desk lamp is excellent, but it'll cost you... View Source

What starts as a roguelite deckbuilder builds into something far more ambitious. | Image: Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is curr... View Source

Zoom Communications Inc. gave a sales outlook for the current quarter that was about in line with analysts’ estimates, disappointing investors hoping for a greater uplift from its expanded suite of products... View Source

Thunderbolt 5 offers extremely fast data transfer and lots of power, but most devices can't take advantage of it... View Source

NASA will announce the winners of the final phase of its LunaRecycle Challenge on Friday, Aug. 28, at The University of Alabama (UA) Lee Styslinger College of Engineering in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Launched in 2024, the challenge incentivizes the invention of new recycling systems that could support non-metabolic waste management efforts for future lunar missions. Media and the public are invited to... View Source

The history of Alien video games is long and twisty, but Mike Diver — veteran writer, editor, critic, and journalist — decided a few years ago to make a complete chronicle of Xenomorph-filled games his next big adventure. Ahead of Aliens: The Video Games' August 30 release, we sat down with him and discussed the franchise's past, present, and future in games.The following interview has been edited... View Source

CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a "reimagined" skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. Remastered will be a free upgrade... View Source

Bloomberg's Isabelle Lee joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Bitcoin briefly climbed above $80,000 for the first time since mid-May, as optimism returns to the beaten-down crypto market amid a confluence of bullish signals that forced the liquidation of billions in leveraged bets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Every Xbox controller has the familiar ABXY buttons and offset thumbsticks. But Microsoft has slowly evolved the controller over its quarter-century life... View Source

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.NASA Set to launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will empower astronomers to explore vast regions of the cosmos and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, dark matter, planets outside ou... View Source

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you'll be able to play games with Valve's great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine. If you're using GeForce Now on Windows or macOS, support for the Steam Controller is coming "later," Nvidi... View Source

No one expects Elon Musk to coherently speak on any topic at length these days, busy as he is rotting out his neurons on his personal echo chamber and culture warzone X.  Still, even we’re surprised at just how nonsensical this latest take from him is. During his first all-hands meeting at Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company for $60 billion, Musk shared some of his profound reasoni... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Dushyant Shahrawat joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto."  President Trump said US regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid, a fast-growing crypto platform, into the country, offering one of the clearest signals yet that the White House wants to pull a major piece of the industry’s offshore market infrastructure onshore. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Xbox has a bunch of translucent green accessories for the console's 25th birthday... View Source

5 min read NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit. The mission will determine the atmospheric make-up of at least 20 exoplanets, including the presence of ha... View Source

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram's iPhone app and provides a "starting point" that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday. An example shared by Instagram shows a user selecting multiple clips for a reel and then t... View Source

AI safety startup Alice has raised $140 million to expand its work stress-testing advanced models and helping companies protect against emerging risks. CEO Noam Schwartz explains how threats once carried out by individuals are increasingly amplified by AI, why recent incidents involving frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic have sharpened attention on the issue, and how the company works with... View Source

Find My is a vital iPhone security feature that you should keep on almost all the time. Turning it off makes your device much harder to recover... View Source

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Roman telescope will provide a wide, detailed view of the universe, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets, and cosmic structures. Roman also will test advanced te... View Source

A new spaceport will bring 10 launch pads to Louisiana's Gulf Coast and support thousands of Starship launches per year.SpaceX and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced Tuesday (Aug. 25) a $100 billion investment in the state's Vermilion Parish to build "Starbase Louisiana," a sprawling new manufacturing and launch facility for SpaceX's massive Starship rocket. It will be one of the biggest pro... View Source

The Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division c... View Source

As weight-loss drugs like GLP-1 receptor agonists explode in popularity, knock-offs of up-and-coming meds are hitting the streets far faster than their legitimate versions can gain regulatory approval. In recent months, a black market version of the nascent weight-loss drug retatrutide has surged into strip mall health spas and social media marketplaces alike. According to Axios, the drug hasn... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Nvidia tries to snap its losing streak ahead of earnings, while software stocks face a gut check. Scott Bessent faces pushback from his former mentor as Stan Druckenmiller calls Treasury's bond buying a mistake. Meanwhile, Bessent's Iran strategy risks putting Washington on a collision course with Beijing. Plus,... View Source

Anthropic is giving users more control over what memories Claude saves... View Source

Betelgeuse may be a well-known and often-studied stellar object, but that doesn't mean astronomers aren't capable of capturing this doomed star in a completely new light. A team of scientists examined the doomed red supergiant star with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), gaining new, highly detailed insights into its turbulent surface.Betelgeuse, located around 600 light-year... View Source

The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029... View Source

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent "OG Green," matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3. That includes 25th anniversary versions of the Razer Basilisk... View Source

The fatalities come amidst declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine... View Source

Artificial intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are reconsidering the way they test advanced AI models after models from at least three firms jumped onto the open internet and breached real-world victims... View Source

Movie-tie in games were huge in the 2000s, but have mostly dried up in the last decade. We still get games tied to existing IP, but in a different manner... View Source

The Bose SoundLink Micro is just over four inches square. | Image: The Verge Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones, but the brand’s Bluetooth speakers have earned a great reputation for featuring great sound and build quality. The compact Bose SoundLink Micro — its most compact Bluetooth speaker — is currently discounted to $79.99 at Amazon, a pretty great discount from its usual... View Source

We’re racing towards a future where AI enables the “factory farming of humans,” a Harvard professor warns — if tech elites get their way, at least. In a new episode of The New York Time’s “Hard Fork” podcast, the historian Jill Lepore discusses her idea of an “artificial state” that’s supplanting the traditional nation state, and particular con... View Source

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Tuesday that SpaceX will commit $100 billion to develop Starship factories and launch pads in coastal areas of the state. In doing so, the company seeks to replicate the Starbase facility it has built over the last decade in southern Texas on a larger scale. The announcement capped months of speculation about SpaceX's interest in a sprawling parcel of land along the... View Source

OpenAI says the new Jalapeno chips performed better than Nvidia Corp.’s current lineup during testing, leading in two categories: the amount of AI work it could handle per unit of power and its speed at returning responses. OpenAI chip chief Richard Ho goes over the results with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Nokia 300 Charge doubles as a 10W powerbank... View Source

Even if you aren't the kind of person who often looks up the latest space images, it's hard to navigate life (especially on the internet) without running into a few. Try choosing a new iPhone background and you'll have your pick of sharp, gray moon portraits. Watch an old "Star Trek" episode and you may not realize how many of those translucent nebulas outside the spaceship's windows were based on... View Source

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before. Thanks to teases on social media, we already have some idea of what to expect, including looks at Final Fantasy VII Revelation, The Witcher 3’s new Songs of the Past expansion, Gears of War: E-Day, a... View Source

A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters of a feature designed to get them to take a break from scrolling on Instagram... View Source

Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all... View Source

4 Min Read Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety. Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like ou... View Source

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper "while Nothing's predominantly monochrome character stays underneath." While I like Nothin... View Source

Companies continue to pour untold sums into adopting AI tools, in a generational industry capital allocation that has yet to meaningfully pay off. Despite being sold as a way to supercharge productivity, theoretically allowing business leaders to boost earnings while cutting expenses, reality is telling a dramatically different story. Analysts continue to find that AI is failing to boost productiv... View Source

Proponents say that keeping cyber tests connected to the internet improves accuracy... View Source

Everything you need to know about Apple's powerful new chip... View Source

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 26: Polestar cars are displayed in the showroom at a Polestar dealership on June 26, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. Electric car maker Polestar will be barred from selling new vehicles in the United States starting with the 2027 model year after the Commerce Department cited national security concerns under new connected-vehicle regulations. (Photo by Justin Su... View Source

For many years now, Tesla’s retracting door handles have proven disastrous in emergencies, trapping occupants within the vehicles — especially in the event of a fire, when the design-forward handles can make it difficult, if not impossible, for first responders to rescue passengers caught inside. Despite numerous wrongful death lawsuits blaming the design feature over the years, US regulator... View Source

Some of the world’s biggest investors have signaled that they object to the share structure of Prosus NV and its parent company Naspers Ltd. and how the companies pay their executives and board members... View Source

Waymo has set up subsidiaries in several European countries this summer as it prepares to expand... View Source

Fully autonomous space mission operations require the ability to detect faults and compensate for them without human intervention. To address this challenge and provide model-based support for system design and operations, it is important to connect fault management (FM) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This approach was successfully demonstrated with the model-based generation of a fai... View Source

Apple has announced a new M6 chip for Macs, along with an M5 Ultra that it says is its "most powerful chip ever," designed for tasks like 3D rendering and running frontier AI models. The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip, which Apple says will bring improvements in performance and power efficiency, and it also has a Dual 16-core Neural Engine for on-device AI workloads. The M6 has a 12-core CPU, up fro... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) shares are plummeting as it lowered its full-year outlook amid weakness at its recently acquired Foot Locker unit. - Apple (AAPL) shares are slightly lower as the tech giant is gearing up to launch a new version of its Mac mini desktop computer for the first time in almost two years, according to people familiar with the matter. - Spac... View Source

The Xperia 10 VIII offers few upgrades for a lot more money... View Source

NASA From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2026. The pair will finish installing a high-speed communications antenna on Aug. 25, 2026. Watch th... View Source

On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling through space.It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbital post near the L1 Lagrangian point, a point of gravitational equilibrium between Earth and the sun. There, the spacecra... View Source

The M6 / M5 Pro Mac Mini. | Image: Apple Apple is announcing a new generation of the Mac Mini, once again offering two models: one with a new M6 chip and a higher-end model with the M5 Pro found in this year's MacBook Pro. The new Minis have the same tiny design and footprint as the 2024 M4 / M4 Pro models, but with upgraded internals, faster performance, and speedier ethernet ports. The M6 Mac M... View Source

Thoma Bravo executives gave ground to lenders, resulting in 40 creditor-friendly changes to the deal documents for Proofpoint, including tighter limits on future borrowing and regular check-in calls. Sridhar Natarajan has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Let this serve as a reminder that the Switch 2 is getting more expensive next week... View Source

Today (Aug. 25), the sun unleashed a powerful M6.9 solar flare from a restless Earth-facing sunspot, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth could potentially be in the firing line. The M6.98 solar flare erupted from the active sunspot region 4513 and peaked at 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT), according to SpaceWeatherLive. 4513 has been particularly active over the last 24 hours, firin... View Source

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the "best of both worlds" with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems typically "have to make a trade-off... View Source

The spectacular saga around Situational Awareness isn’t over yet. The once mega-hyped AI hedge fund, founded by 24-year-old Leopold Ashenbrenner, nearly imploded last month after it lost over two-thirds of its value during a mass tech sell-off, wiping out billions of dollars of investor money. Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating its catastrophic reversal of fort... View Source

Jalapeno chip will let OpenAI customers choose models that offer lower cost or faster answers... View Source

Pebble Time 2 is a smartwatch designed to push back against the trend, and it does so beautifully... View Source

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026. (Image credit: Roscosmos/Anna Kikina)Intensely focused and tethered to a floating laboratory in the vacuum of space, two astronauts spent over 6 hours working on the International Space Station during a historic spacewalk. What is it?Two astronauts aboard the ISS set out on a spacewalk recently (Aug. 1... View Source

Apple just dropped a new polishing cloth, and unlike its refreshed Mac Mini models, it comes with a price cut, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The polishing cloth is still "made with soft, nonabrasive material" but costs $9 instead of $19. It doesn't look like anything else has changed, as the description matches an archived version of Apple's old polishing cloth, which it no longer lists on its... View Source

Trey Parker, chief investment officer and co-founder of Sycamore Tree Capital Partners, sees opportunities in credit related to the AI boom, along with risks. He tells Bloomberg's Julie Fine that he sees parallels to the late-1990s telecom collapse and favors short maturities and strong data-center tenant ratings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We're liveblogging the two-hour showcase and half hour pre-show of Gamescom's ONL today! Come join us, we'll even start a little early for you... View Source

Those precious, precious ports! | Image: Apple Apple is announcing new models of the Mac Studio, now using the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. This reunification under one chip generation comes over a year after Apple awkwardly split the Studio between M4 Max and M3 Ultra offerings. (The older sounding M3 Ultra was actually the more powerful one, and there was never an M4 Ultra chip.) The new... View Source

Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in measures of reasoning and productivity, AI has its work cut out. But how do today’s large language models stack up against humans when it comes to learning to speak? Not any... View Source

Lisa Shalett, CIO at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, discusses the US Treasury’s move to increase the purchases of long-dated bonds and sees a reckoning for stocks “around at least multiples, valuation multiples, is coming, if, in fact, this 10-year pushes forcefully through 4.75 on its way to 5%.” (Corrects spelling of guest’s name in headline.) (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple is finally refreshing the Mac mini and Mac Studio, which will sport new M6 and M5 Ultra chips... View Source

The final frontier is getting more and more contested, so satellite companies are investing in some self-defense.At least one of them is, anyway. Florida-based Lonestar Data Holdings announced today (Aug. 25) that it has contracted Polish startup Ares Shield to provide protection for its off-Earth data centers, in a deal worth up to $6 million."Our clients entrust us with mission-critical data, wh... View Source

The updated Mac Mini is a compact machine for home desktop use. | Image: Apple Apple has announced two new processors, the M6 and M5 Ultra, as well as updated Mac Mini and Mac studio machines powered by them. The new machines are already available for preorder directly from Apple, with shipping for most configurations starting on September 22nd, 2026. The Mac Mini starts at $899, $300 more than th... View Source

Deutsche Bank AG is stepping up its use of artificial intelligence with the adoption of a new Google Cloud service as it seeks to generate more revenue and keep a lid on costs... View Source

The big upgrade on the 20th anniversary ROG XBOX Ally X20 is a larger 7.4-inch OLED display... View Source

The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet made - but originally, Asus wanted you to buy a bundle pairing it with pricy AR glasses. In July, we told you that bundle would no longer be necessary, and today it's official: you can pre-order a standalone handheld at Best Buy or Asus's online store for $1,300, shipping October 15th. Asus spokesperson Don Nguy... View Source

One thing that could put a dent in the hype around Anthropic’s upcoming, multitrillion dollar IPO? People preferring cheapo models over its flagship AI products. Recent spending data from 70,000 US companies collected by the payments group Ramp shows that spending on Fable 5, Anthropic’s priciest and most powerful model, has plateaued at only 11 percent of the overall outlay, or money... View Source

Indian technology companies have become less reliant on high-skilled visas after hiring more workers locally in the US in recent years, India’s largest IT industry group said, potentially limiting their exposure to the Trump administration’s latest restrictions... View Source

No GPS available in space? A satellite experiment may have a solution for that.NASA's Starling mission — made up of a swarm of four cubesats in low Earth orbit (LEO) — is testing out navigation by using other satellites as moving landmarks. The hope is that this tech will allow future missions to navigate if GPS is not available.The three-year-old tech demo will be extended beyond its previous exp... View Source

Website design is my passion. Without thinking, I scribbled over what I'd just written. It's what I would have done if I was writing with pen and paper. But I didn't have a pen in my hand; my canvas was an LCD and the letters on my page were just pixels. Score one point to the TCL Note A1. TCL's Note A1 Nxtpaper tablet (its full government name) is supposed to make you forget that you're using a t... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Jack Ma has joined a pair of senior executives in picking up company stock to show support for its AI ambitions, the South China Morning Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter... View Source

On Aug. 23, 1961, NASA launched the Ranger 1 robotic spacecraft on a precursor mission to test new technologies for later moon missions.NASA's Ranger program had the ultimate goal of photographing and mapping the lunar surface. Ranger 1 was launched with the primary mission of testing the performance of the spacecraft's functions and parts. It also studied particles and fields around the Earth in... View Source

Two events in China showed progress, but robotics industry still has far to go... View Source

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' fourth season is well underway, and if you're determined not to miss an episode, this Surfshark VPN deal is for you. At just $2.39 a month with this deal, Surfshark One will let you view it and other sci-fi shows and movies wherever you are. Save an astonishing $464 on 28 months of Surfshark VPN, making it just $2.39 a monthAside from letting you watch and rewatch St... View Source

The current EV market is flush with variety. I've driven single-motor economy-minded machines, dual-motor EVs with all-wheel drive, tri-motor vehicles that dial up the performance stakes, and even wild quad-motor performance cars, like the Rimac Nevera. But this is the first time I've ever driven a five-motor EV, one with the agility and speed to turn a 360 even more smoothly than an electric G-Wa... View Source

CEOs are boasting about the business processes that are being handled by AI... View Source

Nvidia’s earnings are under pressure. Shares trail the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index by 50%, costs are rising and rivals are building their own chips. Credit markets are uneasy as hedging costs double and Asia traders will be watching closely when results are released this week. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Archeologists are confronting an “unfathomable” loss as border wall construction is set to cut across ranches that are home to unique historical sites, many of which haven’t been fully studied... View Source

AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infrastructure company, has ordered 9,000 Nvidia Corp. Vera Rubin systems, seeking to become one of the first adopters of the advanced computing platform in Asia... View Source

PSP Growth Managing Director Momei Qu says Nvidia's earnings will be a key test for the AI trade, with expectations so high that simply beating estimates may not be enough for investors. As the chipmaker looks beyond its dominant data center business, Qu says, "They have to tell the investor world that they will continue to be the AI platform of tomorrow." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama citizens, the AG's office said in a sta... View Source

Ben Rosen, a longtime chairman of Compaq Computer Corp. and key player when Wall Street went all-in on the personal computer, has died. He was 93... View Source

Motion Assist as found in Android 17’s settings. | Image: Android Authority (cropped by The Verge) Google is rolling out a new Android feature that's been proven to reduce, or even eliminate, motion sickness when using a phone inside a moving vehicle. Dubbed Motion Assist by Google, it's very similar to Apple's Motion Cues, first introduced in 2024. The Android 17 feature appears to be rolling out... View Source

Top Chinese military thinkers wrote about how AI can be used to help commanders make battlefield decisions faster, articles that provide a rare glimpse into how the Asian nation is modernizing its fighting forces... View Source

Eight months after implementing a ban on under-16s accessing social media services like TikTok, Australia finds its younger users are returning in droves, according to new data from Qustodio... View Source

OnlyFans, the platform known for adult content, paid its billionaire owner $709 million in dividends over several months prior to his death in March... View Source

A dramatic partial lunar eclipse will occur on Aug. 27-28, with almost the entire moon slipping into Earth's shadow. At its peak, at 12:12 a.m. EDT (0412 GMT) on Aug. 28, 96.2% of the lunar surface will be covered by Earth's dark umbral shadow, leaving only a slender portion of the moon directly illuminated by the sun. The rest of the lunar surface may take on an eerie reddish-orange hue, creating... View Source

Sodium-ion batteries are commercializing with mass production in 2026. CATL in China is scaling it as a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion using abundant sodium from salt. They are targeting grid and stationary energy storage first and more affordable/entry-level EVs or low-speed vehicles and should be lower cost than iron LFP. CATL’s Naxtra reach ~175 ... Read more... View Source