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Jim Mintern, CEO of CRH, discusses AI, data center demand and the company’s M&A strategy and outlook with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” He says its biggest exposure is infrastructure. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs. While the decision runs counter to Meta's original plan to own an immersive virtual world that could serve as the future home for all online interaction, it fits with the recent cuts it ma... View Source

Winnie Harlow, supermodel and founder of Cay Skin; Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, former model and designer; Loren Ridinger, CEO of Market America; and Isabela Grutman, founder of ISA Grutman, discuss The CEO Club, premiering Monday on Prime Video. Ocleppo Hilfiger says it’s not your typical reality TV show (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Formula 1 has been receiving star treatment from Apple for awhile, and now the racing series will literally be getting even bigger. Apple is partnering with IMAX to show five races from the 2026 season. The Miami Grand Prix on May 3, the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7, the British Grand Prix on July 5, the Italian Grand Prix on September 6 and the United States Grand Prix on October 25 will be aired... View Source

Each episode of HBO's The Pitt features some degree of medical trauma that almost makes the hospital drama feel like a horror series. Some patients are dealing with gnarly lacerations while others are fighting off vicious blood infections that could rob them of their limbs, and the chaos of working in an emergency room often leaves The Pitt's central characters shaken. But as alarming as many of T... View Source

Dave Bozeman, CEO of C.H. Robinson, discusses the company’s AI strategy, saying it has used AI as a “game changer.” He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system."... View Source

Brian Boland spent more than a decade figuring out how to build a system that would make Meta money. On Thursday, he told a California jury it incentivized drawing more and more users, including teens, onto Facebook and Instagram - despite the risks. Boland's testimony came a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a case over whether Meta and YouTube are liable for allegedly harming... View Source

OpenAI said it has “visibility into what we are going to need” regarding chip supply, while emphasizing the need for democratic nations to develop shared safety standards for artificial intelligence... View Source

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere... View Source

With Ring facing fierce backlash over its Search Party feature, a new program is challenging developers to move Ring doorbell footage off of Amazon's cloud - and into users' own devices. The Fulu Foundation, the consumer advocacy group cofounded by YouTuber Louis Rossmann, is offering an initial bounty of $10,000 to anyone who can integrate Ring doorbells with a local PC or server, while cutting o... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses OpenAI nearing the first phase of a new funding round that could bring in more than $100 billion. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg testified in a landmark social media trial, telling a jury it is "very difficult" to enforce Instagram's age limits. And, the DOJ is taking a closer look at how theater chains could be impacted by a sale of Warner Bros. Discovery. (Source: Bloomber... View Source

"This was a really challenging event in our recent history."... View Source

NASA on Thursday announced it has formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a "Type A" mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was a serious failure. As part of the announcement, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sent an agency-wide letter that recognized the shortcomings of both Starliner's developer, Boeing, as well as the space agency itself. Starliner fl... View Source

Lilya Tessler, head of global fintech and blockchain at Sidley Austin, discusses Bitcoin’s recent softness and the broader crypto outlook. She tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that stalled legislative progress on cryptocurrency regulation is adding uncertainty to the market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

✅ Progressing well — no major hydrogen leaks reported this time. ✅ Rocket is now in its final fueling configuration (“replenish mode”) on all stages (core stage + Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage). ✅ Brief ground communications glitch earlier this morning (around 11 a.m.) was quickly resolved by switching to backup systems. ✅ Teams have completed ... Read more... View Source

Germany is looking to dispel concerns that its planned €3 billion ($3.5 billion) order for attack drones from a Peter Thiel-backed defense start-up could pose a security threat due to the role of the controversial US investor... View Source

Slay the Spire 2 will launch in early access next month. This sequel to the hugely popular 2019 roguelike deckbuilder hits early access on Steam beginning March 5, 2026. Along with releasing the teaser trailer above, developer Mega Crit shared some details about its goals for this phase ahead of the game's official release."Slay the Spire requires a lot of player feedback so we can balan... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept shows several advanced air mobility aircraft concepts staged for a medical transport. NASA’s recent aircraft noise study included sounds from multiple types of advanced air mobility concept aircraft.NASA/Lillian Gipson New kinds of aircraft taking to the skies could mean unfamiliar sounds overhead... View Source

OpenAI may be a household name, but Anthropic could soon be earning more revenue. Anthropic has recently grown substantially faster (10× vs 3.4× per year) and could overtake OpenAI by mid-2026 if recent trends continue. Extrapolating recent trends is an aggressive way to forecast revenues. Growth rates this high often slow as companies scale, and ... Read more... View Source

'Together for liberty!' Director Justin Lin will helm this iron-fisted adaptation of 'Helldivers 2'... View Source

Many modern gamepads have adopted a modular design in recent years, from the Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded to Hyperkin’s clamp-on X5 Alteron for the Nintendo Switch. However, few of them are quite as innovative as last year’s Turtle Beach Stealth Pivot, which is now on sale at Amazon and Best Buy for an all-time low of $99.99 ($40 off). Turtle Beach Stealth Pivot Where to Buy: $139.99 $99.99 at Amazon... View Source

Chinese tech giant ByteDance is hiring for nearly 100 open roles within its artificial intelligence division in the US, as it aims to compete with American firms. Bloomberg’s Alexandra Levine discusses the plans and implications with Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Horizon Central, the town square of Meta's metaverse, already runs on the new Meta Horizon game engine. | Image: Horizon Central Meta, after laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs division, closing three VR studios, stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, and discontinuing its metaverse for work, is announcing a major change for its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform. Instead... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a jury it is ‘difficult’ to enforce age restrictions on teens using Instagram. Mary Anne Franks, George Washington University Law School Professor in Intellectual Property, Technology, and Civil Rights Law, explains what impact this case and others could have. She joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Rivian suggests that vehicle owners can leave their phone at home (or perhaps in a glove box) and instead control some aspects of their EV using a new Apple Watch app. With a tap of your watch, you can unlock and lock the doors, sound the alarm and vent the windows. After the digital key is set up, R1S and R1T Gen 2 owners can unlock their vehicle automatically simply by walking up to it thanks to... View Source

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by dark matter ever seen... View Source

The nifty universal adapter lets you charge your electronics in more than 200 countries worldwide. | Image: Baseus Packing multiple charging adapters can quickly eat up space, which is why an all-in-one travel adapter like the Baseus EnerCore CG11 makes for a good investment. The travel-friendly accessory works in most countries and lets you charge several devices at once, and right now, Amazon is... View Source

Meta says it no longer focuses on how much time users spend on Instagram, but Minda Smiley, senior analyst at EMARKETER, says the metric is still crucial for social networks and their bottom lines. She says any changes Meta or other companies are forced to make because of ongoing litigation could have a financial impact. Smiley joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony is closing Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes, Bloomberg reports. Bluepoint's last major project was God of War: Ragnarok from 2022, which it co-developed with Sony Santa Monica. According to Bloomberg, Sony decided to shut down the studio following "a recent business review." Around 70 employees will lose their job... View Source

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too... View Source

Siminoff acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that including maps that showed mass surveillance in an ad was a mistake. | Screenshot from Ring video Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has been on an "explanation tour," as The New York Times puts it, following the fallout from its Super Bowl ad and the introduction of its Search Party feature. In an interview with The Times this week, Simi... View Source

Artificial intelligence-linked companies fueled US convertible bond volume to a record haul and that trend will likely continue this year... View Source

Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within Facebook. "After messenger.com goes away, you will be automatically redirected to use facebook.com/messages for messaging on a computer," the help page reads. "You can continue your conv... View Source

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on July 3, 2024. This view is from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to the port adjacent to the Starliner.Credit: NASA At a news conference ... View Source

Look out for "Earthshine" brightening the shadowed region of the lunar disk close to the new moon phase... View Source

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals processIt is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now researchers say they have fresh insights into how the ultra-red, 4bn-year-old body known as Arrokoth came to have its distinctive snowman-like shape.Arrokoth sits in the Kuiper belt, a vast, thick ring o... View Source

Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls, according to Bloomberg. The change was made "following a recent business review," a spokesperson told the publication. About 70 staffers will be cut, and the studio will shut down in March. "Bluepoint Games is an incredibly talented team and their techn... View Source

The PlayStation subsidiary previously made remakes of games like ‘Demon’s Souls’... View Source

Toy Fair 2026 just wrapped earlier this week and while I would have liked to spend even more time there, I have my own kids (and all their toys and trinkets) to look after. That said, there were a ton of cool new products on display at the Javits Center in New York City that set the stage for the rest of the year, so here's a quick look at some of the most interesting releases from the larges... View Source

A hacker tricked a popular AI coding tool into installing OpenClaw - the viral, open-source AI agent OpenClaw that "actually does things" - absolutely everywhere. Funny as a stunt, but a sign of what to come as more and more people let autonomous software use their computers on their behalf. The hacker took advantage of a vulnerability in Cline, an open-source AI coding agent popular among develop... View Source

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company’s bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery offer great value to Warner Bros. shareholders and great long-term value to Netflix. He speaks with Ed Ludlow and Lucas Shaw on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube's "Ask" button is making its way to the living room. The Gemini-powered feature is now rolling out as an experiment on smart TVs, gaming consoles and streaming devices. 9to5Google first spotted a Google support page announcing the change.Like on mobile devices and desktop, the feature is essentially a Gemini chatbot trained on each video's content. Selecting that "... View Source

Beijing sparkles with Lunar New Year celebrations... View Source

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing TP-Link over claims that the router-maker is misleading customers about its ties to China. In a lawsuit filed this week, Paxton claims TP-Link is "masking its Chinese connections," while serving as "an open window for Chinese-sponsored threat actors and Chinese intelligence agencies." TP-Link was founded in China, but has attempted to distance itself from... View Source

Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around such partnerships have failed... View Source

Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff has indicated that the company's controversial Search Party feature might not always be just for lost dogs, according to emails obtained by 404 Media. A creepy surveillance tool being used to surveil. Who could have predicted that? "I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pi... View Source

We rate the Potensic Atom SE as the best cheap drone for beginners thanks to its build quality and value for money. Now this bundle is at its lowest-ever price... View Source

The Hunt - Apple TV's new French-language drama that was previously put on indefinite hold following concerns about plagiarism - has been given a solid release date. Today, Apple announced that The Hunt, which was produced by French studio Gaumont and directed by Cédric Anger, is set to premiere on March 4th. The news comes after months of delays that began when French media reporter Clemen... View Source

Mounting fears that AI could upend the traditional software business model have triggered a broad selloff across the sector — causing a "SaaSpocalypse." Jared Sleeper, a partner at Avenir, joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss what types of companies have the best chance of surviving the AI disruption and how investors are dealing with the changing landsca... View Source

At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI  — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital data centers. Musk's reputation might suggest otherwise, but according to experts, such a plan isn't a complete fantasy. However, if executed at the scale suggested, some of them believe it w... View Source

Credit: NASA During a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday NASA will discuss the findings of investigations into the 2024 crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station. The news conference will stream live on NASA’s YouTube channel. An instant replay will be available online. NASA participants include: Administrator Jared Isaacman Associate Administrator Amit Kshat... View Source

Scientists may have narrowed down the landing site of the Soviet Union's Luna 9, which in 1966 became the first spacecraft to touch down softly on the moon... View Source

West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of allowing the distribution and storage of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in iCloud. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey claims that by abandoning a CSAM detection system in favor of end-to-end encryption, iCloud has become a "secure frictionless avenue for the possession, protection,... View Source

Booking Holdings, the company behind Priceline and OpenTable, reported a strong quarter and announced a stock split. But shares came under pressure as investors weighed the threat of AI disruption. Chief Executive Officer Glenn Fogel joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how he is positioning the company to compete in the AI era and where he still sees momentum in global travel. (Source: Bloom... View Source

The office of the Attorney General for West Virginia announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging that the company had "knowingly" allowed its iCloud platform "to be used as a vehicle for distributing and storing child sexual abuse material." The state alleges this went on for years but drew no action from the tech giant "under the guise of user pr... View Source

4 Min Read Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisible A shock wave interacting with a thin layer of fluid at Mach 10 in a wind tunnel, as captured by the Self-Aligned Focusing Schlieren (SAFS) system invented in 2020 by researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Compared to conventional Schlieren imaging it eliminates irrelevant features such astunne... View Source

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on December 13, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) dropped her proposal to allow robotaxi companies to launch commercially in cities other than New York City, citing a lack of support among state legislators, Blo... View Source

OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than $100 billion. Bloomberg Tech's Ed Ludlow broke the news and joined Bloomberg Open Interest with the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Redwire This June 5, 2024, image shows lysozyme crystals aboard the International Space Station. Lysozyme is a protein found in bodily fluids like tears, saliva, and milk, and is used as a control compound to demonstrate well-formed crystals. Lysozyme plays a vital role in innate immunity, protecting against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The crystals were grown with Redwire’s PIL-BOX in... View Source

Marques Brownlee will likely be sold the first commercial Tesla Cybercab that will be used outside of Tesla. Most Tesla Cybercabs will be built and used internally for the Tesla robotaxi fleet. Marques made a bet that a Cybercab would not be made and sold for less than $30,000 before 2027 and delivered to a ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX will land a rocket in The Bahamas for the second time ever today (Feb. 19), and you can watch the action live... View Source

GE is showing off prototypes of its new compact nugget ice maker at the KBIS trade show. | Image: GE GE has announced two new versions of its popular Opal nugget ice machines with smaller footprints that take up less counter space, and more affordable price tags. Like GE's larger and pricier Opal 2.0 Ultra, the two new machines make nugget ice - frequently also referred to as chewable ice, or pell... View Source

Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab chief investment strategist, advises investors to shift away from "monolithic" investment decision making and be more choosy in the current economic environment. She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Last year’s Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition was significant for a few reasons. It was the final major first-party Switch game ahead of the Switch 2’s arrival in June, and the last doomed Wii U game to be granted a second life on Nintendo’s infinitely more successful console. Nearly a year on, a Switch 2 update for one of the most technically impressive games Nintendo has ever publi... View Source

SpaceX will make a large moonbase by 2036 as part of the industrialization needed for scaling AI data centers in space. SpaceX will need to make mining and factories on the moon in order to increase space based AI satellites from 100-1000 Gigawatts per year to 10 to 1000 terawatts per year. 10 Terawatts would ... Read more... View Source

Lego Star Wars Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser is the best on the market... View Source

Nintendo just released a Switch 2 upgrade for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. The upgrade is $4.99 for owners of the Switch game, or $64.99 if you buy the Switch 2 version. Don’t buy the Switch 2 version! Instead, score a deal on the digital Switch version that’s $39.99 (originally $59.99) at GameStop and Amazon. Then, make the upgrade for another $5. The physical version is discounted... View Source

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari says the recent investment in artificial intelligence may be driving up the neutral rate at an event in Fargo, North Dakota. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

2 min read Map the Earth’s Magnetic Shield with the Space Umbrella Project A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the Sun toward Earth. Here, it meets the Earth’s magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella project needs your help investigating this dynamic region, where NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) mission has been collecti... View Source

The 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured numerous fictional future technologies and many of them are or will still happen. Over fifty organizations contributed technical advice to the production, and a number of them submitted their ideas to Kubrick of what kind of products might be seen in a movie set in ... Read more... View Source

Generally speaking, arcane and mostly unenforced FCC rules are not the province of late night talk shows. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems intent on changing that, though; not long after causing a ruckus that briefly took Jimmy Kimmel off the air, his vague threats appear to have been enough to convince CBS to tell Stephen Colbert not to air an interview. Which, of course, became a whole thing... View Source

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal that would have allowed for commercial robotaxi services outside New York City, a blow to Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo as it seeks to aggressively expand its driverless fleet this year... View Source

Snapseed’s new camera includes pro controls, preset film effects, and a range of color themes for the UI. | Screenshots: Snapseed Google has updated the iPhone version of its photo editing app Snapseed with its own camera, including a suite of manual controls and retro film emulation effects. It's the second major update to the app in less than 12 months, after it had previously been left to langu... View Source

The world is at risk of allowing a handful of companies to dominate artificial intelligence, and such a concentration raises the likelihood that the leading players will abuse their control over the emerging technology, the chief executive officer of France’s leading AI firm warned... View Source

The International Space Station orbits above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station after launching with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. NASA aims to use the off-the-shelf device, called a microplate reader, to conduct vital biological research in space and get real-time a... View Source

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early universe... View Source

Gaming accessory company Abxylute has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming N6 and GameCube-style N9C Switch 2 dock-style controllers. If the ergonomics of Nintendo's Joy-Cons don't jibe with you, these aim to be solid alternatives, particularly for people with medium-to-large-size hands. Both of Abxylute's new controllers have bigger, more comfortable grips than Joy-Cons offer, along w... View Source

Saudi-owned gaming studio Scopely Inc. has agreed to take a majority stake in Turkish development studio Loom Games, as the kingdom seeks to transform itself into a video gaming hub... View Source

A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a blocking spree, banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, an unencrypted state-owned app. One of the restricted apps was WhatsApp (which was also blocked) rival Telegram, a move that drew rare internal criticism from soldiers and pro-war bloggers, with the... View Source

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 19th February 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

The Polymarket website hosts trading on whether Houthi militias would strike Israeli territory arranged on a laptop computer in Forest Hills neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York, US, on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the love-hate (but mostly hate) relationship between Silicon Valley and Washing... View Source

India has been innovative in adopting AI through its regulation, AI infrastructure, and its use of AI in the education sector says Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO. The company has been expanding its presence in the country in recent years, and now has over 350,000 employees in India. Julie spoke to Bloomberg TV's Haslinda Amin on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

By bringing gravity into the equation, we can focus on effective strategies for managing IBS in space and on Earth... View Source

“I think we're the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site."... View Source

Maybe you've heard: Memory is expensive now. The price of RAM has tripled, quadrupled, even sextupled depending on the type of chip, all because AI companies are gobbling it up. But maybe you've thought: I don't buy memory sticks! I don't build my own PCs! It won't affect me, right? I'm here to tell you RAM is coming for your wallet anyhow. Do you have a phone in your pocket you'd like to upgrade... View Source

Klarna Group Plc posted a pretax loss of $16 million in the fourth quarter, as the firm set aside more money for potentially souring loans compared to a year ago... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. has officially dethroned Walmart Inc. as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting to the massive scale the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant has achieved since its humble beginnings in 1994 as an online bookseller in Jeff Bezos’ Seattle-area garage... View Source

Meta is reportedly gearing up to enter another segment of the wearables market. According to The Information, the company is planning to release its first smartwatch sometime this year. Meta has revived its smartwatch initiative internally called “Malibu 2,” The Information says, which will come with Meta AI and health tracking.The same publication reported back in 2021 that Meta was working on a... View Source

Max Kettner, chief multi-asset strategist at HSBC Global Investment Research, explains the market signals he sees constraining further downside to AI-related stocks. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Evy Hambro, head of fundamental equities thematic and sector investing at BlackRock, says the resources sector "is starting to see a flow of capital as people rotate out of some of the bets they've had for a very long time." Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Hambro adds: "The money that's being spent is turning into demand for commodities, that's turning into price change, which is elevating earni... View Source

Today's (Feb. 19) wet dress rehearsal will determine if SLS is ready to fly... View Source

Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 downloads. She'd been building the app with Hank Green, a creator with a huge audience, so she thought maybe, maybe, Focus Friend could be a top-10 app in the productivity category. Even that felt like a str... View Source

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, CEOs of rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, refused to hold hands at an AI summit in India. The two tech chiefs were positioned next to each other in a lineup of business and political leaders, and instead stood with their hands in the air and avoided eye contact. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Eben Upton was on a ski holiday in California on Monday when he noticed shares in his company were ticking up... View Source

Yann de Vries, co-founded Kembara, which is Europe's first $1bn deep tech growth fund. He says AI is going to unleash innovation and transform industries. De Vries joins Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie and Guy Johnson on 'The Opening Trade'. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The start of the year has been an absolutely brutal one for software companies. There's a big fear that the rise of AI and advanced coding models will pull the rug out from this industry. But even before these AI fears, software companies were seeing their growth slow. So how does the business actually work? And more importantly, what types of companies will actually survive the SaasPocalypse (or... View Source

Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented India as a hub for affordable and scalable artificial intelligence, saying innovations developed in the South Asian nation could be deployed globally... View Source

OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than $100 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, a record-breaking financing deal that would give the startup additional capital to build out its artificial intelligence tools. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Michael Cannon-Brookes became a billionaire in his 30s and one of Australia’s richest tech executives with the initial public offering of software-as-a-service firm Atlassian Corp. just over a decade ago... View Source

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani announces Reliance and Jio's latest AI initiatives including an investment of 10 trillion rupees ($110 billion) in infrastructure and intelligence. He spoke at an AI summit in New Delhi. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Orange SA forecast that its cash flow would rise about 12% per year on a compound basis to roughly €5.2 billion ($6.1 billion) in 2028, as France’s biggest phone company completes expensive fiber upgrades and cuts costs... View Source

French President Emmanuel Macron said one of his priorities for the Group of Seven presidency will be protecting children from the harmful effects of social media and artificial intelligence, calling on countries like India to support the measures... View Source

Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, French President Emmanuel Macron said his country is "embarking on a process to ban social networks for children under 15 years old.” He told the audience that “there is no reason our children should be exposed online to what is legally forbidden in the real world.” (Source: Other)... View Source

Humanoid robots took center stage at China's annual Spring Festival Gala, performing acrobatic dances and kung fu routines. The performance dominated Chinese social media and sparked mixed reactions and debate over the future of robotics in entertainment. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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ServiceNow President & COO Amit Zavery discusses key impacts of artificial intelligence for business growth. He speaks with Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of India AI Impact Summit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates backed out of a keynote address at a high-profile Indian AI summit just hours before he was due to speak... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as all the attorneys, reporters, and advocates who'd come to watch his landmark trial testimony, but with one notable difference: he was flanked by an entourage that appeared to be wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. To get to the courtroom, he walked past a crowd of parents whose children died after strug... View Source

Mexico-based Plata said it received final approval for a banking license, leapfrogging peers including Nubank and Mercado Pago that are still in the process of getting the coveted authorization... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares jumped to a fresh record high Thursday, after local media reported that the firm is negotiating a price for its latest artificial intelligence memory chip that’s up to 30% higher than the previous generation... View Source

Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind CEO says that India has huge potential in AI, backed up the research and talent building up in the country. James Manyika, Google and Alphabet's Senior Vice President India's AI participation can be a template for the global south. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than $100 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, a record-breaking financing deal that would give the startup additional capital to build out its artificial intelligence tools... View Source

EBay Inc. agreed to buy Depop for about $1.2 billion in an effort to attract younger shoppers and stand out in an increasingly cluttered e-commerce market... View Source

TPG CEO Jon Winkelried talks with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals". They discuss opportunities in AI, worries around software investments and uncertainty around IPOs. TPG manages more than $300 billion across a range of strategies. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The UK government has proposed rules that would require tech companies to remove abusive images from their sites within 48 hours, weeks after X users flooded the social media platform with thousands of pictures of undressed women they’d generated with the company’s artificial intelligence tool... View Source

4 min read My NASA Experience By Marcia J. Rieke The development of infrared detector arrays is intertwined with my experiences working on NASA projects. As an astronomer at a university, my interactions with NASA all start with a proposal in response to an opportunity. In 1983, near-infrared detector arrays were beginning to attract the attention of astronomers. At the suggestion of Nancy Boggess... View Source

Phison is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices - and CEO Pua Khein-Seng has now become a leading voice for just how bad the RAM shortage might get. Companies may need to cut back their product lines in the second half of 2026, and some companies will even die if they can't get the components they need, he agreed, in a televised interview with Ninggu... View Source

Barclays estimates software now makes up about 20% of all loans held by BDCs, making it their largest sector exposure. This week's investment committee on "Bloomberg Deals" discusses the possible pain points in software. Guests include: Nenad Milicevic-Helac, Americas co-leader of TMT Alixpartners, Songyee Yoon, founder and managing partner of Principal Venture Partners, and Anura Rana, Bloomberg... View Source

7 min read Peering Homeward, 1972 By Laura Rocchio The scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard looking at the first MSS images were looking at just one band of data, so the images appeared black and white to them. The image shows the area on that July 25, 1972 image that initially had them concerned that something was wrong with the imagery (an area in the Ouachita Mountains).  NASA/USGS On July... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg testified that it’s “very difficult” to enforce Instagram’s age limits as he sought to defend the platform during a landmark trial over social media addiction. The chief executive officer of Meta Platforms was sharply questioned on the witness stand Wednesday about the company’s efforts to attract and engage teenage users, and whether it adequately policed accounts belonging to chi... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a high-profile jury trial over social media addiction. In an appearance that was described by NBC News as "combative," the Facebook founder reportedly said that Meta's goal was to make Instagram "useful" not increase the time users are spending in the app. On the stand, Zuckerberg was questioned about a company document that... View Source

4 min read Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aerospace, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and universities built it to look at the cosmic microwave and infrared background li... View Source

I reveal • How Grok 4.20’s 4-agent system (Captain Grok + Harper + Benjamin + Lucas) works with shared weights for massive efficiency • The bombshell “MacroHard” project: digital humans that watch your screen, move your mouse, and automate repetitive white-collar work using Tesla Hardware 4 chips in parked cars • Why this could create ... Read more... View Source

A judge agreed with Palantir Technologies Inc. that a trio of former employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding their artificial intelligence startup but stopped short of halting their work at the new company, Percepta... View Source

Last year Dyson introduced the PencilVac, which it immediately declared the "world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner." Presumably, then, the title of world’s slimmest wet floor cleaner goes to the newly unveiled PencilWash. Promising a "lighter, slimmer and smaller solution to wet cleaning without compromising on hygiene," the PencilWash is designed to let you clean everywhere you need... View Source

6 min read The Sky Belongs to All of Us By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and the first female program scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Gravity Probe B, and other astrophysics flight missions? Th... View Source

Elon Musk confirmed to me, Brian Wang, that the current beta model is the ~500B parameter base model. Overall early consensus from testers, it beats or matches frontier models (GPT-5, Claude 4/Opus 4.5, Gemini 3) in practical coding, simulations, iterative work, and real-world agentic tasks. XAI Grok 4.20 will scale to 16 agents in Heavy ... Read more... View Source

The PencilWash is designed to be lightweight and maneuverable. | Image: Dyson Dyson has announced an alternate version of its skinny PencilVac that's designed to clean spills and stains on hard floors instead of sucking up dirt and debris. Like the PencilVac, which Dyson called "world's slimmest vacuum cleaner" when it was announced nine months ago, the new PencilWash squeezes a battery, motor, an... View Source

Activist investor Starboard Value is asking Riot Platforms to speed up its transition from Bitcoin miner to a data center company that could house hyperscaler tenants. Starboard, which helped appoint directors to Riot’s board last year, made its views known in a public letter signed by Peter Feld, Starboard’s managing member that confirmed an earlier Bloomberg News report. Bloomberg's Lauren Tara... View Source

CSDA Program Announces Eight New Data Agreements This Spotlight Mode SAR image from Capella Space shows a portion of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 21, 2021. Credit: Capella Space NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announced eight new agreements with seven of its commercial partners— Airbus Defense and Space GEO Inc (Airbus U.S.), Capella Space Corporation... View Source

Meta is planning to launch a smartwatch with health tracking and AI features later this year, along with an updated version of its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, The Information reports. The smartwatch would arrive ahead of a pair of mixed reality glasses, code-named Phoenix, that Meta has reportedly delayed until 2027 amidst efforts to streamline the company's AR and MR roadmap. Meta previou... View Source

French President Emmanuel Macron said the free speech defense of social media platforms is “pure bullshit,” pushing back against a key foreign policy goal of President Donald Trump. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 min read Digital Surface and Terrain Models from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line Added to Satellite Data Explorer NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of three digital elevation and digital terrain products from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) data access and discovery tool. The products include: Digital Surfa... View Source

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe."... View Source

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is seeking to temporarily halt incentives for data centers in a bid to contain soaring power bills... View Source

4 min read CSDA Releases New Data Acquisition Request System This screen capture of the SDX dashboard shows a map of Earth’s surface, and on the right, the search filters SDX users can manipulate to find the imagery that they need. Credit: CSDA NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program released a new Data Acquisition Request System, which lets authorized users submit proposals fo... View Source

A leaked internal email obtained by 404 Media shows that Ring has bigger plans for its AI-powered neighborhood search capability than just looking for lost dogs. The outlet reports the email, sent last October by founder Jamie Siminoff to all Ring employees, says that with Search Party, "You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods." Ring, the Amazon-owned home sec... View Source

Booking Holdings Inc. reported better-than-expected first-quarter gross bookings, indicating continued strength across the travel industry... View Source

4 min read Vantor Archive Imagery Added to Satellite Data Explorer A high-resolution multispectral image of Washington, DC from Vantor. Visible are the Washington Monument (left), Tidal Basin (the body of water in the center-right), and the Jefferson Memorial (right). Credit: Vantor NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of imagery from Vantor to its Sat... View Source

Sam Rockwell rocks as a mad time traveler saving the world from a rogue AI in Gore Verbinski's new film "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die."... View Source

A set of bellwether cases alleging that social media platforms harmed teens’ safety and mental health is going to trial this year, putting executives like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the stand to answer questions about what they’ve done or not done to protect kids. Unlike many earlier legal challenges against social media companies, these cases managed to overcome the companies’ attemp... View Source

Crypto lending firm Ledn Inc. has sold $188 million of securitized bonds backed by Bitcoin, making it the first ever deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt... View Source

Google has announced that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking. The new model builds on Gemini's pre-existing ability to generate text, images and video, and will also be available in YouTube's "Dream Track" feature, where it can be used to generate... View Source

5 min read 42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between By Denise Lineberry NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), a part of the NASA’s three satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-emitted by the Earth. On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United Sta... View Source

Morgan Stanley Global Director of Research Katy Huberty discusses the selloff of software and services stocks, some of which hit companies with strong underlying fundamentals. Huberty joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

2 min read Notes from the Field Looking at Chlorophyll from Space By Compton “Jim” Tucker Tucker began his ground studies using a handheld instrument built by one of his classmates. “The instrument was literally held together by masking tape and rubber bands.” NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasn’t always the case. “I love using satellite data to study the Earth,” say... View Source

Apple is accelerating work on three new wearables, part of a shift towards AI-powered hardware, according to people with knowledge of the plans. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

2 Min Read Perseverance Pinpoints Its Location at ‘Mala Mala’ PIA26704 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Perseverance Pinpoints Its… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Perseverance Pinpoints Its Location at ‘Mala Mala’ PNG (23.40 MB) Description Using its navigation cameras, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rov... View Source

The Bahamas has given SpaceX permission to resume rocket landings in the country, which were paused last year after a Starship test flight explosion caused a debris shower... View Source

Waymo defended its use of remote assistants for its robotaxis after the testimony of one of its top executives during a Senate hearing went viral. In a letter to Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) on Tuesday, Waymo's head of global operations Ryan McNamara provided a detailed description of the company's remote assistance operations, including the number of employees based overseas. Waymo has approximately 70... View Source

Energy startup Heron Power has raised a $140 million Series B to build a 40-gigawatt US manufacturing facility for its advanced electrical equipment. Heron’s CEO Drew Baglino discusses the demand coming from renewable power and AI data center projects. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The long-awaited cyberpunk platformer Replaced just got hit with a short delay. The pixel-art game was supposed to come out on March 12, but will now be released on April 14. That's just a month, which isn't that big of a deal considering this game has been on our radar for five years. Why the delay? Developer Sad Cat Studios notes that the game is "technically finished" but th... View Source

3 Min Read Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location PIA26705 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Mars Global Localization… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Mars Global Localization Pinpoints Perseverance’s Location PNG (566.29 KB) PIA26705 animation MP4 (2.77 MB) Description These imag... View Source

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star... View Source

Polestar says it will release four new electric models over the next three years, including a new SUV and a revamped version of its Polestar 2 sedan. The Swedish automaker, which is owned by China's Geely, said it will start delivering its Polestar 5 grand tourer to customers this summer, followed by a new long-roof variant of its Polestar 4 in the fourth quarter. In early 2027, a "new successor"... View Source

Los millennials se fundieron el cerebro con las pantallas. Sus hijos no quieren saber nada de eso... View Source

1 min read Commodity Classic 2026 Hyperwall Schedule Commodity Classic, February 25 – 27, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #3481) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 4:30 – 4:50 PM NASA: Your Space and Science Agency Karen St Germain THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 11:00 – 11:20 AM Informing Water and Agricultural Management Apps with NASA... View Source

Maybe you've heard, but Elon Musk is apparently a Moon fan now. He has historically been the ultimate cheerleader for human missions to Mars, and as recently as last year, he said his aim was to go straight to the red planet and that the Moon was "a distraction." Now, he has apparently changed his mind, announcing that SpaceX has shifted focus to building a city on the Moon. Within the space scien... View Source

A list of all the ways AI will decimate jobs went viral. The truth is much more boring, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nevada is taking action against the rapidly growing Wild West of prediction markets. The state's gambling regulators and attorney general sued Kalshi on Tuesday. They accuse the company of bypassing Nevada law by operating a sports gambling market without proper licenses. In addition, they say Kalshi provides services to individuals under 21, which violates state law.The lawsuit follows a fed... View Source

The Moon rises behind NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. The Artemis II test flight will take Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Spa... View Source

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds... View Source

Microsoft is working on a bunch of new features for Windows 11, including a new network speed test that you can access from your taskbar. The tool is bundled in an update rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, allowing you to right-click the network icon in the system tray to access a speed test option that opens in your default browser. From there, you can check how fa... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg is set to take the stand at a landmark trial over social media addiction and face a barrage of questions about how Meta Platforms Inc. balances protecting young users on its platforms and boosting revenue... View Source

Apple has scheduled a product launch event, dubbed an "Apple Experience", for March 4 at 9AM ET. The company is reportedly holding this event in NYC, London and Shanghai. Everyone loves shiny new products, so what can we expect to see at Apple's first launch event of 2026? We don't know anything for certain, but we have plenty of educated guesses that have been sourced from ind... View Source

NASA/Zena Cardman Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and mackerel in this nighttime photograph from the International Space Station, orbiting 259 miles above Earth on Dec. 25, 2025. Studying nighttime light offers a unique perspective for investigations into human behaviors, such as tracking the expansion... View Source

A three-hour-long period drama about kabuki, a centuries-old form of Japanese theater, doesn't exactly sound like box office gold. But that's exactly what happened with Kokuho. Director Lee Sang-il's adaptation of the Shuichi Yoshida novel of the same name was a surprise hit last year, becoming Japan's top-grossing live-action film domestically. But star Ken Watanabe - a veteran actor known for Ho... View Source

Lawyers ultimately traced scammers’ money back to the source... View Source

8 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) There is no GPS at the Red Planet, but a new technology called Mars Global Localization lets Perseverance determine precisely where it is — without human help.  Imagine you’re all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving d... View Source

This premium stargazing kit will help you take your stargazing experience to the next level... View Source

Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is an excellent 2-in-1. | Image: The Verge If you want a Chromebook that can double as a tablet when you need it to, Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 is one of the better 2-in-1s on the market. And you can buy it with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $499 ($200 off), which is a new low price, at Best Buy until the end of today, February 18th.  Acer Chromeboo... View Source

Super Bowl 60 was played in Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The city had only hosted two other Super Bowls prior — and had to make a ton of upgrades to the stadium to bring the game back. Randall Williams takes a look at just how the Bay Area wooed the NFL in the latest Sports City. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Now that pre-orders are open for the Google Pixel 10a, it’s time to see how it stacks up against last year’s Pixel 9a. At first glance, the two phones look very similar, and that’s not a bad thing. Google hasn’t tried to reinvent its budget-friendly formula this year, sticking to the same compact design, clean software experience and camera-first approach that made the 9a such a good value.Both ph... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Katie Oriti Katie Oriti manages the Orion European Service Module Integration Office, working closely with commercial and international partners to ensure the module is ready to safely support NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon. Credits: NASA/Jef Janis Listen to this audio excerpt from Katie Oriti, Orion European Service Module Integration Office manager: 0:00 / 0:0... View Source

How Many Scheduled Reminders & Queries Can xAI Grok 4.20 Handle Per User? Current practical limit is 150–200 active trackers comfortably, with no degradation in quality. It can simultaneously track dozens of companies, technologies, events, launches, earnings, regulatory filings, production numbers, funding rounds, etc. Real-world usage, it routinely manages 80–120 active items for power user... View Source

On Wednesday, Audible launched a new "immersion reading" feature that could help readers concentrate on their audiobooks by allowing them to read along with the ebook version. While listening to an audiobook in the Audible app, users can tap the "Read & Listen" button above their book's cover art to see the text version of what they're listening to. As the audio plays, the text is highlighted... View Source

Apple Podcasts’ fresh leap into video podcasts refocuses the audio medium on visuals... View Source

Ticketing marketplace SeatGeek has announced a partnership with Spotify that will direct an artist's fans to its platform from the Spotify app. The integration is currently limited to a few participating venues for which SeatGeek is the primary ticket seller. While SeatGeek is one of the largest online marketplaces for the secondary ticketing market, the company's announcement makes clea... View Source

Let Gemini be your, uh, Bard? | Image: Google Google has given Gemini the ability to spit out AI-generated music, courtesy of DeepMind's latest audio model. Beta access to Lyria 3 is rolling out in the Gemini app, enabling users to generate 30-second tracks based on text, images, and videos, without having to leave the chatbot window. The new music-making tool is available globally starting today... View Source

Meta plans to deploy millions of Nvidia processors, marking a significant shift from the traditional use of x86 architecture and Intel CPUs. Bloomberg Intelligence's Mandeep Singh explains why this move helps Meta secure supply amid rising demand and competition. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google debuted the Pixel 10a phone today. Pre-orders are open now and the smartphone will be available starting March 5. Although it's the new 2026 addition to the A series lineup, the Pixel 10a invites many comparisons with last year's Pixel 9a. For starters, the price is identical at $499. Design-wise, not much as changed. The back of the phone can lay flat, which has become a hallmark... View Source

As promised, Google opened preorders for its Pixel 10A midrange phone, and it’ll launch on March 4th. We already published a hands-on with the device, and I encourage you to check it out (we think it’s more like a better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10). If you decide that you want to go through with a preorder, the best deal we’ve found so far is at Amazon and Best Buy, where you can get... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google introduced its latest entry-level Pixel smartphone, hoping that new AI software capabilities, minor hardware refinements and an unchanged $499 price can make up for an otherwise iterative update... View Source

Google's A-series phones have offered some of the best value among midrange handsets for years, and after checking out the new Pixel 10a, I don't see that trend stopping anytime soon.Let's start with the specs. Starting at just $499, you get a vivid 6.3-inch OLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and 3,000 nits of peak brightness, 8GB of RAM and either 128GB or 256GB of onboard stora... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

The NASA/SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched four astronauts on a journey to the International Space Station... View Source

Google's midrange Pixels have been our top pick for budget Android phones for a while. They offer good cameras and most of what you need at a budget-friendly price. But this year's upgrade feels so minimal, I'd liken it more to a Pixel 9A+. Or a Pixel 9B. The $499 Pixel 10A is supposed to be a slightly worse Pixel 10. But it's more like a slightly better Pixel 9A. And that's a bit of a bummer. Ver... View Source

A new report finds that of 154 specific claims about how AI will benefit the climate, just a quarter cited academic research. A third included no evidence at all... View Source

French quantum startup Pasqal SAS is in talks to raise €200 million ($237 million) in a round that would value it at more than $1 billion pre-money, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Polestar is gearing up to launch three new models in the next two years, including a station wagon (estate or shooting brake) version of the Polestar 4 that harkens back to the company's Volvo roots. The Geely-owned Swedish company sold a record 61,000 EVs in 2025, but hopes that the new models will help it take an even bigger bite out of the market. "We want to get more volume out of a... View Source

Ad aimed at finding lost puppies raises fears of the surveillance state... View Source

The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) performed an assessment to characterize the effects of abnormal grain growth (AGG) within a metallic liner of a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV). This effort focused on evaluating the mechanical response of the liner material, including the strain amplification factor (SAF), using a series of custom-designed coupons that incorporated both m... View Source

Nexfibre Networks Ltd., the broadband venture owned by Telefonica SA and Liberty Global Corp., has agreed to buy the owner of fiber challenger brand Netomnia Ltd. in a deal valued at £2 billion ($2.7 billion), marking the first major consolidation in the crowded UK market... View Source

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star... View Source

Liberty Global Ltd. agreed to buy out its partner Vodafone Group Plc in Dutch telecommunications company VodafoneZiggo for €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in cash and a stake in a new holding company... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Lori Schott didn't care what it took to haul her way from her small town in Eastern Colorado to show up to a Los Angeles courtroom where Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday. "I don't care if I had to hire a pack mule to get me here, I was going to be here," she told The Verge outside the courthouse Tuesday. Schott's... View Source

Saudi-backed artificial intelligence company Humain has invested $3 billion into Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, according to a statement on Wednesday... View Source

Cameo, the platform where celebrities sell short, personalized videos, has scored a preliminary win in a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI. A California judge has ruled that the AI company's video generation tool Sora cannot use the term 'cameo' or any variation likely to cause confusion. A temporary restraining order in the case was originally granted in November of last year. The s... View Source

The AI scare trade retreated Wednesday as dip-buyers stepped in after concerns over artificial intelligence battered equity markets. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source