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The Stop Killing Games campaign is evolving into more than just a movement. In a YouTube video, the campaign's creator, Ross Scott, explained that organizers are planning to establish two non-governmental organizations, one for the European Union and another for the US. According to Scott, these NGOs would allow for "long-term counter lobbying" when publishers end support for certai... View Source

SLS still has helium leaks. Helium leaks have been a problem since the Space Shuttle days. It is so cold that it is hard to work with. The picture is of the SLS rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building in 2022. Rolling back to the bay for work will look the same in 2026. ... Read more... View Source

The government agency that sends its corps members abroad to volunteer in foreign countries launched its latest initiative called Tech Corps. The Peace Corps' latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector and send them to participating host countries. According to the press release, volunteers will be placed in Peace Co... View Source

Following in the wake of the original Golden Records, a new deep-space delivery hopes to introduce a ‘mostly harmless’ humanity to alien lifeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDo you have a message you want to shout out to the universe? Or whisper into the ear-equivalent of an alien?In interstellar space, more than 20bn km from Earth, the Voyager spacecraft are whizzing alo... View Source

Tesla is still on the hook for $243 million after a US judge rejected the EV maker's bid to overturn a jury verdict from last year. On Friday, US District Judge Beth Bloom upheld the jury's decision to hold Tesla partially responsible for a deadly crash that happened in 2019 and involved the self-driving Autopilot feature. The judge added that there was enough evidence to support the jur... View Source

NASA is preparing to remove its massive moon rocket from its launchpad to fix a technical issue, delaying the agency’s much-anticipated mission to send a crew of four around the moon... View Source

NASA is troubleshooting a glitch with the upper stage of Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket that will likely delay the launch of the moon mission... View Source

Of course, it’s the guy who constantly complains about voter fraud who may have committed voter fraud. | Image: The Verge For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most flagrant flaunters of US election law. Now his America PAC has been slapped with a reprimand by the Georgia State Election Board for sending out pre-filled absentee ballot applications. State law prohibit... View Source

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party called for a ban on the use of social media networks such as Instagram and Tiktok for minors in Germany, a move that risks straining relations with the US digital services industry ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump next month... View Source

I tried out Canon's latest vlogging camera for astrophotography, the PowerShot V1 and managed to capture the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way!... View Source

On Episode 198 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Principal Investigator Dr. Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle about the Dragonfly mission and what to expect in the coming years... View Source

The suspect in the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Jesse Van Rootselaar, was raising alarms among employees at OpenAI months before the shooting took place. This past June, Jesse had conversations with ChatGPT involving descriptions of gun violence that triggered the chatbot's automated review system. Several employees raised concerns that her posts could be a precursor to real-w... View Source

Welcome to the weekend, folks! The Reviews and Guides team here at The Verge is gearing up for all things Unpacked, but Samsung isn’t the only one readying new phones. Google just announced the Pixel 10A, which, for you early adopters, is already up for preorder with a $100 gift card. Elsewhere in deal land, you’ll find steep discounts on mopping vacuums, slight discounts on Soundcore’s cheap ANC... View Source

Is an orbiting space station necessary to achieve lunar objectives, including scientific ones?... View Source

I've always wanted to go skydiving. Aerial_Knight's DropShot, from indie developer Aerial_Knight, lets me live out that dream - at least in a safe, virtual kind of way. It also lets me shoot bullets from finger guns, wield laser skulls, and wear cool sunglasses while I'm falling through the air. So maybe it's better than the real thing. Playing as a character named Smoke Wallace, who was bitten by... View Source

Apple’s AirTag is designed to help people keep track of personal belongings like keys, bags and luggage. But because AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers are small and discreet, concerns about unwanted tracking are understandable. Apple has spent years building safeguards into the AirTag and the Find My network to reduce the risk of misuse and to alert people if a tracker they don’t own appears to... View Source

Arnie said, "Get your ass to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future... View Source

Gather ‘round, it’s time to catch up on the latest batch of Engadget reviews. Whether you missed our in-depth testing of Sony’s latest flagship earbuds or a truly unique ASUS laptop, I’ve compiled our recent reviews so you can get up to speed quickly. Read on for the list that also includes a love letter to a tiny camera and another VPN option that worth considering. Sony WF-1000XM6 Sony’s 1000X e... View Source

Antonio Filosa attends the presentation of the new Fiat 500 Hybrid at the Stellantis FIAT Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, in November of 2025. | Elisa Marchina/NurPhoto via Getty Images Demand for EVs has gone glacial, and one automaker after another is running aground: General Motors threw $7.6 billion overboard. Ford washed $19.5 billion off its books. Leave it to Stellantis to face the most ti... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As a reminder, the latest edition of Steam Next Fest runs from February 23 until March 2, during which you'll be able to check out demos for hundreds of upcoming games. A bunch are available already, including one for Denshattack!, which I definitely recommend checking out. As it turns out, doing Tony Hawk Pro Skat... View Source

Barry speaks with Hilary Allen, a Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law. She teaches courses in Banking Law, Securities Regulation, and Business Associations. They discuss financial stability regulation and new financial technologies including crypto and AI. They also talk about the role of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and why some companies from the dot com e... View Source

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron star-powered pulsar... View Source

The Soundcore Nebula X1 Pro is too weird to exist. It takes the excellent 4K projector and karaoke microphones from Anker's Nebula X1 and stuffs them inside a powerful five-speaker Google TV party on wheels. It's so absurd that it feels like a gadget fever dream - and I'm here for it. At the heart of this system is the same liquid-cooled, triple-laser, auto-image-correction-everything projector I... View Source

Russia said Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front line, signaling tightening scrutiny over a platform used by millions of Russians... View Source

Vietnam said US President Donald Trump told Communist Party chief To Lam he will remove the nation from the US’s list of restrictions on advanced technologies and welcomed Hanoi’s efforts to narrow the trade imbalance between the two countries... View Source

As the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery continues, Rich Greenfield, a partner at LightShed Partners, says Netflix could raise its offer by 5% to 10% but Paramount Skydance would need to make a "knockout" bid. Greenfield joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Friday after Anthropic PBC introduced a new security feature into its Claude AI model... View Source

Nowhere were the promises and hypocrises of AI clearer than in India this week. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorebecke explains from New Delhi. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft Corp. named AI executive Asha Sharma to lead its Xbox and gaming business, replacing Phil Spencer, and will recommit to console users after years of developing products for mobile and PC players... View Source

The Tuttle Capital UFO Disclosure ETF invests in forward-thinking technology... View Source

Morgan Stanley chief fixed income strategist and director of quantitative research, Vishwanath Tirupattur, says it will taker longer in private markets to determine "winners and losers" amid AI disruption. He spoke with Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Matt Shumer, AI entrepreneur and investor, discusses the economic and labor-market implications of advanced AI models. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... 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 Former US secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, BNY Wealth’s Sinead Colton Grant, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Yale University’s Gautam Mukunda, Teneo’s Kevin Kajiwara, CUNY’s Paul Krugman, Franklin Templeton’s Berkel... View Source

OpenAI flagged and banned the suspect in one of Canada’s worst-ever mass shootings for violating ChatGPT’s usage policy June last year, without referring her to police... View Source

The founder of Wikipedia said he isn’t worried about the threat posed to the free online encyclopedia from AI-generated content, including from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, because of how error-prone the information tends to be... View Source

SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, is fighting back against Google's copyright lawsuit that accuses it of vacuuming up search results "at an astonishing scale." In a motion to dismiss filed on Friday, SerpApi argues that Google doesn't hold a copyright on its search results, alleging that the engine is built "on the backs of others who posted 'the world's informatio... View Source

What scientists thought were four separate star clusters are actually part of one nearly invisible system... View Source

Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO and co-founder of Akamai Technologies, says the company’s security services are resilient to AI disruption and that increasing enterprise adoption of AI and SaaS benefits Akamai by driving demand for its infrastructure. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Kingston Fossil Plant, a 1.4-gigawatt coal-fired power plant located in Roane County, just outside Kingston, Tennessee on the shore of Watts Bar Lake. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration just tossed out Biden-era restrictions on mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants. It's repealing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) just as electricity demand in the US ticks up with... View Source

OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will grow at a fast clip in the next few years and exceed $280 billion in 2030, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the software giant. Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft, in what is a major shake-up to the management of Xbox and Microsoft's gaming efforts. Asha Sharma, currently president of CoreAI product, is taking over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced Phil Spencer's retirement in a memo to... View Source

Anthropic released Claude Code a year ago, forcing other rivals to play catch-up... View Source

Xbox chief Phil Spencer has just announced to employees that he's leaving Microsoft after 38 years. In a memo entitled "A new chapter for Microsoft Gaming," Spencer reveals to Xbox employees that he made the decision to retire from Microsoft last fall. He also reveals Xbox president Sarah Bond is leaving Microsoft, triggering a big change in management at Xbox. Asha Sharma, currently the president... View Source

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey discusses why he brought a suit against Apple, alleging the company has knowingly allowed users to store and distribute child sexual abuse material on its iCloud platform. McCuskey joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that challenge our understanding of cosmic evolution... View Source

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has just announced he's leaving the company after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 at Microsoft in total. His replacement: Asha Sharma, formerly head of development for Microsoft's AI enterprise teams. Before that, she was COO of Instacart for three years, and spent four at Meta in charge of the company's me... View Source

Randall Williams talks about the growing role gambling is playing in sports. And while there have been scandals along the way, the major argument seems to be that if leagues ignore legal gambling, illegal gambling will find a way in and take over. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US Supreme Court struck down some of Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign imports, which have become a hallmark of the chaos of the second Trump administration. The court's ruling deals specifically with duties levied using a law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), something no other president has done - the 1977 law was initially created to limit presidential ability... View Source

Anthropic released Claude Code a year ago, forcing other rivals to play catch-up... View Source

Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is retiring, Satya Nadella has announced. Asha Sharma, the President of Microsoft's CoreAI division is taking over Spencer's role, while Sarah Bond, the current President of Xbox, is resigning."I am long on gaming and its role at the center of our consumer ambition, and as we look ahead, I’m excited to share that Asha Sharma will become Executive Vice Preside... View Source

The lovable old-school Toy Story gang takes on mesmerizing modern digital devices in the first trailer for Pixar's "Toy Story 5."... View Source

Xbox ex boss and new Xbox boss | Image: Microsoft After nearly 40 years at Microsoft, Xbox chief and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is leaving the company, along with Xbox president Sarah Bond. Spencer’s retirement was announced in a memo from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on February 20th, stating, “Last year, Phil Spencer made the decision to retire from the company, and since then we’ve been t... View Source

Winnie Cisar, global head of credit strategy at CreditSights says lower return expectations, default rate cycles, and economic uncertainties are factoring into private credit anxiety. She spoke with Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield" after Blue Owl Capital said it will restrict withdrawals from one of its retail-focused private credit funds. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out - and you'd be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of layoffs and shuttered studios, especially one day after Sony jettisoned a beloved developer. Not yet, it seems. "To be clear, there are no organizational changes underway for our studios," Microsoft gaming boss Matt Booty wrote in his memo today. It's a litt... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses the US Supreme Court striking down President Trump's sweeping global tariffs. Plus, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos tells Bloomberg the company's bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery will close, even after Warner reopened talks with Paramount Skydance. And West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey explains why he is suing Apple over child sexual abuse material. (Sou... View Source

Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us 5 Min Read NASA Is Helping Bring Giant Tortoises Back to the Galápagos Giant tortoises disappear... View Source

On the Feb 12, 2026 USSF-87 launch, one of Vulcan’s four Northrop Grumman GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs) suffered a nozzle burn-through (visible fiery plume ~20–30 seconds after liftoff). This is the second identical anomaly (first occurred on Vulcan’s second flight in Oct 2024). The mission still succeeded (core stage compensated), but ULA and ... Read more... View Source

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes... View Source

Sarah Bond during the May 2024 Bloomberg Technology Summit. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Sarah Bond, the president of COO and Xbox, is leaving the organization, along with CEO of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer. Her departure is being announced at the same time as Spencer's, with Asha Sharma moving into the EVP and CEO of Gaming role and Matt Booty being promoted to EVP and chief content officer. Mi... View Source

Over the last five weeks, a limited number of hackers broke into more than 600 firewalls across dozens of countries with the help of widely available artificial intelligence tools, according to security research from Amazon.com Inc... View Source

If the PlayStation 5 is your console of choice — and you’re not satisfied with the DualSense gamepad it comes with — the DualSense Edge may be what you’re looking for. Luckily, if its high asking price of $199 was keeping you away, Sony is now offering the white and black controller via the PlayStation Direct storefront in refurbished condition for $169 ($30 off). It comes with the same one-y... View Source

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it's had only acting directors—and the White House won't say when that will change... View Source

A Securities and Exchange Commission probe involving mobile advertising technology company AppLovin Corp. is “still active and ongoing,” the regulator said Friday... View Source

President Donald Trump has issued a statement that he will instruct the federal government to begin releasing all of its files related to UFOs... View Source

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is urging broadcasters to air "patriotic, pro-America content" in celebration of the US's 250th anniversary. The initiative, called the "Pledge America Campaign," encourages broadcasters to run public service announcements, short segments, or specials to promote "civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history." Carr says broadcas... View Source

Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, says tariffs are not the only way for the US to lead the globe in tech developments. She points to deals announced during the India AI Summit as an example of global tech leadership by US firms. Giuda joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Indie publisher and developer Finji has accused TikTok of using generative AI to alter the ads for its games on the platform without its knowledge or permission. Finji, which published indie darlings like Night in the Woods and Tunic, said it only became aware of the seemingly modified ads after being alerted to them by followers of its official TikTok account. As reported by IGN, Finji alleg... View Source

Can we use fungus to mine precious metals from asteroids?... View Source

Administrator Jared Isaacman cites ‘major progress’ since earlier discovery of liquid hydrogen leaking from rocketNasa said on Friday it was planning to launch its delayed Artemis II moon mission on 6 March after successfully completing a fueling test that had caused it to stand down earlier this month.Jared Isaacman, the space agency’s newly confirmed administrator, cited “major progress” since t... View Source

Juggling multiple chargers for your gadgets while you’re commuting, working from a cafe, or traveling can get heavy (and pricey!) fast, which is why today’s deal on the Anker Prime Power Bank (20K, 200W) is worth checking out. It can quickly charge three devices at once — including laptops — and it’s down to just $79.99 ($60 off) in black at Woot, which is a new low, through February 27th. Anker P... View Source

The ‘Eternal Life of Goldman’ is the rare video game to feature a distinctly Jewish protagonist... View Source

The Artemis 2 launch is edging closer as NASA has now set a target date for the 10-day mission to get underway. The agency is aiming to launch as soon as March 6 following a successful wet dress rehearsal on Thursday. The first attempt, which took place in early February, failed due to a hydrogen leak.During Thursday's rehearsal, NASA was able to fuel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with... View Source

NASA announced today (Feb. 20) that it’s targeting March 6 for the liftoff of Artemis 2, which will be the first crewed mission to go beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 back in 1972... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. This week, we explain how the presidential phone company connects to an older company that's really running the show. We've long known that Trump Mobile was linked to Liberty Mobile, a carrier that's traded for years using freedom-themed branding to sell cheap mobile plans to a conservative crowd. Turns out, the two business... View Source

The US Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of United Airlines Holdings Inc.’s maintenance practices suffers from a lack of resources, meaning some safety risks remain, a government watchdog said... View Source

OpenAI is reportedly hard at work developing a series of AI-powered devices, including smart glasses, a smart speaker and a smart lamp. According to reporting by The Information, the AI company has a team of over 200 employees dedicated to the project. The first product scheduled to be released is reported to be a smart speaker that would include a camera, allowing it to better absorb information... View Source

OpenAI's first hardware release will be a smart speaker with a camera that will probably cost between $200 and $300, according to The Information. The device will be able to recognize things like "items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in the vicinity," The Information says, and it will have a Face ID-like facial recognition system so that people can purchase things. OpenAI acq... View Source

NASA is targeting March 6 to launch the Artemis II astronauts to the vicinity of the moon for the first time since 1972... View Source

A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, say four people familiar with the matter. Kiro is an agentic tool, meaning it can take autonomous actions on behalf of users. In this case, the... View Source

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived at a Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday, he did so with a team that appeared to be wearing Meta's camera-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses. Judge Carolyn Kuhl was concerned. According to CNBC, Kuhl warned anyone recording with the glasses, "If you have done that, you must delete that, or you will be held in contempt of the court." Kuhl also ordered everyone wear... View Source

Buyout firms are on the brink of a software reckoning, having failed to spot signs that technologies like artificial intelligence would upend one of private equity’s favorite sectors, according to one of Apollo Global Management Inc.’s top executives... View Source

Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage to one system in December as a result of its AI coding assistant Kiro's actions, according to the Financial Times. Numerous unnamed Amazon employees told the FT that AI agent Kiro was responsible for the December incident affecting an AWS service in parts of mainland China. People familiar with the matter said the tool chose to "delete and recreate the... View Source

German fiber operator DNS:NET Internet Service GmbH and its creditors have appointed advisers to prepare for debt talks as the Berlin-based firm struggles to fund the roll-out of its network... View Source

The Supreme Court (6-3) held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 does not authorize the President to impose tariffs. Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined the 3 liberal judges. IEEPA allows the President to regulate international economic transactions during a declared national emergency, but it never mentions tariffs (which ... Read more... View Source

Firefly Aerospace is gearing up for the seventh liftoff of its Alpha rocket on Feb. 27, after two explosive events in 2025 stalled development of the launch vehicle... View Source

Pondering my orb. | Cath Virginia Substack has updated its partnership with betting platform Polymarket, "introducing native tools that make it easier to share, discuss, and debate prediction market data directly on Substack." Additionally, Polymarket will effectively pay "a cohort of creators," including Matt Yglesias, to use its data though the newsletter platform's pilot sponsorships program. T... View Source

From Adani and Ambani racing to outspend each other to fresh deals with OpenAI and Anthropic, India is going all in on AI. But will it finally turn ambition into reality? (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Star Wars Clone Wars has become surprisingly real in Korea. The most popular plastic surgeries (V-line jaw contouring, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, facial fillers/Botox) are now nearly identical faces for men and women. Clinics market the same idol package across genders. Plastic surgery feels like everyone getting the same face. Same lips. Same jaw. Same nose. Even ... Read more... View Source

The dongle replaces a USB-C cable but its wireless range is limited to just over 16 feet. | Image: Tamron Tamron has announced a new USB-C dongle that wirelessly connects compatible lenses to mobile devices and laptops so they can be customized and controlled remotely. It works with 16 of the company's lenses to start. The $50 Tamron-Link dongle is available now, and while its Bluetooth range is l... View Source

The biggest US troop deployment in the Middle East since the Iraq War is sending the black market price for Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals soaring in Iran, where people fear a war would trigger another countrywide internet shutdown... View Source

It has already been a depressingly busy year for layoffs at Ubisoft, and the French publisher’s Toronto studio is the latest workforce to be hit. Around 40 jobs have been cut at the studio, which is one of Ubisoft’s largest and has previously worked on games including Watch Dogs: Legion and Far Cry 6. "This decision was not taken lightly and does not in any way reflect the talent, dedication,... View Source

NASA/Brendan Finnegan NASA astronaut Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen take off on a T-38 training flight from Ellington Field on Feb. 11, 2026, as a waning crescent Moon hovers above. Koch and Hansen, along with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, are part of NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion s... View Source

ESA's Proba-2 satellite captured a stunning 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse from orbit — a view few on Earth could see... View Source

Samsung unleashed a new batch of Galaxy Z TriFold units after selling out initial stock of the behemoth foldable that turns into a 10-inch tablet. It took less than ten minutes to sell through today's supply, which either speaks to the phone's surprising popularity or, rather, just how few of them the company is making. The device launched on January 30th, and unlike most other Samsung phones, ava... View Source

The ultra wealthy of the world have long avoided paying income taxes by not having much of an income at all. Instead, their wealth is generally tied up in things like stock options, family trusts, houses, yachts, rare coin collections and other things that typically are not taxed. Ray Madoff, professor at Boston College Law School, joins Stacey Vanek Smith and Brad Stone on the Everybody's Busines... View Source

Being the lightest and smallest camera in the X-series line-up, I was impressed with how good this little camera was for astrophotography... View Source

I've written about a lot of different video game hardware over the years, from new consoles to retro gadgets to whatever you want to call the Playdate. But I can't remember ever being perpetually sore from testing a device; such are the joys of the Virtual Boy. Nintendo has turned its biggest flop into an accessory for the Switch, but the costs involved - to your wallet, eyes, and neck - make it a... View Source

Partners Group Holding AG sought to send a calming message about its investments after the stocks of other alternative asset managers suffered in recent weeks over their exposures to private credit and to industries potentially affected by artificial intelligence... View Source

It’s a big month for Pokémon, with February 27 marking 30 years since the world’s highest-grossing media franchise first introduced itself in the shape of two Game Boy games. Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green, which later arrived in the West as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, kicked off a craze in Japan that would soon spread worldwide. And to mark the series’ 30th anniversary, the littl... View Source

Uranus and Neptune will also be on the scene, too dim to see with the naked eye... View Source

Pokémon Day is always a big deal for Nintendo fans, but with this year being the franchise's 30th anniversary, the next Pokémon Presents stream is likely to bring the heat when it begins on February 27th at 9AM ET. With Pokémon Legends: Z-A behind us and Pokémon Pokopia right around the corner, chances are high that we're finally going to get some new information about... View Source

AppLovin Corp. is preparing to build a social networking platform after the mobile advertising company’s failed bid to buy TikTok’s assets outside of China last year... View Source

The US State Department is building a web portal, where Europeans and anyone else can see online content banned by their governments, according to Reuters. It was supposed to be launched at Munich Security Conference last month, but some state department officials reportedly voiced their concerns about the project. The portal will be hosted on freedom.gov, which currently just shows the image abov... View Source

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his pitch this week that India can play a leading role in the artificial intelligence boom with a conference featuring tech stars from around the world. It suffered more than a few hitches... View Source

This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a landmark social media trial, claiming the company only wanted to make Instagram "useful" and not addictive. In this episode, we chat about Zuck's testimony and the potential implications of this trial for social media companies. Also, we dive into the latest effects of the RAMaggedon RAM shortage, including a potential PlayStation 6... View Source

New satellite imagery reveals that Doñana National Park, one of Europe's most valuable wetlands, is shrinking so rapidly that it could disappear within a human lifetime... View Source

Facial recognition has been a requested feature for smart glasses, but the risks are high. Whenever I write about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I'm going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It's hard to imagine that sentiment changing anytime soon after The New York Times reported that Meta mulled launch... View Source

US equity futures climb as markets await the December PCE inflation data. President Trump urges Iran to reach a deal over its nuclear program in 15 days, while the US carries out the biggest military buildup in the Middle East since 2003. Blue Owl is said to have found four buyers for a $1.4 billion portfolio of loans to help pay out investors. Cayla Seder of State Street discusses the risks in pr... View Source

Los Angeles County has sued Roblox for "unfair and deceptive business practices," claiming the platform's moderation and age-verification systems are inadequate. "Roblox portrays its platform as a safe and appropriate place for children to play," the complaint states. "In reality, and as Roblox well knows, the design of its platform makes children easy prey for pedoph... View Source

Tesla has announced a new all-wheel drive Cybertruck that starts at $59,990, the cheapest the controversial truck has been sold for yet - though still well above the $40,000 price tag Elon Musk had initially promised. It's been joined by a $15,000 price cut for the high-end Cyberbeast variant, as Tesla doubles down on its efforts to turn slow Cybertruck sales around. The new dual motor AWD variant... View Source

New hires are expected to maximize the use of the technology... View Source

Apple has lined up its first event of the year. Already! It’s taking place in New York City on March 4 at 9AM ET, but the company hasn’t confirmed if it will stream the media event. It seems likely the event will be mainly iPads and MacBooks — so business as usual. However, it could include new entry-level MacBooks in a fresh array of colors. I think that’s what everyone’s reading into the lemon-a... View Source

Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?... View Source

Once a rival, always a rival... View Source

Bixby isn’t typically part of the conversation when it comes to virtual assistants for mobile devices, but Samsung is clearly hoping that you would use it more. The company has launched the latest version of Bixby with the new One UI 8.5 beta, and it has been tweaked to work as a “conversational agent.” Samsung says you’ll now be able to talk to it and give it tasks using natural language, like ho... View Source

Private equity firms in Nigeria are slowing dealmaking, with some freezing investment as they lobby the government to soften the impact of its tripling of a capital-gains tax, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate star formation for their neighbors... View Source

Will Stancil | Photo by Jack Califano / The Verge I met Will Stancil two days before he got booted from his neighborhood Signal chat. We were at the Uptown Minneapolis VFW at an event hosted by Rep. Ilhan Omar, a thank-you party for Minnesotans who fought ICE in ways big and small. There were tacos and drinks, and dancing, though I never saw Stancil dance, which is not to say it never happened. A... View Source

After years of funneling cash to investors through stock buybacks, big technology companies are reining in that spending as they race to sink more money into artificial intelligence... View Source

The market value of the world’s largest stablecoin is heading for a notable pullback this month, after largely uninterrupted growth since the return of pro-crypto President Donald Trump to the White House... View Source

Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its "AI-powered, multi-layer protections" are deterring bad actors from even trying to publish bad apps. Google said it now runs more than 10,000 safety checks on every app and conti... View Source

South Korea selected a team led by startup Motif Technologies to compete in a flagship tournament aimed at developing homegrown talent and launching the country’s AI ambitions... View Source

Robots once again stole the show during China’s annual Spring Festival gala, popping up in comedy skits, dancing to Mandarin pop and bouncing off walls like martial arts masters. Investors responded Friday by pushing up shares in robotics firms even as the broader market sagged... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and David Ingles give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Indian data center–related shares rallied this week, as the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated its ambition to emerge as a global hub for AI in the presence of OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic PBC’s Dario Amodei... View Source

“We built something special.” Microsoft President Brad Smith discusses the company's OpenAI partnership with Bloomberg TV’s Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The chief investment officer of UniSuper, one of Australia’s largest pension funds, is brushing aside concerns about the downturn in global tech stocks, saying that spending in the sector can support other parts of the market... View Source

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company feels "really good" about their chances of acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. He speaks with Ed Ludlow and Lucas Shaw on Bloomberg Television. (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.  As the ChatGPT maker prepares to spend trillions in infrastructure investment, the overall valuation of t... View Source

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos tells Bloomberg he is "highly confident" the deal for Warner Bros. Discovery will close. Netflix granted a seven-day waiver to Warner Bros. to reopen talks with Paramount Skydance that ends on February 23. Sarandos discusses why he believes Netflix’s offer is better for shareholders, viewers and theaters with Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow and Lucas Shaw. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Winds Whip Up Fires and Dust… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marb... View Source

As of February 2026, NextBigFuture.com is one of the most heavily cited external sources on Grokipedia, with approximately 1,050–1,450 distinct Grokipedia pages containing direct links to NextBigFuture articles. This is roughly 10–13 times more than on English Wikipedia, which has ~110 citations. This high citation volume is concentrated in topics where NextBigFuture has provided long-term, ... Re... View Source

Walmart Inc. forecast less growth in earnings this year than Wall Street was expecting, citing the need for flexibility in unpredictable times for consumers. The world’s largest retailer said it expects adjusted earnings to rise to between $2.75 and $2.85 per share this fiscal year. Analysts on average were expecting profit to jump to $2.97 per share. Bloomberg's Emily Cohn joins to discuss on Blo... View Source

Draper Associates founder and Managing Partner Tim Draper says Bitcoin is "the greatest thing to happen to humanity" while discussing the recent selloff in crypto with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, says agentic AI has brought new complexities to AI ethics and security. She speaks on "Bloomberg: The China Show" from the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shares of China’s generative AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax Group Inc. soared in Hong Kong as the market reopened after the Lunar New Year, with investors piling into pure AI plays and rotating out of traditional Internet giants... View Source

Figma gave an annual revenue outlook that topped estimates, easing Wall Street anxiety that the business is threatened by the emergence of rival artificial intelligence products. Sales will be about $1.37 billion in 2026, the San Francisco-based company said Wednesday in a statement. Analysts, on average, projected $1.29 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Figma is known for making s... View Source

A surge in profits is propelling Australian bank shares above their global peers this year, offering a rare pocket of outperformance for investors grappling with artificial intelligence-driven market swings... View Source

Mirae Asset Securities Co. shares have more than tripled this year as a proxy bet on Elon Musk’s SpaceX ahead of its potential blockbuster initial public offering... View Source

Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands were indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to the company’s Tensor processor for Pixel phones... View Source

NASA escalated the botched Starliner to a Type A mishap — and publicly blamed both Boeing and itself. The Boeing Starliner had over $200 million of property damage. Type A is NASA’s highest-severity label — it signals not just a technical problem but something that demands systemic change. A NASA “Type A” mishap is the ... Read more... View Source

Layoffs at Pulse Secure accelerated as financial pressure mounted... View Source

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