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The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by Apple Inc. regarding a contempt ruling in its long-running antitrust battle with Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc... View Source

At least for this session, the Stop Killing Games campaign has hit a wall in the California Senate... View Source

The six charts are daily load curves (duck-curve style) with a red horizontal line likely representing average/baseload demand or a target firm threshold. In the video, Tesla experts explain how batteries and the VPP can shape energy demand. The shaded area is the net load (demand minus variable generation). Dips at 4 AM and peaks ... Read more... View Source

The universe is ready for its close-up! That's because today marks the day that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins it's 10-year mission to shoot the greatest cosmic move ever created. The decade-long project officially known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is set to revolutionize our view of the universe. That means June 30, 2026 marks the beginning of a new era for astronomy."Toda... View Source

The Bose Soundlink Max is usually $399, but has been on steep discount this week at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Bose for $279. This Bluetooth speaker has a big and bold sound, with a wide soundstage that impressed us in our review. It’s great for the outdoors thanks to its IP67 rating, meaning splashes and sand won’t affect it. The built-in battery lasts up to 20 hours on a sin... View Source

When the World Cup knockout round began Sunday, Kalshi joined the likes of Coca-Cola, Visa and Adidas with sideline advertising in the stadiums — an unusual addition, given that the event is halfway over, and also that FIFA already signed up an “official prediction markets partner” in ADI Predictstreet, a startup with ties to the Abu Dhabi royal family... View Source

The second animated Mario movie made over a billion dollars... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. "AI is the new frontier for us," says Marc DeBevoise, who took over as the new CEO of OverDrive last week. OverDrive is best known for the ebook lending app Libby that is available through tens of thousands of public libraries. Like th... View Source

On the same week as his 55th birthday, almost-trillionaire Elon Musk attempted to defend himself after representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) accused him of sentencing millions of children “to death” by dismantling USAID program. A heated Musk threatened to sue Khanna for defamation, arguing he “should be in prison” — yet there’s extensive documentation of the humanitarian c... View Source

From market outlook and cross-border flows to private capital, IPO momentum, China opportunities and AI infrastructure, Bloomberg Invest Hong Kong 2026 convened allocators, dealmakers and investors for conversations on the forces shaping Asia’s markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Music Studio 7 is an excellent Sonos alternative that can pull double duty in the living room... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto This image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer). Globular clusters like NGC 6723 contain s... View Source

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The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope's inventor, a seventeenth century spectacle-maker by the name of Hans Lippershey, maybe wouldn't have believed possible. When we look back through the annals of telescope history, we find that a significant turning point came, coincidentally, just five years after the United States' Decla... View Source

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches... View Source

The rise of artificial intelligence won’t make human workers superfluous, according to OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji... View Source

You can use Gemini to quickly search your Gmail inbox with natural language... View Source

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The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 against President Donald Trump's effort to end the longstanding constitutional right via executive order. Birthright citizenship dates back to Reconstruction. Under the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship and equal protection to the children of formerly enslaved people, anyone born in the United States "and... View Source

US President Donald Trump has been desperately trying stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC from looking like an algae-infested swamp. He’s already spent over $16 million of taxpayer funds to turn the iconic 2,000-by-600-foot body of water into a crystal-clear pond, only to make matters far worse, with the refurbishment attempt suffering from peeling blue paint and unna... View Source

Nvidia rival says it has raised $800 million and has $1 billion in contracts... View Source

Clicks has released the first hands-on video of its Blackberry like Communicator Android phone... View Source

AI is all about building Gigawatts on Earth or in Space faster and powering millions of AI chips with them to deliver more AI tokens and more powerful AI. Tesla is able shape the Grid on Earth. Tesla signed a deal with Sunrun to get control of 16 Gigawatts of solar power and 4+ gigawatts ... Read more... View Source

Land surface temperature data captured by Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Wednesday, June 23, 2026. The data were captured in the late morning, local time. (Image credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA)Over 1,300 deaths have been attributed to a heat wave that swept across Europe and broke temperature records earlier this month.From its perch in sun-s... View Source

Blackstone Inc. President Jon Gray has steered his firm to more artificial-intelligence investments, and the same is true with his science philanthropy... View Source

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Videos purporting to show the iPhone 18 Pro undergoing a drop test were removed from X shortly after they surfaced, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. An account imitating leaker Evleaks was suspended from X after sharing the clips, while the post was removed as well, with X saying it "violated" the platform's rules. Another leaker, IceUniverse, also shared the clips. In a post on Weibo, IceUniverse... View Source

Out of all the big AI players, Anthropic is the one that likes to doomsay about AI the most — because it’s also the most concerned about AI safety, of course. So you’ll never guess what kind of wacky stuff that its newly hired economist, Chad Jones, believes. As the Financial Times recently highlighted, Jones — a longtime Stanford economics professor — once wrote a paper that weighed u... View Source

Dan Ives, global head of tech research and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, sees the upcoming earnings season as a “huge validation moment” for big tech stocks, which he says were “way oversold in June.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shark has launched a new vacuum with three form factors... View Source

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BOULDER, Colorado — After Earth's moon and Mars, where could humans plant their footprints? The "Humans to Titan Summit 2026" was held here on June 11 and June 12 to explore the concept of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, as the next human exploration destination, post-Mars. Researchers looked into how demanding such a trek could be and what would be required to make it, along with next steps to... View Source

Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden says the use of autonomous artificial intelligence agents “could amplify volatility in stress” in financial markets and may need tighter regulation. She speaks at the European Central Bank's annual symposium in Sintra, Portugal. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of the industry — has skyrocketed. Tech giants are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to construct massively resource-intensive data centers across the country, but the aging power grid and an increasingly resistant public are quickly turning these expansion efforts into nightmare. As an alternat... View Source

Artificial intelligence debt issuance may point to more of a financial stability concern than stock valuations, according to a senior International Monetary Fund official... View Source

NASA will provide an update about its moon base plans this afternoon (June 30), and you can watch it live.Agency chief Jared Isaacman and Carlos García-Galán, the manager for NASA's moon base program, "will discuss the next set of awards for new lunar lander missions and preview upcoming opportunities as the agency works toward building a sustained presence on the moon," NASA officials wrote in a... View Source

“After college, my plan was to come to New York and get a record deal.” | Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt's questions were "de... View Source

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents risk causing “market meltdown” and may need tighter regulation, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden warned... View Source

Signs that companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to handle customer service tasks has triggered a fresh selloff in shares of two call-center companies... View Source

Executives and companies are grappling with how to manage the tools’ often uninvited presence... View Source

The time between a software vulnerability being found and then exploited by a bad actor is shrinking says Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund. This poses a real threat to financial stability, says Adrian. He spoke to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on the sidelines of the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sint... View Source

Proton has launched a major upgrade for its Lumo chatbot, giving it image generation and editing capabilities... View Source

The first full moon of summer, June's Strawberry Moon, wowed skywatchers worldwide with a spectacular display. June's full moon was the lowest-hanging full moon of the year for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. That's because a full moon always sits opposite the sun in the sky. During the summer solstice that just passed on June 21, the sun was following its highest path of the year; that mean... View Source

The Avinox MG Concept MGU coming next year. | Image: Avinox Imagine an e-bike motor that lets you select your preferred pedaling cadence and then automatically adjusts the gears to keep your legs spinning at that exact speed, no matter how steep the hill gets - all without a fragile derailleur or heavy multi-speed cassette to maintain. Prefer manual control? No problem, you can have as many gears... View Source

A shortage of job openings in the US is playing a much bigger role in young people’s unemployment than their lack of artificial intelligence skills, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis... View Source

NASA Ames Science Stars of the Month: July 2026 Pictured left to right: Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborati... View Source

Case designs for the wide-style Galaxy Z Fold 8 have appeared online, and some show the phone inside them. | Image: Android Headlines Samsung is expected to unveil its next generation of foldables at a Galaxy Unpacked event next month, but now we know what they might look like, courtesy of some leaked images published by Android Headlines. Images shared by the publication include case designs for... View Source

The maps and images show the extent of destruction and give rescue operations a tool to find any remaining survivors... View Source

At Manifest, some tech intellectuals wondered whether Super Bowl bets were really helping humanity... View Source

Anthropic PBC has said its Mythos artificial intelligence model is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can’t be released to the general public. As of early June, the AI giant had released Mythos to only 200 partner organizations because if a tool this powerful fell into the wrong hands, Anthropic said, it could help attackers more easily steal data or disrup... View Source

A consortium led by NeoPulse is close to a deal to buy nearly 40% of South Korean firm Wemade Co. from founder and Chairman Park Kwan-ho, a spokesman for Wemade said in response to a Bloomberg News query... View Source

Fabiana Fedeli, CIO of multi-asset at M&G Investments, says that while there is still value in equities, markets such as South Korea have displayed "exuberant" behavior. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, she says: "there is a whole host of stocks which are the AI losers — the stocks that have been forgotten by the AI trade — that I still think I still think are very worthwhile inve... View Source

Heat pumps are more than just a way to keep your home comfortable without using fossil fuels... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Comcast is shaking up media, with shares soaring on plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky. Tech rebounds as South Korea’s AI spending push lifts chip stocks. Plus, the US . and Iran agree to halt attacks ahead of Doha talks. Tyler Kendall breaks down the Supreme Court’s Fed independence ruling, and Del Monte Cor... View Source

From small businesses to government agencies, legitimate websites are getting caught in the crossfire of LaLiga's fight against illegal sports streams... View Source

It was supposed to be the deal that vaulted Mirae Asset Securities Co. into the global big leagues... View Source

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner have hired investment bankers and discussed making a bid for the National Basketball Association expansion team in Las Vegas, according to sources. Bloomberg's Natasha Mascarenhas joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Taiwan government agencies raided the offices of Super Micro Computer Inc. and several of its local affiliates, deepening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia Corp. chips into China using the company’s servers... View Source

Activist investor Jana Partners has built a larger stake in Alkami Technology Inc. and is urging the financial technology company to move forward with a sale, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

The South Korean government will consider ways to cut atomic power construction times as it looks to ramp up energy supply to meet the demands of artificial intelligence... View Source

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. cut Group Chief Executive Officer Yuen Kuan Moon’s pay by 17% after a year marked by emergency service disruption and network outages in Australia and Singapore... View Source

Taiwan’s main opposition party outlined plans to develop the drone industry just days after stalling a similar proposal from President Lai Ching-te’s government, amid a debate on unmanned systems with crucial implications for the island’s defense... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle US claims that it routinely failed to provide records to help customers who were victims of identity theft... View Source

Standard Chartered Plc’s former global head of AI enablement, David Hardoon, has joined Accenture Plc as managing director and head of advanced AI for Southeast Asia... 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 PIMCO Head of Short-Term Portfolio Management Jerome Schneider, Former FTC Chair & Commissioner William Kovacic, Seaport Research Partners Senior Analyst David Joyce, LSEG CEO David Schwimmer, JPMorgan Executive Director G... View Source

China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. is ramping up buybacks as its Hong Kong-listed shares struggle to recover from a selloff that’s wiped out about $309 billion in market value since early October... View Source

Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. has started taking investor orders for its Hong Kong listing that may fetch as much as HK$24.3 billion ($3.1 billion), the city’s biggest share debut so far this year... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. has been sued by Australia’s consumer watchdog for introducing advertising to its Prime Video streaming service and then forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid the ads... View Source

The UK will probably miss its clean electricity target by five years because of capacity constraints on its grid and could struggle to deliver on promises to cut household energy bills, according to consultant LCP Delta... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Northwest Earth and Space… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   4 min read Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways Project Celebrates Student Innovation Through ROADS from Earth to Venus National Challenge The Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways (NESSP) project recently concluded its 2025–20... View Source

The House on Monday passed legislation to require new online safety protections for children, a sign of growing momentum in Washington to address a widespread concern among US parents even as the measure sets up a clash with senators seeking stronger safeguards... View Source

Some of Apple's corporate secrets aren't so secret any more... View Source

Brian Roberts lost out on an opportunity last year to merge NBCUniversal with Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. But the process helped get the chairman and co-chief executive officer of Comcast Corp. thinking about what NBCUniversal would look like on its own... View Source

If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In a new interview with Vogue Italia, the Queen of Pop emphatically declared that AI is antithetical to art itself because it stifles creativity and pushes you down the boring and safe route. “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the oppo... View Source

Chris Marangi, president and co-CIO of Gabelli Funds, joins Katie Greifeld, Scarlet Fu, and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Comcast plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky, unwinding a strategy that began more than a decade ago after struggling to demonstrate that a cable and media conglomerate would benefit shareholders. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Smartphones are welcoming the agentic AI overlords... View Source

Impulse Space has over a $1 billion raised and $4.26 valuation and has key SpaceX people like Tom Mueller. They will be selling in-space mobility as a service rather than hardware. They provide orbital transfer, last-mile delivery, hosting, deployment, and high-agility maneuvering after a launch vehicle separates the payload in LEO. Nextbigfuture covered Impulse in ... Read more... View Source

California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.Rocket Lab has brought a variety of companies into its space systems architecture in recent years, but none of those previous purchases were as notable as the acquisition announced today (June 29). Rocket Lab and Iridium settled on the purchase at $54 per shar... View Source

Exiled Chinese tycoon Miles Guo, who promoted himself as a crusader against the communist government in Beijing, was ordered to spend 30 years in a US prison for duping investors out of $1 billion... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Flight Dynamics Research Facility, located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is the agency’s first major wind tunnel built in more than 40 years. NASA/Mark Knopp For more than 100 years, wind tunnels at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have helped shape the future of flight... View Source

While Kara Zor-El's appearance at the end of James Gunn's Superman was a very pleasant surprise, Warner Bros. Discovery's plan to fast-track a standalone Supergirl feature always felt a little dubious. It seemed odd that, after Superman, the studio wanted to flesh out its new cinematic universe with films about another Kryptonian and one of Batman's less notable villains. But Gunn implored fans to... View Source

South Koreans are getting richer more quickly than anyone else in the world, creating an unprecedented opportunity for the country’s asset managers... View Source

Dbrand did not do its homework when it made the Companion Cube case for the Steam Machine... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, right, and Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler, left, pose for a photo after signing a Memorandum of Agreement Monday, June 29, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. This Memorandum of Agreement will provide the framework for NASA and the Small Business Administration Office of Investment and Innovati... View Source

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary today, it’s worth noting a certain sense of irony that Steven Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" seems oddly prescient into today’s AI-obsessed environment, especially when compared to the master director’s recently released "Disclosure Day," which sadly feels three decades late to the whole governmental cover-up UFO/UAP party."A.I. Artificial Intell... View Source

Time to say goodbye to that legacy Sprint plan. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans. This move includes plans that date back to the 3G era, and it's going about as well as you'd expect. Affected customers began sharing screenshots of the text on redd... View Source

David Schwimmer, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), discussed the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the financial markets. He emphasized that despite a challenging 2025 for shares, AI presents a significant opportunity for LSEG by enhancing the value of its proprietary data, which constitutes over 90% of its dataset. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld... View Source

Rather than external partnerships, Uber may start leaning on its own robotaxis for driverless options... View Source

Ever wanted to role play a claims adjustor in Southern California? Now you can — with Wyldfyre, the world’s first standalone prediction market dedicated to wildfire risk. Even more than usual, this summer promises to be hot, dry, and primed for horrifying wildfires throughout North America and beyond; families are already fleeing deadly blazes in California. With mainstream prediction market... View Source

Meera Pandit, Executive Director of Global Market Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, joined the program to discuss the strong finish to the quarter for US equities. The segment highlighted that US stock markets are on track to deliver their best quarterly performance in six years, reflecting positive momentum and investor confidence as the quarter closes. She speaks with Romaine Bostick... View Source

Google expands personalized intelligence to Gemini app image creation... View Source

Two NASA astronauts will fix the International Space Station's big robotic arm during a spacewalk on Tuesday (June 30), and you can watch the action live.Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will perform a roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today, starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT).You can watch it live via NASA; Space.com will air the stream as well, if th... View Source

The iPhone 17 Pro. | Image: The Verge Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple's key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters. The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo. This comes just a week after Tata Electronics, an Ind... View Source

Pimco Head of Short-Term Portfolio Management Jerome Schneider expects the Federal Reserve to not move on interest rates for the rest of this year. He talks about how clients and investors can find growth amid hidden risks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It may be tempting to control an entire power strip with a smart plug, but there are some things you should know about this setup... View Source

Tesla v14 Lite is being rolled out to FSD Hardware 3 customers. This gives most of the FSD 14 capability to older HW3 cars. They distilled the intelligence from HW4 V14 into HW3. This allows HW3 to directly learn how to handle scenarios using HW4 V14 as a guide. This process unlocks the improvements that ... Read more... View Source

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's priority is ensuring royalties go to original w... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow speaks with the CEO of Rocket Lab about the company's biggest bet yet: buying Iridium in an $8 billion deal to challenge SpaceX in the orbital economy. Plus, South Korean firms, including Samsung and SK Hynix will spend at least $880 billion on chips and data centers, as the country seeks to maintain its edge in the AI era; and Anthropic wins US approval to restore some acces... View Source

Xbox union members argue for transparency and good-faith bargaining... View Source

Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions might look like a direct sequel to Astroneer on the surface, but it's a space exploration game with very different objectives. While its predecessor focuses (it continues to get updates and content packs) on base-building and creative tools, this second title instead takes players on shorter, breezier trips all about discovery and mission-based tasks.Even in its e... View Source

There are already a few ways to play PlayStation games on the go, but Sony is also rumored to be working on a new handheld. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience that lets you play games outside of your living room. Here's the relevant portion from the transcript, emphasi... View Source

Indie Hollywood darling A24 scored a massive financial hit with its “Backrooms” horror flick this year, netting over $330 million globally on a minuscule $10 million budget — the studio’s highest-grossing film of all time. The movie’s director Kane Parsons, a 21-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, is an outspoken critic of AI, calling it “genuinely harmful” to c... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. said it has wound down its robotaxi offering with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo in Phoenix, the latest relationship twist between two companies that simultaneously function as partners and competitors... View Source

The US Supreme Court has surprisingly decided to restrict geofence warrants... View Source

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the te... View Source

Washington’s most powerful lobbying firms are rushing to cut ties with Chinese tech giants including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. as new US restrictions reshape the influence game for many Chinese companies... View Source

Apple's rumored touchscreen MacBook may launch soon, here's what to expect... View Source

An air-launched Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket is scheduled to fly for the very last time early Tuesday morning (June 30), sending a private spacecraft on a rescue mission to save one of NASA's most iconic space telescopes from falling back to Earth. The Swift Boost mission will send the LINK satellite, built by Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies, to grapple NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Ob... View Source

The iPad Air supports Apple Pencil Pro, plus hover support. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $50... View Source

As government scrutiny over Anthropic's Mythos AI model takes center stage in the public debate over AI's national security concerns, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says being labeled "too dangerous" may actually be good marketing for frontier AI firms. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to explain. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tidal's new policy says that 100-percent AI-generated music will be demonetized... View Source

The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissioners, even though it broke with decades of prior legal precedent at the time. The justices have officially killed that precedent, based on a... View Source

A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer from enthusiastic to downright obsessive. First he started using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate his Slack messages and emails. Then he mandated AI use for all employees. “He called a company-wide meeting to announce that from then on, we had to discuss with the AI prior to all meetings or... View Source

WhatsApp will let the messaging service’s 3 billion global users select a username for their account, a change meant to increase privacy by letting people connect on the platform without having to share their phone number... View Source

If you want a 4K display you can easily move around the house, LG has you covered... View Source

The United States' 250th birthday is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate than by looking for a star whose light began its journey to Earth around the time the Declaration of Independence was signed? Starlight travels through the near-perfect vacuum of space at a staggering 186,282 miles (299,791 kilometers) per second— or the speed of light. Even at this pace, it can take hund... View Source

You can reserve the username you want to use before the feature starts rolling out later this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will be launching "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from... View Source

Momei Qu, managing director at PSP Growth, discusses two contrasting viewpoints surrounding AI investments: one emphasizing that the significant scale of investment indicates strong and genuine demand for AI technologies, and the other cautioning that the escalating costs of supporting AI infrastructure continue to rise, increasing the burden of proof for these investments. She speaks on "Bloomber... View Source

WhatsApp is launching usernames later this year, but you can reserve yours starting this week... View Source

The Govee Uplighter in action. | Image: Govee July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is hosting its own 4th of July sale, fo... View Source

Bidders accustomed to buying prized art or luxury goods were recently introduced to a new category of coveted items at auction: Mementos from the world’s most popular internet stars... View Source

A new report found half of social media safety features intended to keep children safe online do not work as claimed... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artistic concept of lunar surface technologies and infrastructure capabilities, including in-situ resource utilization oxygen production systems, surface power systems, in‑space manufacturing tools, and advanced nanomaterials production.NASA Long-term lunar exploration requires technology, infrastructure, and operations... View Source

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former... View Source

Rocket Lab announced on Monday that it is acquiring the satellite communications company Iridium. The deal, made for cash and shares of Rocket Lab stock, values Iridium at about $8 billion. The deal pairs the launch company, founded and led by Peter Beck, with a decades-old profitable satellite company whose network of 80 satellites in low-Earth orbit provides telecommunications services. "We beli... View Source

China has announced a formal plan to integrate artificial intelligence across all levels of schooling, aligning its education system with President Xi Jinping’s campaign to dominate advanced technologies... View Source

Want to go back to your ex... AI assistant? We don't blame you. Take these steps to get Google Assistant back after your fling with Gemini... View Source

NASA’s Earth-observing satellites track an enormous range of phenomena: how aerosols move through the atmosphere, how moisture descends through soil, how land-cover shifts over decades. It’s some of the most consequential data NASA produces, informing science, policy, agriculture, and climate research around the world. As NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) manages this vast portfolio,... View Source

Dbrand announced Monday that it's refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made "without a license from Valve." Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company's website and the teaser video promoting it had been made private after... View Source

The world’s first trillionaire just celebrated his 55th birthday. And we can’t tell which possibility is more depressing: that his mother used AI to either generate or enhance pictures of him blowing out the candles on a rocket cake made to look like a SpaceX Starship — or that his social media network is convinced it was actually him that posted the slop under his mom’s name... View Source

Ardian SAS plans to invest over €3 billion ($3.4 billion) to build data centers in the Nordics, as lower energy prices and ample available land draw more digital infrastructure providers to the region... View Source

Comcast plans to spin out NBCUniversal and leave the entertainment business... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit on June 23, 2026, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest a... View Source

Every year, millions of people travel to remote, protected "dark-sky parks" in search of experiences that depend on true darkness — photographing the Milky Way's heart arcing overhead, observing nocturnal wildlife in its natural rhythm, or simply standing beneath an ink-black sea of stars unblurred by artificial light.Scientists have long warned that rising levels of artificial light — increasingl... View Source

We’re one step closer to Tony Stark’s smart glasses, but still quite a few steps behind J.A.R.V.I.S. Xgimi, the Chinese company known for its all-in-one smart projectors, is expanding its portfolio with a new line of screen-equipped smart glasses that first debuted at CES 2026. Unlike AR glasses from companies like Meta and Snap, Xgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One skip cameras for a lighter... View Source

AI bots are showing up to remote meetings faster than humans can create social norms to guide them... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artistic concept of lunar surface technologies and infrastructure capabilities, including ISRU oxygen production systems, Stirling radioisotope generators, in‑space manufacturing tools, and advanced nanomaterials production.NASA NASA issued a draft BAA under NextSTEP‑3, Appendix A, on June xx, 2026, to advance concepts... View Source

In the China tech space, Baidu is now a full-stack player in the AI industry. As the maker of its own chips, AI model (Ernie), cloud system and a self-driving car business (Apollo Go), the tech giant is a very desirable company to work for. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Baidu CFO Henry He joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss how the company uses AI to evolve its own organiz... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Star-Spangled City 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 Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission:... View Source

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted Perseverance rover as it completed driving the distance of a marathon (26.2 miles or 42 kilometers) on the Red Planet. (Image credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)A spacecraft orbiting Mars watched as its "friend," the Perseverance rover, finished its first marathon on the Martian surface. There weren't any medals handed out, and there... View Source

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle lifting off from its launch complex in New Zealand. | Image: RocketLab Rocket Lab, the space company best known for its small satellite launcher Electron, has announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications for $8 billion. The deal will combine Rocket Lab's launch services and spacecraft manufacturing with Iridium's satellite-based communications network, put... View Source

NASA’s Swift observatory, designed to study the most powerful explosions in the universe, launched into orbit over two decades ago. Since then, it has provided scientists with a constant stream of invaluable multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray bursts, which are extremely energetic events that rock our and distant galaxies, providing groundbreaking insights into the earliest days of th... View Source

Comcast said it plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a new publicly traded company as it looks to separate its media businesses from its cable-TV and internet operations. Kelcee Griffis reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Burn-in is often overblown, but understanding the phenomenon is still important... View Source

It’s time for our annual Fourth of July grill episode here at Decoder. This is when we invite the CEOs of outdoor cooking companies onto the show to explain just how their businesses kind of look like every other business. And this is a very special edition.  Today I’m talking to Roger Dahle, the CEO of Weber Blackstone, a full circle moment for Decoder. Roger was our first-ever grill CEO on... View Source

Dip buyers emerging to pick up beaten-down technology stocks and easing tensions in the Middle East helped lift US stock-index futures before the bell on Monday... View Source

NASA is taking the "America 250" birthday celebration to new heights.The agency has big plans for July 4 — the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence — which involves both aircraft and spacecraft."From the earliest days of exploration, to the first steps on the moon and the missions shaping our future, NASA represents the spirit of discovery that defines our natio... View Source

The Busy Bar makes it obvious to others when you don’t want to be distracted. | Image: Flipper Devices First announced over a year ago in April 2025, the Busy Bar will be available for purchase starting on July 14th when the device also starts shipping. Created by the same team behind the Flipper Zero wireless multitool, the Busy Bar is instead described as a "productivity multitool" that relies o... View Source

There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way. In the United States, a YouGov pol found that three-quarters of Americans think AI should be more heavily regulated, an anxiety shared across the political aisle, the Economist observed. The US populace is likewise increasingly fearful of the economic impacts of AI, especially as powerful tech companies pour mon... View Source

Relx Plc plans to repurchase shares valued at as much as £100 million ($132.1 million) next month, as the British information and analytics company continues to grapple with concerns that artificial intelligence tools will displace its core research products... View Source

Oura took its class-leading smart ring, made it 40 percent smaller and made the battery last longer... View Source

Millennium Management is setting up an artificial intelligence laboratory to expand the development and application of cutting-edge technologies at the firm... View Source

Rocket Lab will own satellites connecting the most remote corners of the Earth... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a massive and densely packed galaxy cluster at "cosmic noon." The fact that this cluster is so highly evolved could change theories of cosmic evolution, as it seems to exist before such structures were thought to be possible.Designated XLSSC 122 and first seen in 2014, the cluster immediately stood out to the team in James Webb Space T... View Source

Ending any story is hard, but that's especially true of mystery-packed TV shows. Series like Lost initially hook viewers with constantly building secrets and questions, to the point that they can often seem incomprehensible. But the promise is that it will all pay off in the end - a feat that few shows ultimately manage. This creates tension as viewers try to put all of the pieces together while h... View Source

South Korea is orchestrating investments of at least $880 billion from companies including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix into infrastructure it called essential to surviving the AI era. Bloomberg's Sangmi Cha reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there's still time to fight it. On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on "woke" policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quic... View Source

Ive, Hoenig reflect their Apple experience in new vehicles... View Source

Google was forced to cap Meta's use of Gemini AI due to a lack of capacity... View Source

Comcast has announced plans to separate itself into two publicly traded companies, spinning off its NBCUniversal and Sky broadcasting arms. The shake up aims to protect the media conglomerate's profitable broadband and wireless brand, which will retain the "Comcast" company name, as its media and entertainment business - now collectively named "NBCUniversal" - faces increasing pressure from indust... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. projected a second-quarter loss of between $700 million and $800 million after striking a deal with UK’s BT Group Plc to create a joint venture for their international businesses... View Source

Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium... View Source

Comcast Corp. said it plans to split its media and technology businesses, spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate publicly traded company... View Source

Get ready to see the first full moon of summer as the stunning Strawberry Moon rises tonight (June 29). The moon officially reaches its full phase at 7:57 p.m. EDT (2357 GMT) on June 29 when it sits opposite the sun in Earth's sky and appears fully illuminated. While that will mark the exact moment of the full moon, our lunar neighbor will appear bright and round for a night or two before and afte... View Source

Two Chinese robotics startups have been valued at more than $2.9 billion in recent funding rounds, demonstrating steady interest in the sector and boosting the country’s efforts to compete with US firms like Tesla Inc. and Figure AI Inc... View Source

Blackstone Inc.-backed data center operator AirTrunk is close to filing confidentially for an initial public offering of a real estate investment trust in Singapore, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

In the China tech space, Baidu is now a full-stack player in the AI industry. The company makes its own chips, has its own AI models (Ernie), its own cloud system, and it's integrating AI into its self-driving car business, Apollo Go. But before all this, Baidu was known for being China's leader in search. Things, obviously, have changed a lot since the company was founded in the late 1990s. In to... View Source

South Korea is launching a 1,350 trillion won ($880 billion) plan in corporate investments to build out critical AI infrastructure and cement its global dominance in the semiconductor market. President Lee Jae Myung called the sweeping mega-project a "national survival strategy" for the AI era. Bloomberg’s Avril Hong breaks down the press conference, where President Lee was joined by the CEOs of t... View Source

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P introduces a new D-Log2 format and promises 17 stops of dynamic range... 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

Prosus CEO Fabricio Bloisi says its food takeaway firm Just Eat will start delivering growth in the next few months and has plans for global growth. Bloisi speaks on Bloomberg Television after Prosus announced that profit more than doubled last fiscal year, beating analysts’ estimates helped by growth in the tech investment company’s e-commerce businesses. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Chinese humanoid robots are stealing the spotlight at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai — but can they keep up with the World Cup spirit? From penalty kicks to piano playing, Bloomberg's Stephen Engle puts them to the test. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea unveiled an ambitious plan aimed at cementing its status as a technological powerhouse, with companies led by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. initiating large-scale investments in memory chips, data centers and robotics. Samsung and SK Hynix leaders sat next to President Lee Jae Myung at a briefing, and are expected to give more details of their future investment plans. Bloom... View Source

Spot this large constellation with differing classical backstories as moon sits squarely in ‘teapot’ of SagittariusThis week we will look for another large but faint constellation: Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. One of the original 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, it sits in the sky on the opposite side to Orion, the hunter. The chart shows the view looking south from London... View Source

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At a made-to-order homebuilder in northwest Germany, processing more than 250 invoices a week used to swallow the equivalent of four working days. After introducing artificial intelligence last year, the task takes half as long... View Source

Autonomous-driving firm Momenta Global Ltd. started taking investor orders for its Hong Kong initial public offering to raise HK$5.9 billion ($752 million), pouncing on a multiyear high for share sales in the city... View Source

AIブームが変えたアップルの価格戦略。コスト増を受けた値上げは一時的か、それともAI時代の新常態なのか。... View Source

Homegrown platforms, banned from real-money gambling, are tapping the country’s loyalty-point culture to build an alternative to Polymarket. ... View Source

RBC BlueBay Asset Management remains bullish on Japanese AI-related stocks, expecting the rally to extend into 2027, while trimming near-term risk ahead of a potential slowdown in July and August... View Source

Mythos-class models (Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, Fable 5, and Mythos 5) represent a new capability tier above the previous Opus-class frontier models (Claude Opus 4.x series). They mark a meaningful step up in agentic/long-horizon reasoning, complex multi-step planning, software engineering, and especially autonomous cybersecurity capabilities (vulnerability discovery, exploit chaining, and... View Source

China, India, and Hong Kong have emerged as the only major stock markets worldwide where top companies account for a smaller share of market capitalization than a year ago, underscoring their lag in the global AI race... View Source

You may not be able to predict the changes but at least accept that change has already happened. It will help save your investments. AI revenue beats all other revenue and all other profit. Things are changing fast in AI and have already changed. Nvidia will likely soon get passed by Micron and Anthropic and ... Read more... View Source

South Korea’s Samsung Group and SK Group are poised to announce as much as 2,000 trillion won ($1.3 trillion) of investments over the next decade as part of President Lee Jae Myung’s flagship industrial strategy, Korea Economic Daily reported Monday... View Source

Some animators believe AI will make films better. Others believe it will bring costs down... View Source

Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a US opioid crisis... View Source

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US. This level of advancement is partic... View Source

The true scourge of American roadways isn’t pot holes, rush hour traffic, or grandmas ambling down the fast lane. It’s oversized pickup trucks and SUVs. A new investigation by The New York Times found that the number of pedestrian deaths has surged by 75 percent since the explosion of these large vehicles around 2009, translating to thousands of more pedestrians being killed who otherw... View Source

Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support. To apply, artists need to be an unsigned singer, songwriter, or producer releasing music under their own name. They also need to agree to some t... View Source

In February 2024, scientific journal Frontiers was forced to retract a paper by a team of Chinese and Indian researchers after finding that their study contained nonsensical, AI-generated diagrams, including one of a rat with wildly oversized genitals. As the scandal unfolded, the researchers admitted that they’d produced the absurd picture using Midjourney, an AI-powered image generator. Tw... View Source

These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging... View Source

The law’s gaze has grown harder to escape, as surveillance drones and AI-integrated cameras now track movement across public and private spaces alike. And as one Virginia resident recently discovered, Johnny Law is a good listener, too. According to reporting by Virginia’s WSLS 10, Kat Vaughn of Roanoke was alarmed to discover a Flock audio detection pole had been erected in her front... View Source

Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth. The five-legged alien is composed of a rock-like material, hence its nickname, and comes from a fictional planet where temperatures and a high-pressure ammonia-dominant atmosphere has driven evolution in a radically different direction (still, he... View Source

The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million... View Source

The LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu/Xinhua via Getty Images Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That's despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be so... View Source

Human activity-driven climate change has exacerbated droughts, making them more frequent, last longer, and more severe. This summer is already breaking records, with all but five US states currently experiencing droughts. The effects can be devastating, from decimating livestock and straining agricultural supply chains to reducing crop yield and threatening global food security. In parts of Turkey... View Source

The new models will launch with the M5 Pro and M5 Max, according to Mark Gurman... View Source

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday (June 28), continuing to expand its broadband internet relay network.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the new batch (Group 17-40) launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff took place at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT or 9:09 a.m. PDT local time).The Starlink satellites reache... View Source