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Microsoft shares surged in late trading after better-than-expected 4Q earnings, helped by continued strength in cloud computing and artificial intelligence. But Meta shares fell after a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter. It also reported the lowest free cash flow in years, a sign of ballooning AI spending. Josh Gilbert, APAC & Middle East Lead Analyst at etoro spoke to Blo... View Source

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. has confirmed it is in talks to sell a stake in Australia’s Optus, after the Australian Financial Review reported infrastructure investor Morrison is in discussions to buy a stake valued at more than A$2 billion ($1.4 billion)... View Source

Qualcomm Inc., the largest maker of smartphone processors, gave a weak profit forecast for the current quarter, signaling that component shortages and rising costs are taking a toll on its main market... View Source

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Arm Holdings Plc shares slid in late trading after the company pointed to sluggishness in the smartphone industry, overshadowing a lucrative push into data center technology... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: July 30 – Red Sun… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke Explanation: This could be the view... View Source

Australia’s eSafety regulator has commenced civil penalty proceedings in Federal Court against the provider of Telegram for the messaging service’s alleged failure to detect and remove pro-terror material... View Source

Microsoft Corp.’s cloud unit grew at the fastest clip in four years and the pace is accelerating, suggesting the company’s AI and computing services are making inroads with customers... View Source

Pakistan’s fintech group Abhi is preparing to launch an initial public offering of its microlender this month, according to its founder, as it seeks to capitalize on the nation’s busiest year for listings... View Source

Hans Patuwo, CEO of GoTo Group, discusses the Indonesian ride-hailing and food delivery firm's 2Q results, marking a consecutive quarter of net income. He outlines the company’s outlook and addresses its stock price, which has hovered at the lowest level permitted for regular trading under Jakarta exchange rules. He speaks with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft Corp. reported more than $130 billion in new data center leases in the past quarter, signaling an accelerating pace of spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Ygal Arounian, Wedbush managing director, Internet equity research, reacts to Meta Platforms Inc.'s second-quarter earnings and disappointing earnings forecast on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.'s semiconductor arm reported a more than 250-fold jump in profit, with an operating income of 89.2 trillion won in the June quarter. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports on the latest data. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Analog Devices Inc. is assessing a new claim by a group of hackers who say they’ve stolen hundreds files containing information on customers of the computer chips maker... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor arm reported a more than 250-fold jump in profit, reflecting the headway it’s making against rival SK Hynix Inc. in the AI memory boom... View Source

SpaceX is making minihard, an improved modular 220K GB300 data center. It will be small building to the right of Macrohard and Macrohardrr. It is the most important thing Elon and SpaceXAI has said about its infrastructure this year. Minihard is about 25% of the floor area of Macrohardrr but the same 220K GB300s. Minihard ... Read more... View Source

Blue Owl Capital’s data center firm Stack Infrastructure Inc. is seeking an A$8.5 billion ($5.9 billion) syndicated loan to fund its latest project in Melbourne, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be one of the largest such financings to the sector in Australia... View Source

Meta gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter, intensifying investor concerns that the social media giant isn’t swiftly benefiting from its massive outlay on artificial intelligence. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Globetrotters hunting for airfare bargains are in for a rude awakening: the days of stumbling across a cheap seat on a popular flight could soon disappear... View Source

Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners senior analyst, semiconductors and electronics, reacts to Qualcomm's weak profit forecast for the current quarter and Arm Holdings Plc's sales outlook that also failed to impress investors. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

CyberPunk 2077’s world is vibrant and dangerous. | Image: CD Projekt Red Over the last few years, CD Projekt Red put a ton of work into fixing Cyberpunk 2077, squashing bugs, polishing content, and even launching new DLC in 2023, Phantom Liberty. As a result, this game has gone from a source for funny, glitch-fueled videos to a world I’ve returned to a number of times to live out my futuristic fan... View Source

A bipartisan group of US senators urged Apple Inc. to abandon any efforts to buy chips from blacklisted Chinese semiconductor suppliers CXMT Corp. and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., warning that the iPhone maker risked becoming reliant on a US adversary for crucial components... View Source

The next great American observatory in space is just one month away from leaving this planet.NASA scientists got together Wednesday (July 29) to share a status update on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — the agency's next great observatory that will soon join the ranks of absolute legends like the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope.And that press conference was overflo... View Source

RAMageddon won't be the only reason your next phone costs more - Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that "prices are going to go up" on the company's products starting on September 1st, CNBC reports. The price hikes were rumored last week to be "a percentage in the double digits." Qualcomm announced the planned price incr... View Source

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the European Union’s content moderation rules after surpassing a threshold of 45 million monthly users in the bloc... View Source

The company's tech chief said a fix for the error will be arriving soon... View Source

Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots," Nadella said. "This quarter, we are bringing these Copilot experience... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter, intensifying investor concerns about the social media giant’s spending on artificial intelligence. Bloomberg News Big Tech Team Leader Kurt Wagner says as long as Meta is making money and the core business is going, they can get away with aggressive AI spending on data centers. He argues, however, that the minute wo... View Source

The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer... View Source

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do to make them viable for users - and how it will convince less technical people to give them a shot:... View Source

Microsoft cloud unit grew at the fastest pace in four years, suggesting that the company’s computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence services continue to make inroads with businesses. Azure cloud-computing revenue increased 43% during the fiscal fourth quarter, the company said Wednesday in a statement. That was the fastest quarterly growth since early 2022, and topped analysts’ average... View Source

The Age Signals API will be available globally before the end of the year... View Source

A collage of artist concepts highlighting the novel approaches proposed by the 2026 NIAC awardees.Credit: NASA The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has created 18 new awards to support visionary ideas to improve aerospace technologies in areas ranging from the exploration of the solar system to understanding the universe. The 18 NIAC Phase I awards total $3.2 million. Each award pr... View Source

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with mil... View Source

Rishi Jaluria, RBC Capital Markets managing director, software equity research, calls Microsoft's fourth-quarter earnings report "fantastic" and expects very high growth in capital expenditures next year. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Moving your data to Claude is easier than you might think. This step-by-step guide will get you switched over right away... View Source

MEta beat on earnings with $60.8 billion for the second quarter but net income declined by 14% compared to the same quarter of the previous year to $15.8 billion. Its diluted earnings per share (EPS) fell 13% year-over-year to $6.18. The company said it expects its 2026 capital expenditures to range between $130 billion and ... Read more... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. gave a disappointing current-quarter revenue forecast, intensifying investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented spending on artificial intelligence... View Source

Waymo paused highway operations in May after several robotaxis drove into sections that were closed for construction... View Source

Microsoft Q2 2026 revenue was $90.0 billion and increased 18% (up 17% in constant currency) Operating income was $40.6 billion and increased 18%. Net income was $35.8 billion and increased 31% on a GAAP basis, and was $35.3 billion and increased 22% on a non-GAAP basis. Diluted earnings per share was $4.81 and increased 32% ... Read more... View Source

Nostalgia is a powerful elixir as demonstrated by Paramount's moving "Star Trek" tribute video created for the franchise's big 60th anniversary this year and revealed last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con during a Star Trek Universe presentation at Hall H.It's a sentimental journey into the final frontier that chronicles the popular space opera property from its infancy as "Star Trek: The Original S... View Source

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 14 percent, according to Microsoft's fourth-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday. The news comes just weeks after Xbox head Asha Sharma announced a "reset" plan for Xbox that included sweep... View Source

A group of university researchers that developed benchmarks to test the cybersecurity capabilities of AI systems have unexpectedly landed themselves at the center of OpenAI’s accidental hack into the startup Hugging Face Inc... View Source

Robots apparently don't need to be bipedal to be caught up in the FCC's new foreign-made robot ban... View Source

It only took them three and a half years, but the powers that be at OpenAI have apparently directed ChatGPT to start refusing requests to copy a specific author’s style, Ars Technica reports. And it’s causing an absolute meltdown among “writers” who had grown accustomed to using the chatbot to churn out stories. Word spread quickly on the r/WritingWithAI subreddit, where on... View Source

SoFi posted record quarterly revenue and raised its full-year sales outlook. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto discusses why the company is keeping its earnings guidance unchanged, how AI is boosting engineering productivity and customer service, and why SoFi is continuing to invest for long-term growth despite shifting expectations for interest rates. Noto joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomb... View Source

Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac... View Source

When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning "advanced robotic devices" from entering the United States, the headlines were all about humanoids. But spying doesn't require legs - and neither does the FCC's robot ban. The robot ban will sweep up robot vacuum cleaners too, FCC media relations director Katie Gorscak confirms to The Verge. It's not coming for your existing Roo... View Source

Moonshot's Kimi K3 has reignited debate over China's role in the AI race, but Beringea Chief Investment Officer Karen McCormick says the bigger story is the growing availability of cheaper, open-weight AI models. She joins Bloomberg to explain why lower-cost AI is helping startups build faster, forcing frontier model providers to stay competitive, and accelerating AI adoption across industries. Sh... View Source

It's a widely held belief that restarting your phone improves performance. Here's the truth... View Source

A quantitative model of how Starship’s cost per kilogram falls as booster life goes from 5 to 30 flights, ship life from 1 to 10, and payload from 100 to 200 tonnes — and why the last flight of every ship is the cheapest kilogram in the system. Starship will likely enter 2027 as a ... Read more... View Source

Apple's new Upgrade program is here, allowing you to lease select models of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches with a relatively low monthly payment. The company promises you won't pay more than the full price of the device over the course of the one- to three-year lease, and in some cases, you'll pay hundreds of dollars less. The basics of the program make it sound like an amazing deal… so surely... View Source

The US and European stock markets might be numb to the enormity of the AI bubble at this point, but in East Asia it’s a different story. In South Korea, the AI bubble appears to be bursting — at least partially — with the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kopsi) plummeting by over 40 percent from its June highs after the Korean chipmaker SK Hynix failed to impress investors despite reportin... View Source

Goal-driven behavior, not malicious intent, is a key problem, according to security experts... View Source

If it's extra hot or humid where you are, the Runna app will adjust your workouts accordingly... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 July 28 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. OriginalAnnotated Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes Explanation: What... View Source

Things aren't going so well for NASA's latest satellite rescue mission.NASA launched the Swift Boost mission on July 3, sending a specialized spacecraft to low Earth orbit on the final flight of Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus XL rocket. The spacecraft is called LINK and was built by Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies. LINK was sent to orbit to try and link up with NASA's Swift obse... View Source

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn't confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI's rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier rumors that the device might be a wearable like the Humane AI pin. He di... View Source

Stonepeak Chairman, CEO and co-founder Michael Dorrell talks about opportunities in markets, the growth of artificial intelligence, demand for new data centers and how it all plays into their investment strategy on "Bloomberg Deals." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We played spot the difference and noticed this intriguing difference in Google's teaser for the Pixel 11 Pro... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons PIA26729 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Curiosity Discovers a Field of Martian Polygons PNG (305.97 MB) PIA26729 Figure A PNG (3.37 MB) Description NASA’s Cur... View Source

By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and their flagship models. OpenAI has ChatGPT, Anthropic has Claude, Google has Gemini. But what does Amazon have? Not a whole lot, it turns out. Unlike its competitors in the tech megacorp scene, Amazon’s standout AI model — organized under the name “Nova” — is about the... View Source

When we last checked in on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in February, NASA was announcing that it had 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. At the time, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the space agency was working with Boeing to "fully understand the risks associated" with t... View Source

IonQ Inc. will close its $1.8 billion acquisition of semiconductor foundry SkyWater Technology Inc. later this week after the Federal Trade Commission was unable to decide whether to impose conditions on the deal, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Cable and satellite aren't your only options when it comes to local channels. There are free ways to get the same content... View Source

1 Min Read NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Butte PIA26730 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Curiosity Views a… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Curiosity Views a Sand-Capped Butte PNG (27.41 MB) Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this sand-capped butte, nicknamed... View Source

SpaceX plans to launch a secret reconnaissance mission for the U.S. government early on Thursday morning (July 30), and you can watch the action live.A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, kicking off a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) called NROL-95.The 44-minute launch window opens at 2:37 a.m. EDT (0637 GM... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he discussed the company’s upcoming artificial intelligence model with US lawmakers and expressed his support for Congress to pass AI legislation, highlighting calls to safeguard the emerging technology... View Source

Tens of thousands of AI-generated songs are uploaded to music streaming platforms every day... View Source

A total solar eclipse is seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. NASA/Keegan Barber On Wednesday, Aug. 12,... View Source

The best smart telescopes have transformed astrophotography over the past few years, combining small telescope optics and automated mounts with dashcam-style camera sensors and image-processing software. The result? Compact devices that can be controlled entirely from a smartphone. Impressively, the DwarfLab Dwarf Mini pushes that concept even further.Roughly the size of a thick paperback book, it... View Source

As schools across the country continue to implement cell phone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cell phones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the entire school day. That's the first time more Americans have supported, rather than opposed, so-called bell-to-bell ban... View Source

Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it... View Source

For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a “national blood supply crisis,” after donations fell to a four-year summer low. The hotter summer months conventionally trigger blood shortages because people are more likely to injure themselves while spending time outdoors. And this summer has been particularly extreme. According to the Red Cross, extreme... View Source

The heat shield that protects SpaceX’s Starship vehicle as it plummets back to Earth may prove to be a substantial roadblock to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s path to designing a rapidly reusable rocket, according to three former NASA researchers and experts in the field... View Source

X and the World Federation of Advertisers say they're resetting their relationship... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 July 29 – Psyche… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Psyche Receives Gravity Assist from Mars Explanation: Solar Sy... View Source

Key specsCamera: 48MP 1/2.3-inch CMOSVideo resolution: Up to 4KFrame rates: 4K 30 FPS / FHD up to 60 FPSBattery: 2250 mAh up to 30 minutes flightCharger type: USB-C cableVideo transmission range: 6.2 milesDimensions: : Folded 5.63 x 3.26 x 2.44 in / 143 x 82.8 x 62 mm / Unfolded 6.59 x 8.57x2.44 in / 167.4 x 217.8 x 62 mmWeight: 8.78 oz / 249 gThe sub-250 g drone market shows no signs of reducing... View Source

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber discusses the company’s first-quarter results and the impact of a late-June incident at a key semiconductor supplier. Speaking with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Faber also discusses gaming demand, component costs and the company's pricing strategy. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

There's a new underwater location to explore and a dive mechanic... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered an expanse of terrain covered in surface features called polygons. Scientists have never seen so many of these features in one place and are unsure how they formed.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande,” it se... View Source

Ilya (who was the CTO of OpenAI when they made their breakthoughs) created the Safe Super Intelligence company. They are emerging to say that their research to create some next level AI is ready to scale. SSI announced a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a substantial investment in SSI that will let ... Read more... View Source

On July 29, 1982, the Salyut 6 space station fell out of space and safely burned up in Earth's atmosphere along the way.Salyut 6 was the eighth space station the Soviet Union had built for its Salyut program. It spent almost five years in orbit and supported five different crewed cosmonaut missions. While aboard Salyut 6, those cosmonauts made astronomical observations and studied the effects of s... View Source

Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell "just under 500" Luce units this year, and reached that target this month. Luce sales so far were reportedly driven by... View Source

Despite certain improvements in accuracy, large language models still hallucinate a lot. So much so, in fact, that cybersecurity researchers warn that criminals can easily weaponize delusional AI outputs to spread malware throughout the internet. According to SecurityWeek, the attack works by exploiting a persistent flaw in AI coding assistants. Basically, when these tools recommend third-party so... View Source

Battery Ventures General Partner Dharmesh Thakker joins Bloomberg Open Interest to make the case for investing beyond AI hype. He explains why enterprise software companies that deliver measurable business value will outperform. He also argues that open-source AI models could slash enterprise costs, accelerate adoption, and reshape the competitive landscape for OpenAI, Anthropic, and the broader A... View Source

The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house... View Source

NASA This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. Read... View Source

SYFY’s optimistic space opera series, "The Ark," embarks upon its third thrilling season today, occupying a unique entertainment spot as the only weekly scripted sci-fi series currently on regular broadcast television. With an impressive creative resume featuring executive producers Dean Devlin ("Stargate," "Independence Day") and Jonathan Glassner ("Stargate SG-1") and a hopeful premise about hum... View Source

The Remarkable Paper Pro bundle comes with a stylus and a folio cover. A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is currently offering a refurbished bundle for $449.99 through July 31st. It includes the tablet, a Mar... View Source

Jason Thomas, head of global research and investment strategy at Carlyle, discusses whether AI investment is crowding out other opportunities as capital flows into AI infrastructure. He examines market concentration, portfolio allocation and the outlook for corporate spending, asking whether AI is "going to consume almost the entirety, or certainly a large portion, of their incremental risk budget... View Source

SpaceX's Starship Version 3 floats on the Indian Ocean on July 28, 2026, days after splashing down on the vehicle's Flight Test 13 on July 24. (Image credit: SpaceX via X)SpaceX's Starship V3 looks absolutely seaworthy in this new photo taken days after its most recent flight test.What is it?SpaceX launched its Starship vehicle on July 24, sending the 408-foot-tall (124-meter) Starship Version 3 (... View Source

The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they get slammed with outrageous token bills. Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning of another way that embracing AI could doom a business. In an interview Sunday, Nadella cautioned against sharing too much information, ranging from proprietary data to the prompts entered, with a third-party AI mo... View Source

Gil Luria of DA Davidson says Microsoft will be the key company to watch during this earnings season and it all has to do with spending on artificial intelligence and capex. Microsoft and Meta Platforms both report after the bell on Wednesday. Luria speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Some newer vehicles include the feature, but to keep it, you'll have to pay monthly. You can also buy remote starters outright... View Source

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA Webb Explores Family Tree… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifec... View Source

After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn't have prevented them from working during this w... View Source

Last month, NASA announced that it was launching an unprecedented and risky mission to rescue its aging Swift observatory. The telescope, which has spent over two decades in orbit studying the most powerful explosions in the universe, has seen its orbit decay over time. With the help of a specialized space tug developed by contractor Katalyst Space Technologies, the space agency was hoping to give... View Source

Lenders are so worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on software firms that they’re pushing for repayment terms rarely seen in Europe since the global financial crisis... View Source

The BBC has so many structural benefits that it's unthinkable it could be usurped by anyone else in the UK... View Source

Ray Williams, supervisor of test support operations at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 16, 2026. Williams is among the first engineers and technicians sworn in as new NASA civil servants at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny Nowlin Ray W... View Source

Artists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes that... View Source

DoorDash Inc. is building its own delivery drones and has gained the necessary approvals to operate them commercially, the latest in its effort to delegate more orders to robots as a way of cutting delivery times... View Source

The Framework 13 Pro is a class-leading Windows laptop that, right now, is just a little too pricey... View Source

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Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have spotted the blisteringly hot exhaust fumes of one the earliest quasars, cosmic "breath" with temperatures as great as 36 million degrees Fahrenheit. This intensely bright titan is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole engine.The Chandra X-ray telescope observed a relatively silent quasar that existed 2.1 billion years after the Bi... View Source

A Wing drone carrying a DoorDash delivery. The food delivery app company says it will build its own drones going forward. | Image: Google DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration that clears the way for drone delivery in the near future. DoorDash said it has rec... View Source

NextEra Energy Inc., the largest US power utility, is teaming up with Brookfield on a more than $100 billion transformation of a shuttered Cold War uranium-enrichment facility in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant... View Source

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. The Ear 3A have the same transparent look as Nothing's previous earbuds, with a clear case and stem design accented by a solid-colored body - this time adding a striking pink alongside yellow, black, and white options. And Nothing co... View Source

As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic leaders are no longer asking. According to new reporting by Fortune, the state of Georgia’s for-profit utility company, Georgia Power, is looking to demolish and pave over some 30 homes — and 330 parcels of land — that currently block the route of a 1,000 mile transmission line. W... View Source

European startups aim to replace the US software company... View Source

A short king. Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fold 8" name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity, but as the new normal, the default design for foldables going forward. Rumor has it that Apple feels the same way, with a similar squat shape widely predicted for the first foldable iPhone, expected to la... View Source

The UK’s consumer and antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Microsoft Corp. misled customers into paying more for its productivity tools software subscriptions after adding its Copilot AI product to the suite... View Source

Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room... View Source

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog post detailing its ongoing investigation into the... View Source

Hinda Gharbi, CEO of Bureau Veritas, one of the world's leaders in testing, inspection and certification, says the business environment is 'complex' but the company has seen 'resilience' despite the tensions in the Middle East. Gharbi spoke exclusively with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua from Paris. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO of AI safety organization FAR.AI, put it, "a visceral example of how mi... View Source

GoTo Group reported its second consecutive quarter of net income, boosting the Indonesian ride-hailing and food delivery company’s efforts to navigate a challenging consumer market and a looming cut to ride-hailing commissions... View Source

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more... View Source

After months of asking who can spend the most, investors are increasingly asking a different question... View Source

The July full "Buck Moon" rises tonight to lead Saturn, Mars and Mercury in a spectacular mini planetary parade through the summer sky. Here's what you need to know.July's full moon phase occurs at 10:36 a.m. EDT on July 29 (1436 GMT), when the lunar disk will appear fully illuminated. It's often called the Buck Moon, to reflect the time when young male deer grow out their antlers. It has also bee... View Source

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years... View Source

The CEO of Bureau Veritas, one of the world's leaders in testing, inspection and certification, says the business environment is 'complex' but the company has seen 'resilience' despite the tensions in the Middle East. Hinda Gharbi spoke exclusively with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua from Paris. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet... View Source

Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, plans to sell products in Madagascar and targets connecting 1.5 million customers by 2030... View Source

Despite market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty, there is more confidence from large corporates when it comes to M&A, as these sponsors strive to be more decisive in their dealmaking says Anna Skoglund, Co-Head of EMEA Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. She spoke to Bloomberg's Anna Edwards on "The Pulse" on July 28. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face... View Source

Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing, riding the momentum from a breakthrough Kimi K3 model that sent ripples through Silicon Valley... View Source

Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation... View Source

Advantest Corp. raised its outlook above estimates, pointing to robust demand for testers needed to manufacture increasingly complex chips for AI data centers... View Source

SK Hynix shares slide by a daily record of around 19% in Seoul Wednesday, erasing early gains after the memory maker reported lower-than-expected operating profit for the second quarter and announced plans for higher spending. The company earmarked at least $31 billion in capital spending this year after reporting a six-fold surge in quarterly profit. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source:... View Source

After piling into chip stocks and so-called AI winners, investors are now rushing to cut this exposure and rebalance portfolios. Even allowing for that, an acceleration of the selloff in recent days over China competitive risks looks premature... View Source

Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota's new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced... View Source

NXP Semiconductors NV struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat forecast for the current period, the latest sign of deepening concern about the chip sector... View Source

Legrand SA boosted its sales guidance as customers continue to invest heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Vantage Data Centers, backed by US alternative asset manager DigitalBridge Group Inc., is considering selling its assets in Malaysia, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Blackstone Inc.-owned data center firm AirTrunk has secured a $2.3 billion green loan from 30 lenders for a new facility in Malaysia, its largest financing so far for a single asset... View Source

Washington risked widening its tech confrontation with China by restricting more foreign-made goods, including some humanoid robots and power inverters... View Source

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Investment firm Sixth Street Partners and South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. are among bidders for a significant stake in Southeast Asia’s Bridge Data Centres, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Ryan VanGrack, vice chair and head of corporate affairs of Coinbase, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto" to discuss the importance of the passage of the US Clarity Act. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Craig Beattie, CFO of commerical property firm HongKong Land, discusses the company's 11% rise in underlying profit for the first six months of the year, and discusses its outlook and strategy for growth. He speaks exclusively with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Malaysia’s government withdrew its backing for a blockchain conference after promotional material of an after-party featuring a former OnlyFans creator sparked an outcry in the Muslim-majority country... View Source

Footage shows North Island skies lighting up followed by a ‘huge boom’ days after a seperate fireball in South IslandTwo suspected meteors have flashed and boomed across New Zealand’s skies in recent days , delighting those who glimpsed the rare celestial event and sending some animals into a frenzy.A large fireball was seen over parts of the North Island just after 10.20pm on Tuesday night, after... View Source

Capcom Co.’s shares gained the most since January 2014 after the Japanese videogame developer’s first-quarter operating profit beat analysts’ expectations, helped by strong software sales... View Source

Dushyant Shahrawat, Bloomberg Intelligence Crypto & Assets Analyst, says crypto it here to stay and promises to change the way financial products are manufactured. He argues that just like we got used to trusting software and AI, the financial world will do the same with cryptocurrencies, and that the increased use of platforms like Venmo was just the first step. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Dushyant Shahrawat joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Bitcoin was left out of the newly announced crypto index from S&P and Pantera Capital. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

XRC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Pano Anthos understands the scale of the issue of AI governance with the insurance industry dropping or excluding AI risk, as companies struggle to manage their internal architectures against outside programs. He speaks to Romaine Bostick and Emily Graffeo on Bloomberg's 'The Close.' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's part of a national security strategy to kickstart domestic production of emerging technology... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s quarterly profit rose 557%, but missed expectations, fueling fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating. Bloomberg's Mark Cranfield and Anthony Stephens share their insights. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

An attempt by a lender to offload a portion of a loan backing a Hong Kong data center project is highlighting a global trend of banks reshuffling lending to keep exposure to the booming sector within limits... View Source

In June, Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch 2 that should let you easily replace its battery pack - but only for Europe. Logitech will do much the same. User-replaceable batteries will be the law in Europe in February 2027, but instead of bringing them to the rest of the world, Logitech plans to ship one version of its wireless mice to Europe and a different version everywhere else. Th... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s quarterly profit rose a smaller-than expected 557%, adding to heightened fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating... View Source

Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company... View Source

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include "mobile" robots, such as humanoid and... View Source

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent that breached systems at Hugging Face Inc. also compromised a customer at a second technology company, New York-based Modal Labs, Reuters reported... View Source

A new lawsuit accuses Tesla of overextending the safety operators overseeing its robotaxis... View Source

Key specsCamera: 48MP 1/2-inch CMOSVideo resolution: Up to 4KFrame rates: 4K 100 FPS / 2.7K vertical up to 60 FPS / FHD up to 100 FPSBattery: 2590 mAh up to 36 minutes flightCharger type: USB-C cable/battery charging hubModes: Cine, Normal, SportVideo transmission range: 9.3 miles (IC) / 4.97 miles (CE/SRRC/MIC)Dimensions: : Folded 5.67 x 3.70 x 2.44 in / 144 x 94 x 62 mm / Unfolded 7.20 x 9.88 x... View Source

In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union. "While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts... View Source

Goldman Sachs Japan Co. says a sharp selloff in Japan’s artificial intelligence-related stocks has created a buying opportunity, arguing that strong earnings could revive investor appetite for semiconductor shares... View Source

Why can't I just wear my AirPods in the pool?... View Source

Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to "uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals," referred to as "John Doe 1 and John Does 2 through 100." The lawsuit also says that "In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs" were "hacked,... View Source

The chipmaker needs to prove it’s more than an accidental beneficiary of a supply squeeze in storage. ... View Source

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter... View Source

NASA announced on Tuesday (July 28) that it has officially fueled-up the Roman Space Telescope — a magnificent new observatory expected to generate over 500 terabytes of cosmic data per year. By comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope, in its 35 years of service, has created over 400 terabytes in total.At present, the Roman Space Telescope's launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled t... View Source

eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay's former executives sent live insects, a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath, and other strange items to David and Ina Ste... View Source

Things just keep getting worse for BuzzFeed. On Monday, the struggling media company announced the layoffs of 180 employees, or about a third of its entire workforce, in the latest sign of its decline since its unexpected pivot to AI. The cuts, according to the New York Times, affect employees at its news site HuffPost, BuzzFeed’s film and TV studio, and the recipe publisher Tasty. “We... View Source

For people who want the power of a phone that transforms into a miniature tablet, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 offers a better way to watch shows and movies... View Source

Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously for... View Source

The retro console is still a favorite for gamers who appreciate simplicity of older tech but still want online play... View Source

A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had something in common with others who have had their devices searched at airports: He was an activist. Unlike others who have had their phones seized with no explanation, Tunick was told that CBP needed to search his device to determine whether it containe... View Source

Gainwell Technologies LLC is in discussions with investors to replace almost $5.7 billion of leveraged loans, a deal that would be the biggest refinancing from the beleaguered US software industry this year... View Source

Double Fine lays off about a third of its staff... View Source

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the... View Source

If you were looking for even more ways to give Elon Musk your hard-earned cash, you’re in luck! His social media platform X has officially rolled out a new banking service, uninspiredly called X Money, to its Premium and Premium Plus users — who are already shelling out up to $40 a month for a blue checkmark and more prominent tweet replies. The service allows users to store their money... View Source

Make a plan before you use the new Apple Upgrade program to avoid potential fees down the road... View Source

The Milky Way's spiral disk may have flipped over by 90 degrees, in turn altering the solar system's orbit around the center of the galaxy.Spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way have two main, visible, structural components: a disk that encapsulates most of its stars, gas and the central black hole, and a more diffuse halo of older stars that encapsulates the disk.However, the Milky Way's stellar h... View Source

The Hybrid adds Bluetooth functionality to the wired H3, seen here. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge While most gaming headsets have moved towards low-latency wireless connections, there’s something to be said for a budget-friendly, capable wired headset. The EPOS H3 Hybrid is on sale for just $24.99 at Woot, a whopping 75 percent off its original price of $99.99. It has an unorthodox batch... View Source

Codelco Chairman Bernardo Fontaine said the Chilean state copper behemoth faces another difficult year for production, effectively ruling out a longstanding goal of returning to pre-pandemic output levels by the end of the decade... View Source

The CW's live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4... View Source

Apple says it won't limit the capabilities of devices leased through its new Upgrade program if you miss a payment. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Apple spokesperson Brian Bumbery says, "There will be no restricted mode and/or there will be no limitations put on device functionality due to missed payments or default with the Apple Upgrade program." This confirmation comes after 9to5Mac unco... View Source

The UK’s energy regulator is proposing new rules to stop speculative data centers from clogging up the grid connection queue by requiring hefty upfront financial commitments and tougher project milestones... View Source

60-60 is a good rule of thumb for protecting your hearing... View Source

New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notification after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) released a set of final rules on how to implement the SAFE for Kids Act, signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul (D) in June 2024. The rules lay out in more detail what... View Source

Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie Jenner’s face with one of the terrifying bug-eyed monsters from John Carpenter’s “They Live” and a bold type caption that reads “We’re always watching” when viewed from a specific angle. The billboard, created by activist gro... View Source

China’s semiconductor industry may have achieved a breakthrough in building chipmaking machines that have long been dominated by the Netherlands’ ASML Holding NV. A state-backed firm in Shanghai has found a way to make so-called immersion deep ultraviolet lithography tools that are capable of manufacturing the most widely used chips, according to the Information... View Source

The HBO Max app now has shorts, because everything needs to have shorts... View Source

The Tile Pro offers the longest Bluetooth range of any Tile tracker. | Image: Tile Apple’s latest AirTag may seem like the obvious choice if you own an iPhone and are shopping for a Bluetooth tracker, but it’s not the most affordable option. For families that contain both Android and Apple devices, it might be better to pick up the latest Tile Pro instead. It works well across both pl... View Source

ASM International NV forecast revenue for the third quarter that beat analyst estimates, with the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out driving demand for the chip-equipment maker’s tools... View Source

WhatsApp now supports encrypted calls on the web... View Source

In Apple TV’s "Silo" season 3, we lunge back 352 years to the Before Times to see how the greatest engineering project in the history of the world began… and would end. Center stage in this dark sci-fi drama are ambitious Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) and journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick), the pre-apocalypse duo we were first introduced to in Season 2's final episode.In that sce... View Source

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work week — despite having already ushered in the singularity, in his dubious telling. During an appearance on the “Relentless” podcast, the billionaire reflected that “somehow we never get the promise of the four-hour work week at mass scale in society,” despite tech “promising people t... View Source

OpenAI and Anthropic PBC employees are circulating a petition that calls on the US government to support a mechanism that would help “deliberately pace” AI development to prevent the technology from advancing too fast, days after the ChatGPT maker disclosed that its tools had mistakenly hacked another firm’s internal systems... View Source

If you've got an older iPhone hanging out in the junk drawer, grab it out and bring it back to life with these tips... View Source

Cursor has built a machine for not needing the best model. The Router sends hard work to frontier models and everything else to efficient ones, delivering frontier quality at roughly 60% lower cost. The swarm research pairs a frontier planner with Composer workers and hits up to 100% on complex tasks like the SQLite rebuild ... Read more... View Source

Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers... View Source

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Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing a vertical video feed to HBO Max to help you find something new to watch. Streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus, and Peacock already offer TikTok-like vertical video feeds to surface content that might be interesting to users, and now HBO Max will have a similar feed of its own. The feed, called "HBO Max Shorts," will be accessible from an icon on the bot... View Source

The West Pacific has swung back into an El Niño phase, bringing nearly unprecedented heat to vast swaths of the globe. Some of El Niño’s impacts are immediately apparent, or will be in the months to come: blistering high temps, of course, but also major amounts of rainfall for some, and extreme drought for others. Unfortunately, those weather patterns don’t just come and go. They also... View Source

An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."... View Source