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Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Treasuries extend their rally as Wall Street games out Bessent's next move ahead of Jackson Hole. Nvidia takes the earnings spotlight as rising costs loom over those results later this week. Canada braces for a long US trade war, while Washington warns an "economic D-Day" is coming for Iran. Plus, Protolabs CEO S... View Source

CDPR's co-CEO called The Witcher 4"our biggest, boldest and most ambitious game to date."... View Source

1 Min Read MAIA Air Sensor at Work in Addis Ababa PIA26698 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal MAIA Air Sensor at Work in… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads MAIA Air Sensor at Work in Addis Ababa JPEG (1,018.53 KB) Description This roof-mounted air sensor in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is one o... View Source

The rumors are true. SpaceX plans to retire its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket once the company's giant next-generation Starship begins regular operational flights. SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 for the first time in 2010, and the rocket soon chiselled itself a place in spaceflight history. The Falcon 9 has lifted off nearly 700 times to date, and it's the first orbital rocket ever to land and refly its... View Source

Chinese hackers are ramping up attacks after integrating DeepSeek and other open-source artificial intelligence models into their operations, highlighting attackers’ ability to leverage basic AI tools to hit targets abroad... View Source

If you've had it with OpenAI, here's how to cancel your subscription and delete your account... View Source

NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman is seen in the two-seat IndyCar as he prepares for driver Conor Daly to take him on a lap ahead of the start of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky... View Source

The future of food is looking a little grim. In the event we turn all arable land on this planet into a barren heath incapable of growing food, humankind may have to resort to reaping what we sowed by eating our own plastic pollution. A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale just demonstrated that this was possible by using specially engineered yeast to create tasty — and y... View Source

Researchers at Stanford University and Revelio Labs found that nearly 20% of established US LinkedIn users edited the descriptions or titles of jobs they had left years earlier, with tech workers doing so at a rate of nearly one in three. These changes, dubbed "time travel," aren't made while memories are still fresh, but instead reflect a change in personal branding, with the median time-travel e... View Source

Small space means less cooling, which in turn means less sustained power... View Source

Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but this one's definitely worth staying up for.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Aug. 25), during a four-hour window that opens at 1:49 a.m. EDT (0549 GMT).It will be the 100th Falcon 9 flight of 2026 and the record-breaking 37th m... View Source

The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 "partnership" between Zillow and Redfin violated antitrust laws. The FTC had alleged Zillow agreed to pay Redfin to syndicate its listings, while Redfin would end its own advertising contracts and promise not to compete with Zillow for multifamily listings. The FTC's settlement proposal allows Redfin to continue... View Source

Donald Trump's family has won preliminary approval to start a national bank, riding a wave of deregulation under the Trump administration. Bloomberg's Paige Smith joins Bloomberg Intelligence to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ESPN's Unlimited tier will cost $32 per month as of September 17... View Source

Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. Six months later, commercial driverless service remains illegal in the state, and legalization efforts are stalled. In DC... View Source

Kelsey Berro, fixed income portfolio manager at JPMorgan Asset Management, says the bond market can handle an avalanche of high-grade issuance that may reach $250 billion in September. She speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Will solar panels work well in your location? Solar panel efficiency depends on several factors, including temperature... View Source

An AI data centre needs enormous amounts of electricity. Building power plants is expensive, but it gets cheaper per unit as you build bigger. A developer could deliberately build more generation than the data center needs, then sell the surplus at lower cost into the surrounding city. If the surplus is cheap enough, residents’ bills ... Read more... View Source

Twenty years after Pluto lost its planetary status, people are still arguing about it.This spring, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman publicly threw his support behind "make Pluto a planet again," reigniting the familiar debate. Social media threads are filled with people arguing over whether Pluto should be grandfathered into the planetary club, whether dwarf planets are simply another kind of pla... View Source

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Tim Cadogan, the CEO of GoFundMe. You know GoFundMe — it’s a major fundraising platform where you can donate to help people with everything from medical expenses to little league uniforms to starting a new business. Tim took over as CEO in March 2020 — a fascinating and chaotic moment in the United States, and the moment, you’ll hear me argue, I think GoFundMe be... View Source

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is struggling to keep his ahead above water. With the backlash against his company’s AI-powered surveillance network reaching a boiling point, Langley tried to reason with his critics by calling for a “compromise.” “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to pr... View Source

Australia sees data-center electricity use rising almost sevenfold over the next decade, highlighting the need for investment in generation and storage as the nation’s aging coal plants are retired... View Source

Zillow settles antitrust lawsuit with the FTC... View Source

ESA's Sentinel-1 mission captured remarkable imagery showing significant ice loss and calving at the Petermann Glacier. (Image credit: ESA)The massive glaciers of Greenland are disappearing right before our very eyes in new satellite imagery. What is it? Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland connects the Greenland ice sheet to the Arctic ocean. Petermann's "ice tongue" has previously measured 4... View Source

CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video. CD Projekt Red has been working on its next mainline Witcher title for years and has shown videos of it, but now the studio is providing a target release window for when the game might actually come out. There's more new Witcher to come before The Witcher 4, though. At this week... View Source

Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a senior Nvidia Corp. manager as part of a group that allegedly smuggled advanced AI chips into China, according to people familiar with the matter, advancing the island democracy’s first known crackdown on the black-market trade of such accelerators... View Source

The Perseid meteor shower dazzled stagazers with a spectacular natural light show around its peak on Aug. 12-13. But could we be in for even more impressive displays of shooting stars in the years to come? Canon EOS R7 camera(Image credit: Future/Kimberley Lane)The Canon EOS R7 is the best camera for beginners. Despite its crop sensor, the EOS R7 can rival most full-frame cameras. Read our full Ca... View Source

ESPN is hiking the price of its subscription on September 17th, a change that will also impact its bundles with Disney Plus. In a support page spotted earlier by Sports Media Watch, ESPN says its ad-supported Select membership will cost $13.99 instead of $12.99 / month, while its Unlimited plan will rise to $31.99 from $29.99 / month. The annual ESPN Select plan is also going to $139.99 from $129... View Source

As the bipartisan hate for data centers continues to grow, Texas governor Greg Abbott is suddenly singing a dramatically different tune. During a Sunday interview with ABC, Abbott said that AI companies have “basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them, and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.” His comments indicate that it’s no... View Source

Nvidia’s earnings report on Wednesday will likely serve as another reminder of the company’s commanding lead. Analysts estimate that revenue nearly doubled last quarter from a year earlier to $92 billion. That’s more money than any of its rivals get in a full year. But the flood of cash — with sky-high profit margins — only makes its turf more attractive. Meanwhile, some of Nvidia Corp.’s biggest... View Source

Shooting an IMAX movie is an expensive endeavor that most filmmakers avoid, at least for now... View Source

A partial lunar eclipse takes place this Aug. 27-28 and this beginner-friendly Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ telescope, nearly $50 off at Walmart, will let you zoom in on what promises to be a stunning sight. Save $49 on this Celestron PowerSeeker 80Q telescope at Walmart. Ideal for exploring our own solar system, the Celestron PowerSeeker 80EQ comes with 20mm and 4mm eyepieces, a 3x Barlow lens, a G... View Source

Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to get away from cyberdecks this year." Tiny portable computers made out of things like purses, jewelry boxes, and other thrifted or recycled parts have gone viral on TikTok and other social media platforms over the past year, and Raspberry Pi now has its own guide to building one... View Source

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market. On this episode of Stock Movers: - Alibaba (BABA) is tumbling after announcing a plan to raise about HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) from a share sale. The share placement is expected to dilute earnings and hurt stock performance in the near term, analysts said. Meanwhile, the fundraising will help drive AI-led growth and the impact on earnings... View Source

Is one better than the other? Will your equipment support both? Here's what you need to know and how it might affect your setup... View Source

On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that Pluto wasn't a planet anymore. Since that date, Pluto has been officially classified as a dwarf planet along with four other confirmed dwarf planets in the outskirts of the solar system. This decision sparked outrage around the world, and the controversy is still very much alive today. Astronomers in favor of Pluto's demotio... View Source

Apple’s four-pack of second-generation AirTags is down to $79 (originally $99) at Amazon and at Target, which is the bundle’s lowest price yet. You can get an AirTag for $24 right now piecemeal, but getting four together as a set is a way to save even more. Why pay $96 for four when you can save $17? It felt like we had to wait longer for the cost to fall this much for first-gen AirTags, so it’s a... View Source

Under the Trump administration, the federal government is sending wild horses straight into the meat grinder. An investigation by the New York Times found that the Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of these free-roaming animals and selling them to private buyers for pennies on the dollars, who then sell the horses to slaughterhouses at a huge profit.  Slaughtering wild horses is i... View Source

Porsche AG partnered with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. for deploying artificial intelligence in a 1.25 billion euros ($1.5 billion) deal, while agreeing to sell its consulting unit to the Indian software services company... View Source

Many newer vehicles can be accessed from the owner's phone, if they've set it up. There are some things to consider before adding your key... View Source

Netflix executives have considered making third-party streaming services available within its app, according to a report from The New York Times. The recent discussions reportedly centered around bringing Peacock and Fox One to Netflix, though it's unclear whether the streaming giant would sell subscriptions to the other services or add their content to its app. While Amazon's Prime Video and Roku... View Source

Chinese optical transceiver maker Eoptolink Technology Inc.’s efforts to stockpile key components to meet booming AI demand and guard against supply constraints sent the value of its inventory 61% higher in the first half... View Source

When you're testing your Dolby Atmos system, pick a good benchmark video and stick with it... View Source

Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, Norway’s biggest defense company, is holding talks with European governments to expand its production of low-cost missiles, Chief Executive Eirik Lie said... View Source

The Milky Way has something of a torrid and violent history, given that our galaxy has fueled its own growth by cannibalistically devouring smaller galaxies. Now, astronomers have discovered evidence of our galaxy's earliest bout of cannibalism in the form of "scarring" at the heart of the Milky Way left behind by a galactic morsel it devoured around 12 billion years ago.Working as part of the ARM... View Source

The European Union’s existing and proposed trade measures against China could cover about 27% of its annual nominal exports to the bloc, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., showing the stakes involved in the standoff between the two economies... View Source

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA's next great observatory poised to lead humanity's next generation of astronomical discoveries. The Roman Space Telescope will research the mysteries of dark energy, search for exoplanets and investigate the physics of distant stars.SpaceX will launch Roman on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s top two executives bought about HK$120 million ($15.3 million) worth of their company’s shares following a stock slump triggered by a capital raise fueled by AI spending... View Source

The Razr Ultra line is among those due to receive GrapheneOS support next year. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge GrapheneOS, an open source version of Android that prioritizes security and privacy, has detailed its plans for supporting Motorola smartphones. Official support is set to arrive next year, starting with traditional flagships, before rolling out to Motorola's foldable phones and per... View Source

Dan Ives, partner and senior managing director at Yorkville Ives & Co., previews quarterly earnings from Nvidia as the company tells customers that the prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips are going up more than 15% in many cases. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

They feature an open-ear design that reduces pressure and heat buildup... View Source

Here's what to expect during each stage of the Aug. 27-28 partial lunar eclipse, as our planet's colossal shadow swallows 96% of the moon's surface for billions on the night side of Earth.August's lunar eclipse is the closing act of a dramatic two-part show, the opening act of which began on Aug. 12 as the moon covered the face of the sun to trigger a spectacular total solar eclipse over parts of... View Source

Employers are on a quest to find real candidates in the age of AI resumes, prioritizing networking, live assessments and phone calls... View Source

Xpeng Inc.’s robot unit plans to raise $900 million from investors including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., bolstering the automaker’s push into humanoid robots... View Source

Even though the US has relaxed its restrictions of AI chip exports to China, illegal exports are apparently still taking place... View Source

In August of 2006, astronomers at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) democratically voted to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet — but 20 years later, with our greater knowledge and understanding of planetary systems, is it time to revisit the controversial decision? Should Pluto be called a planet again?For several years before the IAU vote, there had been agitators among the astronomical... View Source

Xiaomi Corp. launched a mobile processor for its marquee devices, putting pressure on Qualcomm Inc. and MediaTek Inc., which for years supplied the key component to the Chinese company... View Source

GoWish ApS reached a valuation of more than $200 million in a new funding round that will help the Danish wish-list company expand further in the US, where it has become one of most downloaded apps... View Source

Nasa-funded project uses yeasts to recycle plastics and other waste into food shaped into biscuits by 3D printersCookies produced from upcycled plastic may sound like something straight out of a dystopian sci-fi plot. But researchers say that they have succeeded in creating such a product as part of a Nasa-funded project aimed at feeding astronauts on future space missions.The technology uses spec... View Source

Tiangong Ultra (left) also broke the 400 meter world record during this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games. | Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images The 9.58-second 100-meter dash record set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been outpaced by Chinese robots participating at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. In a preliminary heat on Saturday, Tiangong Ultra, made by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation... View Source

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover as many as 200,000 new planets and reveal details about the elusive nature of dark matter and dark energy... View Source

Alibaba raised HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) in Hong Kong’s biggest secondary share sale. The online retail giant-turned-AI player sold 710 million shares at HK$112.7 each. Its shares slid as much as 10% Monday morning, their steepest drop since April 2025. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Rod Turnbull discusses how Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing conflict has changed how countries conduct warfare. He talks about the impact of new technology, drones and artificial intelligence on the military. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

MTN Group Ltd. said profit rose 21% in the first half of the year and that it will buy back 6 billion rand ($375 million) of shares... View Source

Shadow of Earth likely to make moon glow red before dawn on 28 AugustThe early hours of Friday 28 August will reward very early risers in the UK, Europe and Africa with a fine lunar eclipse. Though not quite a total eclipse, it will transform the moon into a dramatic sight as dawn approaches.The partial eclipse begins at 3.33am BST, when the moon’s familiar full disc begins to disappear behind the... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory What Lake Bonneville Left Behind 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... View Source

New Zealand plans to to ban under 16 years from social media, saying access is causing harm to a generation of the nation’s children... View Source

Ebola responders were chased with machetes while trying to bury a victim in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the latest attacks on frontline workers struggling to contain an epidemic that’s spreading faster than they can respond... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. plans a record ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) retail bond sale by any issuer in Japan as the conglomerate raises funds for its investment commitments to OpenAI... View Source

Nvidia Corp.'s biggest customers have been told that the prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips are going up more than 15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens breaks down what we know so far. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Key points in rapid AI progress, A secretive “ox alpha” model (widely suspected to be the latest Chinese GLM open-source model) shows strong coding gains (~80% on a tough benchmark vs. the 60s for Claude/GPT-style models). Nvidia + a new “harness” hit a perfect 100% on ARC-AGI-3. Intelligence-density progress Chinese Qwen-style 27B models already match ... Read more... View Source

Asian companies are heading into the busiest week of the current earnings season, with a raft of corporate heavyweights due to report, putting the durability of the AI rally and China’s consumption recovery in focus... View Source

Investment in UK financial technology firms fell to the lowest level since at least 2016 in the first half of this year, as funders flock to companies tied to artificial intelligence and can show long-term growth... View Source

Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that may value the artificial intelligence platform at $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported, citing people familiar with the matter... View Source

We interviewed four Hollywood power players about the state of the movie business... View Source

Those 200 × 200 and 400 × 400 numbers tell you where the mounting holes line up, but you still need to check the mount's weight limit and hardware... View Source

While these two names sound like they'd refer to the same product, there are major differences between them... View Source

Don't let Siri become a hassle instead of an assistant; keep it quiet in the car to reduce distractions... View Source

If you've ever wondered whether you can just charge your phone with the cable for your laptop, read on and find out how to tell... View Source

A guide to the confusing world of USB-C fast charging... View Source

And they looked absolutely ridiculous doing it... View Source

The Analogue 3D does a great job at upscaling old N64 games, with a few caveats... View Source

The Moderna breakthrough to reduce the re-occurrence of cancer is just the beginning. It is evidence that claims from the leaders of AI like Dario of Anthropic and Demis Hassabis that AI could all disease within ten years or that almost all cancer will be eliminated will become true. Those who are wondering what benefits ... Read more... View Source

The class action suit claims that Amazon never obtained consent from Twitch streamers to be used to train its AI models... View Source

Derek Chadwick, the cofounder of the new gay dating app Goose, has suddenly quit the company after the platform was exposed for tricking men into signing up using fake, AI generated influencers, the magazine Out reports. Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “Some personal news. As of last week,... View Source

Air cooling is reliable, while liquid cooling is visually slick. Which one you should use depends on how heavy you game on your system... View Source

Readers offer their explanations for the absence of hard evidence for extraterrestrial civilisations, in response to an article by Adam KirschWhen thinking about why we have not encountered intelligent aliens yet, as Adam Kirsch does (The long read, 11 August), it seems to me that one factor gets neglected: fossil fuels. Alien life could develop intelligence on myriad planets, but to develop... View Source

The "Star Trek" franchise's 60th anniversary is coming straight at us warp speed and will be arriving on Sept. 8, 2026. "Trek" faithful from around the globe are expected to pause and salute this space fantasy institution created by Gene Roddenberry in whichever way they deem appropriate.The celebration has already begun earlier this year at the 2026 Rose Parade and will accelerate past September... View Source

A fashion tech entrepreneur has been ordered to serve time in prison after her ridiculous excuse for defrauding investors crumpled in court. On Thursday, Christine Hunsicker, former CEO of the “clothing-as-a-service” startup CaaStle was sentenced to five years in prison for committing nearly $300 million in fraud, the Financial Times reports. As part of Hunsicker’s defense, her l... View Source

A whole bunch of smart watches are getting phased out this year. Is your watch on the list?... View Source

Jane Schoenbrun's latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit their first film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. I fell in love with this film when I first saw it at Sundance in 2021. We are immediately introduced to our protagonist, Casey, as she engages in the World's Fair Challenge, a sort of ARG c... View Source

Inundated with AI-generated resumes, ruthless employers are ghosting applicants and even rescinding job offers after they’ve been accepted, SFGate reports, deepening the nightmare that recent grads experience when entering the job market.  In a June 2026 report, the resume service Resume Builder surveyed 1,000 people between the ages of 20 and 28 who graduated with a bachelor’s degree... View Source

China's "Manned Space" program issued a terse announcement on Sunday regarding its much-anticipated Chang’e 7 lunar exploration mission. The agency stated: "In keeping with the principle of proceeding prudently and reliably, and ensuring absolute success, after a comprehensive assessment it has been determined that the Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch and therefore cannot... View Source

A flood of lawsuits against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first personal injury case to go to trial, a Los Angeles jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — awarding $6 million to a 20-year-old woman in a landmark ve... View Source

Wi-Fi 6 Vs Wi-Fi 7: What's The Difference And Which Is Better For Home Internet?... View Source

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You might not need to invest in a newer pair of earbuds to improve the sound quality. Here's how to upgrade your current pair for a better listening experience... View Source

A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth has been tracked by a record 17 spacecraft spread throughout the solar system, revealing the CME to be surprisingly lopsided.CMEs are "burps" from the sun – huge clouds of magnetized plasma belched out from the sun's hot outer atmosphere, the corona, by the energy resulting from a solar flare... View Source

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that pending home sales in the US had dropped to their lowest level in three years. That coincided with a sharp drop in construction of new homes, which plummeted to the lowest level in over three and a half years in July — two signs that things are not so sunny for the country’s housing market. While complicated factors like unchecked inflation and stag... View Source

If you're struggling to get Siri to work with your car's CarPlay system, there are some things you can check... View Source

Poor weather has delayed the launch of China's latest moon mission. According to reports, the growth of Tropical Depression Narra in the Gulf of Tonkin has prompted China's space agency to delay the liftoff of Chang'e 7 significantly — possibly until 2027."China's Chang'e 7 lunar probe does not meet launch conditions, and its launch therefore cannot take place during the planned window this year,"... View Source

A Texas woman ran outside to witness the future of delivery services. There, hovering above her property, was a large Amazon Prime Air drone that had just descended from the heavens to dispense her package. But in a video she recorded of this encounter recently shared by ABC7 News, all did not go as planned. The advanced flying machine took its time, lined up its shot, and plunked her parcel strai... View Source

Don't keep restarting your phone. Try these other steps instead... View Source

NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow's spaceflight research capabilities. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has selected 18 projects for this year's Phase I awards, which will each split a total of $3.2 million in development funding. NIAC is designed to bolster technology breakthroughs that NASA could us... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on GTA VI and the state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Four years ago, fans got a long-awaited look at Grand Theft Auto VI with a huge cache of videos that showed off Ro... View Source

A new prediction market has entered the fold, seemingly determined to give the rampant insider trading that its competitors have become known for a run for its money. Called “CRSHMARKET,” the platform purportedly allows users to bet on potentially any event that happens in a livestream. Gamers playing on Twitch and weird “IRL streamers” that film themselves being a public n... View Source

How a tiny little electronic switch sparked the computer revolution... View Source

Numerous scandals this year have sparked a public inquiry into government and military insider trading on prediction markets. In some cases, arrests have been made. But a new investigation by the nonprofit research group Anti-Corruption Data Collective suggests the corruption may be even more rampant than we thought. Reuters reports that the analysis found that more than 150 wallets on Polymarket... View Source

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen broke record for farthest distance traveled from EarthThe crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission have earned the US’s top space medal, officials have announced.Cmdr Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are set to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on 28 Augu... View Source

Earlier this week, the European Central Bank issued a dire warning, warning that a “market correction” following years of AI hype and massive spending could be nigh — a crash that could have enormous international consequences. It joined a growing chorus of analysts warning of urgent signs of an impending market collapse, a sobering possibility for the US economy that’s grown inc... View Source

Luxury water can contain different minerals and taste noticeably different. But a remote source, alkaline pH, and high price do not necessarily mean better hydration... View Source

A new artificial intelligence model called Ox Alpha is gaining traction among developers after appearing online for free, even as the identity of its creator remains a mystery... View Source

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A humanoid robot ran 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the opening ceremony of the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, beating Usain Bolt’s world record of 9.58 seconds, Xinhua News Agency reported... View Source

DeepSeek will stop distinguishing between peak and off-peak API pricing on weekends from Aug. 23, with usage on Saturdays and Sundays charged at off-peak rates, the company said in a notice Saturday... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is seeking to raise about HK$80 billion ($10 billion) from a share sale, its latest move to compete for global leadership in artificial intelligence... View Source

Tesla Cybercab will launch in 12 days. They will start putting the Cybercabs into the robotaxi fleets in Austin and elsewhere. We will see what other announcements will be made on the rollout schedules and plans. pic.twitter.com/yChZnEzwZf — Tesla (@Tesla) August 22, 2026... View Source

Elon indicates the will catch of the SpaceX Starship with the tower will be in a few months. First reflight of the ship will be either end of this year or early next. That will be a fork in the road of history for consciousness reaching the stars. Looks like we will probably catch the ... Read more... View Source

We break down the different autonomous driving levels, and why Level 5 is so hard to achieve... View Source

You can keep Instagram from using your activity outside the app to influence the ads you get... View Source

Even old Apple devices you haven't touched in years could still get you some credit towards a new phone... View Source

Android Auto YouTube Limitations: Is It Worth Using In The Car?... View Source

The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games have begun. 666 teams from around the world are competing with more than 2,000 humanoid robots. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The AI leader said that the state's SB 53 framework should "be amended to expand safeguards."... View Source

Some of Nvidia Corp.’s biggest customers have been told that the prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips are going up more than 15% in many cases with memory chip costs soaring... View Source

Yes, so long as you're willing to put in the work (and money) for better photos... View Source

Nintendo Switch Online upgrades your experience with online play and a lot of other perks, but should you shell out for it?... View Source

Elon Musk’s Tesla is giving up on its Solar Roof — the latest sign that the EV company is shifting gears as its mercurial CEO continues to lean into fossil fuels to sustain his AI ambitions. Two sources with inside knowledge of the program confirmed to Electrek that the company is discontinuing its solar roof tiles, a key offering allowing homeowners to turn their roofs into renewable energy... View Source

A Dutch data regulatory authority said that Uber has to pay 824.9 million euros for violating the GDPR... View Source

Bluetooth pales in comparison to 2.4GHz and wired headsets for gaming. You should pick another option to avoid its latency and other drawbacks... View Source

So pretty. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music composition. So bringing those two things together in a browser tab, I'm hooked. Musical Spirograph is a relatively simple concept. A set of points dash around the screen according to mathematical eq... View Source

Police in Omaha, Nebraska are catching a ton of flak after revealing that they deployed electric shock gloves on two separate students during the 2025-2026 school year. One of the students was enrolled in a special education program. After the news broke, Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray pleaded with the city police department to stop using the electrocution gloves against students. Though Omaha p... View Source

Everything from the Echo to the Kindle is going up... View Source

HOUSTON — What does NASA's astronaut training hub look like these days, as the agency aims to bring more commercial space stations into the fold?It's an interesting mix of government and private companies, of space agency personnel and of contractors, all working together to keep U.S. and international astronauts flying through the end of the ISS — currently expected around 2030 — and the new bree... View Source

Some patients in the UK are skipping going to the doctor because their office’s AI “receptionist” can’t understand what they’re saying. The health and social watchdog Healthwatch Rotherham said that the troublesome AI receptionist in question, called “Emma,” is being used at a number of clinics in South Yorkshire — and is struggling with locals’ dist... View Source

If you buy the wrong GameCube console, you may not get to play all the games you want to play. Here's what to look for... View Source

I’m just as confused as you. | Image: Aundre Larrow W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and We Need to Talk About Cosby, his blend of comedy, social commentary, and political activism has helped him stand out. He's won a Peabody and four Emmys, been a Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, rece... View Source

AI-generated children’s books are exhibiting a weird pattern: a pronounced bias against female animal characters — which, to be fair, is also present in human-authored ones, except the AI is making it even worse. In a study published last year, Melanie Walsh, an assistant professor of informatics at the University of Washington, and her colleagues analyzed 300 children’s books and... View Source

Here's what you'll need to watch Netflix in 4K on Chrome... View Source

After all these years, we still want to believe.Whether you're a bona fide believer or a staunch skeptic, we can all agree that UFO legends and lore is a fascinating subject that continues to fuel endless debate. And with pop culture feeding our lizard brains lurid tales of flying saucers and alien invasions, it’s no wonder humanity is always up for a good story of inexplicable aerial sightings or... View Source

Flying cars might still be a long way off, but if you find yourself in trouble in northern California, something similar just might come to your rescue. A flight paramedic working in the woodsy reaches of Northern California has now logged at least two trips to emergencies in an eVTOL, a kind of small-rotor electric aircraft that uses battery power to hover, take off, and land, like a cross betwee... View Source

A movie can be both "Filmed for IMAX" and shot with IMAX cameras, which is why the two labels are easy to confuse... View Source

The Echo Dot Max went from $99.99 to $119.99 overnight, while its sibling the Echo Dot jumped to $79.99 from $49.99. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Citing "significant increases in memory and storage component costs," in a statement given to Fortune, Amazon has raised prices on Echos, Kindles, Fire TVs, and Eeros by up to 60 percent. The cheapest products in Amazon's lineup were hi... View Source

If you want to display media from your phone on a TV screen, you'll need to follow these steps to use AirPlay or screen mirroring... View Source

On Episode 224 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Rick Jenet are joined by Dr. David Kring to discuss the where, whys, and hows of the Artemis Program's lunar exploration plans.It has been said that the Moon is a harsh mistress, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the lunar south pole. That is, however, where the Artemis program is headed, and we need to figure out how to best... View Source

The OmniBook 3 isn’t a sweet treat, but it gets things done on the cheap. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RAM, and storage options because that stuff was comparatively cheap; the difference was often in build quality and screen rather than power. But... View Source

Elon Musk spent months crusading against Christopher Nolan’s “woke” adaptation of “The Odyssey” before it came out, anticipating that it would bomb at the box office. When that didn’t work and the movie made over a billion dollars, he vowed that his Grok AI — best known for calling itself “MechaHitler” and generating loads of CSAM — would create a fu... View Source

If you're having trouble with Bluetooth connections on your Pixel phone, this tool is a great place to start your troubleshooting... View Source

On Aug. 22, 1963, U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane higher than any pilot had ever flown before. Walker reached an altitude of over 67 miles (108 kilometers). That's about 5 miles (8 km) above the edge of space! Walker experienced about five minutes of weightlessness over the course of the 11-minute flight. This was the second and final suborbital spaceflight of the X-15... View Source

Torsten Slok found something surprising when Apollo Global Management Inc. looked at how the adoption of artificial intelligence was playing out in the labor market... View Source

Plus, Mixtape on Mac, Tetris Effect-style pachinko and a platformer with randomized controls... View Source

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for the company's Falcon rocket family.A Falcon 9 carrying 27 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 GMT; 12:25 a.m. local California time). It was the 99th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, and the 100th Falcon mission of 2... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 141, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm newish here too, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been getting back into the Installer groove, trying out some ergonomic Switch 2 grips I bought on Etsy, researching bike stuff because I'm about to get a Velotri... View Source

New research gives us a grim portrait of how rampant AI usage is affecting young students’ academic performance and learning. In a study that tracked nearly 27,000 students in China between the ages of 12 and 18 (grades 7-12), around 80 percent reported using AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance’s Doubao. The remaining 20 percent, who abstained from using AI, formed the control group... View Source

When thinking about successful mass transportation in the United States, Americans will inevitably imagine big cities like New York and Chicago — a stereotype shaped by the sorry state of public transit throughout the rest of the country. But what if there was a way to bring that kind of world-renowned rail and bus infrastructure to thousands of smaller cities dotting the country? Turns out, there... View Source

Earth's shadow will swallow 96% of the lunar surface overnight on Aug. 27-28, potentially turning the moon a gorgeous shade of crimson as it bathes in light filtered and refracted by our planet's atmosphere. The partial lunar eclipse will occur as Earth passes between the sun and moon during the monthly full moon phase. Around this time, Earth's curved inner shadow will appear to creep across the... View Source

AI is obviously ruining everything on the internet, but so are AI scrapers. They vacuum up everyone’s content up without permission. They put a huge strain on servers. It’s getting rarer and rarer to be able to type a URL in, hit enter, and actually reach the website you’re looking for without encountering a screen that asks you to prove you’re human, wasting precious secon... View Source

The LINK probe was supposed to use robotic arms to capture Swift and lift it into a safe orbit. Problems with its control system forced NASA to call off the attempt... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 22… 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. Mostly Perseids Explanation: Recorded the night of August 12-13, imag... View Source

Nvidia Corp. has agreed to pay $6 billion to license artificial intelligence models from Poolside and will extend job offers to more than 100 employees, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

After a leak in 2022 Rockstar took drastic measures to try to prevent another hack. It didn’t work... View Source

Apple has laid off employees in its Vision Pro and Siri teams as it shifts focus to smart glasses and next-gen AI tech... View Source

Robinhood's Stephanie Guild discusses the impact of major AI IPOs, market concentration risks, opportunities in healthcare and compute infrastructure, and why investors should balance AI exposure with cash flow-focused, defensive assets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic is aiming for an IPO that could make history, expecting to match or even top SpaceX's record-setting debut, according to sources. The maker of Claude could file publicly by the end of this month. The company raised $65 billion in May at a $965 billion valuation. Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary, who leads coverage of Anthropic, and Bloomberg's Liana Baker, who leads the deals team, join Ed Lu... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow takes a look at Anthropic as the AI company expects to match or top the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO. Plus, sources say Broadcom is in talks to raise more than $60 billion in debt to help Anthropic and others secure chips and computing power, and all eyes are on Nvidia as the chipmaker reports earnings next week. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Broadcom is lining up another massive bet on AI. Bloomberg has learned the chipmaker is in talks to raise more than $60 billion in debt to help Anthropic and others secure chips and computing power. The deal highlights a bigger concern hanging over the AI trade: the cost of funding it all. Erica Klauer, Science and Technology Partners founder and CIO, discusses concerns around circular financing a... View Source

Meta is facing a landmark legal battle with 29 states accusing the company of deliberately designing its platforms to keep children hooked while misleading the public about their safety. George Washington University law professor Mary Anne Franks explains the state and federal claims, why the case has drawn comparisons to tobacco litigation, and why the biggest consequence may not be the potential... View Source

Bloomberg Money takes the pulse of your financial life, powered by the reporting of our global newsroom. Today's guests: Rebecca Patterson, Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, and Kevin Gordon, Charles Schwab Head of Macro Research & Strategy. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chris Mecray, CFO at ITG, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the company's performance since its July 1 IPO, and its role in the AI buildout as a fiber and communications company. Mecray says ITG is "the picks and shovels of the AI boom... with a long runway of opportunity associated with creating the connectivity that data centers require once the actual site itself is built." Mecray s... View Source

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is hiring a trader to build and lead a natural gas trading team to support the space flight company’s growing fuel and power needs... View Source

Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors... View Source

The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that TikTok collected data from children without notifying parents or obtaining consent and did not delete the accounts when parents requested. TikTok is set to pay $300 mi... 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 ProShares Head of Research & Active Investments CIO Alessio de Longis, KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk, Goldman Sachs Co-Head, Global Commodities Research Daan Struyven, Janus Henderson Portfolio Manager Jeremiah Buckley,... View Source

The HoverAir Versa. | Image: HoverAir I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby steadycam with snap-on propeller wings that transform it into a drone - has already stopped taking US orders just three days after its Indiegogo debut, and may be forced to abandon shipping plans in the US. HoverAir is now telling backers it's on... View Source

Mike Cessario, Founder and CEO of Liquid Death, joined the program to discuss the growing public sentiment against the rapid expansion of data centers. Despite widespread interest in AI investments, the mood around data center growth has been notably negative. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a post. LinkedIn announced the button a few weeks after AI detector Pangram determined that... View Source

Doctor Tsu-Jae King Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering and Former Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, joined the program to discuss her influential role in the semiconductor industry. Having served on the board of Intel and contributed to the design of chips found in mobile phones, she shared insights into the technological advancements and impact of semiconductors in... View Source

The DoJ said the app has made significant strides in privacy protections since the 2024 suit... View Source

Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of so-called "radio galaxies" with fading "radio lobes." The discovery reveals what happens when the supermassive black hole engines that power these vast, blooming outflows of plasma stall. This discovery increases our understanding of the life cycles of galaxies.The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio... View Source

Forget AI taking our jobs. We might have to start worrying about robots surpassing us in slapstick humor instead. In a video taken of the practice runs at China’s World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, one of these robots sprints down a race track at an impressive pace, before crashing and literally flaming out in spectacular fashion. Deceleration, it turned out, proved not to be its strong... View Source

Diane Swonk, KPMG Chief Economist, discusses expectations for the upcoming Federal Reserve speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. The speech is traditionally technical and focused on internal task forces, but markets are seeking clearer guidance on inflation and monetary policy. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Sally Bakewell on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is searching for leakers ahead of GTA's November release... View Source

Filming a high-profile episodic TV series like "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is often a Herculean task for any professional cast and crew, but toss in massive spaceship sets, a colorful constellation of costume changes, tone and stylistic shifts, hand-to-hand combat, horseback riding, and puppets, and you’ve got a mad sci-fi circus.We connected with Ethan Peck (Spock), Christina Chong (La’an Noo... View Source

TikTok Inc. and Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. agreed to pay $400 million to resolve a a Biden-era lawsuit by the Justice Department accusing the popular social media app of collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy law... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Shares Views of August Solar Eclipse from Ground, Air, Space This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse as the Sun sets over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse darkened skies over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. As the Moon covered the Sun, it briefly revealed the Sun... View Source

The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights that lift off and land within its borders, and aims to expand the nation's capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.President Donald Trump just signed a new National Space Transportation Policy that lays out priorities for commercial, civil and national security missions to orbit. The memorandum, pu... View Source

If this isn’t an indictment on America’s hatred of Flock cameras, we don’t know what is. On Wednesday, a grand jury in Ohio refused to bring felony charges against a Clermont County man accused of destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR). In June, police in the Cincinnati suburb of Union Township arrested Cody Morelock, accusing him of removing bolts on the ALPR p... View Source

Emily Chang interviews the top names in tech and business on The Circuit. Bring your questions and join her for an interactive Live Q&A conversation on Sept. 1 at 1 p.m. EDT... View Source

NASA's Artemis II moon astronauts will join a very exclusive club next week.President Donald Trump will award those spaceflyers the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28) at Johnson Space Center in Houston to recognize their historic journey around the moon this past April.The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and will feature NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Presid... View Source

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the size" of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut. Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg it was making the changes to "to evolve our business to deliver the best experi... View Source

Khosla Ventures is backing Discovery Loop, a new AI startup founded by former Google leaders including Jeff Dean that aims to dramatically accelerate scientific experimentation. Khosla Ventures Managing Director Samir Kaul explains why the firm quickly decided to invest, and why he believes the opportunity could be as profound as frontier AI models. He also discusses why soaring technology valuati... View Source

LinkedIn says its AI slop button is working... View Source

In theory, the AI industry should have a very attractive story for the public: automate away drudgery and free everyone up to do the things they really love. In practice, they’ve bungled that layup narrative in favor of alternate fearmongering and out-of-touch outbursts that have alienated an incredible chunk of the population. And, crucially, public sentiment seems to be moving in exactly t... View Source

Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset, part of an effort to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence... View Source

Season two of Netflix's Cyberpunk 2077 anime streams October 20... View Source

From left, Artemis II crew NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen are photographed on April 29, 2026, in the White House Oval Office with President Donald J. Trump.Credit: White House President Donald J. Trump will award each of NASA’s Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at 11 a.m. EDT on Frida... View Source

Early Anthropic investor Anjney Midha unloads on traditional venture capital, arguing firms failed investors by missing the AI revolution. He explains why he’s still buying Anthropic, predicts public markets will embrace frontier AI, and reveals why Stripe’s OpenRouter acquisition may really be a massive bet on securing the agentic internet. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tokyo's Sushi Bus combines conveyor belt dining with open-air sightseeing... View Source

For more information, contact Mark K. Leader, Glenn Research Center, mark.leader@nasa.gov Download the PDF version NASA’s Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA) code is a foundational tool for propulsion system analysis. It provides equilibrium chemistry, rocket performance, shock, and detonation calculations used across NASA and the broader aerospace community. NASA Engineering and Safety C... View Source

The world just got its first good looks at some hardware that will make spaceflight history.Last Thursday (Aug. 13), Japan unveiled the spacecraft that make up its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, which aims to snag samples of the Mars moon Phobos and haul them to Earth — something that has never been done.The big reveal came at Tanegashima Space Center, the site from which MMX will launch... View Source