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On October 30, 1964, NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, or LLRV, took to the skies for the first time. The LLRV was a bizarre, four-legged flying contraption commonly known as the "Flying Bedstead." NASA used it to simulate moon landings and liftoffs on Earth to prepare for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing. The first person to give it a whirl was the X-15 pilot Joe Walker. During this... View Source

Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans "have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications." In Friday's Papal Address, Pope Leo encourages United Nations member states to "take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons" during their meeting in Geneva next month. The address reflects many of the ideas Pope Leo laid out... View Source

Ahead of the deadly airstrikes and military raid that saw US troops kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and deputy to the National Assembly Cilia Flores, Donald Trump was reportedly in the throes of a weeks-long mind meld with Grok. Elon Musk’s notorious generative AI chatbot had evidently convinced the president that he would be hailed as a hero for kidnapping the elected officials — a cla... View Source

Facing financial pressure, the video-game publisher chose ‘Star Wars’ over ‘Mass Effect’... View Source

Three views of the Cat's Head Nebula. A visible light image captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (left); a mid-infrared image taken by James Webb Space Telescope (center); and the James Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared view (right). (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))This "cat's head" would work perfectly in a witch's cauldron, glowing red "e... View Source

Companies like Hoto and Fanttik have elevated the design and functionality of tools like electric screwdrivers, but Arrowmax wants to make them smarter by adding a camera and AI that work together to eliminate the trial and error of finding the exact type and size of bit you need. It's convenient, but also helpful, as choosing the wrong size could potentially leave you with a stripped screw and a... View Source

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, is counting on a steady US expansion and a partnership with OpenAI to help hit its goal of capturing half the AI server market within two years. Chairman Young Liu spoke with Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers, after earlier Friday meeting with OpenAI chief Sam Altman to discuss their partnership. He said AI demand is real and pointed to major cloud spending as a sign o... View Source

Built from the bones of fallen pyramids, Ake’s homes reveal how the Maya turned ruin into revival... View Source

Waymo announced today that when it launches a robotaxi service in Tokyo in 2027, it will use Toyota bZ4X electric vehicles that are assembled in Japan. The news builds on the strategic partnership between Waymo and Toyota which was first announced in April 2025. The robotaxis will be built entirely under one roof at Toyota's Takaoka plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Instead of buildin... View Source

University of Kentucky administrator David Durman was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work, claiming that use of the tech violates his religious beliefs as a humanist. As Religion News Service reports, Durman maintains that outsourcing cognitive tasks to chatbots could interfere with his development as a “moral actor.” Assisted by the American Humanist Association (AHA), he applied... View Source

Walter Piecyk of Lightshed Partners is not impressed with the Apple iPhone Duo and says it's going to be a tough year for the company. Apple reports earnings on Monday. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

LiveWire's warns that it may not survive its current financial difficulties... View Source

Surgeons in Russia fixed a broken spinal cord with a transplanted segment using polymer glue, but experts fear the patient may end up worse off... View Source

Investing in any stock is kind of like gambling in the sense that you're betting your money on a company's future performance. But how do you bet on a technology that could, in the worst-case scenario, "pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," or best case, "bring forth an age of miracles"? To some extent, Anthropic suggests in a letter at the top of its S-1 filing, you have to just be... View Source

The world’s largest crypto trading platform, Binance, has suffered a $6.3 billion hack, the largest to hit the digital-asset industry. Suvashree Ghosh explains how the latest in a slew of security incidents are affecting the sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Despite Lenovo providing excellent hardware for Google's new laptop platform, Googlebook OS will only impress Android die-hards... View Source

Soil frozen for millennia is thawing, and its chemical payload is traveling downstream... View Source

If not notebook, why notebook shaped? Apple's $2,000 folding phone is a surprisingly good stand-in for a $20 notebook. Believe me; nothing gets me going quite like a new notebook. This one will be different, I think. This time, I really will take it everywhere. Inspiration can strike at any moment, and you have to be ready, says David Sedaris in that one MasterClass I watched on a flight. With thi... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is facing a UK investigation over concerns that its commercial terms could impose “exploitative” conditions on publishers and advertisers... View Source

Meta has launched an AI fashion app called Style Sketch in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand... View Source

Tom Petty’s famous song applies to all of us, because of Einstein’s equivalence principle of gravity in free fall... View Source

Virgin Galactic's first "Delta-class" space plane just made its maiden voyage.The next-gen suborbital vehicle, named Apeiron (Greek for "Boundless"), lifted off for the first time ever on Thursday (Oct. 28). Flying beneath the wings of its carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, Apeiron traveled from Virgin's manufacturing site in Mesa, Arizona, to its launch site, Spaceport America in New Mexico."Seeing the s... View Source

Touch ‘em if you got ‘em. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple's long-awaited touchscreen MacBook Pro is finally here. I got to try this MacBook that, according to the last two Apple CEOs, shouldn't exist. The most surprising thing is how normal it is. The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display (what a name) has one of the nicest screens I've seen on a laptop. The current Mini LED MacBo... View Source

Chevron Corp. expects to power up a Microsoft Corp. data center project in West Texas on schedule despite Governor Greg Abbott’s suspension of digital infrastructure permits... View Source

China's secretive space plane is making a series of passes over the United States in the coming days and you could spot it with your own eyes! The mysterious spacecraft, Shenlong, is currently orbiting Earth on its fourth mission. Although we don't know what it's up to, China's space agency has said it is testing technologies that "will pave the way for more convenient and affordable round-trip me... View Source

Binance says it will cover all loses resulting from the hack. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid Binance has disclosed that $6.3 billion worth of crypto funds have been stolen from the platform, in what's believed to be the biggest cryptocurrency hack on record. In a series of updates posted to X, the crypto exchange said that user funds are safe, and that around $3 billion of the impa... View Source

The food-delivery deal may help DoorDash fend off inroads from Amazon and Walmart... View Source

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was midway through defending her record during the final debate of the midterms when an audience member cut her short. "I'm terrified," a man shouted. "AI data centers are destroying our climate. They are poisoning our water." Collins brushed off the outburst, tying the man to her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson. But the fear echoing through the auditori... View Source

The dollar’s traditional status as a haven asset should not be taken for granted during an AI-driven market correction, according to Deutsche Bank AG... View Source

US senators have asked Meta to explain how it's mitigating 'serious' privacy risks with its AI glasses... View Source

2 min read November’s Night Sky Notes: Light-Day Away NASA’s Voyager mission took advantage of a once-every-175-year alignment of the outer planets for a grand tour of the solar system. The twin spacecraft revealed details about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – using each planet’s gravity to send them on to the next destination. Voyager set the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Gal... View Source

Alarm bells are going off as investors raise concerns... View Source

Waymo and Toyota will start testing autonomous bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year. (edited)... View Source

Earth would be terrifying if we celebrated Halloween every 11 hours, a possibility on a super-Earth investigated by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). That is, if this extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, wasn't so hellishly hot that no life could survive on its surface.The exoplanet in question is the rocky lava planet TOI-561 b, located around 280 light-years away, which was discovered by NASA's... View Source

European countries are leading the way harvesting heat that would otherwise be wasted as green death practices become more common... View Source

Central and Eastern Europe offers one of the most attractive opportunities in emerging markets as investors look to diversify from the artificial intelligence trade, supported by improving ties with the European Union and a growing pipeline of investment, according to Morgan Stanley’s Paul Psaila... View Source

Binance has suffered the industry’s biggest-ever hack in a fresh blow to efforts to push digital assets into the mainstream. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said $6.3 billion worth of funds were affected, with $3 billion in crypto frozen. Bloomberg’s Emily Nicolle has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work - but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger the open web. In an amicus brief filed Frid... View Source

Democrats are using the high price of diesel, heating oil, and fertilizer to tie Republicans to President Donald Trump’s unpopular, costly war in Iran... View Source

Japan’s Omron Corp. is ramping up production in India, aligning itself with the country’s push to become a manufacturing and exports hub for global corporations... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. shares dropped after the company reported greater capital spending than anticipated and the slowest growth in the core e-commerce business in three years... View Source

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been hit with a record $6.3 billion hack... View Source

Roblox Corp. reported a year-over-year decline in player engagement after deploying more robust child-safety measures... View Source

GM has settled the Smart Driver program lawsuit brought by 35 attorneys general... View Source

Technology shares sold off for a second consecutive day as another round of disappointing earnings accelerated a rotation out of the artificial intelligence trade. Amazon slumped 7.3% as the firm reported greater capital spending than anticipated, while Intel plunged 23% after its revenue forecast missed analysts’ estimates. Bloomberg's Ruhell Amin reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. gave an annual outlook that beat estimates in a sign of faster-than-expected spending by chipmakers hurrying to meet AI hardware demand... View Source

Murata Manufacturing Co. will invest ¥1 trillion ($6.4 billion) over five years to more than double sales of its capacitors in a bid to cement its lead and meet unprecedented demand from AI data center operators... View Source

With cheap data that triggered a price war in India's telecom market, Jio helped push the country's internet subscriptions past 1.1 billion. Billionaire Ambani's digital venture transformed how people learn, pay, shop and invest and even helped fuel India’s startup boom. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Loch Insh, Cairngorms: In my three decades in Scotland I’ve adjusted to the darkness of this time of year, and found glory in the quality of lightIt is the one clear day in a fortnight of heavy cloud, wind and rain, so I am out by the loch, basking in the rays of light, breathing them in, hoarding for the weeks to come.This time of year makes them all the more precious. Here in the Highlands, once... View Source

The Bitcoin stolen in the hack of Binance’s crypto exchange will probably be impossible to recover, according to Bobby Lee, founder of digital-asset hardware wallet company Ballet Global Inc... View Source

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China crypto pioneer Bobby C. Lee, the founder and CEO of Ballet, puts into context the suspected hack of world's biggest crypto exchange Binance and talks about lessons for investors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 30 –… 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. Haunting the Cepheus Flare Explanation: Spooky shapes seem to haun... View Source

Ricky Zheng, General Manager of AIDC at Envision Group, says the company plans to develop data centres around the world powered by renewable energy, with Latin America, Southern Europe and Africa emerging as ideal locations. He speaks exclusively on "Bloomberg: The China Show". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese renewable energy firm Envision Group plans to finish building its Galaxy Campus data center in Inner Mongolia by the end of 2028, with capacity to eventually reach 3 gigawatts... View Source

Chip suppliers Suzhou Denglin Technology Co. and Hosin Electronics Co. led a rush of listing launches in Hong Kong on the last trading day of the month, giving fresh life to fundraising activity that had started to flag after a blistering run... View Source

Indian AI infrastructure firm AM Intelligence is seeking to raise as much as $3 billion to fund a previously announced purchase of Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation chips, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest sign that the technology’s boom is driving a debt binge... View Source

The core businesses of America’s technology giants — the advertising, consumer and retail machines propping up a collective $750 billion in AI spending this year — are starting to show signs of slowing. In some cases, they’re being cannibalized by the very technology the firms are betting the house on... View Source

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history. If confirmed stolen, the amount would far exceed the $1.5 billion stolen from Bybit by North Korean hackers in February 2025, the largest confirmed crypto heist on record. ... Read more... View Source

It has been a big week for the AI trade — Anthropic's IPO filing, Microsoft beating earnings estimates. Reaction in the markets has been mixed as concerns about the AI boom grows. Global head of equities tactical strategies at Barclays, Alexander Altmann, joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how Wall Street really feels about the AI trade right now. (Source: Bl... View Source

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, suspended all deposits and withdrawals as it investigates a security incident that has so far resulted in the freezing of more than $2.5 billion in assets. The suspected hack sent digital tokens tumbling... View Source

For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor’s safety analysis for full-power operations. LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory. With the Kaleidos DSA approved, Radiant is cued for DOE’s Readiness Review, which will assess whether Kaleidos and the team responsible ... Read more... View Source

Tradeweb shares were slightly lower after the company reported third-quarter results, with revenue in line with expectations and earnings beating them. CEO Billy Hult said on the earnings call that growth was broad-based, citing preliminary strong double-digit growth across rates, credit and equities. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Kristine Aquino on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

1 Min Read Map Showing Potential Origins of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 PIA26802 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Map Showing Potential Origins… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Map Showing Potential Origins of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 JPEG (1.22 MB) Description This global map of Mars sh... View Source

This inflatable spa won me over with easy setup, manageable upkeep, and surprisingly strong bubbles... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is in discussions to provide credit guarantees for an Nscale data center facility that Anthropic PBC plans to use, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

President Trump reportedly chose to do nothing in response... View Source

During Intel's latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips "is outstripping supply." According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has "seen significant growth in Wildcat Lake. It's coming exactly at the right time because it's cost-optimized and we're seeing a lot of focus in that regard." As shortages of RAM and... View Source

Dreame’s Huo is working on artificial intelligence algorithms and humanoid machines to handle cleaning, washing and other chores... View Source

Ubisoft shared some updates on the franchise, including confirmation of a New Game+ option for Assassin's Creed Valhalla... View Source

1 Min Read Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 PIA26801 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Slice of Martian Meteorite… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Slice of Martian Meteorite Teghaza 001 JPEG (2.50 MB) PIA26801 Figure A TIFF (26.10 MB) Description This slice of Teghaza 001, one of the most ancie... View Source

Amazon (AMZN) is down about 6% after hours primarily because it missed Q3 2026 expectations on both revenue and earnings, combined with heavy AI-related spending that has turned free cash flow sharply negative.⁠ Key results (Q3 2026) Revenue: $201.9 billion (up 12% YoY) vs. estimates around $202.2–$202.3 billion — slight miss.⁠CNBC EPS: $1.89 vs. estimates ... Read more... View Source

Both can easily jump-start trucks and large SUVs, but the Gooloo is more powerful, has more power ports, is easier to use, and costs less, while the Noco is faster to recharge but pricey... View Source

Less than a week after the fates took Walter Koenig from our galaxy, another "Star Trek" legend has left us: Sir Patrick Stewart has died at the age of 86.According to his spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak, the beloved Shakespearean actor passed away on Wednesday (Oct. 28) at his Los Angeles home after a short struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia."He has been held in the warm embra... View Source

Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession, just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a little graphic, but it's a fun one to watch if you're looking for something scary ahead of Halloween on Saturday. Barker wrote, directed, and edited "Mama Bear," acco... View Source

Apple Inc.’s main assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. expects its expansive global manufacturing presence will help it fulfill growing demand for the US company’s marquee foldable device... View Source

Hey, that's not what Magic Eraser is supposed to do!... View Source

Both clean and mop your floors, but their docks, apps, and maintenance needs set them apart... View Source

Raymond James shares rose after the company beat estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted EPS, with investment banking revenue also exceeding expectations. CEO Paul Shoukry said Raymond James focuses on sustainable growth and long-term decisions, noting 155 consecutive profitable quarters. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Kristine Aquino on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The adaptation will be directed by Karyn Kusama, and scripted by the writers of The Invitation... View Source

Tony Wang, Portfolio Manager at T.Rowe Price, says investors are looking for AI-related spending to translate into better-than-expected revenue across companies’ core businesses and cloud operations, while also improving margins. He describes demand for AI chips as unprecedented, but warns that rapid shipments can strain supply chains and create bottlenecks, raising execution expectations. He spea... View Source

Twitter Circle, anyone?... View Source

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an earnings call today that Google's AI-powered search modes do not help with traffic to the platform, echoing problems facing other websites and publishers. As part of its Q3 2026 earnings, Reddit revealed that search traffic in October has "dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week," and he attributes part of the company's struggles with Google... View Source

Peter Arduini, CEO of GE Healthcare, described radiopharmaceuticals as a fast-growing field that is advancing treatment and care in cancer, cardiology imaging and neurology, including Alzheimer’s-related approaches. Because these products have short half-lives and can dissipate by the end of the day, he said control of manufacturing and the supply chain is especially important. He speaks with Roma... View Source

Trying to make everyone happy could make no one happy... View Source

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano finally gets his wish to fly like Superman aboard the International Space Station during Expedition 37. Although no ghouls, goblins, or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew,... View Source

On Oct. 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited by a spacecraft. Gaspra orbits near the inner edge of the asteroid belt. The Galileo spacecraft had been travelling through the asteroid belt for about two months before it reached Gaspra. Galileo was 990 miles (1,593 kilometers) away from Gaspra when it whiz... View Source

Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners semiconductors and electronics senior analyst, reacts to Intel's revenue forecast missing analysts' estimates due to sputtering demand for PC processors and supply-chain problems. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The site's data is reportedly intact, but the cause of the outage is still unknown... View Source

The leader of NASA's first mission around the moon in half a century is the last to announce what's next for him after retiring from active astronaut duty.All four astronauts of the Artemis II mission, which flew around the moon in April, have hung up their spacesuits and moved on to greener pastures. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), managed by Caltech, announced yesterday that former NASA... View Source

Rivian reported its third quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it ramps up production of its all-important R2 electric vehicle - which is now, for the first time, outselling all of Rivian's other EVs. Rivian said it brought in $2.155 billion in revenue, a 38 percent increase compared to the $1.558 billion in Q3 2025. Of that amount, $1.55 billio... View Source

Netflix has recreated one of the most notorious and horrific social experiments in history: the Stanford prison experiment. The 1971 study has left an indelible legacy in psychology for perhaps all the wrong reasons. In it, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo had 24 male college students randomly assigned to play guards or inmates in a mock prison to see how power structures could aff... View Source

Brent Thill, Jefferies software and internet research tech sector lead, says Amazon's earnings were not terrible, and the stock is cheap, but he says "this is not what anyone was hoping for." Spending on property and equipment was more than expected. Thill says there's been a lot of bad news from tech earnings this week. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is starting with tests outside of the US... View Source

Patrick Stewart, Star Trek and X-Men sci-fi icon, has died. He was 86. He had Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a ... Read more... View Source

The deadly crash exposes a dangerous gap in automated train safety systems... View Source

Peacock's "Crystal Lake" takes the story of the Voorhees family back to the beginning.It's a full-circle moment revisiting Pamela Voorhees (Linda Cardellini), who's the real star of 1980's "Friday the 13th" and the catalyst for all the murder and mayhem. While it's a welcome shake-up to the timeline of the horror franchise, nothing tops the originality of the slasher-in-space spectacle known as "J... View Source

Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It's going to start requiring users to log in. Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I'm not the only person who appends "reddit" to a lot of Google searches to find answers to things written by actual humans instead of robots. But that... View Source

This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious... View Source

Strategy Inc.’s flagship preferred shares will soon begin paying a daily dividend, the latest maneuver by Michael Saylor to revive the Bitcoin accumulator’s sputtering fundraising machine... View Source

Adding sponsored content in more markets could make the feature profitable... View Source

On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss some of the strangest things recently uncovered by archaeologists... View Source

Two astronauts successfully installed and deployed the second-to-last upgraded solar array for the International Space Station (ISS) during the 100th U.S. spacewalk from the orbiting outpost.Anil Menon of NASA and Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), both ISS Expedition 75 crewmates, completed the 7-hour-and-11-minute extravehicular activity (EVA) at 3:08 p.m. EDT (1908 GMT) on Thursd... View Source

Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men, has died at age 86. A message posted to Stewart's Instagram account says the actor died in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia." Born in 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, Stewart began his acting career in theater. He eventually landed the role... View Source

Is Elon Musk a business genius, as his fans and investors proclaim, or “among the top ten minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” as his chatbot Grok famously averred? Whatever he is, you definitely couldn’t accuse him of being particularly self-aware. Early Thursday morning, Musk took to his social media site X to deliver some sage advice to us peons living paycheck to payc... View Source

Japan is facing an intense wave of AI-powered cyberattacks that’s laid bare the vulnerability of one of the world’s largest economies to a new breed of hacking... View Source

Just what the Sandworm bucket needed: a second hole... View Source

Most people think SpaceX is a rocket company that is overvalued at $2 trillion. That view is out of date. SpaceX revenue went from $7.6 billion in Q2 to $14.6 billion in Q3, nearly double in one quarter. Elon now says a $500 billion to $1 trillion revenue run rate is coming by the end ... Read more... View Source

From better hand soap to smarter shelves, these quick upgrades help your home feel party-ready... View Source

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Utah has filed criminal charges against Kalshi and its executives, accusing the prediction market of breaking anti-gambling laws, as reported by The Salt Lake Tribune and the Associated Press. The state has filed 14 charges against Kalshi, as well as CEO Tarek Mansour and COO Luana Lopes Lara, including 12 counts of illegally pro... View Source

Polymarket stopped trading on its international exchange on Thursday after it said that a third-party software provider was compromised... View Source

Wired has the story of a superuser cheating scandal... View Source

We researched the best options based on screen resolution, memory, and other helpful features... View Source

General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain "express consent" from drivers before collecting their information. The allegations s... View Source

A fiscal court meeting in Carroll County, Kentucky grew contentious when local residents started playing the sound of a data center to county officials. Spoiler: they didn’t seem to like it. As local news station WHAS11 reported last week, Carroll County is the planned location for two separate data center projects, each of which will likely be around 800 megawatts and will overtake hundreds of ac... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the chipmaker’s dealings with Megaspeed International were “normal and not unusual” following a New York Times report that one of the Singapore firm’s executives is under investigation for spying on behalf of China... View Source

The streamer also has an Assassin's Creed series in the works, along with a Gears of War feature film... View Source

Photo of Troy Asher NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in flight research and operations, has served as the center’s acting director since March. “Troy has spent his career pushing the boundaries of flight, both at the c... View Source

A study to better understand the evolutionary drivers of loud birds also discovered two new contenders for the noisiest bird on Earth... View Source

U.S. President Donald Trump just met another NASA Artemis crew.The astronauts of NASA's Artemis III mission visited the Oval Office on Thursday (Oct. 28) and posed for a few photos with the president.Their visit came nearly six months to the day after that of the Artemis II crew, who stopped by the White House on April 29, 19 days after the end of their historic flight around the moon. President T... View Source

Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in the web version for now. Google added support for generating... View Source

The Trump administration continues to host podcasters inside the White House despite signs of broader malaise among the most popular hosts... View Source

The company will also notify parents about conversations with Meta AI... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Called Teghaza 001, this rose-colored rock is one of the most ancient Martian meteorites ever found on Earth.Credit: © Darryl Pitt / Maine Mineral & Gem Museum When a rose-colored meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2022, no one knew how old it was or where it came from. Not until NASA-funded scientists age-... View Source

Quality materials and sleek designs make these functional and stylish... View Source

"Sometimes dead is better." Who can forget the immortal words of Jud Crandall, delivered by the incomparable Fred Gwynne in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Sematary? Turns out Crandall could have been talking about somewhere just as otherworldly as the cursed Chumash burial ground at the heart of one of King's most terrifying works of fiction. That's because astronomers have discove... View Source

With its playful design, versatility, and relatively affordable price, the Ikea Varmblixt quickly became one of my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s new favorite smart light products when she tested it in April. Now, the donut-shaped lamp is on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) through November 11th at Ikea. Ikea Varmblixt lamp Where to Buy: $99.99 $79.99 at Ikea window.HYPE_DESK_CONFIG = { productImage... View Source

When you watch a video, it’s just a long series of still images. The sensation feels fluid, though, appearing seamless even though a second of theatrical film takes about 24 still frames to animate. Typically, all 24 frames are full of similar images from a recording or animation. But how would our brains respond if only some of those frames of film contained footage of a movie, and the rest of th... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alphabet's weak search and ad sales which raised new fears that AI is eating into Google's core business and caused a record market cap wipeout. Plus, Bloomberg reports Microsoft is looking to tap the bond market for the first time since 2017, seeking at least $25 billion to support spending as AI cloud growth soars. And, DoorDash makes a $17 billion bet on grocer... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Quantum-Enabled Predictive Preclinical NAMs for Toxicity and Safety (QuSAFE) Challenge, a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NASA, advances quantum-enabled sensing for in vitro NAMs, such as organoids and microphysiological systems (MPS), to improve drug safety while reducing animal us... View Source

A 1960 paper claimed that overpopulation will cause future generations to be “squeezed to death.” If you’re reading this in December, we made it!... View Source

The new MacBook Pro brings with it a bunch of firsts for Apple laptops, the two flashiest being an OLED display and touchscreen functionality. But as an image-accuracy enthusiast, trained calibrator, and resident display expert, what excites me most about the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display is the technology it uses to display an accurate picture. It's the first laptop, and only the second pro... View Source

Driverless trucking company Aurora is ramping up production and switching to a ‘driver-as-a-service model’ as it looks to reach profitability and meet demand. Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson discusses how the company is scaling and what he sees as a friendly regulatory environment amid a national truck-driving shortage. Urmson joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US power sector could release 42 percent more planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution by 2030 than it did in 2025 as it builds out more fossil fuel infrastructure to meet data center electricity demand, according to a new analysis by the Sierra Club. That would essentially wipe out 15 years of greenhouse gas reductions. CO2 emissions from electricity generation would increase by 618 million to... View Source

Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it’s now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after it disclosed that its AI search features are raking in less money than its traditional search ad model. The steep correction wiped out more than $500 billion in market value. In its Q3 report, G... View Source

Marvell Technology is in talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum Holdings. The deal could close next week according to sources. Nvidia backs up Lumentum which has a market value of about $83 billion. Ryan Gould reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope Ghostly Cat’s Head Nebula… Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Sci... View Source

Access and enjoy the over-the-air channels in your area with these HDTV antennas... View Source

The Joshua Kushner-led Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT in an all-cash deal valued at $7.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and will take ADT private, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Joshua Kushner is the brother of President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Thrive Holdings was founded last year, serving as an offshoot of Joshua Kushner's venture capit... View Source

The US Federal Trade Commission and a group of eight states sued Toast Inc., alleging the restaurant management and financial technology company falsely told customers they could try its products for free before enrolling them in a subscription that was difficult to cancel... View Source

The RFX Meat Mini offers nearly identical performance to the full-sized grilling probe... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) When companies began approaching NASA’s Langley Research Center, asking to be included in the In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) State of Play for access to competitive intelligence, the team knew they had crossed an inflection point. “We’ve had some unnamed companies ask if we have any proprietary i... View Source

Halloween is almost upon us! To celebrate we've pulled together a series of short "skywatching horror stories" perfect for getting you in the mood for the spooky season.Granted, stargazing may not be the most hazardous of past times. But you'd be surprised how often things can go wrong. The best laid plans can be shattered by the unforeseen, unexpected phenomena can leave you scared witless, or mo... View Source

When it was revealed earlier this month that Withings would require new users to subscribe to a Withings Plus subscription to sync heath data from the company's devices to third-party apps, Tom Anthony, who was already fed up with the Withings mobile app which they describe as a "bloated mess," became motivated to "free" their scales. Anthony's solution was to create an open source project called... View Source

It’s open season for untested peptide injections. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared on Wednesday that patients will now be allowed broad access to untested and unproven peptide drugs popularized by health influencers. The move has already drawn immediate and intense concern from scientists and medical professionals, who are wary that the decision will result in con... View Source

Alphabet Inc. has said demand for its cloud services is increasing at a rapid clip, pointing to growth in its backlog, or cloud contracts it hasn’t yet fulfilled. However, more than a third of that quarterly growth comes from a joint venture the company partly owns... View Source

The “Journey to Titan” campaign offers the public the opportunity to fly their names on a microchip with NASA’s Dragonfly mission. The chip will ride aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft as it explores Saturn’s moon Titan by air. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL You may never soar under the clouds or over the organic sands of Saturn’s moon Titan, but your name can. NASA is inviting the public to send the... View Source

After engineering a flexible version of Tetris that could be wrapped around a magazine, Kevin Bates' latest creation is a digital candle that uses a custom AI model to accurately simulate the appearance of a flickering flame across a grid of LEDs. It's a far cry from the types of devices Bates is typically known for, including the Arduboy, but paying $79 for a credit card-sized handheld that can p... View Source

Microsoft’s Azure growth is beating expectations, and Stifel Managing Director Brad Reback says the momentum could last with growth above 50% in the near term. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest to discuss whether Microsoft’s AI spending is paying off, why Oracle carries more risk and how public AI lab results could shed light on returns. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The studio is taking more time to refine the "rules and balance" of the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive... View Source

La campaña Viaje a Titán ofrece al público la oportunidad de enviar su nombre en un microchip a bordo de la misión Dragonfly de la NASA. Esta aeronave de ala giratoria explorará desde el aire Titán, la luna de Saturno.Crédito: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Read this release in English here. Puede que nunca llegues a surcar los cielos bajo las nubes o sobre las arenas orgánicas de la luna Titán de Saturno... View Source

Elon Musk and Skydance have held talks about a potential distribution deal, per Semafor, on top of the roughly $1 billion Musk just put into the company. American billionaire businessman and media mogul John Malone called this one six days ago. Speaking at the Paley summit on October 21, the cable billionaire predicted a “global ... Read more... View Source

Today on Decoder, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the numbers of the Anthropic IPO filing — a document known as an S-1. Anthropic just filed its S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq, and it could start trading as soon as next month at a valuation of anywhere between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion. That would imme... View Source

A global rally in technology shares faltered as disappointing earnings from two industry heavyweights revived doubts over whether billions of dollars in artificial-intelligence spending will deliver sufficient returns. Google parent Alphabet sank a record 13% on a sales miss, while Microsoft is looking to raise at least $25 billion from a US investment-grade bond sale. Amazon and Intel are slated... View Source

A sinuous spiral galaxy (center) appears in the same field of view as a vivid gravitational lens (right corner) in this Hubble image.NASA, ESA, and X. Huang (University of San Francisco); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A sweeping barred galaxy takes center stage in this Oct. 22, 2026, image, but the gravitational lensing at bottom right is the real target. This obse... View Source

The AI tool provides recommendations and adjusts the recipe accordingly. | Image: The New York Times The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it's sparked some drama among users. NYT Cooking senior editor Genevieve Ko announced the feature last Friday, which can be used to recommend substitutions for ingredients and cooking equipmen... View Source

Fuel prices have exploded throughout the US since Donald Trump began his war on Iran. According to the Center for American Progress, gas and diesel prices are 43 and 68 percent higher, respectively, as of October 22 compared to when the war began nearly eight months ago. On February 27, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas was just $2.98. Now, it’s $4.27 — a devastating burden fo... View Source

Thrive Holdings has agreed to buy home security provider ADT Inc. in an all-cash $7.6 billion deal, marking one of the largest bets yet for the offshoot of Joshua Kushner’s venture firm Thrive Capital Management... View Source

The Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope reflects the stars at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. (Image credit: J. Rodrigues/ESO)Stars shine in the vast aluminum dish of the Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) in this photograph captured by astronomer and astrophotographer José Rodrigues during a recent visit to the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile.What is it?Ro... View Source

The long-awaited remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo Switch 2 launches next Thursday, November 5th. In other words, you have a week remaining to secure your physical edition with a $10 discount at Amazon and Walmart. Once the game launches, the cartridge-based version will almost certainly go from $59.99 to $69.99, while the digital version will keep steady at $59.99. T... View Source

Caterpillar shares plunged after the company posted earnings that only modestly beat expectations, adding to investor jitters about mounting challenges to the AI infrastructure boom. Matthew Griffin reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Jared Spiers, electrical engineering technician at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph with the Thad Cochran Test Stand in the background on Oct. 28, 2026. Spiers is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core c... View Source

Amazon is adding several new features to its AI shopping assistant, including ways to create, edit, and move items between shopping lists and gift registries. As an example, Amazon says you can now ask Alexa for Shopping to "Create a new shopping list" or "Show me what's left on my wedding registry." The ecommerce giant has continued to expand on its Alexa for Shopping assistant since its official... View Source

NASA is gunning the engine so it can reach the Moon — and soon build a base there — at incredible speed. On Friday, the space agency’s administrator Jared Isaacman doubled down on its ambitious timeline to send astronauts to the Moon in just two years, which would be before the end of president Donald Trump’s term. In a lengthy speech at the Kennedy Space Center last week, Isaacman reaffirmed that... View Source

The US economy expanded in the third quarter at the fastest pace in a year, supercharged by feverish business investment and a resilient American consumer... View Source

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Over evolutionary time, segments of cephalopod DNA were rearranged over and over into something highly adaptable and highly intelligent... View Source

SpaceX just checked another big box on the path to its 15th Starship test flight, which promises to be pretty epic.The company conducted static-fire tests with Starship's Ship upper stage on Monday (Oct. 26) and Tuesday (Oct. 27), igniting its Raptor engines while the vehicle, known as Ship 42, remained anchored to the ground. "Ship 42 static fires complete. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 pe... View Source

For more than 15 years, Apple has had a pretty simple answer to the idea of a touchscreen MacBook: no. Yesterday, Apple finally decided to think different and announce one anyway. "You've gotta touch it to believe it," says Apple CEO John Ternus. He might be right: I haven't yet touched it, and I still can't quite believe it. Steve Jobs first called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible" in... View Source

Bridgewater Associates CEO Nir Bar Dea sits down with David Rubenstein for a wide-ranging conversation about the US economy, rising national debt, the dollar and explains how he sees AI reshaping the future of investing. He also reflects on his unconventional path to Wall Street; from struggling in school and spending six years in the IDF to becoming Bridgewater's oldest intern and eventually its... View Source

What remained of Roebuck Castle after 800 years were found hiding in plain sight under its Victorian trappings. ... View Source

Wall Street’s recent risk aversion toward stocks may have created an opening for a sharp rebound, particularly in technology shares, if Anthropic PBC’s planned initial public offering reignites enthusiasm for artificial intelligence... View Source

The deal combines the two largest grocery delivery platforms in the US... View Source

Scholars have tried to decode the head-scratching text for over 100 years, but a new study suggests they were reading it out of order... View Source

Newly released photographs of the sun captured during the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse reveal the sun's outer atmosphere in unprecedented detail.The images, released by researchers working as part of the Solar Wind Sherpas project coordinated by the University of Hawaii, also show rare structures in the solar wind known as smoke rings. Named for their resemblance to the circles blown by smokers, th... View Source

S&P 500 Index futures fall 0.3% as of 7:39 a.m. in New York as disappointing sales from Alphabet reignite concerns about the AI trade... View Source

EasySMX is using Elizabeth Holmes levels of pedantry with this faceplate situation... View Source

Speculation around a deal started circulating last week. | Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery via Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer partnerships. DoorDash, which started as a resta... View Source

For nearly a quarter of a century, Elon Musk and his essential partner at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, viewed the United States government as El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. Like machete-wielding treasure hunters, Musk and Shotwell hacked through a tangled jungle filled with lurking carnivores such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as well as bean counters and regulators. Over time, against long od... View Source

DoorDash Inc. agreed to buy rival Instacart in a deal that values the company at about $17 billion, the latest sign of consolidation in an increasingly competitive delivery market... View Source

AI leaders aligned themselves with Trump, which may not age well after next week’s midterm elections... View Source

South Korean regulators found that Apple and Google violated the country's Telecommunications Business Act... View Source

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk perform spacewalk to install and deploy an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA). Continue reading... View Source

Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to explore... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s shares fell about 10% in early trading, setting the stock up for its biggest-ever market value wipeout, after the company reported disappointing search and advertising sales that reinforced investor concerns about AI’s threat to its core business... View Source

The U.S. Air Force is opening up about the SpaceX Starfall cargo capsule it flew on a recent rideshare mission to orbit — and showing off what the capsule carried.The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) completed a point-to-point rocket cargo delivery test using the secretive uncrewed reentry vehicle, confirming on social media its recovery of the package in the Pacific Ocean. "With support from... View Source

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one building, and then another, and then the ground opens up... View Source

Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me... View Source

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

Google's latest Gemini 4 Carbon AI model boasts top benchmark scores in areas like cybersecurity and coding... View Source

Marvell Technology Inc. is in advanced talks to buy data center optics maker Lumentum Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, putting it on the cusp of a potential megadeal amid the race to scale up in the artificial intelligence sector... View Source

Lying beyond Pluto, 2026 ED138 could be as large as 1,500 kilometers in diameter. Astronomers are still working to confirm whether it meets the criteria for a dwarf planet... View Source

Europe is gaining ground on the US this reporting season, with profit growth forecast within touching distance for the first time in more than three years... View Source

A hacktivist group stole the information of ICE agents and border police from Homeland Security... View Source

It has been a big week for the AI trade — we've seen wobbles in the market, many of them in response to headlines like the Anthropic S-1 and earnings from the hyperscalers (Oracle, Microsoft, etc.). So what does Wall Street make of all the news, and how are they processing an increasing sense that the laws of the economy barely apply to AI? Today, we speak with Alexander 'Alty' Altmann, global hea... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares reversed earlier gains to slide as much as 6.6% as the lack of a new shareholder return plan in its earnings disappointed investors... View Source

A global rally in technology shares this week stalled after disappointing earnings from Alphabet and Samsung revived doubts over whether billions of dollars in AI spending will deliver sufficient returns. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Air Liquide SA revenue grew to its highest in nearly four years, propelled by increased demand in its artificial intelligence-exposed unit... View Source

STMicroelectronics NV forecast fourth-quarter revenue growth as a recovery in chip demand continues after a prolonged slump... View Source

A cyberattack on a listed unit of GMO Internet Group Inc. is spilling into Japan’s credit market, widening the company’s bond spread as investors grow more concerned about the potential blow to earnings... View Source