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Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled a new all-in-one product that’s meant to help retail stores, health care facilities and factories use artificial intelligence with a single rack of equipment, part of the company’s push to take a bigger role in AI... View Source

A new panorama from the Rubin Observatory captures the Milky Way in vivid detail... View Source

Nvidia Corp can add trillions more to its valuation after making history as the first company to ever breach a $5 trillion market capitalization, according to at least one analyst... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has signed an approximately $9.7 billion deal to purchase AI cloud capacity from IREN Ltd., becoming the Australian company’s largest customer... View Source

Jacob Elordi. For Mike Hill and Guillermo del Toro, it all started with Frankenstein. Years ago, Hill - a sculptor and special effects artist - was exhibiting his works at a convention in Burbank. Del Toro saw some of Hill's monstrous creations on display and was so impressed that he decided to get in touch, tracking down Hill's contact info from an obscure model kit forum. "I don't know how he fo... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is planning to spend more than $7.9 billion on data centers, cloud computing and employees in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, capitalizing on a US government clearance to ship artificial intelligence chips to the Gulf nation... View Source

If you're thinking about waiting for Black Friday for a star projector deal, you might want to consider 28% off the Govee Star Light Projector right now... View Source

Redmagic’s latest phone is as subtle looking as ever. The Redmagic 11 Pro is the first phone (outside of a OnePlus concept design, at least) to feature true liquid cooling, and it’s launching worldwide later this month — including the US, though you won’t be able to buy it direct from any carriers. We’ve seen plenty of phones launch with vapor chambers and call it liquid cooling, but the 11 P... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow and Ian King report on the skepticism that has greeted startup Substrate’s announcement that it will produce new chipmaking equipment — and new chips — that can shake up the entire industry... View Source

Hurricane Melissa’s rare intensity and lasting impact reveal how storms are evolving in a warming world... View Source

The November full moon will be the closest and brightest full moon of the year... View Source

Investors worried that artificial intelligence bets look too frothy shouldn’t assume the clean-tech companies powering AI would be trapped in the same bubble, according to a portfolio manager overseeing one of BlackRock Inc.’s flagship actively managed sustainability funds... View Source

Google says it has pulled AI model Gemma from its AI Studio platform after a Republican senator complained the model, designed for developers, “fabricated serious criminal allegations” about her.  In a post on X, Google’s official news account said the company had “seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask it factual questions.” AI Studio is a platform for developers... View Source

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based crypto investor and blockchain developer, plans to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange through a reverse merger with Currenc Group Inc... View Source

Scientists working with the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) have collected the oldest directly dated ice cores ever drilled: 6 million years old... View Source

Private equity firm Montagu has raised a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) continuation fund for Wireless Logic, a provider of smart connectivity services, to help it hold onto the asset even longer... View Source

Alphabet Inc. is returning to Europe’s debt market for the second time this year with a multi-tranche sale, as the Google parent raises funds to support record capital spending on artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure... View Source

Chinese President Xi Jinping joked about security backdoors while presenting a pair of Xiaomi Corp. smartphones to his South Korean counterpart, a rare moment of spontaneous levity captured during a week of tense trade negotiations with Donald Trump... View Source

Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments, a growing campaign that could end up costing companies and consumers billions of dollars, according to new cybersecurity research... View Source

The global energy industry needs annual investment of $4 trillion as the boom in data centers and artificial intelligence increases demand, according to Sultan Al Jaber, head of the biggest crude producer in the United Arab Emirates... View Source

Love me some lavender. Logitech's Alto Keys K98M mechanical keyboard is now available in North America after its initial launch in China and other select markets. The $149.99 Alto Keys K98M is an almost full-size 1800-layout keyboard, offering a slightly compact design that maintains a number pad. But what makes the K98M special for a mass-market Logitech board is that it's fully hot-swappable wit... View Source

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has started to deploy artificial intelligence to vastly reduce sudden maintenance halts and to make production forecasts more accurate... View Source

An orca pod has been spotted for the first time repeatedly targeting and flipping young great white sharks onto their backs to paralyze and dismember them... View Source

On 5 November, the moon will be just under 357,000km from Earth, making it appear bigger and brighterThis week brings the largest supermoon of the year. Supermoons occur because the moon’s orbit is not perfectly circular around the Earth. Instead, it is an ellipse, meaning that sometimes the moon will be closer to the Earth than at other times.When a full moon coincides with the moon being within... View Source

At least 10 multinational companies may list their Indian units in Mumbai over the next year as they seek higher valuations amid the country’s rapid growth, according to Rothschild & Co... View Source

Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony AI Inc. is telling prospective investors it plans to price its Hong Kong listing at HK$139, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public... View Source

Pine Labs Ltd., a digital payments providers, plans to raise as much as 39 billion rupees ($439 million) through an initial public offering in Mumbai, according to an advertisement... View Source

Electric-vehicle maker Seres Group Co. raised HK$14.3 billion ($1.8 billion) after pricing its Hong Kong listing at the upper limit it had set and exercising an option to increase its deal size... View Source

Spooky season is over, which means it's officially Mariah Carey season. It also means streaming services are already loading up on Christmas movies. On pure principle, they'll be omitted here - Santa doesn't need a full two months of our attention. Also, while not a movie, worth noting that season two of The Vince Staples Show premieres on November 6th. The first season is funny, surreal, and just... View Source

Movie studios are rethinking how to get the most value out of their films in the streaming age... View Source

Lake Mungo is haunting and heartbreaking. Found footage movies are tough to pull off. For every classic like The Blair Witch Project or Rec, there are 100 movies like Slender and Megan Is Missing that are, at best, forgettable, and at worst, an affront to the very concept of cinema. My personal favorite, though, is Lake Mungo, a slow burn mokumentary with found footage elements that manages to be... View Source

NASA's astronauts living in space are still going to work during the government shutdown... View Source

We wanted to show space agencies that were already planning three-year missions to Mars what they were overlooking... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the real-world effects of Trump's tariffs, follow Mia Sato. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The economists tried to warn us. From the beginning, trade policy experts cautioned that tariffs would raise consumer prices a... View Source

The Microsoft Zune is mostly just a footnote in tech history. Microsoft spent years - and vast sums of money - trying to create a true competitor to Apple's iPod, without ever coming close to actually pulling it off. The Zune was simply too little, too late. You know what's surprising about the Zune, though? Microsoft made a lot of the right bets with the Zune. The company saw - well ahead of most... View Source

Nvidia Corp. made history last week when it became the first company ever to have a market value of $5 trillion. But that’s just one way it’s casting a shadow over the global economy... View Source

The International Space Station just notched a major milestone, but its days are numbered: The ISS will crash to Earth over Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean in late 2030... View Source

There is no more chaotic activity than willfully entering a grocery store without a list. I know. Some people thrive on vibes-based grocery shopping. They can come up with meals on the fly, buy what's on sale and work around that, or follow some bizarre "3-3-2-2-1" rule or whatever I'm always seeing on Instagram. I am not one of these people. But while I know a list is essential for my survival at... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 104, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Halloween, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about lotteries and Jennifer Lawrence and religious AI, shame-watching Finding Mr. Christmas, turning MyMind into my daily journal / commonplace... View Source

Apple will kick off its 50th anniversary year with what’s expected to be a nearly $140 billion holiday quarter. Also: The company’s retail stores will get new product displays on Nov. 12, and Apple is readying an OLED screen overhaul for the MacBook Air, iPad Air and iPad mini. Lastly, iOS 26.1 and the first beta version of iOS 26.2 are imminent... View Source

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance still demands a human story... View Source

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it... View Source

The Chinese unit of Nexperia BV, a Dutch semiconductor company, has enough wafers stockpiled to fill orders for its customers, despite its parent company’s suspension of supplies to its assembly plant... View Source

SpaceX launched its 140th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Nov. 2), sending the "Haven Demo" tech demonstrator and 17 other payloads up on the Bandwagon-4 rideshare mission... View Source

India will launch the powerful CMS-03 military communications satellite to orbit today (Nov. 2), and you can watch the action live... View Source

While clashes between the US and China over tariffs and trade restrictions have been a dominant theme in the technology world, this year’s hottest Asian stock demonstrates how the nations still rely on each other... View Source

SpaceX will reportedly receive a $2 billion contract to develop satellites for the US government, according to the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ's report detailed that SpaceX will be tasked with developing up to 600 satellites that can track missiles and aircraft and will be used for President Trump's proposed "Golden Dome" project. Announced back in May, the president introduce... View Source

Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens, plus James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' take on Dracula — now in black and white for extra creep-factor. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-a-deep-dive-into-humankinds-searc... View Source

Ayaneo is breaking into the competitive smartphone market with its latest offering, but it's hoping to attract the mobile gamers out there. In a teaser posted to its YouTube, the gaming handheld maker offered its first look at the Ayaneo Phone. As vague as the trailer is, Ayaneo clearly has a target demographic in mind, describing the smartphone as when a "mobile phone meets the soul of... View Source

Later this month, Italian citizens will have one extra step to go through before getting on porn sites. On Friday, Italy's regulatory agency for communications, known as AGCOM, announced an age verification system that's meant to prevent minors from accessing websites with pornographic content. The initial list of sites covers around 50 sites, including Pornhub, XHamster and OnlyFans. Th... View Source

Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 is on sale for $199.99 ($100 off) for a limited time. There are plenty of good smartwatches out there, and Google’s last-gen Pixel Watch 3 is one of them. Right now, the 45mm / Wi-Fi model is available at Amazon, Walmart, and Target for $199.99 ($100 off), which is a new low price and $150 less than the Pixel Watch 4. In her review, our own Victoria Song noted how i... View Source

Ayaneo is best known for its retro gaming handhelds, but the company has now confirmed its first phone will be coming soon. Ayaneo briefly teased that it was working on a phone back in August during the event where it unveiled the dual-screen Pocket DS. Of course, many of the company’s gaming handhelds run a custom take on Android, so putting a cellular modem in one isn’t much of a stretch. We don... View Source

This intimate look at the design, building, and operation of the ISS airs on PBS Nov. 5 and Nov. 12... View Source

A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism... View Source

After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few million years, new research reveals... View Source

Best Buy’s latest doorbuster deal nets you a cool $770 off the regular price. | Image: The Verge Best Buy’s early Black Friday deals are already live, with discounts to be had on everything from smartphones and gaming PCs to wireless headphones. If you’re in the market for a new 4K TV, Best Buy is also offering an exclusive doorbuster deal on LG’s 48-inch B5 OLED, bringing the price of the 4K TV d... View Source

On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a survey of some of the best (and most laughable) movies about critters from outer space!... View Source

The Find X9 Pro features a large battery, but it’s still a pretty slender device. Whenever I review a phone, one of the first things I do after setting it up is charge it to full and then just… let it run, using it as my only phone for as long as I can, resisting every urge to charge it along the way. The Oppo Find X9 Pro lasted for three full days. 74 and a half hours, to be a little more exact... View Source

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has successfully completed a static fire test ahead of launching NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars... View Source

We're living in a wonderful period for puzzle games. Seemingly everyone, from The New York Times to Linkedin, has fun puzzles to play, so every morning I have plenty of options to accompany my first coffee of the day. Lately, though, much of my daily puzzle time has come from an unlikely source: the Playdate. Panic's little yellow handheld is best known for being home to oddball indie games you ca... View Source

Techtober may have come to an end, but our reviews team is still hard at work with this fall’s haul of new devices. Over the last two weeks, we’ve tested two new Apple products, a powerful gaming handheld, some seriously impressive headphones and Meta’s sporty smart glasses — and that’s just the start. Read on to catch up on all you might’ve missed, including our picks for the best of 2025. Apple... View Source

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place... View Source

Even for Jensen Huang, it was an extraordinary week... View Source

Elon Musk has told Joe Rogan that he hopes to unveil a flying car "before the end of the year." As Gizmodo has reported, Rogan asked Musk about about the long-delayed second-gen Tesla Roadster in his show, when the Tesla CEO suddenly started talking about wanting the vehicle to fly. If you'll recall, Tesla unveiled a new Roadster in 2017 and had plans to start deliveries in 2020, bu... View Source

Research shows a full moon can modestly affect sleep, but its influence on mental health is much less certain... View Source

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. As always, we have a bunch of new games for you to check out this weekend, along with fresh looks at some upcoming projects and a release date or two.But first, I really enjoyed this week's edition of The Guardian's Pushing Buttons newsletter. The publication's video games editor, Keza MacDonald, wrote ab... View Source

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood... View Source

Apple continues to refine the look and feel of the iPhone with each major iOS release, and iOS 26 places more emphasis than ever on personalization. The one big change is the introduction of Spatial Scenes, a feature that allows you to create what Apple calls “holographic” lock screens. Instead of being a flat image, the wallpaper reacts to the way you move your device, giving it a sense of depth... View Source

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number theory to explain quantum fractals... View Source

Black Friday has become the time to buy the hottest tech of the year. Whether you're shopping for yourself or stocking up on gifts for the holidays, Black Friday deals are sure to bring the best prices of the year to things like headphones, game consoles, robot vacuums, phone accessories and everything in between. You don't even have to wait until Black Friday proper to save a ton of mon... View Source

Macau’s gaming revenue rose 15.9% in October, exceeding analyst expectations as the world’s biggest gambling hub experienced a rebound in players after China’s Golden Week holiday was foiled by bad weather... View Source

Private Internet Access (PIA) comes with some of the best pricing of any VPN, and often doesn't feel like a budget service. I say "often" because, sadly, it does sometimes feel like you get what you pay for with PIA. While I'm working on seeing what settings iron out the kinks, the fact is that PIA doesn't always leave you with the internet speeds you need for everyday use... View Source

Elon Musk predicts that traditional smartphones will evolve into lightweight edge nodes optimized for AI inference rather than standalone hardware. This is a broader architectural transformation driven by AI advancements. Musk describes the future device (formerly known as a phone) as an edge node for AI inference particularly for AI video inference. It would feature ... Read more... View Source

Rockstar Games, developer of Grand Theft Auto VI, has been accused of deliberately laying off employees who were trying to unionize, Bloomberg reports. The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) claims over 30 employees who were eliminated at the developer's offices in the UK and Canada were either already part of a union or attempting to organize."Rockstar has just carried ou... View Source

Elon said 1000 cars in the Bay area by the end of the year and 500 cars in austin by the end of the year. Tesla will likely have 100-200 cars in 8 other cities. They will likely be as big or bigger than Waymo which has about 1500 cars... View Source

Rockstar Games, the developer of  Grand Theft Auto VI, fired between 30 to 40 employees on Thursday, as previously reported by  Bloomberg. According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), all of the employees fired were part of a private trade union Discord chat and were either already union members or attempting to organize a union at Rockstar.  “Rockstar has ju... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang has sold more than $1 billion worth of the chipmaker’s shares since June, completing a massive pre-planned stock sale... View Source

Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were rewarded by investors for reporting better-than-expected third-quarter profits. At both companies, earnings were boosted by the increased value of their stakes in Anthropic PBC, maker of the popular Claude chatbot... View Source

"The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud comets at similar distances, remains unclear."... View Source

Bluesky is adding a dislike button as a way to signal the kind of posts you don't want to see in your Discover feed. The experiment is part of several new ideas Bluesky is exploring to a improve conversations on its platform.The new experiments Bluesky is running are primarily built around the notion of "social proximity." The company says it's aiming to build a system that map... View Source

Project Frame Forward takes any change you make to the first frame of a video and applies it across the entire footage. Adobe demonstrated some of the experimental AI tools it’s working on at its Max conference that provide new ways to intuitively edit photos, videos, and audio. These experiments, called “sneaks,” include tools that instantly apply any changes you make to one frame across an... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde gets investor reaction to earnings from Amazon, Apple, Twilio and others. Plus, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang still hopes to sell Blackwell chips to customers in China. And CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator says his company’s relationship with Core Scientific is still strong, even after the latter’s shareholders rejected an acquisition offer. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Footage from a NOAA satellite taken Oct. 28 shows Melissa’s deadly spin as it moves across the Caribbean... View Source

With the holidays quickly approaching, everyone will soon be on the hunt for gifts and the fastest way to get them. Thankfully, many retailers offer generous shipping policies for their products, with some even providing free two-day shipping or even same-day delivery if you’re willing to pay a little extra. And just in case the gift you choose isn’t quite right, many retailers offer extended... View Source

Union says between 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’... View Source

You can save up to $160 off Bose headphones and earbuds right now. | Image: The Verge It’s almost November, and to celebrate, retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are dropping early Black Friday deals on everything from Apple devices to smartphones and video games. We’re also seeing some great deals on Bose headphones and earbuds, with many of the discounts matching previous all-time lows... View Source

While YouTube TV is Engadget's pick for the best live TV streaming service, it isn't for everyone, especially right now. Google and Disney's ongoing carriage dispute means subscribers don't have access to channels like ABC and ESPN, and recent price hikes means paying for YouTube TV now costs a minimum of $83 a month. Whether you've switched to another service to hold... View Source

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane... View Source

Microsoft is bringing shared audio to Windows 11, allowing you to stream audio across two pairs of wireless headphones, speakers, earbuds, or hearing aids. The feature is built using the Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) audio codec, and it’s rolling out in preview to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels. Shared audio comes in handy if you’re watching a movie on a laptop with your friend or fa... View Source

Microsoft’s new Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like navigation experience to Windows PC gaming handhelds, is coming to another family of devices: the MSI Claw. As part of the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build, Microsoft is rolling out support for the Xbox FSE in preview to “MSI Claw models” today, the company announced. FSE debuted on the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X ea... View Source

Orange SA has agreed to buy out the remaining stake in its Spanish joint venture MasOrange for $4.9 billion, giving the French telecom giant sole ownership of a business in its second-largest European market... View Source

SOPA Images via Getty Images If you're a YouTube TV subscriber, you may have noticed that ABC, ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on the platform today. The Walt Disney Co. has pulled its channels from YouTube TV as of midnight on Oct. 30 after the two companies failed to reach new terms on their latest carriage agreement. That means that until that negotiation is resolved, you wo... View Source

Dolby Atmos, the dominant name behind spatial audio in theaters and the home, has become a fixture in luxury cars from the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Rivian, Cadillac, and Lucid priced upwards of $70,000. But now, Hyundai is including Dolby Atmos audio in the new entry-level Elexio EV - a China-exclusive (for now) SUV that costs between RMB 119,800 and 149,800 (or $16,800 to $21,000). Unlike the more... View Source

A former Headlands Technologies LLC trader charged with stealing the quantitative firm’s source code said his criminal case should be thrown out because prosecutors haven’t adequately specified what he allegedly took... View Source

DJI just announced the Neo 2 selfie drone, a follow-up to last year's original. This upgraded model includes a whole lot of new features. Just make sure to set DJI's website to Hong Kong/China to see images and specs.  Perhaps the biggest upgrade here is the inclusion of LiDAR sensors for obstacle avoidance. The LiDAR is paired with downward-looking infrared sensors so it should be much safer... View Source

Aggressive Tesla FSD and Robotaxi rollout can send Tesla shares to $2000 in 2026. SpaceX released more details of the plan to return the moon and Brian Wang goes over the critical factors for SpaceX to help the US beat China to the moon... View Source

From Orwell's dystopian paranoia to Jeff VanderMeer's ecological nightmares, these science-fiction horror novels explore fear on every scale... View Source

“We got hacked,” members of the University of Pennsylvania community were told in the subject line of several emails sent from addresses linked to its Graduate School of Education. The sender, apparently, was the potential hacker or hackers themselves. “The University of Pennsylvania is a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards,” said the emails, which were received by several alumni incl... View Source

After producing remakes of the first three ‘Dragon Quest’ games, Masaaki Hayasaka now wants to pitch a new franchise... View Source

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pages dedicated to memes, animal videos and yes, AI-generated photos and videos.The people behind these pages are experts at creating content that can catch Facebook's algorithm and go viral. Successful pages can gene... View Source

Shenzhou 21, China's latest astronaut mission, is on its way to the Tiangong space station after a Friday (Oct. 31) launch from the Gobi Desert... View Source

Music is obviously a huge part of KPop Demon Hunters. Songs are how the Huntr/x girls connect to their human fans and keep hordes of demons from entering the mortal realm. But beneath KPop Demon Hunters' banging soundtrack, there is also a rich tapestry of sounds that each play a role in bringing the movie's world of magic and monsters to life. The job of crafting those sonic elements fell to Mich... View Source

As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as Starcloud, have begun to address this problem, the idea has also attracted the interest of tech barons. In May, it emerged that former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt acquired Relativity Space due to his... View Source

The esports partnership between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Saudi Arabia is no more. On Thursday, the IOC said that it and the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SOPC) have "mutually agreed" to part ways. The breakup comes weeks after Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and other investors bought EA for $55 billion. The IOC and SOPC agreed on a 12-year esport... View Source

Read on to discover where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween night sky on Oct. 21 and find out if they're a stargazing trick, or a telescopic treat... View Source

One of the biggest flashpoints for internet regulation, the Kids Online Safety Act, is poised for a revival - but possibly without the central feature that's kept people fighting over it for the past three years. Since 2022, supporters of KOSA have backed its plan to require web platforms to protect kids from a variety of online harms, imposing what's known as a duty of care. That faction includes... View Source

Sportsbook operators are treading cautiously in the fast-growing business of prediction-based betting, unsure of the financial opportunity and wary of threats by regulators to revoke their gambling licenses... View Source

Creative Labs, the maker of Sound Blaster audio cards, has launched a Kickstarter for a modular audio hub called Sound Blaster Re:Imagine. The universal hub, which is reminiscent of Elgato's Stream Deck, is meant to allow routing from any input to any output with the press of a button. Users can connect their gaming consoles, PC and musical instruments to the Re:Imagine, as well as speakers,... View Source

Scientists are searching for answers in the cosmic mystery of ghost particles known as neutrinos... View Source

Donkey Kong Bananza is $61.99 ($8 off) at Woot. There haven’t been a lot of opportunities to catch Switch 2 games on sale since the console launched in early June, but that’s changing thanks to Woot. The store is having a sale on new video games and game accessories that’s live now, and runs through November 8th at 11:59PM CT. Dozens of games for all three current-generation systems are on sale, b... View Source

Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race. Half of that won’t show up on the social media giant’s balance sheet as debt... View Source

The Republican-led FCC has voted on and approved a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, as originally spotted by CNET. This proposal revises previous "unnecessary" requirements on the grounds that a fact-based list of charges "may confuse customers." These changes would minimize the benefit of the... View Source

Many video games are full of alien horrors, but these are the best games that let players turn the tables and become the terror from outer space... View Source

Yet another rumor suggests that Netflix is interested in buying Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming businesses. On Friday, Reuters reported that Netflix is “actively exploring” a bid for the company and has hired a bank to look into a potential offer. Sources tell Reuters that Netflix now has access to Warner Bros. Discovery’s “data room,” which the outlet says “contains the financial de... View Source

Perplexity AI has agreed to a multi-year licensing partnership with Getty Images that will allow its users to access the latter’s extensive library of images. Leveraging Getty’s API, Perplexity will integrate the visual media distributor’s huge collection of stock and editorial imagery within its AI search and discovery tools, with correct attribution being a key part of the agreement. In a press... View Source

More than 20 Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ABC, and Nat Geo, have been pulled from YouTube TV after Google and Disney failed to reach a new content distribution agreement. The previous contract expired at 11:59 PM ET on October 30th, and it’s unclear when, or if, the two companies will reach a new deal. The blackout was prompted by disagreements over carriage fees, with Google saying in a... View Source

A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear safety... View Source

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, interactive cosmic panorama with unprecedented detail... View Source

A definitely real, existent phone. Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote an article for theverge.com pointing out that the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version) — a.k.a. the Trump phone — had missed its promised release date. Now here I am again, because the phone still hasn’t come out. In case you’ve forgotten, the T1 is a very gold mid-range Android phone that was announced in June alongside a $47 Tru... View Source

Cloudflare Inc. shares surged to a record after posting better-than-expected sales figures that topped quarterly and annual estimates, following a reorganization and the addition of more large enterprise customers... View Source

Home robots are moving way beyond Roombas. 1X unveiled its NEO helper bot this week, a terrifying $20,000 machine that can perform basic tasks after you've trained it, and more complex tasks via teleoperation. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonafacic try to figure out why 1X made the Neo look like a murderbot, as well as the future they see for home robots. Also, we discus... View Source

Full apps can be run on the hub’s 3-inch touchscreen, including a DOS emulator for retro games. | Image: Creative Creative, the company best known for its Sound Blaster line of sound cards that boosted the audio capabilities of ’90s-era PCs, is reviving the brand with a new hub called the Re:Imagine. It’s reminiscent of Elgato’s Stream Deck controllers, but with a focus on your audio gear. I... View Source

NVIDIA has teamed up with with South Korea's biggest companies and the country itself, as they build out their AI infrastructure. One of those companies is Samsung, which is building a new AI factory that will use 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell server GPUs and other NVIDIA technologies to make its own chips. This "AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing," as the companies call it, will help... View Source

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge... View Source

The FCC is moving to dismantle a rule requiring internet service providers to publish detailed "nutrition labels" for their service plans, just over a year after the requirement went into effect. The changes it's proposing could roll back transparency requirements that took years to establish - making it harder to tell how much you'll be paying for internet service. In a 2-1 vote on October 28th,... View Source

From horror to hyperscale: The rush to build AI data centers is so intense that even the owner of a hospital-turned-haunted house wants in. Jeremy Hill explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google’s AI ambitions are global in scale, so much so that it has just agreed to give Gemini away for free in India to people using the country's biggest mobile provider. Thanks to a deal with Reliance Intelligence, an AI-focused subsidiary of Reliance Industries, people signed up to Jio’s Unlimited 5G plan will be offered Google AI Pro at no extra cost for 18 months. That means that qualifyi... View Source

This Halloween discover how your candy choices can trick—or treat—the microbes in your gut... View Source

Patents are notoriously difficult to search for, but Perplexity has launched an AI-powered tool that’s supposed to make the process a little easier. Its new patent research agent allows you to search for patents using natural language, rather than a string of keywords. As an example, Perplexity says you can enter something like, “Are there any patents on AI language learning?” or “Key quantu... View Source

Adobe Inc. brought together 10,000 marketers, filmmakers and content creators to its annual conference this week to persuade them that the company’s software products are adapting to artificial intelligence and remain the best tools for their work... View Source

The Bose QuietComfort headphones (the non-Ultra variety) are on sale. Best Buy's early Black Friday sale has the comfy cans for 45 percent off, knocking their price down to $199. That matches their record low from Prime Day. Bose's headphones have top-notch comfort and active noise cancellation (ANC). For the latter, you can choose between "Quiet" (full ANC) and "Aware... View Source

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth... View Source

For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona... View Source

Analysts covering Kongsberg Gruppen ASA have given a sweeping endorsement of the Norwegian defense technology firm’s shares after they fell 18% in a post-results plunge... View Source

A good VPN is worth paying for. Almost every service I'll recommend as one of the best VPNs is either subscription-only or supported by paid plans. Free VPNs do have their place, though, as not everybody can afford yet another subscription in the software-as-a-service hellscape we live in. Since everyone deserves privacy and flexibility online, I wanted to put together a definitive list of th... View Source

Faced with her son’s struggle with dyslexia, one mom built an AI platform to help kids learn their own way... View Source

A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this Halloween... View Source

Finland plans to exclude high-risk vendors from a bigger portion of its fifth-generation mobile network in line with a push by the European Union to boost telecommunications security across the bloc... View Source

Disney's channels have gone dark on YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach an agreement by their October 30 deadline. The affected channels include ESPN, local ABC stations, ABC News, FX, NatGeo, Disney Channel and Freeform. "Last week Disney used the threat of a blackout on YouTube TV as a negotiating tactic to force deal terms that would raise prices on our customers," You... View Source

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.17 of the Rocket Report! Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the first crewed launch to the International Space Station, on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. Since this time humans have lived in space continuously, even through spacecraft accidents and wars on Earth. This is a remarkable milestone that all of humanity can celebrate. As always, we welcome reader submissions, and... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Alexandra Levine reports on the continuing saga of TikTok’s survival in the US... View Source

Microsoft’s latest earnings report for the quarter ending on September 30 revealed that revenue from the Xbox hardware fell 30 percent year over year. Worse, in a way, this revenue decline doesn’t reflect any dip in sales caused by the console’s $20 to $70 price hike, since that took effect on October 3 — after this earnings report. (Oh, and Microsoft raised the price for its Game Pass Ultimate su... View Source

China will launch three astronauts toward its Tiangong space station today (Oct. 31), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Keep burning through your video generation allowance on Sora? No problem, OpenAI now lets you buy extra credits to make even more AI videos. That’s good, because the company says it expects to reduce free allowances at some point in the future. Bill Peebles, who leads the Sora team at OpenAI, said the video platform’s economics are “currently completely unsustainable.” Power users “clearly”... View Source

What sneaky invisible forces enable these instruments to locate buried treasure?... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang still hopes to sell chips from the company’s Blackwell lineup to customers in China, though he has no current plans to do so, he told reporters Friday... View Source

The Task Manager isn’t managing its tasks. | Image: u/Hary06 If you’re a Windows 11 user who frequently uses the Task Manager tool, you should probably avoid Microsoft’s latest OS update. Reddit users and my colleague Tom Warren are reporting that a bug in the optional Windows 11 KB5067036 update is causing Task Manager to duplicate itself when they attempt to close the app, impacting computer per... View Source

There’s no official read on how fast the US economy grew last quarter, thanks to the government shutdown. But almost everyone reckons it was a healthy pace — and that’s largely thanks to AI... View Source

The Toronto Blue Jays have taken the lead in the 2025 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Fall Classic returns to Toronto's home turf for Game 6 tonight — Friday, Oct. 31 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT. The World Series odds still favor the Dodgers ahead of tonight's game, meaning we may very well make it to a Game 7. Every 2025 MLB World Series game will air on Fox and Fox Deportes... View Source

"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"... View Source

This week’s big rally in Nokia Oyj shares underscores how the 5G equipment maker and once-iconic phone brand is now emerging as a major European artificial intelligence play... View Source

Telefónica SA is set to cut its dividend as part of a new strategy plan due next week, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Singapore has seized more than S$150 million ($115 million) in assets linked to alleged money laundering and forgery in an operation involving Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group and its founder Chen Zhi... View Source

Taiwan’s economy grew more than expected in the third quarter, adding to its gains from the AI boom... View Source

What AI means in the market-making context... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. raised its annual forecast by less than expected, a sign of how export controls and Beijing’s push to build its own chip supply chain are tempering the Japanese chip gear maker’s outlook amid an AI spending boom... View Source

Nvidia Corp. forged a landmark deal to supply its technology to South Korea’s biggest companies, part of an aggressive push to expand AI infrastructure around the world... View Source

India’s top solar panel maker Waaree Energies Ltd. said it’s reconfiguring its supply chain in an attempt to get around steep US import tariffs and keep supplying to a country that accounts for nearly 60% of its orders... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV will lose marquee channels like ESPN from the end of this month after failing to strike a new licensing deal with Walt Disney Co... View Source

Udio, an artificial intelligence startup, triggered an angry backlash from subscribers after signing an agreement with Universal Music Group NV that restricts their use of the tracks they create... View Source

Apple Inc. blamed a surprise decline in China revenue on supply disruptions, predicting it will return to growth in the world’s biggest smartphone arena as the iPhone 17 gains momentum... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is warning investors about a new risk to its expansive data center plans: local backlash... View Source

Nasa chief Sean Duffy confirms 1969 landing was indeed real after US celebrity on TV show says ‘I think it was fake’Nasa has rejected comments made by Kim Kardashian about the 1969 moon landing and confirmed that it did, in fact, happen.During Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, the Skims founder questioned whether the space mission ever took place while noting her interest in conspiracy theori... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit posted the strongest growth rate in almost three years, reassuring investors who were concerned that the largest seller of rented computing power was losing ground to rivals... View Source

Jay Parikh in 2018. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow / Getty Images This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. To understand how Microsoft sees its role in the AI race, look at what was announced at the company's GitHub Universe developer conference on Tuesday in San Francisco. The event marked a turning p... View Source

Reddit Inc. gave a better-than-expected forecast for fourth-quarter sales, a sign that the company’s advertising business will continue to grow at a steady clip a year and a half after its initial public offering. Shares rose in extended trading... View Source

Forget Samsung's $1,800 Galaxy XR, the Android XR device I'm actually intrigued to see is Xreal's Project Aura, an evolution of the company's existing smart glasses. Instead of being an expensive and bulky headset like the Galaxy XR and Apple Vision Pro, Xreal's devices are like over-sized sunglasses that project a virtual display atop transparent lenses. I genuinely loved... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg fell to fifth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — the lowest in nearly two years — as investors spooked by Meta Platforms Inc.’s planned $30 billion debt sale sent the company’s shares spiraling amid a flurry of tech earnings shaking up the ranks of the world’s richest... View Source

Google Doodle is featuring something special for gamers today: A tribute to Pac-Man's 45th anniversary, just in time for Halloween. For today and tomorrow, you'll be able to play four haunted-house mazes especially designed for the event by Pac-Man's parent company, Bandai Namco Entertainment. Like other games in the franchise, you'll have to control Pac-Man and eat all of the... View Source

The frenzy over artificial intelligence has helped Asian stocks outperform the world this year. It’s also transforming the region’s markets in a way that has fund managers racing to keep up... View Source

A number of US government agencies are backing a potential move by the Commerce Department to ban TP-Link routers, according to The Washington Post. Multiple sources familiar with internal deliberations spoke with the publication on the condition of anonymity, including a former senior Defense Department official. A months-long interagency process involving the Departments of Homeland Security, Ju... View Source

SpaceX did NOT publicly share specifics of the simplified and faster return to the moon plan. They described that they have made proposals and NASA is looking at it. SpaceX revealed they have made 600 raptor engines. This means enough for 15 full boosters and 30+ Starships. They have had a few booster recoveries and ... Read more... View Source

As linear TV declines and podcasters become video stars, companies outside the audio realm are rushing to license their programs... View Source

OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool. An extra 10 video gens will retail for $4. The company currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day, a rate that will likely decrease as OpenAI starts to monetize the offering. Bill Peebles, who heads OpenAI's Sora, posted on X about the changes. "Eventually we will need to bring the free ge... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. found record-shattering demand for its bond sale on Thursday even as its shares plunged, in a sign that bond investors are looking past any concerns about its artificial-intelligence spending plans... View Source

Norton Security has some reliable products, but its VPN isn't one of them. In my Norton VPN review, I argued that it's only really worthwhile if you can get a discount on it as part of a Norton 360 package — and even in that case, you should only use it for non-sensitive activities due to some holes in Norton's comprehensive privacy policy. That's a lot of conditions, so I... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss earnings from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta as Apple and Amazon prepare to report after the bell. Plus, Roblox CEO David Baszucki discusses the platform’s user growth which added to the company’s costs. And, President Trump and China's Xi Jinping discussed trade and chips during a meeting in South Korea. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pinterest is adding a new way to find clothes, furniture and other sources of aesthetic inspiration through its app. It's called Pinterest Assistant, and it's an AI-powered search and recommendation tool that uses knowledge of your Pinterest activity to tailor its responses.Whereas other search features work best when you have a specific thing you're looking for in mind, Pinterest s... View Source

SpaceX officially detailed progress on the Starship HLS for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission and had a new faster, safer and simpler plan for returning astronauts to the Moon. This responds to the push from NASA and the President for faster lunar landings. SpaceX has completed 49 milestones under the fixed-price Human Landing System (HLS) contract. ... Read more... View Source

Our best camera for autofocus is on sale at Walmart for only $3190 in this pre-Black Friday deal... View Source

Tim Cook says Apple has plans to embed more third-party AI tools into the company’s operating systems. “Our intention is to integrate with more people over time,” Cook said in an interview with CNBC. Apple has already embedded ChatGPT into Siri, with a Google Gemini integration said to be in the works, along with rumors swirling about a partnership with Anthropic and Perplexity. This isn’t the fir... View Source

A group of first-lien lenders to Peraton Corp. have tapped  Evercore Inc and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher amid growing concerns that a prolonged government shutdown could dent its cash reserves, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Unless you're a PC nerd like me, chances are you're not familiar with Fractal Design. The company has made a name for itself in recent years by designing some of the best cases you can buy for a DIY build. In a space known for its gaudy aesthetics, Fractal's products stand out for their simplicity. Now the company is entering the crowded audio space with the $200 Scape, a gaming hea... View Source

Scientists have developed a laser-based ice drill concept that could enable deeper, low-power exploration of ice on moons and planets in our solar system... View Source

Apple Inc.’s fourth-quarter revenue edged past analysts’ estimates despite a surprise sales decline in China, where it’s been struggling to stage a comeback... View Source

The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps' developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a year later, the changes Canva has introduced are big, but not necessarily unwelcome. The newly relaunched Affinity by Canva combines all three apps into a single piece of illustration, photo editi... View Source

"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision."... View Source

Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 Pro received a decent price drop during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale, but if you held off on picking them up, your patience has been rewarded. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are available for around $165 ($85 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, which is the lowest price we’ve seen in months. The discount only applies to the silver color, though, and Amazon shows the dea... View Source

Netflix Inc. approved a 10-for-1 stock split to bring the share price to a more accessible range for employees who participate in the company’s stock option program... View Source

Dyson is holding an early Black Friday sale on vacuums and related products. Sure, Black Friday isn't for another month, but who are we to turn down a fantastic deal? To that end, the Dyson V8 Absolute cordless vacuum is on sale for just $300, which is a discount of $290. That's nearly half off. Dyson devices are all over our list of the best cordless vacuums, and for good reason. The co... View Source

Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise... View Source

Microsoft has officially released its Windows 11 remote desktop feature across Meta’s Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets. The feature can beam multiple high-resolution monitors to your Quest headset, while also allowing you to try an immersive ultrawide mode, similar to what you can do on Apple’s Vision Pro. Microsoft first launched its virtual desktop feature on Quest headsets in preview in December 2... View Source

After more than a year of negotiations, the US and China are nearing the “resolution” of a deal to transfer the US operations of social media platform TikTok to a new investor consortium, according to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent... View Source

By now, I have a well-established routine when I set up a new pair of Meta smart glasses. I connect my Instagram, WhatsApp and Spotify accounts. I complete the slightly convoluted steps in my Bluetooth settings to make sure Meta AI can announce incoming phone calls and text messages. I tweak the video settings to the highest quality available, and change the voice of Meta AI to "English (UK)... View Source

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu vaccines... View Source

Despite Amazon and other retailers having filled the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. Thankfully, like in previous years, we’ll be working to highlight the best prices on phones, TVs, noise-canceling headphones, gaming gear, and other tech throughout the deal-packed week, whether you plan to shop in... View Source

Nvidia Corp. plans to invest as much as $1 billion in the artificial intelligence company Poolside, according to people familiar with the matter — part of a deal that would quadruple the valuation of the AI startup... View Source

Disney+ is making its first foray into HDR10+ content, but access to this content will be limited at the start. About 1,000 shows from Hulu will be available with this HDR standard, although other programming under the Disney umbrella will add support at an unspecified later date. Samsung, which is a major player behind this standard for high dynamic range video, announced the news. Disney+ will f... View Source