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Today, I'm excited to announce three newsletter offerings, exclusive to Verge subscribers, that will continue to deliver must-read stories about tech and beyond. First, we're introducing Regulator by Tina Nguyen. Regulator is focused on the battles between Big Tech and Big Government - from the juicy palace intrigue to the devastating consequences of their political games, written by the author be... View Source

ESPN’s long-awaited new standalone streaming service will launch on August 21, alongside an overhauled ESPN app that gives users a "more personalized, dynamic viewing experience." Simply (and potentially confusingly) called ESPN, the new platform arrives just ahead of the new NFL season and the US Open tennis competition, as well as a number of other returning sports that ESPN broadcasts... View Source

Thanks to groundbreaking models and the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists are poised to explore their mysterious evolution and reveal clues about planetary formation across the galaxy... View Source

Disney is planning to fully integrate Hulu with Disney Plus, creating a “unified” app experience that will launch next year, the company announced as part of its earnings results on Wednesday. The new app will put all of Hulu’s content into Disney Plus, calling the future of Hulu’s standalone app into question. With Disney’s deal to purchase all of Hulu from Comcast now complete, the entertainment... View Source

It’s almost the end of the road for Hulu as a standalone app. Now that it fully owns Hulu, Disney will entirely integrate the streaming service into Disney+. It will roll out a new, unified app next year. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the price of a Disney+ subscription is going to skyrocket in 2026. A Disney spokesperson told Variety the company will still offer standalone plans for Disney+... View Source

International oversight would reduce risks, but could be "a politically sensitive and contentious matter."... View Source

Nintendo recently made the unexpected decision to increase the prices of its last-gen Switch hardware due to “market conditions,” adding $30 to the cost of the $199.99 Switch Lite, $40 to the standard $299.99 Switch, and $50 to the $349.99 Switch OLED. The price difference between the Switch OLED and the standalone Switch 2 now stands at a mere $50. But we found a deal that’s worth checking out fo... View Source

Shopify Inc. surged Wednesday to become the most valuable company in Canada after reporting what Citigroup called a “blowout” quarterly performance... View Source

Nathan Jermyn frequented NASA Stennis on field trips when he was younger. Now, he works as an attorney-advisor supporting NASA Stennis and the NASA Shared Services Center. NASA/Danny Nowlin Before Nathan Jermyn could dig into the legal frameworks at NASA, he had to answer a different call. Jermyn participated in a one-day orientation in the summer of 2023 to begin work as an attorney-advisor suppo... View Source

The incredibly detailed and stunning-looking Lego Marvel Infinity Gauntlet set has a massive 42% off at Amazon... View Source

Winner of Project Hyperion design contest envisions polyamorous people thriving onboard cigar-shaped craftSpaceships modelled on jellyfish, 3D-printed homes, polyamorous relationships and vegetarian diets are among the ways in which experts have envisaged making interstellar travel feasible.The ideas from scientists, engineers, architects and social theorists came in response to a global competiti... View Source

After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for Android smartwatches. Now there are more good options than ever — with more on the way soon. Much like Android phones, this market is fragmented. Wear OS 5 is here for older Samsung Galaxy Watches, Google’s Pixel Watch 3, and the OnePlus Watch 3. The Galaxy Watch 8, which was released on July 25th, shipped with One... View Source

OpenAI is providing access to its ChatGPT product to US federal agencies at a nominal cost of $1 a year as part of a push to get its AI chatbot more widely adopted... View Source

States will lose out on their share of a $42 billion broadband fund if they attempt to dictate rates that internet services providers (ISPs) charge low-income customers, according to a new FAQ from the Trump administration seen by Ars Technica. That means ISPs — which are subsidized by the government in order to provide low-cost plans — will be able to set such rates under the BEAD (Broadband Equi... View Source

Vintage postcard, 1950s. | Image: Getty Images These days, Paducah, Kentucky - population 27,000 and home to the National Quilt Museum - prides itself as "Quilt City." But decades ago, it was also called the "Atomic City" - a moniker it could soon regain as AI's energy needs bring Paducah's nuclear past back to life. The Department of Energy (DOE) operated a uranium enrichment plant in Paducah for... View Source

IQiyi Inc. is seeking to raise $300 million in a Hong Kong market debut this year, becoming the latest US-listed Chinese firm to tap investors closer to home... View Source

Google is rolling a fix for a bug that made some Pixel users' three-button navigation unresponsive with its monthly software update this August. As The Verge notes, after the company released Android 16 in June, Pixel users have been reporting that their buttons are being unresponsive or that it's taking up to 30 seconds for their device to register a tap. Some said they have to press th... View Source

Thirteen years into its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries while learning to do more with less... View Source

Jeff Buckley captivated an audience of generations with his transcendent voice and soaring guitar. After his untimely passing in 1997 at age 30, he gained posthumous, cult-like status. Never one for the charts, his album Grace has stood the test of time and is listed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. His live performances were famous for transforming any space, regardless of size... View Source

President Donald Trump will announce that Apple Inc. will commit to spend another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing, the latest pledge by the tech giant to increase US production of its products as it seeks to avoid punishing tariffs on its flagship iPhones... View Source

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has several goals, most of which are meant to help scientists determine whether Mars could ever have supported life in the past. And while it's still very muc... View Source

The launch of ESPN’s long-awaited standalone streaming service is just weeks away. Alongside its earnings results on Wednesday, Disney revealed that ESPN’s streaming service and its “enhanced” app will arrive on August 21st for $29.99 per month. ESPN’s new streaming service, which remains separate from ESPN Plus, will offer access to the network’s linear channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC... View Source

Brookfield Asset Management is launching a dedicated strategy focused on developing infrastructure for artificial intelligence as it looks to capitalize on a boom in data centers... View Source

Every now and then companies make truly boneheaded decisions, which is exactly what happened when Dell killed off the name of its most iconic PC line and replaced it with something generic. It's like if Ford decided to rebrand Mustang and call it The Prime Sportscar instead. It doesn't make sense. But now that XPS has become Premium, it's time to see if Dell's latest flagship 14-inch ultraportable... View Source

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The shooting star was part of the Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers... View Source

Disney announced that it will no longer report on subscriber numbers for its streaming services in its quarterly financial reports, following in the footsteps of Netflix. The decision comes after a quarter in which it reported 2.6 million new Disney Plus and Hulu subscribers, bringing it to 183 million in total. The decision was announced in quarterly earnings commentary from Disney CEO Bob Iger a... View Source

This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10, but will be best viewed later in the month. Here's everything you need to know to see it at its best... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc. agreed to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, making its first such acquisition as the alternative asset manager capitalizes on booming demand for digital infrastructure... View Source

Insights from human brains could inform how scientists search for awareness in all its possible forms... View Source

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow... View Source

OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model is now available on Windows AI Foundry, and will be coming soon to macOS, too. You’ll need a PC or laptop with at least 16GB of VRAM, so you’ll need one of the top GPUs from Nvidia or the variety of Radeon GPUs with sufficien... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Jillian Deutsch looks at an unusual effort by a telecom company to help parents limit smartphone use by kids... View Source

Apple TV+'s absorbing sci-fi series intensifies as our heroes enter the alien mothership starting Aug. 22... View Source

Nvidia’s chief security officer has published a blog post insisting that its GPUs “do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.” It comes amid pressure from both sides of the Pacific, with some US lawmakers pushing Nvidia to grant the government backdoors to AI chips, while Chinese officials have alleged that they already exist. David Reber Jr.’s post seems pointedly directed at US lawm... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. announced $20 billion in new stock buybacks after sharing a better-than-expected third-quarter forecast and quarterly results, suggesting that growth at its core rideshare and delivery units still has room to pick up steam... View Source

NASA faces historic budget cuts that could shutter missions and stall vital research, prompting a bipartisan outcry from all of the agency’s living former science chiefs... View Source

Researchers have already found a critical vulnerability in the new NLWeb protocol Microsoft made a big deal about just just a few months ago at Build. It’s a protocol that’s supposed to be “HTML for the Agentic Web,” offering ChatGPT-like search to any website or app. Discovery of the embarrassing security flaw comes in the early stages of Microsoft deploying NLWeb with customers like Shopify, Sno... View Source

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945... View Source

The caldera may have blasted out its cryomagma in a single explosive event, or it may have spread its eruptions over time... View Source

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and stigma have echoed down the generations... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. labor union members are holding a rally to highlight their dispute over bonus payments, signaling rising tensions with management... View Source

Your Apple Watch is already a powerful tool on your wrist, but the right accessories can make it even better — whether you’re looking to boost its battery life, upgrade its style or make it more convenient to use. From a stylish sport loop that keeps things comfortable during workouts to a sturdy charging stand for your bedside, there are plenty of ways to enhance your experience.If you're rocking... View Source

ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE’s executive and supervisory boards recommended that shareholders accept MFE-MediaForEurope NV’s amended takeover offer, calling the new terms “adequate” and a sign of MFE’s long-term commitment, according to a statement Wednesday... View Source

Hong Kong broadband service provider HKBN Ltd. is in talks with banks for a HK$4 billion ($510 million) refinancing loan, according to people familiar with the matter, as a proposed acquisition of the company gains momentum... View Source

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. maintained profit guidance despite the impact of US tariffs, as Japan’s second-largest defense contractor expects to offset rising expenses with price hikes and controlling fixed costs... View Source

To find the best power bank out there, I tested around 50 portable chargers and batteries from big brands — Anker, Belkin, UGreen, Mophie — as well as some smaller players like Lion Energy, Nimble and Satechi. I used them to recharge a number of devices including iPhones, Galaxy phones, an iPad, a MacBook and even my ereaders and PlayStation controller. If you just want a brick that can charge any... View Source

As the US and China look for any sort of leverage in a prolonged trade fight, Beijing sees an opportunity to win over the world by taking a stand against the Trump administration’s plans to track high-end chips... View Source

Sonny White updates his work on using nanoscale fabrication to harness the Casimir effect. He has a company, Casimir space, working to commercialize it. The Casimir force in quantum mechanics has empty space (the quantum vacuum) is filled with fluctuating fields, virtual particles, and energy wavelengths. When two metal plates are placed very close (e.g., ... Read more... View Source

The technology, the state, the strategy and the money: Here’s how the two economic superpowers are vying for AI domination. ... View Source

Chinese robotics shares charted new highs after up-and-coming startup Unitree released a video of a mechanical dog scaling slopes, spinning on one leg and navigating rocky terrain... View Source

Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens – only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation to Shrek in spaceWhy write an opera about Mars? Because Mars isn’t just a planet. It’s a philosophy, an ideology. The way humans think about it changes over time, reflecting the unstable mix of assumpt... View Source

Indian companies are making a last-minute dash to the public markets, aiming to attract global investors before a key deadline... View Source

Juno would offer ~20-24x better angular resolution due to proximity (distance ratio ~24:1), enabling finer details of extended features like jets or tail asymmetry, if the coma is active. Juno excels in intensity and resolution for extended structures, offering complementary data if diverted. Juno’s closer vantage enables brighter, potentially resolved views of active features—valuable for ... View Source

We do not know what lies in interstellar space. There are an expected to be 300,000 larger than Death Star sized objects beyond Neptune. There are some expected moon and planet sized objects around the edge of our solar system and we cannot see them. We must search through new data from the NSF-DOE Rubin ... Read more... View Source

OpenAI is in early talks about a potential secondary sale of stock for current and former employees at a valuation of about $500 billion, people briefed on the investment discussions said, marking an enormous gain in value for the artificial intelligence leader... View Source

British data and analytics software startup Quantexa is considering an initial public offering as soon as the second half of next year, people with knowledge of the matter said... View Source

After trialing the service in Ireland and Canada last month, Spotify has officially launched its Audiobooks+ service in the US, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. An add-on available to Spotify Premium members, as well as individual users on Family and Duo plans, it adds an extra 15 hours of listening on top of the 15 hours available for Premium subscribers.  If you're an individual Spotif... View Source

Opendoor Technologies Inc. was nursing years of losses and grappling with a potential delisting when it became a meme stock. Then, in a matter of days, the real estate company rallied 460%... View Source

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some... View Source

Google’s August Pixel update includes a fix for Android’s three-button navigation and gesture navigation systems becoming unresponsive. The issues appear to have started popping up shortly after the official release of Android 16 in June. Ever since that update, the user said that navigation has been “a complete mess” and that they ran into issues with buttons being “completely unresponsive” or de... View Source

Match Group Inc. provided a better-than-expected third-quarter sales forecast and pledged to invest $50 million in product development, suggesting the beginnings of a turnaround at the dating-app company following a yearlong revenue slump... View Source

At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more likely, an automated AI agent — moves through the world the software is simulating. The resulting video of the model in action may look like a video game, but DeepMind has always positioned Genie 2... View Source

Snap Inc. shares tumbled in late trading after the owner of the Snapchat photo-sharing app acknowledged a slowdown in advertising revenue growth, due in part to a technical issue with its ad-buying tools earlier this year... View Source

After her game was banned from sale on Steam in a baffling decision with no appeal option, solo developer Cara Cadaver has made VILE: Exhumed available as shareware under a Creative Commons license. The project can be downloaded for free, but players can opt to donate in support of the solo developer's work. Both Cara and publisher DreadXP will pay forward those donations, with 50 percent of... View Source

A former Miami Heat employee was charged with stealing hundreds of pieces of memorabilia and selling it online, including a jersey worn by LeBron James in the National Basketball Association’s championship series that later sold for nearly $4 million at auction... View Source

Google's NotebookLM (NLM) is designed to be the ultimate study guide. So, with the new school year already beginning, it's fitting that the AI tool is now available for younger users. Just be sure to check its work, kids. For consumers, anyone 13 and older can now use the AI-powered learning tool. However, any minimum age restrictions in your country will override that. NLM is also now a... View Source

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business... View Source

Robot vacuums that can both mop and sweep your floors have improved significantly in recent years. While they are still not as effective as good ol’ manual labor, if you run them regularly, they will help keep your floors cleaner with much less effort on your part. The difference is that newer “combo” robot vacuum and mop models are designed to actually scrub your floors. The first robot vacuums t... View Source

A report on the death of five people in the Titan submersible blames design, maintenance, and inspection flaws for its failure. “It all came back to Mr. Rush,” the head of the investigation told WIRED... View Source

MercadoLibre Inc. investors brushed off a second-quarter report that missed estimates for profit, betting on the Latin American e-commerce giant’s long-term strategy... View Source

Fox Corporation has announced the launch of Fox One, a streaming service that will carry Fox-branded news, sports and entertainment content for $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year. The service will feature both live and on-demand access from the entire slate of Fox properties including Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Sports, Fox Weather and more. Subscribers will also be able to bundle the new offeri... View Source

TP-Link’s new Wi-Fi 7 travel router doesn’t feature a battery but can be powered by your laptop or a power bank. | Image: TP-Link Connecting to free airport or hotel Wi-Fi can often be a time-consuming and frustrating task that doesn’t seem worth the effort for a bag full of wireless devices. TP-Link has announced its first Wi-Fi 7 travel router, providing up to a total of 3.6 Gbps of bandwi... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss President Donald Trump’s comments that more chip tariffs may be coming soon. Plus, booming demand for artificial intelligence led Palantir’s revenue to climb above $1 billion. And AMD is under pressure to show benefits from the AI race as the chipmaker prepares to release earnings after markets close. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original stated mission of "ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." Now, following multiple delays for additional safety testing and refinement, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min... View Source

Openai is making O3 level capabilities open source ahead of the release of GPT-5 in about two days. These open source models are trained for agentic workflows—supporting function calling, web search, Python execution, configurable reasoning effort, and full raw chain-of-thought access. The gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—two are state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-wo... View Source

Apple’s latest iPad Mini features some nice internal upgrades and support for Apple Intelligence. If you know where to look, it’s surprisingly easy to save on an iPad — even outside of major sales events like Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday. Here’s an insider tip: skip the Apple Store, where discounts are almost nonexistent. Instead, your best bet is to check third-party retailers like Amazon, W... View Source

Super Micro Computer Inc. shares dropped after lowering its fiscal year sales forecast, suggesting the company continues to face uneven uptake of powerful AI servers amid a shift to products based on new Nvidia Corp. chips... View Source

Sonos is having overheating issues with a "very low" number of its Roam speakers. Bloomberg reports that some users' portable Bluetooth speakers are overheating around the device's USB-C port. The company has not recalled any products as a result but it aware of the issue happening. "We’ve closely tracked a limited number of reports involving the USB-C charging connection... View Source

Explore This SectionScienceScience ActivationNASA Science Activation Teams…OverviewLearning ResourcesScience Activation TeamsSME MapOpportunitiesMoreScience Activation StoriesCitizen Science  3 min readNASA Science Activation Teams Unite to Support Neurodiverse Learners with Public Libraries On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webina... View Source

Anthropic Claude 4.1 was released today is an upgrade to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 model with key improvements. This was released ahead of OpenAI releasing GPT-5 in about two days. Anthropic plans to release substantially larger improvements to their models in the coming weeks. Caluse 4.1 Coding Performance Claude 4.1 achieved a 74.5% score on ... Read more... View Source

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver a pair of rovers and three scientific instruments to the moon's south pole... View Source

Apple is suing the owner of the Apple Cinemas theater chain, Sand Media, over alleged trademark infringement, as reported by Reuters. In the lawsuit, Apple alleges that Apple Cinemas and Sand Media have made efforts to “capitalize on the highly-regarded Apple brand in connection with the aggressive nationwide expansion” and that they have “refused to engage with Apple’s repeated efforts to resolve... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest maker of AI accelerator chips, gave a strong forecast for the current period, signaling that it’s making inroads in an industry dominated by Nvidia Corp... View Source

Elon Musk’s chatbot is seldom out of the news. When it isn’t vomiting antisemetic rhetoric or fixating on conspiracy theories without invitation, it’s inviting you to romance its anime-inspired AI companions. Grok’s NSFW credentials now extend to xAI’s new image and video generator. Grok Imagine is exclusive to paying SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers and, as reported by TechCrunch, has a baked... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum total value of approximately $1.4 million. The awardees are: Arrow Science and Technology LLC, Webster, Texas Blue Origin LLC, Merritt Island, F... View Source

Apple’s latest MacBook Air is one of the best laptops on sale. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If you want a great laptop, you’re going to have to fork over a ton of money, right? Not necessarily. There are dozens of good laptops on the market at various price points. However, it can feel overwhelming to find the right one for your needs (some are better suited for, say, college students, wher... View Source

Oil-drilling activity in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale patch is set to weaken in the near term as companies restrain spending, said the chief executive officer of the region’s biggest crude producer YPF SA... View Source

AI startup Eleven Labs just announced a service called Eleven Music, which generates fake songs that are cleared for commercial use. It's a prompt-based affair, so it can create just about anything users dream up.  The songs can feature vocals and lyrics. The Washington Post gave examples of prompts like "a smooth jazz song with a ‘60s vibe and powerful lyrics, but relaxing for a Fr... View Source

7 Min Read NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Looks Back at Science Mission NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission with agency astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov is preparing to return to Earth in early August after a long-duration mission aboard the Intern... View Source

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their environment... View Source

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon, aiming to establish such a power outpost by 2030, according to Politico... View Source

So far, 2025 has been a great year for watching new, must-see TV shows and movies on subscription services. But if you, like many of us, have more concurrent subscriptions than you care to admit, you’ll agree that keeping up with the latest stuff every month can get expensive. They may not cost as much as most of the tech we cover, but it adds up. If you’re trying to cut down on your expenses, you... View Source

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued multiple pornography platforms on allegations that they fall afoul of age verification laws. The state passed HB 3 in March 2024 and the law took effect in January 2025. HB 3 placed new requirements on services to confirm the ages of their users if they contain "material harmful to minors" and to ensure nobody younger than 18 accesses thei... View Source

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Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms... View Source

NASA has stopped trying to revive its Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter, which went dark a day after its Feb. 26 launch... View Source

The discount is available for all the colors, including the vibrant pink “peony.” The Google Pixel 9A is a midrange phone done right, offering a great balance of hardware, features, and value. Normally it costs $499, but now you can scoop up the 128GB model for an all-time low of $399 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store.  Google Pixel 9A Where to Buy: $499 $399 at Amazon $499 $399... View Source

Two Chinese nationals were arrested this week on charges that they sent tens of millions of dollars worth of advanced AI chips made by Nvidia Corp. to China in violation of US export restrictions, according to authorities... View Source

Intel is reportedly still struggling with a chipmaking process crucial to its future. Reuters reports that the company's 18A process is still producing low yields and high defect rates. Intel has invested billions of dollars in the manufacturing process, on which it's pinned its hopes of gaining ground on TSMC. This isn't the first concerning news about 18A. Last year, a report stat... View Source

Grok Imagine will happily generate images like this using Taylor Swift’s likeness that can be used to make “spicy” videos. | Image: Jess Weatherbed / The Verge The "spicy" mode for Grok's new generative AI video tool feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen. While other video generators like Google's Veo and OpenAI's Sora have safeguards in place to prevent users from creating NSFW content and celeb... View Source

Roku Inc. introduced a new subscription video service that offers ad-free content to owners of the company’s streaming boxes and Roku TVs for less money than many on-demand streaming competitors... View Source

Step aside, old boy. The ThinkPad X9-14 Aura Edition is making me forget all about the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, the most renowned business laptop for over a decade. Of course, Lenovo isn’t doing away with the X1 Carbon, but the X9 series certainly seems like the company’s experimental project for the same premium category. It’s not perfect, but I like where Lenovo is going with it. Much love has been p... View Source

Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease—a severe type of pneumonia caused by a bacterium commonly associated with air-conditioning systems and cooling towers... View Source

The Japanese space-sustainability company Astroscale has unveiled a patent for what it describes as a new method for space debris removal... View Source

Google rolled out a new tool within its Gemini AI chatbot that lets you create an illustrated story by simply describing it. The feature, called “Storybook,” generates 10-page stories, each with a short paragraph of text that Gemini can read aloud, along with an accompanying illustration. You can customize your story by asking Gemini to use specific art styles, such as ones inspired by claymation,... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. plans to make OpenAI’s new open artificial intelligence models available to customers, the first time the cloud computing giant has offered products from the leading AI startup... View Source

Motorola and Swarovski are teaming up to create the crossover they knew we always wanted: a crystal-laden edition of the Razr. For those who just felt that their retro cell phone wasn’t special enough, the fancy new Pantone Ice Melt Razr features a 3D quilted leather-inspired finish with 35 hand-positioned Swarovski crystals, including one larger, 26-facet crystal on the hinge. The Pantone Ice Mel... View Source

With back-to-school season in full swing, it feels like we’re stumbling on great deals for students every day. From Kindles to MacBooks, many of our favorite gadgets are currently receiving a discount — including Sony’s latest noise-canceling headphones, the WH-1000XM6. Right now, you can pick them up at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target for around $428 ($20 off), which is a modest discount but also th... View Source

OpenAI is releasing a pair of open and freely available artificial intelligence models that can mimic the human process of reasoning, months after China’s DeepSeek gained global attention with its own open AI software... View Source

A power bank with a wireless charging option is a very handy device for anyone who's typically on the go. It's probably worth having a fully charged one on hand in case of a power outage too. Anker makes some of our favorite power banks, and one with a Qi2 charging function and 10,000mAh capacity is currently on sale. You can snap it up for $60. That's a 25 percent discount on the list price of $8... View Source

Software designed to give spacecraft more autonomy could support a future where swarms of satellites navigate and complete scientific objectives with limited human intervention. Caleb Adams, Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy project manager, monitors testing alongside the test racks containing 100 spacecraft computers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The DSA project dev... View Source

The dashing 'Trek' veteran talks Anson's wild wig, colorful kisses, and meditating on set while directing 'the latest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode... View Source

OpenAI is releasing a new open-weight model dubbed GPT-OSS that can be downloaded for free, be customized, and even run on a laptop. The model comes in two variants: 120-billion-parameter and 20-billion-parameter versions. The bigger version can run on a single Nvidia GPU and performs similarly to OpenAI's existing o4-mini model, while the smaller version performs similarly to o3-mini and runs on... View Source

Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model as rival OpenAI nears the long-awaited launch of its GPT-5 system... View Source

Google has an event lined up for August 20 and has promised to reveal "new Pixel phones, watches, buds" and more. However, rumors have been swirling that the company won't have many of these products ready to go after being unveiled. Winfuture has reported that the Pixel Watch 4, Fold Pro 10 and Buds 2a will be announced at the Made by Google event, but won't be available until... View Source

The CS-8 looks straight out of the ‘70s, but captures footage to an SD card, not film. | Image: Camp Snap Camp Snap, a brand known for its budget-friendly screen-free digital cameras, has announced its first video camera. The new Camp Snap CS-8’s design was inspired by the Super 8mm film cameras released by companies like Kodak and Canon in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Its functionality is similarly limited... View Source

WhatsApp has shared a new update about how it prevents scams, as well as unveiling a new feature aimed at protecting users from possible swindles. People will now receive alerts when they are added to a new WhatsApp group by someone not in their contacts. This safety overview will include key details about the group chat, such as the number of members, whether any other members are contacts and th... View Source

August 5, 2025 Science Observations Remain Paused for NASA’s NICER Telescope Science operations by NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, remain paused as the team continues to evaluate the telescope’s systems after an issue developed with one of its motors. The motor is unable to move NICER beyond its current position side... View Source

The very low Energy Efficiency seems to make it not worthwhile. It is important to have station keeping like the Quasite system but this can also be dynamically maintained. The low efficiency makes the dynamo storage idea via TARS not worthwhile. The TARS (Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun) launching catapult concept can be ... Read more... View Source

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030... View Source

Venus and Jupiter meet in the morning sky on Aug. 12. Catch their dazzling conjunction just before sunrise with the crescent moon joining later!... View Source

WhatsApp is adding another feature designed to protect you from group chat scams. Now, when someone you might not know invites you to a group chat, the app will display a new “safety overview” that appears before you can even see the messages. The overview will include information about the group, including when it was created, who invited you, and how many members it has. It will also include a w... View Source

The Trump administration proposed a rule to allow more commercial drones to fly beyond an operator’s visual line of sight, a potential boon for companies such as those seeking to deliver packages by unmanned aircraft such as Alphabet Inc.’s Wing unit and Walmart Inc... View Source

Microsoft has revealed the first batch of Xbox Game Pass additions for August, and there are several tasty options in store over the next couple of weeks. The first one lands today on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass and Game Pass Standard in the form of Rain World, a difficult survival platform game. In case that’s not your tempo, though, you won’t have to wait long for other things to play. On A... View Source

NASA Second Lady Usha Vance and NASA Astronaut Suni Williams listen to the audience in this image from Aug. 4, 2025. Ms. Vance joined Williams at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a summer reading challenge event, through which the Second Lady encourages youth to seek adventure, imagination, and discovery between the pages of a book. Image credit: NASA... View Source

The US Navy is spending aggressively on integrating and developing drones, CCAs, and networking upgrades for its F-35C and Super Hornet fleets. The next-generation F/A-XX fighter is largely delayed. The hope is for unmanned and loyal wingman drone deployment and incremental fighter upgrades. MQ-25 Stingray The MQ-25 Stingray (see above) is the U.S. Navy’s carrier-based ... Read more... View Source

Fox has finally revealed more information about its new streaming service that will offer access to news and sports across the media company’s channels. The service, called Fox One, will cost $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year when it launches on August 21st — just weeks before the start of the 2025 NFL season on September 4th. Fox first announced its streaming service in May. It will combine li... View Source

Roku just revealed a new ad-free streaming service called Howdy. The service costs $3 per month, making it an enticing prospect for budget-conscious viewers. The company says this isn't an introductory price and should be permanent. Howdy will stream a whole bunch of content, but it's mostly pre-existing movies and shows. The company has inked deals with Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate... View Source

Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex organic molecules... View Source

Today, Roku announced the forthcoming arrival of Howdy, a new monthly subscription service that will give its users access to a massive catalog of on-demand films and series. Like other streamers, Howdy will feature a selection of programming licensed from other studios including Lionsgate and Warner Bros., as well its own original productions like Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. But Howdy will be a... View Source

Sonos Inc. acknowledged a “very low” number of complaints from customers who claim the audio brand’s first-generation Roam speaker has overheated and partially melted near the USB-C port... View Source

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill into law banning AI therapy in the state. This makes Illinois the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. The law highlights that only licensed professionals are allowed to offer counseling services in the state and forbids AI chatbots or tools from acting as a stand-alone therapist. HB 1806, titled the Wellness and Oversight... View Source

The Perseids are one of the most visually spectacular meteor showers of the year and are known for spawning impressive fireballs that light up the night sky... View Source

A 2026 General Motors Chevy Silverado electric vehicle (EV) during a Great American Road Trip Expo hosted by the Department of Transportation (DOT) in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 29, 2025. General Motors claimed a new world record for EV driving on a single charge, after a Chevy Silverado EV traveled 1,059.2 miles without recharging its battery. The potentially record-breaking run took pl... View Source

The financial information and academic performance of Columbia University students and alumni were stolen in a recent breach, according to a Bloomberg News review of some of the pilfered data... View Source

They might be nearly three years old at this point, but Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro remain some of the most popular wireless earbuds around for a reason, and right now they’re down to $169 on Amazon. That’s a not-insignificant 32 percent off the usual $249 price of the noise-canceling in-ears. Apple’s flagship AirPods were $100 off — a record-low $149 — during Prime Day, so we have seen... View Source

From movie stars to moguls, test your knowledge of which celebrities have gone to the final frontier... View Source

Google DeepMind is releasing a new version of its AI “world” model, called Genie 3, capable of generating 3D environments that users and AI agents can interact with in real time. The company is also promising that users will be able to interact with the worlds for much longer than before and that the model will actually remember where things are when you look away from them. World models are a typ... View Source

Google is set to take the wraps off the latest additions to the Pixel lineup in just a couple of weeks, but some devices might not be available at launch. A new report from WinFuture suggests that Google is having “supply chain problems” that could push back the release of the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2a until October 9th, 2025. That means that, following the Made by Google... View Source

Eclipse, a venture capital firm focused on startups in real-world industries like manufacturing, has hired longtime T. Rowe Price Group Inc. investor Joe Fath as partner and head of growth... View Source

Noah Hawley's daring exploration of the Alien universe makes for a great sci-fi TV show that asks big questions without neglecting the fun factor... View Source

Let’s be real: the internet is full of a lot of the same stuff. From derivative content on social media to websites that all look the same, what was once a portal to new worlds and experiences has been feeling a bit dry recently, like I’ve seen all this stuff before. And now, even the products being sold to us — clothing, home decor, gadgets, and more — looking eerily similar to one another. This... View Source

The US government’s central purchasing arm is adding OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Anthropic to a list of approved artificial intelligence vendors, opening the door to widespread adoption of the technology across civilian federal agencies... View Source

The Windows XP Crocs. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft isn't done celebrating its 50th anniversary just yet. Multiple employees tell me that Microsoft has created limited edition Windows XP-themed Crocs. They even come with a Clippy shoe charm if the Bliss wallpaper on your feet wasn't enough 50-year nostalgia. The anniversary edition Crocs are currently available for preorder for Microsoft employees,... View Source

BrainCo, a startup aiming to compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of more than $1.3 billion ahead of a potential initial public offering in Hong Kong or mainland China... View Source

Apple has released the beta version of Apple Music version 5.0 for Android, and as 9to5Google reports, it doesn't feature a Liquid Glass redesign like its counterpart for iOS 26. Liquid Glass is what Apple calls its new visual language, so it's not quite clear whether the Android iteration of the app will ever get the same visual overhaul. It did get a handful of elements from the iOS 26... View Source

The world's largest optical telescope is still under construction but is raising the roof on its progress... View Source

Amazon says it will offer several Project Kuiper terminal models, but pricing hasn’t yet been announced. Amazon’s unproven Project Kuiper satellites will be put to work next year, supplying internet access to rural Australians. The retail giant announced an agreement with Australia’s state-owned National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) on Tuesday to provide satellite internet to more than... View Source

Forward Deployed Venture Capital has tapped current and former employees of like-minded tech companies for its latest fund. ... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Sankalp Phartiyal looks at the disruption to come for the world’s biggest IT jobs market... View Source

Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive information on the PlayStation 6’s possible specs, starting price and release timing. Caveat: Moore’s Law is Dead adds in the video a disclaimer that the info was sourced from a leaked AMD presentation to So... View Source

Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people cool—without electricity... View Source

Apps that disguise a user’s location have surged in popularity after the UK introduced age-verification rules as part of its Online Safety Act... View Source

Abu Dhabi-based MGX is considering plans to raise billions of dollars in third-party capital as it looks to ramp up investments in artificial intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

By transforming idle heliostats into asteroid detectors, scientists aim to develop a cost-effective method for spotting faint, fast-moving space rocks... View Source

Grok’s video generator will spit out sexualized clips at the tap of a button. xAI’s new Grok Imagine tool is an AI image and video generator that encourages users to make NSFW content. In contrast to rival generative AI video tools like Google’s Veo and OpenAI’s Sora, which try to block users from generating anything seedy, the Grok chatbot’s Imagine feature provides a “Spicy” generation mode that... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings are expected to show the chipmaker is increasingly benefiting from the artificial intelligence arms race. The question is whether it’s enough to justify a rally that has outpaced Nvidia Corp.’s performance this year... View Source

You can save 20% on the Hommkiety Galaxy Projector on Amazon, which we praised for its build quality and high-end projections... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to gradually wind down the last of its Costco-like members-only stores, underscoring its retreat from a hyper-competitive Chinese retail arena... View Source

It’s impressive what tablets and ultraportable laptops can do. But to get the most functionality out of them, you may want a few more ports at your disposal, which is where a USB-C hub comes into play. By connecting to just one port, these handy devices give you extra USB connections, HDMI slots, SD card readers and Ethernet jacks. Plus most offer pass-through charging so you can keep your tablet... View Source

WIRED talked with one of the most influential voices in computer science about the potential for AI and quantum to supercharge supercomputers... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s main server assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s sales growth slowed in July compared to previous few months, signaling that tariff-induced uncertainties are affecting electronics demand... View Source

A Latin term that used to be little-known outside the world of customs brokers has become the stuff of headlines this year. That’s thanks to a decision by US President Donald Trump to close a tariff loophole for “de minimis” merchandise... View Source

TNG Digital Sdn, Malaysia’s largest fintech company, has reached unicorn status and will weigh an initial public offering, according to shareholder CIMB Group Holdings Bhd... View Source

A Dubai-based fintech founded by two former McKinsey & Co. consultants has raised $48 million, underscoring continued investor confidence in Middle Eastern startups... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has discovered a possible leak of trade secrets related to its advanced chipmaking techniques, and has taken action against staff deemed responsible... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd. and VR Capital Group led an equity financing round into Uzum that values the Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company at about $1.5 billion... View Source

German auto chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG expects flat sales in the current fiscal quarter, as uncertainties about tariffs continue to weigh on revenue... View Source

Destinus, a drone startup that supplies weapons to Ukraine, is planning to buy a Swiss company that develops autopilot systems for aviation for 180 million Swiss francs ($223 million) in cash and stock... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is building up stakes in Nvidia Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the latest reflection of Masayoshi Son’s focus on the tools and hardware underpinning artificial intelligence... View Source

The US is exploring ways to equip chips with better location-tracking capabilities, a senior official said, underscoring Washington’s effort to curtail the flow of semiconductors made by the likes of Nvidia Corp. to China... View Source

Indonesian police have detained the co-founder and former chief executive officer of eFishery, who has previously admitted faking financial information at the once high-flying aquaculture startup... View Source

There is interesting new work from Cool Worlds. A quasite is a conceptual space-based satellite system proposed by the Cool Worlds Lab (led by astronomer David Kipping), representing a hybrid or modified version of a traditional statite. A statite is an earlier idea for a solar sail-based satellite that remains completely stationary relative to a ... Read more... View Source

Ziff Davis-owned IGN Entertainment has laid off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. Those cuts represent 12 percent of the bargaining unit. The layoffs are the latest shift in the turbulent gaming media landscape. Earlier this year, Verge parent company Vox Media sold Polygon to GameRant owner Valnet, Giant Bomb went independent, and Game Informer returned after being shut do... View Source

Robot vacuums are impressive devices that will clean your floors well and — thanks to bigger batteries and better robot brains — rarely get tired of doing their job. Over the last few years, they have gone from being utilitarian devices that sweep your floor to full-fledged home robots that can vacuum and mop your home and then trundle off to clean themselves to be ready for the next run. I’ve bee... View Source

The largest independent Permian Basin oil driller is warning of a bearish influx of crude supplies to global markets in coming months... View Source

We’ve rounded up deals on all sorts of TVs, from affordable yet feature-packed models to high-end OLED panels that will really wow you. | Image: Sony Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There’s usually a great deal happening on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, or Amazon’s own Fire TV brand — even if the biggest discoun... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Tesla’s approval of a $30 billion interim stock award for Elon Musk. Plus, Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt discusses the eVOTL company’s plan to buy the helicopter ride-share business of Blade Air Mobility for $125 million. And Palantir and AMD face mounting pressure as the companies prepare to release their earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Valve founder Gabe Newell is setting out on a new adventure — and it doesn’t involve Half-Life 3. Instead, Newell is acquiring Oceanco, the yacht-building company that’s creating his $400 million super ship, as reported earlier by Boat International. In a post about the change, Oceanco says Newell’s interest in the brand comes from a “lifelong fascination with the sea” and “a deep respect for the... View Source

A new router shares larger volumes of data across more than 100 kilometers... View Source

Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company's bots appear to be "stealth crawling" sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers know if they can... View Source

The image reveals over 2,500 galaxies, many of which are seen as they were during the first billion years of cosmic history... View Source

Amazon has killed the cloud-based skill that connects Sengled bulbs to Alexa. Some Sengled bulbs that use local protocols, like this Matter one, can still work with Echo devices. After repeatedly leaving customers without smart control of their lights, Sengled has been booted from Amazon's Works With Alexa program. As first reported by TechHive, beginning August 1st, Sengled's Alexa skill for cont... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. reported a 48% increase in revenue for the second quarter to more than $1 billion, citing the “astonishing impact” of artificial technology on its business... View Source

1 min read NASA’s Black Marble: Stories from the Night Sky Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Home Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us Viewed from space, Earth at night tells endless stor... View Source

The latest Kindle Paperwhite starts at $124.99, which beats its Amazon Prime Day price. A Kindle lets you carry an entire bookshelf while on the go, which is why almost every year we recommend the e-reader in our guides to the best back to school essentials. With a new semester just around the corner, it’s no surprise Best Buy is currently offering the latest versions of some of our favorite model... View Source

MercadoLibre Inc.’s shares fell after the e-commerce giant missed analysts’ estimates for net income, overshadowing a jump in revenue from the expansion of the company’s free shipping policies in Brazil... View Source

The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch several months prior. The NASA satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines, which took off from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on February 26 at 7:16PM ET. The Lunar... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 4 min... View Source

Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show... View Source

A brutal alien planet isn't quite the same as future Earth, but Predator: Concrete Jungle has more than a few things in common with Predator: Badlands... View Source

You might find it kind of sad to put a hard-earned gadget into a protective case. To me, it’s freeing. Using a case relieves me of the worry that it will accumulate tons of little scratches. So, I wasted no time testing cases on the new Nintendo Switch 2, and it didn’t take long for me to find one that I think is the best. I tried several types of cases on the Switch 2. I tested flimsy shells that... View Source

When will Sierra Space's winged vehicle, Dream Chaser, finally take flight? Unfortunately, it's still not clear. Almost certainly, however, it won't be this year. The Dream Chaser space plane has now been under development for more than two decades, and it has a huge cult following because its winged shape mimics the iconic Space Shuttle. However, during a recent news briefing, a senior NASA offic... View Source

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now remind users to take breaks if they're in a particularly long chat with AI. The new feature is part of OpenAI's ongoing attempts to get users to cultivate a healthier relationship with the frequently compliant and overly-encouraging AI assistant. The company's announcement suggests the "gentle reminders" will appear as pop-ups in... View Source

OpenAI, which is expected to launch its GPT-5 AI model this week, is making updates to ChatGPT that it says will improve the AI chatbot’s ability to detect mental or emotional distress. To do this, OpenAI is working with experts and advisory groups to improve ChatGPT’s response in these situations, allowing it to present “evidence-based resources when needed.”   In recent months, multipl... View Source

Rivian has filed a lawsuit against Ohio's Department of Motor Vehicles because of the state's partial ban on direct car sales, The Verge reports. The company says that the ban "reduces competition, decreases consumer choice and drives up consumer costs and inconvenience." Rivian believes Ohio's law is particularly unfair because it contains a carveout for the company'... View Source

Explore This Section Science Courses & Curriculums for… STEM Educators Are Bringing… Overview Learning Resources Science Activation Teams SME Map Opportunities More Science Activation Stories Citizen Science   4 min read STEM Educators Are Bringing Hands-On NASA Science into Virginia Classrooms Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teacher... View Source

NASA is calling on the public to help shape the future of lunar exploration by designing the next generation of wheels capable of navigating the moon's harsh terrain... View Source