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A top Chinese battery storage manufacturer said it expects a sharp rise in first-quarter profit as overseas demand surges, a sign the country’s clean tech exporters stand to benefit from energy disruptions caused by the war in Iran... View Source

A mysterious video generation model that swept to the top of global benchmarks was developed by a team under Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., sending ripples across China’s AI industry... View Source

Nico Rosberg, CEO of Rosberg Ventures and former Formula One World Champion, says developments in AI are moving faster than an F1 Race and investors need to be prepared for a bumpy ride. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: Karv Global Partner Amir Handjjani, Causeway Capital Management Fundamental Portfolio Manager Ellen Lee, SoLo Funds Co-Founder & President Rodney Williams, and Morgan Stanley Head of Digital Asset Strategy Amy Oldenburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shares of Texas Pacific Land Corp. tumbled Thursday after the chief executive officer of its largest shareholder died, rattling investors in the Permian Basin landowner that has drawn attention as technology companies seek sites for data centers... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss CoreWeave’s $21 billion deal to provide compute for Meta. Plus, Meta releases a new AI model that is more competitive with rivals. And, Anthropic closes its secondary share sale that leaves some investors without the stakes they wanted. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adam Back, Co-Founder and CEO of Blockstream, denied claims that he is the mysterious and anonymous founder of bitcoin after a New York Times investigation tied him to the creation of the currency. Back said that it's 'natural' that people are curious but that since Nakamoto stopped posting on online forums there have been few 'digital breadcrumbs' to point people towards an answer. (Source: Bloom... View Source

As the Artemis II mission enters flight day nine, the crew spoke about inspiring the next generation and 'working on something big for the good of everyone' ahead of their return to earth. The crew, made up of three US astronauts and a Canadian, embarked on humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in more than half a century. The 10-day flight around the moon and back will mark the second mission of A... View Source

15-Time NBA All-Star Shaquille O'Neal & TM:RW Founder and CEO Nathalie Bernce discuss inovation, 'Dunkman,' and why newness is everything. They joined Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI sued Colorado to block a new state law requiring tech companies to establish safeguards to prevent discrimination by autonomous tools in certain employment decisions, among others... View Source

The next launch of the Blue Origin has been delayed from April 14 to April 16. The rocket sections are still in the Bay and have not been moved out to the launch pad. This is another important Blue Origin launch. It will be the third New Glenn launch. AST Space Mobile is launching BlueBird ... Read more... View Source

An earnings beat by Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. next week may set the stage for a short squeeze, after a surge in the battery maker’s shares on bets tied to soaring energy prices... View Source

1 Min Read JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’ Before Artemis II Launch PIA26742 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads JPL’s ‘Lucky Peanuts’ Before Artemis II Launch JPEG (67.09 MB) Description A container of “lucky peanuts” sits above workstations within the Spac... View Source

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy released the annual shareholder letter. • AWS AI revenue is running above $15 Billion annually • Amazon expects around $200 Billion of 2026 capex mostly tied to AI infra • Project Leo already has 200+ satellites in orbit ahead of launch. • $4 Billion+ is going toward rural delivery expansion while ... Read more... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud division led a 2 billion yuan ($293 million) funding round for ShengShu Technology, bolstering the war chest of a young contender in China’s crowded AI video contest... View Source

1 Min Read Watching the Artemis II Launch From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26743 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching the Artemis II Launch… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching the Artemis II Launch From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (96.19 MB) Description Staff... View Source

New data suggests 13% of Netflix households have watched a podcast on the streaming service... View Source

1 Min Read Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition PIA26744 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching Over the Deep Space… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition JPEG (63.52 MB) Description Blanca Re... View Source

Apple Inc. is closing its retail store in Towson, Maryland — a location that drew national attention in recent years as the center of a rare unionization effort by the iPhone maker’s employees... View Source

Apple is closing three of its retail stores this summer, including its first location to unionize. The tech company said it plans to permanently close Apple Store in Trumbull, CT, Escondito, CA, and Towson, MD. The Apple Store location in Towson, was the first where unionized workers and Apple reached a contract agreement back in 2024. MacRumors published a statement from Apple confirming the... View Source

2 Min Read The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal PIA26745 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Deep Space Network… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal JPEG (66.25 MB) Description The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis... View Source

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is on sale in multiple colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is one of the best Android smartwatches you can buy right now, especially if you’re already using a Samsung phone. Right now the 40mm, Bluetooth-enabled version’s on sale for $289.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung, which is its second-best price this year and o... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Rockefeller Global Family Office’s Angela Mwanza, Stifel’s Tore Svanberg, Rockefeller International’s Ruchir Sharma, Citi Research’s Rob Rowe, Council on Foreign Relations’ Shannon O’Neil, RBC Capital Markets’ Carrie Freestone... View Source

Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper) will launch mid-2026, according to Andy Jassy. On Wednesday, the Amazon CEO dropped the news in his annual letter to shareholders. The company says Leo will support download speeds up to 1 Gbps. By comparison, Starlink’s download speeds typically range between 45 and 280 Mbps.Jassy didn't specify whether the mid-2026 launch date will include consumer availabili... View Source

WindShaper A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.  A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.  The WindProbe utilizes the lab’s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation... View Source

Elon Musk says that Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model has 1 trillion parameters and Claude Opus has 5 trillion parameters. XAI’s Grok 4.20, which has 0.5 trillion parameters and there are seven larger models being trained at XAI. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter ... Read more... View Source

Astronauts prepare for re-entry several miles off coast of southern California after 10-day lunar fly-by missionThe crew of Artemis II is set to return to earth on Friday following its historic 10-day lunar flyby mission, and Nasa leaders have described the precise logistics needed to get them home.The return will see the Orion capsule traveling at nearly 24,000mph before making a final splashdown... View Source

OpenAI has announced a new version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription that costs $100 per month. The new Pro tier offers "5x more" usage of its Codex coding tool than the $20 per month Plus subscription and "is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions," OpenAI says. The company is introducing the new tier as it tries to win over users from Anthropic and its popular Claude Code tool. ChatGPT's $100... View Source

Thoma Bravo LLC-backed RealPage Inc. delivered slightly improved revenue and earnings at the end of last year, just as software businesses are looking to navigate both opportunities and challenges from artificial intelligence... View Source

Indie game studio Coldblood announced today that its debut project Neverway has been given a release window of October 2026. Billed as "nightmarish life-sim RPG," this is going right to the top of my spooky season game queue. It has a cozy-sounding premise, with protagonist Fiona starting a new life on an island, but things take a surreal turn when she becomes the immortal herald for a d... View Source

Windshaper Windshaper fan array for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.NASA/John Melton A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API.  A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows.  The WindProbe utilizes the lab’... View Source

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a statement on Thursday, Uthmeier says there are concerns that OpenAI's data and technology are "falling into the hands of America's enemies, such as the Chinese Communist Party." Uthmeier also says that OpenAI's ChatGPT has been "link... View Source

Amy Sullivan, the newly appointed president of Bed Bath & Beyond, said that the company is trying to be the 'everything home platform' as it attempts to rebuild the brand and expand beyond its traditional footprint by acquiring home repair brands. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid is in the works again, this time from filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, the directors of Final Destination: Bloodlines, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The duo are reviving the project at Columbia Pictures as part of a new first-look deal with Sony, the latest attempt in what's been multiple decades of work to turn the blockbuster stealth g... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dan Florez Listen to this audio excerpt from Dan Florez, test director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. At 1:47 a.m. EST November 16, 2022, as the Artemis I engines ignited, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Dan Florez, NASA test director for the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems, watche... View Source

The digital privacy non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation will no longer be posting on X as of Thursday, largely due to a sharp decline in views on the platform over the past several years. In a blog post announcing the departure, EFF's social media and video manager Kenyatta Thomas explained that the non-profit used to get 50 to 100 million impressions per month on X, but that has changed. "L... View Source

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming. They also face a widening legal battle with US states and criticism over alleged user insider trading. Here’s how they got so controversial. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The hit mountain climbing simulation Cairn is getting a series of free DLC drops, under the banner On the Trail. The first will be released this summer and it's called Deep Water. The DLC introduces three new climbing areas and plenty of "fresh challenges." There's also a new avatar, as players can now climb as Aava or the game's original sidekick Marco. As the name sugges... View Source

2 Min Read The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal PIA26746 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Deep Space Network… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal JPEG (62.03 MB) Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s radio fr... View Source

'We all thought that movie was really uplifting and inspiring.'... View Source

John Deere has agreed to pay farmers $99 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that accused the agricultural giant of preventing farmers and mechanics from accessing the materials needed to repair equipment, as reported earlier by Reuters. As part of the proposed settlement, John Deere says it will make repair resources available for a period of 10 years, "on a license or subscription basis."... View Source

The startup is rethinking how to safely roll out more powerful technology... View Source

Thick as Thieves, the magical heist game from a crew of stealth legends at OtherSide Entertainment, is coming to Steam on May 20. OtherSide and publisher Megabit Entertainment announced the release date in a new gameplay trailer during today's Triple-i Initiative showcase (which was packed with cool indie games, as always). OtherSide was founded by Thief and System Shock 2 veteran Paul Neurat... View Source

A stunning snapshot in time. The Artemis II crew captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way.NASA The Artemis II crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the ga... View Source

OpenAI told investors this week that its early push to dramatically increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic PBC at a moment when its longtime rival is gaining ground and mulling a potential public offering... View Source

You may already know that emulators can run Wii games on a Mac. But one developer has flipped the script. Bryan Keller now has an ancient version of the Mac's operating system running on Nintendo's 2006 game console (via Kottke). Why? Because they said it couldn't be done.The developer first had the idea in 2013 while a sophomore in college. However, they found renewed motivation fi... View Source

1 Min Read Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26747 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching the Artemis II… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (66.13 MB) Description... View Source

If there's one thing I know about Microsoft after covering the company for more than 20 years, it's that it will always respond to a competitive threat. Apple's MacBook Air convinced Microsoft and Intel to launch thin and light laptops with the Ultrabook initiative, the iPad pushed Microsoft to create its own tablet hardware, and the threat of Chromebooks saw Microsoft try to match the security an... View Source

Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan resolved a lawsuit JPMorgan Chase & Co. brought against him and other early investors in Charlie Javice’s student-finance startup, Frank... View Source

Meta is giving users the ability to edit Instagram comments they leave on posts, though only within a 15 minute window after they're posted. The setup is similar to how the social app handles editing messages, an option it first added in 2024, 11 years after direct messaging was introduced to Instagram in 2013.You're only able to edit comments you left with your own account, and the proc... View Source

Starship FCC licenses for Flight 12 and 13 have been modified. Starship Flight 12’s license includes a suborbital first and second stage. Currently, SpaceX is looking at a late April or early May launch for Starship 12. Starship Flight 13’s now says suborbital first stage and ORBITAL second stage. Starship 13 is looking at an ... Read more... View Source

A screenshot from Slay the Princess. | Image: Black Tabby Games Black Tabby Games, the two-person studio behind the hit indie games Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow, is getting into indie publishing. The publishing arm, which was revealed on Thursday, is called Black Tabby Publishing and has already signed deals for two games: Prove You're Human, the next title from 1000xResist developer Suns... View Source

Quantum company Infleqtion is set to launch more of its technology into space over the weekend as demand for ways to navigate without GPS grows. Matt Kinsella, CEO of Infleqtion, discusses the company’s quantum clocks and why they offer a superior option to quantum computers, for now. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix has added a heavy hitter in party activities to its gaming lineup. The streamer announced that Jackbox Party Essentials is joining the Netflix Party Games collection. This move makes three of the popular Jackbox group games available for free to Netflix subscribers: Fibbage 4, Quiplash 3 and Drawful 2. Each one supports up to eight players.  Netflix has been refocusing its interactive... View Source

2 Min Read Supporting Artemis II From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26741 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Supporting Artemis II From… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Supporting Artemis II From JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (63.68 MB) Description The Artemis II mission patc... View Source

A crew of tiny worms will spend six months aboard the International Space Station, helping researchers better understand how long-term spaceflight affects human astronauts... View Source

If you make a mistake in an Instagram comment, you can now finally fix it without having to delete the comment and make it again. On Thursday, Instagram announced that users can now edit their comments within 15 minutes of posting them, which should hopefully give you ample time to clean up any errors. You can make as many edits as you like while that 15-minute period is in effect, Meta spokespers... View Source

Amy Oldenburg, head of digital-asset strategy at Morgan Stanley, joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Markets." Morgan Stanley is set to become the first Wall Street bank to launch its own Bitcoin-tracking ETF, a milestone for the digital-asset ecosystem that underscores how deeply the original cryptocurrency has embedded itself in the financial mainstream — even as the market around it has coo... View Source

Developer Klei Entertainment has announced a follow-up to Don't Starve that adds a new sense of depth to the popular survival game. And that's in a literal sense: Don't Starve Elsewhere translates the game's resource gathering and sanity management to a world with three-dimensional terrain at different elevations, a first for the traditionally flat series.Don't Starve Else... View Source

Modular PC maker Framework is hosting a "Next Gen" event on April 21st at 1:30PM ET, and it looks like it might have something to do with Linux. Alongside a newsletter announcing the event, Framework posted a video on Thursday titled "Follow the white penguin." It features a few clear references to Linux, including the iconic penguin, the "I use Arch btw" meme, and a shot cycling through several L... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." A fragile truce in the Gulf as President Trump vows to keep US troops in place ahead of high-stakes Iran talks. Oil surges with Goldman warning Brent could top $100 if the Strait stays shut. And gig tech doubles down as CoreWeave and Meta strike another massive AI deal. And billionaire Thomas Pete... View Source

Windrose was a hit in a recent Steam Next Fest event, with more than 850,000 people checking out the demo. More than 1.5 million people have wishlisted the pirate survival-adventure title on Steam as well. So, it’s safe to say this game has some wind in its sails, and it’ll be arriving very soon. During Thursday’s Triple-i Initiative showcase, developer Windrose Crew revealed that it’s charted a c... View Source

A screenshot from the PC version of Quiplash 3. Netflix's party-focused lineup of TV games just got three excellent new additions: Jackbox's Drawful 2, Fibbage 4, and Quiplash 3, available as the Jackbox Party Essentials pack on the platform. Subscribers can access Jackbox Party Essentials at no additional cost and use their phones as controllers to play. The Jackbox bundle seems like a natural fi... View Source

Prior cyber-espionage campaigns resulted in the theft of sealed records from US courts... View Source

Tesla may be shifting strategy once again. Reuters reported that the company is working on a smaller and less expensive electric SUV. This would be a brand new vehicle rather than a variant of the existing Model 3 or Model Y, according to the publication's sources. The new EV would allegedly be about 14 feet long, shorter than the 15.7-foot Model Y. Reuters didn't have details about whet... View Source

Anthropic Mythos is Anthropic’s newest frontier AI model tier, announced in early April 2026. It will be a step-change in capabilities over their previous top model (Claude Opus 4.6). Mythos is entire higher tier of models that Anthropic says is larger and more intelligent than our Opus models. Why Mythos Is a Big Deal Anthropic ... Read more... View Source

In response to a request from the U.S. government, Planet Labs made a decision not to share photos of Iran as well as the larger conflict region in the Middle East indefinitely... View Source

Google's latest upgrade for Gemini will allow the chatbot to generate interactive 3D models and simulations in response to your questions. With the new feature, you may see options to rotate the AI-generated model, manually adjust sliders on it, or input different values to change the simulation in real-time. When trying out the feature for myself, I asked Gemini to make a simulation of the Moon o... View Source

After months of sluggish returns, Nvidia Corp.’s stock is rallying again and close to breaking out of its narrow trading range, which market technicians see as a bullish signal... View Source

Razer just released the Hammerhead V3 HyperSpeed gaming earbuds, another entry in the recently-crowded field of gaming earbuds. These have been designed for low latency, which is a necessity when playing video games. To that end, the earbuds integrate with Razer's proprietary HyperSpeed 2.4GHz streaming platform, which allows for "gaming-grade lag-free" audio. This works with plenty of devices, in... View Source

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach... View Source

A big indie showcase has just wrapped up, and now I have a lot more games to look forward to. The third iteration of the Triple-I Initiative, an annual showcase for upcoming releases put on by a group of studios, aired on Thursday. It featured some familiar franchises, like an indie-developed Castlevania and a new entry in the Don't Starve series, as well as some impressive new titles. You can wat... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. is tapping the junk bond market after expanding a deal to supply artificial intelligence computing power to Meta Platforms Inc... View Source

Developer Sunset Visitor just revealed its follow-up to the fantastic 1000xResist. It's called Prove You're Human and looks to wade in similar sci-fi waters as the team's first title. Just like 10000xResist, the new game is a narrative adventure set in the far future. Prove You're Human tasks players with convincing an AI product that its not alive, but there's a rub. The... View Source

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream will track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft as it races back toward Earth. Here's how to watch it live... View Source

When the team at indie studio Sunset Visitor were wrapping up their critically acclaimed first game, 1000xResist, it wasn't long before they started thinking about what they'd tackle next. According to creative director Remy Siu, the studio's goal is to always find ways to reflect the world around them. So when they were looking at the cultural landscape in 2024, there was one theme they couldn't... View Source

Intel Corp., trying to promote the use of its technology in data centers, said Alphabet Inc.’s Google has committed to using future generations of its Xeon processors and other chips... View Source

A large chunk of Nintendo’s 2026 plans remain a mystery (that is, unless you take the insiders and leakers at their word), but we have been waiting on release dates for a couple of previously announced first-party titles, including Rhythm Heaven Groove, which officially arrives July 2. Seemingly announced first on the Nintendo Today! app before making its way to the company’s various social channe... View Source

The Lyrid meteor shower peaks overnight on April 21-22... View Source

Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointlessZoe Williams speaks for many of us when she notes that the US space mission is pointless (Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to, 7 April). Unfortunately, it is worse than that. With a $100bn budget, the Artemis programme represents a truly spectacular misdirection of hu... View Source

Mastodon is preparing to roll out "Collections" in the next few weeks, a feature that allows you to find and create lists of accounts worth following, according to an announcement on Thursday. Collections, which take inspiration from Bluesky Starter Packs, will come with the ability to add up to 25 accounts to a single list. If you're on a participating server, you'll be able to create a Collectio... View Source

Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild discusses the recent market volatility and resilience despite multiple headwinds including AI disruption, private credit worries and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Guild warns that a slower flow of commodities could lead to a second dip in the stock market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Banana Ball World Tour is coming to Roku. The platform has signed a deal to stream free content from the Banana Ball Championship League. This, of course, includes Savannah Bananas games. If that last paragraph didn't make a lick of sense to you, here's a primer. The Savannah Bananas are a wacky baseball team, playing something called Banana Ball. The team has been called the Harlem Globetrott... View Source

Meta Muse Spark (originally codenamed Avocado) is Meta’s first model from its new Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). It launched on April 8, 2026 and will be the first of a new Muse family of models. Meta describes it as a natively multimodal reasoning model designed from the ground up for vision + language integration (not ... Read more... View Source

'I’m proof that if you keep dreaming big, you too can be out of this world.'... View Source

It’s tough to find decent gaming laptops under $1,000. However, Best Buy has what I consider to be a good entry-level model for 1080p gaming in Lenovo’s 15.6-inch LOQ laptop, which is selling for $649.99 (usually $959.99) through today, April 9th. Even with its Nvidia’s RTX 4050 (its lowest-tier GPU of the series), the laptop is likely to be performant enough to play many titles at respectable fra... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is considering selling its chips to other companies, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy said Thursday, adding that the cloud-computing giant’s in-house silicon unit is on pace to bring in more than $20 billion over the course of a year... View Source

Tesla is supposed to be starting some mass production of Cybercabs in April. There were 60 Tesla Cybercabs in outbound lots in Texas. If Tesla makes an average 40 per day in April then there would be 1000+ Cybercabs in April. I think this is more likely for May... View Source

It looks like a smaller, cheaper Tesla is back on the menu. Today, Reuters is reporting that the electric automaker is calling around to suppliers about building an all-new - that is, not based on the Model 3 or the Model Y - electric SUV that would be more affordable than its current lineup. The report, which is based on four anonymous sources in the know, said the vehicle would be built first in... View Source

Chip startup SiFive Inc. received $400 million in funding from a group of investors led by Atreides Management, money the company plans to use to get a bigger foothold in AI data centers... View Source

xAI’s Colossus 2 (MACROHARD) now has 7 models in training at once. Grok Imagine V2 2 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models 2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models 1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter model 1 variant of a 10-trillion-parameter model SpaceXAI Colossus 2 now has 7 models in training: – Imagine V2– 2 variants of 1T– 2 variants ... Read more... View Source

Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in the space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it. My guest today is Hayden Field, who’s our senior AI reporter here at The Verge. She’s been keeping close tabs on both Anthropic and OpenAI, and how these two companies in particular tell us a whole lot a... View Source

CoreWeave has struck a $21 billion deal to supply computing power to Meta Platforms through 2032, deepening its business with the social media giant. Anurag Rana has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A new feature that lets you create an AI avatar with your likeness is now live on YouTube. First announced in a blog post earlier this year, avatars are designed to be used in Shorts (provided you still allow them to show up), allowing you to insert yourself into video content in a way that YouTube deems to be safe and secure. YouTube’s approach to combatting the AI sloppification of the internet... View Source

Tech startup Minimus, which specializes in secure and hardened container images made to eliminate CVE risk, is proud to announce the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly established role, Nardi will lead the company’s next phase of scale, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, operations, and corporate development. As the market ... Read more... View Source

Astronaut Christina Koch poses with zero-gravity indicator "Rise" in the viewport of the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft... View Source

Consumer complaints about Ticketmaster are so voluminous at state attorneys general offices that Pennsylvania's comes with an explicit plea for residents lodging a grievance about the company to be patient for a response. That kind of pressure has driven more than 30 states to push forward with claims that Live Nation-Ticketmaster illegally monopolized parts of the concert industry, even when the... View Source

The near-total shutdown of the internet in Iran is the world’s longest nationwide blackout since the Arab Spring in the early 2010s... View Source

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In recent months, some cities have sought a new recruit in their forever war against potholes: Waymo. Municipal officials in multiple cities where Waymo operates have reached out to the robotaxi operator for help in locating potholes on their streets, assuming that Waymo kept such data. Fortunately for them, Waymo does, and it has recently decided to launch a pilot program, along with Google's Waz... View Source

Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai believes that the artificial intelligence models at big labs have the intelligence of a 3-year-old kid, at least when it comes to making sense of visual prompts... View Source

Sometimes, you just want your dang music streaming app to play music. Spotify, which has increasingly incorporated video features through the years, is finally giving us the option to turn that mess off. Behold: universal video toggles.Spotify's video settings control several areas. First, the old Canvas toggle (videos on the Now Playing screen) is still there. But now you'll find two ad... View Source

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Just after they broke the human spaceflight distance record, the Artemis 2 astronauts shared a powerful moment that deepened their already profound bond... View Source

The company's novel rocket engine could be a game changer for the U.S. military... View Source

There's an intriguing new video game adaptation to watch in theaters - and no, it's not that one. Exit 8, based on the game of the same name, hits the big screen on April 10th, and it's part of a burgeoning trend of horror movies directly inspired by indie games and liminal scares on YouTube. (See: the surprise success of Iron Lung and the upcoming Backrooms feature.) It's also the rare adaptation... View Source

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OpenAI is putting the brakes on Stargate UK, according to Bloomberg. That’s the company’s AI infrastructure project with NVIDIA that’s meant to help the UK build out its sovereign computing capabilities. The company announced Stargate UK back in September, but it launched a strategic partnership with the UK government months before that. Stargate UK would enable the government to run top AI models... View Source

An Amazon Leo terminal being installed. | Image: Amazon Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will "launch in mid-2026." I'm going to assume that means proper commercial availability since the company already announced the start of an "enterprise preview" at the end of 2025, when the service was supposed to originally launch. Unlike... View Source

Marsh & McLennan Cos’ Mercer has raised just over $3.8 billion for private investments... View Source

JBL introduced two new headphones to its Live series lineup and both are fighting to live up to expectations. Don’t get me wrong, the JBL Live 780NC and 680NC are both a solid set of cans, but in a sea of noise-cancelling headphones, one of them definitely has more appeal. The biggest differences between these two headphones are the over-ear and on-ear cups, and surprisingly, their audio quality... View Source

Artificial lights at night brightened up planet Earth by 16% from 2014 to 2022, a new study using satellite images has found... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. plans a $4 billion outlay to build a chip packaging plant in northern Vietnam, as the country’s largest foreign investor expands its footprint in the country... View Source

The new controls apply to both individual and family accounts. | Image: Spotify Spotify is adding new toggles to stop any and all video from playing inside the app, for both music and podcasts. The controls are rolling out worldwide, work across all platforms and devices, and can be used by managers of Family Plans to limit video content for every member on the subscription. The new controls haven... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. has expanded its deal to supply artificial intelligence computing power to Meta Platforms Inc. to $21 billion, building on a previous $14.2 billion agreement the companies struck in September... View Source

Anything NASA can do, you can do too... View Source

The Neo king of affordable laptops. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge When the MacBook Neo arrived last month, I knew Windows laptop makers were in trouble. For $599, the Neo offers fantastic build quality and solid performance in a sleek and ultra-portable package. Windows laptops in this price range tend to be ugly, cheap-feeling, and a little slow. Despite years of rumors, the MacBoo... View Source

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.’s quarterly earnings topped analysts’ estimates after the information technology provider curbed costs to cope with slowing demand in an era of geopolitical tensions... View Source

YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year, reflects the platform's fraught relationship with AI-generated content, adding more generative features while struggling to contain AI slop, deepfake scams, and impersonations. YouTube says the new tool will let users create a digi... View Source

Apple Inc.’s AirPods Max 2 — the first substantial update to the company’s $549 headphones — don’t represent an upgrade-worthy sequel but should intrigue customers looking to buy the brand’s over-ear offering for the first time... View Source

Google has fully integrated NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, into the Gemini app. The company launched a standalone NotebookLM app last year, but as it said in its announcement, “keeping track of everything can be a challenge.” It added NotebookLM as a source in the Gemini app last year, but now you can create notebooks right inside the chatbot. You can now find the option to create a new... View Source

Artemis 2's Orion capsule will hit Earth's atmosphere at nearly 24,000 mph on April 10. A heat shield and 11 parachutes will help it survive the fiery trip and splash down safely... View Source

OpenAI is pausing its Stargate infrastructure project in the UK, citing the high cost of energy and regulatory environment... View Source

Right now, when you think about prediction markets, you basically think about two main companies: Polymarket and Kalshi. And then when you think of what’s being traded on those platforms, there’s a whole range of stuff from elections to sports to real economic outcomes, to totally gonzo random stuff, like who will win the next season of Big Brother. So far, sports is where a lot of the money is. B... View Source

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away... View Source

A legendary trading entrepreneur says prediction markets are the next big thing... View Source

150Nm of raw climbing assist. | Image: Amflow Amflow, the e-bike brand spun out of DJI, is back with two impressive electric mountain bike ranges built around its incredibly dense Avinox motors. The e-MTBs aim to break the traditional trade-off between power, range, and weight. The flagship Amflow PX (weighing around 20kg / 44lbs) and the Amflow PR (weighing around 22kg / 49lbs) are powered by Avi... View Source

Japan’s most popular taxi-hailing provider Go Inc. is planning an initial public offering this year which could raise several hundred million dollars, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Kia Corp. will begin using humanoid robots in its US factories from 2029 and is developing its first software-defined vehicle as the South Korean carmaker ramps up investment in new-generation cars and manufacturing technology to better compete with global rivals... View Source

Your guide to May's full Flower Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights... View Source

As the Artemis II astronauts return from the moon, we celebrate the science, suits and spirit of endeavour that took them there, all brought together in a colourful new book called Space Journal Continue reading... View Source

Despite attacks on regional infrastructure, G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track... View Source

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This week Artemis II’s four-astronaut crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record, becoming the humans to travel the farthest from Earth. Now on their way home, the team has experienced tech malfunctions, views like no other and moments of intense emotion, all in under 10 days. To find out about all the highs and lows of the mission, Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample... View Source

Antares Nuclear Inc., a California-based startup developing small reactors, has won approval from federal regulators to complete its demonstration system — the first company granted such authorization under a US program aimed at accelerating new fission technologies... View Source

Investors need exposure to semiconductor companies and other “picks and shovels” of artificial intelligence as spending accelerates, even with the Iran war stoking geopolitical tensions, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Brook Dane... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Citigroup’s Scott Chronert, Yale School of Management’s Gautam Mukunda, Hartree Partners’ Ed Morse, Tradeweb CEO Billy Hult, Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders, National Center of Energy Analytics’ Neil Atkinson, The Conference... View Source

China’s military appointed an executive from a state telecommunications company as a senior colonel in its reserve force, highlighting Beijing’s continued efforts to integrate civilian technology with its armed forces... View Source

Nearly 17 years after Dyson first announced its Air Multiplier fans - one of its first big consumer products after vacuums - the company has miniaturized their design to create a handheld personal cooler called the HushJet Mini Cool. Like Dyson's larger Air Multipliers, humidifiers, air purifiers, and heaters, the HushJet Mini Cool doesn't have any visible spinning blades to nick fingers or get ta... View Source

A federal appeals court declined for now Anthropic PBC’s request to pause a declaration by the Pentagon that the artificial intelligence company poses a risk to the US supply chain, even as plans for a broader government ban on its technology remain blocked by a California judge... View Source

Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, the HushJet Mini Cool. As the name suggests, it uses the company's proprietary HushJet air projection system. This tech first showed up on an air purifier that we found to be exceptionally quiet. Dyson promises the fan can deliver focused airflow of up to 25m/s, which works out to 55mph. The brushless motor spins up to 65,000 RPM. This thing l... View Source

Google's Gemini is getting a feature called "notebooks" to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull in things like files, past conversations, and custom instructions into notebooks that Gemini can then use as context while you're talking with it. Notebooks sound a lot like ChatGPT's Projects feature... View Source

Pacific Investment Management Co. is looking to sell a portion of the $14 billion of debt financing it’s providing for a massive Oracle Corp. data center in Michigan, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Anthropic employees have sold some equity to investors, wrapping up a secondary share sale that started earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter. But some investors weren’t able to pick up as many shares as they planned because of the limited number that employees were willing to sell... View Source

A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: Blackstone Global Head Private Equity Strategies Joe Baratta, Skadden Partner Head of Shareholder Engagement & Activism Elizabeth Gonzalez-Sussman, Kirkland & Ellis Partner Shaun Mathew, Palliser Capital Founder & Chief... View Source

If you missed your chance to pay Samsung $2,900 for a phone earlier this year, we have great news for you. Android Police reported that what may be the final shipment of the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold will be arriving in the US on April 10. The unique foldable was discontinued a mere three months after it first went on sale, and it seems like Samsung is clearing out whatever inventory it has left. S... View Source

Apple's first foldable phone is still on track to launch in September, despite reports of major manufacturing delays. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman discusses the phone's features and why it could mark a big shift in the foldable market. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the rally in tech stocks and fall in energy prices as markets react to a two-week ceasefire deal between the US and Iran. Plus, Anthropic is giving tech firms early access to its new Mythos model to get ahead of possible cyberattacks that could wreak havoc. And, Apple's first foldable phone is still on track to launch in September, despite reports of... View Source

Apollo Private Equity Co-Head David Sambur discusses how dealmaking is persisting despite uncertainty around the Iran war, saying that while deal markets want calmness and certainty, ‘fortunes are made in volatility.” He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US Justice Department’s top antitrust litigator and three senior trial attorneys that led cases against Live Nation Entertainment Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are leaving the agency, according to people familiar with their plans... View Source

I thought the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD in my gaming PC was pricey when I bought it for $173 in 2024, but now that same SSD costs $649, more than what I paid for most of the parts in my PC combined. The price on my WD Black drive nearly quadrupled since November 2025, and consumer SSDs across the board are seeing similar increases, much like with RAM: The 4TB version of the popular Samsung 990 Pro S... View Source

A group of banks including Natixis SA, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA have started selling $3 billion of loans for a data center in Ohio backed by Meta Platforms Inc., the latest deal supporting the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

DoorDash and Wing have announced a new partnership that will allow users in metro Atlanta to have food delivered by drone. Besides working with DoorDash in select regions of Virginia, North Carolina and Texas, Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery subsidiary, also recently expanded its agreement to make deliveries for Walmart. Eligible customers near Tanger Outlets Locust Grove will be able to orde... View Source

Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politics. If you're not a subscriber yet, you can do so here, but my only request is that you sign up before Donald Trump decides to revisit his previous threats toward Iran and kickstart World War III. I'm back after being waylaid last week by the deadly combo of a... View Source

Bloomberg's Laura Benitez joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." Pacific Investment Management is in talks with Bank of America to help provide roughly $14 billion of debt financing to build a massive Oracle Corp. data center in Michigan, according to people familiar with the matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The perfect phone for people who carry two phones. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I saw a lot of weird phones at Mobile World Congress last month: robot phones, cameras disguised as phones, phones for dogs. But the one that caught me most off guard was the one my friend (and Verge alum) Sam Byford brought to dinner: an iPhone Air. "Ha!" I said. "You actually use that thing?" "Yeah," he said... View Source

Joe Baratta, global head of private equity strategies at Blackstone, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." He said markets are craving investments immune from AI dislocation. He also shared his perspective on market opportunities. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The ALICE experiment at the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their best look yet at quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter that filled the universe moments after the Big Bang... View Source

Some of Snowflake’s coders are producing work 24 hours a day using AI agents, says CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft is testing giving users more control over what games appear in their Xbox achievements and tweaking how achievements look when they're earned. The changes are being introduced via the company's free-to-join Xbox Insiders program, and will presumably roll out to all Xbox owners at some point in the future.Coming later in April, select Xbox Insiders will be able to hide games fro... View Source

3 Min Read Twin NASA Control Rooms Support Artemis Safety, Success Twin control rooms at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agency’s Artemis II mission, helping ensure astronaut safety and mission success as the crew prepares to return to Earth Friday, April 10. LUCA (Lunar Utilization Contr... View Source

Uncertainty is still swirling around global tech supply chains, even as the US and Iran enter a two-week ceasefire. Reva Goujon, director at the policy and economic research firm Rhodium Group, discusses the situation with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Owlcat Games' take on The Expanse is wearing its influences proudly, while also carving out its own hard sci-fi identity... View Source

This thing is poised to eat their lunch. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The MacBook Neo is disrupting the laptop space and putting Apple into the conversation as a value option like it’s never been before. With a price starting at $599 (or $499 for students and teachers), the colorful laptop’s A18 Pro chip may be stolen from older iPads and iPhones, but it offers more than enough pe... View Source

The agency has a deal with Israeli vendor Paragon... View Source

NASA The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. During lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts observed a solar eclipse that only they could see due to their unique position. See more photos from the Artemis II mission. Image credit: NASA... View Source

Anthropic is giving tech firms access to a powerful, unreleased AI model, Mythos, in an effort to prepare for possible cyberattacks that could result from wider adoption of the technology. Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions and former White House Chief Information Officer during the George W. Bush administration, discusses how this tool can help companies combat cyber attackers. She joins... View Source

The latest Triple-i Initiative Showcase is nearly upon us, as the indie-focused event returns for its third consecutive year on Thursday, April 9 at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. We’re being promised announcements for 40 games, including eight world premieres, so it’s well worth tuning in if you like your indies. You’ll be able to watch the stream on The Triple-i Initiative YouTube channel, as well as Twitch,... View Source

US banks and credit unions may soon be able to use intermediaries to transfer funds through the Federal Reserve’s real-time payments system, according to a central bank proposal... View Source

Microsoft is losing another veteran executive. Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), is resigning from the software giant after 34 years. Liuson spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft's developer business, during a period Microsoft focused more on open source projects and acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion. Liuson will continue as head of DevDiv until the end of June, and... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. debuted its latest artificial intelligence model Wednesday — its first since Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg embarked on a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the company’s AI organization to keep pace with rivals... View Source

Following the icy reception to Llama 4, Meta is releasing the first in a new family of AI systems built by its recently formed Superintelligence team. The company is kicking off its new Muse era with Spark, a lightweight model geared toward consumer use. In the future, Meta plans to offer more capable versions of Muse, but for now, it's clear the company wants to nail the basics. To that... View Source

NASA scientists are thrilled with the Artemis 2 astronauts' moon flyby observations —especially the micrometeor impact flashes they saw... View Source

Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company's AI efforts. Called Muse Spark, the model now powers the Meta AI app and the Meta AI website in the US, per the company's announcement. In the coming weeks, Meta says, it will appear in WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta's smart glasses, as well as roll out in othe... View Source

Following a recent ceasefire that has boosted market morale, tech stocks have experienced a notable rebound. Brook Dane, Goldman Sachs Asset Management's co-head of public tech investing, discusses his strategy for investing in tech stocks amid the relief rally. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Greece will ban children under the age 15 from using social media starting next year. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made the announcement in a video posted to TikTok, in which he referenced anxiety, sleep problems and addictive design features as reasons for the ban. Greece has been proactive in its approach to tackling excessive screen time for children, having already banned mobile phones i... View Source

Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is down to its best price of the year. | Image: Amazon With temperatures on the rise and Earth Day right around the corner, now’s a good time to invest in a smart thermostat if you haven’t already. A good one like Amazon’s Smart Thermostat can help reduce energy use and lower your bills without sacrificing comfort, and right now it’s just $61.99 ($18 off) at Amazon. Aside... View Source

Nintendo Switch 2 owners will have to wait a bit longer to check out IO Interactive's stab at a James Bond game on the console. The Hitman developer has delayed that version of 007 First Light until later this summer. The game is still slated to hit PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC on May 27, which itself is a delay from the previous March release date. "We're excited to see players disc... View Source

In Manuel Gonzales' 2013 short story "The Miniature Wife," a woman starts to become a different kind of person after her husband accidentally shrinks her down to the size of a coffee mug. Because of her new stature, the woman is more physically vulnerable, and it's difficult for her to effectively communicate with normal sized people. But for all the danger that the woman's tininess puts her in, i... View Source

If you live in Los Angeles, you may soon be able to hail a Volkswagen ID. Buzz robotaxi from the Uber app. The companies' previously announced "multi-year strategic partnership" is nearing a public launch, with on-road testing with a safety driver underway. The vehicles use tech from MOIA America, the US wing of Volkswagen's self-driving subsidiary. Uber and MOIA plan to deploy... View Source

Continuous glucose monitors — also referred to as glucose biosensors — aren’t just for diabetics anymore. Daily life is different when you're tracking glucose. A little over a year ago, I was on my way to a conference. My bags were packed, the Uber was on its way, but there was one last thing to do before I could head to the airport. Tearing open a small isopropyl alcohol wipe, I cleaned the skin... View Source

Digital finance and tokenized assets are slated to become a core part of the world’s financial system, but most businesses don’t know what impact that will have on their operations, according to a survey by HSBC Holdings Plc... View Source

The free No Man’s Sky updates are still flowing. With the latest one, dubbed Xeno Arena, Hello Games has added a completely original feature. Players have long been able to adopt wild animals as companions. But now these can be deployed in simulated, turn-based battles against rival teams. As you win more battles, you’ll increase your reputation and perhaps be invited to take on more difficult opp... View Source

The image captures the glowing ribbon of the galactic plane, where the vast majority of the Milky Way's stars are concentrated... View Source

Tractive’s new cat tracking collar is available in three colors. | Image: Tractive After acquiring its competitor Whistle from Mars Petcare nearly a year ago, Tractive is introducing two new pet trackers today. The Cat 6 Mini features a sleeker design than Tractive's current smart cat tracker and monitors additional vital signs. The Dog 6 XL, specifically designed for larger breeds, is now lighter... View Source

Bets on a ceasefire between the US and Iran have sent more than $170 million coursing through Polymarket, making it one of the largest geopolitical wagers in the short history of prediction markets... View Source

I've played a couple of hours of Forza Horizon 6, and so far I've enjoyed it in much the same way as its predecessor: by exploring and taking in the sumptuous world Playground Games has crafted. The preview build I played on my Xbox Series X was limited in terms of available activities — it was basically the game's prologue — but I was able to explore almost all of the open world... View Source

As Artemis II returns from the dark side of the moon, Nasa’s transformations of electromagnetic energy into sound remind us that everything is vibrating – even while the astronauts are listening to Chappell RoanJaw-dropping dark-siding exploration aside, it’s the mundane details of the Artemis II mission that connect us with the four astronauts slingshotting their way around the moon and back. The... View Source

OpenAI is in a relatively precarious position. The company is and has been a funding behemoth - just over a week ago, it closed $122 billion in funding at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. It's potentially planning for an IPO later this year. ChatGPT's longtime lead in consumer-facing AI led it to name-brand status akin to "Kleenex" for tissues. But in recent months, a slew of executive resh... View Source

Currency hedging and cash management platform MillTech raised $60 million in a deal with Apax Digital Funds — the latest signal of robust appetite for tools that streamline trading in the $9.5 trillion per day foreign-exchange markets... View Source

GoPro will cut 23 percent of its global workforce by the end of this year, as the action camera pioneer looks to reverse its fortunes in a competitive market. 145 employees will be laid off, with the restructuring process commencing in the second quarter of 2026, the San Mateo company said in a Form 8-K filing. At the end of the first quarter, GoPro’s total number of employees stood at 631, and it... View Source

The Artemis 2 astronauts are capturing spectacular photos of the moon and Earth on their iPhones in space... View Source

It's a weird time at Xbox. Microsoft's gaming division is under new management, with its current leadership intent on what it describes as "a renewed commitment to Xbox." But given that no one really knows what an Xbox is at this point, that could mean many things. What Xbox needs is a game to signal to players what the brand is really about, and what it is actually committing to. What Xbox needs... View Source

Meta and YouTube try to redefine themselves in light of increasing criticism... View Source

A new company needs to make a strong first impression. For Fender Audio, a new outfit owned by the legendary Fender Musical Instruments Corporation but operated by Riffsound, that introduction comes in the form of two speakers and a set of headphones. The Elie 6 ($300) and Elie 12 ($400) are portable Bluetooth speakers with sophisticated designs and unique features, offering similar functionality... View Source

The Zepath eight-pack of rechargeable Li-ion batteries. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Last September, a company named Lumafield scanned 1,000 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries to shine a light on the hidden risks of cheaping out. At roughly the same time, I found myself testing two awesome new kinds of AA battery that recharge using USB-C cables. It gave me an idea. Could we find the very... View Source

An uncertain economy and dangerous geopolitical backdrop have investors buying into technology’s most popular haven trade: dividend-rich telecommunications stocks... View Source

Insta360, the company best known for its action cameras, just released the Snap selfie screen. It's a small display that connects via USB-C and sits on the back of your phone, helping you to use your rear camera for higher resolution vlogging or selfies. The 3.5-inch touchscreen allows you to adjust camera settings like zoom and focus and frame your selfies before you take them. The company h... View Source

"It is fascinating that an active galactic nucleus can change its brightness so dramatically over such a short period of time."... View Source