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Autumn is a time for renewal. Summer, a time for vacations and relaxation, is over. And now, we must look to the start of a new school year and a renewed attention to work. It can sometimes be difficult to make the transition — many of us would rather spend a little more time in that hammock than planning the next project — and so we’ve put together a group of articles to try and help make it easi... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc. is in early talks with Schroders Plc to form a potential product partnership that could see the private capital giant source assets for the UK’s largest standalone money manager... View Source

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons... View Source

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring the slopes of Mount Sharp looking for clues about Mars' watery past. Here, it looks at the boxwork pattern for ancient water flow... View Source

Fall Upgrade Week feels like an odd time to celebrate my move to a 50-year-old film camera, but there's logic to it: not because film photos are timeless, or because I want to wax lyrical about warmth and grain and analog appeal, but because I don't think there's any better way to teach yourself about photography. That's how I got into film. At some point over the last decade, reviewing phones mor... View Source

Noah Urban’s role in the notorious Scattered Spider gang was talking people into unwittingly giving criminals access to sensitive computer systems... View Source

It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows... View Source

I search for deals for a living and have been doing so for years. Below, I've rounded up the six best Lego deals Walmart is offering during its Bricktember event... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.11 of the Rocket Report! We have reached the time of year when it is possible the US government will shut down its operations at the end of this month, depending on congressional action. A shutdown would have significant implications for many NASA missions, but most notably a couple of dozen in the science directorate that the White House would like to shut down. At Ars, we wi... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kate Clark looks at the increasing use of secondary share sales by startups as a way to retain their talented employees... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

Security researchers employed ChatGPT as a co-conspirator to plunder sensitive data from Gmail inboxes without alerting users. The vulnerability exploited has been closed by OpenAI but it’s a good example of the new risks inherent to agentic AI. The heist, called Shadow Leak and published by security firm Radware this week, relied on a quirk in how AI agents work. AI Agents are assistants that can... View Source

These innovative pavings convert the kinetic energy of footsteps into clean electric energy... View Source

The bubble that has formed in US Big Tech stocks over the past two years has further to run and investors should position for more gains, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists... View Source

Linguist Adam Aleksic explains how viral slang and algorithm-driven speech aren’t destroying language––they’re accelerating its natural evolution... View Source

The discovery of a rare runaway galaxy suggests some isolated systems were shaped by past group interactions before being flung into solitude... View Source

Well that was awkward. Meta ran into some spectacularly embarrassing technical issues during the live demos of its new smart glasses this week, and now we know why. Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, explained in an Instagram AMA why two notable demos — an influencer asking the AI assistant for cooking instructions, and Mark Zuckerberg attempting to pick up a WhatsApp call — failed... View Source

Many gadget shoppers in China took to social media on Friday with photos of scratches on the back of the newly released iPhone 17 lineup from Apple Inc., potentially marring the launch of the company’s marquee product... View Source

Revealed at Meta’s Connect 2025 conference, the Ray-Ban Display has a small, integrated display on the right lens, designed for quick, discreet glances at notifications, directions and even video calls. The clever part is its subtlety; to an onlooker, you’re just wearing a pair of Ray-Bans, not accessing a tiny screen with your peripheral vision. (Although you will appear to offer multiple pensive... View Source

Advancements in electronic trading may be crushing volatility in the currency market, making prolonged wild swings a thing of the past... View Source

African vehicle-financing startup Moove is seeking fresh capital at a valuation more than $2 billion, potentially making it one of Africa’s biggest startups, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Disappointing earnings from artificial intelligence companies would pose a bigger risk to the tech-driven global stock rally than ongoing geopolitical tensions, according to JPMorgan Asset Management... View Source

Executives from Europe’s electric-vehicle industry are trekking to the continent’s sparsely populated northeastern parts to queue for something they struggle to find anywhere outside of China: rare-earths magnets that are essential components in EVs... View Source

Xiaomi Corp. will deploy an over-the-air software fix to rectify a problem in its advanced driver assistance technology installed in almost 40% of the SU7 electric sedans it’s sold... View Source

Asian suppliers to Intel Corp. saw their shares climb Friday after the US tech firm’s stock jumped 23% following news of a $5 billion investment by chipmaker Nvidia Corp... View Source

Nvidia Corp. agreed to invest $5 billion in Intel Corp. and said the two will co-develop chips for PCs and data centers, a surprise move to help prop up an ailing archrival that sent Intel shares soaring... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is considering cutting as much as 20% of its staff, a person familiar with the matter said, underscoring a shift in Masayoshi Son’s focus to ambitious bets on artificial intelligence... View Source

The US Justice Department accused a British teenager on Thursday of engaging in a yearslong spree of cyberattacks that targeted 47 American organizations and netted more than $100 million in ransom payments... View Source

Intel's stock soared after Nvidia said it will invest $5 billion and co-develop chips for PCs and data centers. Plus, Disney takes Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely amid a backlash to remarks the late-night host made about the killing of Republican activist Charlie Kirk; and Meta's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox talks about the company's new smart glasses and AI push. (Source: Bloomberg... View Source

Gold slipped for a third day, as traders’ caution over future Federal Reserve rate cuts, along with a stronger dollar, tempered the precious metal’s recent surge... View Source

Brazil’s PagSeguro Digital Ltd. expects its credit portfolio to grow to 25 billion reais ($4.7 billion) by December 2029, according to a company presentation on Thursday... View Source

Tesla has a new 2025 annual report. Tesla delivered their 8 millionth vehicle, deployed more than 37 GWh of energy storage from Q3 2024 through the end of Q2 2025 and launched the new Model Y in four factories across three continents. They launched their first Robotaxis in the streets of Austin, Texas, and, in ... Read more... View Source

For the past four years, some Apple Inc. customers have been waiting for a fresh design before buying a new iPhone. The time has come for those consumers, with the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air going on sale Friday... View Source

I've been testing smart glasses for almost a decade. And in that time, one of the questions I've been asked the most is "oh, but can you see anything in them?" For years, I had to explain that no, glasses like that don't really exist yet. That's no longer the case. And while I've seen a bunch of glasses over the last year that have some kind of display, the Meta... View Source

Elon Musk has just confirmed that 𝕏 Money is working internally and will start extending to outside beta users soon. 𝕏 Money is a digital payment service providing peer-to-peer transfers, a wallet for storing funds, and Visa integration for bank/debit card connections. It may add crypto and investment features later. Currently in internal beta, expanding ... Read more... View Source

The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4... View Source

A few key forces — President Donald Trump, the rise of artificial intelligence and global electrification — have compelled companies across the energy spectrum to adjust their sustainability goals and investment priorities... View Source

Nippon Life Insurance Co. sees its overseas project finance lending climbing 11% to a record high this year due to surging demand to fund AI data centers in the US and elsewhere... View Source

Atlassian Corp. is set to buy engineering intelligence company DX for about $1 billion in cash and restricted stock, the companies said in a statement... View Source

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is raising concerns about possible tsunami impacts, although risk appears to be waning... View Source

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days is one of the biggest shopping events of the year, and it’s returning October 7th and 8th. The two-day shopping affair will grant Prime members access to some of the best prices of the year on Amazon devices, as well as products from Sony, Sonos, Microsoft, Apple, Withings, and other well-known brands. This applies to items spanning a range of categories, including gam... View Source

A key Republican US senator demanded OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman hand over documents and information about the risks ChatGPT poses to children and teens, expanding a congressional probe into artificial intelligence chatbots... View Source

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon astronomers call the hot-Neptunian desert... View Source

In the future, Intel will make CPUs with Nvidia graphics inside — among other things, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed today that Nvidia will contribute “GPU chiplets” that Intel can place alongside its x86 CPU cores instead of the Arc integrated graphics it develops in-house today. But, at least for now, Intel says that doesn’t mean Intel’s own graphics are going away. “We’re not discussing spec... View Source

The call Friday between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping promises to determine the fate of TikTok — and potentially ease trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies... View Source

A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases... View Source

TALK. The microphones in your earbuds probably suck. You know, I know it, and apparently Nothing knows it too. Its fix? Better microphones - but in the charging case, not the buds. The Ear 3 buds feature what the company calls "Super Mic." What that really means is a pair of microphones built into the earbuds' case, with a button to activate those mics instead of the ones built into the buds. Noth... View Source

After years of focusing on theoretical, long-term risks of their technologies, AI companies are now being pressed on a more immediate issue: teen mental health. But first…... View Source

Mysteriously powerful cosmic winds around neutron star may be 'game-changer' for understanding monster black holes... View Source

These laptops can help you get work done. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Buying the right laptop can be stressful. It’s likely one of the bigger tech purchases you’ll make, and there are a ludicrous number of models, sizes, form factors, and configurations to pick from. We review and test a wide swath of them here at The Verge, and we’re constantly considering what’s the best and who i... View Source

US Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, discusses Nvidia's agreement to invest $5 billion in Intel and the possibility of an Oct. 1 US government shutdown on "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In addition to new hardware announcements, Meta had software news to share during its Meta Connect 2025 conference today. The company revealed that Discord will be making a native app for the Meta Quest headset. According to Meta, the native window app will be available some time in 2026.The development makes sense. VR is a platform with a lot of gaming presence, so having Discord for easy social... View Source

5 Min Read From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick, cost-effective solution to improve NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System)... View Source

José Muñoz, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company, delivers remarks at the company’s CEO Investor Day on September 18th in New York City. | Image: Jason DeCrow / AP Content Services for Hyundai Motor Company Today, the CEO of Hyundai sought to distance his company from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid earlier this month at the company’s battery factory in Georgia, which resulted i... View Source

Razor thin corporate bond spreads are underpinning a global investor push into private markets, which can pay significantly more, according to Blackstone Inc... View Source

The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them resell the tickets at a significant markup on its own second-hand market. The FTC claims Ticketmaster was aware that resellers routinely bypassed its security measures for these purchases. The company p... View Source

The commercial aviation industry is a crucial component of the U.S. economy, playing a vital role in transporting people, intermediate/final goods, and driving demand for various goods and services nationwide. This network enhances the quality of life for the whole country and facilitates business interactions within and globally, boosting productivity and prosperity. However, the industry faces n... View Source

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well... View Source

Today, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan held a joint webcast to explain just why the world's most valuable company (Nvidia's at $4.28 trillion) is throwing a $5 billion lifeline to a struggling competitor. Nvidia quickly shut down several possible explanations. Huang claimed it had nothing to do with Trump, who famously shook down Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan for the United States' own 10... View Source

CloudKitchens, a startup run by former Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, has picked additional banks for an initial public offering of its Middle Eastern operations, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Meta's lineup of smart glasses could soon get a lot more capabilities. The company will begin allowing outside developers to bring their apps to its RayBan and Oakley smart glasses, Meta announced on the second day of its Connect event. Up to now, Meta has only had a limited number of third-party integrations for its glasses, with apps like Spotify and Audible. But Meta will now allow develop... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.NASA/JPL-Caltech The project has exceeded all of its te... View Source

If you want a fun way to add light and color to your space, Nanoleaf’s wall lights are a great option. Ahead of Prime Big Deal Days, Nanoleaf is offering 20 percent off select products exclusively for Verge readers with the promo code THEVERGE20OFF through September 20th. For instance, you can save 20 percent off Nanoleaf’s Blocks Squares Smarter Kit, dropping the price down to $144 ($36 off). Thi... View Source

Nvidia Corp. plans to invest £2 billion ($2.7 billion) in the UK’s artificial intelligence startup ecosystem in partnership with several venture capital companies... View Source

Creators building experiences in Fortnite are getting a new way to earn revenue. Epic says developers will soon have the ability to make and sell in-game items in Fortnite, and earn a cut of the V-Bucks users spend to buy them. Previously, developers only earned money through Fortnite based on the amount of time users spent on their "islands," the in-game name for third-party experiences... View Source

This asteroid quiz is your launchpad to discovery... View Source

Like many backpackers, I'm a sicko. I have weighed all my gear in order to maintain a spreadsheet for pack weight on every trip I'm on. I've spent more money than I care to think about in order to drop pounds, or even ounces. This is why I'm the proud new owner of a power bank that looks like a toy. It's the Haribo-licensed gummy bear power bank. It's the lightest-ever 20,000mAH power bank, it's g... View Source

Google is incorporating its Gemini artificial intelligence model throughout the Chrome browser, just two weeks after dodging an antitrust case that could have broken up the company... View Source

Microsoft's Gaming Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to Windows PCs and the Xbox mobile app. The company has been testing the tool for PCs with Xbox Insiders, but now it's getting a broader rollout. To that end, it'll be available to players aged 18 and older on the PC Game Bar. The Xbox app version rolls out this October, for both Android and iOS, after a beta test took pla... View Source

The UNAS 2 holds a pair of hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. | Screenshot: YouTube (Ubiquiti) Ubiquiti has announced a collection of new storage solutions compatible with its UniFi lineup of networking devices that already includes routers, switches, and security cameras. Compared to other desktop network attached storage (NAS) solutions from companies like Synology and Ugreen, Ubiquiti’s UNA... View Source

Suspected Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson used Donald Trump’s name as a pseudonym on Valve Corp.’s Steam video-game platform, a fact that’s become part of a profile US law enforcement is building on the alleged assailant... View Source

Foundation star Pilou Asbæk tells Space.com how he channeled Asimov villain The Mule in Season 4 of Apple TV's sci-fi saga... View Source

Meta is going to let apps access the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses thanks to a new Wearable Device Access Toolkit for developers. “Our first version of the toolkit will open up access to a suite of on-device sensors— empowering you to start building features within your mobile apps that leverage the hands-free benefits of AI glasses,” Meta says. “With our toolkit, you’ll be ab... View Source

Netskope Inc. backer Lightspeed Venture Partners is poised to see a return of more than five times its invested capital in the cybersecurity company from its initial public offering... View Source

Back at I/O 2025, Google began integrating Gemini into Chrome. At the time, you needed an AI Pro or AI Ultra subscription to access the AI assistant in the browser. That's changing today. Google has begun rolling out the tool to all Chrome desktop users on both Windows and Mac. Provided you have Chrome's language set to English and live in the US, you'll see a new sparkle icon at th... View Source

An artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet containing particles moving away at close to the speed of light. This black hole represents a recently-discovered quasar powered by a black hole. New Chandra observations indicate that the black hole is growing at a rate that exceeds the usual limit for black holes, calle... View Source

Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers share thoughts on this serious bittersweet episode... View Source

Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Facilitator agents will now sit in on Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and answering questions. Agents can also suggest time allotmen... View Source

Congressional Democratic leaders called for the resignation of Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr for his role in pressuring Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network to act against Jimmy Kimmel. ABC took Kimmel's show off the air after the host made controversial remarks about the murder of Charlie Kirk. Kimmel's show could come back on the air at some point. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw reports. (Source: B... View Source

Steam is officially dropping Windows 32-bit support at the end of this year, the company announced today. The only 32-bit version of Windows that is currently supported by Steam is Windows 10 32-bit. The company says 0.01 percent of systems reported through the Steam Hardware Survey are using that version of Windows. On any given day, Steam sees just over 36 million daily users, so it's safe... View Source

5 min read New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’ A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions in near-Earth space, a requirement fo... View Source

Gemini in Chrome. Google is stepping things up in the AI agent browser wars.  The company is launching a suite of new features deeply embedding Gemini into Chrome. That starts with the announcement that Gemini in Chrome will no longer require a membership fee and will begin rolling out to both Mac and Windows users in the US starting today. It’s all part of the battle for consumer use of AI-f... View Source

Open artificial intelligence models that developers are able to use with few or no restrictions are critical to a competitive market in the rapidly evolving technology, a senior Justice Department official said... View Source

CoPilot+ PC owners have a new perk in the pipeline. Your AI PC will soon perform Notepad's AI writing features on-device — no subscription required. The app's summarize, write and rewrite options were introduced earlier this year. Up to this point, you've needed a CoPilot Pro or Microsoft 365 subscription to use Notepad's AI writing tools. So, if you've splurged on an AI P... View Source

2 Min Read Building a Lunar Network: Johnson Tests Wireless Technologies for the Moon  From left, Johnson Exploration Wireless Laboratory (JEWL) Software Lead William Dell; Lunar 3GPP Principal Investigator Raymond Wagner; JEWL intern Harlan Phillips; and JEWL Lab Manager Chatwin Lansdowne. Credits: Nevada Space Proving Grounds (NSPG) NASA engineers are strapping on backpacks loaded with radios, c... View Source

One of the world's largest radio telescopes has been destroyed by a Ukrainian drone to prevent Russian forces from using it for military communications... View Source

Yesterday, Disney-owned ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live "indefinitely" for a comment Kimmel made about the response to Charlie Kirk's death. The response from Republican commentators has been predictably gleeful. They've positioned the suspension as a reversal of "cancel culture," a "deplatforming" that's simply fair retaliation for antagonizing them. "Jimmy Kimmel does have Free Speech, he is fre... View Source

OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware... View Source

Just ahead of the iPhone 17 lineup arriving on Friday, you can pick up Apple's 25W MagSafe charger for a song. The two-meter version of the more powerful charging cable has dropped by 29 percent from $49 to $35. That's a record-low price. As it happens, that actually makes the two-meter version of the cable less expensive than the one-meter variant. The shorter cable will run you $39 as things sta... View Source

NASA; JAXA The Milky Way appears above Earth’s bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it soared 261 miles above southern Iran at approximately 12:54 a.m. local time. The camera was configured for low light and long duration settings. Our home galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, enough gas and dust to make billions more stars, a... View Source

These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do in early language learning... View Source

Hayabusa2's new target, asteroid 1998 KY26, is just 36 feet (11 meters) across, which will make landing on it challenging... View Source

TOPSHOT – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with the US Secretary of State at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on September 15, 2025. In a sign of the times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement denying a massive conspiracy that had overtaken the MAGA discourse: that Israel was behind the death of right-wing in... View Source

President Donald Trump says the US is close to making a deal for TikTok with China. Trump says it would be done “in conjunction with China” and that the US is getting “a ‘fee plus’ for just making the deal," He spoke at a press conference alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A former lobbyist for Meta is now in charge of the EU's chief regulator for big tech firms, according to reporting by The Irish Times. Niamh Sweeney has been named commissioner of the Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is one of the largest EU data protection authorities. Prior to this, she worked at Meta for six years. Sweeney was director of European public policy at WhatsApp and head... View Source

Earth will see a deep partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21 — here's who can watch and when... View Source

The USCPSC has shared more details about Anker’s voluntary power bank recall earlier this year. | Image: Anker The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) has issued a formal notice with more details about the five power banks that Anker voluntarily recalled earlier this year. The agency has received 33 reports of incidents involving fires and explosions caused by the power banks, with four... View Source

Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing the Justice Department on whether the world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance Holdings Ltd., is adhering to a 2023 agreement with federal prosecutors over money-laundering and sanctions violations... View Source

China is ending its antitrust probe into Google, which had centered around Android’s ubiquity in the mobile world and what impact, if any, it was having on Chinese phone makers like Oppo and Xiaomi that use the software. As reported by the Financial Times, this move comes amid ongoing discussions between the US and Chinese governments over TikTok, NVIDIA, tariffs and the broader trading relationsh... View Source

See a sickle moon with Venus and the bright star Regulus early on Sept. 19... View Source

Today Microsoft announced its plans to bring a Fairwater AI data center, which it claims is the “world’s most powerful,” online in early 2026. The $3.3 billion construction in Wisconsin is housed at the site of Foxconn’ s failed LCD factory which was announced in 2017, but by the end of 2018 was already being called a “boondoggle.”  The new data center is massive at 1.2 million square f... View Source

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk “appeared to mislead the public about a significant fact.”... View Source

If you’ve just shelled out thousands of dollars on one of Samsung’s smart fridges, you’d be forgiven for expecting it to leave you alone, rather than encouraging you to spend even more money. But that is no longer the case — following a recent update, you’ll start seeing ads on the fridge’s display. According to Android Authority, the new software update is being rolled out to Samsung’s Family Hub... View Source

Fertility rates have plummeted even in historically high-fertility, lower-income contexts like India and Bangladesh. The fertility replacement level is roughly 2.1 children per woman. This means each women becomes a mother and has at least one daughter who can also have children. The birth rate in South Korea and some countries is at 0.8-1.2. This ... Read more... View Source

Save up to $60 on an annual subscription to Paramount Plus, the home of all Star Trek content, as well as a huge selection of Sci-Fi titles and entertainment... View Source

The explosive growth of AI chatbots in the past three years, since ChatGPT launched in 2022, has started to have some really noticeable, profound, and honestly disturbing effects on some users. There’s a lot to unpack there — it can be pretty complicated. So I’m very excited to talk with today’s guest, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill, who has spent the past year writing thought-provoking feat... View Source

The US government’s bet on Intel Corp. is paying off in a big way after a surprise investment from Nvidia Corp. sparked the biggest rally in the chipmaker’s shares in nearly four decades... View Source

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

Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship reached the International Space Station this morning (Sept. 18), after a delay, delivering about 11,000 pounds of supplies to the orbiting lab... View Source

Screenshots now dominate your screen in iOS 26 after they’ve been captured. | Image: Apple One of the many unpublicized changes introduced with the iOS 26 update released earlier this week is that screenshots now automatically open into a full-screen preview. The new approach provides immediate access to a handful of useful tools for editing a screenshot, but they now dominate your iPhone’s screen... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s premium prices for its AI tools may not be sustainable in the long run because of increasing competition, according to a report by JPMorgan Chase & Co. that initiated analyst coverage of the company... View Source

Try as I might, turn-based strategy games don't usually do it for me. That's one reason I haven't yet dipped into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, many people's favorite of the year so far. I'd almost always rather be playing a more action-based game.  But after trying the demo for Flick Shot Rogues on a whim during the most recent Steam Next Fest, the game hasn't be... View Source

Both educational and mesmerizing, the Thames and Kosmos planetarium star projector is a great gift for kids... View Source

On Wednesday, Google announced a partnership with StopNCII.org to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), the company announced today. Over the next few months, Google will start using StopNCII’s hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them. Hashes are algorithmically-generated unique identifiers that allow services to identify and bloc... View Source

AT&T Inc. is looking to sell at least $4 billion of investment-grade debt Wednesday, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Uber Eats is testing out drone deliveries yet again, this time in partnership with Flytrex. To note, Flytrex is one of the drone operators behind Walmart's drone deliveries and already delivers food in some parts of the US. It's one of the four providers that received authorization by the FAA for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, in which pilots can't see the aircraft... View Source

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NASA is collaborating with the Colorado Army National Guard at its training center in Gypsum to help Artemis astronauts prepare for moon landings... View Source

It also has warming and cooling modes. Nanoleaf is getting serious about its expansion into beauty tech, adding two new LED red light-emitting devices to its product lineup. The company says that its new Light Therapy Wand brings “the benefits of a professional facial into the palm of your hand,” while its new Light Therapy Panel uses 160 “high-focus LEDs” to provide whole body care. While Nanolea... View Source

Nothing Technologies Ltd., the consumer tech startup known for its quirky hardware designs, has an unusual pitch for its new earbuds: use the case as a microphone... View Source

Nothing has unveiled its latest premium earbuds, the Ear 3 ($179), which look ready to pair tastefully with its newest Phone 3. The company has refined its headphone series with an aluminum finish (in places) across both the buds and the case. Also housed inside the case is the Ear 3’s new standout feature/gimmick: the Super Mic. It’s like a walkie-talkie for your wireless headphones, pitched as a... View Source

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 18), sending them aloft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida... View Source

Epic is continuing its attempts to turn Fortnite into a platform that’s bigger than just battle royale — this time by giving creators the ability to make and sell in-game items. Starting in December, Fortnite creators will be able to sell items directly from the islands they’ve built, using new tools that will be launching later on. The benefit, of course, is that creators on the platform will hav... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. will trial food deliveries by drone with Flytrex Inc., marking the rideshare giant’s return to experiments with logistics... View Source

NVIDIA has today announced it will invest $5 billion in Intel as part of a new collaboration between the two companies. In a statement, NVIDIA said it would work with its ailing rival to “jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products.” The partnership will focus on marrying NVIDIA’s class-leading GPU and AI chips with Intel’s ailing x86 CPUs. That includes Intel buildi... View Source

Three vaccines are on the agenda for this week’s meeting of ACIP, the CDC’s key advisory panel on immunization: the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine, the hepatitis B vaccine and COVID vaccines... View Source

Blue Origin plans to launch its 35th New Shepard suborbital mission this morning (Sept. 18) after a nearly four-week delay, and you can watch the uncrewed effort live... View Source

Waymo is teaming up with tech transit startup Via to integrate its autonomous vehicles into city public transit networks, starting with a growing suburb of Phoenix. In Chandler, Arizona, Waymo’s robotaxis will soon join the town’s Flex microtransit service. Users book rides on the Chandler Flex app to be picked up by a shared vehicle and taken to their destination, often connecting to Valley Metro... View Source

Via Transportation Inc., the public transit software maker that went public last Friday, will partner with Waymo to launch autonomous shared rides in Arizona this fall... View Source

Nvidia is throwing Intel a $5 billion life raft, just weeks after similar stakes from the US government and SoftBank. Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel common stock in a collaboration that will see the pair “jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products.” Nvidia says Intel will help build “x86 system-on-chips (SoCs) that integrate Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets.” These... View Source

GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. is exploring options including the sale of a stake in its China unit, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

For years, the “regular” iPhone received hand-me-downs from the Pro models. This was less so with the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus, but the trickle-down philosophy was still there to a degree. For 2025 and the iPhone 17 ($799) is no longer the compromise that the base model used to be. Apple finally blessed it with a 120Hz display and this year’s most exciting camera feature, Center Stage. While it may s... View Source

These hobbyists use GPS coordinates to hunt for secret prizes around the world... View Source

Reddit wants more users and more money from Google in exchange for an even bigger mountain of data feeding its AI machine, according to Bloomberg. The negotiation shows a new front in the struggle between Big AI and content providers as they try to harvest new revenue streams without bleeding out the very traffic and engagement that keep them alive. A year and a half after cutting its first data-s... View Source

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay... View Source

From Huawei Technologies Co. to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China’s biggest tech firms have vied with each other this month to tout their latest AI chip advancements. Their growing public swagger is gaining investors’ attention, igniting a $240 billion stock market rally... View Source

Thousands marched in London to protest President Donald Trump’s second state visit. Among them were many environmental activists unhappy with Britain’s new AI deal with the US... View Source

Deliveroo Plc said Chief Executive Officer Will Shu will step down from the company he founded after DoorDash Inc. completes its acquisition. The deal is expected to close on October 2... View Source

At Meta Connect 2025's kickoff event, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a trio of new smart eyewear, including its first model with augmented reality. Meta's boss also announced the second generation Ray-Ban Meta, as well as a pair of Oakley-branded sunglasses designed for athletes. In addition, Zuckerberg launched Horizon TV, a new entertainment hub for the Quest headsets, which will give you ea... View Source

Potential changes to Chinese regulations may also force Tesla to update its flush door handle design. Tesla is redesigning the electronic door handles that are currently under investigation for trapping people inside their vehicles. In an Interview with Bloomberg, Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen said that the company is looking to make the handles more intuitive for occupants in “a panic s... View Source

Capgemini SE is making the biggest splash in Europe’s primary market on Thursday, selling an expected €3.25 billion ($3.8 billion) four-part bond offering to help finance its acquisition of WNS Holdings Ltd... View Source

What a lovely canvas for ads. | Image: Samsung A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The “promotions and curated advertisements” are coming despite Samsung insisting to The Verge in April that it had “no plans” to do so. Samsung is calling it a pilot program for now, which — I kid you not — is meant to “stren... View Source

Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones didn’t dazzle with new features, but investors are starting to look past that, seeing higher price tags on the devices as a reason to buy the company’s shares... View Source

A simple experiment can tell you whether an ergonomic keyboard could be more comfortable for you: With your elbows hugged into your sides, bring your thumbs to touch in front of you. Now angle your elbows slightly outward and separate your hands. If the latter position feels better, you may appreciate the design of an ergonomic keyboard. These boards split, tilt and/or angle the keys in so your sh... View Source

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of years ago... View Source

A frame from Also’s October 22nd announcement teaser. | Image: Also Rivian’s heavily financed micromobilty spinoff Also is promising something on October 22nd. Also’s calling it “transcendent mobility,” which is a fancy way of saying e-bike after a poorly masked video leaked the rather unique design. While Also is a legally separate company from Rivian, it’s chaired by Rivian founder and CEO RJ Sc... View Source

Samsung Group, SK Group and Hyundai Motor Group announced plans to hire thousands of workers this year, signaling South Korea’s top conglomerates are responding to President Lee Jae Myung’s call to tackle the nation’s declining youth employment... View Source

Shein Group Ltd. has begun offering other fashion brands access to its apparel manufacturing network in China as a service, people familiar with the matter said, as it seeks new revenue streams amid pressure on its retail business from US tariffs... View Source

Chinese tech stocks climbed Thursday, with a key index hitting a near four-year high as AI-fueled buying and a regulatory ban on an Nvidia Corp. chip boosted prospects for domestic rivals... View Source

China has decided to end an antitrust investigation into the dominance of Google’s Android in the world’s largest smartphone arena, the Financial Times reported, citing people briefed on the move... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is planning four new infrastructure hubs in Africa to connect its latest underwater fiber-optic cables for the continent, the company’s Africa managing director Alex Okosi said in an interview with Bloomberg TV... View Source

Panasonic Holdings Corp. will debut a sample batch of its new solid-state batteries during the fiscal year ending March 2027 as it seeks to crack the next-generation batteries market for robots and other systems... View Source

Meta has announced a new generation of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, featuring significantly improved battery life and the ability to record 3K video, which brings them up to par with the Oakley HSTN smart glasses. The new glasses, technically called the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, are available to order today and start at $379. Let’s dig in on battery, which is better on a few fronts. You can use the new Ra... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled its latest solution to bundle more AI chips together and boost computing power in a bid to challenge Nvidia Corp.’s technology... View Source

This was what I had been expecting from Oakley smart glasses. | Photo by Colt Bradley / The Verge When the Oakley Meta HSTN arrived earlier this year, it wasn't what I thought Oakley-branded smart glasses would be. Sure, they had Oakley's famous PRIZM lenses, but where was the wraparound design? Where were the athlete-focused features like stronger water and sweat resistance? Confusingly, it felt... View Source

You can’t see it, but I’m reading text messages in this photo. | Photo by Colt Bradley / The Verge I want to preface this hands-on by saying that I've been a smart glasses skeptic for many years. In 2019, I even made a two-part mini documentary with a thesis that consumer smart glasses couldn't happen without massive societal and technological shifts. Well, color me pink and let me find a shoe to... View Source

Lyft Inc. is testing a feature that will tell drivers how often a rider tips and how punctual they are, providing additional information drivers can use when deciding which trips are worth their time... View Source

Gordon Ramsay’s home kitchen as made by Hyperscape. Meta is rolling out tech that lets you capture a real-world space with a Quest VR headset so you can create a digital, photorealistic VR replica. The company calls the tech “Hyperscape,” and as part of a gradual rollout beginning today, users will be able to use the beta Hyperscape Capture app with their Quest 3 or Quest 3S to make the virtual co... View Source

Lawmakers who pressed for the ban on the social media app TikTok expressed doubts about a deal the Trump administration is preparing for outside investors to acquire a half-interest in the Chinese company’s US operations... View Source

Meta is making improvements to its Roblox-like social platform Horizon Worlds, with the biggest upgrades being the introduction of a new game engine with better graphics as well as the Meta Horizon Studio to help creators to make custom in-game experiences. Meta Horizon Studio is an editor that lets creators make VR worlds. Creators can already use generative AI tools to create things like texture... View Source

Wall Street took profits in high flying technology stocks on Wednesday, rotating into cheaper corners of the market after the Federal Reserve delivered a widely expected interest rate cut under what Chair Jerome Powell described as an “unusual” situation of emerging labor-market weakness while inflation remains elevated... View Source

As expected, Meta has introduced new smart glasses during its Connect conference today. The announcements included a “Gen 2” of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which retail starting at $379. There are a bunch of upgrades over the $299 Ray-Ban Meta set that the duo released in 2023. Meta highlighted improvements to battery life, which it says now lasts up to eight hours with "typical use." The included c... View Source

At its Connect keynote on Wednesday, Meta officially introduced the $799.99 Meta Ray-Ban Display, also known as Hypernova. The brand's new, high-end smart glasses feature an in-lens display you can control with wrist-based gestures via the new Meta Neural Band that's included. The display pairs with your phone and allows you to see everything from text messages and Instagram Reels to maps and more... View Source

PayPal Holdings Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have forged an online-shopping partnership that will combine their respective payments and artificial intelligence tools for transactions... View Source

After revealing his company's latest augmented reality and smart glasses at Meta Connect this year, Mark Zuckerberg has introduced a new entertainment hub for its Quest headsets called Horizon TV. Zuckerberg said Meta believes watching video content is going to be a huge category for both virtual reality headsets and glasses in the future. Meta has already teamed up with several major streami... View Source

Meta just showed off all the latest in wearable technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, and more at its annual Connect keynote. In addition to the long-awaited reveal of Meta’s updated Ray-Ban smart glasses, the company had some other exciting surprises to share, too. Here’s a roundup of all the new tech and software updates announced by Meta. Meta’s display-equipped smart specs make their... View Source

Anthology Inc. is laying the groundwork for a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy that would see some secured lenders take control of the troubled education-software provider, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

The rumors were true. Meta's first pair of AR glasses with a built-in screen is the Meta Ray-Ban Display. They'll cost $799 and will come to a limited number of brick-and-mortar stores in the United States on September 30. Those retailers include Best Buy, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban and Verizon, and availability will expand to Canada, France, Italy and the United Kingdom in early 2026. The Ray-Ban Disp... View Source

Horizon TV puts your streaming apps in one spot. | Image: Meta Meta is making it easier to stream movies and TV shows on your Quest headset. During its Meta Connect keynote on Wednesday, the company announced that it’s rolling out a Horizon TV hub with access to streaming apps like Prime Video, Peacock, Twitch, and — finally — Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN. The image shared by Meta shows content rec... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen... View Source

When Meta announced its first pair of Oakley-branded sunglasses, the HSTN frames, earlier this year, it called them "performance AI" glasses even though they only came with modest upgrades compared with Meta's Ray-Ban lineup. But the new Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, which were just unveiled at Connect, are much more clearly aimed at serious athletes and they have the features to ba... View Source

A great day for Tesla shares that could continue tomorrow in a short march to all time highs over $488. Tesla shares surge to $428 in after-hours, and could trigger a green light for swing traders targeting $440, then all-time highs. A series of Fed Rate Cuts will be a wind behind Tesla and the ... Read more... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg wearing the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses on Access. Mark Zuckerberg mostly uses the new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses to send text messages. Lots of them. He has been wearing the glasses around the office, firing off WhatsApp pings to his execs throughout the day. "I run the company through text messages," he tells me recently. "Mark is our number one heaviest user," Alex Himel,... View Source

Vietnamese electric motorbike maker Dat Bike secured $22 million in fresh funding as it takes on established players such as Honda Motor Co. and Yamaha Corp. in one of the world’s fastest-growing two-wheel EV markets... View Source

Disney gave in to threats from FCC chairman and occasional speech regulator Brendan Carr this evening, announcing that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be pulled off the air “indefinitely.” Carr was unhappy that Kimmel characterized the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk as “anything other than” a member of the “MAGA gang” and threatened to pull broadcast licenses of stations airing his show as a result. The... View Source

Mercado Pago, the financial services arm of MercadoLibre, has agreed to acquire Brazilian securities distributor Nikos DTVM, a move that will expand its offerings of investment products in Latin America’s largest economy... View Source

Dalia is a death cleaner. Death cleaning, as we know it, is the process of sanitizing and tidying the spaces where people take their final breaths, sometimes long after their bodies have begun to decompose. It’s a job here on Earth in the year 2025, but Dalia’s version of death cleaning takes place on the rings of Saturn in a distant future filled with space travel, interplanetary colonization and... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss reports that China's internet watchdog has told Alibaba, ByteDance and others to terminate orders for an Nvidia AI chip. Plus, Microsoft, OpenAI and other US tech giants announce plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure in the UK, as President Trump conducts a state visit. And StubHub CEO Eric Baker joins the show as shares of the ticket... View Source

Yesterday, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Tesla following a report by Bloomberg that its electric door handles could stop working when a vehicle's low-voltage battery fails. That created a safety hazard that the publication found could trap passengers when a Tesla car was in an emergency situation, such as a crash. Now, Bloomberg is back wit... View Source

The first peer-reviewed study of the DeepSeek AI model shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for $300,000... View Source

Some of India’s biggest online vendors of used cars are trimming costs and quitting secondary ventures to prepare for potential stock listings that could raise more than $1 billion combined, according to people familiar with the development... View Source

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are leading a group of congressional Democrats in investigating White House Special Advisor David Sacks for possibly serving in his position for longer than he's allowed. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and venture capitalist at Craft Ventures, was originally picked by President Donald Trump to be the "White H... View Source

"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet."... View Source

Microsoft is getting ready to launch its Xbox full-screen experience on the new Xbox Ally devices next month, but it looks like you won’t need new hardware to get it. Windows enthusiasts have discovered a way to enable this new Xbox mode early in Windows 11, thanks to the latest 25H2 update to the operating system. The method, which involves installing a Release Preview version of Windows 11 and l... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. is strengthening its UK ties, pledging to invest £1.5 billion in the country while winning a deal with the UK Ministry of Defence to expand the use of its AI software, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

IVO Quantum drive has no measured thrust yet, but the Quantum Drive is fully operational in spac.! It has passed its testing phase with flying colors. Congratulations to the @ivo_ltd team for successfully producing space hardware that survived launch & 6 months in space! Now the fun can begin. Remember that the goal of this ... Read more... View Source

The Boring Co.’s lead architect has left the tunneling company founded by Elon Musk to join an autonomous transportation startup backed by investors including OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman... View Source

Get ready for a return to the life of Kazuma Kiryu, because it seems that a remake of Yakuza 3 is on the way. The leak was discovered on developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios' website. Fans noticed that there was an entry for Yakuza Kiwami 3 alongside the listings for the remakes of the first two Yakuza games — Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza Kiwami 2 — on the RGG site. Although the listing has since been... View Source

With federal vaccine guidance under fire, states are forging their own immunization paths... View Source

Artemis 2 astronauts will be the subjects of nearly as many experiments as they'll be performing during their trip around the moon... View Source

A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed... View Source

China’s cyberspace regulator has instructed companies including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to halt orders for Nvidia Corp.’s RTX Pro 6000D, a semiconductor for workstations that can be repurposed for artificial-intelligence applications... View Source

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket poised to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon next year may appear identical to the Artemis I SLS rocket. On closer inspection, though, engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon rocket inside and out to improve performance, reliability, and safety. SLS flew a picture perfect first mission on the Artemis I test flight, meet... View Source

SpaceX has moved its newest Starship spacecraft to the launch pad for testing ahead of the megarocket's upcoming 11th test flight... View Source

Bloomberg’s Matt Miller and Hannah Elliott speak with Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen about the car’s electronic doors for the “Hot Pursuit!” podcast... View Source

For the sake of this iPhone 17 Pro review, I’ve developed a gaming addiction. I don’t mean triple-A games like Destiny: Rising and Genshin Impact, or even double-A or non-A titles like Inside or Vampire Survivors, both of which I greatly enjoy. I’m specifically referring to Snake Clash on YouTube Games — the type of thing you mindlessly play while pretending to watch a documentary on TV, or w... View Source

XAI Colossus II is the world’s first Gigawatt AI training cluster. The picture is an aerial view of the gigawatt data center. xAI’s Colossus 2 represents a monumental leap in AI infrastructure, designed as the world’s first gigawatt-scale AI training supercluster. Built as an expansion of the original Colossus 1 (which currently operates 230,000 GPUs, ... Read more... View Source

Wild chimps ingest the equivalent of multiple alcoholic beverages a day... View Source

Alien objects may be seeding the universe. Here's what that means... View Source

Microsoft has been steadily improving its Paint app for Windows 11 in recent years with a dark mode, transparency and layers, and even AI-powered image creation. Now, Microsoft is adding two new Photoshop-like features to Paint. You’ll soon be able to save your Paint creations as a project file, much like a Photoshop Document (.PSD). The Paint project files are currently being tested with Windows... View Source