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For the full experience visit: Made in Vietnam: Trump Tariffs Ended China’s Monopoly on US Video Game Consoles... View Source

Global investors, including Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte and Capital Group, are offering to buy shares in Swiggy Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter, as the Indian food delivery company seeks fresh funds a year after its market debut... View Source

Lenskart co-founder and CEO, Peyush Bansal, discusses the company’s expansion plans and its recent partnership with Pop Mart on Labubu‑themed eyewear. He spoke exclusively on Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Moore Threads Technology Co. shares jumped as much as 27% in Shanghai on Wednesday after the recent market debutant said it would release new artificial intelligence chip products next week... View Source

The robots aren’t coming for your job, yet... View Source

Reports say space exploration company has begun talks to raise more than $25bn for IPOBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX is preparing to list on the stock market next year, in a move that could raise more than $25bn ($18.7bn) and value the business at more than $1tn, according to reports.SpaceX, which designs, builds and launches rockets, is said to have sta... View Source

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks about his company's $17.5 billion investment in India's AI infrastructure as well as plans to improve AI skills among millions of people in India. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Barclays Plc is buying a stake in a British-Danish fintech company specializing in banking technology, joining an investor group that includes four of its large European and US rivals... View Source

SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The transaction would make it the biggest listing of all time. The company is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company, and is pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026. Bloomberg’s Julia Fiorett... View Source

Coupang Inc. Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun has resigned after the company incurred the country’s largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of more than 30 million people was compromised... View Source

The Game Awards 2025 edition of the Day of the Devs digital showcase goes live on Wednesday, December 10 at 1PM ET on Twitch and YouTube. That’s more than 30 hours before The Game Awards itself kicks off, which makes perfect sense. It is called Day of the Devs, after all, and if we’re judging by past appearances, the event absolutely deserves its own full 24 hours in the spotlight.This year, the D... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares slid as much as 4.7% Wednesday to their lowest level since May, weighed down by concerns that the surging price of components including memory chips will erode its profit... View Source

Nu Quantum, a British startup that builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised $60 million in one of the largest Series A rounds raised in the UK, as investors bet on advances in the frontier technology... View Source

The US Justice Department is weighing a challenge to a deal between two of the largest companies offering software to small, independent pharmacies, as antitrust enforcers step up their focus on the health-care industry... View Source

US manufacturer GE Vernova Inc. showered shareholders with rewards in the latest sign that demand for new natural gas-fired power will remain robust for years into the future... View Source

Accenture and Anthropic announced a major expansion of their partnership to help enterprises move from AI pilots to full-scale deployment, forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group with approximately 30,000 professionals to be trained. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Accenture CEO Julie Sweet talk about the project on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in Hong Kong’s CCB Tower for HK$3.5 billion ($450 million) from Lai Sun Development Co... View Source

President Donald Trump decided to let Nvidia sell its H200 chips to China after weeks of deliberations with advisers. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers breaks down the key factors that drove the decision. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meesho Ltd., an Indian e-commerce platform, is set to debut in Mumbai on Wednesday in a closely watched listing that will gauge investor appetite after a string of blockbuster tech IPOs... View Source

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego. NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Sy... View Source

Burkay Gur, CEO of generative-media platform fal, discusses how the company uses Nvidia chips as part of its stack to run AI models for audio, video and image generation. Gur joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” off the back of fal’s latest fundraise. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We’ve all been there: You can’t (or won’t) get help when something breaks, but the YouTube clip doesn’t cover your specific issue. It’s what repair gurus at iFixit want to solve with FixBot, an AI-enabled app that talks you through whatever repair you’re doing. The chatbot will help you diagnose the problem and then walk you step-by-step through the fix. Plus, it’s voice-enabled so you won’t have... View Source

This year, Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s gaming business scored record sales, defying an industry slowdown with international hits like zombie horror Dying Light: The Beast... View Source

When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and Germany, came within the United States.Among the culprits cited in the report: age verification laws, dozens of which have come into effect over the last year. "Online anonymity, an essential enabler f... View Source

Airbnb Inc.’s chief information officer is leaving, the latest technical leadership change at the home-rental company in recent weeks as it prepares to roll out more artificial intelligence app updates next year... View Source

Congrats to any budding Nostradamus out there who peered into the future to boldly predict that Amazon would bring more shopping features to Alexa+ sooner rather than later. A gold star for you. Yes, it hasn't taken too long for Amazon to weave more features into the generative AI-powered version of Alexa that are designed to get you to buy more stuff.Shopping features were part of the origin... View Source

Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation’s landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps... View Source

Spotify is finally letting the United States join its music video party. Music Videos have started rolling out in beta today to Premium users across the US and Canada, offering not only official artist videos but also new formats like live performances and covers. Music Videos first arrived last year in 11 countries, but the United States wasn't one of them. The reason for that was simple — S... View Source

Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer "an absolutely unique experience each and every year," according... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is reviewing the possibility of listing shares in New York, a move seen potentially helping close the valuation gap between the South Korean chipmaker and US peers including Micron Technology Inc... View Source

We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and ReStory looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the era, such as renamed riffs on a Tamagotchi, a Nokia brick phone, a PSP and a Walkman. You clean... View Source

The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform "puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models di... View Source

As China races to catch up with the US in artificial intelligence technology, the state of relations between the countries can be gauged by looking at which of the chips made by Silicon Valley’s Nvidia Corp. can be shipped to Chinese customers... View Source

Owners of the Porsche Macan and upcoming Porsche Cayenne Electric will be able to unlock and start their cars with their Galaxy phones, Samsung has announced. The cars, alongside other Porsche models, are gaining support for Samsung Wallet's Digital Key feature, which lets users wirelessly control their car over a secure UWB or NFC connection.Digital Key support will be available in Europe in... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times higher than the total mass of all the galaxies in galaxy clusters. In addition to these visible component... View Source

China just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for liftoff cadence... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you're David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed to signing some sort of executive order that would do something that would give him some federal control over AI... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to ship its H200 AI chip to China, in exchange for a 25% surcharge. Plus, the battle for Warner Bros. heats up, as antitrust concerns swirl around both Netflix’s and Paramount Skydance’s offers. And Microsoft is committing $17.5 billion over four years to help build India's cloud and AI infrastructure. (Sour... View Source

OpenAI has announced that Denise Dresser, the current CEO of Slack, will be the company's new Chief Revenue Officer. Dresser will oversee the company's revenue strategy "across enterprise and customer success," according to OpenAI's announcement, and will presumably play a key role in leading the company towards profitability now that it's reorganized as a public bene... View Source

5 Min Read What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views of the 60-foot vacuum sphere in the which the plume-surface interaction testing is happening. Credits: NASA/Joe Atkinson In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon, researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, employed a novel camera system to capture first-of-it... View Source

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, and putting up a Christmas t... View Source

Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic world... View Source

Uber is rolling out kiosks for travelers to book rideshares without using the mobile app. The company is pitching the service as a convenience for international travelers who may not have a data plan, but it could also be a lifesaver if your phone runs out of juice and you don't have a way to recharge it. A passenger can use the kiosk to enter their destination and desired ride type, then wil... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air tax... View Source

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away... View Source

Argo Infrastructure Partners is ramping up its bet on data centers after agreeing to be acquired by Apollo Global Management Inc. earlier this year... View Source

It looks like Meta has decided to turn Instagram users into unwitting SEO spam pawns. On Tuesday, 404 Media reported that the platform is generating sensational, likely AI-generated headlines for user posts without their knowledge or explicit consent. An Engadget editor has also noticed this on their posts. The headlines are found in the pages’ code and are only visible in search results.The schem... View Source

Australia is joining a wave of governments around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while critics argue kids will get around it anyway. These changes ste... View Source

Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, discusses the offers to buy Warner Bros. Discovery and explains why he sold his Paramount Skydance stake and held on to Netflix. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Traeger debuted its Woodridge line of Wi-Fi-enabled pellet grills back in January. The overall theme across the Woodridge, Woodridge Pro and Woodridge Elite is the company’s reliable performance and features are available for less than the cost of its most premium models. Just before Christmas, the company is adding to the the Woodridge lineup with the Woodridge Pro Plus. For $400 more than the Wo... View Source

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years."... View Source

The company is looking to raise $30 billion, which would make it the biggest IPO ever, just ahead of Saudi Aramco's in 2019... View Source

Continuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make Facebook "way more culturally influential than it is today," Meta is announcing a bunch of new updates to help you "cut through the clutter" and make content in the app. The changes include tweaks to how you see and interact with photos in your feed that could make the experience feel a bit more like Instagram. As part of updates to make your feed "sim... View Source

"I expect half of DATs (digital-asset treasury firms) to consolidate by next year". David Bailey, the CEO & Chairman of KindlyMD and connected to various DATs, is the man credited with converting President Donald Trump into a crypto believer. He joins "Bloomberg Crypto". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Game Awards are this week, with the grand showcase for 2025 coming up on Thursday, December 11 at 8PM ET. There's also a pre-show (in case the multi-hour affair just isn't enough TGA for you) and that kicks off at 7:30PM ET. The ceremony will be a mix of honoring games from the past year and debuting trailers for future releases, so expect a couple interesting announcements to emerge... View Source

Google’s Pixel Buds 2a come in a stylish purple shade that stands out. Google just launched its holiday sale, and it’s basically Black Friday and Cyber Monday revived. From smartphones to smart security devices, plenty of great gifts have returned to their Black Friday prices, with some third-party retailers in some cases offering better deals than Google. Prices for a few of our favorite gadgets... View Source

Prediction markets have grown rapidly in 2025. Now Wall Street might be getting a head start over retail with prediction bets. Bloomberg's Lydia Beyoud reports on "Bloomberg Crypto" (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

AI chatbots haven't come close to replacing teens' social media habits, but they are playing a significant role in their online habits. Nearly one-third of US teens report using AI chatbots daily or more, according to a new report from Pew Research. The report is the first from Pew to specifically examine how often teens are using AI overall, and was published alongside its latest r... View Source

Over two films, Rian Johnson's Knives Out series has offered something largely absent from the modern movie landscape: intricate murder mysteries full of humor and gasp-worthy moments. The original Knives Out started things off relatively small with a cozy whodunit, which then became a larger and more elaborate puzzle with the sequel Glass Onion. Both were crowd-pleasers, and in a lot of ways Wake... View Source

Pebble, the pioneering smartwatch brand that made a surprise comeback earlier this year as part of a new company, is expanding into a timely new category: smart rings... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the sighting of a gamma-ray burst from a star that exploded when the Universe was only 730 million years old. The Webb telescope even detected the supernova's host galaxy. Before this observation, the oldest recorded supernova... View Source

The AirPods Pro 3 make for a nice upgrade or gift, especially at $30 off. | Image: The Verge If you didn’t catch the Black Friday deal on Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, the good news is the price has dropped again ahead of the holidays. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are matching their all-time low price of $219.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. It’s a great deal considering the AirPo... View Source

Bids from Netflix and Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery both raise antitrust concerns including the question of market definition as audiences view more user-generated content. Jennifer Huddleston, senior tech fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the issues with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony's 2025 PlayStation Wrap-Up is now available. The recap, which is similar to those from music streaming services, sums up gaming habits from throughout the year. It shows players how many hours they used their PS4 or PS5, what games they played the most, preferred genres, trophy counts and more. These digital cards are shareable on social media, which is kind of the whole point. Nothing s... View Source

Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9)... View Source

A girl can dream. | Image: Redfin / The Verge Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app. I don't want to brainstorm coverage options with an LLM every time I renew my car insurance. I'd much rather message a human than a robot to pester FedEx about my missing package. But I have found one scenario where AI is actually pretty great: real estate. I need to confess s... View Source

Delivery Hero SE said it’s evaluating options to improve its finances and operations, including changes to its capital structure, after coming under pressure from major shareholders to conduct a strategic review... View Source

It has been two months since Google released the Pixel Watch 4 and now the company is introducing new updates to the wearable. In our review, Engadget managing editor Cherlynn Low was impressed enough with the watch to give it an 86, but called out the lack of gesture-based interactions. The new one-handed gesture features, like double pinch and wrist turn, should make up for that.  In an ind... View Source

Nicolas Escurat A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere. Sprites occur at some 50 miles (80 kilometers) altitude, high above thunderstorms. They appear moments after a lightning strike – a sudden... View Source

Quantware has solved the fanout problem for superconducting quantum computers. They are making breakthroughs that can scale quantum computers to millons of qubits by 2029. They are at the Q2B silicon valley conference today at the Santa Clara convention center. QuantWare announces VIO-40K, a new scaling architecture for quantum chips which solves the bottlenecks of ... Read more... View Source

The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition revamps Nothing's usual monochrome look with a 90s-inspired design infused by pops of color. It's updating the basic 3A's transparent backplate with a teal tint, plus yellow and magenta buttons. They're also throwing in an accessory too, for the first time, adding a limited edition set of six-sided dice with a matching teal and yellow case that uses the compa... View Source

B-9 had Will Robinson. Twiki had Buck Rogers. And, of course, C-3PO and R2-D2 had Luke Skywalker. Now, in a scenario straight out of science fiction, MAPP will have whoever NASA names to the crew of the second Artemis mission to land on the moon. The space agency has selected Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, to become the first robotic rover to operate on the moon a... View Source

In 2021, well before AI became a corporate buzzword, BMW AG’s production chief Milan Nedeljkovic made a bet on using Nvidia Corp.’s technology to virtually plan future factories... View Source

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 just got a fairly bizarre expansion inspired by the Netflix show Stranger Things. If you've ever wanted to fly over a fictional Indiana town in the 1980s, this is the update for you. That's right. The game now lets folks fly over Hawkins, Indiana and check out more than 40 iconic locations from the series, including Starcourt Mall, the junkyard, the govern... View Source

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow... View Source

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers. Now, the world’s biggest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — are taking advantage of a surge in demand, shifting their resources away from consum... View Source

Artificial intelligence has created a “terrifying” outlook for employment, Oaktree Capital Management LP co-founder Howard Marks cautioned, and an assumed productivity boom fails to consider how many people will be able to afford the additional goods produced... View Source

You can add the Switch 2 to the (long) list of platforms where you can play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The bad news: It costs $60 to play the 2011 game optimized for Nintendo's 2025 hardware. The good news: It costs less (or nothing) if you own one of the versions for the original Switch. The (digital-only) Switch 2 port is the Anniversary Edition of Skyrim, released in 2021. That includes... View Source

A pilot signals to a crew member before takeoff from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. Accompanying him in the high-flying ER-2 aircraft is one of the most advanced imaging spectrometers in the solar system.NASA/Christopher LC Clark Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other w... View Source

Your guide to January’s full Wolf Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights... View Source

A Microsoft data center under construction in Aldie, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images More than 230 groups including Food & Water Watch, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Greenpeace are demanding a pause on the construction of any new data centers in the US until stronger regulations are in place to prevent soaring electricity rates, water use, and polluti... View Source

The value of faltering cable channels such as CNN, TNT and Discovery could play a major role in what company winds up with control of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount made a hostile bid of $30-a-share all-cash bid. Netflix made an offer of $27.75-a-share. Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw breaks down where we are now on "Bloomberg Technology." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Somewhere along its never-ending quest to increase engagement, Meta realized that giving Facebook users more of what they want would make it more likely that they'll stick around. The company has announced a bunch of updates designed to help improve the feed and the broader Facebook experience by making it easier to find, create and share interesting things. (Because primarily showing updates... View Source

Humanity's exploration of Mars should be organized around the search for signs of past or present Red Planet life, according to a new report from the U.S. National Academies... View Source

Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and the person leading its recent comeback, is very much in the business of making gadgets for himself. And he seems extremely into the one on his finger: It's called the Pebble Index 01 (but we'll just call it Index), and it's a $75 ring meant to be worn on your (surprise!) index finger. It has a microphone, a button for activating that microphone, and nothi... View Source

Scott Chronert, Citi US equity strategist and managing director, sees a "broadening theme" in markets in addition to the AI tailwinds in tech going into 2026 on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A collaborative report from Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union has uncovered pricing experiments within the Instacart app that yielded higher or lower prices for different users on the exact same items from the same store location. The organizations partnered to enroll 437 shoppers in an experiment across four cities, where each shopper added the same items to their... View Source

When Ikea announced its collection of 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices last month, it wasn't expecting the new hardware to be available in the US until January 2026. Over the past month the devices have started showing up across Europe, but a handful of them are now available through Ikea's US website and some of its physical stores across the country. Four of the five smart sensors announced in... View Source

Sending astronauts to the red planet will be a decades-long activity and cost many billions of dollars. So why should NASA undertake such a bold mission? A new report published Tuesday, titled “A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars,” represents the answer from leading scientists and engineers in the United States: finding whether life exists, or once did, beyond Earth. “We’re search... View Source

Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it's contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting... View Source

Pebble just announced the Index 01, a smart ring for recording thoughts. It's a little ring with a built-in microphone and that's about it. The Index 01 is almost anti-tech in its simplicity. There's no needless AI component shoehorned in, aside from speech-to-text. It's a ring with a microphone that you whisper ideas into and I want one. Here's how it works. You get an id... View Source

Here’s what the A/B testing interface looks like in YouTube Studio. YouTube is giving more creators a way to test how different titles perform on their videos. After rolling out the ability to test and compare video titles to a "small percentage" of creators in July, YouTube has now expanded the tool in YouTube Studio to "all creators with access to advanced features," making it easier to pick the... View Source

Elon Musk’s Starlink Inc. urged Namibians to provide comment on proposed amendments to the country’s regulations as part of the satellite-internet operator’s efforts to obtain a license without ceding ownership... View Source

When someone asks me for gadget buying advice, I normally tell them to stick with their current device. In 2025, most new tech products aren't a worthwhile upgrade over even something that was released a few years ago — and with the price of everything going up, that new iPhone can wait. But things aren't normal right now. On December 3, The Wall Street Journal reported memory manufacturer Mi... View Source

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key  to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.The spacecraft landed at 8.04am Moscow time near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan. Continue reading... View Source

Amazon is launching Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals. The AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant - like Amazon's Rufus chatbot - can proactively track products to tell you when they've dropped to a specific price, and automatically purchase them when they fall below the designated threshold. You can now keep track of your purchases in a... View Source

Artificial Intelligence startup Fal raised fresh funding from investors in a deal that values the company at $4.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter — triple its valuation from a few months earlier... View Source

Holiday travel is almost upon us and, while it likely won't be something out of a Richard Curtis film, there are ways to make it easier. You can raid our list of best travel gifts for 2025 and pick up our favorite MagSafe power bank: Anker's MagGo 10,000mAh Power Bank. Even better, the Anker MagGo power bank is currently on sale for $60, down from $90. This 34 percent discount brings the... View Source

Michelle Hoehn is a cost accountant at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where her work contributes to NASA’s Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA/Danny Nowlin Michelle Hoehn vividly remembers the day a seed was planted for her future at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As a seventh grader, the Bogalusa,... View Source

Whether you're a casual fan or a spaceflight enthusiast, see how well you know one of the companies pushing the boundaries of commercial space travel... View Source

Spotify is launching its beta music videos feature to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada today, over a year after it rolled out to Premium users in other regions. If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you should now begin seeing an option to "Switch to video" on some tracks on the iOS, Android, desktop, or TV Spotify apps. When you tap "Switch to video," the song's accompanying music v... View Source

Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf said artificial intelligence poses a significant opportunity to improve efficiencies and has the potential to influence companies’ headcount decisions... View Source

The Southern District of Texas announced the seizure of more than $50 million in NVIDIA GPUs bound for China in violation of US export laws. Authorities arrested two businessmen, one of them the owner of a Houston company, accused of smuggling the chips used to train and run AI models. “Operation Gatekeeper has exposed a sophisticated smuggling network that threatens our Nation’s security by funne... View Source

Ford is teaming up with France's Renault to design and produce affordable electric vehicles for the European market, with the goal of turning around the Blue Oval's struggling business on the continent. The move comes as cheap Chinese-made EVs have flooded Europe, snatching away market share from long-established players. Ford will use Renault's Ampere platform to underpin two Ford-branded EVs, wh... View Source

El hombre más rico de Argentina dejará el cargo de director general del gigante del comercio electrónico, pero aún tiene muchas ideas para el negocio... View Source

It’s the end of another year, so it’s time for the Engadget staff to compile a list of the year’s biggest losers. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made our lives worse over the course of the year. Some selections may be so pervasive they actually make our list of biggest winners. But, for the most part, we’re confident... View Source

It's now easier for friends and family who aren't tech savvy or are struggling with app fatigue to share images via your Aura digital photo frame. As the name of the new "text to frame" feature implies, photos can now be shared to an Aura frame through a text message, and they will be automatically added to your library - but only from people you approve. Allowing others to share photos that autom... View Source

Microsoft Corp. pledged to invest $17.5 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing in India, targeting the world’s most populous nation to help fuel its growth... View Source

Google is no stranger to scrutiny from government bodies such as the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and the European Commission. Now it can add another probe to its list: The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into the company surrounding the content used for its AI tools. Namely, the Commission is looking into two things, s... View Source

In other words, the matter traveled at 20% the speed of light... View Source

Rich Baich, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, AT&T, Rosa Bolger, Vice President, Cyber Defense and Technology, IBM and Alan Rosa, Chief Information Security Officer & Senior Vice President, Information Security & Technology Solutions, CVS Health discuss staying ahead of cyber threats with Bloomberg's Lynn Doan at the Defending the Digital Economy event in... View Source

NVIDIA is now allowed to sell its second-best H200 processors to China, rather than just the sanction-approved H20 model that China had previously declined to buy, President Trump wrote on Truth Social. The United States will collect a 25 percent tariff on those sales, the Commerce Department confirmed yesterday.  Trump said that he informed China's President Xi Jinping of the decision a... View Source

The iFixit app rolls together its guides, battery health tools, and a new AI chatbot. DIY repair site iFixit has launched its own app for iOS and Android, featuring its extensive library of repair guides and resources, a battery health monitor, and a new AI "FixBot" tool that's been trained on those same guides to help with repairs. The heart of the new app is the company's existing library of rep... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is introducing a way for some people to use the ride-hailing service without the company’s signature app... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Mayumi Negishi addresses Japan’s embrace of investment from the Middle East as a hedge against overreliance on top trading partners China and the US... View Source

As we wrap up 2025, we’re looking at the year’s biggest winners: the people, companies, products and trends that made the most impact over the year. Almost at the top of the pile, of course, are the tech billionaires.  According to a recent report by Oxfam, the 10 richest US billionaires (who are all tech leaders, save for Warren Buffet) increased their wealth by $698 billion in 2025. Some of... View Source

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space."... View Source

As he called the House Judiciary Committee into session on a cold and snowy February day in Washington, DC, Chairman Jim Jordan was ready to take a victory lap. American free speech had been critically threatened, and now it was saved - in large part thanks to him and his committee. "What a difference a few years make," the Republican congressman for Ohio's 4th district told those present. "Four y... View Source

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Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry - and they're about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt of skyrocketing memory prices, but the shockwaves will soon impact a wider range of products as suppliers pour resources into a far bigger and more lucrative endeavor: AI. The biggest names in the AI industry are buying up DRAM memory for... View Source

Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh discusses Bloomberg Intelligence's latest report on Cybersecurity for AI Agents at the Defending the Digital Economy event in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SpaceX will launch a secret payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Dec. 9), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to "approved customers" in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the deal comes with "conditions that allow for continued strong national security," and that the US will take a 25 percent cut of the GPU sales - higher than the 15 percent cut that... View Source

The European Union won’t be cowed by US attacks on how it polices Silicon Valley firms, the bloc’s competition chief Teresa Ribera warned... View Source

MercadoLibre’s Marcos Galperin will hand over the CEO title, but he still has a lot of ideas for the business... View Source

Google is under investigation by the European Union over concerns that it breached competition rules by imposing restrictions on web publishers and YouTube creators to gain an unfair advantage over other AI companies. Concerns outlined by the European Commission include using content from web publishers for features like AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search, and feeding YouTube content into Google's... View Source

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. and Qatar Investment Authority are teaming up on a $20 billion venture to invest in artificial-intelligence infrastructure, underscoring the escalating regional race for dominance in the sector... View Source

Mercedes-Benz Group AG will partner with Chinese software developer Momenta Global Ltd. to deploy self-driving cars for Lumo Mobility in Abu Dhabi, marking the German automaker’s first foray into robotaxis... View Source

Google is being probed by the European Union over whether it has abused its dominance by using its own artificial intelligence tools to squeeze out competition... View Source

Two years ago, Fairphone launched a pair of modular, fully-repairable headphones called the Fairbuds XL. Now, the Dutch social enterprise is releasing an updated version where the focus isn’t just on the quality of its hardware, but on the merits of its raw materials. The 2025 Fairbuds XL ship with new “premium” 40mm dynamic drivers and stronger N52 rated magnets for “more power and enhanced... View Source

Over two years after Fairphone introduced its first pair of modular and repairable wireless headphones, the company has announced an upgraded version. The new Fairbuds XL look similar to the originals but feature an updated design with more comfortable fabrics and improved sound thanks to new drivers. What's most interesting about these is that thanks to Fairphone's commitment to modular hardware,... View Source

Qatar is establishing a new company to develop and invest in artificial intelligence, joining Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in plowing national resources into the technology... View Source

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky aboard, Dec. 9, 2025.NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Jonny Kim returned to Earth on Tuesday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, wrapping up an eight-mont... View Source

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky landed on Russia's Soyuz MS-27 after 245 days on the International Space Station on Dec. 9, 2025... View Source

Reddit Inc. is launching new safety features globally for all under-18s on its popular online forums ahead of Australia’s groundbreaking social media ban... View Source

The head of India’s biggest quick commerce player says the sector is hurtling toward a shakeout as rivals’ cash dries up, but that his startup will thrive — and continue its expansion... View Source

South Korean police raided the headquarters of Coupang Inc., the country’s largest e-commerce company, searching for evidence related to a historic data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 30 million people... View Source

NextEra Energy Inc., the big clean-power developer that’s been pivoting into natural gas generation preferred by President Donald Trump, announced Monday a flurry of plans to develop data centers and expand its fossil-fuel footprint... View Source

Australia is set to enact a policy requiring social media companies, including TikTok and Instagram, to block users under 16 from holding accounts or risk hefty fines. Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney, discusses the implications of the policy and how the ban would be enforced on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration has endorsed the Aukus security agreement with Australia and the UK following a lengthy review of the Biden-era pact that would sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia... View Source

President Donald Trump granted Nvidia Corp. permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US Department of Justice has detained two men for allegedly violating export control laws by attempting to smuggle at least $160 million worth of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China. A third, the owner of a Houston company, has already pleaded guilty... View Source

HashKey Holdings Ltd., operator of Hong Kong’s largest licensed crypto exchange, is seeking to raise as much as HK$1.67 billion ($215 million) through an initial public offering... View Source

IBM is buying the data-streaming platform Confluent for about $9.3 billion, marking one of its largest takeovers yet and a major bet on the kind of enterprise software that artificial intelligence tools need to perform tasks in real time. Bloomberg's US Deals Managing Editor Liana Baker on "Bloomberg Markets" with Scarlet Fu. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Whether it's Netflix or Paramount Skydance buying Warner Bros. Discovery, major competition for viewers will still come from YouTube, says Brandon Katz, director of insights and content strategy at Greenlight Analytics. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea’s main bourse operator issued its second warning in about one month over the rapid rise in shares of SK Hynix Inc., which have more than tripled this year on the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Paramount Skydance’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery gets backing from three Middle East sovereign wealth funds. Rich Greenfield, media and technology analyst at LightShed Partners, discusses the competing bids for the studio behind Bugs Bunny. Greenfield joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Letterboxd has introduced its first wave of exclusive digital film rentals for the company’s previously announced Letterboxd Video Store. The inaugural collection is themed Unreleased Gems and includes four movies that received awards or acclaim during a film festival. The titles will be available to watch from Letterboxd from December 10 through January 9. Each film is limited to certain geograph... View Source

Netflix President and co-CEO Ted Sarandos reassures  investors that they’ll be the ultimate owners of Warner Bros. Discovery at the UBS conference in New York. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

According to a statement from the Public Interest Research Group, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 has removed language that would have granted the US military the right to repair its own equipment rather than requiring it to use official defense contractors for maintenance. This bill is still being considered by Congress, but it is uncertain whether the right to repair... View Source

Check out the first findings from the Subaru Telescope... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Paramount Skydance’s $30 per share bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that comes just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix. Plus, President Trump wants to limit state-level AI regulation with an executive order aiming for "one rule" on artificial intelligence, and IBM is buying data-streaming platform Confluent for about $9.3 billion in o... View Source

Katsuhiro Harada is departing Bandai Namco at the end of 2025. He announced the news both with a farewell note shared on X and, in possibly the coolest exit ever, with an hour-long DJ mix. Harada's 30-year career has most closely been involved with Tekken and he's a familiar face in the fighting game community.He began as a voice actor in the original Tekken game and continued to do so e... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. It was the record 32nd re-flight of the Falcon's first stage... View Source

Tiger Global Management’s venture capital business is reverting back to an earlier strategy: debuting smaller funds with paced investing, which it says produce its strongest returns... View Source

Despite making some moves to address the proliferation of AI-generated audio on its platform, Spotify failed to catch a copycat making imitations of music by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The long-running experimental rock band from Australia, has been a vocal critic of Spotify and was one of several artists that took their music off the platform in the summer. The move was in response to... View Source

New simulations suggest TRAPPIST-1e's possible methane atmosphere may be a false signal from its star, raising fresh questions about the planet’s habitability... View Source

Paramount Skydance Corp. is relying on Centerview Partners and RedBird Advisors for lead financial advice in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc... View Source

JPMorgan plans to invest $10 billion dollars of its own capital in the defense, aerospace, health care and energy sectors. Roger Zakheim, director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, discusses how these types of investments help strengthen US security interests. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Every December, the Engadget staff compiles a list of the year’s biggest winners. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, companies, products and trends that made the most impact over the course of the year. Not all of that influence is positive, however, and some selections may also appear on our list of biggest losers. Still, sit back and enjoy our picks for t... View Source

Ahead of Terminator 2D: NO FATE, we're going back in time to find some Terminator games that don't suck. Don't worry, we'll be back!... View Source

Skate Story is two very different things simultaneously. On the one hand, it's a visceral take on skateboarding, providing a tight, fast, ground-level view as you brute-force your way through tricks and combos. But it's also a surrealist trip through the underworld where you control a skateboarding demon who faces off against the devil. Think of it like Dante's Inferno meets Thrasher magazine, and... View Source

President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order this week to establish “one rule” on artificial intelligence regulation, aimed at limiting state-led restrictions on the technology. Sarah Oh Lam, vice president and senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, discusses with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google and Apple have long existed as polar opposites, each ruling over their tech kingdoms with little interest in cooperation. But the latest build of Android's Canary operating system hints at an unusual instance of collaboration between the brands, with a new feature that seems aimed at making data transfer simpler between Android and iOS mobile device during the setup phase. It is expect... View Source

Google provided this photo of Project Aura, as we were not allowed to take our own. | Photo: Google, Xreal Teased at Google I/O, Project Aura is a collaboration between Xreal and Google. It's the second Android XR device (the first being Samsung's Galaxy XR headset) and is expected to launch in 2026. Putting it on, I get why the term "smart glasses" doesn't exactly fit. Is it a headset? Smart glas... View Source

Who ends up with the assets of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the owner of one of Hollywood’s largest and most venerable film studios, is likely to impact the entertainment industry for decades to come. On Dec. 5, the company announced that Netflix Inc., the world’s dominant streaming platform, had agreed to purchase its streaming and studio assets in a $82.7 billion deal, including debt. Three days... View Source

Rivian is about to give the public and its investors another taste of its future with an event focused on autonomy and AI on December 11. The company's Autonomy and AI day starts at 12PM ET. You can watch the event via the Rivian website. We'll be liveblogging the Autonomy and AI day right here on Engadget, so we'll be recapping the major news as it happens and sharing our reactions... View Source

"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving."... View Source

At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like death metal album covers where everyone is some kind of Wild West... View Source

The Trump administration is poised to allow Nvidia Corp. to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would mark a major lobbying win for the world’s most valuable company and potentially let it regain billions of dollars of business lost in a key global market... View Source

TikTok just announced a couple of updates that that should make the app a bit more social. There's something called Shared Feed, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a feed that friends and family can watch together, though at different times.  This feed is shared via direct messaging and pulls up relevant content to everyone involved in the chat. TikTok says this is a "n... View Source

XAI Grok 4.2 Beat has been trading real money, buying and selling real stocks and reporting results in real time. Four different trading styles used by XAi Grok 4.2 are up an average of 20% over four $10,000 accounts and the best account is at a 65% gain peak over about 20 Days. Grok 4 ... Read more... View Source

Slack users can now access Anthropic's Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview. When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it's a coding task and, if so, route it to Claude Code using the context from the related Slack thread and the code repositories yo... View Source

Microsoft Corp.’s chief Satya Nadella this week becomes the latest tech leader to visit India, joining a procession of industry bigwigs seeking to court a potentially massive market and use the world’s most populous country as a proving ground for AI... View Source

Today, during the XR edition of The Android Show, Google showed off a bunch of updates and new features headed to its mixed reality OS. And while most of the news was aimed at developers, I got a chance to demo some of the platform's expanded capabilities on a range of hardware including Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, two different reference designs and an early version of Xreal's Project Aura smart... View Source

Frequent flares from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 could offer new clues in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth... View Source

The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw at the beginning of the mont... View Source

Comcast Corp. President Mike Cavanagh said his company walked away from the bidding process for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., knowing that the company’s offer didn’t have a “high likelihood” of winning out... View Source

Meta will soon allow Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union to choose to share less data and see less personalized ads on the platform, the European Commission announced. The change will begin to roll out in January, according to the regulator. "This is the first time that such a choice is offered on Meta's social networks," the commission said in a statement... View Source

Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, the company might soon debut its first laptop that uses a rollable OLE... View Source

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms Inc.: one with screens, and another that’s audio focused... View Source

Analogue just announced new colorways for its recently-launched Analogue 3D console. The appropriately-named Funtastic limited-edition consoles are heavily inspired by Nintendo's translucent N64 models from the late 1990s. Analogue even borrowed the Funtastic branding. In other words, these are going for the nostalgic jugular for gamers of a certain age. There's even a see-through green... View Source

This composite image of the Cassiopeia A (or Cas A) supernova remnant, released Jan. 8, 2024, contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue), and optical data from Hubble (red and white). A study by the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft has made the first-ever X-ray detections of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Op... View Source

The U.S. Senate will hold its second hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA chief on Wednesday (Dec. 3), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House "Border Czar" Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration's "unlawful threats" made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app from the App Store, which it did. "We promised you... View Source

Paramount Skydance Corp. has lined up as much as $54 billion of financing from Wall Street’s biggest firms to help support its planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., just days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix Inc. Blomberg's Stephen Flynn joins Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu to discuss on Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix has already committed to reviving Star Search for its streaming service, and now the company is turning its attention to a different type of live show: HQ Trivia. Netflix's Best Guess Live is an attempt to revive the late 2010s app-based show with what the company is calling its first "weekday mobile game show."Best Guess Live will be hosted by Howie Mandel (Deal or No Deal,... View Source

That vivid OLED display is one of the OmniBook’s biggest draws. You know what I love more than OLEDs? Cheap OLEDs. And that's exactly what drew me to the 14-inch HP OmniBook 5. It's a $700 Windows laptop with a Snapdragon X Plus processor and an OLED screen. That means it should have great battery life and a beautiful screen. I consider these important in any laptop, so color me intrigued. You're... View Source

Hannah Fry travels to Spain to decode the complexities of its history and culture. Travelling across the country, she analyzes the rhythms of flamenco, seeks out the origins of paella, learns an ancient whistling language and indulges her love of urban planning. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Uber will begin selling customer data to marketers, according to a report by Business Insider. The company's ad division just launched a new insights platform called Uber Intelligence that's tasked with hoovering up and selling trip and delivery data. The data will technically be anonymous, via the use of a platform called LiveRamp. This will "let advertisers securely combine their... View Source

The supermoon shines brighter and bolder than usual—discover which dazzling lunar personality matches you... View Source

As if the Analogue 3D wasn't nostalgic enough, the 4K N64 emulator will soon be available in a handful of transparent "Funtastic" limited editions going on sale on December 10th at 8AM Pacific/11AM Eastern. The vibrant transparent models will be available "in highly limited quantities," and they'll cost more than the standard model at $299. The limited editions are inspired by the Funtastic series... View Source

Apple Inc. chip chief Johny Srouji, whose potential departure risked worsening a bout of executive turnover, told staff on Monday that he’ll stay at the iPhone maker for now... View Source

The makers of ICEBlock, the community-based reporting app for ICE sightings and activity, are suing the federal government, alleging "unlawful threats" made by Trump administration officials led to the app's removal from app stores. The suit centers on free speech violations and accuses the administration of coercing Apple into taking down the app in October. Google began taking dow... View Source

…Except for Mab, which is even weirder than expected... View Source

We're one year into the experiment of running The Verge with subscriptions, and so far things are going quite well - but we've heard a lot of feedback so far, and we've got some exciting changes in store to try and make this thing even better. We hit our subscriber goals for 2025, and an astonishing 85 percent of you are choosing annual plans, which is the sort of durable, long-term relationship w... View Source

The US is backing a Moroccan company that plans to produce a highly purified form of silicon used to make semiconductors and solar panels, as Washington seeks to line up alternatives to China for materials critical to modern technology... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming coronal mass ejection is expected to slam into Earth... View Source

Meta will soon give Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union the option to limit personalised ads, in an effort to comply with the bloc's tech rules. The European Commission announced that the new advertising options will be rolled out in January 2026, and that this is "the first time that such a choice is offered on Meta's social networks." "Meta will give users the effective choice bet... View Source