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Square Enix has been on a tear in recent years remastering and outright remaking many of its landmark role-playing games. Along with Final Fantasy, the developer has given the Dragon Quest series such attention as well, and the next game on deck is a remake of the PlayStation 1's Dragon Quest VII. Commonly regarded by fans as one of the most challenging and lengthy games of the series, the de... View Source

The United Arab Emirates plans to invest $1 billion to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure and services across Africa, bolstering its influence on a continent that’s lagged behind the rest of the world in adopting the technology... View Source

Wireless charging has become one of those small but satisfying conveniences of modern smartphones. You drop your device on a pad and watch the battery percentage climb without fiddling with cables or ports. Yet for many users, that effortless charge doesn’t always come at the speed they expect. Sometimes the phone warms up, the percentage barely rises or charging takes far longer than it would if... View Source

"This study demonstrates the astonishing resilience of life that originated on Earth."... View Source

Last week one of my big questions about Pluribus was whether our reluctant hero Carol (Rhea Seehorn) would find someone to help her save the world from the scourge of happiness. In episode 4, I got an answer - sort of. We're clearly introduced to a character who thinks much like her, but how they'll actually connect is still a big question mark. Welcome to our weekly discussion about Apple TV's la... View Source

China-founded Wi-Fi behemoth TP-Link Systems Inc. is trying to convince US national security officials it’s independent from Beijing. The circumstances surrounding its Vietnam factory, where the company makes products to ship to the US, show how hard that may be... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A whole bunch of intriguing games have arrived over the last week or so, and we got some tasty details on some upcoming projects, including one called Drywall Eating Simulator (trust me on this one).But first, an update on a game that's been around since 2004 and had completely flown below my radar until now. That’... View Source

My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway... View Source

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”... View Source

The rock-solid stabilization of the Canon 12x36 IS binoculars maximizes the smaller objective lenses for steady, detailed views of the night sky... View Source

There are a number of reMarkable tablet bundles on sale as part of a Black Friday promotion. These deals offer savings up to $70, depending on what product you choose. The bundles come with a folio case and a Marker stylus.  The reMarkable 2 is covered here and that one topped our list of the best E ink tablets. This device offers a great reading and writing experience, with support for Googl... View Source

TESLA FSD v14.2 is the smoothest, least hesitant, most confident version yet — a meaningful step toward unsupervised. It handles emergency vehicles well, hand gestures, it is smooth and does not have braking problems. It is judged good enough for unsupervised geofenced areas. FSD 14.2 is great The biggest remaining blockers for true door-to-door robotaxi ... Read more... View Source

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into smaller files while retaining their quality. Sixth-gen Intel Core chips and later, as well as AMD chips made over the past 10 years, come with built-in support for the standard. But as some HP and Del... View Source

The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender and the people around him, like former Harvard president and OpenAI board member Larry Summers. Now, Luke Igel and Riley Walz have reformatted the source documents into a more familiar format for anyon... View Source

The judge overseeing the US Justice Department’s antitrust case over Google’s ad tech monopolies said she is concerned about how long a forced sale of the company’s advertising exchange might take and whether appropriate buyers can be identified... View Source

After previewing its plans to open a marketplace to "redistribute" dormant handles last month, X has made the feature available to all Premium+ subscribers on the platform. The feature allows subscribers to request new handles that up to now have been unavailable because they belonged to accounts that have since become inactive. The marketplace offers two types of handles: "pri... View Source

Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling “smart features” like spell checking. But Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson tells The Verge that “these reports are misleading – we have not changed anyone’s s... View Source

Canva Inc., Australia’s most high profile startup, has had a surge in users of its new product suite as it builds toward listing as a public company, one of its founders said... View Source

In case you haven't noticed, Engadget has been expanding our smart home and kitchen coverage. However, we don't get to test out as many fridges as we like simply because they're large and difficult to move around. That said, now that Samsung has been putting AI inside of its fancy iceboxes for a few years, I wanted to do a long-term review of one of its latest models — the Bespoke A... View Source

SpaceX Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing… No propellant was on the vehicle, and engines were not yet installed. The SpaceX teams need time to investigate before they are confident of the cause. This is not unusual for a first-of-type article. SpaceX has bounced back from worse and iterates extremely quickly. ... Read more... View Source

Waste no time with the Unistellar Odyssey Pro — a lightweight, portable smart telescope that features in our best smart telescopes guide... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses the wild ride markets have been on as AI and crypto anxiety hit investors. Plus, OpenAI is teaming up with Foxconn to design AI data center hardware in the US. And Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman shares his thoughts on the US approval for advanced AI chips to be sold to the Middle East. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta has long required Facebook users to post under their real names (with some exceptions), but at least for Facebook Groups, the company is now offering new options. Members of Facebook Groups will now be able to participate under a custom nickname and avatar, rather than being forced to use their real name or post anonymously.You can set a custom nickname via the same toggle that lets you creat... View Source

It's not every day you see both a comet and an aurora from low Earth orbit... View Source

The Tapo RV30 Max Plus is down to $200 for a limited time, rendering it an even better value than before. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be the most exhausting. Between hunting for gifts and getting the house ready for guests, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, we’re already seeing steep discounts on robot vacuums ahead of Black Friday, which can at least make the... View Source

RTX Corp. and Israeli defense firm Rafael have won a $1.25 billion contract to build surface-to-air missiles for Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system at a new plant in Arkansas, the joint venture announced... View Source

Apple has teamed up with an artist named Bailey Hikawa to make an iPhone grip and stand thingamajig. The appropriately-named Hikawa Phone Grip & Stand is a MagSafe compatible device that snaps onto an iPhone. The grip can be "removed with ease" and also doubles as a stand. To that end, it supports two different viewing angles, both vertical and horizontal. Apple says the ergonomic fo... View Source

These Nikon Monarch M7 8x42 binoculars are great for any stargazer looking for a budget-friendly investment... View Source

Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she decides whether Google needs to be broken up to remedy its ad tech monopoly. Brinkema expects to issue her ruling next year, but understands that “time is of the essence,” as Reuters reported. While the DOJ wants the court to force Google to sell its AdX exchange, and lea... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses the wild ride markets have been on as AI and crypto anxiety hit investors. Plus, OpenAI is teaming up with Foxconn to design AI data center hardware in the US. And Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman shares his thoughts on the US approval for advanced AI chips to be sold to the Middle East. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ubisoft has announced a new game prototype featuring voice-controlled AI teammates that understand visual context and natural language. This "Teammates" project builds on the Neo NPCs Ubisoft showed off with Nvidia in 2024 to demo in-game AI that can naturally respond to players. A key difference this time, besides the complexity of the interactions the prototype supports, is that Teamma... View Source

"If you were able to stand somewhat close to the white dwarf's pole, you would see a column of gas stretching 2,000 miles into the sky, and then fanning outward."... View Source

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht discusses the design company’s product rollouts and how it’s been building out its leadership as it prepares to go public in the near future. Obrecht joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hytale, a more action-packed take on Minecraft, will be available for $20 when it relaunches in early access, Hypixel Studios announced on X. The developer shared that it planned to relaunch Hytale earlier this week after successfully reacquiring the rights to the game from Riot Games.Alongside its $20 "Standard" edition, Hypixel also plans to offer $35 "Supporter" and $70... View Source

States and universities must step up to preserve data, and Congress must act to preserve our nation’s health... View Source

Uranus will appear opposite the sun in Earth's sky on Nov. 21... View Source

Meta is entering the power trading market to help support its AI expansion, hoping to help plant developers by committing to long-term energy contracts. Bloomberg's Riley Griffin discusses the plan with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple TV+ is offering six months of access for only $36 for Black Friday. The deal is live now for new and eligible returning subscribers and runs through December 1, giving you a chance to stream shows like Silo, The Morning Show and For All Mankind for less. It’s a short-term offer, so you’ll want to grab it while it’s available. The biggest caveat to the deal is that you must subscribe directly... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency. The NASA Agency-wide Supply of Liquid Hydrogen awards are firm-fixed-price requirements contracts that include multiple firm-fixed-price delivery orde... View Source

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame... View Source

"That moment feels as enjoyable as heading out on a date."... View Source

Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and tablets. FSE launched with the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, and it has so far only been available on PC handhelds. The expansion to laptops, desktops, and tablets is available as part of new Windows Insider Preview B... View Source

Here's some light — and revolting! — reading while we wait for the Epstein Files to be released (or stonewalled). You can now peruse the Jeffrey Epstein emails, recently released by Congress, in a simulated Gmail account."You're logged in as Jeffrey Epstein," the Jmail website reads. (Ick.) Luke Igel, CEO of Kino, and software engineer Riley Walz collaborated on the project. Th... View Source

Tesla FSD 14.2 release is hugely important. It is critical to show that FSD improvement to unsupervised is on track and unsupervised robotaxi at scale will happen. Tesla started a limited rollout of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) version 14.2 via software update 2025.38.9.5 to Hardware 4 vehicles like Model Y, Model X, and Cybertruck. Key upgrades ... Read more... View Source

Studies of insulin, blood sugar and diabetes in other animals such as fish and dogs have already saved millions of lives and could lead to new treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes... View Source

Lightweight, portable and powerful, the Canon 10x20 IS binoculars are suitable for those who like to travel light when stargazing... View Source

Nothing’s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch of new features to its phones, including its own spin on Google’s Live Updates. With Nothing OS 4.0, users can track a delivery, ride, or timer by glancing using the Glyph Interface — the dot-matrix on the Phone 3’s rear, or the system of lights on the Phone 3A and older models. Google’s Live Updates look a little different depending on whic... View Source

Airbnb Inc. Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh plans to step aside from his role in December, the company said in an exchange filing on Friday... View Source

The breadth and reach of Australia's pioneering social media ban grows as livestream platform Twitch has now been added to the list of banned platforms for users under 16 years of age. The nationwide ban is the first of its kind and encompasses Facebook, X, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and recently Reddit. According to the BBC, Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Twitch... View Source

A new set of computer simulations may finally explain several long-standing mysteries surrounding gigantic radio "relics" that appear when galaxy clusters collide... View Source

Hear me out: Kirby Air Riders isn't a racing game, it's an art tool with a racing game tacked on. The game, out now for the Nintendo Switch 2, is the follow-up to the quirky Kirby-flavored kart racer released in 2003 on the GameCube. It features Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai's round, pink, utterly charming child participating in short races where the main feature isn't so much about how fas... View Source

US military is trying shotguns as last-ditch defense against drone attacks... View Source

Google has started inserting ads into query results from its AI Mode, which was originally spotted by an SEO consultant named Brodie Clark. These ads show up in the bottom of search results in the Gemini-powered AI Mode. They are labeled as "sponsored" content, but otherwise look similar to other links whipped up by the chatbot. Google says this is just a test and that ads shouldn't... View Source

"If this is how the agency handles one of its most high-profile flagship missions, how many other missions are in imminent danger of being irrevocably lost?"... View Source

The PlayStation Portal has only gotten better since its launch in 2023. Deals on Sony’s PlayStation 5 are much more common than those on its PlayStation Portal, the handheld that can remotely stream games from the console via Wi-Fi. But for Black Friday, the Portal just got its first major discount to around $178.99 ($21 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Additionally, you can save up to $100... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s Ring division has ordered hundreds of customer service workers to relocate to central hubs in the US and UK amid a companywide push to streamline and automate operations... View Source

My colleagues on Engadget's buying advice team have put out great recommendations for physical gadgets like this humble fabric shaver that are on sale for Black Friday. I, however, am an evolved being who swims in the digital ether, so my top product of the year lives only online — though DeleteMe will still improve your life wherever you are. From now until December 5, DeleteMe is offering 3... View Source

John Carpenter's Antarctica-set sci-fi classic clearly had a significant influence on "Alien: Earth"... View Source

Get rid of sensitive or confidential data in an instant. | Image: TeamGroup TeamGroup has announced a new portable SSD drive called the T-Create Expert P35S that could give you some peace of mind if you’re worried about your data falling into the wrong hands. Instead of using encryption to lock everything behind a password or biometric security, the P35S has a single button that initiates a self-d... View Source

US officials are having early discussions on whether to let Nvidia Corp. sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, according to people familiar with the matter, a contentious potential move that would mark a major win for the world’s most valuable company... View Source

SpaceX has confirmed that its third-gen Super Heavy Booster, the first stage of the two-stage Starship system, suffered an explosive gas failure of sorts during testing on Thursday morning. In a post on X, the aerospace company said, "Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing that we were conducting in advance of structural proof testing." There was no propellant... View Source

Hurricane Melissa raged as a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean last month—and now scientists have confirmed that its strongest gusts neared record speeds... View Source

Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is certainly impressive, but if you just need a reliable tablet for streaming, taking video calls, note-taking, and light work, you don’t need to spend north of $1,000. Apple’s latest entry-level iPad can handle everyday tasks with ease — and it’s currently matching its all-time low of $279 ($70 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy ahead of Black Friday. iPad (2025... View Source

Nothing Phone 3 owners, your Android 16 update is here. Owners of other models? Well, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. Regardless, the company's Nothing OS 4.0 update brings Google's newest mobile software, along with a bunch of UI tweaks.In addition to Android 16, Nothing OS 4.0 should deliver a smoother, zippier experience. The company promises "faster responses, cleaner visuals,... View Source

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for a "confidential commercial customer" on Thursday morning (Nov. 20), just a few hours after giving notice of the impending liftoff... View Source

There has been a recent deluge of generative AI videos featuring uncannily fresh-faced teens waxing nostalgic about how much better the world was during the '80s and '90s. As the AI youths smize and show off their period-specific haircuts, the clips cut to dreamlike footage of sun-drenched cul-de-sacs and vintage cars while songs like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and tracks inspired by the... View Source

‘Kingdoms of the Dump’ reflects the democratization of video-game development... View Source

After several delays, Analogue finally started shipping its 4K remake of the Nintendo 64 this week. That was great news for those lucky enough to have pre-orders secured, but the console was firmly sold out beyond that first wave of shipments. However, the company has now announced that it will have new stock of the Analogue 3D ready to go from November 24. You’ll be able to order from 8am PST on... View Source

The decision to end the program will affect studies involving some 200 macaques, with the fate of the animals unclear... View Source

If you're looking for a pair of binoculars that won't let you down, look no further — these image-stabilized binoculars are ideal for stargazing... View Source

Sierra’s Clay Bavor and Bret Taylor. | Photo: Sierra 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. A new trend has quickly emerged for AI startups that want to stand out from the rest: brag about revenue. Take Sierra, Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor's AI customer support firm that was recently valued at $... View Source

If you’re an Xbox-only player who’s been waiting patiently for the arrival of Bloober Team’s superb Silent Hill 2 remake on Microsoft consoles, now’s your time. While the ideal release window would have been last month to coincide with spooky season (PS Plus subscribers got lucky here), there’s never a bad time to play Silent Hill 2. A full remake of the seminal 2001 survival horror game, Sil... View Source

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy, NGC 2775, that’s hard to categorize.ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that’s hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smoo... View Source

From measuring one's mass to boosting the almost 1 million pounds that comprise the entire orbiting complex, the Expedition 73 crew aboard the International Space Station had a busy week in Earth orbit... View Source

Hoto’s leaf blower can run for up to 30 minutes at its lowest power setting. | Image: Hoto Hoto has a new cordless leaf blower that continues the company’s trend of redesigning power tools so they look more at home in an Apple Store – or in a sci-fi movie – than at Home Depot. It’s available now from Hoto’s online store for $239.99 or on Amazon, where it’s discounted from $249.99 to $189.99. As wi... View Source

Artificial intelligence, the US-China rivalry, and the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza were among key topics on the third and final day of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. Here are the key takeaways:... View Source

The truth is, most gaming headsets aren’t great values. I’ve tested a ton of them for our buying guide, and while the space has improved over time, it remains far too centered on branding and marketing. Too much of what passes by my desk comes off as overpriced compared to a good set of “normal” headphones in the same range, both in audio and build quality. If you have a pair you love, more power... View Source

SpaceX began testing the newest version of its Starship Super Heavy booster overnight Thursday (Nov. 20), but by Friday morning (Nov. 21), it was clear those tests did not go as planned... View Source

Next week you’ll get another chance to grab Analogue’s N64 redux. | Image: Analogue Analogue has announced its reimagined and upgraded 4K version of the Nintendo 64, the Analogue 3D, is being restocked and will be available again for preorder starting at 8 AM PT/11 AM ET on Monday, November 24th.  That’s good news for those of us who missed out on the initial preorders that quickly sold out,... View Source

The US Department of Defense agreed to lend $700 million to producers of rare-earth magnets in a bid to increase domestic production of materials used in consumer electronics and weapons... View Source

Square Enix loves to remaster, remake and reheat its RPGs. The latest title to get the treatment is the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy spin-off, Final Fantasy Tactics.Tactics has undergone its own remakes before, with War of the Lions bringing the game to the PlayStation Portable and, eventually, iOS and Android. However, now across all the major consoles, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Ch... View Source

Take gorgeous images of the night sky with this compact Dwarflab Dwarf 3 smart telescope, this Black Friday... View Source

The pitch is to take a picture and let AI do the rest. The latter is where it all breaks down. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimize... View Source

As job cuts spread gloom through the Seattle-area tech scene, one of Microsoft Corp.’s top executives is warning that state proposals for higher taxes risk devastating the region’s economy... View Source

So it turns out Meta isn't a monopoly, at least according to a federal judge. In this episode, we dive into Meta's victory in the FTC's antitrust case, which it seems to have won mainly thanks to TikTok's existence. Also, we chat about the Cloudflare issue that took down a huge portion of the web this week, as well as Roblox's plan to collect kids' selfies for age ver... View Source

llustration of BioSentinel’s spacecraft flying past the Moon.NASA/Daniel Rutter Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Station. Orbiting about 250 miles above the Earth in the weightlessness of microgravity, they... View Source

For a long, long time, Windows looked like Windows. The version numbers and features changed, but the basic structure of the computer didn't. With Windows 8, Microsoft tried to completely change things… and we know how that went over. So Windows, by and large, went back to being Windows. And people were mostly grateful for that. Now, though, the whole platform is once again up in the air. To hear... View Source

EQT AB agreed to acquire a majority stake in European environmental service company Desotec from Blackstone Inc., four years after it sold the business to the US private equity firm... View Source

The possible reasons behind Ubisoft delaying the earnings report it was expected to release last week were the subject of much discussion, especially given the company’s well-documented issues in recent times. But we now know that the delay was forced by an accounting issue relating to its soon-to-be finalized transaction with Tencent. As detailed in Ubisoft’s now-published first-half 2025-26 earn... View Source

8 Min Read 25 Years of Scientific Discovery Aboard International Space Station November marks 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, a testament to international collaboration and human ingenuity. Since the first crew arrived on Nov. 2, 2000, NASA and its partners have conducted thousands of research investigations and technology demonstrations to advance exploration of... View Source

It may not have been a massive fireball, but SpaceX now has more work to do before it can kick off this next-generation version of Starship... View Source

The PS5 Pro is $100 off. Black Friday is still a week away, but Sony has already slashed the price of three PlayStation 5 models. The PS5 Digital Edition (slim) is down to around $399 ($100 off) — its lowest price of the year — at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. The standard PS5 (slim) is also on sale for around $449 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. If you want a more powerful console,... View Source

US stocks edged higher to start Friday trading, recovering some of the losses from the previous session, when concerns around stretched valuations and the risk of an AI bubble combined to spark a sharp intraday reversal... View Source

DJI may be the big dog in drones, but it plays third fiddle to GoPro and Insta360 in the action cam market. To better stand out, the company has launched the Osmo Action 6 with a pair of innovative features. The first is a big, square sensor that boosts video quality in low light, while making it easy to output both horizontal and vertical video. The second is a variable aperture for flexible shoo... View Source

The Falcata takes up so much less desk space than the Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB I use, and it works wirelessly, if you want. I recently published a review of the Asus Falcata, a 75-percent Hall effect gaming keyboard split in half for ergonomic benefits. My takeaway is that $420 is way too much money for an ergonomic keyboard that doesn’t do the ergonomic part as well as some cheaper models. Nota... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s boss vowed to keep growing its US presence to meet AI demand, sustaining a rapid expansion that also encompasses Japan and Europe... View Source

Thanksgiving isn't until next week, but the Black Friday sales are upon us already. We've seen loads of great deals popping up around the Internet, including some serious discounts on headphones. The Beats Studio Pro set is available for a whopping 51 percent off on Amazon. That means you can grab the high-end Beats model for just $170 instead of its usual $350 price tag. This matches th... View Source

"All that remained was the particular flat shape."... View Source

Dude, where’s my card? Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. While we wait, we tried to order a Trump Mobile SIM card so we can test the service on a different device. Here's how that went. Signing up for Trump Mobile's wireless service felt a little like engaging in espionage. Let's say I don't fully trust the Trump Organization to be great stewards of my credi... View Source

In pursuit of revolutionary advances in AI, tech companies are plowing billions of dollars into massive new facilities. The projects are straining power grids, environmental resources and, potentially, financial markets... View Source

Finding a gift for the tech nerd on your list can be tough. They likely have all the tech they need and then some, but you can add to their kit with the right accessories. Apple, Samsung, Sony and other big tech companies all have affordable gear that comes in at $100 or less, you just have to know where to look. Below are some of our favorites, but remember: you can often find alternatives that a... View Source

The quiet arrival offers another indication that the sun is moving into the declining phase of its 11-year cycle... View Source

Indian e-commerce platform Meesho Ltd., which plans to launch its initial public offering in the first half of December, is seeking a valuation of about 530 billion rupees ($6 billion), according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Ooni is having a Black Friday sale and there are some serious deals here for fans of homemade pizza. The Karu 2 pizza oven is on sale for $359, which is 20 percent off. The typical asking price here is $449. The Karu 2 didn't make our list of the best pizza ovens, but most of the list is populated by Ooni products. The company makes good stuff. The Ooni Karu 16 topped our list and the Karu 2... View Source

The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early 2026... View Source

A new way to AirDrop just dropped. It's pretty rare when a cool new gadget feature gets announced that you can try right away on your own devices. But that's exactly what happened yesterday when, out of the blue, Google announced it had engineered a way to bring AirDrop interoperability to Pixel 10 phones - all without Apple's involvement. After the news dropped, an update started rolling out that... View Source

LAUNCH COMPLEX 14, Cape Canaveral, Fla.—The platform atop the hulking steel tower offered a sweeping view of Florida’s rich, sandy coastline and brilliant blue waves beyond. Yet as captivating as the vista might be for an aspiring rocket magnate like Andy Lapsa, it also had to be a little intimidating. To his right, at Launch Complex 13 next door, a recently returned Falcon 9 booster stood on a la... View Source

Two British teenagers pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a cyber attack on London’s transport network... View Source

Oura is hosting a Black Friday sale on many of its more popular smart rings. Perhaps the most notable deal is for the Oura Ring 4, which is down to $249. This is a discount of 29 percent, as it typically costs $349. The sale applies to the black colorway. The Ring 4 actually topped our list of the best smart rings, and with good reason. It's comfortable to wear for long periods of time, which... View Source

Criminals around the world are increasingly mixing trade in illegal animal parts with trafficking of arms, humans, and more—even exchanging wildlife for drugs... View Source

A record-breaking number of stars has been mapped by a new model that speeds up processing time while allowing smaller scale events, such as supernova explosions, to be incorporated into the simulation alongside larger-scale galactic processes... View Source

The chunky grip doubles as a stand, and attaches using MagSafe. Apple has partnered with artist and designer Bailey Hikawa on a new MagSafe iPhone grip “designed with accessibility in mind from the ground up.” The $69.95 Hikawa Phone Grip & Stand is available from the Apple Store now, but is listed as a limited edition. The stand comes in either Brat green or a speckled stone finish from Apple... View Source

During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing. The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Loni Prinsloo and Yinka Ibukun report on the burgeoning effort by Africa to join the AI race... View Source

Happy Friday! As the annual tech discount chaos of Black Friday approaches (good deal here and here and several more here), European policymakers have proposed easing some of the EU’s strictest regulations on artificial intelligence and data privacy. The move aims to remove roadblocks for tech companies and stimulate business growth in the region, potentially marking a major pivot away from the bl... 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

Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos... View Source

Arizona's economy was once dominated by the "five C's": cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New semiconductor manufacturing facilities are springing up across the greater Phoenix area, stretching across blocks of new roads with names like "Processor Parkway" and "Transistor Terrace." Just outside the facilities, develo... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is venturing into the complex world of electricity trading, betting it can accelerate the construction of new US power plants that are vital to its artificial intelligence ambitions... View Source

Comets don’t just orbit our sun. “Exocomets” are common around other stars in the galaxy, too... View Source

Almost no one outside the tech industry had heard the term ChatGPT when a team at Morgan Stanley invited Sam Altman to its Menlo Park office to meet with some of the bank’s executives... View Source

The astronomers estimate that this galaxy will deplete itself of gas in only a few hundred million years... View Source

A blowout forecast from Nvidia Corp. was supposed to bring back dip buyers. Instead, a tech rout and a mixed jobs report left investors battered and with a choice of nursing their wounds or wading back... View Source

Samsung’s Odyssey G8 OLED monitor is now down to $950 for Black Friday, saving you $350. It’s one of Samsung’s best 32-inch displays, offering a crisp 4K resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate and vivid OLED contrast that makes games and movies look incredible. The 32-inch Odyssey G8 has earned high marks for its blend of image quality and gaming performance. Its 4K OLED panel produces deep blacks and b... View Source

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors."... View Source

The Gemini app produced this image of a second shooter hidden in the bushes with the Book Depository in the background. | AI Image: The Verge via Google Gemini It was really easy getting Google's Gemini app to make an image of a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, the White House ablaze, and Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers. We asked and it complied. There were few filters or guardrail... View Source

Wall Street is growing increasingly concerned about the amount of leverage that Big Tech is taking on to build out its artificial intelligence infrastructure as the industry faces rising fears of a bubble... View Source

Sometimes, the best gaming headset doesn’t have to be a “gaming headset” at all. While many people view these devices as their own category, they’re ultimately still headphones, just with a boom mic and some fancy branding attached. While the overall quality of dedicated headsets has improved over time, they still tend to cost extra compared to a good pair of wired headphones (which, yes, still ex... View Source

Japan’s state-backed chip venture Rapidus Corp. aims to go public around fiscal 2031 in a bid to bolster the country’s domestic chipmaking capabilities... View Source

Bitcoin is on track for its worst monthly performance since a string of corporate collapses rocked the wider crypto sector in 2022... View Source

Blue Origin plans to build an even more powerful version of its partially reusable New Glenn rocket, which aced its second-ever launch just last week... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. aims to spend an initial $1 billion to $5 billion growing its US manufacturing footprint, propelling an expansion aimed at sating the enormous needs of AI sector leaders Nvidia Corp. and OpenAI... View Source

"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe."... View Source

Ubisoft Entertainment SA, the video-game publisher behind Assassin’s Creed, said an auditor’s review forced it to restate its 2025 fiscal year accounts and to not recognize revenue from a partnership signed in its most recent quarter, putting it in violation of the terms of a loan agreement... View Source

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is almost upon us (well, the first part of it, anyway), which means there are Brand Integrations™ afoot. One of those involves Fortnite and a new map for the fast-paced Blitz mode. Starting on November 21, it seems that you’ll be able to go into the Upside Down for quickfire matches at a creepy version of the Creel House. The trailer indicates that the... View Source

Waymo announced plans to expand Minneapolis, Tampa, and New Orleans. Here is a of Waymo expansion in 2026 and 2027. Waymo is in 5 cities now and will be in 10 in a few months and 15 by the end of 2026 and about 20 by 2027. Waymo goes into new cities with about 100 ... Read more... View Source

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket remained strikingly clean and white after two trips through Earth's atmosphere last week. Here's why the booster stayed largely char-free... View Source

MasterClass is running a limited-time offer that cuts up to 50 percent off all annual subscriptions for Black Friday. The deal gives you access to hundreds of lessons taught by experts and well-known names across nearly every field, from cooking and business to film and design. MasterClass has built a reputation as one of the best streaming platforms for learning new skills and creative hobbies. T... View Source

XAI just released Grok 4.1 Fast. It is fast model that is leading AI agent ranking. It has real-time X data, web browsing, and code tools. Elon Musk says Grok 4.20 should release by Xmas. It will upgrade top benchmarks where Grok 4.1 Fast scored perfectly in agentic tool use and beat rivals like GPT-5 ... Read more... View Source

Former Indonesian President Joko Widodo said the promise of a coming “intelligent economy” will hinge on training populations in artificial intelligence and rethinking the systems of global institutions such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization... View Source

Google is gradually replacing the outgoing Assistant with Gemini in all of its apps, and now it’s the turn of Android Auto. In the next few months, any Android users who have made the jump to Gemini on their phones will be able to interact with the next-generation AI assistant while driving using natural language. The Gemini-ification of Google Maps has already happened, and its new features are a... View Source

SpaceX launched 29 of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Nov. 20), on the 100th mission of the year to take off from Florida's Space Coast... View Source

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan dismissed reports about a new hire taking trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to his company, saying the US chipmaker respects other firms’ intellectual property... View Source

WhatsApp is going back to the past for its latest feature. In fact, it’s going all the way back, because it’s reviving the very first WhatsApp feature. You can think of About (the creators were really not very good at naming things, huh?) as a status update or WhatsApp’s version of an AIM away message. It’s designed to let your contacts know at a glance what you’ve got going on, such as something... View Source

More countries are banning plastics made with additives that manufacturers say can make them decompose... View Source

Amazon has launched Alexa+, its next-generation digital assistant, in Canada. The company unveiled the new assistant in February, and it has been making its way to more and more people since. Canada is the first region outside the US to get access Amazon’s upgraded Alexa. Like the version that rolled out in the US, users can communicate with Alexa+ in natural language. They can say “I’m cold,” for... View Source

These days, Black Friday is the longest day of the year. We're only halfway through November, but amazing deals are already popping up for some of our favorite subscription services. This is a great time to lock in a long-term deal on a streaming platform, but there's even more to explore beyond that, from a big discount on Quicken (which you can use to chart all the money you're sa... View Source

Dave the Diver, the smash hit adventure RPG/management hybrid, is finally available on Xbox. The game, about an intrepid scuba diver named Dave who splits his time between underwater adventuring and serving sushi in a local restaurant, started as a PC exclusive in 2023, but has since made its way to Switch, Switch 2, PS4 and PS5. Only Xbox remained, but it’s here now, along with all DLC released t... View Source

Cathie Wood’s flagship fund bought Nvidia Corp. shares on Thursday following the company’s blowout earnings, reiterating her firm ARK Investment Management’s bullish stance on the chip bellwether... View Source

The rise of cloud-based streaming for games has made it possible to play plenty of high-profile games on Chromebooks — not natively, but when you’re using a primarily web-based platform you’ll take what you can get. As of today, Google’s making it easier for new Chromebook buyers to play games right out of the box. Anyone who buys a Chromebook will get 12 months of access to GeForce Now, NVIDIA’s... View Source

With Black Friday 2025 fast approaching, is it worth waiting for the sales event in the hope of a streaming deal appearing, or should you subscribe now?... View Source

Nidec Corp. shares fell for a seventh consecutive trading day as an ongoing accounting probe further chipped away at the company’s creditworthiness with another downgrade by Moody’s Ratings... View Source

Count this as the latest unexpected detente between Apple and Google. Today, Google announced that the Pixel 10 series of phones can use Android Quick Share with the iPhone’s AirDrop feature, meaning it’ll be much easier to shoot files and photos between the two platforms. While this feature is currently limited to Pixel 10 series phones, Google says it is looking to expand the feature to other de... View Source

Merck KGaA, a German science group, will use Valo Health Inc.’s AI platform to help discover and develop treatments for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, in a partnership deal that could be worth more than $3 billion... View Source

Remember way back in 2024, when Qualcomm said most x86 Windows games would run smoothly on its Arm chipsets? Well, those promises were, shall we say, a bit premature. But with this week's launch of the Snapdragon Control Panel (along with other updates), the company says things are finally looking up for Snapdragon X Elite laptop owners. Alongside the launch of faster new chips, Qualcomm has... View Source

The initial public offering of Groww, India’s answer to Robinhood Markets Inc., was the culmination of almost a decade’s hustle for engineer and entrepreneur Lalit Keshre... View Source

Poncle has been pretty darn busy lately. Along with greenlighting a licensed Warhammer take on Vampire Survivors, bringing a VR version of the original game to the world and working on crossover expansions, the studio is making a brand-new game. Vampire Crawlers is a Vampire Survivors spinoff. Rather than running around the map to collect gems to level up and unlock or upgrade auto-firing weapons,... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia’s earnings, as the AI chip leader delivers an upbeat forecast. Plus, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora discusses the company’s earnings and plans to buy Chronosphere for $3.35 billion. And AI pioneer Yann LeCun is leaving Meta to launch his own startup. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Perplexity is continuing the rollout of its AI browser to more users. Comet is now available to download for Android mobile devices from the Google Play Store. Comet initially debuted this summer only to Perplexity's high-rolling subscribers on the $200-a-month Pro plan, but it expanded access to all users last month. It's free on Android as it now is on other platforms, and has many of... View Source

The UK plans to open a data center campus in south Wales, with developer Vantage Data Centers spending £10 billion ($13.1 billion) for facilities near a Microsoft Corp. site... View Source

Co-op horror game Reanimal will be released on February 13, 2026. If you simply can't wait until Valentine's Day to have an eerie experience with a fellow horror-loving person, you can check out a demo that dropped today. The announcement was part of the Xbox Partner Preview showcase, but you can also try the demo on PC and PlayStation 5. We got a first glimpse at the next creepy creatio... View Source

Blue Origin is making huge improvements to the New Glenn rocket. In early 2026, there will be 15% more first-stage thrust and 25% upper-stage boost starting with the NG-3 flight in early 2026. They unveiled a 9×4 super-heavy version capable of over 70 tons to low Earth orbit, ideal for mega-constellations and lunar trips. New ... Read more... View Source

South Korean stocks slumped as tech-heavy selloffs resumed on mounting concerns over stretched AI-related valuations... View Source

Two years ago, Ooni brought the pizza party indoors with the Volt 12. With that device, the company entered new territory and proved that its brand of outdoor cooking could be transformed for use in home kitchens. That model wasn’t without its flaws though, including its bulky stature and high price. Still, it impressed me enough to earn a spot on our best pizza ovens list.  With the Volt 2 (... View Source

South Korea’s early exports continued to grow in November, supported by sustained demand for semiconductors even as steep US tariffs on autos weighed on trade momentum... View Source

FoloToy, a company selling AI-enabled toys, suspended sales of its products after a consumer safety report showed there were few restrictions around what its toys would talk about, CNN writes. The report, put together by the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, found that FoloToy's products would discuss everything from sexually explicit topics like BDSM to "advice on where... View Source

2 Min Read Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera PIA26544 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Europa Clipper Captures Uranus… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera PNG (128.99 KB) Description NASA’s Europa Clipper captured this image o... View Source

OpenAI is partnering with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to design and manufacture hardware for data centers, the latest move by the ChatGPT maker to meet its surging need for infrastructure to support artificial intelligence systems... View Source

Stop me if you've heard this one before: xAI is once again nuking a bunch of posts from Grok on X after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. This time, though, the company isn't cleaning up a bunch of pro-Hitler posts, but a bout of cringe-inducing sycophantic praise for its CEO, Elon Musk.At some point in the last couple days, Grok began to offer extremely over the top opinio... View Source

Mexican fintech Aviva secured a $50 million credit facility from San Francisco-based Community Investment Management as it seeks to expand lending at a time when venture capital dealmaking in Latin America is hovering near seven-year lows... View Source

Meta is rolling out a way for people to interact together in its virtual spaces. Users will now be able to invite friends to hang out in the spaces created with Hyperscape on Meta Horizon. Up to eight people can join an instance, as long as they are age 18 or older and have the link to the space. The virtual spaces can be joined through a Meta Quest 3 or 3S as well as via the Meta Horizon mobile a... View Source

Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a room, have so far been solitary spaces. If you wanted to visit a virtual version of a room in your house (or of Gordon Ramsay’s home kitchen), you could only do it on your own. But beginning this week, Meta is rolling out... View Source

Anthropic is taking a page from OpenAI’s investment playbook. Plus: Google scores a big win with the release of Gemini 3. But first…... View Source

CloverPit is one of my favorite games of the year so far, and it just arrived on Xbox without prior notice. As revealed during Thursday’s Xbox partner showcase, Panik Arcade’s nightmarish take on the ills of capitalism and gambling is out now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. You can play CloverPit via the cloud or the Xbox PC app too, as it’s on Game Pass Ultimate and Premium as well as PC Game Pa... View Source

Three pros. | Image: The Verge / Google, Nano Banana Pro I gave Google's new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn't ask it to, but the AI model evidently decided my greetings card would look better with more skin. Nano Banana Pro is, as the name suggests, aimed at professionals. Powered by Gemini 3, it's effectively an upgrade of the company's popular image generat... View Source

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. directors agreed to a $190 million settlement of claims they failed to rectify repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy and improperly engineered an accord to protect Zuckerberg from personal liability for the privacy missteps, court filings show... View Source

Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ages. Microsoft announced today that the code for Zork, Zork II and Zork III will be made available open source under the MIT License. The company's Open Source Programs Office, Xbox and Activ... View Source

NASA/Lori Losey NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28, 2025, at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA test pilot Nils Larson flew the X-59 up to an altitude of... View Source

Tesla Robotaxi app rolled out to all iOS users. People are getting instant access. Tesla fleet in Austin appears to have scaled from ~50 → ~200 vehicles in Austin cutting wait times from 10–20 min to 3–4 min despite huge demand surge. ~500–600k miles/month now. There have only been 7 minor accidents reported Texas already ... Read more... View Source

It’s no secret that Elon Musk shapes the X social platform and X’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI chatbot to his preferences. But it’s possible Musk may have needed a bit of an extra ego boost this week, because Grok’s worship of its creator seems, shall we say, more noticeable than usual. As a number of people have pointed out on social media over the past day, Grok’s public-facing chatbot is... View Source

Asurion LLC is in advanced talks to acquire Domestic & General Group Ltd. in a deal valuing the UK warranty business at £2.1 billion ($2.74 billion), according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 knew how to lay on the camp. But it wasn’t only known for having some of the most delightfully cheesy cutscenes this side of The 7th Guest. Red Alert 2 was also an acclaimed real-time strategy game for its time, and it’s still perfectly playable today. Want to see for yourself? It’s now as easy as opening your browser.The Chrono Divide project (via PC Gamer) lets... View Source

A new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments... View Source

Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, you can route requests through Microsoft’s Foundry Local tool or the open-source Ollama, both of which run AI models on your device’s neural processing unit (NPU) instead of connecting to the cloud. That means you won’t need to p... View Source

Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese nationals and two US citizens with a scheme to ship hundreds of sophisticated chips made by Nvidia Corp. to China in violation of national security export restrictions... View Source

A major selling point of the Xbox Ally and Ally X is that they ship with a full screen version of Windows that plays nice with handheld PCs. As part of the company's recent Xbox Partner Showcase, Microsoft has announced that the Windows "full screen experience" or FSE is finally rolling out to all other Windows 11 handhelds starting November 21.For the most part, FSE lets you live i... View Source

NASA astronaut Scott Tingle NASA named astronaut Scott Tingle as chief of the Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, effective Nov. 10. A decorated spaceflight veteran and former captain in the United States Navy, Tingle has logged more than 4,500 flight hours in 51 different aircraft and served as a flight engineer aboard the International Space Station. As chief astron... View Source

When Jon M. Chu first announced that his big-screen Wicked adaptation would be split into two parts, there was concern about whether the original musical's second act could be fashioned into a fully fleshed-out movie. Compared to the stage show's lengthy first act, where all the musical's most recognizable songs are front-loaded, the second act is shorter and moves at a much faster pace while pick... View Source

Oracle Corp., the once stodgy database giant that’s borrowed tens of billions and tethered its fortunes to the artificial intelligence boom, is quickly emerging as the credit market’s barometer for AI risk... View Source

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Meta has been fined for unlawfully processing user data to gain a market advantage. On Thursday, Reuters reported that a Madrid court ordered the company to pay €479 million ($552 million) in damages to 87 Spanish media outlets. The fine stems from the company changing its legal grounds for harvesting personal data after new regulations took effect.The... View Source

Mars and Mercury cozy up, the Leonids sparkle, and Saturn’s rings are…disappearing?  Mars and Mercury get close for a conjunction, the Leonid meteor shower delights, and Saturn’s rings are…disappearing? Skywatching Highlights Nov. 12: A conjunction between Mars and Mercury Nov. 16-18: Leonid meteor shower peak viewing Nov. 23: Saturn’s rings disappear Transcript Mars and Mercury have a cozy conjun... View Source

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants... View Source

The replica is now available for preorder and expected to ship as soon as June 2026. | Image: Bethesda Bethesda is now selling a highly-detailed wearable replica of the Pip-Boy 3000 from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It was designed using the 3D models of the accessory in the games to make it as accurate as possible, and is available for preorder now for $299.99, with shipping expected to sta... View Source

The Trump administration is proposing to open new areas off the West Coast and in the Arctic to crude drilling as part of a draft blueprint released Thursday that would dramatically expand the sale of offshore oil and natural gas rights... View Source

After what was apparently a successful testing period, OpenAI has announced that it is rolling out group chats in ChatGPT to "all logged-in users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans globally over the coming days." The company first started testing a way to collaborate with peers directly inside ChatGPT around a week ago in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan.Once you start a c... View Source

NASA October marked the fifth anniversary of NASA and the original founders signing the Artemis Accords, as well as the recognition of Hungary, Malaysia and the Philippines joining the expanding coalition dedicated to the peaceful exploration of space. The number of countries involved now totals 59. “NASA welcomes the newest signatories, whose participation strengthens the global commitment to res... View Source

The Sonos Arc Ultra is (slightly) more affordable now that it’s down to $879. If you’ve been waiting for some relief after Sonos raised its prices earlier this year in response to US tariffs, Black Friday presents a rare opportunity. With many products on sale for their lowest price to date for Black Friday, and the Sonos app being in far better shape than it was a year ago, it’s a great time to p... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it has developed a way for its latest Pixel smartphones to exchange images and other files with iPhones using Apple Inc.’s AirDrop protocol, a bold attempt to undermine the exclusivity of its rival’s closely guarded ecosystem... View Source

The survival horror game Total Chaos has been in development for years and it's finally available for Xbox Series X/S and PC. Incidentally, this a Game Pass release if you're hankering to spend $30 a month. The launch announcement was made during a recent Xbox Partner Showcase. This is an interesting title for a number of reasons. First of all, it's absolutely dripping with style. T... View Source

A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members aboard, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, Nov. 27, accompanied by cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, where they... View Source