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A sharp-eyed satellite captured an amazing photo of SpaceX's first Starship V3 megarocket on the pad Thursday (May 21), just before it was supposed to lift off... View Source

They say that Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer. I have my doubts given the less-than-balmy weather in many parts of the US this weekend, though that doesn’t mean it’s not an appropriate time to pick up some summer essentials — including a portable speaker / smart lamp like Govee’s Table Lamp 2 Pro. Right now, it’s matching its all-time low of $134.99 ($45 off) at Amazon, Best Buy,... View Source

Robert Kaplan, Goldman Sachs vice chair and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, expects Kevin Warsh to be an "excellent" Fed chair. Speaking with Julie Fine, Kaplan also discusses the shift in market expectations over the past eight weeks, from anticipating a rate cut later in the year to now considering a possible rate increase or no change due to persistent inflation and elev... View Source

The JPL's current contract with Caltech ends in 2028... View Source

Long before the full moon rises, shifting sunlight transforms the lunar surface into one of the sky's best telescope targets... View Source

Twelve South’s AirFly Pro 2 let you connect wireless headphones to in-flight entertainment systems as well as the Nintendo Switch. | Image: Twelve South With Memorial day weekend kicking off the travel season, we’re seeing a lot of deals pop up on travel gadgets, from portable power banks to noise-canceling headphones. One of the best right now is Twelve South’s AirFly Pro 2 Bluetooth adapter, whi... View Source

Five years after losing many of its top leaders, the critically acclaimed ZA/UM is back with ‘Zero Parades’... View Source

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It's not the only sign xAI's signature chatbot is in trouble, even as Musk puts it at the heart of what could be the biggest IP... View Source

Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein is known for churning out thousands of youth-friendly styles daily at low prices. Over the past few years, the e-commerce giant has been scrutinized for its environmental impact, as well as its production practices. So why is Shein buying sustainable fashion retailer Everlane, known for its “radical transparency?" Lauren Sherman, fashion correspondent at Puck, join... View Source

This is part of an even-larger "restructuring" at NASA... View Source

Meta's new Forum app for iPhones takes Facebook Groups and moves them to a dedicated app with a dedicated AI chatbot to go with it, like an AI revamp of the ill-fated Groups app Facebook shut down in 2017. Rather than going to ChatGPT or tacking "Reddit" onto the end of a Google search, Forum users can view, search for, and post advice directly in their Facebook groups, with optional help from Met... View Source

Elon Musk is making a habit of collecting 12-figure compensation packages... View Source

Trump Mobile admitted to the leak after people started finding that their information was publicly accessible... View Source

Forget Baby Yoda, we want to see more big buff slug adventures in our Star Wars... View Source

Memorial Day is nearly here, meaning the seasonal sales are in full swing. If your weekend plans involve pool parties or barbecues, now is a great time to pick up a portable speaker or set of solar lights, as many of our favorite models are currently on sale. You can also find deals on everything from 4K OLED TVs and noise-canceling earbuds to tents, robot vacuums, and plenty of our favorite every... View Source

Bill Winters’ efforts to restore calm after making some controversial comments on AI have failed to reassure labor organizations, according to one of the world’s largest union federations... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA crew chief Walt Kondracki checks an F-15 aircraft Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Ground crews, made of various roles, maintain the aircraft to be ready for each mission.NASA/Carla Escamilla From high‑speed research flights to high‑altitude science campaig... View Source

A Japanese poet wrote in his diary that "red lights" appeared in the sky over Kyoto. An analysis of tree rings suggests a powerful solar storm created the sight... View Source

Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision "crashed" through legal guardrails. "Google just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square," it writes in its legal filing. Google had already said it would appeal the ruling, which includes both the August 2024 decision about its illegal monopolization and the September 2025 r... View Source

Is it the end of fintech and investing apps as we know it? Atomic Invest CEO David Dindi joins Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the future of finance and why it belongs to AI companions, not apps. He says investing apps could disappear within a decade as AI assistants manage portfolios for consumers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Best Buy’s Memorial Day sale includes a good deal on a massive OLED TV. The 77-inch LG B5 is down to $1,499.99 (originally $2,999.99), and the purchase includes a $200 Best Buy gift card. I’m a 55-inch TV kind of person, but if you’ve got the budget — and the wall space — this is a great deal. LG B5 OLED TV LG’s B5 TV is a great way to get OLED picture quality for less. It features support f... View Source

Axon President Josh Eisner joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why Wall Street is misunderstanding the company’s AI strategy. From  drones to enterprise security and public safety software, Eisner says Axon is evolving far beyond Tasers and body cameras, and betting aggressively on AI to drive its next wave of growth. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers Dr. Kevin Yu, left, and Dr. Jamesa Stokes prepare to remove a sample of a new material they discovered from a furnace inside a laboratory at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in October 2024. Quenching, or bringing the temperature of the sample down as quickly as possible, helps to ensure no more rea... View Source

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks of LLM-generated prose - mixed metaphors, anaphora, lists of thre... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sent a long email to employees on Friday morning outlining several structural changes that are intended to make the sprawling agency more efficient and allow it to better accomplish major goals, such as returning to the Moon and building a base there. "I believe it is imperative to concentrate resources towards the highest priority objectives in the National Space... View Source

Softcat Plc’s image among investors is quickly shifting from AI loser to AI winner... View Source

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.Credit: NASA NASA announced plans Friday to compete the next contract for managing and operating the agency’s federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in Southern California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to ensure continued accountability and strong value for U.S. taxpayers. The California Institute of Technolo... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. It's now been more than a week since Trump Mobile announced that phones would "start shipping this week." Last week Trump Mobile announced that the T1 Phone was ready to start shipping by the end of the week. Almost two weeks later, there's no sign that... View Source

The House Oversight Committee is investigating how customers of Kalshi and Polymarket could be using non-public information to engage in insider trading, escalating concerns about prediction markets after some suspiciously well timed trades... View Source

The Mandalorian and Grogu can't quite leave its TV origins behind... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA announced Friday an agencywide realignment to increase mission focus and move out on the National Space Policy. These changes position the agency to better deliver on the nation’s highest‑priority objectives with speed and efficiency. During the Ignition event in late March, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and agency leaders outlined the most pressing objectives to deliver on t... View Source

A breathtaking new image captures the Crystal Ball Nebula, the remains of a dying star found in the constellation Taurus... View Source

Prompt something better than Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” I dare you. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new to... View Source

Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund expressed dissatisfaction with the reappointment of John Elkann, chairman of Stellantis NV and chief executive of investor Exor NV, on the board of directors at Meta Platforms Inc... View Source

Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing the searching? And it's doing it proactively? Without even telling you about it? In the world Google imagines, in which so much of the actual googling happens without your prompting, involvement, or even knowledge, can you even call Google a search en... View Source

Critterz, a feature-length cartoon intended to showcase how OpenAI’s video-generation capabilities could revolutionize filmmaking, has missed its planned Cannes Film Festival debut after the artificial intelligence company shut down its Sora tool, forcing its creators to look for a new AI partner... View Source

We put the Oppo Find X9 Ultra up against the Vivo X300 Ultra to see which telephoto smartphone reigns supreme... View Source

NASA will give an update on Tuesday afternoon (May 26) about its plans to build a moon base, and you can watch it live... View Source

The ROG Zephyrus G14 has been one of our favorite laptops for years, but high prices slightly tarnish the luster of this new version. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge I've loved the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 since it launched in 2020. I bought one for my wife after reading about how awesome it was on a little site called The Verge dot com. Since then, the G14 has gotten some facelifts, chi... View Source

NYSE President Lynn Martin says some of the rules used to attract SpaceX to go public on the Nasdaq are "questionable." She says "market integrity" is not a "competitive dynamic." Martin says it's been a good year for IPOs across all industries and they're working to bring more companies public. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Which new TV should you buy? The Engadget Podcast dives into RGB LCDs, OLED and all the new TV tech... 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

The moon will pass in front of Regulus for some observers on May 23, blocking its light... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. staved off a potentially catastrophic strike this week, reaching a tentative deal with leaders of its largest union at the last minute to share more profits from the AI boom. But inside the $1.1 trillion technology behemoth, not everyone is happy... View Source

Watch SpaceX launch Starship V3 for the first time... View Source

"The evidence for water vapor plumes on Europa isn’t as strong as we first understood it."... View Source

Few companies serve as many consumers and businesses... View Source

The Wall Street Journal claims Iran continued to use Binance to funnel money despite tough sanctions... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.42 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX nearly launched its Starship rocket on Thursday amid much pomp and circumstance in South Texas, only to be foiled by a ground system issue. Such delays are to be expected, with almost entirely new hardware on both the rocket and the ground side of things. The company will try again as soon as Friday evening, and as we discuss in this week's repo... View Source

Shares in Eutelsat Communications are headed for their best week in nearly a year, as enthusiasm over the highly anticipated initial public offering of Elon Musk’s SpaceX spurs investor flows into the sector... View Source

Google I/O 2026 kicked off this week and to no one's surprise, it was almost completely about AI... View Source

48,000 Samsung workers had threatened to strike unless bonus caps were lifted. | Photo: Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000. The proposed 18-day strike had hinged on Samsung's bonus cap fo... View Source

The multifarious methods we use to gather experimental data ultimately boil down to counting or comparing... View Source

Such services pose an existential threat to traditional entertainment... View Source

Malaysia is requiring social networks to implement age verification methods starting on June 1... View Source

Yusuf Mehdi launching Copilot Plus PCs in 2024. | Image: Getty Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, is leaving the company after 35 years. Mehdi announced his departure in an internal memo on Thursday, noting that he will leave Microsoft next year. He will remain focused on marketing for Windows, Copilot for consumers, and the Microsoft 365 consu... View Source

Zara owner Inditex SA is banking on diversification across brands and countries as well as artificial intelligence to spur growth at the world’s largest listed retailer, Chief Executive Officer Óscar García Maceiras said... View Source

SpaceX says it will launch a private flyby mission to Mars that will be led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, but when it will fly is unclear... View Source

Patients at the University of Chicago Medicine featured in a promotional video seamlessly refill prescriptions, book appointments and even get parking tips with the help of Agentforce, Salesforce Inc.’s flagship AI tool... View Source

Trump's AI order was reportedly delayed due to last-minute pressure from industry leaders... View Source

Microsoft is rolling out Office app updates next week that allow users to disable a floating Copilot button. The button appeared in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in recent weeks, and floats above the bottom right-hand section of spreadsheets or documents. It has angered many Excel users in particular, because it obstructs cells and you can't fully disable it. "While we are seeing increased engagemen... View Source

BlackRock Chief Investment Strategist Wei Li says artificial intelligence is driving a lot of the major earnings upgrades in equity markets. "We can look at AI lifting the whole market, but identifying where the bottlenecks are is a good active play," Li tells Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals closer look at finances, cosmic ambitions and tech empire’s quirksSpaceX publicly released an investor prospectus on Wednesday as part of its plan for a $1.75tn debut on the US stock market next month, revealing unseen details about the finances and future plans of Elon Musk’s flagship company. In addition to new information on operating costs and revenu... View Source

Sander van ’t Noordende, CEO of recruitment giant Randstad, says their base case is that 7-8% of jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence over the next 5 to 10 years. However, Van ‘t Noordende says he does not see the "doomsday scenario" that some predict. In an interview on "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" on May 21, van ‘t Noordende said AI will be a "wave" over the next decade, but also... View Source

Bungie is reportedly laying off a significant number of people and has not started work on Destiny 3... View Source

Standard Chartered Plc Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters apologized for his comments earlier this week about how artificial intelligence will affect “lower-value human capital,” after such remarks spurred public backlash... View Source

The European Union has made little progress in talks with Anthropic PBC to get its banks and companies tested for digital vulnerabilities that the new Mythos AI model uncovers, Spain’s economy minister said... View Source

Insilico Medicine Founder & CEO Alex Zhavoronkov discusses how his company aims to apply artificial intelligence to revolutionize drug discovery and longevity research. He speaks with Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of 'JPMorgan Global China Summit' in Shanghai. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Luxury hospitality is proving resilient despite geopolitical risk, fuel shortages and market volatility. This segment examines how travel demand is shifting within Asia, with domestic and regional travel supporting occupancy and pricing. Benjamin Vuchot, CEO of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, speaks with Haslinda Amin from the JPMorgan Global China Summit in Shanghai to discuss demand trends, op... View Source

Chinese automakers accounted for more than 15% of electric-vehicle sales in Europe for the first time last month as consumer appetite for models from the country shows no sign of slowing... View Source

Elon Musk’s reshaping of SpaceX, xAI and X into a tightly-bound conglomerate has already yielded a significant financial windfall: nearly $1 billion in annual interest savings... View Source

Meta is testing a new dedicated app for Facebook Groups called Forum... View Source

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. shares rally as much as 12%, the most since Feb. 9 on the company’s plan to collaborate with US tech company Nvidia Corp. and others on physical AI robot technology... View Source

Mitsuya Kishida, CEO of Nidec, says the company's recent financial performance is being bolstered by its data-center business, despite quality control and accounting problems at the supplier of electric motors. He says 'regaining trust' with customers is the firm's first priority. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Tornado Draws a Jagged Line in… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Ma... View Source

Nintendo Co. has asked partners and suppliers to assemble about 20 million Switch 2 consoles in the year through March, roughly 20% more than the public sales outlook it issued earlier this month, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Regulators in Hong Kong and Singapore are said to have sought clarity from Standard Chartered following CEO Bill Winters' "lower-value human capital" comments. Bloomberg's Avril Hong reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DeepSeek’s senior management has told potential investors in its ongoing 70 billion yuan ($10 billion) funding round that the startup will prioritize groundbreaking AI research over short-term commercialization, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Brandon Cho, Co-founder and CEO of custom AI semiconductor designer, SemiFive, discusses the company's 137-percent year‑on‑year surge in revenue in its first earnings release since listing on the Kosdaq in December. The Seoul‑based company says AI demand has driven production bookings up to 74-percent in the first quarter alone. He speaks exclusively with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia... View Source

Lenovo Group Ltd. shares jumped to the highest in 26 years on Friday after reporting strong growth in AI-related earnings that offset difficulties from rising component prices... View Source

Polymarket has appointed a representative in Japan and is preparing to lobby for the authorization of prediction markets in the country, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

SpaceX is planning to build a massive, 10-gigawatt solar manufacturing facility near Austin as part of Elon Musk’s ambition to power artificial intelligence data centers in space... View Source

Nidec Corp.’s recent financial performance is being bolstered by its data-center business, despite quality control and accounting problems at the supplier of electric motors, Chief Executive Officer Mitsuya Kishida said... View Source

SpaceX's new "V3" Starship megarocket was supposed to fly for the first time ever on Thursday (May 21), but technical issues nixed that plan... View Source

ElevenLabs is taking on Spotify and Audible in a looming battle over becoming the go-to platform for audiobooks... View Source

SpaceX fueled the third-generation rocket booster and ship and was just moments away from liftoff, before calling a scrub. It's expected to try again Friday... View Source

After several years flying high as Asia’s best Nvidia Corp. proxy, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is increasingly vying with other artificial intelligence stocks for investor attention... View Source

The Liberty 5 Pro Max feature a larger touchscreen with more controls and the ability to record meetings without a phone. | Image: Anker Anker has announced a new version of its Soundcore Liberty Pro earbuds: the new Liberty 5 Pro. These are the company's first earbuds featuring the Thus AI audio chip Anker announced last month, here being used to bolster noise reduction capabilities and help ensu... View Source

Canada will require streaming giants including Netflix Inc. and Spotify Technology SA to spend 15% of their annual Canadian revenue on local content, moving ahead with rules that have been identified as a trade irritant by the US Trade Representative... View Source

Anker's first products with its Thus AI chip are two powerful sets of earbuds, including one that has an AI note taker... View Source

The Liberty 5 Pro series are Soundcore’s most ambitious earbuds yet. Soundcore, Anker's audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, it's aiming at the big guys. The two new earbuds - the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max - use Anker's new Thus chip, which has more processing power than previous Soundcore earbuds to try and compete with t... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Gerber Kawasaki Investment Management’s Ross Gerber, 1789 Capital Partner Paul Abrahimzadeh, Space Capital Founder & CEO Chad Anderson, Research Affiliates Director of Research Campbell Harvey, Man Group’s Matt Rowe, Cores... View Source

Cursor’s annualized revenue hit $3 billion in late April, according to a person familiar with the matter, indicating growing demand for the company’s AI coding software ahead of an expected deal to be acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The artificial intelligence startup’s annualized revenue, which projects sales for a 12-month-period based on recent performance, topped $2 billion in February, Bloomb... View Source

Most users can start generating slides with AI today... View Source

Engineers from Katalyst stabilize their LINK robotic servicing spacecraft during environmental testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. The LINK spacecraft will be encapsulated in Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket, for launch in late June on a mission to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.Credit: NASA/Scott Wiessin... View Source

A federal judge is officially being tasked with deciding whether to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster. More than 30 states are asking Judge Arun Subramanian to order a sale of the ticketing giant, a "sufficient number" of large amphitheaters, and limit its ability to tie access to its remaining amps to the use of its promotions services. In April, a jury found that the company is an illegal monopo... View Source

Yann LeCun & JP Vert discuss artificial intelligence and LLMs, and how they can translate into the physical world in the future. The two talk about the new techniques and infrastructures that will need to be built, as well as where some of the physical AI components can be built. They speak with Roman Bostick on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is making it easier for manufacturers to make more Gemini-powered smart devices... View Source

Representatives of the Artemis Accords signatories including the United States, led by NASA and the U.S. Department of State, met May 13–14, 2026, in Lima for the fourth annual Artemis Accords workshop.Credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru and Peruvian Space Agency (CONIDA) The United States participated in an Artemis Accords workshop in Lima, Peru, last week, following a new wave of nations... View Source

Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding and deep ties to Musk... View Source

Workday Inc., a maker of workplace management software, posted better-than-expected results in the first quarter, helping quell concerns that the company will be disrupted by artificial intelligence... View Source

Looks like manual inventory management is back on the menu... View Source

Front desk staff will no longer have to turn their displays to show customers or clients. | Image: Philips Its name might be dull and uninspired, but the Philips 24B2D5300 Business Monitor brings a novel feature I've never seen on a display before: screens on either side. The design will primarily benefit people who are constantly angling their computer screen so those on both sides of a desk can... View Source

Zoom Communications Inc. projected stronger-than-anticipated sales growth, suggesting that customers are adopting its expanded suite of office products... View Source

Hold your Chatpads close... View Source

Two of the Artemis II CubeSats can be seen in the lower portion of the Orion stage adapter on the right side of the image. NASA Organizations interested in launching CubeSats on future Artemis missions should respond to NASA’s request for information (RFI) by Monday, June 1, for initial consideration. “The SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and the Artemis missions provide great opportunities f... View Source

University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, and the only people who seem to be genuinely surprised by this are the executives themselves. In a procession of viral videos, 2026 commencement speakers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt face loud and sustained jeers from students after praising AI and describing the technology... View Source

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. confirmed a Nov. 19 release date for Grand Theft Auto VI, expected to be one of the biggest video-game titles ever... View Source

Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Firefox is getting a drastic visual overhaul with a redesigned Settings section that will make it easier to find and use privacy settings, including the switch for turning off all present and future AI features. Mozilla calls the redesign "Project Nova" and plans to begin rolling it out later this year. It features rounded UI elements throughout, including bubble-like tabs, along with a refreshed,... View Source

Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management co-founder and CEO Ross Gerber sees a really exciting time for tech as space and AI converge. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

4 Min Read NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather A long-exposure photo taken from the International Space Station shows airglow as bands of green and red curving around Earth. A flash of lightning appears near the bottom. Credits: NASA On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase... View Source

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy... View Source

Luigi Mangione, accused of the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, attends a court hearing on May 18, 2026. | POOL/AFP via Getty Images On Monday morning, a judge overseeing the New York state case on the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO ruled that some evidence collected by police could not be shown to a jury. It wasn't the only news coming out of the hearing. Outside the courthous... View Source

Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI company is effectively basing its pitch for the biggest IPO in history on the idea that it can capture a huge share of the market from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and Alphabet Inc.’s AI systems: technology that will eventually automate large swaths of white-collar and administrative work, creating a massive market for software that can perform digital ta... View Source

Destiny 2's active development will end on June 9... View Source

"She doesn’t want a promotion or any attention. She's just trying to stay under the radar."... View Source

When air quality drops the bird simulates fainting and death by succumbing to gravity and hanging upside down. | Image: Birdie The original Birdie debuted in 2022 with a morbid-but-fun design - an air-quality monitor with a literal canary in a coal mine. When the CO2 in your home hit a certain level, a mechanical bird mounted on your wall would appear to drop dead, then prompt you to open a window... View Source

Waymo has temporarily halted service in Atlanta over concerns that its robotaxis may attempt to drive on flooded roads, the latest setback over an issue that recently led the company to recall thousands of vehicles... View Source

Meta settled a highly-watched school district lawsuit, but still faces many more... View Source

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft on a test flight around the Moon and back.Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA’s historic Artemis I... View Source

With Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu launching into theaters this weekend, we’ve searched the galaxy for the best Mando and Grogu merchandise... View Source

After back-to-back losses in trials grappling with its impact on teens' mental health, Meta just settled what was supposed to be its next legal battle with Kentucky's Breathitt County School District. Google's YouTube, Snap, and TikTok all recently settled similar claims brought by the school district, which was seeking payment from the companies to cover the cost of combatting social media-relate... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. reached an agreement to settle a landmark lawsuit alleging that addiction to Instagram and other top social media platforms upended learning across America and pushed US public schools to spend enormous resources fighting a mental health crisis, according to a court filing... View Source

Oura has reportedly filed for an IPO... View Source

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed a cloudy morning dissipating to leave a clear sky by dusk on a distant hot Jupiter... View Source

You can buy physical plates to pair with your AI effects. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with a reputation for building niche, idiosyncratic devices. The company has built grooveboxes around old-sc... View Source

The Pentagon is testing artificial intelligence models to see which are most favored by 25 of the department’s “power users,” as the US military races to find alternatives to Anthropic PBC’s Claude, according to a senior defense official... View Source

Spotify podcasts are getting the personalized AI slop treatment... View Source

NASA, ESA, K. Alatalo (STScI); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy’s full face, while red, blue, and orange light from di... View Source

We tested Nikon's new Action 16x50 binoculars for up-close stargazing, and saw lunar craters and Orion's belt in sharp contrast... View Source

Bungie is moving on from Destiny 2. The studio announced Thursday that it's releasing the last major update for the game on June 9th as its focus "turns towards a new beginning for Bungie." After that final update, the game will remain playable, much like the first Destiny. "Many changes in this final update will aim to ensure that Destiny 2 is a welcoming place for players to return to," Bungie s... View Source

A part of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's latest message to investors is that Nvidia isn't just selling chips to Big Tech anymore: it's supplying the picks and shovels for an AI gold rush, where startups are building everything from AI agents to humanoid robots and robotaxis on Nvidia compute. One of the key backers of that ecosystem is Sarah Guo, founder of AI-native venture firm Conviction. She joins... View Source

Extreme weather continues to pose problems for autonomous vehicles... View Source

A conspiracy theorist confronted the Artemis 2 astronauts on Capitol Hill recently, accusing them of faking their moon mission. They showed more restraint than Buzz Aldrin did in a similar situation... View Source

The Sonos Roam 2 is about the size of a small water bottle and comes in multiple colors. | Image: Sonos If your summer plans involve spending any time outdoors, whether on the trail or at a pool party, a good portable Bluetooth speaker can go a long way. The latest Sonos Roam is built precisely for those moments, and right now, it’s on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart for $134 ($45 off)... View Source

Oura Health Oy filed confidentially for a US initial public offering, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Spotify is working on a paid AI tool for covers and remixes... View Source

The project is starting small with just one Hyundai Ioniq 5, though Uber says its not wedded to that model. | Image: Balaji Krishnamurthy / X Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the road as part of its new AV Lab project to collect data for its dozens of robotaxi partners. The cars will be fitted with all the sensors typical of self-driving cars, like cameras, lidar, and radar. But... View Source

NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space again. It's an old problem that NASA recently hoped was resolved. For more than half a decade, engineers from Roscosmos and NASA have been tracking the leak rate from a small Russian module attached to the space station that leads to a docking port. The source of these leaks,... View Source

Hyperscalers’ capex boom is closely watched as the ultimate barometer of how long the AI cycle lasts. Nvidia’s earnings show demand broadening and rising faster elsewhere, reducing chipmakers’ overdependence on mega-cap tech. Ivan Feinseth, CIO at Tigress Financial, recaps Nvidia earnings and discusses his outlook on the broader sector as some big tech IPOs loom. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

AT&T's 'build your own' wireless plan starts at just $15 a month, but only comes with 1GB of data to start... View Source

The alien bounty hunter going after Din Djarin and Grogu in the new Star Wars movie might be a mystery to casual fans, but he's not a newcomer... View Source

Google is expanding its AI-powered Gemini for Home capabilities beyond its cameras and smart speakers to other manufacturers to sell more subscriptions. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Selling the smart home has been hard. Even Amazon has lost money in the space, despite putting hundreds of millions of Echo devices in people's homes. Google has also reportedly struggled to turn a pr... View Source

The impending arrival of El Niño will help keep the number of storms low. But it only takes one landfall to create a catastrophe... View Source

SpaceX is marketing itself to IPO investors as an artificial intelligence play targeting a $26.5 trillion potential market opportunity, positioning itself to wrest business from investor darlings whose valuations have soared... View Source

Season two arrives on June 25... View Source

Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for streaming songs. The tool will be a paid add-on for Premium subscribers. Artists will be able to opt out of the program, but those who do participate will collect royalties on these AI remixes. In October of last year, Spotify announced that it was... View Source

The company will soon begin saving tickets for artists’ top fans in coordination with Live Nation... View Source

5 Min Read NASA Highlights 2025 International Space Station Science Results To dive deeper into the International Space Station research achievements from the past year, browse the 2025 Annual Highlights of Results, which NASA released in May 2026. In 2025, researchers using the orbital laboratory conducted more than 750 investigations that advanced understanding of life in space, drove innovation... View Source

Lunar Outpost has unveiled designs for a new Pegasus moon rover for a 2028 launch — but the Colorado-based company isn't stopping there... View Source

Price is a big barrier for most people who’d like to try out smart glasses for gaming, watching movies, or using their computers. Many models are at $400 and up, but you can snag a refurbished pair of Viture’s Luma Pro USB-C smart glasses for about $271 with the code LONGWEEKEND at eBay. Each set is listed as being in “very good” condition, with “inconspicuous signs of use after being opened by us... View Source

FedEx President and CEO Raj Subramaniam discusses how the company moves nearly $2 trillion worth of goods annually, its use of AI and data analytics, autonomous trucking, and the massive transformation underway inside FedEx. He also shares his personal journey from Kerala, India to becoming CEO of one of the world's largest transportation companies, including lessons from founder Fred Smith and th... View Source

Matt Anderson, left, joined by his wife Christine, is sworn in as the 16th deputy administrator of NASA, by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Thursday, May 21, 2026, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Matt Anderson was sworn in Thursday as NASA’s 16th deputy administrator by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. The oath was taken during a ceremony he... View Source

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface... View Source

Four decades on, '80s-style science fiction adventures continue to exert their influence on modern film and TV. The idea of a group of kids teaming up to face an otherworldly threat has become a trope at this point, seen in everything from Super 8 to Stranger Things. So on one level, The Boroughs, a new sci-fi series on Netflix, does a lot that feels very familiar, with its tale of a mysterious al... View Source

PNC Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Amanda Agati sees "a little bit of steam coming out of the market rally sails." She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The 10th anniversary edition of Sony's legendary 1000X headphones carries a refined design that ditches the plastic for leather and metal. However, both sound quality and ANC performance are less impressive than last year's WH-1000XM6... View Source

Today I’m talking with Liz Lopatto, who spent the last month covering the Musk v. Altman trial in all its chaos. You’ll hear her describe the courthouse as a “zoo” and explain that there were protests of one kind or another happening outside every day. Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman are big personalities, and people have a lot of feelings about both of them and the AI industry. And in the end… noth... View Source

SpaceX is poised to launch its gargantuan Starship rocket on its twelfth major test flight on Thursday, part of a high-stakes mission as the Elon Musk-led company preps for the largest initial public offering in history... View Source

We're sure Twitch chat will be entirely normal about this... View Source

Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX's IPO filing, we have more details about that deal, including how much Anthropic is paying to Elon Musk's company. In its S-1 filing, SpaceX said that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month through M... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in talks to rent Microsoft Corp. AI server chips, the Information reported, as the startup seeks to boost computing power and meet demand for its services... View Source

Google's new AI features capitalize on the popularity of voice dictation, and a desire to leave the thinking to AI... View Source

With May's new moon fading and summer twilight looming, now is the time to plan a dark-sky escape — where location, timing and weather all collide... View Source

The Flipper One isn’t quite complete yet as the company wants feedback and ideas from its community. | Image: Flipper Devices It's been nearly six years since Flipper Devices introduced the Zero, its popular but controversial wireless hacking multi-tool. The company's latest creation (following a slight departure with a device that lets co-workers know when you're too busy to chat) is the new Flip... View Source

The European Union will propose temporarily lifting sanctions on a Chinese semiconductor supplier after automakers warned of impending supply chain chaos if the ban isn’t removed... View Source

The US government has taken $2 billion worth of equity stakes in quantum computing companies, including one linked to the Trump family... View Source

The new artificial intelligence enterprise services firm backed by Blackstone Inc., Anthropic PBC and Hellman & Friedman has picked a San Francisco firm called Fractional AI as the operational centerpiece of the as-yet unnamed venture... View Source

Tesla says China is now one of the countries where Full Self-Driving is available after years of regulatory delays... View Source

TESS has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth, revealing the location of 6,000 potential worlds beyond the solar system... View Source

“Hey chat, are billionaires cooked?” | Photo by kena betancur / AFP via Getty Images New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he'll respond to questions the public have submitted via the chat, Polygon reports. The series is aptly titled "Talk with the People," and kicks off later today at 4PM ET. "With the launch of 'Talk with the People' we're bringin... View Source

Technology giant Microsoft Corp. and consulting firm EY are partnering to spend more than $1 billion to encourage their clients to launch major artificial intelligence projects... View Source

Meta lays off around 10 percent of its total staff as it pivots toward AI... View Source

The chipmaker’s CEO argues another big wave of AI demand is coming... View Source

Ofcom has urged social networks to implement anti-grooming measures... View Source

AI is giving some old-school manufacturers a profit boost... View Source

The UK’s energy regulator said distribution grids must use flexibility tools such as smart technology to better control demand before being allowed to make network investments that add to customers’ bills... View Source

Bambu Lab makes the best, most accessible 3D printers yet, but that reputation is suddenly under siege. It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private message from the company on Reddit asking him to delete his code. Now the 3D printing community is lining up behind Jarczak to fund a war against Bambu - and the future of 3D printers could be at stake. Jarczak is a developer who shared a... View Source

SpaceX filed publicly for what stands to be the largest-ever initial public offering, revealing billions in losses and a super-voting share plan allowing Elon Musk to keep the company under his control. The rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence giant has reported a net loss of $4.28 billion on revenue of $4.69 billion for the first quarter. Some investors remain doubtful whether the sum of... View Source

There's a lot riding on the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket — including some of NASA's lunar ambitions... View Source

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NASA’s exhibit at the 2026 FIRST Robotics World Championship, held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston from April 29 to May 2, 2026. NASA Robotics will play a critical role in NASA’s ambitious plan to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, presenting opportunities for the next generation of engineers, technologists, and innovators to contribute to a bold vision for the future... View Source

Meta says it needs to “offset the other investments we're making.” | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they've been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of... View Source

The co-founders of Manus are exploring options to fulfill Beijing’s demand to unwind a controversial takeover by Meta Platforms Inc., including raising about $1 billion from external investors to buy back the Chinese-founded AI operation... View Source

You can talk out a first draft of a document, and Docs will organize your thoughts for you... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. could distribute about 40 trillion won ($26.6 billion) to chip employees as a bonus for this year after the company struck a last-minute deal with labor unions to avert a strike... View Source

Anthropic is expected to reach profitability for the first time since it was founded in 2021... View Source

Taiwanese officials are seeking to detain three individuals for forging documents in order to export Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China, the island democracy’s first such crackdown on semiconductor smuggling... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the leading challenger to Nvidia Corp. in AI computing chips, pledged to invest more than $10 billion in Taiwan to expand partnerships and add packaging capacity... View Source

Andrew Dai, co-Founder & CEO of visual reasoning AI firm Elorian, discusses the progress of his new startup, including hiring and funding plans. He joins Haslinda Amin from the sidelines of the JPMorgan Global China Summit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

BT Group Plc forecast declining revenues for 2027 that missed analyst estimates, as Chief Executive Officer Allison Kirkby aims to stem broadband losses and faces stiff competition... View Source

Nvidia beat analysts’ estimates with its latest results and forecast, and used its latest quarterly report to tout progress in diversifying the company. Though investment in artificial intelligence has continued to surge from large data center clients, Nvidia predicted that a vast array of other businesses and governments would soon become a bigger source of revenue. Bloomberg's Neil Campling repo... View Source

Samsung's union has suspended its planned strike that would have impacted the company's memory chip production... View Source

Norway is developed Europe’s best-performing stock market this year, thanks to surging energy prices. But there’s more attracting investors to Oslo than just oil and gas... View Source

Gabelli Funds Growth Portfolios Managing Director John Belton gives his initial reaction to Nvidia's first-quarter earnings report and forecast on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Anthropic PBC has agreed to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX nearly $45 billion over the next three years for computing resources as part of an expanded deal to support its Claude artificial intelligence software, according to a securities filing... View Source

SpaceX filed publicly for its initial public offering, moving Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company a step closer to delivering the world’s biggest-ever debut. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The SpaceX IPO is here, and it's more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk's companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident in ways that are both obvious and less so. A CTRL-F search for "Tesla" yields 87... View Source