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Hello, Mario! lets kids interact with Mario’s smiling face. | Screenshot: X Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a new collection of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching in Japan later this month. All of Nintendo’s mobile apps have been free to download so far, but while so... View Source

Trade Desk Inc. analysts are bailing on the one-time market favorite amid growing fears that its advertising technology will get steamrolled by Amazon.com Inc.’s offerings... View Source

We’re into the back half of summer already (which may be good or bad news depending on how hot it is where you reside), and it won’t be too long before the weather outside becomes decidedly more frightful. When that happens, a smart thermostat becomes an especially wise addition to your home. They help to optimize the temperature to ensure you stay comfortable, while also keeping your energy bills... View Source

New Hubble Telescope imagery of the interstellar interloper comet 3I/ATLAS reveals a dusty coma and the beginning of a tail... View Source

Google’s apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it’s testing a “new, AI-powered Google Finance,” chatbot included. The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask finance-related questions of the web app’s built-in chatbot, which will serve up an AI... View Source

A Turkish court ordered the removal of all content from the popular YouTube channel of veteran journalist Fatih Altayli, following his arrest on charges of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... View Source

Gemini has been acting strangely for some users over the past few weeks. There are multiple reports online of users getting responses from Gemini that are oddly self-flagellating. A screenshot from an X user back in June showed Gemini saying "...I am a fool. I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted." The AI chatbot then deleted all the files with codes it created. Now... View Source

Scientists have spotted a mysterious mineral on Mars that may be new to science — and could help reveal some Red Planet mysteries... View Source

Why just stare at a painting when you can cosplay it? | Image: Casetify Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify’s new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a “silk-like textile,” according to Designboom, the headphone cover’s fabric has been... View Source

Emirates will ban the use of power banks aboard its flights and only allow passengers to bring one such device onto the plane, further restricting travelers from carrying electronic gadgets on aircraft... View Source

The Fitbit Charge 6 fitness tracker is $50 off right now via Wellbots, bringing the price down to just $110. All you have to do is enter the code ENGADFIT50 at checkout. This little device actually topped our list of the best fitness trackers, so now is a good time to pick one up. The battery life is fantastic, lasting around seven days on a charge, and it features built-in GPS. The heart rate mon... View Source

Symbion Power LLC is proposing a 140-megawatt power plant and transmission lines along the border of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda if the two countries can implement a recent US-backed peace agreement... View Source

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has responded after Donald Trump accused him of being "highly conflicted" and said he should resign, according to The Financial Times. "There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles," Tan said in a letter to Intel staff. "I wanted to be absolutely clear... I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards... View Source

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world... View Source

Long-unloved nuclear and geothermal are experiencing a boom in interest as data center developers seek carbon-free resources capable of delivering round-the-clock electricity to power artificial intelligence... View Source

Most microSD cards are fast enough for boosting storage space and making simple file transfers, but some provide a little more value than others. If you’ve got a device that still accepts microSD cards — whether it’s an older gaming handheld, the new Nintendo Switch 2, an action camera, a drone or an Android tablet — we’ve scoured the market and put close to 20 top contenders through a number of b... View Source

Bizarre phenomena called light echoes create strange, shifting shapes seen in some telescopic images, and help astronomers chart the heavens above... View Source

The MetOp-SG-A1 weather satellite is loaded onto the Ariane 6 launch adapter as part of a mission for the European Space Agency... View Source

At a rooftop bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic who implored them to consider a life away from Wall Street... View Source

This week, Apple committed another $100 billion towards US investments in a bid to avoid the Trump administration’s chaotic tariff plans. Oh, and Tim Cook gave Trump a unique plaque with a 24-karat gold base. Just a normal business meeting in a normal country. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Sam Rutherford discuss what this latest Apple investment ultimately means (and just how embar... 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 first analysis of mushroom bitterness reveals ultrapotent compounds... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.06 of the Rocket Report! After years of disappointing results from SPACs and space companies, it is a good sign to see Firefly's more traditional initial public offering doing so well. The company has had such a long and challenging road over more than a decade; the prospect of their success should be heartening to the commercial space industry. As always, we welcome reader su... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Natalie Lung reports on Uber’s strategy to invest in the future of robotaxis... View Source

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week’s SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta’s blog post, is to offer VR experiences “indistinguishable from the physical world” — something it says no present-day VR system has yet done. It wants to surpass what it terms the visual Turing test. “Our mission for this project was to provi... View Source

Is that a back penis? While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more. Copilot 3D just needs a good clean 2D image, and you don't even need to use any text prom... View Source

Intel Corp. investors can’t catch a break... View Source

Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois shares how his meteorology roots drive his fight to protect climate science and push back against political interference... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is the buyer taking ownership of Foxconn Technology Group’s electric vehicle plant in Ohio, a move aimed at kick-starting the Japanese company’s $500 billion Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle Corp... View Source

The full moon rises on Aug. 9; here are the best times to view the Sturgeon Moon... View Source

This year’s Xperia 1 VII has been plagued by problems. CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan. You could have fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and it appears to be pulling back in Europe too. It do... View Source

Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo team, upending the automaker’s effort to build an in-house supercomputer for developing driverless-vehicle technology. The team has lost about 20 workers recently to newly formed DensityAI, and remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla. Craig Trudell reports on Bloomberg Television... View Source

Taiwan’s trade surplus with the US exceeded its full-year record in just seven months, as a global boom in artificial intelligence fuels demand for its tech products... View Source

European technology stocks are woefully underperforming their US peers over the past six months, and their much weaker earnings momentum is to blame... View Source

Japan doesn’t want Apple to give it the EU treatment. We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.  Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change... View Source

If you’ve held on to an aging Windows laptop for too long, it’s now a great time to upgrade. With all the hype around AI PCs, computer makers are rushing to release new designs featuring efficient new chips from Intel and AMD. And thanks to Microsoft’s Copilot+ initiative, which launched last year, we’re finally seeing decent notebooks powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, which are leading to b... View Source

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan said he’s got the full backing of the company’s board, responding for the first time to US President Donald Trump’s call for his resignation over conflicts of interest... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 26% growth spurt in July, adding to evidence of accelerating spending on artificial intelligence... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved new rules to accelerate the deployment and security of subsea data cables, citing growing threats from China and other foreign adversaries... View Source

OpenAI and Anthropic are competing to have the top AI model for coders. But first…... View Source

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack. "As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market," wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a "special one-time award" to researchers and softw... View Source

For more than three decades, Lip-Bu Tan invested in the Chinese economic boom, placing the kinds of no-brainer bets that enriched venture capitalists and fund managers around the world and across the US... View Source

Instacart posted its strongest order growth since 2022 for a second straight quarter and beat earnings estimates for the current period, a sign of resilience in its core delivery business after it rolled out initiatives to cater to price-conscious consumers... View Source

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said a total ban on online gambling platforms will lead to a proliferation of illicit operations which will be more difficult to eradicate... View Source

Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings Ltd., and JD.com Inc. remain more exposed to US tariffs than global peers, with sector earnings expectations having weakened since President Donald Trump’s April tariff announcements... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has selected Pacific Investment Management Co. and Blue Owl Capital Inc. to lead a $29 billion financing for its data center expansion in rural Louisiana as the artificial intelligence race heats up, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

The rush to convert listed companies into vehicles for buying cryptocurrencies has reached such a fever pitch that even executives backing such deals are warning of potential fallout for digital-asset prices... View Source

Bloomberg is reporting that the Tesla Dojo chip project is being disbanded. The lead Peter Bannon and 20 others are going into another company Density AI. The team recently lost about 20 workers to newly formed DensityAI, and the remaining Dojo workers are being reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla according ... Read more... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses President Donald Trump’s call for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign. Plus the White House considers 100% tariffs on semiconductors, with a carveout for companies that move production back to the US including Apple. And the CEOs of Lyft, DraftKings and Duolingo all join to discuss their companies’ quarterly earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASX Ltd. is grappling with rising regulatory pressure and intensifying competition, as shares of Australia’s main exchange operator trail most of its global peers... View Source

Walt Disney Co. settled a lawsuit brought by actress Gina Carano, who sued for wrongful termination after she was let go from the cast of the TV show The Mandalorian following comments that were deemed offensive... View Source

Nextdoor Holdings Inc., the neighborhood social networking company, is eliminating 12% of its workforce, part of a broader effort by Chief Executive Officer Nirav Tolia to achieve profitability and revamp the business after years of struggles... View Source

Chime Financial Inc. posted earnings that topped Wall Street analyst estimates in the financial-technology company’s first quarterly results as a public company... View Source

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week, with concepts that are compelling on the specs and long on the design. Literally. The company shared some details on its Tiramisu project, dubbing it "hyperrealistic VR." This set promises three times the contrast, 14 times the maximum brightness and 3.6 times the angular resolution of the Meta Quest 3. In actual sta... View Source

Pinterest Inc. reported second-quarter sales that beat analysts’ expectations, but earnings for the second quarter were less than Wall Street expected and user growth in the US and Canada, the company’s most lucrative market, was flat. The stock dropped by as much as 14% in after-hours trading... View Source

Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 billion solar masses... View Source

The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs. People who use Dia for free will still have access to the same features the bro... View Source

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. raised its full-year profit guidance after second-quarter earnings came in well ahead of Wall Street expectations, fueled by strength in its Cash App lending business and resilient payment volumes... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission is planning a review of the US emergency alert systems. Both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WAS) will be subject to a "re-examination" by the agency. "We want to ensure that these programs deliver the results that Americans want and need," FCC Chairman Brendan Carr posted on X. The announcement of this p... View Source

Something’s off with that chart on the left. During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the scale is all over the place. For “coding deception,” for example, GPT-5 apparently gets... View Source

Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader will depart the company, according to people familiar with the matter, upending the automaker’s effort to develop in-house chips for driverless technology... View Source

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity... View Source

It’s official: Skydance Media’s deal to purchase CBS parent company Paramount Global for $8 billion is complete, and incoming chairman / CEO David Ellison’s first order of business is a massive restructuring. In an open letter about his plans for Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (the merged companies’ new name), Ellison announced that, going forward, the business will be s... View Source

The venture capital firm Accel is leading a funding round for the German artificial intelligence startup n8n that would exponentially raise the valuation of the company to $2.3 billion, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

Nightdive Studios and id Software have announced a surprise remaster of fantasy shooters Heretic and Hexen. The games are now available for modern consoles in a new release, dubbed Heretic + Hexen, that includes support for co-op, cross-platform multiplayer and community-published mods. Heretic + Hexen combines Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Hexen: Beyond Heretic and Hexen: Deathkings of t... View Source

Tesla plans to split Dojo 3 chip production, with Samsung handling front-end manufacturing and Intel taking on specialized packaging. This is a move away from TSMC’s full-process control. Samsung’s foundry to produce D3 chips will use the 2nm process for Tesla’s AI6 and Dojo 3. Intel will use leverage EMIB 2.5D packaging for Dojo’s large-scale ... Read more... View Source

During today's Nintendo Indie World showcase, I had two epiphanies. The first was the realization that friendslop games are about to hit the Switch 2 like a falling piano in a Road Runner cartoon. The second was that I love that for me, because that means I can finally play them. My friends love "friendslop," the initially derisive but now descriptive nickname given to indie co-op games with a loo... View Source

Flutter Entertainment Plc, parent of the FanDuel online betting business, raised its outlook for 2025 after US sports bets in the second quarter went the company’s way and it was able to offset tax charges... View Source

OpenAI GPT5 completed an physic correct airflow simulation program in 2 minutes using 300-400 lines of code... View Source

China conducted takeoff and touchdown tests with its "Lanyue" moon lander on Aug. 6, 2025, as it prepares to launch a crewed lunar mission by 2030... View Source

You can save $150 on various iPad Air configurations. Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of the Air is down to a new low price. The M3-powered 11-inch iPad Air with 128GB... View Source

San Francisco-based fintech company Brex Inc. has secured a payment institution license in the European Union, a stamp of approval that clears the way for a full-scale European rollout... View Source

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mar... View Source

Here are some first looks at OpenAI GPT5 coding capabilities. This is the best coding model that OpenAI has released so far. GPT-5 is a next level model. It can solve virtual rubik cubes and create professional images, simulations and websites... View Source

GPT-5 has finally arrived. Along with the announcement of the highly anticipated AI model, OpenAI also previewed several updates coming to ChatGPT, ranging from visual changes to improvements to the chatbot’s performance. Here’s a rundown of all of the changes you can expect to see in ChatGPT. Say goodbye to the model picker With the rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI is getting rid of the model picker and... View Source

A buy-now, pay-later app that’s become a go-to in Venezuela for purchasing everything from clothing to tires is breathing life into the country’s moribund stock exchange as it seeks to ease the financing load of its merchant partners... View Source

Grok's responses to users on X could include paid advertisements in the future. According to the Financial Times, X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion that his company would let marketers pay to appear in suggestions from Grok. He said that after making Grok the "smartest, most accurate AI in the world," the company is now focusing on paying "for those expens... View Source

Mr WhosetheBoss tested ChatGPT-5 and compared it to ChatGPT 4o and other older models. GPT5 is much better and it will become your default model for all free and paid OpenAI services. GPT5 will have better writing flair. GPT5 is not a step up in image generation. It is not better at every single thing ... Read more... View Source

No, it's probably not the de-specialized edition, but Disney could surprise the 'Star Wars' faithful when the rerelease drops in theaters in 2027... View Source

OpenAI officially launched its new GPT-5 models today, and Microsoft is now bringing GPT-5 to Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and more. It’s part of a big simultaneous release of GPT-5 that will show up in Copilot as the new smart mode that I detailed in Notepad last month. The new smart mode in Copilot allows the AI assistant to switch models for you to use deepe... View Source

The billionaire Winklevoss twins are said to have invested in a new crypto-mining venture tied to another set of high-profile brothers, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr... View Source

Yesterday, Meta introduced a new map feature that's almost identical to Snapchat's Snap Map. The feature has quickly sparked a backlash, though, and not just because it's yet another example of Instagram ripping off a Snapchat feature. While the map requires users to opt-in to share their location, many users were surprised and alarmed to see that their Instagram map was already pop... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The SWOT satellite caught the leading edge of the tsunami wave (red) that rolled through the Pacific Ocean on July 30. Sea level data, shown in the highlighted swath, is plotted against a NOAA tsunami forecast model in the background. A red star marks the location of the earthquake that spawned the tsunami.NASA/JPL-Calt... View Source

There are no observed changes indicating thrust. There is a propellentless drive in a satellite. The lack of observable propulsion effects could mean. The test is in the baseline data collection phase (no thrust) or the system is failing so far. Orbital data from Celestrak (as provided in the query) shows no significant change in ... Read more... View Source

Jupiter's four Galilean moons will line up in front of Jupiter in the early morning sky on Aug. 8... View Source

The Buds FE come with a charging case that provides up to 30 hours of listening time. | Image: The Verge Samsung’s latest Unpacked event came and went with no major announcements related to the company’s Galaxy Buds lineup. However, if you don’t want to wait for what’s next, you can currently save on the Samsung Galaxy Buds FE, which are down to $46.99 ($53 off) at Woot. That’s their best price ye... View Source

Flock Safety said Thursday it will add artificial intelligence to its surveillance products used by US police departments, an update the company said will help make society safer and that privacy advocates have called “abominable.”... View Source

The most obvious question is “Why?” Framework builds modular, repairable laptops that anyone can take apart and put back together again. It’s a big deal in an era where laptops are regularly sold as a single unit that, should one part break, goes in the trash. Since every part of a Framework machine can be swapped out, you can keep one going for as long as your patience, and the supply of spare pa... View Source

Grok 4 has 15.9% on the Arc-AGI2 versus 9.9% for OpenAI GPT5. XAI will have Grok 5 out be the end of 2025 and Elon says it will be crushingly good. Grok5 will use the equivalent of about 3 million Nvidia H100s (550k B200 chips) for training compute. Grok 5 will be out before the ... Read more... View Source

Four robots recently took to Mars-like terrain, including a cave system, during an epic experiment involving a NASA astronaut in space... View Source

Meta’s consumer VR headsets are already among the best you can get for their price points, but at a conference next week, the company is showing off some impressive-sounding research prototypes that could be a peek at what its headsets might be capable of in the future.  One headset, called “Tiramisu,” brings a “new milestone for realism in VR,” Meta says in a blog post. Tiramisu has “high co... View Source

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces at the White House that the company will invest $600 billion in the US over four years. Standing in the Oval Office on Wednesday with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Cook said Apple is also investing in its glass supplier, Corning of New York and expanding other operations in America. The iPhone maker is trying to get a break on tariffs from Preside... View Source

The upheaval continues for gaming at Microsoft. The latest victim appears to be Contraband, a planned release from Avalanche Studios with Xbox Game Studios as publisher. The co-op open-world game from the studio behind the entertaining Just Cause series was teased in a brief, mostly atmospheric trailer at E3 2021. But very little had been heard since about the project, and it seems the axe is curr... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA employees Broderic J. Gonzalez, left, and David W. Shank install pieces of a 7-foot wing model in preparation for testing in the 14-by-22-Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, in May 2025. The lessons learned will be shared with the public to support advanced air mo... View Source

OpenAI GPT5 gives Verbosity Control. It has superior instruction following and superior tool usage... View Source

SpaceX has signed a deal with the Italian Space Agency to fly Italian experiments on the first commercial Starship missions to Mars... View Source

The newest piece of infrastructure coming to Starbase, Texas isn’t a launch mount or a booster. It’s a water pipeline, and who can hook up a tap (and on what terms) will shape the definition of “company town.”  The new line, which will stretch from Brownsville to the newly incorporated City of Starbase, will replace […]... View Source

Zach Cregger's first major film Barbarian was tense and frightening, but it was also infused with a healthy dose of absurdity. The movie's twisted sense of humor made it easier to stomach its grotesque violence and a bit more difficult to anticipate how its unhinged story would unfold. But Barbarian also worked surprisingly well as a commentary on who really benefits from the redevelopment of deca... View Source

OpenAI is rolling out a more powerful and long-awaited new artificial intelligence model called GPT-5, vying to stay ahead of increased competition from rivals in the US and China... View Source

A couple of days after announcing its first open-weight models in six years, OpenAI is releasing the long-awaited GPT-5. What's more, you can start using it today, even if you're a free user. With GPT-5, the company is touting across-the-board enhancements, claiming the model is its best yet when it comes to coding, writing, safety, accuracy and more. "GPT-5 is the first time that i... View Source

There was a vibe coding demo for using OpenAI GPT5. It uses flashcards and verbal pronounciation and has an interactive game in the educational product... View Source

Explore the wonders of the cosmos and save over $700 on this Unistellar eQuinox 2 bundle, including an official backpack for taking it to dark sky sites... View Source

After the year of self-induced tumult that Sonos has been through, I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But newly appointed CEO Tom Conrad has shown that he’s determined to get back on track and revitalize Sonos as the leading whole-home audio brand. The contentious mobile app is in a much better place today than it was last year, though some cus... View Source

Another major streaming platform is set to crack down on password sharing. JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery, just told investors that HBO Max will begin an "aggressive" messaging campaign about the practice beginning next month, according to an earnings report. Beyond stricter messaging, the company is looking to close any and all loopholes that allow u... View Source

We are minutes from the OpenAI live presentation of GPT5. The various leaked benchmarks look very good and very impressive. We will see how the official reveal shows. 🚨 BREAKING: GPT-5 Is Not a Model — It’s an Event Horizon.The benchmarks just leaked. The numbers are not just higher. They’re from another dimension.Let me show ... Read more... View Source

Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering “foreign piracy sites,” as reported earlier by TorrentFreak. The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court to block piracy websites. The bipartisan legislation, led by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and A... View Source

NASA has set a 2030 deadline to build a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor on the moon. It’s an ambitious but potentially achievable goal that could transform space exploration, experts tell WIRED... View Source

A French startup developing battlefield drones and software is seeking to raise $200 million in early funding, as it attempts to tap the growing appetite for defense-related projects in Europe... View Source

The PS5 might be lacking the cadence of first-party exclusives that made its predecessor so successful, but that doesn’t appear to be slowing it down. Sony has announced that the console had shifted just north of 80 million units as of June 30, 2025. This puts it just behind the Xbox 360 (84 million) and well on the way to overtaking the PS3 (around 87 million) in lifetime sales. The 80.3 million... View Source

NASA/Rad Sinyak The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman don their Orion Crew Survival System Suits for a multi-day crew module training beginning July 31, 2025, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behind the crew, wearing clean room apparel, are members o... View Source

Scientists have developed an algorithm called Astroclimes, which transforms stargazing instruments into climate sensors that measure greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere... View Source

Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek's R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success. A few months later, Nadella then pushed to onboard xAI's Grok 3 models, in a deal that saw them arrive on Azure AI Foundry just in time for the first day of Mic... View Source

The latest Apple iPad mini, which was released at the tail-end of 2024, is on sale for $399 via Amazon. That's a discount of $100 and close to a record low price. The only caveat? The deal doesn't apply to the iconic Space Gray colorway, but all other hues are on sale. The iPad mini 7 made our list of the best Apple tablets because, well, it's the only one the company makes at this size. However,... View Source

Explore Webb Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle Other Worlds Observatory Overview Launch Deployment Orbit Mirrors Sunshield Instrum... View Source

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable orbit around Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sunlike star to our solar system... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight... View Source

Last year, Google surprised online video publishers with some stunning news: the company, which now generates over a quarter trillion dollars with advertising every year, effectively admitted that it isn't very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV. The issue at heart: Google has long required publishers to share a percentage of their ad inventory to be on Google TV. It's a... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. said it’s taking longer than anticipated to get Stargate off the ground, conceding for the first time that the $500 billion artificial intelligence tie-up in the US with OpenAI is bogging down... View Source

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity. Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future. "We're excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions,... View Source

Explore Hubble Science Hubble Space Telescope As NASA Missions Study… 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 Scie... View Source

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth... View Source

Peloton exceeded investor expectations this quarter, but CEO Peter Stern says expenses are still too high. Peloton has pivoted many times over the past few years in its quest to return to profitability. The latest, as announced in its Q4 2025 earnings call, is leaning into health and wellness instead of “just” cardio fitness. “With each passing year, we are coming to understand better the importan... View Source

Veon Ltd. may expand its satellite-powered mobile services to Kazakhstan, which would be its second market after the company struck a similar deal in Ukraine with Elon Musk’s Starlink Inc... View Source

Back in June, publisher Devolver Digital decided to switch up its usual Summer Game Fest showcase format and dedicate it to a single game, Ball x Pit by indie developer Kenny Sun and a few collaborators. The demo sunk its claws into me, and I've been looking forward to the full game ever since. During Nintendo's Indie World stream on Thursday, it emerged that Ball x Pit is coming to Swit... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) From left to right, Astronaut Tracy Dyson, Jeremy Shidner, Sara R. Wilson, and Christopher Broadaway pose for a photo after the 2025 Silver Snoopy Awards ceremony. NASA/Mark Knopp Three employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the Silver Snoopy award, a prestigious honor given t... View Source

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem⁠—a nearly two-century-old form of puzzle... View Source

August's full Sturgeon Moon rises this weekend, days before the Perseid meteor shower hits its peak... View Source

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a new wave of tariffs are taking effect today. Announced on July 31st, the latest set of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on foreign imports - possibly illegally - will set a floor of 15 percent for around 40 countries with a trade deficit with the US. There's an even higher rate for another couple dozen countries, as CNN has reported. This raises... View Source

Peloton Interactive Inc. projected a sales decline for the current quarter and said it would once again cut jobs, but the company preached confidence in a turnaround plan under new management... View Source

When UFO 50, the dizzyingly ambitious fictional game compendium from the creator of Spelunky, landed on PC last year, a Switch port felt inevitable. We’ve had to wait nearly 12 months for that to happen, but it’s finally here. Rudely shadow-dropped into a sizzle reel at the end of Nintendo’s (otherwise largely underwhelming) Indie World showcase this morning, UFO 50 is available on Switch (and pre... View Source

A solar system model with a small projector built in, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a great educational tool for kids... View Source

Tan was named Intel CEO just five months ago. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel’s CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel’s board chairman whether Tan’s alleged connections to China would conflict with security regulations. “The CEO of I... View Source

In the face of budget cuts, NASA has issued a new directive on how it will procure replacements for the International Space Station... View Source

Apple Inc.’s two-day surge has it on the cusp of ending a prolonged run under a key technical threshold that’s been symbolic of its struggle to convince investors that it can deliver on artificial intelligence and manage its tariff risks... View Source

Apple has announced that it's working with Samsung at its Texas plant to "launch an innovative new technology for making chips." Those chips are reportedly cutting-edge image sensors for iPhones, according to The Financial Times. That in turn means that Sony may no longer be Apple's only supplier of smartphone camera sensors for its upcoming phones. The chips in question are reportedly three-layer... View Source

Start preparing now to catch next month's dramatic total lunar eclipse... View Source

Eufy’s FamiLock smart lock features an integrated video screen and a neat palm unlock option. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Eufy's FamiLock S3 Max ($399) is a multitasking workhorse. Launched earlier this year, it combines a smart lock and video doorbell in one, and it's one of the first locks with a digital peephole and a wave-to-unlock function. It also has a keyway, keypad, and M... View Source

US President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on chip imports left analysts puzzled and shares little changed as the industry tried to work out which companies that make and design semiconductors could be hit... View Source

Between 2017 and 2022, 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the US, or around one every eight minutes, according to sealed documents seen by The New York Times. The company had only disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults during the same time period. The report is based on interviews with current a former employees, internal documents and co... View Source

They don't yet have a name, but "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds"'s latest foes have surely beamed in from a horror movie... View Source

Brazil opens with a bureaucratic error. A fly gets stuck in a typewriter, changing the surname of Archibald Tuttle to Archibald Buttle, a misprint on a form that dictates the government forcibly detain a suspected terrorist (Tuttle) but instead leads to the arrest of an entirely innocent man (Buttle). If the inciting events of our great science fiction films have been hostile aliens, seductive rob... View Source

The US safety regulator investigating the suite of features Tesla Inc. markets as Full Self-Driving has sought to test the carmaker’s recently launched driverless-taxi service, a sign of the close tabs authorities are keeping on the technology... View Source

Sonos plans to raise prices across its products later this year in order to minimize the impact of tariffs on its earnings, the company has revealed alongside its financial results [PDF] for the third quarter of 2025. It hasn't listed the products and their new prices yet, but it said that it's evaluating any changes it might need to its promotional strategies and that it has flexibility... View Source

Satellite streaks are ruining astronomical images. Can scientists and space companies find solutions before it’s too late?... View Source

The powerhouse R8 is ideal for astrophotography, and is already a brilliant budget performer, now even better at this price, with a Canon lens included... View Source

President Donald Trump called on the chief executive officer of Intel Corp. to resign because of what he called conflicts of interest... View Source

Finding a laptop that can juggle both gaming and schoolwork isn’t as tricky as it used to be. These days, you don’t have to choose between a machine that can handle your homework and one that can keep up with your favorite games. Whether you’re diving into an essay, editing video for a project or hopping into a round of Fortnite or Baldur’s Gate 3 after class, there are plenty of laptops that stri... View Source

Executive Producer — Goddard Space Flight Center Across 42 years at NASA, Wade Sisler — executive producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—watched the edge of human knowledge progress. During that time, the tools for visualizing and communicating those discoveries evolved just as rapidly. Executive Producer Wade Sisler has worked at NASA for 42 years, starting at the a... View Source

Solar panels, wind turbines, a hydrogen energy system and lithium-ion batteries are powering China’s newest polar research station... View Source

The Prague Planetarium hosted a first-watch party to unveil the first images captured by the Vera Rubin Observatory... View Source

Nintendo’s latest livestreamed event is highlighting the smattering of indie games coming to the Switch consoles later this year, and the Indie World Showcase is scheduled to start on Thursday, August 7th, at 9 AM ET. Hades 2 might make an appearance, and there’s a slim chance the long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong might show up as well. It’s a 15-minute showcase, and while I... View Source

In the battle to see which artificial intelligence model is the best at chess, the final has come down to Elon Musk versus Sam Altman, two tech bosses who have repeatedly clashed over the future of AI... View Source

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AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still need people doing math... View Source

The day after he won an unprecedented $243 million verdict in a wrongful death case against Tesla, attorney Brett Schreiber posted a reel on Instagram celebrating the victory. His song pick: 1992's "Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangsta" by the Geto Boys. "This is a verdict that will change the world," Schreiber wrote in the caption, as Bushwick Bill, Willie D, and Scarface rap in the background abou... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner considers what Character.AI’s introduction of an AI-based feed means for the future of social media... View Source

The Veeniix V11PRO is a larger and more powerful beginner drone offering up to 8K photos and 4K videos at 30 FPS alongside useful features and simple operation... View Source

Yet another reason to be wary of period tracking apps. A California jury has found that Meta illegally collected user health data from the Flo period-tracking app, violating the state’s wiretap law. The verdict concludes a lawsuit filed against Flo, Google, Meta, and app analytics company Flurry in 2021, in which Flo app users accused the companies of collecting their private menstrual health data... View Source

A Taiwanese investigation into the possible theft of chip technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is putting a low-profile, lesser-known tech linchpin in Japan under unusual scrutiny... View Source

In an 18-month clinical trial of the experimental GLP-1 pill orforglipron, about 60 percent of people lost at least 10 percent of their body weight... View Source

Syria plans to rebuild its aviation industry with new Airbus SE aircraft and the reconstruction of its main airport as the country reopens after years of civil war... View Source

SpaceX will launch a batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites this morning (Aug. 7). It will be the 100th liftoff of the year already for Elon Musk's company... View Source

Altice Portugal SA is winding down five companies with about 1,500 employees as part of an efficiency drive at the country’s biggest telecommunications company... View Source

Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min... View Source

Chinese-owned and operated DJI Technologies is up against an end-of-year deadline to keep its US business alive, and the drone maker is struggling to get anyone in Washington to listen... View Source

Sony is currently Apple’s sole image sensor supplier. Apple is teaming up with Samsung to produce digital image sensors for future iPhone models, according to The Financial Times. This is tied to Apple’s Wednesday announcement that it is working with Samsung’s semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, to launch “an innovative new technology for making chips, which has never been used before anywher... View Source

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MTN Group Ltd. said it returned to profit in the first half after Africa’s largest mobile-network operator didn’t see a repeat of currency depreciation that hit 2024 earnings from its Nigerian operation... View Source

Choosing the best laptop can be a bit of a challenge — there are so many models, sizes and specs out there that it’s easy to feel lost in the shuffle. But the good news is that modern laptops are better than ever. Whether you're looking for a powerful AI PC, a travel-ready ultrabook or an affordable machine that can handle everyday tasks, there's something out there for everyone. Today’s systems c... View Source

GitHub has accidentally announced OpenAI’s new range of GPT-5 models. A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals that GPT-5, which will be available in four different versions, offers “major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience.” Reddit posters noticed a new GitHub blog post announcing that GPT-5 is generally available in GitHub models, before the blog post was quickly removed... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. swung to a profit in the June quarter, bolstered by gains in its holdings including Nvidia Corp. and Coupang Inc., in a boost for founder Masayoshi Son’s planned bets on artificial intelligence technologies... View Source

Airtree Ventures, an investor in Canva Inc. and AirWallex, has closed a $425 million fund focused on Australia and New Zealand, saying international interest is growing in the region’s startups... View Source

Siemens AG’s revenue and orders rose in its fiscal third quarter after robust demand for the German industrial manufacturer’s rail products offset a sharp decline at the software business... View Source

Elon Musk and the X team outlined a transformative approach to advertising on X emphasizing the integration of Grok AI (resulting from the merger of xAI and X) to make ads more relevant, effective, and user-friendly. The core goal is to evolve X from a platform with historically poor ad targeting—described as “random” or even ... Read more... View Source

Deutsche Telekom AG raised its 2025 profit forecast for a second time this year after strong sales in the US and Europe fueled second quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates... View Source

After adding more than $65 billion in market value over the past four months, the fate of SoftBank Group Corp. shares is more firmly attached to the global artificial intelligence boom than ever before... View Source

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts will leave the International Space Station and head home to Earth today (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Taiwan said its leading chip manufacturer will not have to pay a 100% tariff on such imports to the US, helping drive Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares to a record... View Source

Sony Group Corp. raised its earnings forecast on Thursday after a strong showing from its entertainment divisions that outweighed the threat of new US tariffs on chips... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it’s fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island’s government arrested six people suspected of stealing trade secrets from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... View Source

Hikaru Nakamura says XAI Grok 4 is by far and away the best chess playing general LLM. Grok is playing the best overall chess Gemini is second best OpenAI made a lot of mistakes Claude has been disappointing DeepSeek is the worst Recent testing if finding Grok about 1600-1800 and Gemini at 1500-1700. An 1800 ... Read more... View Source

A top Republican senator asked the chairman of Intel Corp.’s board to answer questions about Chief Executive Officer Lip-Bu Tan’s ties to China, including investments in the country’s semiconductor companies and others with connections to the country’s military... View Source

Tesla is training a new FSD model with ~10X the parameters and a big improvement to video compression loss. Probably ready for public release end of next month if testing goes well. Video compression improvements (reducing data loss during training) have contributed ~20-30% additional uplift in past updates by enabling higher-fidelity inputs. From Phil Beisel ... Read more... View Source

Hackers have stolen login credentials from thousands of people working with the UK’s National Health Service, putting the organization at risk of further cyberattacks, according to researchers... View Source

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is using a familiar strategy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces: expanding existing initiatives to show he supports the president’s “Made in the USA” agenda... View Source

US President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House, as he readies sweeping new tariffs on semiconductor imports... View Source

There is widespread speculation in the AI community that they represent a stealth preview, variant, or test version of OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5 model. They have exceptional performance, timing, and shared characteristics with OpenAI’s tech stack. The Horizon models (primarily Horizon Alpha and Horizon Beta) surfaced anonymously around July 30-31, 2025, on platforms like LM Arena ... Rea... View Source

With the rise of video-centric podcasting, the industry is poised to usher in a new wave of series and deals. Meanwhile, makers of traditional audio series are hurting. ... View Source

Patrick, CTO and co-founder of an AI-native startup (launched ~2 years ago, working with brands like Coca-Cola, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Nike), shares his orchestration playbook from a talk at Microsoft. The core problem: Many engineers struggle to achieve 10X productivity gains from AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code (formerly Codex), and others due to endless ... Read more... View Source

Airbnb Inc. issued a better-than-expected outlook for the third quarter as it saw encouraging summer travel demand, but warned that growth rates may not keep up later this year due to tough year-ago comparisons... View Source

In a paper published recently in the journal GeroScience, the UC Irvine team reports that a combination of naturally occurring compounds – nicotinamide (a form of vitamin B3) and epigallocatechin gallate (a green tea antioxidant) – can reinstate levels of guanosine triphosphate, an essential energy molecule in brain cells. In tests on neurons in a ... Read more... View Source

Tom Conrad took over as CEO of Sonos in January as it continues to recover from last year’s disastrous mobile app update, and now the company has issued its first quarterly earnings report after he dropped the interim tag from his title. Beyond the numbers, with $344.8 million in revenue and a net loss of $3.4 million, Conrad acknowledged the impact that President Trump’s tariffs will have on its... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow speak with AMD CEO Lisa Su about the company’s earnings report and where it sees demand coming from. Plus, OpenAI is said to be selling shares at a $500 billion valuation. And the White House says Apple will announce an additional $100 billion domestic investment. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In the very first week of his presidency, Donald Trump vowed to force silicon manufacturing back to the United States by making processors more expensive, a threat he’s repeated since. Is he finally going through with that plan? Trump just announced he’ll putting an enormous 100 percent tariff on chips and semiconductors — unless your company kisses the ring like Apple CEO Tim Cook just did, perha... View Source

Duolingo Inc. shares soared in post-market trading after it lifted its earnings forecast for the year, citing the better-than-expected performance of its subscription tiers over the second quarter... View Source

Tea bills itself as a safety dating app for women, allowing users to anonymously share details about men they have met. A new app called TeaOnHer has emerged that attempts to flip the script, with men sharing information about women they date. And while Tea drew scrutiny last month after a data breach revealed user information, including potentially identifying details such as phone numbers and pe... View Source

Neo Semiconductor X-HBM architecture will deliver 32K-bit wide data bus and potentially 512 Gbit per die density. It offering 16X more bandwidth or 10X higher density than traditional HBM. NEO Semiconductor’s CEO, Andy Hsu, gave keynote presentation at FMS: the Future of Memory and Storage 2025. I, Brian Wang, attended. Neo Semiconductor is a private, ... Read more... View Source

Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, it’s easy to forget that they can just be simple machines that get us from point A to point B. Yes, some bots blow hot air on their bums (mop pads), deftly navigate dog poop, and have arms to pick up your socks, but there are plenty of basic budget robot vacuums that just... View Source

Former leaders of Tesla Inc.’s supercomputer program have started a new artificial intelligence company focused on the automotive industry, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The Game Devs of Color Expo is returning for its 10th year from September 16 to 19. The online conference both celebrates the games industry's developers of color, and acts as a showcase for new upcoming game through its companion GDoCExpo Direct showcase. This year's GDoCExpo Direct kicks off the conference on September 16 at 4PM ET / 1PM ET on the Game Devs of Color Expo YouTube channe... View Source