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Micron Technology, the largest US maker of computer memory chips, gave an upbeat forecast for the current quarter, a sign that surging demand and supply shortages are allowing the company to charge more for products. Fiscal second-quarter revenue will be $18.3 billion to $19.1 billion, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts had estimated $14.4 billion on average for the period. Exclud... View Source

Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy. "I remember after we got the data down, our collective reaction was 'What the heck is this?' It's extremely different from what we expected," said Peter Gao of the Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory in Washington, a co-author on the study. The researc... View Source

Israeli security officials are investigating how the high-profile phone contacts, photos and messages belonging to former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leaked online... View Source

Creators and publishers have long worried about Meta's ability to throttle links to outside content. Now, the company is testing out a new scheme that effectively puts link-sharing behind a paywall for creators on Facebook.Under the test, a Meta Verified subscription will determine how many links a creator can share another profile per month. According to a screenshot shared by social meda co... View Source

Ten years on from 'The Force Awakens', we look back at what's gone right and what's gone wrong... View Source

A defiant Brendan Carr testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in his first public appearance before lawmakers since threatening broadcasters who aired comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show. Over the course of nearly three hours, the Federal Communications Commission chairman ping-ponged between heated exchanges with Democrats and largely muted questions from Republicans. But at least s... View Source

Micron said fiscal second-quarter revenue will be $18.3 billion to $19.1 billion, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts had estimated $14.4 billion on average for the period. Jake Silverman has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA has a leader again. On Wednesday, the US Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman as the agency's administrator, with a 67-30 vote. The billionaire entrepreneur (and Elon Musk ally) will have his hands full navigating political waters while managing a severely downsized workforce.You might recall that this wasn't Isaacman's first shot at the job. He was nominated to the post earlier thi... View Source

"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."... View Source

Vote on Isaacman, private astronaut and Mars missions advocate, passes 67-30 for him to be agency’s 15th leaderThe US Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become Donald Trump’s Nasa administrator. The confirmation makes an advocate of Mars missions and an ally of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk the space agency’s 15th leader.The vote on Isaacman, who Trump nominated,... View Source

If you’re looking for a gadget to get as a last-minute Christmas gift, we’ve got your back. The Beats Solo 4 are among the best on-ear headphones we’ve tested in the last year or two, and they’re currently down to a new low of $79 ($120 off) in select colors at Walmart. If you prefer a different color, both Amazon and Best Buy have also marked them down to $129.95 ($70 off). All three stores are o... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses questions surrounding Oracle’s data-center financing. Plus, OpenAI is in talks to raise $10 billion from Amazon and plans to use its Trainium chip in a challenge to Nvidia. And Waymo is in talks to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation that could exceed $100 billion. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Isaacman will run the space agency at a time when Trump is trying to both downsize it and task it with returning astronauts to the Moon... View Source

A Meta data center in Ashburn, Virginia. | Photo: Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and several major data center developers to investigate the impact they're having on Americans' utility bills. The move comes as rising electricity rates became an increasingly hot-butt... View Source

Blizzard veteran Paul Della Bitta will take over the video-game division... View Source

Meta has "paused" its program to license its VR operating system to other hardware companies so they could build their own headsets using the platform, as reported by Road to VR . With the program, announced in April 2024, Meta announced that it would be licensing the Quest OS headset - which, at the same time, it also renamed to Horizon OS - to hardware makers like Lenovo and Asus. In a blog post... View Source

Kim Forrest, CIO of Bokeh Capital Partners, says she expects a strong near-term outlook for Micron as demand for its DRAM products remains robust. She discusses the company’s momentum with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

FIFA's first true soccer sim after the end of its EA partnership will be available exclusively on Netflix, the streaming service announced. This "reimagined FIFA football simulation game" will be developed and published by Delphi Interactive, and be available to Netflix subscribers next year, right in time for FIFA World Cup 2026.EA and FIFA maintained a nearly 30 year partnership c... View Source

More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator... View Source

Spending on video game hardware during November totalled $695 million, a drop of 27 percent compared to last year, according to market analyst company Circana, "This is the lowest video game hardware spending total for a November month since the $455M reached during the November 2005 tracking period," Circana says. In addition, 1.6 million units of hardware were sold in the US in November, which i... View Source

Robinhood Chair and CEO Vlad Tenev says prediction markets are in the early stages of a "supercycle" during an interview on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

When it comes to convenience, it’s hard to beat Amazon. And that rationale isn’t limited to consumers: Many local districts shopping for supplies with public funds apply the same logic. But the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) published a study earlier this month (via The American Prospect) that illustrates the cost of that bargain. It suggests that Amazon’s “dynamic pricing” has led many... View Source

MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed two days ago. He lead the MIT Plasma Science Department and was working with Commonwealth fusion. Commonwealth Fusion is one of the leading nuclear fusion startups. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a leading private fusion energy company spun out from MIT, has raised close to $3 billion in ... Read more... View Source

Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus will become the first wheelchair user ever to reach space on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch her historic launch atop a Blue Origin rocket live... View Source

Amazon's head of artificial general intelligence (AGI), Rohit Prasad, is leaving the company next year as it reaches an "inflection point" in its development of the technology, CEO Andy Jassy announced on Wednesday. As part of the change, Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, will helm a new division focused on the company's most advanced AI models, chip development, and... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Scarlet Fu and Raomain Bostick on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Another twist in the AI power circle — Amazon is reportedly weighing a more than $10 billion investment in OpenAI. Wedbush’s Dan Ives joins Open Interest with a bold new call on the AI boom. Plus, Warner Brothers pushes back on Paramount’s hostile bid and Medline hits the market in the ye... View Source

Last year, Meta announced that it was opening up its VR operating system to other headset makers, starting with ASUS and Lenovo. Now, it seems that Meta is pumping the brakes on the effort and those third-party Horizon OS headsets might never actually launch.The company has "paused" the program, Road to VR reported. Meta confirmed the move in a statement to Engadget, saying that it'... View Source

Tesla and other automakers working on Level 2 and higher driving systems would be required to restrict their vehicles to specific road types or clearly defined operational domains under a new bill introduced today by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey (D). Operational design domains, or ODDs, are a set of conditions, either geographic or weather-related, in which an autonomous or partially autonomous... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit against alleged Chinese cybercriminals, accusing the group of orchestrating a vast phishing campaign designed to dupe Americans into turning over their credit card numbers... View Source

Behringer is no stranger to remaking classic synthesizers and selling them at much cheaper price points. However, this latest release may just take the budget-friendly cake. The company just introduced the UB-1 Micro, previously called the Spirit, a portable analog synth inspired by the Oberheim Matrix line that costs just $49. Despite the price tag, this thing still manages to sound extremely bee... View Source

Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch four "DiskSats" for the U.S. Space Force at midnight on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children's toys - built atop AI chatbots like OpenAI's GPT-4o - are capable of bringing up to children. On Tuesday, U.S. senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter to toy companies about their concerns - including a list of... View Source

Nvidia Corp. settled a lawsuit involving a former engineer who had inadvertently revealed autonomous driving trade secrets that he stole from a previous employer... View Source

The creators of the Hitman series have honed their style of- open-ended and spectacle-driven sandboxes across several games, and now they're taking their signature immersive gameplay to the world of James Bond. With 007 First Light, developer IO Interactive is crafting an origin story for the globetrotting British spy, showing how he undertook daring missions at the start of his career to eve... View Source

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of a location nicknamed “Mont Musard” on Sept. 8, 2025. Made up of three images, the panorama also captures another region, “Lac de Charmes,” where the rover’s team will be looking for more rock core samples to collect in the year ahead.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS After nearly five years on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has traveled almost 25 miles... View Source

The Oscars are headed to YouTube - in a few years. "Beginning in 2029, the Oscars will broadcast exclusively on YouTube for free globally and on YouTube TV in the U.S.," YouTube announced. YouTube's coverage will include the red carpet, behind the scenes content, and Governors Ball access. The deal runs through 2033, according to an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences press release shared... View Source

Robinhood Chair and CEO Vlad Tenev says prediction markets could be at the beginning of a supercycle. Speaking on "Bloomberg Markets," Tenev also says the company is standing ready to help with "Trump accounts." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The entertainment industry’s most well-known awards show is heading to streaming. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced that the Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, will exclusively air on YouTube starting in 2029. The new deal means the awards show is abandoning its long-time partnership with ABC (owned by frequent Oscars heavyweight, The Walt Disney Com... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Dual Propulsion Experiment (DUPLEX) deploys from the International Space Station December 2, 2025.NASA NASA is working with commercial partners to create high-performing, reliable propulsion systems that will help small spacecraft safely maneuver in orbit, reach intended destinations across the solar system, and accompl... View Source

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet... View Source

As we tuck into Fallout season 2, eager to see Amazon bring New Vegas to life, there's one person who stands out - and not just because of his power armor. Knight Maximus of the Brotherhood of Steel is the most important of Fallout's three main characters, and I'm glad the new season is finally getting into why. Each member of the cast represents one of the factions warring over control of the Moj... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is reorganizing teams working on artificial intelligence projects, putting a top leader from the company’s cloud division in charge of a new unit... View Source

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the blue dwarf galaxy Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) against a backdrop of distant galaxies in all shapes and sizes. Some of these distant galaxies even shine through the diffuse edges of Mrk 178.ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali, S. Hong This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (... View Source

Tech billionaires have been obsessed with space for a long time. Now, as the largest AI companies race to build more data centers in a frenzied pursuit of profitability, space is looking less like a pet project and more like a commercial opportunity. In 2025 alone, six proposals for giant AI data centers needing multiple gigawatts of power - a capacity only rumored of in 2024 - have been announced... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the parent of HBO and CNN, advised its shareholders to reject a hostile takeover bid by Paramount Skydance Corp. in favor of its original agreement with streaming giant Netflix Inc., deeming the Paramount offer “inferior” and “inadequate.” Geetha Rangathan joins to discuss the latest on the Warner Brothers bidding war with Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu. (Source: Bloomber... View Source

When Amazon’s latest Echo speakers arrived in October, a feature the company spent time hyping during its fall devices event was missing. Alexa Home Theater arrived in late November, allowing owners of a recent Fire TV device and either of the new Echo speakers the ability to use up to five units and an Echo Sub as a surround sound setup. The main selling point is that the underlying tech allows y... View Source

By USGS Landsat Missions The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.  The team brings together experts from universities, private industry, and federal and international agencies to help the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA ensure Landsat cont... View Source

Back in December 2015, the Force awakened in Star Wars, but it quickly went back to sleep... View Source

Mercedes-Benz sent out a notice to customers recently announcing its plans to discontinue MBUX Sound Drive, an interactive audio feature that syncs music to the car's actions. The feature was first announced less than a year ago at CES in partnership with Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am. Notices went out recently to customers that MBUX Sound Drive would be turned off on December 17th, according... View Source

Italian tech startup Bending Spoons has significantly improved the terms it is offering to investors on an acquisition financing package of as much as $1.35 billion... View Source

Uber and DoorDash are challenging a forthcoming NYC law that encourages tipping on food-delivery apps, as reported by The New York Times. The two entities have filed a joint federal lawsuit just ahead of the ruling going into effect next month. Back in 2023, many food delivery apps in the city moved the tip suggestion box to after purchases had been completed. This is sort of how rideshare apps wo... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Cassini spacecraft performing one of its many close flybys of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. By analyzing the Doppler shift of radio signals traveling to and from Earth, the mission precisely measured Titan’s gravity field.NASA/JPL-Caltech A key discovery from NASA’s Cassini mission i... View Source

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets, each carrying Starlink satellites, from Kennedy Space Cener in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Dec. 17, 2025... View Source

A data center under construction in Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. | Photo: Getty Images AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as much H20 as people consume globally in water bottles, according to new estimates. The study paints what's likely a pretty conservative picture of AI's environmental impact since it's based on the relatively limited amount of data that'... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out a more efficient and affordable version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model across its products, building on the company’s momentum after the successful launch of Gemini 3... View Source

Almost exactly a month after the debut of Gemini 3 Pro in November, Google has begun rolling out the more efficient Flash version of its latest AI model. According to the company, the new system offers similar "pro-grade" reasoning performance as its flagship model at a fraction of the cost, making it ideal for everyday use. In benchmarks, the new system performed significantly bett... View Source

6 Min Read NASA’s Push Toward Commercial Space Communications Gains Momentum  An artist’s concept of a near-Earth satellite relay constellation. Credits: NASA/Chase Leidy  NASA’s commercial partners are actively demonstrating next-generation satellite relay capabilities for spaceflight missions, marking a significant step toward retiring the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system... View Source

"We're not certain if having widespread liquid pockets instead of a global ocean makes Titan more or less habitable."... View Source

Peacock has found a new place to stuff ads. Starting next year, the streaming service will greet you with an ad alongside your profile icon on the "Who's watching?" screen when you open the app. During a press briefing, Peacock parent company NBCUniversal showed off how these "arrival ads" might look. One image shows your profiles stacked vertically on the left side of the screen, while an ad for... View Source

Canadian oil sands producers lead by Cenovus Energy Inc. plan to expand production next year despite an impending supply glut that threatens to deepen the slump in crude prices... View Source

Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost every Big Tech company, stepped over themselves to prove fealty to Donald Trump's second administration. It's easy to see why: Their kowtowing was meant to secure regulatory favors, gain tax and tariff advanta... View Source

The K11 Plus offers 6,000Pa of suction power and a mop that does a decent job of wiping floors. Small robot vacuums that fit into tight spaces rarely deliver strong performance, which is what makes the SwitchBot K11 Plus stand out. And right now, you can purchase the compact yet capable robovac from Amazon and SwitchBot for a new low of $179.99 ($220 off), the latter with code XMAS2GIFT55. Just no... View Source

What AI bubble? Dan Ives of Wedbush says we're only in year three of a decade-long AI supercycle. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about why 2026 could be the monetization moment tech investors have been waiting for. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I know what you're thinking, didn't OnePlus release a new phone just last month? It did. A little over five weeks after the announcement of the OP15, the company is back with the OnePlus 15R, a more affordable version of its new flagship that starts at $700 (or $200 less than its sibling). Off the top, this will be a shorter review because most of what I said about the OnePlus 15 also ap... View Source

10 Min Read NASA Langley Research Center: 2025 Year in Review  The future of flight, space exploration, and science starts at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where we have been advancing innovation for more than 100 years. Join us as we look back at NASA Langley’s achievements in 2025 that continued our storied legacy of pushing the boundaries of what is possible.  Langle... View Source

We've rounded up the best Fallout gifts across the wasteland ahead of season two of the hit TV show, available to stream this month... View Source

In all the chaos of 2025, The Verge was able to see through the fog and focus on the consumer technology that really made an impact this year: robot vacuums, thin foldable phones, experimental laptops, handheld gaming consoles, and of course, generative AI. You can watch our standout picks in our video here. All this emerging tech is also signifying what to expect in 2026, so we asked Verge staff... View Source

European defense startup Frankenburg Technologies says its tiny air-defense missiles have been successfully tested against high-speed attack drones like those Russia launches at Ukraine, as militaries hunt for cost-effective ways to counter cheap threats... View Source

The best VPNs can make your online life more private with software that's convenient and cheap — sometimes even free. While keeping your IP address invisible, you can use your VPN to explore streaming content from all over the world or (virtually) sneak into a sports event that's not available in your area.However, while VPNs are widely available, there's a strange dearth of informa... View Source

The livestream will begin at 11 p.m. EST Dec. 18 (0400 GMT on Dec. 19), weather permitting... View Source

From pervasive layoffs to continued price hikes, things didn't go so well for Xbox in 2025. But even though Game Pass, the Xbox subscription service, isn't quite the deal it once was, there are still a lot of excellent titles to check out. This was an especially good year for indie titles, with breakout hits like Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dominating much of the conversation. Here... View Source

Oracle Corp. said final negotiations on an equity deal for the company’s data center project in Michigan is “on schedule” and going according to plan... View Source

Last year at CES, Samsung debuted its first mainstream Micro RGB TV, a 115-inch model that surprised us with its rich, vivid colors and $30,000 price tag. Now, the company has announced that it will be showing off an entire lineup of Micro RGB TVs at CES 2026 ranging from 55- to 115-inch models, promising to set "a new standard for premium home viewing."  As a reminder, Micro RGB is... View Source

The Soyuz launched on Nov. 27, 2025 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan... View Source

Rad Power Bikes, the once dominant electric bicycle brand in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week as it seeks to sell of its company. The move comes less than a month after Rad Power said it could not afford to recall its older e-bike batteries that had been designated a fire risk by the US Consumer Protection Safety Commission. The bankruptcy, which was first reported by B... View Source

Chinese AI pioneer Manus said its annual run rate for revenue is over $125 million, eight months after it released artificial intelligence agents designed to help execute tasks for users... View Source

There are way too many online services and subscriptions to keep track of these days, but the flip side is there’s a tool for just about everything. Time is just about up to get a physical gift shipped in time for the holidays, so below we’ve pulled together some of our favorite digital gifts and subscriptions, including time-tested video, music and gaming services as well as tools to clear your m... View Source

Years from now, I'll look back at 2025 as the year when a fundamental shift happened in wearable technology. Over the last decade, the category has been synonymous with health and fitness. In many ways, that association is still the primary one. But this year, I've seen an increasing number of tech companies pitch another trajectory for wearables: as vehicles for AI. The clearest example is what u... View Source

“There’s no real place to hide,” says Jean Boivin, head of BlackRock Investment Institute, as he explains why there is really no such thing as diversification in the current market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery's board has formally rejected the $108 billion takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, the company announced. WBD said it remains committed to its $82.7 billion deal with Netflix, which would close some time next year, pending regulatory approval.  "[The board] has unanimously determined that the tender offer launched by Paramount Skydance on December 8, 2025 is... View Source

The California startup Vast has opened a call for scientific research aboard its Haven-1 private space station, which is set to launch atop a SpaceX rocket next year... View Source

Bluesky is finally letting you find people you already know, one of several common features on other social platforms, like notifications and bookmarks, that have been notably absent at the growing upstart. Unlike rivals, it claims it's not sacrificing privacy to do it. The Find Friends feature is "privacy-first by design," unlike what Bluesky says are "poorly implemented or abused" processes else... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the parent of HBO and CNN, is advising its shareholders to reject a hostile takeover bid by Paramount Skydance Corp. in favor of its original agreement with streaming giant Netflix Inc., deeming the Paramount offer “inferior” and “inadequate.”... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Takashi Mochizuki addresses the... View Source

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025: Your daily feed for the holiday flyby of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by Earth... View Source

There’s been no dearth of sell signals for Tesla Inc. It’s facing a potential sales halt in California, an electric vehicle slowdown across the US and is losing market share in China and Europe... View Source

Tesla could be temporarily locked out of its biggest US market if it doesn't change deceptive marketing that exaggerates the self-driving capabilities of its cars, the California Department of Motor Vehicles warned on Tuesday, adopting the ruling of an administrative law judge. The DMV said Tesla's use of terms like "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" to describe its advanced driver assist systems... View Source

From AI to Labubus, 2026 could be a year of reckoning... View Source

Dr. Larry Denneau of the University of Hawaii is nothing like your typical astronomer... View Source

Science Corporation, founded by Neuralink’s first president, Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods... View Source

OpenAI is in initial talks to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc. and use its chips, a potential win for the online retailer’s effort to broaden its AI industry presence and compete with Nvidia Corp. The deal under discussion could value OpenAI north of $500 billion and see it adopt Amazon’s Trainium chip, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Bloomberg’s Peter Elstrom reports... View Source

Amazon is in discussions with OpenAI to invest $10 billion in the company while supplying more of its AI chips and cloud computing services, according to The Financial Times. The deal would push OpenAI's valuation over $500 billion but is likely to raise more questions about the company's circular investment agreements involving chips and data centers.  The two companies are also in... View Source

At least six Chinese companies related to artificial intelligence are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, people familiar with the matter said, building on the strong recent listings on the mainland... View Source

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s decision to grant limited banking charters to cryptocurrency companies is likely to face legal challenges from banks and even state regulators. The OCC on Dec. 12 granted preliminary approval for national trust bank charters to Circle, Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity’s digital assets arm, and Paxos, marking the first step toward integrating the digital curre... View Source

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel is not discouraged by the recent performance of Bitcoin. It's down about 30% from its record high of more than $126,000. He says a risk-off environment is driving investors away from Bitcoin for now and we're just seeing some "healthy retracement." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Marija Veitmane, equity research head at State Street Global Markets, discusses the outlook for stocks in 2026. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Veitmane sees technology firms driving gains and the health care sector “another very interesting conversation.”... View Source

Flutter Entertainment Plc brands Paddy Power and Betfair have been fined £2 million ($2.7 million) after a UK Gambling Commission investigation found they hadn’t identified potential problem gambling quickly enough... View Source

Chinese stocks rose sharply in afternoon trading as enthusiasm around the nation’s technology shares returned... View Source

Meesho Ltd. jumped about 20% on Wednesday, extending a post-listing surge that made the e-commerce platform India’s best-performing major IPO of 2025... View Source

Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners is exiting from the takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc... View Source

iRobot Co-Founder Helen Greiner weighs in on the American tech company's decision to file for bankruptcy, and discusses the future of robotics and the obsession with humanoid robots. She speaks with Paul Allen on "Insight with Haslinda Amin." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jack Mallers, CEO of Twenty One Capital, joins "Bloomberg Crypto" to discuss the company's merger with special-purpose acquisition Cantor Equity Partners to become a public crypto company. Twenty One was launched by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald LP, stablecoin issuer Tether Holdings SA and SoftBank Group as a Bitcoin company. Brandon Lutnick, chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald and the son of US Sec... View Source

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Shares of HashKey Holdings Ltd., operator of Hong Kong’s largest licensed cryptocurrency exchange, climbed on their trading debut after an initial public offering that raised HK$1.6 billion ($206 million)... View Source

HashKey Holdings, operator of Hong Kong’s largest licensed cryptocurrency exchange, made its trading debut on Wednesday after an initial public offering that raised HK$1.6 billion ($206 million). The company's chairman and CEO Xiao Feng discusses the timing of the IPO, crypto regulations and profitability in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg TV's Minmin Low. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hidehito Takahashi, President and CEO of Resonac, discusses his outlook for demand and business growth for the Japanese semiconductor materials supplier, and says the company will seek to procure rare earths from Australia and Europe. He speaks with Annabelle Droulers and Avril Hong on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla’s sales in California should be suspended for 30 days because its marketing around Autopilot and Full Self-Driving misled consumers, a California administrative law judge has ruled. Back in 2022, the California DMV accused the automaker of using deceptive language to advertise those products and making it seem like its vehicles are capable of level 5 autonomous driving. Tesla has since added... View Source

Semiconductor materials linchpin Resonac Holdings Corp. is eyeing solid growth from Beijing’s ambition to build its own chip industry, leaving the door open for further investment in China in the years ahead... View Source

South Korean super-app Toss has brought in investors including Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte and investment firms Baillie Gifford, Wellington, and WCM, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

OpenAI is in discussions to raise at least $10 billion of investment from Amazon.com Inc. and use the online retailer’s AI chips, the Information reported, citing people familiar with the discussions... View Source

Digital banking firm PT Super Bank Indonesia surged 24%, hitting the daily trading limit, on its Jakarta debut following an initial public offering that ranks as Indonesia’s second largest this year... View Source

Irate lawmakers grilled executives from Coupang over South Korea’s biggest-ever data breach at a testy hearing that underscored rising public anger with the country’s dominant online retailer... View Source

Days after a rumor circulated that home arcade machine maker Arcade1Up would be shutting down, the company has finally shared a statement about its future. "Select assets" from Arcade1Up have been acquired by toy company Basic Fun, and although Arcade1Up isn't dead, what's next for the brand is still a little murky. Last week, a screenshot of an email appearing to be sent from an Arcade1Up staffer... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Twenty On Capital CEO Jack Mallers and FG Nexus Digital Assets CEP Maja Vujinovic. CORRECT: The live airing of this show misattributed who won trust bank approval. The banner has been corrected to say BitGo and four other firms were approved. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff and the gatekeeper to President Donald Trump. In several on-the-record interviews with Vanity Fair's Chris Whipple conducted over the past year, Wiles, who had corralled t... View Source

Databricks CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi discusses the company raising over $4 billion in a new funding round that values the software firm at $134 billion. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Ghodsi also comments on the company's IPO plans. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (L-4th L) White House “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House on September 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Hello and welcome to 2025's last issue of Regulator. If you're not a Verge subscriber, get off the 2026 naught... View Source

Shares of GoTo Group are seeing signs of new life ahead of a shareholders’ meeting that may help pave the way for its long-awaited merger with larger rival Grab Holdings Ltd... View Source

For the longest time, I refused to upgrade my work-issued MacBook. I was leery of the hassle, and would much rather hang on to an aging Intel-powered laptop than have to transfer files, set up apps and sign in to accounts all over again. What did it matter if my notebook barely lasted long enough to cover an iPhone launch? My petty brain blamed it all on external factors (like being forced to use... View Source

Television broadcaster E.W. Scripps Co. rejected an unsolicited bid from rival Sinclair Inc. to acquire the company for $7 a share in cash and stock, saying it wasn’t in the best interests of shareholders... View Source

This one's been a long time coming. Mercedes-Benz has been researching, refining and even reshaping the car that would ultimately be the CLA for years now, teasing us with technical briefings and even showing off a sultry crimson concept car a full two years ago.That was the Concept CLA, and while the production CLA you see here doesn't look quite that good, it is a fine-looking little e... View Source

Following the release of the 115-inch Micro RGB TV back in August, Samsung has revealed today that its Micro RGB technology will extend into smaller sizes ranging from that 115-inch behemoth all the way down to 55 inches. While we all enjoy dreaming big, it's far more reasonable for most of us to consider putting a 55-, 65-, or 75-inch TV in a living room. The new Micro RGB TVs will be available i... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Databricks’ latest $4 billion Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation. Plus, Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and founder of the Hill and Valley Forum, discusses US efforts to secure its silicon supply chain. And TikTok starts to hit its stride with livestream shopping in the US. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports. The xAI-owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly attempted to counter a startup's petition to cancel the company's Twitter trademarks with a p... View Source

New measurements demonstrate that smoke particles in the upper atmosphere are twice the size of lower-altitude ones... View Source

Alexa Plus now has a new home on the web. The Alexa.com website appears to be live for some users. The browser-based home for Alexa Plus, the company's revamped digital voice assistant, was first announced at the Alexa Plus launch event in February. But until recently, Alexa.com redirected to an information page. Now, some users, myself included, are seeing a new Alexa Plus web interface. Today, w... View Source

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, is in discussions to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation near $100 billion, in a round led by its parent company... View Source

Netflix has inked a deal with iHeartMedia to begin showing video podcasts, so the content will never, ever run out. The partnership covers new episodes from more than 15 popular podcasts, including The Breakfast Club, Dear Chelsea, My Favorite Murder and others. Customers will have access to video podcast episodes in early 2026.  In addition to new footage, the partnership includes a select l... View Source

Law offices of Robert D Perry reports 398 NHTSA reported Waymo involved accidents in the first half of 2025. Waymo was only allowing employees to drive or ride with Waymo on highways until a few weeks ago. Waymo has had 50 million miles up to end of 2024 and about 100 million miles in 2025. ... Read more... View Source

X Corp. is suing Operation Bluebird, a recently-announced startup that aims to reclaim the Twitter brand for a new social network. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Elon Musk-owned company alleges Operation Bluebird is "brazenly attempting to steal" Twitter's trademarks, claiming "Twitter never left and continues to be exclusively owned by X Corp." Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition a... View Source

China will have another major chip debut on Wednesday, eagerly watched by stock-market investors after the stellar gains by its peer Moore Threads Technology Co. earlier this month... View Source

If you're looking for something to watch during a holiday break from work or school, you can't go wrong with anime, and right now you can sign-up for a year of Crunchyroll for as low as $65. Holiday discounts running through December 29 bring the anime streaming service's year-long Fan subscription from $80 down to $67 and its Mega Fan subscription from $120 down to $100. That'... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoA time-lapse video recorded at JPL in October shows engineers and technicians moving and attaching a full-scale model of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on top of two lunar orbiters. The full stack w... View Source

Flag illustration representing the European Union The Office of the US Trade Representative posted on X Tuesday, claiming that US service providers have been hit by "a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives" from the EU. Earlier this month, X was fined $140 million under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), in addition to new laws, fines, and inves... View Source

"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: University of Michigan Professor of Economics and Public Policy Betsey Stevenson, Visa Head of Crypto Cuy Sheffield and Unison Advisors Founder and Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Nir Kaissar. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The New York Times is getting in on the year-end roundup bandwagon. The publication's new Year in Games wraps up stats about which of its daily puzzles and brain-teasers readers played over the course of 2025. People can get their own personalized reports, or just look over the community stats for the Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and Strands games. The Year in Games reviews are available... View Source

2 Min Read NASA Launches Research Program for Students to Explore Big Ideas NASA is now accepting concepts for a new research challenge. The Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology (ORBIT) challenge is a multi-phase innovation competition designed to empower university and college students to develop next-generation solutions that benefit life on Earth and deep-space explor... View Source

On December 9th, Rolling Stone published a story that some saw as a bombshell: a network of coordinated, "inauthentic" social media accounts had a hand in the weekslong discourse that trailed the release of Taylor Swift's recent album, The Life of a Showgirl. It was a big deal for those in the Swiftie/anti-Swiftie universe. Immediately following the record's release in October, discussion of Showg... View Source

Carol Schleif, chief market strategist at BMO Private Wealth, says investors are being discerning by putting money into both the public and private side of the AI trade. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As part of its last Xbox-focused software update of the year, Microsoft is improving the Bluetooth performance of the Xbox Wireless Headset to make it work even better with Windows 11. Microsoft released the latest Wireless Headset as an accessory for Xbox Series X/S and PC, but as of this update, Xbox Wireless Headset owners on Windows will now have a leg up on their console counterparts thanks t... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Two composite images show side-by-side observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists used data from both observatories, along with data from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, to confirm... View Source

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms... View Source

Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they did there. On February 24th, advocacy group Frequency Forward and journalist Nina Burleigh filed a public records request to the FCC, seeking details about DOGE's activities and whether the... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is planning to reject Paramount Skydance Corp.’s hostile takeover bid due to concerns about financing and other terms, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

‘Tis the season for gift-giving, family feasts and companies turning their harvested user data into lighthearted recaps. Valve's take on the year-end rewind, Steam Replay, is now available. It follows similar offerings from Spotify, Apple Music, PlayStation and, increasingly, just about every service you use. Hell, even Uber and The New York Times somehow justified getting in on the action th... View Source

After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The orbiting laboratory is also a living archive of human experience, culture, and connection.   Creating community Expedition 34 crew members pictured in the Unity node of the... View Source

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor star in Universal Pictures' eerie alien invasion project coming next summer... View Source

Google wants you to start your day with AI. Google's AI, to be specific, which is why the company is launching an experimental agent to comb through your emails, calendar, and documents to deliver a briefing to your inbox every morning. The new feature, called CC, delivers a daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing to your inbox each morning. The personalized briefing - which Google describes as "one clear... View Source

Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, discusses the State Department’s Pax Silica Summit and how the country is working with allies to secure access to critical minerals, semiconductors, and AI infrastructure. Helberg, also the founder of the Hill and Valley Forum, speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Behold: Ken Paxton will now demonstrate that broken clocks are indeed right twice a day. The Texas Attorney General is notorious for, well, a very long list of reasons. But in this case, he at least appears to be doing consumers a solid: He sued five television companies for using ad-targeting spyware on their TVs.Texas sued Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL for allegedly recording what viewers w... View Source

2 min read How Small Is Too Small? Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space Jen Oden, Snohomish County Water Quality Specialist, and Megan Lane, LOCSS team member, report a lake height measurement at Flowing Lake, Snohomish County, Washington. Visit locss.org to contact the team or to get involved! Grant Parkins, 2018 Volunteers participating in the Lake Observations by Citizen Scienti... View Source

A screenshot from Divinity’s reveal trailer. The CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian has inadvertently stirred up some controversy over the use of AI in the developer's next game. Based on an interview with Larian CEO Swen Vincke, Bloomberg reported that the studio uses AI tools for things like developing concept art and writing placeholder text. But following some initial backlash, Vincke later... View Source

European investigators are probing whether Russian military hackers breached computer systems on a vessel owned by MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, the world’s largest container shipping group, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project called Playables Builder. This allows select YouTube Creators to use a "prototype web app built using Gemini 3" to make bite-sized games, no coding required. YouTube is launching a closed... View Source

Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand in the white room on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as part of an integrated ground systems test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 20, 2023. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux With a second Trump... View Source

Is Elon Musk insane? Will a bet of over $200 billion go up in flames ? There are people who are saying that his plans will never work. Who is right ?... View Source

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Media is a business about dreams, and Larry Ellison's son is dreaming big. This might explain why the case for Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is so incoherent. In October, Warner Bros. pu... View Source

Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner discuses why Instagram is launching a new TV app and why TikTok's e-commerce efforts in the US have finally started to gain traction. The app is now letting creators host live shopping experiences on the platform. Wagner joins Caroline Hyde on "Blomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Back in September during Meta Connect, the company previewed a new ability for its smart glasses lineup called Conversation Focus. The feature, which is able to amplify the voices of people around you, is now starting to roll out in the company's latest batch of software updates.When enabled, the feature is meant to make it easier to hear the people you're speaking with in a crowded or o... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 40 commander, holds the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. (30 June 2014) NASA The JSC toxicologists establish guidelines for safe and acceptable levels of individual chemical contaminants in spacecraft air (SMACs) an... View Source

NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well... View Source

Hollyland, a company best known for affordable wireless microphones that are popular with creators, has announced its first webcam, the small 4K Lyra. While it lacks advanced features like the Insta360 Link's tracking gimbal, it's one of the first webcams we've seen that's designed to improve how you sound by connecting directly to one of Hollyland's wireless lav mics. The Lyra features a built-in... View Source

The Trump administration singled out prominent European companies as possible targets for new restrictions or fees as it threatened to retaliate against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

No matter what you think of James Cameron's Avatar movies, their technical ambitions are undeniable. Cameron developed his own camera system to shoot the first Avatar in 3D, but since most of the actors were digitally captured, he also had the freedom to construct scenes with a virtual camera after they were physically shot. For Avatar: The Way of Water, which arrived a whopping 13 years... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Microbiology Laboratory at JSC NASA. Microorganisms and Spaceflight Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the interactions between microorganisms, their hosts, and their environment. The JSC Microbiology team addresses the benefits and risks related to microorganisms, including infectious disease, al... View Source

The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India... View Source

If you’re shopping for a book lover, it’s hard to beat a Kindle, especially if your giftee already owns a library of Kindle books. Amazon’s latest sale makes them even easier to recommend: the last-gen Kindle Scribe with 32GB of storage and ads is matching its best price to date starting at $279.99 ($140 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Meanwhile, the ad-supported versions of the Kindle (Amazon, Best... View Source

The Trump administration threatened retaliation against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies, singling out prominent companies, including Accenture Plc, Siemens AG and Spotify Technology SA, as possible targets for new restrictions or fees... View Source

Following the release of GPT-5.2 last week, OpenAI has begun rolling out a new image generation model. The company says the updated ChatGPT Images is four times faster than its predecessor. If you're a frequent ChatGPT user, you'll know it can sometimes take a while for OpenAI's servers to create images, particularly during peak times and if you're not paying for ChatGPT Plus... View Source

By Amit Angal, Senior Engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center The Landsat Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) group helps uphold Landsat’s reputation as the gold standard of satellite imagery. They ensure that the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) aboard Landsats 8 and 9 provide high-quality scientific measurements to users around the world. In 2025, the Cal/Val... View Source

Angry Astronaut is arguing only about some mission timelines and only about getting first footsteps onto Mars. He is asking all the wrong questions. How would making trillions of dollars in profits every year in SpaceX and profitably scaling up Starships to thousands of flights per year and how would building up 100X on the ... Read more... View Source

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is poised to launch a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the continent's geopositioning constellation... View Source

OpenAI is overhauling its image generator with a new model and redesigned interface. On Tuesday, the company announced its "new flagship image generation model," GPT Image 1.5, which it said has a better ability to follow instructions, edit photos in specific ways, and generate results up to four times more quickly. It's available today to all users. The new model will be able to better "match you... View Source

JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty says the company expects to see the benefits in sales and cost efforts next year. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg TV's Lisa Abramowicz inside the new JetBlue lounge at JFK airport, Geraghty says JetBlue has a lot of bookings coming in for the holiday season and the goal for 2026 is to break even on operating margin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The long-awaited Rainbow Six Mobile comes out on February 23 for iOS and Android devices. This is a global release and follows years of testing and some significant delays. This is basically a smartphone version of the popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. It was "developed exclusively" for mobile devices and features a trio of 5v5 multiplayer modes. There's a team deathmatch,... View Source

NASA/Jonny Kim Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal cover aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 18, 2025. The cover provides micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection while maintaining cleanliness and pres... View Source

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Sucker Punch Productions, the PlayStation studio behind games like Ghost of Yōtei and the Infamous and Sly Cooper series, will be headed up by Jason Connell and Adrian Bentley starting January 1st, Sony announced on Tuesday. Studio co-founder Brian Fleming is stepping down and will be "passing Sucker Punch studio leadership on to a new generation." Connell recently served as co-creative direc... View Source

DoorDash Inc. is experimenting with a standalone artificial intelligence-powered app for users to find new restaurants, expanding its reach beyond its flagship food-delivery service... View Source

Have you ever just wished you could watch Instagram Reels right on a TV? Maybe? Well, if so, you're in luck. Meta has launched an Instagram app exclusively on Fire TV. It will be solely for "short-form video content," so Reels. TikTok launched an app on Fire TV in 2020 before rolling it out to other platforms.  Instagram and Fire TV users can download the former through Amazon... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Statistics and Data Science Enabling Successful Research A major aim of biomedical research at NASA is to acquire data to evaluate, understand, and assess the biomedical hazards of spaceflight and to develop effective countermeasures. Data Science (S&DS) personnel provide statistical support to groups within the NAS... View Source

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Disclosure Day is here, and it will leave you with more questions than answers about what exactly is going on. There is no denying that something strange is happening to a Kansas City newscaster (Emily Blunt) who goes into a strange trance on-air in Disclosure Day's new trailer. The odd clicks coming out of her mouth sound inhuman and leave ev... View Source

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram unveiled its first dedicated TV app, which lets users watch the short-form video feature Reels on a larger screen... View Source

The company which popularized robot vacuum cleaners around the world has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. iRobot, makers of the Roomba, has been synonymous with the category since its inception, but its star had dulled in recent years. The company plans to sell its assets to its primary supplier, China’s Picea Robotics, in the hope of maintaining its business.Everyone’s got a strident opinion as t... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An environmental chemist at NASA JSCNASA Ensuring Astronaut Safety Achieving safe exploration of space in vehicles that rely upon closed environmental systems to recycle air and water to sustain life and are operated in extremely remote locations is a major challenge. The Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry (TEC) gro... View Source

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born... View Source

Over four decades after its launch, the Quickshot II is back. | Image: Retro Games Retro Games, a company known for its upgraded revivals of iconic '80s and '90s era computers, including the Commodore 64 and Amiga, has announced that it's bringing back another accessory from the same era. If you grew up gaming before the NES hit the US, you were probably using (or drooling over) the Quickshot II... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-backed startup to provide financing for small online businesses, many of which need immediate capital to replenish depleted holiday inventories... View Source

The zombie-decapitating sim Dead Island 3 is still being developed, according to financial documents from Dambuster Studios that were published on X and reported on by Video Games Chronicle. These documents suggest a 2028 release date, so that's something to look forward to. Dambuster Studios' financial statements are out (as of March 2025)The company employed 194 employeesDead Island 3... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. Over nearly 20 years, HiRISE has helped scientists understand how the Red Planet’s surface is constantly changing. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Mesas and dunes stand out... View Source

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!... View Source

Here's a list of things you can bet on, right this second. This year's Super Bowl winner, sure. The winner of Survivor season 49, okay. But the number of gifts Santa will deliver this year? The number of tweets Elon Musk will send in the next 7 days? How much money Avatar: Fire and Ash will make at the box office? The next president of of Portugal? On Polymarket and Kalshi, if you can dream it up,... View Source

Perplexity AI Inc. is relaunching its iPad app with features that include improved multitasking and an emphasis on research tools, part of a larger effort by the artificial intelligence search startup to court business customers... View Source

Amazon is set to fire 370 people at its European headquarters in Luxembourg in the coming weeks, as Bloomberg reports. That accounts for about 8.5 percent of the workforce. Amazon initially planned to reduce its headcount there by 470, but under European Union law, companies have to negotiate layoffs with employee reps and, in some cases, governments.Amazon reportedly told employees at the Europea... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Immunology and Virology LabNASA Does Spaceflight Alter the Human Immune System? Getting sick on Earth is nothing to sneeze at, but for astronauts on deep space exploration missions, the risk for contracting diseases may be elevated due to altered immunity. The Human Health and Performance Directorate’s Immuno... View Source

Stuck for a small gift for a skywatcher? From compact binoculars to power banks and SD cards, we've rounded up the ideal sub-$100 stocking stuffers... View Source

Texas is suing five of the biggest TV makers, accusing them of "secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes." In separate lawsuits filed on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims the TVs made by Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL are part of a "mass surveillance system" that uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to collect personal data used for targeted advertising... View Source

Emerging-market currencies were jolted Tuesday by the latest US job report that showed the labor market remains weak, with the Mexican peso and the South African rand — two bellwethers of risk appetite — briefly spiking higher... View Source

If you're still debating what gifts to get the important people in your life, sales can be a good starting point. Take Apple's 2024 Mac mini M4, which is down to $479, from $599. The 20 percent discount brings the device back down to its all-time low price seen over Black Friday.  Apple released the Mac mini M4 in late 2024 and we were impressed with how something so small could be... View Source