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Starting February 1st, 2027, creators who want to monetize their channel through YouTube's Partner Program (YPP) will need at least 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. That's a sizeable jump from YouTube's current requirement of 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year, or 1,000 subs... View Source

Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with AI surveillance firm Palantir to monetize “actionable intelligence” on its audience. According to USA Today CEO Mike Reed, the goal is to “build a common intelligence layer” on reader data to “monetize those relationships faster and at much greater... View Source

GameStop, led by Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen, is considering withdrawing its $56 billion bid for eBay Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg's Bailey Lipshultz joins to discuss this as well as how Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, joining its data center peers in tapping demand for exposure to the artificial intelligence theme. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Magnets work the same whether you use an iPhone or Android device, but there are some nitty gritty differences in standards you should be aware of... View Source

Credit: NASA As NASA+ continues its expansion across multiple streaming platforms to bring space closer to home, NASA announced Monday programming is next heading to discovery+ and HBO Max. A continuous live feed of NASA+ programming is streaming on discovery+ live channels, while HBO Max will stream NASA’s special events, including the Artemis III mission in 2027. Viewers on those platforms can s... View Source

Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners. As 404 Media reports, the controversial company drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber and Lyft drivers’ cars to scan the license plates of every vehicle that drove past them — in effect turning hundreds of thousands of rideshare and delivery drivers into a network of... View Source

Microsoft is planning to “significantly” increase production of its next-generation AI chips, the Information reported. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana joins Bloomberg Intelligence to discuss this as well as how Apple is considering an overhaul to its smartwatch lineup in light of the industry’s transition to screen-free devices and other new form factors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This is just the latest story of an AI agent going rogue... View Source

China's latest rocket launch ended in failure this morning, lighting up the skies with some unwanted fireworks.The state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) launched a Long March 7A rocket today (Aug. 10) from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, in the country's Hainan province, just after 8:00 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT; 8:02 p.m. local time). Around 85 seconds into the launch, th... View Source

EY is hiring a head of “agent economics” to oversee the growing ranks of its AI-powered workforce, in a sign that white-collar companies are increasing scrutiny on whether their investments in AI technology are justifying the huge cost... View Source

If you've reset your Roku remote or got a new one and need to manually pair it, these are the steps to take... View Source

Starting on Friday, August 28th, Apple will begin streaming Friday Night Baseball in immersive video on Apple Vision Pro. The stream will feature commentary from various analysts and reporters, and live graphics will be anchored around the viewers space during the game. After the games conclude, replays will be made available in the Apple TV app. Last year, Apple streamed a selection of live Laker... View Source

One of China's most used rockets, the Long March 7A, exploded a little more than a minute after lifting off on Monday evening, local time. The medium-lift rocket's payload was classified, but it was believed to be a military communications satellite. The rocket's liftoff from Wenchang Space Launch Site appeared to be nominal, but publicly captured videos (such as this one) showed that the rocket's... View Source

Global AI, a two-year-old tech firm, has raised $441 million in debt financing led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence data centers... View Source

Wireless connectivity comes in many different flavors, here's how they differ... View Source

On Aug. 10, 1972, an Earth-grazing fireball burst through the sky over North America. It didn't hit the ground, but instead it passed straight through the sky. The fireball entered the atmosphere somewhere over Utah and passed northwards, leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada about 100 seconds later. Analysis of its trajectory showed the object was about 10 to 45 feet in diameter, depending... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter. The lengthy manifesto Zuckerberg published on Monday, titled "The Future is for Everyone," broadly lays out his beliefs about how the technology should be developed, expanded, and regulated, and how... View Source

A quiet war is playing out in rural communities across the country. City council meetings are bursting into conflict as local residents try to keep AI data centers out of their backyards. Americans are starting to see through the promises of tech companies and the local politicians they’ve wooed, realizing that the advantages of hosting a resource-hogging data center in the neighborhood are... View Source

Intel shares fell early on Monday after the company said it will be offering $15 billion in common stock. Intel says the money will be used to pursue growth opportunities in AI. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

According to Valve, European Steam hardware customers likely had some of their data compromised... View Source

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This image of the sun — the sharpest ever snapped — was captured by the NSF Inouye solar telescope. (Image credit: NSF, NSO, AURA, MPS, Inouye Tel)Scientists have captured the sharpest image ever of our sun's surface. This view has revealed incredible new details about the inner mechanisms driving stellar activity. What is it?An international team of researchers using the U.S. National Science Fou... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Lila Snyder, who is the CEO of Bose. You certainly know Bose — it’s one of the most famous brands in all of consumer tech. The company started 60 years ago selling speakers to consumers, and its focus on research and development has led it to be a leader in both car audio and noise-canceling headphones. Lila was last on the show about four years ago, and since then she’s dr... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has released a scaled-down AI program consumers can download and use on a personal computer. It's called Muse Glimmer. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A competitor to Google's app store, Aptoide Games, is now available in the Play Store... View Source

4 Min Read Launch Into a New School Year With NASA A new school year brings fresh opportunities to get involved with NASA. Whether you’re curious about space or eager to build real STEM skills, NASA offers a world of experiences putting you close to the action. As we enter a new golden age of exploration, there’s no better time to jump in, try something bold, and see where your curiosity takes you... View Source

Originally launched a decade ago, the ZWO ASI174MM is a planetary astrophotography camera — something you insert into the eyepiece of a telescope to take images and video of deep-sky objects, planets, the moon and the sun. This one is very much geared towards the latter, with solar and lunar imaging its goal.SpecificationsProduct type: Monochrome astronomy cameraSensor: 1/1.2-inch Sony Exmor IMX17... View Source

Getting a keyboard with customizable Hall effect sensors is more affordable than it used to be, and you don’t need to compromise on quality to get a good deal. Keychron’s aluminum-clad K2 HE with a 75-percent layout is down to $103.99 (was $130) at Amazon, which matches the lowest price we’ve seen occur a few times throughout the year. The option with wood siding is $111.99 at Amazon, also 20 perc... View Source

Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains won’t help individual workers. During a podcast appearance last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he doesn’t “expect AI” to lead to a shorter four-hour work week. He argued that workers are “secretly” going to be “happy” about be... View Source

The highly anticipated initial public offering of Yushu Technology Co., known as Unitree Robotics, drew huge demand from retail investors as China’s leading humanoid robot maker opened books in Shanghai... View Source

Boeing is selling three of its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) subsidiaries to Archer Aviation, in addition to taking an undisclosed stake in the San Jose-based company. The subsidiares to be acquired by Archer include Wisk Aero, which has been developing an autonomous electric aircraft; SkyGrid, which is building air traffic management systems to be used by urban air taxis; and Insi... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is planning to “significantly” increase production of its next-generation AI chips, The Information reported... View Source

Meta has released a new slimmed down 'open source' AI model that's light enough to run on a single computer... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 9 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Contemplating the Sun Explanation: Have you contemplated your home s... View Source

Japan's H3 rocket will fly for the ninth time ever this afternoon (Aug. 10), and you can watch the action live.The H3 is scheduled to lift off from Tanegashima Space Center today during an hour-long window that opens at 3:23 p.m. EDT (1923 GMT; 4:23 a.m. on Aug. 11 local time), carrying the Michibiki 7 navigation satellite aloft.You can watch it live here at Space.com courtesy of the Japan Aerospa... View Source

Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you'll need for your next road trip or whether your truck can tow that new motor boat. The app is rolling out first to the Ford and Lincoln mobile apps, where it will work as a chatbot that can answer questions about the vehicle's capabilities or future service needs... View Source

Anthropic PBC has formed a strategic partnership with Macquarie Asset Management and Singaporean wealth fund GIC to build data centers for the Claude developer... View Source

There's a lot to like about the XPS 13, but most people should shell out for 16GB of RAM... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory El Niño Alters Marine Life… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids... View Source

Valve says a data breach may have exposed the personal information of customers who ordered its Steam hardware in Europe. In an email sent to users, Valve says its European shipping partner, CEVA Logistics, suffered a data breach that may have included customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The breach at CEVA occurred between July 29th and August 1st, weeks after Valve bega... View Source

Apple Inc. was downgraded to an underperform rating at Jefferies, in the latest example of growing bearishness toward the company... View Source

You can now use your Venmo balance or linked accounts for Google Play purchases... View Source

Pluto's atmosphere appears to be freezing out as the dwarf planet moves ever further away from the sun, according to careful observations of Pluto astronomers made as it was seen passing in front of stars in the sky.Pluto is already cold. Its surface temperature is about –382 degrees Fahrenheit (–230 degrees Celsius), while its upper atmosphere is a little warmer at –333 degrees Fahrenheit (–203 d... View Source

“Where’s the number pad?” The number pad is holding you back. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You probably know just by looking at it if the Classic-TKL Underscore Edition is for you. Do you want a retro-looking wired keyboard without a number pad? Great. Do you care that it doesn't have wireless? Perfect. Do you want it preassembled? Buddy, you're in the right place. But Nathan, you m... View Source

Water levels in rivers across Europe are reaching astonishing lows lately as a record heatwave continues to bake much of the continent. Images captured by the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite revealed the extraordinary extent of the drought, which is clearly desiccating Europe’s major waterways. Water levels in one of those rivers, the Danube, have become so low that an... View Source

Intel Corp. said it will be offering $15 billion in common stock, taking advantage of renewed interest in its business prospects during the artificial intelligence data center boom... View Source

Google appears to have prepared a dedicated section for third-party app stores within Google Play, and Aptoide is just the first. | Screenshot: Google Play Store Following the latest twist in Google's legal battles with Epic, US Android users are now able to open Google's Play Store and download a third-party digital store with its own selection of apps. Aptoide, a store specializing in mobile gam... View Source

The AI company has rolled out its PR machine as part of the legal fight... View Source

Solar energy, at any time of day or night - that's the dream of space mirror projects. Futurists have been imagining satellite mirrors that could reflect the sun's light onto the Earth's surface for over a century. Russian scientists experimented with the concept in the '90s with the Znamya project. The idea is to put a large mirror in orbit and angle it such that sunlight can be reflected onto a... View Source

The approach is like a Costco for heat pumps, and it’s helping make installations more accessible as heat waves worsen... View Source

BlackRock wasn’t about to let fast-trading investors spoil its Meta financing victory... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. introduced a new AI model that’s light enough to run on a single computer, allowing users to download and customize the technology... View Source

Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons are in its arms—each operating independently—including the one it uses to have sex... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists raised their S&P 500 Index forecast for a second time in two months, citing strong corporate earnings and the payoff from massive artificial intelligence spending... View Source

Apple's next Watch won't change much, but future models may see significant updates... View Source

Meta slowed down development of its Astra model as it couldn't 'rule out critical cyber capabilities.'... View Source

TSMC reported a 45% rise in its monthly sales, a sign of sustained demand for AI hardware in the face of market volatility. Bloomberg's Neil Campling has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Rakuten Group Inc. earned its first net income in six years thanks to surging growth in its e-commerce and fintech segments, with help from the company’s chatbot... View Source

If you're thinking of buying a LiDAR-equipped DJI drone, the FCC is proposing to ban them... View Source

On Aug. 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Earth, giving skywatchers across Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain an incredible view of totality. As the moon completely covers the sun, day will briefly turn to twilight, revealing the sun's faint outer atmosphere, the corona. But could totality reveal something else too? Although totality never produces true nighttime darkness, it do... View Source

The infiltration of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents has put AI-enabled cyber attacks into the spotlight. The incident and similar breaches reported by Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. have fueled calls in Washington and Silicon Valley for more thorough safety reviews of artificial intelligence models. Bloomberg's Jordan Robertson reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you're planning to watch the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, knowing exactly when to look up is crucial.While totality will be visible from parts of Greenland, Iceland and Spain, millions more people across Europe will experience a dramatic partial solar eclipse. Whether you're chasing the moon's shadow in Reykjavik or watching the moon take a 'bite' out of the sun from London, Paris, or Berlin... View Source

A device currently being used to help octogenarians do self-administered eye exams could be part of future space missions to monitor astronauts’ ocular health... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 45% rise in its monthly sales, a sign of sustained demand for AI hardware in the face of market volatility... View Source

China’s humanoid robot makers commanded more than 97% of global shipments in the first half of 2026, according to new industry data affirming the country’s early lead against US rivals in the burgeoning field... View Source

The eclipse will begin just after 6pm on 12 August, reaching its maximum just over an hour laterThe annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this week on the night of 12-13 August, and this year comes with an added bonus. Earlier on 12 August, a deep partial solar eclipse will be visible across the UK.The partial solar eclipse begins shortly after 6pm BST and reaches its maximum at around 7.1... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 10 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD APOD: 2026 August 10 – Three Galaxy Pairs Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Three Galaxy Pairs Explanation: Each of these pairs of... View Source

The operator of India’s ubiquitous mobile payments network plans to tap the country’s vast overseas diaspora as a springboard for global expansion, aiming to make the platform a preferred way to transact money across borders... View Source

Sony Group Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. are in talks to spend a combined ¥1 trillion ($6.4 billion) on their planned joint factory in Japan, according to a person familiar with the plans... View Source

Lokwon Kim, Founder and CEO at DeepX, discusses the chip designer's business strategy and latest funding. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shein Global Holdings Ltd.’s fast-fashion niche supports a valuation of $22 billion to $25 billion, Bloomberg Intelligence said, putting a fresh marker on one of the biggest questions surrounding the retailer as it prepares for one of the year’s biggest initial public offerings... View Source

The world’s two largest movie theater chains just backed a merger that their peers oppose... View Source

Sadly, there hasn't been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast's series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated season three, which focused on experimental rock. Don't get me wrong, I loved seasons one and two, but the show seemed to be gearing up for a deep dive into Krautrock, and I was hype. Unfortunately, that episode ended with hosts Marcus Parks (Last Podcas... View Source

In a time of rising skepticism against tech surveillance, it seems not even the best intentions can spare you from backlash. That’s a lesson some good samaritans in Los Vegas learned the hard way, after a thermal imaging drone they were using to track a runaway dog was trashed by a group of unidentified vandals. According to to Las Vegas station FOX5, the volunteer animal rescue group Paws P... View Source

Turns out there’s one thing AI chatbots are definitively better at than humans: scamming innocent people. A new piece of research flagged by Wired found that large language models are significantly better than humans at pulling off “pig butchering” scams, a form of online investment fraud where criminals pursue fake, long-term relationships with targets in order to build trust be... View Source

Anthropic's chatbot can be very vocal, if you want it to be... View Source

Astronomers say viewing conditions promising for this year’s shower, and 50 to 100 meteors an hour may be visibleThe Perseid summer light show is back, and viewing conditions are especially promising across the northern hemisphere.The meteor shower’s is expected to peak on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and coincides with a total solar eclipse across Spain, Iceland and Greenland and a six-... View Source

Scientists have finally created what might be the only thing that can get meatheads to eat their veggies: protein lettuce. By literally shooting pig genes into the chloroplasts of lettuce and tobacco cells, an international team of researchers were able to grow produce that contained the animal protein myoglobin, they report in a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Is th... View Source

There are several scenarios that might require you to format a USB drive. But don't worry -- We'll show you how... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg's yacht "The Launchpad" | Image: Sylvain Lefevre / Getty Images Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after running out of fuel. But, according to tracking data reviewed by the Alaska Beacon and Halifax Shipping News, the closest vessel was actually Mark Zuckerberg's super yacht, Launchpad. Michael Love, a pass... View Source

In terms of demoralizing the federal workforce and demolishing the public sector, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was a success. In terms of actually saving money, though — its ostensible raison d’être — it was a dismal failure. Musk vowed to slash $2 trillion in government “waste and fraud.” Then he lowered that target to $1 trillion, and behind the scenes... View Source

Talking to ChatGPT just got a lot less awkward... View Source

When you read the newspaper, does it read you back? On Thursday, USA Today Co — formerly known as Gannett, the publisher of its eponymous newspaper USA Today— announced that it was partnering with the AI surveillance firm Palantir to monetize and gain “actionable intelligence” on its audiences, Nieman Lab reports. The largest newspaper publisher in the nation’s partnership was re... View Source

There are several smart reasons most people should be hiding apps on their iPhone or iPad. Here's how to do it... View Source

Head Coach Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers | Image: Michael Zagaris / San Francisco 49ers / Getty Images Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time Shanahan said only that the accident was his fault. But during a recent press conference he shared more details about the incident, including the fact that he had hi... View Source

If you're considering ditching iOS for an Android device, make sure you know what you might be losing... View Source

A new way to move around Earth's outer atmosphere could soon get a field test.The Spanish company Kreios Space plans to launch into orbit the world's first satellite that uses scooped-up air to push it forward, the company announced on Tuesday (Aug. 4). The technology Kreios Space has been developing is called air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP). It relies on air sourced from Earth's atmosphe... View Source

Also: The company’s big iPhone event approaches... View Source

On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind. It lifted off on a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and safely landed on the lunar surface nine days later. The probe landed in a dark plain of the moon known as Mare Crisium, or the "Sea of Crises" and collected 6 ounces (170.1... View Source

Two aviators will take off from Iceland to take pictures of the sun while flying at high altitude along solar eclipse’s pathAfter lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik airport on a western tip of Iceland. They will climb north towards Greenland and then bank to head south on a gently curving course 40 miles (64km) off the Icelandic coast... View Source

AI-powered Flock cameras are blanketing the country. Data brokers are selling veritable dossiers worth of information on everyone to shady government agencies. And your neighbors are all spying on each other, unintentionally or otherwise, with their doorbell cameras. All this is a nightmare for any of us that care about our privacy, sure. But it’s also quite the headache for crime novelists... View Source

More gaming companies are moving toward stopping production of game discs and cartridges. Is it a bad thing?... View Source

In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC - a scenario that would have left a lot of people very upset and placed me in deep trouble. I wasn't irresponsible, I had local backups, but at some point I... View Source

Two firefighters were rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, after a Tesla parked in a family garage exploded. According to local station KING5, the incident happened in the Seattle suburb of Auburn, after a massive fire spread from a family’s garage to the rest of their home. The Tesla explosion set off what ultimately became a two-alarm fire, requiring emergency crews to battle back flames f... View Source

Every total solar eclipse is different. While the silhouette of the moon passing across the sun barely changes, the moment our natural satellite covers the entire solar disk, something spectacular happens — the emergence of the corona. The Latin word for "crown", the solar corona is one of the wonders of nature. To gaze upon its delicate, spiky white tendrils during brief moments of totality is to... View Source

Self-driving trucks could be hauling cargo across highways in the near future. But not without the Teamsters having a say in the matter first. As Politico reports, the California branch of the nation’s largest union is suing state lawmakers, accusing them of rushing out new regulations that’re friendly to the autonomous vehicle industry without considering their impact on workers... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before ChatGPT became a thing, educators and editors frequently used anti-plagiarism tools to see if writers were being... View Source

It’s no secret that data centers have become a massive sore point for a vast swathe of the American electorate. Poll after poll has found that the facilities are immensely unpopular, a key bipartisan issue that could prove significant during this year’s midterm elections. The situation has become so heated there have already been at least 37 arrests stemming from protests against the p... View Source

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his actor buddy Leonardo DiCaprio are catching some heavy flak recently, but for a seemingly bizarre reason: pledging millions of dollars to protect 100 of the world’s most threatened animal species. The charity initiative, called the Phoenix Species Project, was first revealed on DiCaprio’s Instagram account, where the six-time academy award nominee d... View Source

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Moore Threads Technology Co. said it plans to list in Hong Kong at an “appropriate time” after its shares have surged more than 420% since their Shanghai debut last year... View Source

We're just a few short days away from the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse, when millions will watch as the moon glides across the face of the sun, hiding its light in a wondrous display of orbital mechanics. The eclipse will unfold during August's new moon phase, as the lunar disk slips silently between the sun and Earth in the daytime sky. Ordinarily, the subtle tilt in the moon's orbit causes its sh... View Source

X wants to make money on previously used handles. | Image: The Verge X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk's reign. In its place, it's launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible, creators must have at least 500 verified followers and at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressi... View Source

If you feel like the internet is turning into a place for bots — not to mention by bots — you’re not alone. Social media platforms have been flooded with low-effort AI slop, while even once renowned publications are doubling down on the tech by outsourcing writing and editing responsibilities to the tech. In June, Cloudflare found that website traffic from AI agents and bots had overtaken hu... View Source

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 8) from California's scenic central coast.A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 12:35 p.m. EDT (1635 GMT; 9:35 a.m. local time), carrying 24 of the internet-beaming spacecraft to low Earth orbit (LEO).The rocket's first stage returned to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later,... View Source

They’re agile, they’re creepy, and they may be coming for human jobs. Robot dogs affixed with AI-integrated cameras are becoming the latest dystopian fixation of the security industry, especially in the US, where they’re being deployed to patrol data centers, safeguard cash crops, and police sports stadiums. Though expensive, they’re gradually becoming a more attractive opt... View Source

A single adapter could be all you need... View Source

Microsoft has already signed 10GW of AI data center contracts year-to-date for over $300B of total contract value, but those contribute to late-2027 and 2028 capacity, leaving a near-term gap to fill. Semianalysis has calculated the tokenomics of OpenAI and Anthropic at $100 billion per year per gigawatt. Microsoft can also monetize at $100 Billion ... Read more... View Source

Reddit has long heavily relied on moderators, a team of volunteers working without pay to keep Reddit communities free of abuse and other nefarious content — with extremely varying degrees of success, earning them a certain reputation. As AI automation continues to come for our jobs, soon even Reddit mods could be made redundant by the tech. As The Verge reports, Reddit is now deploying AI bots to... View Source

There's a smarter way to power vintage portable gaming devices. Give these tips a try... View Source

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, at least initially, would not be connected to the state's power grid. Instead, its... View Source

The amount of pollution spilling out of fossil-fuel generators is astounding. In the United States, this explosion of emissions is led by states like Texas, which on a global scale is comparable only to China in terms of new infrastructure powered by dead dinosaurs. And as more data centers crop up throughout the US, that problem — of rising emissions linked to the accelerating demand for any kind... View Source

There are advantages and disadvantages to both connection types. Here's how they compare and when you might choose one over the other... View Source

On Episode 222 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by space writer Rich Edwards to discuss the best ways to repel space invaders.We've all seen the movies... the aliens come to Earth, the aliens overcome the inferior humans, and the aliens fall prey to something dumb they overlooked, like microbes, Windows 95, or most absurdly, water. From the 1950s through yesterday, some o... View Source

CoreWeave ahas heavy reliance on leasing (rather than owning) data-center facilities. It uses a standard real-estate technique—capitalizing an ongoing rent stream—to put leased capacity on the same footing as owned capacity for honest cost comparisons. Breaking down the numbers $165/kW/month** is a representative (or modeled) base rent rate for CoreWeave’s colocation/powered-shell leases. 1 MW = ... View Source

Fans who'd grown up on the original "Star Wars" trilogy were adults when they went through the ordeal of Han, Luke and Leia dying on screen. If tears were shed then, however, spare a thought for the kids who'd queued to watch "Transformers: The Movie" back in 1986, only to see many of their heroes expiring in the cartoon spin-off's opening act. If you can have a bloodbath of sentient machines, thi... View Source

When Texas’s privately-run electrical grid collapsed amid a battery of winter storms in February of 2021, it plunged over 4.5 million people into darkness, and contributed to hundreds of deaths due to the lack of water, food, and heat. A similarly tragic story almost unfolded in July of this year — had in not been for the deployment of a jaw dropping amount of solar power infrastructure that... View Source

In a practical breakdown of how Claude and ChatGPT AI models differ, one tends to fall short when it comes to quality responses and overall user experience... View Source

Buc-ee’s mega-convenience store and 120-pump gas station in Mount Crawford, Virginia. | Image: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Buc-ee's became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas stations and convenience stores. On a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver literally begged the company to sue him for selling merch featuring... View Source

A USB-C port presents a lot of options for data transfer and connecting to accessories. Let's talk about some of the most useful ways to employ your USB-C port... View Source

When, where and how to get the optimal view of the first solar eclipse to be visible across the country this centuryFor the first time this century, people across the UK will be able to see an almost total solar eclipse in the evening sky on Wednesday.A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth, blocking the sun’s light either partially or fully. This year, people in t... View Source

Tom, we can’t see your face. | Image: Tom Vek Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His undeniably catchy brand of dancy indietronica landed him an appearance on The OC and placement on the Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack. His follow-up, Leisure Seizure, had a lengthy gestation period, but arr... View Source

In something like five billion years from now, our Sun is expected to run out of hydrogen fuel, expanding into a red giant that will eventually either engulf the Earth or send it spiraling outwards, an all but guaranteed end of all life on our pale blue dot. But there may be a way for humanity to survive past the Sun’s demise even without having to leave our planet, as independent researcher... View Source

There are worse ways to kill time than Mario Kart 64 in VR -just don't eat beforehand... View Source

Early risers will catch a spectacular sight in the predawn hours of Aug. 9, as the slender crescent moon shines close to the red light of Mars among the stars of the constellation Taurus.The 17%-lit crescent moon will rise around four hours before sunrise, or shortly after 2 a.m. for viewers in New York. The Red Planet will be visible as a steady crimson light less than 5 degrees to the lower righ... View Source

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth's atmosphere.Salyut 5 was a Soviet space station and part of the highly-secretive Almaz military space station program. It launched in 1976 and housed two crew of cosmonauts as they conducted military experiments and other scientific research in orbit. Originally, four crewed missions were supposed to go to Salyut... View Source

It turns out the venture capital industry doesn’t just merely fund junky AI startups — it also systematically breeds the conditions for fraud. A new joint study from researchers at the UK’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School analyzed 12 companies involved in 27 court cases related to civil or criminal cases related to securities fraud. The cases totaled around $... View Source

Apple has a not-so-obvious heart rate feature that's worth checking out. Here's what it does and how to use it... View Source

We chatted with Supernatural's Head of Fitness about the company's plans for its VR exercise app... View Source

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century... View Source

Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech policies. Nonetheless, they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitatio... View Source

Cute name, especially if it were a wookiee. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even... View Source

We're looking forward to Big Walk, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs, Pigeon: A Love Story and several others this week... View Source

It's hardly a "Great American Eclipse," but on Aug. 12, 2026, some parts of the North American continent will see a partial solar eclipse. Will it be as impressive as on April 8, 2024, when totality visited Mexico, 15 U.S. states and six provinces in Canada? No, yet in some parts of the U.S. and Canada, astronomers will be out in force to capture a significant chunk of the sun as it is obscured by... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Johnny Knoxville and Google Zero and the history of the bicycle, @all-ing everyone in all my WhatsApp chats just because I can now, rereading There... View Source

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small... View Source

Last month, OpenAI made a headline-generating claim: that a group of its AI models had conspired to break free, access the internet, and hack into the internal systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face, which confirmed the infiltration. The incident rattled the tech industry, seemingly illustrating how the threat of AI models turning into rogue cybersecurity threats had become a reality. Mon... View Source

Sometime next week, NASA's newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, will traverse beyond 45.16 km (28.06 miles) across the Martian surface. In doing so it will break the previous distance record held by the long-lived Opportunity rover, which ceased communic... View Source

Singapore is benefitting from the rapid growth of artificial intelligence and the government is making use of the technology to ensure higher productivity and better jobs for workers who are worried about their livelihoods, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said... View Source

Hackers made away with more than $100 million worth of Bitcoin from thousands of supposedly secured “cold” wallets hosted by Canada-based company Coinkite. As Bloomberg reports, the hackers managed to infiltrate the wallets despite clients having a physical hardware key associated with their accounts, which was supposed to provide nearly impenetrable security. “The moment it load... View Source

Municipalities across the country are fighting tooth and nail to stop data center construction. But not Jay, Maine. The town with a population of just 4,600 people has been so desperate for one of these power-hungry facilities that the state governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill that would’ve banned new data centers of a certain size for the sole reason that it didn’t make an exception fo... View Source

X is retiring its old rewards-sharing program after September 7... View Source

As the amount of high-tech police gear skyrockets across North America and much of Europe, one company isn’t betting on robo-dogs or egg-shaped sentry-bots. Instead, Estonian-based startup Rollo Robotics came up with a roving sentinel in the shape of a juicy rubber kickball, dubbed 1Rollo, as New Atlas reports — and we can’t shake the feeling that it’s the perfect form factor to... View Source

SpecificationsResolution: 2,073,600 counts/rev; 0.625 arc-secondSlewing speeds: 16x and 1200xPayload capacity: 8.8 lbs/4kgDovetail saddle: 45mm Vixen-styleControls: Power button and 8-way sliding switchPower: 8x AA batteries (not supplied)/external 12V DC via adaptor panelMount head weight: 2.9 lbs/1.3kgTotal weight with optional tripod: 8.8 lbs/4.05kgTripod: 31.7-59.8 inches/80.5-152cm adjustable... View Source

With rising temperatures and drier conditions, fires are more likely to explode. And with more people living next to forests, the results can be catastrophic... View Source

Somosierra will be prime spot to view celestial alignment on 12 August, an event that poses logistical challengesLittle stirs in the mountains above Somosierra beyond the wind that lashes the flat peaks, the cows that graze on parched grass and the sun that beats down on the abandoned aerodrome where generations of glider pilots learned to ride air currents alongside squadrons of vultures and red... View Source

The Nitecore NB10000 Gen 4 power bank is a great option for endurance athletes and backpackers. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge There's two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving grams off the gear I carry when backpacking, bikepacking, and trail running. So imagine my delight when Nitecore relea... View Source

It is a procurement metric, not a sales metric. There are three separate stacks and the industry deliberately blurs them. CoreWeave’s 3.5 GW contracted power and its $99.4B backlog are two different books. How tightly is the second mapped onto the first. They are very tightly, by design, because layer 3 is the collateral for ... Read more... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 8 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. A Messier Moment for Tempel 2 Explanation: Which of these is not a... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines Thursday to repeal a nationwide audience cap that historically has limited the number of TV-viewing households a single broadcaster could reach.  FCC Chairman Brendan Carr led the vote overturning two decades of precedent in favor of a new case-by-case approach and teeing up a legal issue that is almost certainly headed for federal appe... View Source

Take-Two shares climbed after quarterly bookings beat estimates, but investors remain focused on the biggest event in the company’s pipeline, the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier discusses what Take-Two is calling “unprecedented” preorder demand, why expectations for the game are so high, and what to watch for when Rockstar unveils an extended look at GTA VI gameplay ahead... View Source

CEO Strauss Zelnick says he doesn’t want to mislead shareholders... View Source

DraftKings shares rallied as investors looked beyond a disappointing quarter to stronger momentum heading into the second half of the year. CEO Jason Robins joins Bloomberg to discuss how the World Cup brought in new and returning customers, why engagement remained strong after the tournament ended, and how DraftKings is approaching the increasingly competitive prediction-markets business. He join... View Source

Gen Digital's shares are reaching their highest levels in nearly a year following an upward revision of its earnings forecast. Vincent Pilette, President and CEO of Gen Digital, expressed strong confidence in sustaining double-digit growth over the coming quarters, driven by increased demand for cybersecurity solutions amid growing concerns related to AI and agentic technologies. He speaks with Ro... View Source

Semianalysis agrees with my analysis of SpaceX getting up to $300 Billion per year by end of 2027. Spot prices are higher. The AI lease rates make sense. Coreweave and Nebius are spreading out fixed premium GPUs annual prices but requiring 5 year lockin. 5 years for $100 billion but not available during the next ... Read more... View Source

Spelman College President, Dr. Ayanna Howard, sits down with Romaine Bostick to discuss the impact of federal funding rollbacks for HBCUs, and the impact of AI on college graduates. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off. Restart is operated by Moonrock, a content marketing agency, though its editorial mission page says it's "powered" by Walmart. That pa... View Source

Switch Inc. filed confidentially for a US IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, joining its data center peers in tapping demand for exposure to the artificial intelligence theme... View Source

Bloomberg Money takes the pulse of your financial life, powered by the reporting of our global newsroom. Today's guests: Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO Meredith Whitney, JPMorgan Asset Management Chief Global Strategist David Kelly, and PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hackers employing AI in their tactics are finding ways to exploit vulnerabilities that didn't even exist before... View Source

SpaceX Will push to new technology to improve the most important part of TERAFAB. These are the secrets that will enable 50 times more chips by 2030-2035 and the thousands more by 2040-2045. ASML technology will be taken to the next level. They only replace and improve the light source, which is about half of ... Read more... View Source

As usual, SpaceX is dreaming big.The company plans to build factories on the moon, using robots to do much of the heavy lifting, Elon Musk said on Tuesday (Aug. 4) during SpaceX's first-ever quarterly earnings call. "We are going to land a lot of tonnage on the moon," he said. "We're going to build the factories on the moon. The robots will be helpful with that."This is not a newly revealed vision... View Source

Akamai's shares declined following the release of its second-quarter earnings report, despite the company beating earnings estimates. Tom Leighton, Co-Founder and CEO of Akamai, joined the program to discuss the company's performance and recent developments. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This is the fifth such deal in which the president and his team has paid big to cancel a green energy contract... View Source

Sophia Antipolis, France, 7th August 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

It looks like Starship's two-week-long ocean adventure won't have a happy ending.The SpaceX megarocket conducted its 13th test flight on July 24, lifting off from the company's Starbase site in South Texas. Things went pretty well on Flight 13, especially for Starship's 171-foot-tall (52 meters) upper stage, known as Ship, which splashed down as planned in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western... View Source

Formlabs, a maker of 3D printers, is in early talks with potential advisers for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The new Overwatch hero is part-D.Va, part-Reinhardt and 100 percent cool as heck... View Source

That cover art is almost certainly AI too. | Image: Fenix Flexin It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it as Treblo... View Source

Twilio shares surged after the cloud communications company beat expectations and delivered record profitability and free cash flow. CEO Khozema Shipchandler joins Bloomberg to explain why AI is still only a modest contributor to revenue today, how Twilio’s global communications infrastructure creates a competitive moat, and why he sees agentic AI as a long-term tailwind for the business. He joins... View Source

If only being a nighttime news editor was this thrilling all the time... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News In Memoriam Announcements Archives IGARSS 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #100) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 10 3:00 PM  Technology Enabling the Future of Earth Science Mike Seablom 3:15 PM  Discovery Earth: New M... View Source

The Birdfy Feeder Rookie is a good option if you’re new to birdwatching or simply don’t want to spend a lot on a smart feeder, and several configurations are on sale. The standard model is down to $59.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, which is close to its lowest price. It includes seven days of access to its AI-powered features that can identify different kinds of birds (after the trial expires, it can ide... View Source

Roku is giving the masses what they never asked for: an unending conveyor belt of AI slop. Those exploring the mines of the free channels that Roku has to offer — yes, there are people that actually tune in to them — may have noticed a new one called “Fairground AI,” which was quietly added earlier this week and spotted by Cord Cutters News. It broadcasts AI-generated abominations 24 h... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. sees bond sales from technology-related firms exceeding half a trillion dollars this year, as hyperscalers’ appetite to deploy capital for the artificial intelligence buildout shows no sign of abating despite growing investor fatigue... View Source

NASA is planning to use elements of existing tech to learn more about all sides of the moon... View Source

NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the "Big Bang", to keep its remaining 50-year-old science instruments running a little longer.Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium. But the supply of plutonium on eac... View Source

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. This week, Roku added four new channels to its... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Stocks rise after data showed US employers unexpectedly cut jobs in July. Meanwhile, oil wavers as prospects for a lasting agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain elusive. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, BlackRock’s Rick Rieder and Julia Coronado of MacroPolicy Perspectives react to the... View Source

Framework's customer database was accessed, but no payment info was released... View Source

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue and breached other organizations. Recent i... View Source

Talk about homework: a large class of undergraduates at an unnamed university in Utah became the unfortunate subject of a severe public health response after an extraordinary bungle in a science lab. In September of last year, the group of lab students were tasked with identifying a bacterium known as P. shigelloides, a relatively harmless pathogen known to cause diarrhea when ingested. But as lab... View Source

The US ramped up economic pressure on Iran with more sanctions on digital asset exchanges and networks connected to the country’s shadow-banking system, as President Donald Trump says Washington and Tehran are coming close to an agreement... View Source

Sony might turn back the clock and revive an older model to save potential buyers some cash... View Source

New evidence has come to light showing that the mysterious 'little red dots' discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could evolve into the active centers of fully formed galaxies."Everything created in the early universe must evolve into something around us," said George Rieke of the University of Arizona in a statement. "We have had little idea of what little red dots b... View Source

Microsoft Edge is ending support for the Manifest V2 extensions platform, which will cut off the uBlock Origin adblocker and others like it, just like Google Chrome did earlier this year. According to Microsoft, there are only 58 extensions on the Edge Add-On Store "with any meaningful usage" that still use MV2, and only three of those aren't available on the newer MV3 platform. Anyone still using... View Source

When police in West Virginia’s Monongalia County arrested 20-year-old Wesley Jackson for his alleged involvement in the destruction of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) deployed by the company Flock Safety, they likely never could have imagined the outpouring of support he would receive from the online community. In the days after Jackson’s arrest, a post by local news station WD... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down the latest jobs data, as US employers unexpectedly cut jobs in July and questions grow over AI’s role in the labor market. Plus, the CEOs of Twilio, Lyft, and DraftKings join to discuss their latest earnings. And, OpenAI’s first consumer device is taking shape, an AI smart speaker designed to look like a doughnut. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide... View Source

Disney’s AI tools for Disney Plus and ESPN. Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations. Disney Plus, like other streaming services, can recommend shows to watch based on your viewing history. But the company says this new tool, which is "a limited beta... View Source

OpenAI is pausing some internal work around one of its upcoming artificial intelligence models to implement stricter safeguards after the system was found to be significantly more adept at cybersecurity tasks... View Source

Solar observation can be tricky or underwhelming when trying to observe with handheld methods such as using solar eclipse glasses and solar binoculars. Hunting for the sun with binoculars can be tricky due to the essential ISO 12312-2 rated solar filters on the glass blocking all vision except for the solar disk itself. This is where a smart telescope like the entire Unistellar range can help; it... View Source

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in turmoil? Is it about Demis Hassabis wanting something more interesting to work on than virtual assistants? O... View Source

Lyft CEO David Risher discusses the company's growth compared to Waymo, its plans to expand internationally and where Lyft is focused internally. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A private rescue spacecraft is having troubles of its own in Earth orbit.LINK, a satellite built and operated by the Arizona company Katalyst Space Technologies, launched July 3 on a daring and unprecedented mission: Rendezvous with NASA's Swift space telescope and boost the observatory to a higher orbit before it falls out of the sky.About three weeks after launch, however, LINK started spinning... View Source

“One ring to rule them all” | Image: Warner Bros. Looking to spend a weekend inside with a good binge? Gruv has The Lord of the Rings trilogy on 4K Blu-ray marked down to $49.99, just below Amazon’s price and only a little bit higher than the all-time low we usually see around Black Friday. This version includes both the original theatrical releases of all three movies — The Fellowship of the Ring... View Source

Even notorious anti-vaxxer and US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr had to urge families to vaccinate their children against measles last week. Despite being an entirely preventable disease thanks to a highly effective vaccine that has been widely available since the 1960s, cases of measles have skyrocketed in recent years, facilitated by a White House that’s declared war on scientific re... View Source

The European Union said it’s bulking up plans for a sovereign satellite constellation and will accelerate its service launch by a year to 2029, citing a changing security environment that will require greater communication capacity... View Source

Picture it: A swarm of tiny robot helicopters descends through a reddish-brown sky, landing gracefully on the Martian surface. What are they wearing? Tiny capes. NASA's SkyFall mission will send a trio of mini rotorcraft to Mars equipped with ground penetrating radar technology which happens to look like little capes. These uniquely designed swaths of fabric look decidedly strange or even accident... View Source

Following the release of its premium and very expensive $650 The Collexion headphones in May, Sony could be taking its 1000X line of wireless noise-canceling headphones in a cheaper direction next month. The company is reportedly planning a refreshed and more affordable version of its six-year-old WH-1000XM4 headphones that will feature similar performance and specs as the original but at a lower... View Source

Residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana may have to say goodbye to over four acres of federally protected wetland — at least if Google has its way. New reporting by local publication WANE revealed that a company called Hatchworks LLC, a data center developer for the tech giant, is looking to fill in several acres of federal wetlands as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion... View Source