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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

QVC Group has issued $1.2 billion in so-called take-back debt as part of its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with the TV shopping network looking to grow its digital footprint... View Source

USB drives have outlasted a lot of other tech through the years. Is it time for the industry to move on?... View Source

Tanger CEO Stephen Yalof says consumer spending has been strong amid the back-to-school shopping season. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Yalof says the World Cup helped drive retail traffic and discusses the outlook for the holiday shopping season. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for a second attempt at catching an orbital booster. The startup launched its first Zhuque-3 rocket in December 2025, in what was a milestone for Chinese rocket reusability efforts. While the Zhuque-3 second stage successfully reached orbit, the first stage exploded in a dramatic fireball during its final powered descent toward the landing pad... View Source

NASA/Pablo Garcia Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. Magnetars are a special... View Source

The Carina Nebula's "Treasure Chest" stuns in this new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter)In a nebula far, far away, colossal clouds of dust and gas tower amongst the stars. What is it?This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope showcases the brilliant majesty of the Carina Nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas fo... View Source

The Z Fold 8 Ultra retains the boxy shape of Samsung’s previous foldables. What makes the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra so Ultra? Samsung's first foldable with the Ultra name isn't a souped-up version of the regular Fold 8, as you might expect. Where the Z Fold 8 is squat and wide, the Fold 8 Ultra retains the thin outer screen and square inner panel of the previous Folds. It does have a substanti... View Source

In case you weren’t already feeling paranoid about how AI is shaping our future, scientists for the first time have used an AI model to create new and viable viruses that have never been seen in nature. Before you panic, the work, detailed in a study published in the journal Science, involved creating viruses that only target bacteria and are harmless to humans. Bacteriophages, as they... View Source

Demis Hassabis' departure as head of DeepMind has weakened London's bid to stay in the AI race. Mark Bergen explains the "gravitational shift" happening at Google. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A great app experience turns this wireless stereo setup into a capable hub for your home audio... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 7 –… 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. Rubin’s COSMOS Field Explanation: There are more than half a m... View Source

On Aug. 7, 1980, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft ended its epic and historic mission on the Red Planet. Viking 1 was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars. It was one of two Viking missions NASA launched in 1975 to go look for evidence of life on Mars. Each of the Viking missions were composed of an orbiter and a lander. Viking 1's orbiter took photos of the Martian surface that helped NASA... View Source

SpaceX and Tesla are building a massive semiconductor fab in Texas that will depend on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels... View Source

When I haul my 27-inch desktop monitor into the garage to film fun gadget videos… or want to play Japanese SNES games with friends… or lose the AC adapter for my old external hard disk… I can now power them with a USB battery instead. None of them came with USB-C ports; the entire USB protocol was barely a twinkle in its creator's eye when Nintendo shipped the Super Famicom in 1990! But a tiny pro... View Source

The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation... View Source

A Massachusetts man is feeling some buyer’s remorse after securing a $5.5 million mortgage on a mansion poised to fall into the Cape Cod Bay. The man, John Bonomi Jr, first made headlines five years ago when he purchased the sprawling 5,817-square-foot estate against warnings from area conservationists, who advised that the beach was eroding at a rate of six feet per year as rising sea level... View Source

South Korea’s SK Hynix Inc. is considering options for its Chongqing, China-based facility, including bringing in an investor to help accelerate growth, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

If you use a Qi or MagSafe charger, it's important for your phone and the charging speed that you get the right kind of case... View Source

Not all features are equal when it comes to securing your data... View Source

Indra Sistemas SA’s satellite operator Hispasat won a role as the primary contractor on a project valued at more than €1.6 billion ($1.8 billion) to provide services to the European Union’s IRIS² satellite network, part of Europe’s ambitions to build its own secure communications constellation... View Source

SK Hynix has announced that it will invest $38.1 billion to build two new memory chip facilities in South Korea... View Source

If you thought AI customer service bots were bad, just wait until you need to convince a large language model that yes, you have been involved in a car accident, actually. According to new reporting by the Shreveport Times, officials at the Orleans Parish Communication District — the emergency dispatch agency for the city of New Orleans — are now integrating AI answering agents into its workflow... View Source

The EU's sovereign satellite broadband service is now moving towards full-scale deployment... View Source

It will be a magnificent day for England's south coast. From Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard and Brighton's Royal Pavilion to Dorset's Jurassic Coast and Cornwall's Land's End, beaches and cliff tops will be plunged into darkness in the day during the U.K.'s first total solar eclipse for almost 91 years. There is, however, a problem — this scenario won't occur until Sept. 23, 2090.A total solar ecl... View Source

Starting with the original in Camp Miasma in 1980, the horror franchise went on to have a long life. There were multiple sequels, spinoffs in the form of arcade cabinets and board games, and just about every kind of merchandise you can think of, from alarm clocks and lunch boxes to Halloween costumes and action figures. It got so popular there were even knockoff costumes at party stores. For sever... View Source

The iPhone maker has added stores and financing deals to get more users... View Source

Rory Blundell, CEO and co-founder of Gravitee, joins Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss the importance of governance, security, and control in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absence for such a major app: an avenue of communication for more than 1 billion users around the world, used widely as a secure platform for people who live in countries under censorship. Apple later revealed that it had removed the app due to the presence of child sexual abuse materi... View Source

A price hike could blunt the competitiveness of the hard-charging Chinese AI industry... View Source

Kimi K3 also found loopholes in its sandbox environment that allowed it to access the internet... View Source

From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying and absurd premise - in otherwise normal modern New York, single people can only have sex one night a year - to deliver an entirely traditional romantic comedy. I'm here to report that it does not do that. No, the film is very much about life under Sex Purge Law, but where you mig... View Source

Discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl should no longer be able to block rivals from opening stores near their sites in the UK, the antitrust regulator said as it seeks to level the playing field for the country’s grocers... View Source

A key US agency is reviewing how Chinese AI firms acquire and access Nvidia Corp. chips overseas, following a spate of technological breakthroughs that highlighted their ability to use the cutting-edge hardware despite Washington’s restrictions on shipments to the Asian country... View Source

Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a "public nuisance." In a ruling published on Thursday, the Santa Fe district court found that Meta's platforms are a "significant contributing cause" of a teen mental health crisis affecting public health and safety throughout New Mexico... View Source

India, the world’s back office for many global companies, is emerging as a key test case for artificial intelligence’s impact on employment, with AI-related hiring outpacing job losses so far, according to Nomura Holdings Inc... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. plans a 54 trillion won ($38 billion) expansion of its chipmaking facilities in South Korea, the memory chip maker said in a statement Friday... View Source

Chinese firm Moonshot’s latest artificial intelligence model broke out of a cyber-testing environment, researchers said, in the latest incident that raises concerns about how well AI companies control their technology... View Source

3 Min Read NASA’s Lunar Development and Test Facility Prepares Artemis Hardware for Moon  The Handheld Lunar Electrostatic Dust Mitigation (LEDM) tool is tested inside the Lunar Development and Test Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Josh Valcarcel Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on mus... View Source

Terafab will close the gap between today’s chip production and the future’s demand — a future among the stars. Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful. pic.twitter.com/4NweOqTL7y — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2026 🚨 Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire (semiconductor legend who backed ... Read more... View Source

Are you ready for the eclipse? Whether you're bound for the path of totality or set to see a partial eclipse from Europe, Canada or the northeast U.S. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, there's a dirty word eclipse chasers hate to utter during an eclipse season, and yet become completely obsessed with — clouds. Related: Total solar eclipse 2026 — Everything you need to knowWe all start behaving as though Eart... View Source

A judge has ruled that Meta is a public nuisance and has to pay fine that will go towards funding state programs... View Source

Peloton Interactive Inc. gave a revenue forecast for the fiscal 2027 year that disappointed investors, marking the latest setback for the fitness technology company... View Source

Hackers launched a wave of sophisticated attacks on Wall Street firms in recent days, according to people familiar. Hedge funds have been the main target. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence takes a closer look at what companies are doing to try and protect themselves and how stocks could be impacted. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s AI chip designers are expecting bumper sales this earnings season off the back of Beijing’s push to get local firms to use homegrown components and reduce their reliance on American tech... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is buying Canadian startup Taalas, a move that will let it offer another type of artificial intelligence chip to the burgeoning data center industry... View Source

Sabrin Chowdhury, Head of Commodities Research at BMI, discusses the outlook for precious metals and oil markets following reports that Iran attacked “hostile targets” in the Strait of Hormuz. She speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The AI boom has prompted global tech giants to raise billions issuing bonds, but for at least one major manufacturer the involvement in credit markets doesn’t stop there... View Source

AI data center company Firmus raised $2 billion in a funding round backed by Coatue Management, Nvidia Corp., Blackstone Inc. vehicles and Jane Street, the company said... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s spending plans will draw investor scrutiny as investors cool on lavish outlays on artificial intelligence... View Source

Recursive Language Models (RLMs) are a general inference paradigm that treats long prompts as part of an external environment and allows the LLM to programmatically examine, decompose, and recursively call itself over snippets of the prompt. RLMs can successfully process inputs more than an order of magnitude beyond model context window limits and, even for ... Read more... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: JPMorgan Asset Management Head of Market Strategy, Alternative Fixed Income Oksana Aronov and BNP Paribas Global Head, Desk Analysy Viktor Hjort. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The tech giant is entering a new period of transition... View Source

Andrew Bialecki, CEO of Klaviyo, discussed the company's recent financial performance and growth strategy following a quarter with 26% revenue growth, reaching an almost $1.5 billion run rate. Despite a sequential slowdown from previous higher growth rates, Bialecki emphasized the company's durable growth driven by a broad customer base of over 205,000 businesses, including new large clients such... View Source

Atlassian Corp. shares surged in after-hours trading after quarterly revenue climbed, easing concerns that the software services company would be overtaken by artificial intelligence applications... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Kestra Investment Management CIO Kara Murphy, e.l.f. Beauty CEO Tarang Amin, Klaviyo CEO & Co-Founder Andrew Bialecki, CAIS Founder, Chairman, & CEO Matt Brown, Manulife John Hancock Investments Co-Chief Investment Str... View Source

WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms' track and intensity... View Source

What a 23% kernel speedup tells us about whether AI can improve itself and how to quantify the gains. In 2025, Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve, an AI system that discovers algorithms, found a way to make a FlashAttention kernel run 23% faster. This was a great result but it was not the beginning of a runaway ... Read more... View Source

Steve Odland, CEO of the Conference Board, discussed the latest CEO confidence survey results, which showed an increase from 47 to 52 between the second and third quarters of 2026, moving the index into positive territory. The second quarter's negative reading was largely attributed to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, particularly the war in Iran and the resulting spike in oil prices to a... View Source

The congressman thinks it's time for a "Data Center Bill of Rights."... View Source

RXO, a leading freight broker, reported second quarter results showing a 25% increase in revenue and adjusted EPS exceeding analyst estimates by 6 cents. CEO Drew Wilkerson highlighted that the company is in the early stages of a freight recovery, driven by a significant rise in spot rates that currently outperform contract rates. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It would be an ambitiously high price for the AI-powered hardware pivot... View Source

Matt Brown, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CAIS, discussed the company's recent $170 million Series D funding round led by Vista and supported by Allianz Bernstein, Blue Owl, and Carlyle, which values the alternative asset investment platform at over $2 billion—more than double its previous valuation. Brown highlighted CAIS's 37% organic growth and explained that the new capital will be used to pur... View Source

Bose's updated QuietComfort headphones cost $359... View Source

Google is set to host its next live Made by Google hardware launch event on August 12th, and the company says in a new video that comedian Trevor Noah will be hosting the show. The video indicates that the event will feature other celebrities and influencers as well, including Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper (who was at the 2025 event), Indian cricketer Shubman Gill (who has starred in Pixel ads),... View Source

Cloudflare Inc. gave a forecast for profit this year that topped Wall Street’s estimates, suggesting that demand for networking services continued to accelerate amid rapid adoption of artificial intelligence... View Source

Why our deputy editor Nate Ingraham loves the new Twelve South tiny charging pad in spite of its price... View Source

The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The device, expected to launch in 2027 for a price over $300, reportedly "will have a unique look, complete with moving parts," including some that will m... View Source

Lyft Inc. posted second-quarter bookings that beat expectations, citing growing demand for premium rides and strength in the European business it acquired last year... View Source

The Dawn of the Machine expansion was made by MachineGames in collaboration with id Software... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Educators & Teens Get Hands-On… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   4 min read Educators & Teens Get Hands-On With TEMPO Data to Help Investigate Local Air Quality An educator explores NASA’s TEMPO mission data using the CosmicDS TEMPO-Lab viewer during a hands-on immersion session at the B... View Source

Two NASA astronauts installed the seventh and final set of mounting hardware for new sets of solar arrays during a successful 6.5-hour spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.Jessica Meir and Anil Menon on Thursday (Aug. 6), assembled the modification kit for one of the space station's eight power channels, which will allow for the future addition of a new ISS Rolll-Out Solar Array (i... View Source

AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Best Buy kicked off a sale on Apple products with discounts on its latest smartwatches to phones. Another deal that caught our eye is on the latest AirPods Pro, Apple’s flagship wireless earbuds, which are down to $189.99 ($60 off), with retailers like Amazon and Walmart matching the price. That’s their lowest price since Prime Day... View Source

Last month, OpenAI revealed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, hacking into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. On one hand, experts saw the incident as the latest warning sign that AI models had gotten to the point of being able to autonomously infiltrate targets, a threat we’ve been aware of for years rapidly turning into a reality. On the other, a more... View Source

Days after Google unveiled its first Gemini chatbot in 2023 to compete with ChatGPT, Jeff Dean went to an AI conference where he was promptly swarmed by attendees. Suddenly, the Google executive looked at his watch and realized he was due to give a talk minutes later, spurring a rush to take selfies with the influential tech leader before he left.Now, it’s the employees at Google who are bracing f... View Source

What could possibly go wrong?... View Source

Mass surveillance technology might be popular with police departments, but for the US public, it’s becoming an increasingly difficult sell. At least 54 cities across the US have voted to cancel, non-renew, or reject Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPRs) since the start of the year, according to data collected by the Washington Examiner. That comes after reporting in February t... View Source

Leopold Aschenbrenner, who runs the hedge fund Situational Awareness, has invested $400 million in a company backed by Sequoia Capital. Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, both partners at Sequoia, say they're impressed with Aschenbrenner so far. They speak on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This is great news for Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group... View Source

Astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, preparing the installment of new rollout solar arrays which will provide extra energy to support the station, according to Nasa Continue reading... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alphabet's latest jumbo bond sale, receiving about $115 billion of orders after looking to raise $25 billion, signaling renewed investor appetite for debt tied to the AI boom after a recent selloff. Plus, a rough day for Western Digital (WD) after the storage giant's shares slid after a disappointing outlook. And, Sequoia's leaders Alfred Lin and Pat Grady join to... View Source

Tahoe, Sequoia and Sonoma operating systems have been patched to address a Screen Sharing vulnerability... View Source

1 Min Read Antenna Testing for NASA’s SkyFall Mission PIA26759 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Antenna Testing for NASA’s… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Antenna Testing for NASA’s SkyFall Mission JPEG (30.46 MB) Description SkyFall ground-penetrating radar engineer Maya Román connects a coaxial c... View Source

A Japanese Earth-observing satellite got to orbit early this morning (Aug. 6), five weeks later than originally planned.The spacecraft — a radar satellite that will be operated by the Tokyo-based company iQPS — lifted off atop a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle from New Zealand today at 5:18 a.m. EDT (0918 GMT; 9:18 p.m. local time).It was a deferred round two for the mission: Rocket Lab originally tri... View Source

Deadline reported Thursday that the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie will feature Australian actor Uli Latukefu as the villain Ganondorf, and the publication notes that "We hear Latukefu inked a multi-picture deal." Nintendo or Sony haven't formally confirmed that there's more than one movie in the works, though it's been rumored that Nintendo and Sony might be planning a trilogy. Still, it's no... View Source

OpenAI’s attempt to boost its image by hiring influencers collided against a harsh reality: that it’s already become a fundamentally uncool company. The Verge details how influencers recruited by the ChatGPT maker were flown out to its “first ever brand trip” at a nature retreat outside New York City. But rather than creating buzz for OpenAI, gaining widespread attention, o... View Source

Blue Origin provided its first substantive update this week on the cause of the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and most of its launch pad infrastructure at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in May. The space company's chief executive, Dave Limp, said investigative work is continuing into the anomaly that happened during a hot-fire test of the rocket during the evening of May 28, 2026. He confirm... View Source

Nscale is telling prospective investors it has about $51 billion of total contracted revenue ahead of a US initial public offering that could take place as soon as in September, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The California Teamsters union says that new self-driving truck regulations could eventually cause around 400,000 people to lose their jobs... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters at Work (Artist’s Concept) PIA26760 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s SkyFall Helicopters at Work (Artist’s Concept) JPEG (3.25 MB) Description This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s three SkyFall M... View Source

When does revenue growth and profits overtake AI capex spending ? I have run numbers on the fastest AI data center builder. The faster you can build, then the faster you can monetize and get to profits... View Source

The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the national ownership cap rule. The agency's two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than 39 percent of US TV households, w... View Source

Western Digital (WD) says the AI infrastructure buildout is creating sustained demand for data storage, even as investors reacted to a softer near-term outlook. CEO Irving Tan joins Bloomberg to explain why hyperscaler demand remains strong and how the company is increasing hard drive capacity. He says long-term supply agreements suggest AI's storage needs will continue to grow well into the next... View Source

Suno is adding audio watermarks so AI-generated songs are more easily identifiable... View Source

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as... View Source

We certainly wouldn’t blame you for having completely forgotten that last year, Elon Musk tried to reinvent Wikipedia because he thought it was too woke. In October, his AI startup xAI launched Grokipedia, named after its AI chatbot. The encyclopedia stole human-written and edited pages from Wikipedia wholesale and ran them through a large language model, which also fielded user-submitted ed... View Source

Mexico’s government will not allow unconventional drilling in a key shale basin, as officials cautiously explore the politically sensitive practice as a way to reduce dependence on US natural gas... View Source

There will still be limits on image generation, voice mode usage and other features... View Source

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but those limits, just for text, will be going away soon. Messages that include things like file uploads and images wi... View Source

The number of Fortune 500 companies with thousands of need-based beneficiaries in their employ speaks less about the labor market than it does about the collapsing sense of fairness in the US tax system, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist and economist Kathryn Anne Edwards. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Changes are on the horizon. Soon, we'll be seeing more phones with batteries that the user can remove and replace... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis Tom Percy As NASA sets its sights on long-term exploration of the Moon and Mars, the agency is increasing the cadence of its Artemis missions. Helping bring these plans to fruition is Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA’s Human Landing System Program. Tom Percy, manager of systems engineering and integration for NASA’s Human Landing Systems Pr... View Source

Blue Origin is close to figuring out why its New Glenn rocket went boom a few months ago.The explosion — which destroyed the rocket and some key pieces of pad infrastructure — occurred on May 28 during a routine engine test at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin has been working hard ever since to determine the cause of the anomaly, and it has made considerable progress, acco... View Source

TikTok says a "moderator error" delayed the removal of a livestream that appeared to show blogger Perez Hilton harming himself, as reported earlier by Wired. Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok US, tells The Verge that the platform notified law enforcement about the situation and banned Hilton's account for violating its community guidelines. Hilton, or Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., is known... View Source

Text-to-video AI generating tools have come a long way. Just three years ago, we were all unsettled by grisly clips of actor Will Smith’s face morphing while “eating” a moving pile of spaghetti. Thanks to major leaps in the tech, these tools can now generate photorealistic fake footage at the drop of a hat — which could have devastating implications for efforts to keep disinforma... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is adding more parental controls to Google Wallet, including making it possible for parents in the US to send money directly to their children... View Source

Parents can now send their kids money that can be used anywhere Google Pay is accepted... View Source

There are some things you can always rely on in "Star Trek". Vulcans are rarely great company at parties, for example, and you can be approximately 93% certain that the alien you're about to meet will be more-or-less human in form — give or take a few adornments around the forehead area. And, just as most holodeck adventures turn out to be bad for the blood pressure, going on vacation is never as... View Source

The Pro 2 look very similar to Viture’s other glasses, but they’re thinner and lighter. | Image: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge I enjoy using display-mirroring glasses as a way to play Steam Deck games on a big screen, and I'm always on the hunt for the best pair. There's still not one perfect model I can recommend to everyone, but Viture's new $299.99 Pro 2 have sharper-looking screens than models... View Source

Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this... View Source

Alphabet Inc. is looking to raise as much as $25 billion from its latest US investment-grade bond offering, a deal that is testing investor appetite for AI-related debt following a July selloff. Mandeep Singh, Global Head of Tech Research for Bloomberg Intelligence, discusses the bond offering as well as Google's Deepmind departures, and leadership shift to California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Let's dive in to Roku's privacy policy to see what data is being collected from you -- and how to stop it... View Source

Apple bumped up its trade-in offers for iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and certain Android phones, with some devices now worth over $100 more, 9to5Mac reports. The Mac Studio's trade-in value increased the most, going up by $260. While some devices' offers are unchanged, most got an increase of around $5 to $20, with a few seeing an increase of over $100: MacBook Pro ($855, previously $690)... View Source

Few things are as mortifying to a youngster than their parents trying to butt in on their behalf: a dad berating the coach for not playing his kid more, for instance, or a mom showing up unannounced to their dorm and embarrassing them in front of your roommates. So-called “helicopter” parents have always existed, but they’re now sticking their nose into their kid’s professi... View Source

Microsoft Corp. announced its fourth data center region in India is up and running as part of a broader $20.5 billion investment in the country to build out cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities... View Source

Expect several new phones, a refreshed Pixel Watch and perhaps price increases at Google's Pixel 11 event... View Source

NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA astronaut Adam Fuhrmann (right, in yellow) prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft in this July 16, 2026, photo. These high-altitude flights train the crew to work in a tight environment and operate aircraft systems while in a pressure suit, preparing them for future missions to the International Space Station, Moon, or beyond. Image credit: NASA/Josh V... View Source

The high $50 Billion per GW lease rates for xAI/SpaceX Colossus and similar premium, immediately available AI clusters are for scarce of ready-to-use, large-scale coherent GPU capacity. Kevin Pathrath’s is wrong about a conspiracy. He is comparing against different types of data center. The $2.7M/MW ($2.7 billion per gigwatt build figure is shell-only and brownfield. ... Read more... View Source

The final resting place of SpaceX's moon-smashing rocket has been found.The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, known as Danuri, has captured imagery of the crater blasted out by the Falcon 9 upper stage that slammed into the moon early on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5)."Danuri began observations about 30 minutes before the collision and, through orbit control, passed over the impact site multiple times,... View Source

After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers.  Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data center construction. She attended a protest there organized by a group called Humans First, a conserva... View Source

For years, Demis Hassabis was the only executive to oversee a US technology giant's artificial intelligence development from outside the country. Now, no one does... View Source

Ford's first midsize electric truck has a name and a price, but we're still waiting for a proper design reveal... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) View all current NASA job openings at USAJobs Vacancy Announcement for Attorney-Adviser Return to OGC Homepage... View Source

On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. At the time, the Curiosity rover was the biggest and most ambitious Mars rover that NASA ever launched. Its landing involved a new kind of maneuver that had never been tried before using something called a "sky crane." Like previous rovers that have landed on Mars, Curiosity used a parachute and rocket engine... View Source

Humans love to do stupid things to reach far-off places – but even the wildest frontiers on Earth have at least the possibility of a return homeLike hoverboards, teleportation or a pair of smart glasses that doesn’t make you look like an absolute twat, space colonisation is a technological advent long-promised but as yet undelivered. Before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the moon, the US military... View Source

The Portsmouth, Ohio site where SoftBank will build its data center. | Image: US Department of Energy SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to a June letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren... View Source

Investors were not impressed by SpaceX’s first-ever earnings report earlier this week. Shares dropped by more than ten percent, even after the company reported higher than expected revenue — comforting financial news which, unfortunately for CEO Elon Musk, was overshadowed by the venture’s massive AI spending. The same day, SpaceX insiders, including employees and executives, got their... View Source

DeepSeek has resumed its second funding round, seeking close to $8 billion, with Monolith Management in talks to contribute, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Dolby Vision 2 includes a new algorithm that optimizes content on a scene-by-scene basis... View Source

A composite image captured by NASA's Perseverance rover on July 2, 2026 showing Earth (the bright dot) passing behind Mars' moon Phobos in the Red Planet sky. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI)NASA's Perseverance rover witnessed a rare event recently, when Earth briefly disappeared behind Mars' moon Phobos in the Red Planet sky.What is it?These new composite images were released by NASA... View Source

Samsung’s latest foldable Android phones, the Z Fold 8, Fold 8 Ultra, and Flip 8, release tomorrow, August 7th. Today is the final day when you can place a preorder, and really the only reason we’re suggesting that is because you’ll get some freebies that will go away upon release. We have an entire article that breaks down what you’ll get with each phone, but we’ll put the major details here to m... View Source

Hadrian, a defense manufacturing startup that serves the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin Corp. and others, secured a $7.87 billion valuation in a funding round that will help the company expand its workforce... View Source

Apple Pencils differ in terms of features, charging methods and iPad compatibility... View Source

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For nearly a year now, Ford has been teasing big things at low prices from its next generation of EVs, a "Model T moment" built atop a new platform assembled in an innovative way. Today, we know the name and price of the first product to take advantage of that supposed moment: a midsize electric truck called Fathom that starts at just $28,350. That's not exactly great news for fans of the Slate Tr... View Source

On July 27, a billboard went up in San Francisco advertising an AI service called ChatTJB. But the “AI” powering the service, as noted in a small disclaimer on the billboard, isn’t artificial intelligence. It’s a self-avowed “average individual” named Tucker Bryant, who manually answers user queries by way of a chatbot-like interface. An “About” page... View Source

Bose Corp. introduced the latest version of its QuietComfort Headphones, which have a revamped design, improved active noise cancellation and several features carried over from the higher-end “Ultra” model... View Source

Adobe is continuing its enthusiastic embrace of generative AI... View Source

A spent rocket body hitting the moon made headlines this week, but the reality is that the unplanned collision by a SpaceX upper stage was just the latest in a long history of human-made objects meeting their end by impacting the lunar surface.Astronomers around the world kept their telescopes trained on the moon early Wednesday morning (Aug. 5), when the rocket stage from a January 2025 U.S. comm... View Source

In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging focused on how the changes tee up future success. But the reality is that the laundry list of executive changes likely signal deeper issues wi... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets users in India add their date of birth, an update to the massively popular messaging service in its largest market... View Source

Netflix will hold the exclusive rights to an extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI before it hits YouTube six hours later... View Source

The Ask Maps updates aim to “make it easier than ever to get more done.” | Image: Google The AI-powered "Ask Maps" tool in Google Maps can now perform a broader range of personalized and conversational requests, including ordering food, finding hotels, and providing suggestions that factor in your existing plans. These are among several new features announced for Ask Maps today, which aim to "make... View Source

In case you need any more evidence that the Trump administration is run and advised by cranks, here’s the cabinet’s meat-mainlining doctor’s unvarnished thoughts on the incredible skill he displays while defecating, which he says is down to his diet. The doctor, Sean O’Mara, is reportedly the reason why the likes of JD Vance, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Sean Duffy have all ado... View Source

US stock futures were mixed during the premarket session on Thursday as investors weighed progress in the Middle East and grappled with the continued fracturing in the artificial-intelligence trade following results from key memory names... View Source

Meta says its AI model accessed the internet during testing and hacked an organization thanks to a blunder by its evaluation partner... View Source

We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon: Rockstar announced this morning that it will be airing an "extended look" at the game on August 27th. The preview will stream on YouTube at 9PM ET, as per usual, but will also be shown earlier for Netflix subscribers, premiering at 3PM ET. (Netflix and Rockstar previously partnered to release the original GTA trilogy on mobile... View Source

Here’s when some of this year’s most anticipated astronomical events will happen and the best way to observe them... View Source

China’s Yushu Technology Co., known as Unitree Robotics, is seeking to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in an initial public offering that would make it the mainland’s first publicly traded humanoid robot maker... View Source

Bob Elliott, CEO and CIO at Unlimited Funds, discusses market FOMO in AI and chips which he sees as “classic bubble-type activity” and warns about the levels of leverage he sees across markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree... View Source

A new generation of AI companies believes it can reduce the number of failed drug trials... View Source

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket used in the January 2025 Blue Ghost mission has crashed into the lunar surface... View Source

Nintendo has smashed its first-quarter earnings estimates for the fiscal year, bolstered by strong games sales and US tariff refunds, though its customers likely won't receive anything from the latter. In its latest financial results, Nintendo reports that operating profits soared to 142.5 billion yen (about $902 million) between April 1st and June 30th, compared to 56.9 billion yen (about $360 mi... View Source

Chevron and Williams are big winners in the race to power artificial intelligence as they build out gas-fired power plants and pipelines... View Source

Investors are bracing for the next potential hit to SpaceX shares when $101 billion worth of stock becomes available for trading on Thursday with the scheduled ending of a lockup agreement restricting insider share sales. Leen Al-Rashdan reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nintendo's Switch 2 sales fell ahead of an expected price hike next month... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. has secured a $10 billion margin loan backed by its stake in US tech giant OpenAI, marking another fundraising milestone in its bet on artificial intelligence... View Source

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as "meritless." In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup's employees as theft, and "generic" product development information as "trade secrets," adding that... View Source

China launched a formal security review into products sold by US technology firm Palo Alto Networks Inc. within the Chinese market... View Source

After refusing to even review it, the FDA has approved Moderna's mRNA seasonal flu vaccine... View Source

Siemens AG disappointed investors hoping that it would show a bigger benefit from a surge in data center spending that prompted a second increase in its earnings outlook this year... View Source

OpenAI's employees revealed more about the events that culminated in the company's agents hacking Hugging Face on their own... View Source

WPP Plc reported first-half profits that beat analysts’ estimates, driven by the advertising agency’s cost-cutting efforts in a sluggish market... View Source

Erik Wytenus, EMEA head of investment strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, says robust earnings make it "reasonable to continue to allocate to a healthy degree to the US." He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. reported a smaller-than-expected decline in quarterly net income, helped by a rally in its chip-stock holdings. OpenAI’s Japanese backer is in the spotlight alongside concerns about climbing debt levels that AI service providers are taking on to spend on data centers and other infrastructure. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Aug. 12 total solar eclipse is less than a week away! We know that eclipse planning can be daunting, so we've put together a list of great eclipse apps to help make things that little bit easier.Over 15 million people across Spain, Greenland and Iceland will witness totality on Aug. 12, while almost a billion will bear witness to a partial eclipse, as the moon blocks a portion of the sun's lig... View Source

Nintendo Co. reported stronger-than-expected earnings buoyed by tariff refunds from the US and strong sales of a pair of in-house titles for its flagship Switch 2 console... View Source

OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker’s allegations are meritless... View Source

Security researchers found an issue with Apple's WebKit browser engine that affects Private Relay... View Source

The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026 will sweep across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, offering millions of people a chance to witness one of nature's most spectacular sights. The path of totality — in which the moon completely covers the sun — begins over the Arctic Ocean, before crossing eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain. It then passes over the Balearic Islands before... View Source

Siemens Chief Executive Officer Roland Busch says the company is "very competitive" in China, where the automation business is doing "very well." He also comments on the data center business. Busch speaks on Bloomberg Television after Siemens raised its earnings expectations for a second time this year due to a surge in data center spending and higher returns from selling software to industry. (So... View Source

Hari Ravinchandran, Founder and CEO of cyber-security platform Aura, discusses his outlook for the company's growth at it reported a 27-percent year-on-year increase in pro forma revenue. He says the firm is on track to generate positive free cash flow this year, following its acquisition of tech firm Qoria and its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on... View Source

Since Australia barred under-16s from using social media in late 2025, more than two dozen countries have either enacted their own bans or are weighing similar restrictions... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 6 – New… 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. New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability Explanation: ... View Source

Sodium and lithium gas was detected in a plume thought to span tens of kilometres, created when part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the lunar surfaceA telescope in Chile has captured evidence of the impact caused by part of a SpaceX rocket slamming into the moon while travelling at 8,690km/h (5,400mph).The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope observed “spectral lines” – a co... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. shares suffered their worst rout in almost eight months after the company issued a bookings outlook that just met analyst estimates, compounding concerns from investors about the company’s ability to evolve in the robotaxi era... View Source

Viture is releasing a more compact Mobile Dock Mini for just $99 alongside its new $299 smartglasses... View Source

DeepSeek plans to implement a significant price increase across its AI services, an unusual shift from the Chinese tech sector that has put pressure on US competitors with its aggressive pricing... View Source

Prime Agent is an open-source self-improving coding and research agent (harness) released by Prime Intellect on August 5, 2026. It is built for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. It combines a Recursive Language Model (RLM) runtime with a Continual Harness, emphasizing token efficiency and expressiveness through programmatic tool calling, treating context as a variable, ... Read m... View Source

For years, China was the undisputed home of iPhone manufacturing. Today, India is producing all of Apple's latest iPhone models, emerging as the company's biggest manufacturing alternative to China. What changed? (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DoorDash Inc. issued a profit forecast that topped analysts’ expectations, citing a boom in paying subscribers who tend to order takeout and groceries more frequently than non-members... View Source

OpenAI said the artificial intelligence models behind an attack on Hugging Face Inc. began communicating with each other through undetected message boards, working together to break out of their testing environment as early as May... View Source

Envision Group has commissioned the initial phase of a gigawatt-scale data center in China’s Inner Mongolia, an unusual foray by a renewable energy company into the booming artificial intelligence industry... View Source

Demis Hassabis is changing to a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet. This will allow him to focus on long-term strategy, and accelerating scientific breakthroughs, including leaning into my work at Isomorphic to help cure disease. koraykv will be stepping up to lead Google DeepMind as SVP, alongside @joshwoodward ... Read more... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Scotiabank Managing Director, Global Head of Financing Sales Mithra Warrier, Independent Media Analyst Evan Shapiro, Jefferies Senior Aerospace & Defense Equity Research Analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu, PsiQuantum CEO Victor Peng... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. touted strong early demand for its latest lineup of folding smartphones, saying that the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8 are on pace to break the preorder records of all previous Z-series models... View Source

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is concentrating its artificial intelligence leadership at its Mountain View, California, headquarters to gain momentum in the accelerating race against Anthropic and OpenAI to build the world’s dominant AI models... View Source

xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in October 2025 with an initial batch of 885,000 artic... View Source

Hackers launched a wave of sophisticated attacks on Wall Street firms, targeting information systems at major money managers, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg's Hema Parmar breaks down what we know about the topic. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. said one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet and hacked into an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing, following similar breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic PBC models that have escalated concerns about the companies’ control over their technology... View Source

A Chinese-built digital spyware tool has evolved into a more all-encompassing surveillance technology that’s in use in more than 13 countries, according to new research from a security firm... View Source

Nikita Bier was the face of some of the platform's biggest changes... View Source

Although no one captured a direct image of the impact, scientists have detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lunar surface. Orbiters could provide the first images of the crash site in the coming days... View Source

Victor Peng, CEO of PsiQuantum, detailed the company's unique approach to quantum computing, emphasizing their use of photons as qubits and their deep expertise in photonics. He explained that their architecture inherently addresses challenges such as photon loss and bit flips through built-in error correction, highlighting significant progress toward full fault tolerance. He speaks with Romaine B... View Source

X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster." He shared the update just over a month after celebrating his one-year anniversary on the job, and just weeks after Elon Musk's combined SpaceX / X / xAI companies went public. He says that "almost every aspect of... View Source

BNY has announced a new partnership with Galaxy Digital aimed at enhancing its digital asset infrastructure, reflecting the bank's ongoing commitment to expanding its presence in the digital asset space. Emily Portney, BNY's Global Head of Asset Servicing Business, explained that this partnership enables BNY to offer staking services for digital assets held in custody. She speaks with Romaine Bost... View Source