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Hisense didn’t wait to reduce the UR9’s price by over 40 percent. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge The Hisense UR9 - the first RGB LED TV to be released this year - is now available for much less than originally revealed. The 65-inch UR9 is now $1,999, while the 75-inch model is $2,999 and the 85-inch is $3,999. (There's no updated price yet for the 100-inch.) That's between $1,500 and $2,000 off... View Source

OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt its artificial intelligence software, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Homebridge, the popular software solution that allows you to integrate non-HomeKit devices like Ring cameras into Apple Home, is adding support for the Matter smart home standard. Today, May 4th, Homebridge 2.0, which has been in beta for over three years, officially launches. Along with other improvements, the update brings the "initial groundwork for Matter support," according to a post on the r... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. heads into its first-quarter earnings with something to prove to investors: That it’s been wrongly caught up in the selloff that has gripped software stocks for months... View Source

Star Wars superfan and YouTube sensation Zach King recreates the seminal 1977 sci-fi film using cardboard... View Source

The app’s rapid-fire auctions are inspiring customers to spend big, for better or worse... View Source

The first to sign up are P&G, 3M, Lands' End and American Eagle... View Source

From Japan to Turkey, celebrate Star Wars Day with this global collection of original trilogy posters... View Source

The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda... View Source

Warnings about various risks to humankind are a typical part of the billionaire’s rhetoric... View Source

On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years... View Source

Some state healthcare sites sent personal information — location, race, immigration data — to TikTok, Meta and other big tech companies. Experts say existing privacy laws aren’t enough... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in an initial public offering, as the artificial intelligence chipmaker and data center operator looks to counter rivals in the red-hot sector... View Source

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so different back then... View Source

GameStop is proposing to buy eBay for about $56 billion in cash and stock, offering $125 per share in cash and stock for the online marketplace, or about a 20% premium to its Friday close. Neil Campling reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A new study shows the mechanisms of how coffee modifies the microbiome, reduces inflammation, and influences mood. Even decaf has its perks... View Source

Strong US corporate earnings led by a buoyant tech sector are overshadowing fears that the Middle East conflict could weigh on stocks, according to strategists at Morgan Stanley... View Source

Since Mayor Brandon Scott first took office in 2020, he's fixated on a very visible problem in Baltimore: the tens of thousands of vacant homes that dot the city. It's hard to build new houses when there are so many that sit empty and unused. And the process of tracking down owners, convincing them to sell their vacant properties, and then converting those homes into usable housing supply is a tal... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares’ recent underperformance against SK Hynix Inc. may intensify as a looming workers’ strike weighs on South Korea’s most valuable company versus its rival chipmaker... View Source

Best seen before dawn, the shower will reach its peak on the night of 5–6 MayThe Eta Aquariid meteor shower bursts upon the skies this week, reaching its peak on the night of 5–6 May.Best seen before dawn, the chart shows the view looking east from London at 4am on 6 May. By this time, the shower’s radiant point will have climbed into the south-eastern sky. Continue reading... View Source

Singapore Airlines Ltd. said it will begin rolling out a Starlink broadband service on its flights from 2027, with the system promising faster connectivity than its existing inflight offering... View Source

Australia’s stock exchange operator warned businesses not to exaggerate the impact of artificial intelligence on their operations, saying it monitors the market for instances of so-called ‘ramping’ up of share prices... View Source

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke SkywalkerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAstronomers have discovered 27 new potential planets that orbit two stars, like the fictional desert planet Tatooine from the Star War... View Source

Brendan Carr doesn’t need Disney to cancel Jimmy Kimmel to declare victory... View Source

Those affected will see their PlayStation Network accounts automatically credited... View Source

The Wall Street Journal reported that the offer could come as soon as this month... View Source

RIP to the original AI search bot... View Source

NASA astronaut Chris Williams photographed a fireball from above recently, capturing the stunning site from aboard the International Space Station... View Source

It's not playable, but it's still pretty cool... View Source

The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 come in a variety of colors, including a traditional black hue. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge If you’re looking to pick up a pair of open-ear headphones for yourself — or your mom — Shokz is running a Mother’s Day sale. Now through May 10th, the company’s best pair of bone conduction headphones, the OpenRun Pro 2, are available from Amazon, Best Buy, and Shokz for ar... View Source

Way back in the DS days, Nintendo decided to stop selling to Amazon. During a recent lecture at NYU, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé said it was because Amazon was seeking preferential treatment that would have hurt its relationship with other retailers, and potentially broken the law. The two sides have since made amends, and you can buy a Switch 2 through Amazon. But... View Source

Lego's larger Yoda models do not have a great track record, but this Lego Star Wars Yoda bust is such astonishing spectacle I have to own it. Or several... View Source

Also: The latest on iOS 27... View Source

The human heart shrivels away in space, but researchers have found that mini-hearts grown from human stem cells sprout in space significantly faster than in labs on Earth... View Source

You can update this photo as often as you want. I love when my friends have their fridges covered in Polaroids. It’s often a visual crash course of what’s been going on in their lives chronicling recent adventures, get-togethers, and other fun moments. But I don’t love the idea of schlepping around a clunky instant camera or paying a premium for instant film with hit-or-miss results. That’s why I’... View Source

Downey at home in LA with one of his channel’s frequent guest stars. | Image: The Verge; Shutterstock It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise success - but what's even more surprising is the app's origin story: it all started with a cadre of... View Source

From chasing the Milky Way to using your eyes as nature intended, here are some often-overlooked truths that make all the difference under the night sky... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how AI is changing music and the music industry, follow Terrence O'Brien. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018'... View Source

Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflightIt should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the moo... View Source

Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp... View Source

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency said it has summoned former economy minister Rafizi Ramli for questioning following a probe into a deal involving Arm Holdings Plc... View Source

The list of Asian stocks that benefit from business partnership with Nvidia Corp. is getting longer, as the region further integrates into the AI chip giant’s business ecosystem... View Source

It's like Microsoft's Clippy, but useful... View Source

The Aura Aspen offers a bright, vivid display that looks surprisingly lifelike for a digital photo frame. | Image: Aura Aura’s digital frames are kind of like living photo albums that get better with time, which is why we often recommend them for Mother’s Day. They’re gifts that keep on giving, in a way, and right now, a number of Aura’s connected frames are on sale ahead of the holiday. One of th... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. But the next stage of the fight could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large. Beginning Monday, attorneys for Meta and New Mexico will return to a Santa... View Source

Spirit Airlines planes are parked on the tarmac at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 02, 2026 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Getty Images The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and canceled all flights at 3AM ET on Saturday morning. Its website now redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to go to... View Source

The cars made at the Giga Shanghai factory start at $39,490 CAD, or roughly $29,000 in USD for a Model 3 Premium Rear-Wheel Drive variant... View Source

SpaceX will launch 45 satellites to orbit from California early Sunday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Finally, Mando's sleek N-1 starfighter gets the Lego Star Wars UCS set it deserves and, if you're fast, you can claim a free Lego model of the fabled Darksaber... View Source

Actor Ben McKenzie, known for his role in The OC, discusses his transition from acting to investigating cryptocurrency through a new film he wrote and directed: Everyone Is Lying to You for Money. McKenzie explains to Bloomberg This Weekend's David Gura and Christina Ruffini he was motivated by pandemic boredom and a suggestion to buy Bitcoin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Episode 208 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space.com's Mike Wall about the risks and realities of the new space race to the moon... View Source

SpaceX Starship Flight 12 is scheduled to launch May 12, 22:30 UTC / 17:30 CDT An advisory has appeared on the CADENA Operational Information System. – NEW Trajectory – Afternoon Launch Window... View Source

Granular Unit Economics per MW Cruseo CEO Lochmiller broke down the inputs/outputs with high precision (April 2025 contract pricing and the talk) Upfront capex is ~$59M per MW of developed capacity. Roughly half (~$30M) is IT (GPUs, CPUs, networking, storage, etc.). The rest covers data center build, power plant/generation, and other infrastructure. Annual revenue (pure ... Read more... View Source

You know it's thriller, thriller night... View Source

Generative AI has turned coding from a specialized skill into something anyone can do with a simple prompt. A warehouse owner is revolutionizing his shipping software with AI and a creative designer vibe coded her first app with zero technical experience. Computer programmers are doing it too, but a director at Google Cloud AI says vibe coding does not mean the end of serious engineering. As profe... View Source

The company has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, whose staff is joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs... View Source

Not only is Lego launching a host of new models this Star Wars Day, there are some fantastic sets out there already. We've harnessed the power of the Dark Side to bring you the very best... View Source

I’ll never stop gushing about 2-in-1 USB-C cables. They’re really nice to have because, at this point, I’ve amassed so many devices that charge via USB-C. It’s also common for more than one to need to be recharged at a time, which is where they come in handy. I can charge my Nintendo Switch 2 and work-issued MacBook Air, or my Google Pixel 9 Pro and Kindle, without taking up more than one port on... View Source

Photos from around the space team... View Source

It took me a while to get into Esoteric Ebb, a new CRPG from developer Christoffer Bodegård. The elevator pitch is basically Disco Elysium, but in the fantasy style of Dungeons & Dragons: You play as a cleric wandering around a small town who's trying to figure out, among other things, the mystery of why a tea shop in town exploded, and all the while, you're having conversations with dif... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 126, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I need 10 or 15 skirts from Calvin Klein, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Happy Ruthless Self-Promotion Week! We're dedicating almost all of this issue to the stuff we've been making recently. Personally, I've been reading about t... View Source

Plus, more Ball x Pit is never a bad thing... View Source

Shooting stars and the occasional fireball may be seen whenever the constellation Aquarius is above the horizon... View Source

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline May's skywatching, with stunning moon pairings and a three-planet display... View Source

The Flower Moon will be followed by a rare full Blue Moon on May 31... View Source

A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilize the domestic labor market with a global race to develop AI technologies... View Source

Two years ago, Citadel's Ken Griffin paid almost $45 million for a stegosaurus skeleton, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. So why are dinosaur bones joining the collections of millionaires instead of museums? How does the private market for fossils actually work? And how similar is it to the market for art and other antiquities? In this episode, we speak with Salomon Aaron,... View Source

A data-center developer sold $999 million of junk bonds for a project leased to a SoftBank Group Corp. subsidiary, capping April’s surge of debt issuance to help fund artificial intelligence efforts amid some concerns that such spending won’t pay off... View Source

The Pentagon has struck agreements with more technology companies for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence tools on classified military networks, according to a Defense Department statement and two defense officials briefed on the matter... View Source

Roblox Corp. is launching a new product that will position its popular video-game creation software to better compete with Unity Software Inc. and Epic Games, whose engines are used by most big-budget game-makers... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots, as part of a major initiative to build humanoid technology... View Source

Elon Musk set out to tell a jury that his falling out with OpenAI was a simple tale of betrayal... View Source

BMO Chief AI and Quantum Officer Kristin Milchanowski discusses how cutting edge AI and quantum tech will impact business, and the banking sector, for the foreseeable future. She talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Twilio reported its fastest revenue growth in over three years, fueled by a massive surge in AI-driven demand. Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler discussed what he called a “milestone quarter” with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bank of Montreal is betting on artificial intelligence and quantum computing to help predict earthquakes and respond to wildfires as part of the Canadian bank’s expansion in the US... View Source

Winnie Cisar, global head of strategy at CreditSights, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." After a $300 billion AI debt binge that spanned every corner of the credit market, investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

EBay Inc. jumped more than 13% in after-hours trading on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported that video-game retailer GameStop Corp. is preparing a bid for the company... View Source

They didn't get a parade, but they're certainly being paraded on the big networks... View Source

Microsoft is testing its much-needed refresh for the Windows 11 Run menu, offering a modern interface that the company says is faster and comes with support for dark mode. The redesign is rolling out now to Windows 11 Insiders in the new Experimental Channel. In a blog post explaining the changes, Microsoft says it decided to drop the Run menu's "Browse" button - a shortcut to user files - after f... View Source

Walt Disney Co. senior executives are discussing how to unify the company’s disparate mobile apps and turn its streaming service into the first stop for all things Disney, a place where users can book park tickets, buy merchandise, play games and watch movies, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 after the company pulled the $599 option with 256GB of storage from its online store, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The model's discontinuation comes just one day after Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an earnings call that a chip shortage will impact its Mac products in the coming months. "If you look forward to June, the majority of our supply constraints wil... View Source

Apple Inc. raised the starting price of its Mac mini desktop to $799 from $599, adjusting to inventory shortages driven by AI demand and the tight supply of processors... View Source

The compact desktop Mac now starts at $799 and comes with 512GB of storage... View Source

Semianalysis AI Value Capture – The Shift To Model Labs Anthropic is now making $44 billion per year run rate and this is heading to $100 billion per year by the end of 2026. Vera Rubin VR NVL72: V for Value – Rubin delivers a step jump in performance per TCO. ROI is going more ... Read more... View Source

Former BET Chair & CEO Debra Lee discusses the changing media landscape, why good content will always find its audience, and her new luxury handbag line. She talks with Romaine Bostick for "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Will that stop them from taking over?... View Source

A recent report raised concerns about OpenAI missing its growth targets... View Source

Drone-mounted radar flown over glaciers on Earth show how the technology can map buried ice in detail, helping future Mars spacecraft choose exactly where to drill... View Source

Online casino-style games like Monopoly GO! are huge. Could new scrutiny challenge how they do business?... View Source

The NEXT 01 JET Edition Car at the Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric vehicle with physically impossible-sounding performance specs, I immediately thought James Dyson was up to his old tricks again... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Apple’s strong outlook amid the continued memory supply crunch. Plus, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki discusses the gaming platform’s "aggressive push to enhance safety" that tempered user growth. And, Bloomberg spoke with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar who pushes back on a report that the AI leader is missing its own targets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Few went to see the movie in theaters, but 'Slither' still proved that Gunn was a director to watch... View Source

Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called "Copy Fail" that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. The exploit, publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday, uses a Python script that works across all of the vulnerable Linux distributions, requiring "no per-distro offsets, no version checks, no recompilation," acc... View Source

Roblox stock plummeted after the company slashed its full-year bookings forecast, admitting that new age-verification and child-safety features are creating major short-term friction for user growth. Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Just don't expect it to work with many iOS or Android apps yet... View Source

From crafting machines to smart calendars, a number of unique gifts are already on sale in the run-up to Mother’s Day, May 10th. Birdfy smart feeders are another discounted option to consider, particularly the new Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 (4K), which is on sale for $259.99 ($50 off). If you’re looking to spend less, you can also grab the basic Birdfy Feeder for just $99.99 ($100 off) from Amazon or B... View Source

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next... View Source

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company is meeting objectives and sees a “vertical wall of demand” for its products. Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss those comments on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

What are you buying today?... View Source

This is just one of 29 different Aurora Lux designs. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, a Chinese manufacturer best known for its robot vacuums but with ambitions to do much more, says it's making smartphones now. I'm not sure I believe it. The company showed off two phones at its own Next event, which took place in California this week, though both had previously been revealed in Chi... View Source

The longrunning online game has a lot of work to do to recover from the disappointing ‘Dawntrail’ expansion... View Source

They're available today from LG's website... View Source

SpaceX Starlink can get a billion customers. Their total market is not only 50 million or their current 12 million. They can get 100X as many customers. This will drive more customers, revenue and profits. Their cost will be very low to get the larger capacity satellites. Whatever prices they need to charge to win ... Read more... View Source

Amazon's built-in price tracking feature now allows you to see how much a product's price has changed over the past year. To use the feature, open the Amazon app and select the "Price history" button next to the item's price, or ask Amazon's AI assistant Rufus. The expansion comes just weeks ahead of Amazon's annual Prime Day event, which California Attorney General mentioned in his "price fixing"... View Source

Now the ex-CEO is waging a battle for Fermi’s future and its vision of atomic-powered data centers in the Texas panhandle. ... View Source

Portrait of Janet Petro, center director for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Credit: NASA NASA announced Friday Janet Petro, center director for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is retiring. Prior to joining NASA, Petro worked in a variety of military and industry positions, ultimately beginning her career at the agency in 2007 and working her way up to center director, a... View Source

A show that began life as a period piece is now unashamedly hard science fiction... View Source

Valve's new Steam Controller goes on sale on Monday for $99, and accessories-maker Mechanism will be ready. As far as we know, Mechanism's new Basegrip is the very first way to attach a Steam Controller to your phone - as well as Mechanism's lineup of accessories, including mounts for hanging handhelds and gamepads on the Ikea Skadis pegboard or just about anywhere else. The Steam Controller mount... View Source

A Russian hacker who helped to breach critical oil and gas facilities in the US, Ukraine and other countries pleaded guilty to charges that carry as many as 27 years in prison... View Source

The system will track potential side effects of various birth control methods... View Source

5 min read NASA’s STORIE Mission to Tell Tale of Earth’s Ring Current Earth’s magnetic field is like a powerful trap. It lures electrically charged particles in space, near our planet, and snares them in an invisible, doughnut-shaped pen around Earth known as the ring current. This captive swarm of charged particles plays an important role in how Earth reacts to changing conditions in space, calle... View Source

Argos UK is celebrating Star Wars Day early with over 20% off this massive 5,000+ piece Lego Star Wars Clone Wars Venator starship, This is literally the best UCS Lego set you can buy... View Source

The unions backing professional NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and MLS players are calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to ban prediction market platforms from allowing users to bet on a player's underperformance or injury, Sports Business Journal reports. In their letter, the unions cite the need for "appropriate regulations" to protect athletes and their families from "abusive and har... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discusses the future of US space travel and the Trump administration’s plans for the moon, Mars, and beyond. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA/Bill Ingalls Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday, April 30, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearl... View Source

Scientists have developed a new material that could shield humans and critical technology from harmful radiation... View Source

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time we've discovered a little more evidence that the phone is on its way to a release. Trump Mobile's T1 Phone has just passed another milestone on its slow road to release. The phone has received the little-known PTCRB certification, a first step... View Source

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has raised $6 billion for a new fund to invest in later-stage companies, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the firm’s largest haul ever... View Source

Technicians at NASA’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida offloaded eight high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) wall modules and other ground support equipment on April 27. The equipment will support launch processing of the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Each 1,800-pound module enhances the PHSF’s clean room systems,... View Source

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I take my beauty rest seriously. So seriously that, after months of testing, I bought my ludicrously expensive Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra review unit. It had a lot of things... View Source

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, wealth management CIO and head of the investment strategy group at Goldman Sachs, says the US economy has been "incredibly resilient" despite the impact of the Iran war. She joined "Bloomberg Surveillance" on April 30 to discuss how significant AI spending by Big Tech and restrictive monetary policies are shaping market dynamics. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

They join Google, OpenAI and xAI... View Source

Not all trifolds are created equal — just ask our own Allison Johnson, who recently spent time with Samsung’s ill-fated Galaxy phone. Aurzen’s Zip projector is the kind of trifold gadget we can fully get behind, though, and it’s currently on sale at Amazon for $259.99 ($140 off). You can also pick it up in several colors directly from Aurzen for the same price, or in the gold shade for a new low o... View Source

On Thursday, the publicly traded spaceflight company Virgin Galactic shared on social media a new photo of its next-generation spaceship being towed outside of its factory in Mesa, Arizona. You remember Virgin Galactic, right? The space tourism company was founded 22 years ago by Sir Richard Branson to bring spaceflight to the masses. Hundreds of people began buying tickets to space nearly two dec... View Source

Caterpillar Inc.’s biggest Wall Street bear has thrown in the towel after watching the stock more than double on the back of surging demand for the company’s power generation equipment... View Source

The S&P Dow Jones Indices has officially proposed rule changes where megacaps like SpaceX will be included into the index in 6 months instead of 12 months. This would align also with the unlocking of shares of many SpaceX SPV investors after 6 months. When Tesla was included into the SP500 the shares went up ... Read more... View Source

In this donut-shaped bag is a massive parachute. Next stop? Mars... View Source

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left out Anthropic - which it previously used for classified information - after declaring it a supply-chain risk. This builds... View Source

Will OpenAI ever bring a smartphone, or some other smartphone-like device, to market? On this episode of the Everybody's Business podcast, we are joined by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the author of the Power On newsletter and managing editor for consumer technology. He tells Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin whether such a device could succeed and what the next iPhone moment might look like. (Source... View Source

And why it's not exactly a PC gamepad... View Source

4 Min Read Space Out This Summer with Variety of NASA STEM Activities Summer is “Go” for launch, and NASA has a universe of ways to help you to jump in, explore, and create! Whether you prefer to spend this season fueling your creativity, going outdoors into nature, or daydreaming about your future, NASA offers ways to take your interests to the next level.  Here are some opportunities to lev... View Source

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Les Claypool and Sean Lennon discuss AI, art, and empathy in their new concept album 'The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy.'... View Source

The X3 is Xteink’s smallest e-reader. | Photo: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge The Xteink X4 and X3 are excellent alternatives to Kindles and Kobos if you want an e-reader that's as easy to slip into your pocket - just not out of the box. Both devices come with stock firmware that's clunky, limited, and occasionally confusing, but that can be easily fixed by plugging them into a PC to install altern... View Source

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar sees “a vertical wall of demand” for the company’s products as she pushed back Thursday on concerns about missing internal targets in a Bloomberg interview. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

So much for 200,000 EVs a year... View Source

Elon Musk is the one who wanted this trial. He has spent months claiming OpenAI "stole a nonprofit," and saying he was the actual driving force behind one of the most important companies currently in tech. All indications are that he won't win his case against the company, but he's fighting it anyway. So you'd think he'd have done better when it was his time to take the stand. Verge subscribers, d... View Source

Tether Holdings SA bought more than six tons of gold for its reserves in the first three months of the year, extending a buying streak that’s made it the largest known holder of bullion in the world outside of banks and nation states... View Source

Your guide to June's full Strawberry Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights... View Source

In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though, many of these gig workers have embraced the technology in order to meet clients' demands. These workers' profiles emphasize that they can quickly (and cheaply) whip up images and videos of just about a... View Source

Opay Digital Services Ltd. is working with Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. as the Nigeria-focused payments platform prepares for an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

US stock futures were little changed Friday after a record-breaking session, as investors continued to evaluate corporate results into the end of earnings season’s busiest week... View Source

Did Instagram put its feed slop on notice?... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Martian terrains shaped by ancient water and billions of years of geological change... View Source

The analyst who slapped the only sell rating on Shopify Inc. over valuation concerns ahead of its blistering rout said it’s still too soon to jump back in... View Source

It will cover events from Queen Victoria's death in 1901 until Princess Elizabeth's wedding... View Source

Dyson’s newest robot vacuum adds mopping capabilities but takes away the Dyson motor of its predecessor. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't use a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop was "co-engineered," Nathan Lawson McLean, se... View Source

Months before Jamie Dimon’s infamous remark about more than one “cockroach” lurking in credit markets, TCW Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Katie Koch warned the direct lending industry was due for a reckoning... View Source

Xbox mode brings a console-like interface to Windows 11... View Source

The Artemis missions are paving the way to civilizational decisions. It’s time to ask not just what we can do – but whether we should do itThis month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordinary thing to send people into deep space and bring them home... View Source

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeat... View Source

The cloud provider’s deal for Eigen AI will help the inference business... View Source

It's pledged to invest more into its division making ceramics used in the production of NAND memory... View Source

The Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai is Dyson’s first combination robot vacuum and mop. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I'm deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It's the company's best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle detection, and a multifunction dock that takes much of the busywork off your han... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire Hong Kong’s FlyTaxi as part of its expansion plans in the city, Sing Tao Daily reported, citing an announcement by the US-based company... View Source

May's full moon rises as flowers bloom across the northern hemisphere... View Source

Jake Nesler’s AI trading bot got one big decision right in its first week. It ignored the chase... View Source

Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks... View Source

Europe is set for weeks of erratic and increasingly warm weather over the coming month, raising the risk of storms, early season drought stress and increasing cooling demand... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds, hitting the market with a jumbo deal for the second time in six months as investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue... View Source

The global economy is increasingly captive to two opposing forces... View Source

Apple delivered a strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, with sales expected to rise 14% to 17% in the period. The company warned that memory-chip costs will increase and that shortages of Mac computers will persist for "several months." Bloomberg Intelligence's Matthew Bloxham breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Investor 137 Ventures has around $10 billion in SpaceX after writing multiple checks backing the Elon Musk-led company. Ahead of SpaceX’s IPO, Justin Fishner-Wolfson, founder and managing partner at 137 Ventures, discusses the expected windfall and two new funds the VC firm has raised to back startups and founders staying private longer. He speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tec... View Source

Dave Lee from Bloomberg Opinion critiques Meta's positioning as a cloud business, highlighting that unlike true hyperscalers such as Amazon and Google, Meta does not demonstrate healthy growth in cloud sales driven by AI. Despite Meta's substantial capital expenditure of up to $145 billion, its AI strategy appears unconvincing, as reflected in the cautious tone of its leadership during the earning... View Source

Qualcomm shares surged after the company said it was making headway in the lucrative data center market and teased a partnership with a large hyperscaler. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After a $300 billion AI debt binge that spanned every corner of the credit market, investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Cyclone Rains Spur Papua New… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marb... View Source

Scott Rubner, head of equity and equity derivatives strategy at Citadel Securities, says he is not seeing a decline in AI spending and demand. He discusses the buying opportunity he sees in US megacap tech stocks and why he’s bullish on consumer trading. Rubner speaks with Dani Burger on the sidelines of Bloomberg House Miami. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla and Elon have huge partnerships to deliver a surge in tens of millions of chips needed for AI domination. They also have increased their AI and model competitiveness. Tesla and SpaceX tying up with Intel for the most advanced 14nm process chips. This will deliver AI6 and AI7 chips. Tesla TERAFAB and TERALAB will ... Read more... View Source

Kimberly Forrest, CIO and founder of Bokeh Capital Partners, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Toto Ltd. shares soared as much as 18%, the most on record, in Tokyo after the toilet maker said it plans to ramp up investment in its chip components business due to strong AI demand... View Source

Major news organizations, including CNN, NBC and USA Today, have joined an effort to curb the storage of their content in a web archive used by artificial intelligence companies for training chatbots... View Source

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar, rebutting concerns about missing internal targets, said the company is meeting objectives and sees “a vertical wall of demand” for its products... View Source

Investors looking to profit amid the buildout boom in AI infrastructure should favor big-spending “hyperscalers” over chipmakers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Jim Covello... View Source

Three of the biggest names in private credit moved to reassure investors this week about the AI risks facing their software borrowers, deploying proprietary “score cards” and outside consultants... View Source

Reddit Inc. projected sales in the current period that surpassed Wall Street estimates, continuing a streak of strong revenue growth powered by the company’s surging advertising business... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss tech earnings as Alphabet and Amazon see a clear payoff from their AI spending, while Meta lags behind. Plus, Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the AI developer at more than $900 billion. And, Stripe President John Collison discusses the company's new AI tools and partnership with Google. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zach Cregger's take on the video game source material hits theaters on September 18... View Source

It is generally frowned upon to care too much about appearances. We have a lot of little aphorisms discouraging this - books and their covers, beauty being skin deep, style over substance, that sort of thing. Vanity is a risk. Should one put a disproportionate effort into how a thing looks, then said work may very well be considered shallow. But in the world of big-budget video games? That's how y... View Source

Apple Inc. delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, even as it warned that memory-chip costs will increase and that shortages of Mac computers will persist for “several months.”... View Source

It's an expansion of the mobile app's "Hear the Highlights" feature... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta says it may be forced to pull Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from New Mexico if the attorney general gets his way. The state is demanding a host of changes that the company says are impossible to achieve. After winning a $375 million jury award against Meta in a trial that argued the company misled users in the state about t... View Source

Apple delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, benefiting from new products launched in March, including the MacBook Neo and updated iPad Air. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The hotly anticipated sequel has been the subject of all kinds of drama... View Source

Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk's lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was dull and seemed to exist primarily to get some documents read into the record, which sucks... View Source

High frequency trading has transformed Wall Street into a world of algorithms. No firm captures the digital upheaval quite like Jane Street. Many are wondering what’s behind its unprecedented success. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's a rare moment of working across the aisle... View Source

Russia launched its Soyuz 5 medium-lift rocket for the first time ever on Thursday (April 30), and things apparently went well... View Source

Rivian reported its first quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it kicks off production for the crucial R2 electric vehicle. We've already got Rivian's production and delivery statement from the first three months of the year. The company sold 10,365 vehicles in Q1, representing 20 percent increase year over year. And it produced 10,236 vehicles... View Source

Apple Inc. reported revenue for the fiscal second quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, helped by demand for the iPhone and Mac.  Revenue jumped 17% to $111.2 billion during the period, which ended March 28, the company said in a statement Thursday. Analysts had expected $109.7 billion. Apple itself had projected sales growth of 13% to 16%. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana and Ed Ludlow join to break it... View Source

The RG Rotate starts at just $88... View Source

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride. The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday ev... View Source

Apple delivered second-quarter revenue that edged past analysts’ estimates, helped by demand for the iPhone and Mac. Ed Ludlow reacts to the earnings report on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Welcome to the Land of Enchantment... View Source

Artemis 3 slips to late 2027 as Starship and Blue Moon lag, delaying NASA’s lunar return timeline and jeopardizing a 2028 moon landing... View Source

Roblox's daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform. According to its latest earnings report, Roblox currently has 132 million daily active users globally, down from 144 million at the end of last year, which was a drop from 152 million in Q3 2025. In the US and Canada, the number of active users dropped by one million from the previo... View Source

Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners semiconductors and electronics senior analyst, reacts to Apple’s fiscal second-quarter results. Speaking on “Bloomberg The Close,” Goldberg says memory prices could put pressure on Apple’s gross margins... View Source

Linux is having a very busy year... View Source