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JD.com Inc.’s supply-chain technology unit raised HK$2.98 billion ($383 million) after pricing its Hong Kong initial public offering in the middle of the marketed range, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Veteran strategist Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, talks to Bloomberg Television about his shift to underweight Magnificent Seven tech stocks. He says he recommends "broadening out" portfolios as "there's still plenty of good stocks out there of companies that are going to be using all these technologies." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

International Business Machines Corp. is in advanced negotiations to acquire data-infrastructure firm Confluent for around $11 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter... View Source

Yardeni Research now recommends effectively going underweight the Magnificent Seven megacap technology stocks versus the rest of the S&P 500, expecting a shift in earnings growth ahead... View Source

There's an argument to be made that "the real monster is trauma" has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profile examples. But, if you ask me, few films have deployed this trope quite as effectively as the 2020 film His House. The film follows Bol and Rial, refugees from South Sudan, played by Sope Dirisu and... View Source

Ted Sarandos wooed Trump personally ahead of Warner deal... View Source

In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them was Netflix’s plan to bid on Warner Bros. At the end of their conversation, Sardonos felt that “Netflix wouldn’t face immediate opposition from the White House.” This week, Netflix successfully won the... View Source

If you haven't yet upgraded to Apple's AirPods Pro 3, you can pick up the company's latest model at a discount through a deal on Amazon right now. The AirPods Pro 3, which came out in September, are currently $20 off, bringing their price down to $230. With the new AirPods Pro, Apple made some big improvements, including better battery life and sound quality, and introduced useful new features, su... View Source

Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul of the law. Elon Musk responded with his trademark tact and professionalism by posting “Bullshit” on X in response to the announcement from the European Commission. But that wasn’t the end, because ju... View Source

One does not simply spend more than 11 hours watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy  in a single weekend at home when the opportunity to do so in theaters arises. As The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring turns 25, Fathom Entertainment and Warner Bros. announced theatrical screenings of the Peter Jackson trilogy in their extended editions, according to an exclusive report from Vari... View Source

Those might not exactly be ads you're seeing on ChatGPT, at least according to OpenAI. Nick Turley, OpenAI's head of ChatGPT, clarified the confusion around potential ads appearing with the AI chatbot. In a post on X, Turley said "there are no live tests for ads" and that "any screenshots you've seen are either not real or not ads." The OpenAI exec's explana... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025... View Source

Just a day after receiving a roughly $140 million fine, X has terminated the ad account of the European Commission. Nikita Bier, X's head of product, accused the European Commission of using an exploit to artificially boost the reach of its post announcing the major fine. In the post, Bier said that the commission "logged into [their] dormant ad account to take advantage of an exploit in... View Source

SpaceX is reportedly buying back investor and employee shares at an $800B valuation. This is double from the $400B valuation just 5 months ago. The key successes are rapid progress toward full Starship reusability and fast growing Starlink revenue and profits. SpaceX acquired massive mid-band spectrum (8-lane highway vs T-Mobile’s 2-lane) → Direct-to-Cell is now ... Read more... View Source

Netflix Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos ventured to the White House in mid-November for a meeting with President Donald Trump. Over more than an hour, the two discussed a range of topics, including the auction of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., according to people familiar with the interaction... View Source

'Apollo 1: Destination Moon' follows a real-life astronaut mission that ended tragically — and the lessons learned for future Apollo missions... View Source

From bicycles to rockets, learning through experience – whether human or machine – is shaping the future of space exploration... View Source

The Sea Devils are back in a brand new 'Doctor Who' spin-off. Here's how to watch 'The War Between the Land and the Sea' online on BBC iPlayer in the UK... View Source

It's easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool meant to augment those things. Sari Azout is one of those people. She's the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to cur... View Source

Wall Street’s sentiment toward companies associated with artificial intelligence is shifting, and it’s all about two companies: OpenAI is down, and Alphabet Inc. is up... View Source

Year Walk. | Image: Simogo It may be hard to believe now, but the App Store was once a thriving place for inventive indie games. The ubiquity of the iPhone coupled with the relative ease of development for the platform meant that smaller studios were able to get their games in front of huge audiences, leading to a great time of experimentation that unfortunately didn't last. But if you want to rel... View Source

Google didn't invent the concept of smart glasses, but it did help make them mainstream. In retrospect, 13 years after their launch, this is both a good and bad thing. Glass made a lot of people dream about new ways to use computers without staring down at screens all day. Glass also made a lot of people realize just how bad it might feel to have a world full of face computers. Which is more predi... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started I've worked from home for 20 years. In that time, I've seen technologies supporting remote work advance considerably. But nothing has been as... View Source

Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more options... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 108, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your holiday shopping is going well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Ariana Grande and pelvic floors and Josh Shapiro and Las Vegas, finishing and then immediately rewatching The Chair Compa... View Source

The Geminids return with near-perfect viewing conditions, offering skywatchers up to 150 meteors an hour under dark December skies... View Source

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reminded social media companies that they will be held responsible when a ban on children having accounts takes effect on Wednesday... View Source

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world... View Source

An outage that took down markets operated by CME Group Inc. for more than 10 hours at the end of last week was caused by human error at a data centers owned by CyrusOne... View Source

A federal judge has expanded on the remedies decided for the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, ruling in favor of putting a one-year limit on the contracts that make Google's search and AI services the default on devices, Bloomberg reports. Judge Amit Mehta's ruling on Friday means Google will have to renegotiate these contacts every year, which would create a f... View Source

Apple's Johny Srouji may be the latest company executive to seek greener pastures, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report said that Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook that he is "seriously considering leaving in the near future." While the report didn't mention if Srouji has another job lined up, Bloomberg's sources... View Source

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is reporting that Johny Srouji, senior vice president of hardware technologies, told Tim Cook he is “seriously considering” leaving Apple for another company in the near future. It was reported in October that Srouji was “evaluating his future at the tech giant.” While nothing is confirmed, it seems the executive is leaning towards not having a future at Cupertino. If Srouj... View Source

To prevent its robotaxi fleet from passing stopped school buses, Waymo is issuing another software recall in 2025. While it's not a traditional recall that pulls vehicles from the road, Waymo is voluntarily updating software for its autonomous fleet in response to an investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to Waymo, the recall will be filed with the fe... View Source

The big reveal for Meta's next mixed reality glasses is being postponed until the first half of 2027, according to a report from Business Insider. Based on an internal memo from Maher Saba, the vice president of Meta's Reality Labs Foundation, the report said that the company's project, which is codenamed "Phoenix," will no longer be scheduled for a 2026 debut. In a separa... View Source

It’s a great time to consider buying Nintendo’s latest console. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Cyber week has just about wrapped up, but there are still some amazing Cyber Monday leftovers that you can save money on. The one deal we can’t stop telling readers about is the unexpected $50 discount on Nintendo’s Switch 2 console bundle that includes Mario Kart World, bringing it down to $449.9... View Source

Thoma Bravo Founder and Managing Partner Orlando Bravo says the rapid advancement of AI is stirring 'enormous' anxiety among investors and the hype has triggered a fear of missing out in private markets. Bravo spoke to Bloomberg's Dani Burger at a Bloomberg New Voices event in Miami. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines... View Source

It's been a few years since the official introduction of the Bluetooth technology Auracast, which allows devices like earbuds, headphones, speakers, and hearing aids to connect to a single source without the need for pairing. Like a radio picks up your local radio stations, all you have to do is connect to the right broadcast. These could be flight announcements from your gate at the airport, the... View Source

On Episode 188 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, who took had his second confirmation as NASA's next leader... View Source

Everyone had a good laugh at HBO Max this week when the new 4K Mad Men remaster debuted with a number of glaring errors that should have been caught before the show was uploaded to the streamer's servers. Episodes went live with incorrect titles, and in one instance you could still see members of the show's production crew who shouldn't have been visible on-camera. The mistakes were reportedly the... View Source

It was only in June that Jeremy Carrasco uploaded his first videos to TikTok and Instagram. In that short time, he's amassed over 300,000 followers on each platform. No, it's not exactly Charli D'Amelio numbers, but that does make him one of the biggest names in AI literacy on social media. Jeremy told The Verge that he always wanted to try his hand at being a YouTuber. Instead, he found himself b... View Source

What began the year as one of the best trades in the stock market has, in a matter of months, turned into one of the worst... View Source

Horses has become the current face of the fight against video game censorship and what gets to be art. After getting banned from Steam and the Epic Game Store, the narrative horror game has become a bestseller on GOG.com, and has brought gamers of all stripes together in support of it. But as a game, Horses doesn't deserve all this - neither its bans nor, after playing it myself, all the glowing p... View Source

The Netflix Inc. plans that clinched the deal for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. started to shape up around Thanksgiving... View Source

We’ve slept off our collective turkey coma and returned to the review lab here at Engadget. Our team may also be in full CES prep mode, but we’ve got a few more devices to get off or our desks before 2025 is over. Catch up on all of the reviews you might have missed over the last few weeks — a perfect activity for a lazy December weekend. Dell 16 Premium There’s no denying the design of the Dell 1... View Source

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets on Dec. 7... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of titles that are arriving very late to make it into game of the year conversations debuted this week, and we learned some new details about upcoming projects, such as a release date for a rad-looking arena shooter called Don't Stop, Girlypop.Marvel Cosmic Invasion is one of the higher-profile indies to hi... View Source

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry... View Source

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for a "confidential commercial customer" on Thursday morning (Nov. 20), just a few hours after giving notice of the impending liftoff... View Source

Airline passengers preparing to land in Berlin just in time for Halloween were in for a nasty surprise when the engines of the aircraft suddenly revved up again and the plane began circling over the German capital... View Source

Netflix Inc.’s $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. includes one of the biggest breakup fees of all time — a $5.8 billion penalty that Netflix has agreed to pay its target if the deal falls apart or fails to win regulatory approval... View Source

Student teams competed in the 2025 Invention Challenge at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Dec. 5. The event pits middle and high school teams against each other as they try to get handmade devices to accomplish a task.NASA/JPL-Caltech The 2025 Invention Challenge at JPL called on teams to build devices capable of moving about 2 gallons (8 liters) of water from a holding reservoir into a bucket... View Source

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev largely lost a legal fight over whether his family trust was on the hook to provide tens of millions of dollars to a US venture capital firm to finance life-science startups... View Source

Wall Street is gearing up to lend massive amounts of money to the biggest players in AI - and simultaneously trying to figure out how to protect itself from any bubble that its financing may be helping to inflate. "Bloomberg Real Yield" roundtable discusses the potential risks to credit. CORRECT: Description of interview has been updated to represent the correct guest and content. (Source: Bloombe... View Source

SpaceX is preparing to sell insider shares in a transaction that would value Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at a valuation higher than OpenAI’s record-setting $500 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in a historic $72 billion cash and stock deal. Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw discusses the combination of the world’s dominant paid streaming service with one of Hollywood’s oldest and most revered studios. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Waymo said it will file a voluntary software recall with US federal authorities after its autonomously driven vehicles repeatedly failed to fully slow or stop for school buses... View Source

Netflix Inc. has agreed to purchase the streaming and studio assets of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. in a $72 billion deal that’s likely to impact the entertainment industry for decades... View Source

Newly arrived and soon-to-depart members of Expedition 73 prepared for what is to come next during this, their final week all together aboard the International Space Station... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for smartphones and other devices every year, a federal judge ruled... View Source

I have written here about Echostar and SpaceX. My last patreon article said that Echostar is the best way to invest in SpaceX before SpaceX is public. Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that SpaceX will raise at double its prior valuation. SpaceX last raised at $400 billion and will now raise at $800 billion. ... Read more... View Source

Bitcoin is on track for its first yearly decoupling from stocks as the pullback in crypto continues. Aya Kantorovich co-CEO and co-founder of August says some of the declines can be associated with profit taking from long term crypto holders. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” to discuss the moves and her predictions for 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Here's some good news for the "Han shot first" crowd. The original cut of Star Wars (1977), the film known today as A New Hope, is coming back to theaters. We first learned in August that some version of the film would be screened again in 2027 for its 50th anniversary. But we know now this will indeed be the version everyone saw before George Lucas made those questionable, CGI-heav... View Source

xAI Grok 4.20 created a 47% return in the Nasdaq and outperformed all others in the Alpha Arena competition. 32 instances of various LLMs (including multiple variants of the same model under different prompting strategies like “Situational Awareness,” “Monk Mode,” “Max Leverage,” and “New Baseline”) were each allocated $10,000 in real money to trade... View Source

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled and ready to begin launch preparations this summer... View Source

Warner Bros. has an infamous history of being bought by other companies and then quickly ending up back on the market after its new owners realize how difficult it is to capitalize on a legacy production studio's assets. Those challenges are part of what doomed WB's mergers with AOL and AT&T, who bought the studio in attempts to reinvent themselves. But WB's latest acquisition deal - this time... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix’s agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it completes the planned spinoff of its cable channels. Plus, the European Union Ambassador to the US responds to criticism of the $140 million fine the bloc has levied on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. And HPE CEO, Antonio Neri, discusses the company’s outlook after reporting disappointin... View Source

Meta has acquired Limitless, the maker of an AI-powered "Pendant," to work on building consumer hardware for the company, the startup announced via a YouTube video and blog post. So far, Meta has focused on selling VR headsets and AI smart glasses. Now the company seems interested in branching out."Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone... View Source

Google has announced several autofill improvements being rolled out to the mobile and desktop versions of Chrome. The updates will give autofill access to more of your data from places like Google Wallet and make it easier to select the right info a form is asking for when there are multiple suggestions. Autofill can now access your name, email address, and saved work and home addresses from your... View Source

HPE CEO Antonio Neri discusses the company’s earnings as its sales for AI servers fall short. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech”. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Our friends at PC Gamer hosted a fantastic show looking at the future of video games, and these are our favorite space and sci-fi picks from it... View Source

The eye-popping figure reflects how routine mega-valuations have become in private markets... View Source

Disney is bringing a “newly restored version” of the original, 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars back to theaters on February 19th, 2027. It will only be available in theaters for “a limited time,” Disney says, and it’s being released as part of “Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration” for the franchise. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, but Disney says it will share details on when and where... View Source

Finalizing the deal between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery will be a longer and bigger fight than Game of Thrones, says Jon Klein, co-founder of Hang Media. The former head of CNN discusses the challenges facing the tie-up and the competition Netflix faces from YouTube and the creator economy. He speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Switch 2's lack of a built-in camera means you need an external one for GameChat video calls. But now, if your phone is a Google Pixel, you don't even need one of those. Android Authority reported on Friday that the two now work nicely together (without needing third-party apps), and our tests confirm that.Google has technically supported the use of Android devices as external webcam... View Source

The MyQ garage door controller is an accessory that can connect Chamberlain Group garage door openers to the MyQ app. The MyQ platform used to support more smart home integrations, but has increasingly become focused on those that require subscriptions. Garage door opener manufacturer The Chamberlain Group has launched a new version of the communication platform that powers its connected garage do... View Source

Netflix Inc. has won the heated takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. Now it must convince global antitrust regulators that the deal won’t give it an illegal advantage in the streaming market... View Source

CES doesn't start until January, but whispers of the products and announcements that could be in store for tech's biggest annual conference have already started to take shape. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open from January 6 through 9, although the show kicks off with events on Sunday January 4 and a host of press conferences on Monday. As always, product demos, announcements an... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s broadcast of the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse has won an Emmy Award for Excellence in Production Technology. At the 76th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Dec. 4, in New York City, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the win. Walt Lindblom and Sami Aziz accepted the award on be... View Source

NASA imaged Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) every four minutes for nearly 40 days, marking the longest any comet has been tracked with such frequency... View Source

2023’s iPhone 15 is the most recent that Trump Mobile offers. It's been well established that the Trump Phone doesn't exist. But that isn't the only phone Trump Mobile sells. It also offers a range of refurbished Apple and Samsung handsets that you can buy right now. You really shouldn't though. I was relieved reading Allison's coverage over the last two weeks to discover that not everything about... View Source

SpaceX is preparing to sell insider shares in a transaction that would value Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at a valuation higher than OpenAI’s record-setting $500 billion, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

The 2026 FIFA World Cup draw is this Friday. (Hector Vivas - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images) Hector Vivas - FIFA via Getty Images The draw for the 2026 World Cup is this Friday at 12 PM ET, where we’ll learn which group the 39 qualified countries and three host nations will land in for the international soccer tournament. The 2026 World Cup draw will air live on Fox. Pre-show coverage of the draw begi... View Source

Pantone's color of the year for 2026 is white - sorry, Cloud Dancer. Pantone announced the shade on Thursday, and describes it as a "discrete white hue offering a promise of clarity." The accompanying image shows a person with cropped hair in billowy white clothing, arms outstretched over a background of clouds. "PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer encourages true relaxation and focus, allowing the mind... View Source

Tonda Ros says he’s still working on one more big update for the critically acclaimed game... View Source

You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed at mass government surveillance, try, try again. Only two days after India backpedaled on its plan to force smartphone makers to preinstall a state-run "cybersecurity" app, Reuters reports that the country is back at it. It’s said to be considering a telecom industry proposal with another draconian requirement. This one would req... View Source

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems... View Source

After indie narrative horror game Horses was banned from Steam two years ago, it put the studio, Santa Ragione, at risk of closure. Studio cofounder and Horses producer Pietro Righi Riva had to make a difficult phone call to the game’s director, Italian filmmaker Andrea Lucco Borlera. “I was terrified for him,” Riva said in an interview with The Verge. “This was his first game and he put so much w... View Source

Traders bet more than $59 million on whether Polymarket would launch its US platform before the end of the year. But a question meant to produce a simple yes-or-no answer has exposed a deeper problem: prediction markets built to resolve uncertainty may struggle with it themselves... View Source

Netflix's $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. is, in many ways, the last thing a weakened Hollywood needs right now. The industry is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, where theaters were forced to close and audiences became even more comfortable with streaming films at home. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, which were driven by legitimate concerns around studio interest in g... View Source

EO Science Earth Observatory Hayli Gubbi’s Explosive… 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 EO Kids About About Us Subscribe Contact Us   November 15, 2025 November 2... View Source

That Pixel phone in your pocket is now a Switch 2 webcam. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge When it launched the Switch 2’s compatibility with various webcams was hit or miss. A webcam isn’t a necessary accessory, but since the Switch 2 lacks one of its own, you need one to take full advantage of the console’s GameChat feature that can livestream players’ faces during multiplayer matches. Sw... View Source

European Union Ambassador to the US Jovita Neliupšienė talks about why bloc fined Elon Musk's X social network €120 million ($140 million) for violating a content-moderation law. She says the European Commission doesn’t target any one country or company with its rules. She discusses the EU’s approach to tech, defense, and the use of frozen Russian funds to support Ukraine's war effort. She joins C... View Source

Looking to switch music streaming platforms for no real reason? Apple Music is holding one heck of a sale right now. You can get three months of use for just $1. There are some caveats, as this is only for new users on the individual plan. Students and family plans don't count for this. Also, this has to be redeemed on iPhone, iPad or Mac. When you click the link it'll open up the Apple... View Source

4 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Finds Elemental Bounty in Supernova Remnant For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. The Resolve instrument aboard XRISM, pronounced “crism,” discovered these elements in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia... View Source

Ahead of 'The War Between the Land of the Sea', we look back at a drama that rewrote the rules of the Whoniverse... View Source

On Monday, several dozen members of the public are lined up outside 100 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan, hoping to squeeze into the courtroom to hear testimony from witnesses called by the state against Luigi Mangione - the man accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson a year ago. Despite the endless news coverage, viral memes, and photos seen by millions of people, the... View Source

Parloa, a German startup developing artificial intelligence for customer service, is looking to raise new funding that would significantly increase its valuation from May, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

IMAX and animation distributor GKids are bringing more 4K Studio Ghibli restorations to the largest screens in 2026. The announcement follows the IMAX release of Princess Mononoke this year, with the ongoing restorations being directly supervised by Studio Ghibli’s Atsushi Okui, who’s been with the company since 1993. Okui was the Director of Digital Imaging on 2023’s The Boy and the Heron, which... View Source

4 min read NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar region. The instruments will improve our knowledge of the lunar environment to support NASA’s further exploration of the Moon and beyond to Mars.  A visualization of t... View Source

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red" situation earlier this week, pushing staff to respond quickly to increased competition from Google and Anthropic. Sources familiar with OpenAI's plans tell me that the company is planning its first response to Gemini 3 with its upcoming GPT-5.2 update. I understand GPT-5.2 is ready to be released, and could appear as soon as early next week. Sources tell... View Source

Italy’s top court annulled a golden power ruling that imposed a series of restrictions on Cedacri SpA, the financial services unit of ION Group... View Source

Philo has a decent discount for newcomers who are looking for a solid bundle of live TV channels and on-demand streaming services. New subscribers can get their first month of access to the Core plan for $25. That's a discount of $8. For your 25 bucks, you'll gain access to more than 70 channels, including AMC, BBC America, Comedy Central, Food Network, Hallmark Channel, several MTV stat... View Source

EO Science Earth Observatory Senyar Swamps Sumatra 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 EO Kids About About Us Subscribe Contact Us   November 30, 2025 Tropical cycl... View Source

Former NASA chief Michael Griffin told the U.S. Congress that while China is making great strides in its plan to reach the moon, the United States has "stuck to a plan that does not make sense."... View Source

After a bidding war that reportedly also involved Paramount, Comcast, Amazon, and Apple, on December 5th, Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion, buying the studio, HBO / HBO Max, Warner Games, and more. There are already questions and comments coming from politicians and regulators about the proposed acquisition, and you can follow along below for all of the latest updates as... View Source

Iceye, a Finnish satellite developer with a number of defense contracts, has raised money at a €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion) valuation, capitalizing on the military spending boom across Europe... View Source

Meta has cut several deals with news publishers to help provide real-time data for its AI chatbot services, as reported by Axios. The commercial agreements will allow its Meta AI chatbots to better answer user queries about news and current events. These are multiyear deals where publishers will be compensated for the use of their content, but we don't have any monetary specifics. The contrac... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitor a research drone in this September 2025 photo. This flight occurred in Dumont Dunes, an area of the Mojave Desert, as part of a larger test campaign to develop navigation software that would guide future rotorcraft on Mars. The work was among 25 projects funded by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program this past year to push the l... View Source

Everyone is doing it, so why not Wikipedia? Everyone’s favorite free online encyclopedia has decided to launch its own customized Year in Review feature on its mobile app. Of course, you’ll need the app installed and have been using it for the feature to be of much use. But clearly, the Wikimedia Foundation hopes this will spur more downloads. The personalization features of the 2025 Wikipedia Yea... View Source

The New York Times Co. and the Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity AI Inc., saying the artificial intelligence search startup is copying and distributing their exclusive content, the latest in a wave of lawsuits against AI developers... View Source

The European Commission has fined Elon Musk’s X €120 million (around $140 million) for breaching its transparency rules under the Digital Services Act. The European Union’s executive arm announced that it was investigating the social media company’s blue checkmarking verification system — first introduced when it was still known as Twitter — last year, along with other alleged DSA violations. Toda... 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

Blue Origin's upcoming NS-37 space tourism launch has special significance: One of the passengers is Michi Benthaus, who will become the first wheelchair user in space... View Source

The Apple AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation are now at their lowest price of $99 ($80 off) at Amazon and Walmart. The AirPods 4 offer upgraded sound quality, wireless charging, and a built-in speaker in the case that rings if you can’t find it. The ANC, while not the best on the market, is pretty good among open design earbuds at blocking noise. Apple Airpods 4 with ANC Apple’s AirPods 4 im... View Source

The European Union’s executive arm will seek to accelerate the construction of cross-border power grids, warning that years of underinvestment and fragmented planning is pushing up energy bills... View Source

The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have filed separate lawsuits against Perplexity over alleged copyright infringement. The Times said it had sent Perplexity several cease-and-desist demands to stop using its content until the two reached an agreement, but the AI company persisted in doing so. In the lawsuit [PDF], the Times accused Perplexity of infringing on its copyrights at two ma... View Source

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The New York Times has escalated its legal battle against the AI startup Perplexity, as it’s now suing the AI “answer engine” for allegedly producing and profiting from responses that are “verbatim or substantially similar copies” of the publication’s work. The lawsuit, filed in a New York federal court on Friday, claims Perplexity “unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes” conten... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to acquire DigitalBridge Group Inc., a private equity firm that invests in assets such as data centers, as it seeks to take advantage of an AI-driven boom in digital infrastructure, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Another CES is nearly upon us, another year where we’ll see new gadgets aplenty from giant companies and tiny ones you’ve never heard of. And the not-so-secret secret of CES is that many of these things never make it to market — but usually it isn’t things companies like Samsung show off. But here we are, nearly six years since Samsung first showed off its Ballie personal robot and it is nowhere t... View Source

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A new view of Mars showcases a dramatic impact crater on the Red Planet with its debris wings unfurling across the surface like a butterfly in flight... View Source

It might not look much different on the outside, but the newest version of the PS5’s DualSense controller could feature a major improvement in battery life. Polish modder Modyfikator89 shared in a post on X that the new DualSense V2 variant, model number CFI-ZCT2W, lasted for more than 15 hours of continuous play in a battery life test.  Modyfikator89 added that the “longer playtime [was] ach... View Source

Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon should be sentenced to 12 years in prison for the fraud that led to the TerraUSD stablecoin’s $40 billion collapse in 2022, US prosecutors said... View Source

Microsoft's Copilot+ initiative launched last year with a clear goal: To produce capable laptops for people eagerly anticipating AI-powered features. Read that sentence again, and it's glaringly obvious that Microsoft's plan was flawed from the start. Most consumers aren't nearly as hyped for AI features as the companies eager to foist artificial intelligence upon us. And those... View Source

On Friday, Meta announced that its AI chatbot will now respond with information from CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and People Inc.’s portfolio, as part of a new partnership with the companies. The deal comes as publishers continue to sue AI companies for stealing content. The New York Times filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity on Friday, for example, seeking to stop it from pulling its news u... View Source

RAM prices have gone wild, mostly thanks to AI. In this episode, Devindra chats with Will Smith (Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod) about the state of the RAM industry, as well as other hardware we expect to get more expensive. (SSD prices are definitely creeping up too!). Also, we discuss Meta poaching Alan Dye, one of Apple's design executives, and what this could mean for Meta's upcoming... View Source

The Global Space Awards will be held at London's Natural History Museum on Dec. 5... View Source

Every week since Pluribus' premiere, I've presented a handful of burning questions I have about what's coming next. And most of the time I really want to know the answer. This is a show where mysteries are baked into the premise, with a slow-burn structure that can make it very satisfying when the answers start rolling in. But I regret wanting to know what the hive mind are drinking in episode 5 -... View Source

Max Levchin probably knows as much about online payments as anyone. He was part of the original “PayPal mafia,” before going on to become co-founder and CEO of Affirm, the $22 billion player in the Buy Now, Pay Later industry that’s hoping to disrupt the incumbent credit card companies. While BNPL is booming, there is still a lot of confusion about how it works, how it makes money, and how transpa... View Source

Hackers with links to China reportedly successfully infiltrated a number of unnamed government and tech entities using advanced malware. As reported by Reuters, cybersecurity agencies from the US and Canada confirmed the attack, which used a backdoor known as “Brickstorm” to target organizations using the VMware vSphere cloud computing platform. As detailed in a report published by the Canadian Ce... View Source

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Waymo following reports that the company’s robotaxis illegally drove past stopped school buses in Austin, Texas.  In a letter sent to Waymo on Wednesday, the federal regulator’s Office of Defects Investigation asked for detailed information on Waymo’s fifth-generation self-driving system and expressed concern... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ellen Huet reports on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, after an initial burst of interest... View Source

Portal shooter Splitgate 2 is coming back with a new name and rebuilt experience after being pulled back to beta earlier this year, developer 1047 Games announced. The free-to-play Splitgate: Arena Reloaded will relaunch on December 17th across platforms including Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and PC.  "After months of community feedback, testing and rebuilding the entire experience, th... View Source

Is this really a crater in the Saharan Desert?... View Source

Washington lawmakers had barely finished processing the news that Congress would not put a state AI law ban into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) when a new rumor began trickling out of the White House on Wednesday: President Donald Trump would, indeed, sign an executive order that would ostensibly assign the federal government the ability to punish states for writing their own AI law... View Source

Andrew Puzder, US Ambassador to the EU, talks about EU regulation blocking its development in the AI. He says some EU regulatory acts are contrary to its best economic interests and make it difficult to get the investment Europe needs to participate in the AI economy. He joins "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" on Bloomberg TV. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shortly after rumors of a deal between the two media giants broke, Netflix has announced it is buying Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max for approximately $82.7 billion. If approved, the deal will take place after Warner Bros. has disentangled itself from both its legacy cable and Discovery assets as part of the already-announced de-merger. That's likely to take place in the third quarter of 2026,... View Source

Netflix Inc. agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. in a historic combination, joining the world’s dominant paid streaming service with one of Hollywood’s oldest and most revered studios... View Source

Spinning off from the action-camera company Insta360, Antigravity now has its debut drone on sale. With 360-degree cameras that capture 8K and offer you a truly unconstrained view of the skies, the A1 is a different drone from everything else out there. Sorry, DJI. Instead of typical drone joysticks, you get a motion controller that lets you point and shoot like video game gesture controls, while... View Source

The European Union has served Elon Musk’s X with a €120 million (about $140 million) penalty for violating the bloc’s digital service rulebook, in part for the “deceptive design” of its blue checkmark. Today’s announcement marks the first time that a company has been fined under the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA) law for curbing “illegal and harmful activities” on online platforms... View Source

Wall Street is gearing up to lend massive amounts of money to the biggest players in artificial intelligence — and simultaneously trying to figure out how to protect itself from any bubble that its financing may be helping to inflate... View Source

December's "Cold Moon" rose on Dec. 4 as it neared its closest point ot Earth in its monthly orbit... View Source

Elon Musk’s X social network was slapped with a lower-than-expected €120 million ($140 million) fine for violating the European Union’s controversial content-moderation law, in a move still set to raise tensions with the White House over free speech and tech regulation... View Source

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?... View Source

The new hub centralizes account support options. Meta on Thursday announced it is launching a new, centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, acknowledging that getting help hasn’t always been as easy as it should be. The space will bring together all the support features users of both networks need to report account issues or recover one they’ve lost access to. “Getting help with your ac... View Source

The CEO of Affirm on restructuring finance... View Source

Cryptocurrency-exchange operator HashKey Holdings Ltd. is set to start taking investor orders as soon as next week for its Hong Kong initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday... View Source

Microsoft is finally updating the design of the Run dialog prompt in Windows after more than 30 years. After committing to adding a dark mode to Run, Microsoft is now testing a refreshed design that makes it fit with the aesthetics in Windows 11. X user Phantomofearth discovered the modern Run dialog in the latest preview builds of Windows 11. The overhauled Run prompt looks a lot more like a mode... View Source

Billionaire footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has taken a stake in Perplexity AI Inc., marking the Portuguese star’s most high-profile investment to date... View Source

Baidu Inc. is considering listing its Kunlunxin AI chip business in Hong Kong, people familiar with the matter said, as it looks to tap investor interest in China’s attempts to design products to compete with Nvidia Corp... View Source

Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 billion break-up fee in case regulators block the buyout. Netflix reportedly offered $30 a share for the studio and its streaming assets, which i... View Source

Ocado Group Plc will receive a one-time cash payment of $350 million from Kroger Co., more than previously announced, after the US grocer decided to close three automated warehouses and scaled back plans for a wider rollout... View Source

Netflix is in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service, according to sources from Bloomberg. That suggests Netflix submitted a superior offer to rivals including Paramount Skydance Corp (owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) and Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal. The deal could be consummated within days and, if approved, would change... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s revenue rose 26% in November, suggesting demand for Nvidia Corp. servers remains strong during an AI development boom... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix Inc., according to people familiar with the discussions. The two companies could announce a deal as soon as in the coming days, assuming talks don’t fall apart, the people said. Bloomberg’s Manuel Baigorri breaks down the situation... View Source

South African private equity firms and lenders will invest $600 million in debt and equity on a dry port in the Democratic Republic of Congo to ease congestion on one of Africa’s busiest mineral corridors... View Source

Bali is considering a ban on Airbnb Inc.’s accommodation, its latest attempt to impose order on a resort island struggling to cope with a record surge in tourism... View Source

Using police diaries, mobile-phone records, WhatsApp messages and thousands of banking transactions, we were able to reconstruct—sometimes down to the minute—how “digital arrest” victims were targeted and scammed... View Source

The country’s digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. Businessweek investigates the trail from victims to scammers... View Source

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says AI is a complement to its existing automation offering. He discusses the company’s accelerating growth and third quarter earnings with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Sydney and Singapore with Paul Allen and Avril Hong, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix Inc., according to people familiar with the discussions... View Source

OpenAI is adapting to growing competitive pressure on multiple fronts. But first…... View Source

Taiwan said it was banning the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, due to fraud concerns — highlighting the democracy’s worries related to social media apps from across the strait... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares declined in extended trading after the company gave an outlook for sales in the current quarter that fell short of high expectations for the AI server business... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Dollar General pops on stronger guidance as deal-hungry shoppers pile in. We'll take a deep dive on bargain-focused retailers. Meta is preparing deep cuts to its metaverse ambitions as Mark Zuckerberg weighs budget reductions of up to 30%. Plus, Rebecca Patterson of CFR joins Bloomberg Open Intere... View Source

On December 4, WIRED sat down with some of the biggest names in tech, culture, business, and science for a day full of in-depth interviews... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Meta’s plan to cut resources for building its metaverse, the virtual world that Mark Zuckerberg once framed as the future of the company. Plus, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s not sure China would accept more powerful AI chips - even if the US relaxes restrictions on sales. And, a look at the latest earnings from Snowflake, Salesforce and UiPath. (... View Source

Apple Inc. hired Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Legal Officer Jennifer Newstead as its general counsel, part of a wave of executive changes at the iPhone maker... View Source

Microsoft Excel is expensive, derivative and depressing. The 40-year-old spreadsheet software might also be the most killer app of all time, Max Chafkin argues. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Skybound Game Studios is being sued by indie outfit iam8bit on charges including fraud and breach of contract, including the theft of original designs. Skybound Entertainment, the parent company of Skybound Game Studios, is chaired by Robert Kirkman, who may be best known for creating the original comic book of The Walking Dead. We've reached out to Skybound for comment on the lawsuit but hav... View Source

Moore Threads Technology Co., a leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker, will begin trading in Shanghai’s stock exchange on Friday in the year’s second-largest onshore IPO... View Source

The hunt is on for new Asian equity winners from the artificial intelligence trade, as a technological shift and bubble fears reshape the investment universe... View Source

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams of newborn stars and the ongoing gravitational tug-of-war reshaping both galaxies... View Source

The author of Super Agers believes AI could bring big changes to the world of medicine... View Source

In recent months, it has begun dawning on US lawmakers that, absent significant intervention, China will land humans on the Moon before the United States can return there with the Artemis Program. So far, legislators have yet to take meaningful action on this—a $10 billion infusion into NASA’s budget this summer essentially provided zero funding for efforts needed to land humans on the Moon this d... View Source

Australian data center group NextDC Ltd. and ChatGPT-developer OpenAI have agreed to partner on the development of a large-scale data center in Sydney... View Source

Following the recent retirement of former COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, and the departure of head of design Alan Dye for Meta, Apple announced Thursday that environmental and policy lead Lisa Jackson is retiring and that Jennifer Newstead will replace Kate Adams as the company’s general counsel after Adams retires “late next year.” Jackson, technically “vice president... View Source

The ubiquitous spreadsheet software is expensive, derivative and depressing. It’s also the software the world can’t quit, even in the era of AI tools... View Source

The debut game from Liquid Swords will arrive in early 2026, it was announced at today's PC Gaming Show. Samson: A Tyndalston Story is billed as "a consequence-heavy noir action game" by its developer, and focuses on the eponymous Samson McCray, a man who's got himself into serious debt in a city that doesn’t seem particularly forgiving.  The debut trailer doesn’t give too... View Source

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends."... View Source

Moor Insights & Strategy founder and CEO Patrick Moorhead reacts to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's sales outlook on "Bloomberg The Close." HPE said revenue will be $9 billion to $9.4 billion and profit, excluding some items, will be 57 cents to 61 cents in the period ending in January. Analysts, on average, projected sales of $9.88 billion and profit of 53 cents, according to data compiled by Bl... View Source

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (Dec. 4), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast... View Source

It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagon’s inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbins’ eight-month-long investigation found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegs... View Source

The cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise roughly $700 million in a funding round that would value the company at $7 billion, according to a person familiar with the situation... View Source

We've been monitoring the upcoming rock climbing game Cairn for several months, as have the many folks who've already enjoyed the demo — which has an impressive 99 percent rating on Steam. In September, developer The Game Bakers pushed back the game's planned 2025 debut to give some extra time for polish. Today, the team dropped a fresh trailer announcing the revised launch date for... View Source

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form... View Source

The Trump administration has ordered US consulates to consider rejecting H-1B visa applicants involved in content moderation or “censorship,” according to a report from Reuters. A State Department cable viewed by the outlet says officials should check an applicant’s resume or LinkedIn profile for a job history involving moderation, fact-checking, online safety, compliance, and misinformation. As r... View Source

Minda Smiley, senior analyst at EMARKETER focused on social media, says she is not surprised by Meta's plans to cut resources for its metaverse unit. She discusses Meta’s challenges to monetize the metaverse and AI with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

School districts are paying extra for basic supplies thanks to unpredictable dynamic pricing on Amazon, which is costing them on average 17 percent more, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). Unlike the contracts schools and local governments would traditionally make with local suppliers, who would bid to offer the best rates, Amazon Business doesn’t guarantee lock... View Source

Beijing-based Cambricon is set to triple production of AI chips in 2026, with plans to deliver half a million AI accelerators. Bloomberg’s Peter Elstrom discusses the company and wider plans by China to boost production of advanced AI chips. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As he did eight months ago, Sen. Ed Markey asked Jared Isaacman if Elon Musk was in the room when President Trump first offered him the job of NASA chief. And, once again, Isaacman demurred... View Source

This picture taken on August 31, 2017 shows Honda Motor's new N-BOX mini-vehicles at its headquaters in Tokyo. Tiny kei trucks from Japan have a new fan: President Donald Trump. Trump expressed admiration for the pint-sized autos during a briefing with reporters to announce his plan to gut fuel economy standards. “They’re very small. They’re really cute,” Trump said. “And I said, how w... View Source

Mexico’s Esentia Energy Development expects a boom in data centers to bolster its pipeline business, as the country races to build out energy and AI infrastructure to compete with its regional peers... View Source

Roskomnadzor, Russia's federal agency for monitoring and censoring mass media, has blocked access to Snapchat and FaceTime in the country, Bloomberg reports, citing Russian news service Interfax. The bans were reportedly put in place because the platforms were used "to organize and carry out terrorist acts,” and commit fraud.It's not clear if either service is still accessible by us... View Source

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is finally out after a long and difficult development - and despite some bright spots, the game really shows its age. Nintendo has a long and celebrated history of doing things its own way. During the original Switch era, going back to Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, Nintendo has focused on bringing open-world style exploration elements to many of its major releases. That stra... View Source

Brazil’s biggest utility is exploring options to guarantee the power supply for a $50 billion data center project aimed at putting Rio de Janeiro at the forefront of artificial intelligence in Latin America... View Source