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ZWO is well known for its Seestar smart telescopes but they also make dedicated astronomy cameras for use with telescopes to get highly detailed astrophotography. We have reviewed three of these ZWO astrocams and they have delivered beautiful images of the different objects. The color cameras like the ZWO ASI183MC Pro and ZWO ASI533MC Pro have delivered beautiful colored detail in galaxies and neb... View Source

The China-based memory firm ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had a massive first day on the Shanghai stock exchange after its shares surged 466 percent, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC. The stock market frenzy boosted CXMT's valuation to $484 billion, making it the most valuable Chinese company listed on the exchange. CXMT looks to challenge Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix... View Source

California startup Antares Nuclear Inc. raised $470 million to advance plans to build tiny reactors aimed at supplying power to US military bases... View Source

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Using the Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers have seen a supermassive black hole jet churning and "cooking" gas surrounding a galaxy nicknamed the "red potato." And this potato is seen as it was when the universe was around 2 billion years old. The galaxy in question is officially designated MQN01 J004131.9-493704 and is located about 11.7 billion light-years from Earth at the intersection of a... View Source

The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta’s new 60-second ad spot insists that the “future is for everyone,” even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal net worth eclipses the GDP of Hungary. Anthropic’s new commercial for Claude assures viewers tha... View Source

Nvidia Corp. said it has made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc., the artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever... View Source

Over the past year or so, a puzzling idea has taken hold among billionaires ranging from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: that instead of trying to force data centers on communities that don’t want them down on Earth, it would be much easier just to launch them into space. The economics and logistics of the scheme, many experts have pointed out, are absolutely absurd. And even beyond those practical... View Source

Today’s products perform best when connected to partner devices... View Source

Canon's EOS R6 V is a video-focused hybrid camera that's outstanding for vlogging... View Source

We’re leaning in with the playing card metaphor. Across New York City, London, and Washington, DC, ads for Meta's smart glasses have been plastered over with satirical posters from activist groups. One guerrilla ad calls these "the biggest advancement in pervert technology since the trenchcoat." Another transposes the words "mass surveillance predator glasses" over influencer Kylie Jenner's face,... View Source

Europe’s richest person has finally joined the social media fray... View Source

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can single-handedly green-light massive spaceflight projects that could completely change the view of the night sky for the entire world. Despite the outcry these projects have caused, space law experts say there is very little other nations and the international community can do to thwart them if the FCC were to grant them licenses.On July 10, the... View Source

Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilitiesJodrell Bank Observatory, which runs a world-leading network of radio telescopes, is facing closure after its major funder cut support for the facility.The deep space observatory, which hosts the Grade I-listed Lovell telescope, is prized by astronomers who study galaxies, black holes, star... View Source

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety of advanced AI systems after a rogue OpenAI model escaped c... View Source

Craig Mineard is joining Truist Financial Corp.’s investment bank from Jefferies Financial Group Inc. to co-head the firm’s technology media and telecom group... View Source

China warned it would take “all necessary measures” if the US moves to sanction Chinese artificial intelligence companies over allegations they improperly used American models to train their own systems... View Source

What can you say to appeal to investors and employees at the same time?... View Source

NVIDIA has gathered together some of the biggest tech companies in the world to form the Open Secure AI Alliance with the aim to improve cybersecurity... View Source

HSBC Holdings Plc is set to hire more than 100 artificial intelligence specialists in Singapore with plans to launch a global AI center in the city-state later this year as the British lender steps up investments in the technology that’s reshaping Wall Street workforces... View Source

NEW YORK — Madison Square Park in midtown Manhattan is home to some 44 tree species. And on a Thursday afternoon blanketed in wildfire smoke, a small crowd gathered to see one in particular. The slender American sweet gum looked unassuming, especially compared to the enormous English elm neighboring it. But this tree had a secret: it had traveled 1.3 million miles before landing in New York.The sa... View Source

Zhu Yiming just joined a growing number of billionaires who have amassed great wealth in the race between the US and China for global tech dominance... View Source

One month from today, skywatchers across the Americas, Europe and Africa will have the chance to witness the best lunar eclipse until New Year's Eve 2028. On Aug. 28, Earth's shadow will cover up to 96% of the moon's disk in an exceptionally deep partial lunar eclipse. At maximum eclipse, only a thin sliver of the moon will remain outside Earth's darkest shadow, creating an "almost blood moon" wit... View Source

As the US sees its highest number of measles cases in decades and vaccination rates fall, researchers are developing drugs to help those who contract the virus or who are particularly vulnerable... View Source

Black holes eject powerful energy jets that blow away the surrounding gas to great distances. So how can they continue to grow?... View Source

AppleCare insurance for multiple devices including iPhones, Watches and MacBooks, is finally expanding outside the US... View Source

Multiverse Computing SL is raising $570 million in a funding round that is set to boost its valuation to $1.7 billion, as investors flock to companies aiming to make it cheaper to use artificial intelligence... View Source

Vodafone Group Plc reported first-quarter service revenue growth that beat analysts’ estimates after sales increased in Germany, the phone carrier’s largest market... View Source

China’s memory-chip bellwether CXMT Corp. can extend its blockbuster stock market debut to rally 1,239% from its initial public offering price as it wins market share over time, according to Nomura Holdings Inc... View Source

One of the easiest patterns to spot, combination of Vega, Deneb and Altair is also visible in the southern hemisphereIn the northern hemisphere we know that summer is truly upon us when the summer triangle appears overhead. Although not an official constellation, it is one of the easiest patterns to find in the northern summer sky.The chart shows the view looking high in the south-east from London... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s $40 billion bridge loan for its investment in US tech giant OpenAI has attracted a new group of 21 lenders in a broader syndication phase, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Moonshot AI is poised to make its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram have served thousands of ads for AI “nudify” apps in breach of the company’s policies, delivered by one of its few advertising partners in China, according to the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project... View Source

China’s industry saw profit gains slow for a second month, adding to evidence of an uneven recovery for companies across parts of the world’s second-biggest economy... View Source

A strong rebound in the won driven in part by SK Hynix Inc.’s record US listing has given South Korean authorities fresh impetus to prod exporters to repatriate their overseas dollars... View Source

As the artificial-intelligence rally sputters in emerging markets, investors searching for high-growth alternatives are turning to Chinese biotech... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s in discussions to provide a guarantee of about $250 billion to help OpenAI lease computing from a giant data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter... View Source

CXMT Corp. is set to begin trading in Shanghai on Monday after raising 66.6 billion yuan ($9.8 billion) in the second-largest initial public offering in China’s history, with potential for a first-day gain that would make it the largest company in the country... View Source

A 26-year-old actor rallied, protested and eventually cajoled a secretive family into a deal... View Source

Thankfully the movie is bonkers enough to live up to the artwork. | Image: Vinegar Syndrome There's something about a movie like The Room, Troll 2, or Fateful Findings that I find irresistible. These sorts of "so bad they're good" films are marvelous curiosities where ambition far outstrips resources, ability, and self-awareness to become something much greater than the sum of their parts. Champag... View Source

If you don't mind using more data, make these changes to step up your listening experience in the YouTube Music app... View Source

The Smart LED Monitor Stand is currently available for $169.99... View Source

Meta’s AI glasses have been the focus of controversy. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they'll launch by the end of 2027. Part of the hold-up may be around the company's efforts to get its privacy features and messaging in order. Smart glasses in general, and Meta's... View Source

Don't use WD-40 or Q-tips, for starters... View Source

The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a "duress password" that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24th, 2025. Federal agents detained Tunick at the airport, allegedly questioning him about child exploitation images. However, a motion filed by Tunick's lawyers argues this was simply "a... View Source

We also now know when it will be released: January 22, 2027... View Source

Ukraine’s drone campaign has already moved beyond tactical harassment. By mid-2026 it is systematically degrading Russian logistics at operational depth, particularly along the southern land corridor into Crimea and the adjacent Zaporizhzhia–Kherson approaches. The question is no longer whether drones matter. It is when the next qualitative jump — from high-volume semi-autonomous strikes to coordi... View Source

An expedition to study frog habitats in Northern California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest was cut short last week, with a father-son duo accused of taking two federal biologists hostage. The pair, identified as Joseph Charles Henrichsen and his adult son Phoenix Henrichsen, have been charged with kidnapping two US forest service researchers at gunpoint, NBC reports. Using a semi-automatic... View Source

The Exploration Company Gmbh, a potential European rival to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is in talks to raise at least $300 million, in part from the European Union’s Scaleup Europe Fund, bumping the company’s valuation to more than $2 billion, the Financial Times reported... View Source

The Apple team behind the upcoming smart glasses is reportedly exploring several tweaks related to user privacy... View Source

Your battery is continually losing charge... View Source

Dr Suzanne Bell helps astronauts perform in a high-stress environment. To do that, she wakes up at 5am – without an alarmTell us: what impact have GLP-1s had on your relationships?Dr Suzanne Bell, an organizational psychologist, leads the Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center.What’s your morning routine? Continue reading... View Source

Fake AI-generated doctors and health gurus have taken over Facebook and Instagram, sharing unproven medical advice and peddling dubious supplements. A recent New York Times investigation into the phenomenon reviewed hundreds of these ads, finding that they tend to follow a loose formula to draw people in. The AI videos usually feature AI avatars that present themselves as credible figures like doc... View Source

Apple will refresh its Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches with better specs, but not a design overhaul... View Source

Meta’s camera-equipped AI glasses have quickly turned into a massively controversial accessory. They’ve been used by all kinds of charlatans and brutes to harass strangers, from pickup artist “manfluencers” filming themselves approaching strangers to juvenile pranksters recording members of the public without their consent. Consequently, the backlash to Meta’s “... View Source

If you want to tweak your Android Auto settings, the software has a developer menu you can check out... View Source

SpaceX says it is targeting thousands of Starship flights a year. We are seeing progress to recovery and reuse of Starship. The booster has been recovered 3 times and reused twice. The new booster needs engine software improvements and the upper stage starship catch will be attempted in the next flight (14). If booster and ... Read more... View Source

Prof Abbie Garrington reflects on an interview with the physicist Laura Grego about the battle for our skiesWhere are the arts and humanities in current debates about space research? The physicist Laura Grego tells us we “have to be aware of what is happening in space”, that we should probe Elon Musk’s potential “appropriation” of space via satellite, and that our spacefaring era raises questions... View Source

The latest adaptation debuts October 7th. | Image: Amazon Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (this will be his fourth), is slated to make its debut on Amazon Prime on October 7th. The new trailer dropped at Comic-Con 2026 and doesn't contain many surprises. If you're familiar with Carrie at all, it hits all the expected notes. Though it's clearly been updated for the modern era... View Source

Subscribing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on a recurring basis has been tough to justify recently, even after Microsoft reduced the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99. But you can get a better deal on a three-month subscription (valued at $69) by grabbing a digital code at Eneba that costs $39.01 at the time of publication. Game Pass Ultimate grants you access to the full Game Pass library on Xbox (c... View Source

Scientists have discovered a puzzling object in a distant star system that defies classification. Hear us out. The object in question orbits a brown dwarf. A brown dwarf is a substellar type of object that larger than a gas giant but smaller than the smallest stars. And this brown dwarf, in turn, orbits the system’s main star. Since the newly-identified object doesn’t orbit a planet, i... View Source

Accurately counting calories requires more data than a smartwatch can easily gather... View Source

The fundamental challenges that remain for the Starship heat shield. Mechanical loads on ascent (vibration + higher dynamic pressure). Coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch (steel expands far more than the silica-based tiles). Plasma intrusion into tile seams. These are being attacked with better attachments, gap sealing, edge geometry, and load-sensing tiles. Why these numbers? Tiles ... Read... View Source

Ryan Gosling on stage at Comic-Con | Image: Marvel Studios While perhaps less dramatic than in years past, Marvel nonetheless had some big reveals lined up for Comic-Con. The highest profile was certainly the announcement that Ryan Gosling would be joining the MCU as Ghost Rider, with the Shawn Levy-directed (Deadpool & Wolverine) standalone feature set to drop sometime in 2028. The studio als... View Source

Company debated whether glasses will be able to record video... View Source

SpaceX deliberately flew a more energetic / higher-dynamic-pressure reentry profile on this flight to stress the system harder than a normal return would. The vehicle survived, executed the flip and landing burn, soft-splashed, and remained intact and transmitting. Dan Huot called it “a dream scenario for the team that’s trying to get this heat shield ... Read more... View Source

Zillionaire eccentric Bryan Johnson, fresh off of being diagnosed with an incurable disease, says he just “cloned” himself “as a newborn.” Yep, you heard that right. The immortality influencer shared in an X update that he has a “baby” version of himself growing in a petri dish that he says will allow him to become his “own blood boy” — doesn’t... View Source

Apple Silicon delivers enough performance without overheating... View Source

We all know the cliché: any horror franchise that goes on long enough inevitably goes to space. Critters, Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Dracula… they've all taken a trip to the stars.The trope, fair or not, has often overshadowed the fact that science fiction and horror are absolutely perfect bedfellows, with outer space's total isolation, tiny quarters, and oppressive vastness perfectly suited for... View Source

For over two decades, a notorious fugitive accused of horrible crimes in Rhode Island hid out in one of the places you’d most expect — the corner office of a Big Pharma company. Reported by Stat News, a 70-year old chief medical officer at the California-based firm Immix Biopharma was found to be afugitive sex predator who disappeared during his 2005 trial. Though he went by Richard Graydon... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things vertical video, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started For a while, every social and media platform had its own identity. YouTube was for clips of TV shows and movies, and the home of... View Source

Robotics company Realbotix has long struggled to beat the allegations that its voluptuous humanoid robots are designed with prurient interests in mind. Its $175,000 robotic companion, dubbed Aria, is platinum blonde, well-endowed, and tends to be decked out in tight-fitted sportswear at tech conventions. Yet the company insisted she’s not a sex doll, leading to plenty of incredulity online... View Source

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev.NASA+ Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov... View Source

Can companies seize your private property to build data center infrastructure?  According to legal scholar Aaron Walayat at the University of Dayton, it’s certainly a possibility. In a new piece for The Conversation, Walayat warns that power companies in states like George and Pennsylvania have been considering the use of eminent domain — the government’s prerogative to seize land... View Source

More electric vehicles are becoming capable of providing backup power at a time when the US is increasingly in need of more electrons... View Source

NEW YORK — I'm the kind of person who, every so often, falls into accidental daydreams about the concept of space. Usually because I'm listening to some sort of sad girl Spotify playlist, I start feeling infuriated that we may never learn the true meaning of the cosmos and become embarrassingly poetic about our isolation on Earth. I tend to ponder how strange microgravity is and begin Googling thi... View Source

With so many landmark lawsuits emerging around artificial intelligence, it can be easy to lose sight of the other high-tech cases shaping the world as we know it. One major suit with important implications just emerged out of Phoenix. The case revolves around a 2023 incident involving a 73-year-old named Trudy Perez and a delivery robot at Arizona State University. The woman — who was working as a... View Source

When did Tesla FSD 15 get installed into Robotaxi? It happened 2 month ago and Tesla slowed the unsupervised robotaxi program to reset and work with the new software. Tesla said they had 380,000 miles without notable incident, which also coincides with the amount of unsupervised robotaxi miles of the last 2 months. Clearly Tesla ... Read more... View Source

Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp., which is on the brink of making history after a near-record initial public offering... View Source

Grok 4.5 (1.5 trillion parameter) at 11 will likely crack the top ten LLM on open router. Based on the number of models they are releasing. They could have new models in the 50% frontier coding score but at prices lower than Anthropic for Opus 5. Later versions of Grok 5.X could push out Opus ... Read more... View Source

Venture through the afterlife of the gods while playing as Faye... View Source

The latest findings could come with a fine of up to six percent of TikTok's annual revenue... View Source

Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, the rumored price hike is not a complete surprise. Companies from Apple to Nintendo, Microsoft to Roku, have all raised their prices in respo... View Source

An eye implant that can help blind people see again is poised to hit the market — in Europe, at least. On Wednesday, the US-based Science Corporation announced that it had received approval from the European Union to treat patients with its vision-restoring bionic eye device, called Prima, in a huge step towards the commercialization of the technology. “We have a cochlear implant for vision... View Source

Building your solar panel system with some extra capacity makes managing it a bit easier... View Source

A company spokesperson said that it's "still exploring all our options for the best approach."... View Source

What happens when you deploy hundreds of high-tech surveillance cameras against a student population known for their hacking skills? We’re about to find out. This week, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s student newspaper the Tech reported that the university is about to spend over $3 million installing over 500 AI-integrated surveillance cameras across the school’s camp... View Source

If you need to juice up your phone in a hurry, there are more effective tactics than turning on airplane mode... View Source

Cloud storage isn't your only option... View Source

All systems are go! PBS just launched the second episode of its "Once Upon a Time in Space" miniseries on Tuesday, titled "The Russian Thing," and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the harrowing chapter that focuses on near disasters aboard the Space Station Mir in 1997. In addition to the video, we’re also proud to share an exclusive interview with NASA's celebrated British-American astronaut Mich... View Source

Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, and a... View Source

Qualcomm, the maker of processors powering numerous Android devices, is raising its prices... View Source

Teenage Engineering’s OP-XY has a huge number of functions. | Photo by Terrence O’Brien / The Verge With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musical instrument and modern art. These grooveboxes, as they’re often called, are capable of helping you produce songs in real time from a single unit, with an eye-catching design langu... View Source

On Episode 220 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars.This week, we cover how Starship Flight 13 finally prepares to launch amid a legal battle over SpaceX's proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese Long March 3B rocket gets struck by lightning during liftoff,... View Source

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins. He's even written a book tracing the evolution of the synthesizer from 1963 through 1995, charting the change from analog to digital and back. His new project is Be... View Source

AI is upending the way voters take part in the democratic process. The worst part? You might not even know you’ve been affected. In the county of St. Charles, Missouri, a race for county executive has devolved into slop-slinging of the AI variety. According to local channel First Alert 4, conservative candidate Jason Law is flooding the airwaves with an AI-generated video depicting his two r... View Source

DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it’s suspending the deal for now, people familiar with the matter said, days after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-Chinese AI competition went viral... View Source

Here are a few things to know if you're leaving Android for iPhone... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that "Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-established Hollywood mainstays," and that it engaged in a "lawless employee shopping spree." Deadline reports that Francesca Orsi, HBO's head o... View Source

It’s become strangely difficult to attend a work meeting without the presence of an AI recording tool that’s carefully jotting down what every single participant is saying. Some people in tech circles are taking the trend to perverse ends by recording every single conversation they’re having — not just at work but in their private lives as well, as the Wall Street Journal reports... View Source

Go hands-free with voice commands... View Source

Fixing a problem inside one of the world's most sophisticated scientific observatories might seem like the kind of challenge that demands a multimillion-dollar upgrade or revolutionary new technology. But for scientists working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which listens for ripples in spacetime generated by cosmic collisions like merging black holes, the solut... View Source

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 lies vertically atop the plastic gun's slide, with a cutout on the side to access its buttons. Though the frame was digitally modeled after a real gun, this "case" can't shoot... View Source

Meta is testing an app that uses AI to automate bedtime stories for children. The future is here, folks — and boy, is it depressing. The app, first caught by 9to5Mac, is called “StoryKit.” (It’s not yet available in the US; Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s currently testing StoryKit in pilot countries.) Per a webpage for the app, parents pick a character either b... View Source

What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting. You work together with other sentient moving circles, sometimes helping them joyfully meet with others. And you traverse a large map that's composed entirely of, you guessed it, a series of circles. But the circles everywhere aren't just an artistic choice; they... View Source

YouTube is making it easier to add custom thumbnails for both short-form and long-form videos... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy phone season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Google Zero and armored cars for rich people, watching a lot of That's a Bad Idea videos now that YouTube knows my love for Curry Barker, testi... View Source

A Chinese rocket was smitten by a bolt from the heavens right after it lifted off. And if this was a blessing or a curse from a higher power, we don’t know. The spacecraft, a Long March-3B rocket, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China on Thursday, according to Space.com. Its mission was to deliver a communications relay satellite to geostationary orbit, some... View Source

Plus, email as turn-based combat (which is really just regular email)... View Source

Reuters reports that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face had been free for a week before the company noticed... View Source

By now, it should be pretty clear that the corporate executives of the world aren’t exactly into AI because they think it’ll cure cancer. They’re making a different calculation, motivated by simple economics: pretty soon, they believe, AI will be efficient enough to do many or even all workers’ job, removing employee payroll from the corporate equation. That means more mone... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery has sued Amazon for 'inducing' its employees to breach their contracts... View Source

A U.S.-Russian crew will return to Earth from the International Space Station early Sunday morning (July 26), and you can watch their homecoming live. A Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is scheduled to undock from the orbiting lab on Sunday at 3:02 a.m. EDT (0702 GMT).The Soyuz, known as MS-28,... View Source

Who could’ve guessed that students who use AI to cheat on their assignments are incredibly lazy? Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, says that he used white font to hide a prompt telling an AI model to spew nonsense in the instructions for his mid-term. Unfortunately, it ended up working a little too well. “Thirty-two of my 35 students between t... View Source

Scientists identified the first known cancer transmissible among freshwater fish in a lake that spans the US and Canada... View Source

Electrolyte powders promise better hydration, energy, and recovery. But unless you’re losing serious fluid, water and food probably have you covered... View Source

Roku's streaming devices got a price hike, and it's reportedly because of industry-wide memory shortages... View Source

As student protests spread across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned to Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for raw, self-recorded messages aimed at the country’s youth... View Source

This “piercing pillow” also works great with earbuds you probably already own. Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good example. These miniature marvels of engineering sit flush in the ear, and allow side-sleepers to doze off listening to podcasts, audiobooks, music, or white noise without anno... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market... View Source

AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of memory chips, for supplies to make its own semiconductors, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae Won said... View Source

Chinese regulators fined Trip.com Group Ltd. 5.18 billion yuan ($765 million), concluding that the country’s largest travel booking platform abused its market dominance after a monthslong investigation... View Source

SpaceX Starship had a miracle happen. The landing of Starship was so soft that the fires did not cause an explosion. The SpaceX team chants “USA! USA! USA!” after the successful Starship Flight 13. 🇺🇸🚀 pic.twitter.com/YaRaQ7FpLS — DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) July 25, 2026... View Source

SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket on a critical 13th test flight late Friday, but there was no triskaidekaphobia on this mission. The July 24 test launch, Space's Starship Flight 13 mission, sent a towering rocket the size of a 40-story skyscraper into space from South Texas, returned its massive Booster to Earth, and then — in a feat perhaps none saw coming — gently landed its Star... View Source

Investors in Asia are snapping up stocks from Indonesian banks to Chinese e-commerce titans and Indian technology firms, trimming bets on popular AI trades which have turned increasingly volatile... View Source

Nvidia Corp. will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, adding to a frenzy of deals by the world’s most valuable company... View Source

Starship is intact, floating in the ocean and transmitting telemetry! pic.twitter.com/hLVXJqkHSA — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2026... View Source

The European Commission found Google's search ranking and anti-steering violated the Digital Markets Act... View Source

SpaceX’s mammoth Starship launched on its first major test flight since the company’s blockbuster initial public offering, a high-stakes mission to test technology vital to Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s ambitions... View Source

The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year... View Source

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue re-lighting the booster's rocket engines... View Source

Starship is carrying 20 V3 Starlink satellites as payload for its 13th test flight... View Source

Watch Starship's thirteenth flight test https://t.co/qkYYJiX24h — SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 23, 2026... View Source

Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region... View Source

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly - even though that feature runs locally on your glasses and doesn't require the cloud? Meta has paused those plans, spokesperson Tyler Yee confirms to The Verge. The company is not giving up on the idea of a subscription fee for certain features - tha... View Source

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing M... View Source

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Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer a... View Source

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is tapping the brakes on prediction markets’ practice of “self-certifying” boilerplate contracts that could apply to myriad events... View Source

The extended pause will give time to hear cases for blocking the deal from states and the WGA... View Source

Grok 4.6 in 2 weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 weeks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2026 Grok 4.6 Parameter count: 2 trillion (2T). Confirmed by Elon as the “2T model” that is “better than our 1.5T in every way.” Relation to prior model. It is a direct successor to Grok 4.5, which is ... Read more... View Source

The Roku Ultra. | Image: Roku Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku's other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here's a rundown of the changes: Streaming Stick: $29.99 to $39.99 Streaming Stick Plus: $39.99 to $59.99... View Source

For years, the conventional wisdom for ambitious students and languishing jobseekers alike was “learn to code.” Do that, the ubiquitous advice went, and you’d be able to find yourself a six-figure job anywhere. But in an age when bosses are hellbent on using powerful AI agents to perform the duties of software engineers, that advice is now looking increasingly obsolete, if not ou... View Source

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Smart telescopes like the Seestar S30 Pro have changed astrophotography and, arguably, urban astronomy. The Seestar S30 Pro takes that concept further than most. Small enough to fit inside a camera backpack, it combines a refractor telescope, motorized mount, dual cameras and image-processing software into a compact unit controlled entirely from a smartphone. Within minutes of powering on, it can... View Source

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your compatibility with friends. As noted on the app's FAQ page,... View Source

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Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday warning of plans to increase its prices by "a percentage in the double digits," Bloomberg reports. The price hikes will go into effect starting with products shipped after September 1st. Qualcomm claims it has "exhausted its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers," as ongoing component shortages continue to drive up prices. The company also said... View Source

AI chatbots and politicians who aren’t even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven. Exhibit A: Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, who made a strange, cyborgian digression in a speech addressing the New Brunswick legislature last month. “Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters,” Oliver intoned, before offering a bizarre non sequitur. “Here’s a... View Source

Co-Star CEO Banu Guler is also becoming the company's Chief Design Officer... View Source

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 delivers near-frontier performance at roughly half the price, which is a major strategic win for them. This puts competitive pressure on OpenAI, and a clear advance of the practical frontier toward cost-efficient agentic intelligence. It sets new standards for agentic coding, knowledge work, science and business workflows. Metrics overview Opus 5 ... Read more... View Source

Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of privacy and expansion of surveillance. Some especially bad actors are using the glasses to film themselves "pranking" random strangers. Women have become unsuspecting social media content for men filming themselves hitting on them without their knowled... View Source

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people — but one thing that it definitely isn’t is a get-rich-quick scheme. Since its debut on the public tickers back in early June, SpaceX shares have sunk from a high of over $225 to a dismal $110 today, as compounding failures and overvaluation fears take their toll. Overall, SpaceX is down nearly 30 percent compared to... View Source

Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC lost its bid Friday to escape a court case dangling the specter of legal liability for false statements made by an artificial intelligence chatbot... View Source

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On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometers) from Earth and 115,600 miles (186,100 kilometers) from the Moon, making the Moon appear relatively large. Taken with the Sun only partly... View Source

Anthropic Opus 5 was asked to build an ISS space station tracker and the UI and technical capabilities were good. The position matched a commercial site tracking the ISS... View Source

raw | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge In response to a report that Nothing is planning to "exit 12 markets as global shipments decline," Nothing cofounder Akis Evangelidis said the company is "reorganizing" and laying off some of its staff, but that "the reported numbers are way overblown." Evangelidis disputed a claim about underwhelming sales for Nothing's Phone 4B, saying it "sold 29,537 uni... View Source

This climate phenomenon could cause a massive global temperature spike and cause economic losses of $10 trillion by 2032... View Source

Maverick Games, the maker of ‘Clutch,’ was ditched by Amazon but is doing just fine... View Source

Players may be unable to log into their account, play online or purchase games from the PlayStation Store... View Source

Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman are the primary ringleaders behind "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds", and they're about to unleash the next cluster of 10 Season 4 episodes for their spirited space show. With an abundance of genre-crossing indulgences that are scary, surreal, and sometimes silly, the Paramount+ hit is operating at full warp speed in this penultimate outing, the debut episode of... View Source

The Xtra Muse 2 Pro. | Image; Xtra After selling a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States last year, Xtra Technology seemed ready to sneak in its version of the new dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, too. But today, Xtra has abruptly removed the new Xtra Muse 2 Pro from its website landing page, is pausing preorders indefinitely, and says it'll refund all the $20 depo... View Source

Tesla’s latest earnings report was very bad news for the company. In the second quarter, it made $1.1 billion in net profit, less than the $1.2 billion it reported a year earlier. Vehicle sales were up, but profits remain about a quarter billion short of expectations, and the automaker’s cash flow is negative for the first time in over two years. But the real blow has been the slow rol... View Source

The selloff in SpaceX shares has driven the stock near a level that would imply investors are assigning no value to its artificial intelligence business, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley... View Source

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4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An artist’s rendering of NASA’s CAPSTONE 02 spacecraft in lunar orbit. The mission features two identical small spacecraft that will further mature technologies to support Artemis, Moon Base, and deep space exploration. Terran Orbital NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for... View Source

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099, the show hits Prime Video on November 25th with all eight episodes dropping at once. We also got the first trailer for the series, which is full of Blade Runner staples: a bleak futuristic LA, dramatic narration, and some really good coat... View Source

Anthropic PBC is rolling out a new artificial intelligence model that is meant to handle workplace tasks adeptly and affordably, a key selling point as some customers grow more cost conscious and competition increases in China... View Source

Anthropic's latest model offers top-tier performance at a much cheaper cost... View Source

NASA/Chris Williams From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier the same day. Kikina, D... View Source

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up. On this episode of... View Source

Another glowing red indicator just lit up on the control panel steering the US economy: short sellers have placed a nearly unprecedented magnitude of bets against the domestic stock market. A new analysis by the firm S3 Partners has found that short interest in the S&P 500 is now the highest it’s been since the company began compiling that data in 2010, Business Insider reports. In all,... View Source

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Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of smartphone processors, told customers that rising costs are forcing it to increase prices by a percentage in the double digits... View Source

The Anbernic RG SP has pretty much everything you want from a modern take on the Game Boy Advance SP... View Source

Revel Pharmaceuticals engineered an enzyme that removes carboxymethyllysine — a sugar-derived chemical modification of the amino acid lysine — from proteins and restores the residue to normal lysine. It was tested on donated human lens, skin, and arterial tissue in the lab. The significance is that no organism has ever been found with an enzyme ... Read more... View Source

Scientists have measured temperatures beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, offering the first-ever glimpse of the hidden heat driving the most volcanically active world in the solar system.During close flybys of Io in late 2023 and early 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft turned its Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument toward the moon, probing roughly six to 20 feet (two to six meters) be... View Source

Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios has no science background. | Image: Getty / The Verge The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science advis... View Source

A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is able to access users’ encrypted messages and has made false claims about the privacy and security of its chat service... View Source

Clean out that cable junk drawer every so often and keep only the things you actually need... View Source

An image shows the B-1 and B-2 test stands at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on July 7, 2026. The test stand features dual, vertical firing positions built in the 1960s to test Saturn V rocket stages that carried humans to the Moon during the Apollo Program. The B-1 position, right, is equipped for single engine tests, while the B-2 position is designed to test full r... View Source

The Spin 514 has a 16:10 aspect ratio IPS touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh rate — impressive specs for a sub-$600 Chromebook. | Image: The Verge Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who want more memory in their next Chromebook should check out Best Buy, which is discounting Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 for th... View Source

On Wednesday, an a pro-privacy account called “Orwell Day” shared a video on X-formerly-Twitter of a man discovering a Flock license plate reader embedded inside an otherwise innocent roadside speedometer. Operated by the local Sheriff’s department, the device was cleverly hidden to be undetectable to approaching road and pedestrian traffic. “What lurks on the back of it?... View Source

A coalition of technology companies led by Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. called on policymakers to promote the development of open-weight artificial intelligence models, positioning it as key to ensuring the US maintains technological leadership... View Source

There are now multiple sub-2 hour marathons. How has this happened. There are faster speeds from training, new shoes. Shorter races have shoes, clothing and track advancements. Also, multiple athletes are doing it. There used to be only ten runners able to go sub-10 second each year in the 100 meter but in the first ... Read more... View Source

A door handle on a Tesla Model Y at a charging station in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tesla's electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complaints... View Source

Artificial intelligence lab Midjourney Inc. has bought the popular astrology app Co-Star and is building its first standalone image-generation app, the startup’s latest moves to push into new business areas after promising an ambitious expansion last month... View Source

Modern EV batteries aren't just holding up, they're outperforming what was expected... View Source

There has been 3.5 second improvement in the marathon world record in the past 12 years. Recent progression 2:02:57 (2014) 2:01:39 (2018) 2:01:09 (2022) 2:00:35 (2023) 1:59:30 (2026). Improvements have accelerated with technology. Drivers supporting continued progress Super shoes (carbon plates + advanced foams) deliver ~2.6 to 4.2% better running economy, enabling both faster race-day ... Read mo... View Source

Boox's new Tile lineup will take on Xteink's popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone with MagSafe. As spotted by Good E-Reader, the first one is the Picco, which will feature a 3.97-inch front-lit, black-and-white e-paper display and expandable storage with an SD card slot. Boox confirmed to The Verge that the Picco is in the works, noting that it's part of a new... View Source

The Cybertruck is a flop.  For all of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s grandiose claims that the pickup would be an “apocalypse-proof” tank capable of winning its driver style points wherever they go, it’s instead earned a reputation for being incredibly unreliable and just about the opposite of “easy on the eyes” — probably because you can imagine the numerous sharp... View Source

Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. face renewed investor anxiety over their debt-fueled capital expenditure plans after Alphabet Inc. raised the upper end of its spending forecast this year by as much as $15 billion... View Source

Following its Unpacked launch event for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 series, Samsung briefly opened a theme pub in the middle of London... View Source

ESA's Plato spacecraft completes critical testing ahead of its spaceflight. (Image credit: ESA - R. Moorkens O'Reilly)A planet-hunting spacecraft named Plato just passed a series of critical tests as it prepares for the challenges of outer space. What is it?Gleaming in the light of a laboratory, this box of electronics is actually the European Space Agency's Plato spacecraft sitting inside a speci... View Source

It’s a lot of stuff, generally. | Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer will be taking a two-week break and will be moving to Wednesdays starting August 12th. Opt in for Optimizer here. My For You page thin... View Source

While the rest of us were busy rooting against Argentina, suspicious things were afoot on gambling markets related to the World Cup. The Group of Copenhagen, an international sports integrity body, has flagged seven suspicious bets on platforms including Polymarket, which it says could be related to match manipulation. The full report hasn’t been released yet. But sources told The Athletic t... View Source

Batman: Caped Crusader - Chronicles' ties in with season two of Prime Video's animated show... View Source

The Trump administration says more than 200 firms have signed onto its non-binding Ratepayer Protection Pledge... View Source

There is a particular moment every July when the night sky makes perfect sense to me. Every time I step outside at night, I instinctively look overhead for the Summer Triangle. Not because it's the most spectacular sight in the sky. In fact, the vast asterism is almost suspiciously simple: three bright stars, large enough to cut through twilight and light pollution without much effort.Experienced... View Source