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Vnet Group Inc. has secured a record order to supply TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. with about 500 megawatts of capacity from its data centers in China, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

This isn’t a Galaxy Note 7 debacle. Oukitel's WP63 is a ruggedized smartphone that’s meant to set things alight. It has a built-in electric igniter, aimed at emergency response and camping, helping to start fires when you forgot matches, but you brought this beastly phone along for the adventure. It’s got several other notable features, like a 20,000mAH battery, a loudspeaker, and even its ow... View Source

S&P Global Inc. lowered its outlook for SoftBank Group Corp. to negative from stable, saying plans for an additional $30 billion investment in OpenAI may hurt the Japanese company’s liquidity and the credit quality of its assets... View Source

‘Live Search’ can describe what your cameras see, not just what they’ve seen. | Image: Google Google Home chief Anish Kattukaran announced several updates to the smart home platform that fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies. There's also one noteworthy new addition: the introduction of "Live Search" for your cameras. So, instead of Gemini only knowing about things that have already hap... View Source

BNY CEO Robin Vince sat down with Romaine Bostick to discuss the bank's AI-forward transformation, cyber security, and client services. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses the ongoing fighting in the Middle East following the US and Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend. Plus, Representative Sam Liccardo, a Democrat from California, shares his thoughts on the need for a national AI policy. And, fallout from the feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic over deployment of the AI company’s tech continues. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Technology developer Syzygy Plasmonics made a series of preliminary deals aimed at building out production of low-emission jet fuel across the Americas... View Source

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to produce technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Broadcom Inc. Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan saw his compensation package jump to $205.3 million last year, mostly from stock awards, as his company increasingly becomes a star of the artificial intelligence industry... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, purchased a $170 million mansion on Miami’s “billionaire bunker,” a private island in Biscayne Bay, according to two people familiar with the matter... View Source

The current analysis is that Tesla is still making a much cheaper model Y and model 3. Projected pricing for E41 (cheaper Model Y) and D50 (cheaper Model 3) assumes the reported 20% production-cost reduction vs. current refreshed/base models, with Tesla maintaining the same gross-margin percentage. Is dry-electrode 4680 (higher density) achieve these costs, or ... Read more... View Source

Flink SE raised funds in a round that values the firm at $900 million, in a sign that the grocery delivery startup has stabilized after a plunge in its valuation from a pandemic-era peak... View Source

Iran is extremely unlikely to produce functional nuclear bombs in the current environment—and certainly not quickly. The disruptions from Israeli and U.S. operations (including the ongoing strikes), combined with long-standing Mossad targeting of personnel. Advanced Israeli intelligence capabilities like hacked surveillance, have degraded or eliminated the secure, large-scale infrastructure and ex... View Source

Florida’s public university system, one of the nation’s largest, froze hiring via H-1B visas, emulating a move by Texas to restrict a program that’s become a focal point for President Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown... View Source

Applied Digital Corp. is seeking to raise $2.15 billion in a junk bond sale, the latest in a wave of debt financing tied to the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

OpenAI’s Sam Altman said the company will amend its deal with the Defense Department (or the Department of War) to explicitly prohibit the use of its AI system on mass surveillance against Americans. Altman has published an internal memo previously sent to employees on X, telling them that the company will tweak the agreement to add language to make that point especially clear. Specifically, it sa... View Source

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

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit warned of prolonged disruptions to its services after revealing that drone strikes damaged three of its data centers in the Middle East in recent days... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are SOFI’s Liz Thomas, Veriten’s Arjun Murti, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Retired Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, BNY’s Robin Vince, Cathinka Wahlstrom, & Carolyn Weinberg, Yardeni Research’s Ed... View Source

Singapore is on a quest to uplift its workforce by equipping lawyers, accountants and even prisoners with artificial intelligence skills... View Source

Household-help app Pronto raised funding at a $100 million valuation, underscoring rising demand for services such as cooking and cleaning from India’s rapidly expanding middle class... View Source

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said that the company’s rush to forge a deal with the Defense Department — following a clash between the Pentagon and rival Anthropic PBC — looked “opportunistic and sloppy.”... View Source

Congressional Democrats are vowing to contest the Trump administration’s unprecedented actions against the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC, which include a prohibition on all use in the federal government and by Pentagon contractors... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is testing a shopping research feature in its artificial intelligence chatbot, rivaling a similar tool offered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini... View Source

Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to acquire third-party logistics provider WWEX Group Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, as part of a plan to create a shipping technology business worth as much as $12 billion... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence chatbot Claude will be able to recall context across conversations for free users, as the company seeks to hang on to new consumers who have created “unprecedented demand” the past few days... View Source

BNY Chief Commercial Officer Cathinka Wahlstrom sits down with Romaine Bostick to discuss "AI everywhere," blockchain technology, tokenization, and client interest in digital assets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Starlink mobile has 10 million monthly active customers for direct to cellphone 4G capability. This is with 650 V2 mini satellites. They support text, voice, basic data and basic video calls. SpaceX will launch V3 satellites that are three times bigger and 100 times the capacity. This will enable 5G capability at 150 mbps in ... Read more... View Source

Eclipse will feature a deep, coppery-red full moon on 3 March. From Sydney to New York, use our guide to find out when the eclipse will be visible and the best time to see it tonight.North America, Australia and New Zealand will be treated to a rare total lunar eclipse on Tuesday known as a “blood moon”.As the full moon dips into the planet’s shadow tonight it will change colour to a “deep and cop... View Source

BNY Chief Product and Innovation Officer Carolyn Weinberg sat down with Romaine Bostick to discuss blockchain, client demands, and the growth of digital assets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

When Block laid off nearly half its staff last week, co-founder Jack Dorsey offered a seemingly simple explanation: artificial intelligence was allowing the company to do more with fewer employees. The announcement, though, landed at the center of a complex debate over AI and the future of work: on one side, genuine fear that the technology will displace jobs at an unprecedented pace; on the other... View Source

Israel (via Unit 8200/Mossad cyber ops) spent years hacking into Tehran’s public traffic cameras and related feeds specifically to track the daily movements and bodyguards of Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This intel directly fed into recent assassination/strike planning. They found the useful traffic cameras and used those to track Khamenei, IRGC and ... Read more... View Source

BNY Chief Commercial Officer Cathinka Wahlstrom and Global Head of Product & Innovation Carolyn Weinberg sat down with Romaine Bostick to discuss AI's role in client onboarding, traditional & digital finance, and the potential of blockchain and digital assets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic is bringing another paid feature to Claude's free tier. The next time you chat with Claude, you'll have the option to have it reference your previous conversation to inform its outputs. Anthropic first made its chatbot capable of remembering past interactions last August, before giving it the ability to compartmentalize memories in the fall. Making memory a free feature is well... View Source

The AirPods 4 are the best entry-level AirPods yet. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s a good day for Apple fans on a budget. Not only did the company introduce a new budget phone, its entry-level AirPods 4 are also on sale. Right now, you can snag a pair of Apple’s AirPods 4 starting at just $89 ($30 off) at Walmart. The model with active noise-cancellation are also down to their second best... View Source

US tech giants like Open AI, Microsoft and Google are pouring billions of dollars into developing AI in India. But can the world’s most populous nation create its own sovereign AI champion? (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Australia's government may take a strict stance on ensuring younger users cannot access AI chatbots. Reuters reports that Australian regulators may require app storefronts to block AI services that do not implement age verification for restricting mature content by March 9. "eSafety will use the full range of our powers where there is non-compliance," a representative for the c... View Source

Anthropic is making it easier to switch to its Claude AI from other chatbots with an update that brings Claude's memory feature to users on the free plan, along with a new prompt and dedicated tool for importing data from other chatbots. These upgrades could allow users who have been using rivals like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini to quickly copy the data their preferred AI has collected on... View Source

US officials are considering caps on the number of AI accelerators Nvidia Corp. can export to any one Chinese company, which would further constrain the chipmaker’s reentry into a crucial market... View Source

Cursor’s annual recurring revenue topped $2 billion in February, according to a person familiar with the matter, a figure that underscores the fast growth of the artificial intelligence coding assistant... View Source

Call of Duty is getting a new battle royale mode later this month. The popular first-person shooter will introduce Black Ops Royale as a free game mode on March 13. Black Ops Royale pays homage to Blackout, the series' first foray into a battle royale game mode back in CoD: Black Ops 4. Matches will have 100 players dropping in as four-person teams. The mode takes place on the massive Av... View Source

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network A total lunar eclipse glows red, Venus and Saturn get close, and we ring in the vernal equinox A total lunar eclipse blood moon takes centre stage, Venus and Saturn cozy up for a conjunction, and we celebrate the vernal equinox.  Skywatching Highlights March 3:... View Source

Hermeus successfully flew its latest Quarterhorse aircraft, marking the company’s second first flight in less than a year. The flight kicks off a test campaign that will see the unmanned aircraft reach supersonic speeds. Roughly the size of an F-16 and powered by a Pratt & Whitney F100 engine (Pratt & Whitney is an RTX ... Read more... View Source

Using gravitational waves as a measure of the universe's rate of expansion could solve the biggest headache in physics, the so-called "Hubble tension."... View Source

Sharing content to Mastodon is getting easier with the addition of a universal "Share to Mastodon" button for the decentralized social media platform. Announced on Monday, the widget allows users to share content on any Mastodon server by connecting your Mastodon account and redirecting you to the server that account is on. The blog post announcing the feature also explains that the tool "works en... View Source

Unlike its predecessor, the iPhone 17E supports MagSafe. | Image: Apple The iPhone 17 lineup now has a “budget” option. Announced this week, the iPhone 17E will hit stores on Wednesday, March 11th, starting at $599, with preorders opening on March 4th. The 6.1-inch phone joins the rest of Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup, which includes the iPhone 17 ($799), the more powerful iPhone 17 Pro ($1,099), and t... View Source

Iranians are finding ways to circumvent a fresh internet blackout imposed by their government and are sharing footage of US and Israeli airstrikes with the world... View Source

Apple has promised a “big week” for the company, which includes an in-person event for press and creators on March 4. But it didn’t exactly wait until Wednesday to get things started. The news started on Monday with the announcements of the iPhone 17e and M4-powered iPad Air.We’ll be updating this roundup throughout the week as we learn exactly what Apple has in store for everyone (though we have... View Source

Apple has asked Google to look into "setting up servers" for a new version of Siri that's Gemini-powered and meets Apple's privacy requirements, The Information reports. Apple had already announced in January that Google's Gemini AI models would help power the upgraded version of Siri it delayed last year, but The Information's report indicates Apple might lean even more on Google so it can catch... View Source

Iran’s feared hacking groups have failed to play a meaningful role as the US and Israel wage a new war, a silence cybersecurity analysts say underscores how far the Islamic Republic’s online attack and disinformation capabilities have withered... View Source

The Analogue Pocket handheld retro console has proven to be extremely popular, as initial runs have sold out. The company just announced the system will be back in stock this week, along with the dock accessory. Preorders open up on March 4 at 11AM ET, with shipments going out this June. Analogue Pocket & Analogue Dock - restock.A tribute to portable gaming. Out of the box, Pocket is compatibl... View Source

Pre-war baseline (Feb 2026 estimates from Central Bank, IMF, and tanker data) Iran Government budget is $106 billion annual ($8–9 billion/month total revenue needed). Oil share was 25–40% (or ~1/3 overall) → ~$1.7–2.5 billion/month net oil income (after heavy discounts to China). Non-oil exports are ~$4.5 billion/month (petrochemicals ~25–30%, pistachios/saffron/ag ~small slice, natural gas/metals... View Source

Mobile World Congress 2026 opened its doors today in Barcelona, Spain, but some of the biggest announcements from the mobile-focused show were already made over the weekend. To make sure you don't miss the best new smartphones, laptops, concepts, and accessories, we're rounding up all the most newsworthy gadgets that have debuted so far at MWC 2026. And if you want to stay on top of all the news,... View Source

Starlink is getting ready to launch its second generation of satellites, and it's expected to match the speeds of a traditional terrestrial network. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress, Starlink execs detailed the roadmap for the company's upgrade towards the next generation of satellites called V2. "The goal of Starlink Mobile ... is to provide a terrestrial-like connectivity... View Source

3 min read Collaborating Through Data: Inside the PSI Users Group About the PSI Users Group The Physical Sciences Informatics (PSI) Users Group is a recurring Webex forum that brings together researchers, open-science practitioners, and collaborators from across the physical sciences community. Designed to foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and data-driven discovery, each meeting provides pa... View Source

US Treasury (under Bessent) claims direct visibility into wire transfers landing in global banks. Pre-strike Central Bank of Iran data (reported February 18–20, 2026) showed a record ~$15 billion capital outflow in a recent period, more than offsetting an $11 billion trade surplus — accelerating as oil revenues fell and uncertainty rose. One earlier report ... Read more... View Source

"The blood moon rises once again! Please be careful, Link."... View Source

Apple’s Magic Keyboard cases offer a fantastic typing experience, elevating the iPad to laptop status with a large trackpad that offers haptic feedback, and an articulating hinge to help you angle the display just right for your comfort. It’s typically a very pricey accessory, but Woot has new / open-box models selling at great discounts for the 11-inch and 13-inch sizing options. The 11-inch Magi... View Source

X is rolling out a built-in “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to sponsored posts, replacing the hashtag workarounds they’ve had to rely on until now. The feature, announced by the platform’s head of product Nikita Bier, adds a toggle that places a disclosure label directly below a post’s content. It can also be applied retroactively. The label is meant to help creators comply with y... View Source

A similar AI shopping feature on TikTok. | The Verge In late February, Puck reported on a strange case: An influencer with more than a million followers was inadvertently promoting products on Instagram. On some of Julia Berolzheimer's posts, a "Shop the look" button hovered in the corner. When followers clicked it, they were fed similar items to what Berolzheimer was wearing. Her job is to promot... View Source

Amazon cloud services have been disrupted after an object hit a data center in the UAE, raising fresh concerns about the vulnerability of critical digital infrastructure as tensions with Iran ramp up. Vlad Rikhter, the co-founder and CEO of Fencer, a cyber security platform, joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the vulnerability of US infrastructure and new AI challenges in US cyber securi... View Source

The iPad Air, the middle child in Apple’s tablet lineup, has been upgraded to the M4 chip with increased RAM and… Well, there’s not a whole lot else if I’m being honest. At the very least, the new iPad Air M4 models remain at the same price as the iPad Air M3, with the 11-inch version starting at $599 and the 13-inch at $799. I would give Apple more credit if it had increased the starting storage... View Source

Cloud cover outlook for the total lunar eclipse — where the blood moon will be visible... View Source

Finnish startup Donut Lab is out to prove that its solid-state battery is all that it claims to be. Last week, the test was about fast charging. This week is where things get hot. Like the first test, this one was also conducted by state-owned VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The team set out to determine how well Donut Lab's cells held up under extreme heat, which has been known to adver... View Source

SAP SE Chief Executive Officer Christian Klein announced a plan to shake up its executive board to focus on artificial intelligence as Europe’s most valuable software company faces increasing pressure from the technology... View Source

Paramount Skydance plans to combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into a single streaming service following the completion of its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. CEO David Ellison confirmed the plan on an investor call Monday, saying the combined platform would serve over 200 million subscribers and position the company to compete with the biggest players in the streaming space. “We think the combine... View Source

The new HTV‑X1 cargo spacecraft from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), carrying science, supplies, and hardware for NASA and its international partners, is pictured on Oct. 29, 2025, after its capture by the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.Credit: NASA After delivering about 12,000 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, hardware, and other cargo to the Internat... View Source

200 mobile launchers destroyed in Iran. This is roughly 50% of Iran’s operational launcher fleet at the start of the current campaign. Iran missile stockpile was 3000, inventory estimate 1500-2500 (500 fired). Esfahan North Missile Base (near Najafabad, Esfahan Province) — at least one launcher + missile storage facility destroyed. Iran increasingly relies on cheaper ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida lofted 54 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday, March 1, 2026... View Source

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over whether AI-generated art can obtain a copyright, as reported earlier by Reuters. The Monday decision comes after Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist from Missouri, appealed a court's decision to uphold a ruling that found AI-generated art can't be copyrighted. In 2019, the US Copyright Office rejected Thaler's request to copyright an image, ca... View Source

Futures tumbling and oil surging to the most in four years as the war with Iran escalates. Anna Rosenberg of the Amundi Investment Institute says the odds of a regime change are medium to high. Amy Wu Silverman of RBC Capital Markets discusses the market reaction to the Iran war. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As AI-generated artwork becomes more commonplace, it still won't be able to be copyrighted, according to US courts. On Monday, the US Supreme Court declined to hear a case about whether an artwork generated with the help of AI can be copyrighted. The refusal means that a lower court's decision to reject the copyright request will stand. The case dates back to 2018 when Stephen Thaler app... View Source

NASA Sunlight beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. This is an example of sunglint, an optical phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects off the surface of water at the same angle that a satellite sensor views it. The result is a mirror-like specular reflection of sunlight off the... View Source

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine together after sunset in early March, with Mercury at its best of 2026... View Source

Analogue announced a restock for its Pocket handheld, but for the second time since late 2021, it's getting a price bump, this time to $239.99. The Pocket will once again be available for preorder through Analogue's website in black or white (the brightly colored versions are always limited editions that sell out fast) starting on March 4th at 8AM PT/11AM ET with shipping expected to start in June... View Source

Apple Inc. unveiled the iPhone 17e, the latest version of its lower-end smartphone, and a faster version of the iPad Air, kicking off a wave of new products... View Source

Nintendo has scheduled an Indie World Showcase livestream for tomorrow, March 3, at 9AM ET. The company says this event will include "roughly 15 minutes of news and updates on indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch." That's not a whole lot of time, but indie trailers tend to be on the shorter side. We really don't know anything about what Nintendo and its p... View Source

Nvidia announced on Monday that it's investing $2 billion each into Lumentum and Coherent, which are both developing photonics technology for data centers, like optical transceivers, circuit switches, and lasers, which are used to move data at high speeds over long distances. Their tech could improve energy efficiency, data transfer speeds, and bandwidth in future AI data centers, after Nvidia alr... View Source

Generative AI is set to transform the way credit traders do their jobs, as the technology is well suited to handling the unstructured data produced by the asset class, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global head of credit trading... View Source

Apple’s most affordable iPhone just got an upgrade, but how does the new iPhone 17e compare to the iPhone 16e? Well, thankfully the price remains the same at $599, which is good news in our current economic climate. An immediate difference you might notice is that one of them now comes in a third color: pink. That’s at least one win for me because I am all for putting more color into tech.There ar... View Source

Now that Paramount Skydance has become the frontrunner to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO David Ellison wants the two studios' streaming services to become one. During a call with investors on Monday, Paramount Skydance head David Ellison insisted that, if his deal to acquire the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery for about $110 billion receives the necessary regulatory approvals, he plans to merg... View Source

The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills... View Source

Sanjay Jhamna, JPMorgan Chase's global head of credit trading, says generative AI is already impacting private credit during an interview with Lisa Abramowicz at the bank's annual leveraged-finance conference in Miami. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic has made switching to its Claude AI chatbot easier than ever. The company announced a new memory import tool that can extract all of a competing AI chatbot's memories and context of you into a text prompt that can be fed into Claude. With Anthropic's prompt, you can then copy and paste the output into Claude's memories, and the AI chatbot will pick up where you left off wi... View Source

The real secret of SpaceX is an operating system built around Time Over Money. It is the governing law with extreme loop compression (making every development cycle radically faster). In aerospace cost = people × time compressing time by 10× automatically makes things 10–1000× cheaper. Musk’s team ruthlessly deletes bureaucracy, sets impossible deadlines as forcing ... Read more... View Source

Just days after showing off the Galaxy S26, Samsung is finally rolling out the ability for users to unlock their home with a tap of their phone or by simply approaching their door. The new feature, called Digital Home Key, will live inside Samsung Wallet and is powered by the Aliro smart home standard. Samsung first teased its Digital Home Key feature in 2024 and said the feature would be availabl... View Source

Elon Musk’s brief effort to back out of buying Twitter Inc. in 2022 is the focus of a trial starting this week over claims the world’s richest person manipulated the company’s stock price to get himself a better deal... View Source

Apple has just announced the addition of the iPhone 17e to its smartphone lineup. This model is kitted with the same A19 chip that powers the base iPhone 17, and it will support the Apple Intelligence suite of AI tools. As the rumors suggested, the iPhone 17e will indeed be priced at $599, same as last year’s iPhone 16e. The base model will come with 256GB of storage, and also be available in a ne... View Source

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Iran’s regular surface navy is being systematically sunk and the Iran Navy headquarters was crippled, but the mini-subs and small mine-laying vessels—the ones actually capable of rapidly closing the Strait of Hormuz—remain the primary active threat and have not been neutralized in public reporting. ⚠️ 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 ⚠️ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 | U.S HAS SUNK THE IRIS ... Read more... View Source

The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman. Zillow is one of those apps that really exemplifies what you might call the smartphone era of software: the company built a great mobile app for looking at real estate listings, and it turned into not just entertainment for so many of us, but what has become a vertically integrated platform for buying, selling, and renting real estate. Verge subs... View Source

Fidelity Investments, the world’s third-largest asset manager, reported a record year, with assets in its funds rising by more than $1 trillion and revenue jumping 15% since 2024... View Source

Samsung's newest feature turns your phone into your house keys. The company has created the Digital Home Key, a feature inside of the Samsung Wallet that should let you unlock any compatible smart door with your phone. The Samsung Wallet already offered digital car keys.  "As we continue to evolve Samsung Wallet, delivering trusted mobile experiences remains at the core of our innov... View Source

Apple has taken the wraps off the iPhone 17E, its latest entry-level smartphone. The iPhone 17E starts at $599 with a higher 256GB of storage, and is available in black, white, and pink. The company revealed the new device as part of a series of announcements that kicked off this week. Similar to the iPhone 16E, the iPhone 17E comes with a 6.1-inch display, but with a tougher Ceramic Shield 2 for... View Source

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Apple is kicking off multiple days of product announcements this morning with a new iPad Air. Unsurprisingly, it’s more or less like the iPad Air Apple announced one year ago, except it now has an M4 chip instead of last year’s M3.Apple is also including its in-house networking chips, the N1 and C1X, which will cover Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity. This means the iPad Air supports the Wi-Fi 7 sta... View Source

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes, turning planetary data into audio you can hear... View Source

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that his own company had successfully negotiated new terms with the Pentagon. The US government had just moved to blacklist Anthropic for standing firm on two red lines for military use: no mass surveillance of Americans and no lethal autonomous weapons (or AI systems... View Source

A former NASA administrator says he is "encouraged" that the US Congress is considering legislation to prevent NASA from spending more than 50 percent of its launch funding on any single provider. "America succeeds in space when American companies compete, innovate, and grow," former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on LinkedIn. "I’m encouraged to see Congress taking meaningful steps to st... View Source

Oracle Corp.’s health records division has lost multiple senior leaders in recent months while the company works to modernize its software in the face of steep customer loses... View Source

Nvidia Corp. agreed to invest $4 billion in two companies that develop data center optics that are essential for artificial intelligence systems... View Source

There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or "overgrown planets."... View Source

Nintendo has a history of fleshing out the larger Pokémon world through spinoffs. What games from the Pokémon Snap and Detective Pikachu series lacked in terms of action, they made up for in the way they made pokémon feel like creatures with rich lives outside of their relationships with trainers. And as the mainline series has evolved over the years, games like Legends: Z-A h... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot Claude experienced service disruptions on Monday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to monitoring website Downdetector... View Source

On its own, at 4.9mm thin, Tecno's modular phone concept barely feels like a smartphone. It has a screen, a basic camera module, four low-profile pogo-pin connectors and that's about it. From there, you can seemingly build your conceptual phone however you want. At its booth at MWC 2026, Tecno had two families of modular components in two different colorways, which is surprising at this... View Source

Biggest providers likely to adapt AI to improve customers’ businesses... View Source

Another major antitrust lawsuit has launched in the UK. This time its against Sony, which could be on the hook for almost £2 billion ($2.7 billion) for overcharging PlayStation users.  A class action case for about 12.2 million users argues that Sony "occupies a dominant position in relation to the digital distribution of PlayStation games and in-game content and that it has been unfairl... View Source

Tonight's blood moon will be the last until New Year's Eve 2028-2029. So catch it if you can!... View Source

It’s like 5G, but one more. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It brings me no pleasure to say this, but friends: The next G cometh. The standard formally known as 6G is still being established, but it's going to be a major topic of discussion at Mobile World Congress 2026, which gets started today in Barcelona. 5G arrived back in 2019, but also, did it, entirely? You may have notice... View Source

MiniMax Group Inc. reported a better-than-expected 159% surge in revenue in 2025, reflecting the torrid growth that’s drawn investors to China’s leading OpenAI rivals... View Source

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At the mobile industry’s biggest annual gathering this week, telecom companies are trying to show that new partnerships and artificial intelligence-driven innovation can overcome supply chains strained by surging demand and geopolitics... View Source

Vivo barely has a presence outside of China but that seems to be changing with the company's next flagship phone. At Mobile World Conference 2026, the company unveiled the X300 Ultra smartphone that comes with a 200MP sensor along with two accessories designed for pro photographers and content creators: a SmallRig video cage and 400mm Zeiss telephoto extender lens. Vivo didn't go into de... View Source

The Xbox Series X and Series S are built for fast load times, smooth performance and expansive game libraries, but the right accessories can make a noticeable difference in how you play day to day. From storage solutions that help you manage growing installs to headsets that make it easier to catch subtle audio cues, the best Xbox accessories are about removing friction and improving comfort as mu... View Source

Motorola has unveiled the Edge 70 Fusion, its latest mid-range model with an impressive display and OIS-enabled camera with a Sony sensor. Though other specs are modest, the cameras, display and Pantone-inspired, fabric-like colors make it a good choice for fashion-forward and budget conscious buyers in Europe and other (non-US) territories.  The Edge 70 Fusion is a more modestly specced vers... View Source

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The average person can enter a stock trade on their computer, hit refresh, and the trade is done. As fast as that seems, there are professional traders moving even faster, executing thousands of trades per second. Over the years, the need for speed got so intense that competing firms would aim to get their own systems closer and closer to the exchange’s computers, so as to minimize the length of t... View Source

TCL has been making smartphones and tablets at an impressive clip for years. While most companies have focused on foldable display tech — and TCL has dabbled — the focus has been on its NXTPAPER screens. Aimed at being friendlier on the eyes, and pitched as a device somewhere between e-ink slates and traditional tablets, NXTPAPER has gradually been upgraded and refined, reaching an apex at CES 202... View Source

The Neon supposedly includes actual neon lighting in the rear. | Image: Tecno After teasing a magnetic, modular smartphone concept the other day, Tecno has followed that up with another two phone designs centered around color-changing finishes: one with E Ink, and the other incorporating neon. I'm the most taken with the Pova Neon, which the company says includes genuine neon lighting, not just br... View Source

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite chips are reserved for the best Android phones and laptops, and now the company has introduced the first in the Elite series for wearables. The Snapdragon Wear Elite processor is designed for smartwatches and AI devices like pendants and promises up to a fivefold increase in single-thread CPU performance, Qualcomm announced.  The new processor is built on a 3n... View Source

Look closely and you might spot a phone in there somewhere. | Image: Vivo Vivo rarely has a presence at MWC, but this year it bucked that trend in a big way, with the reveal of its next flagship phone, the X300 Ultra, alongside an upgraded telephoto extender lens and professional camera cage. The company isn't ready to launch the handset just yet - or even reveal very many of its specs - but has c... View Source

Major e-commerce platforms are warning of longer delivery times to the Middle East after the US-led bombing campaign against Iran disrupted key air and sea routes, threatening supplies to one of the industry’s fastest-growing markets... View Source

AI wearables, all the way down. | Image: Qualcomm Like it or not, more AI wearables may be on the horizon - or at least Qualcomm seems to think so. Today the company announced its new Snapdragon Wear Elite chip. At a press briefing, Qualcomm said it considers the Elite to be a "wrist plus" chip. Meaning, it won't replace the previous W5 Plus, but exist alongside it. The company said it expects the... View Source

MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest network operator, said full-year earnings are expected to more than quadruple after its Nigerian and Ghanaian operations delivered “robust” results... View Source

Look west after sunset this week to see the pair converge in the dusk, closing in on a near-conjunction on 8 MarchLook west as the evening twilight gathers this week for a chance to spot the planets Venus and Saturn. The accompanying chart shows the view looking west from London at 18.10 GMT on 2 March.Venus will be the brighter of the pair, dominating the sky at magnitude –4. Saturn will be faint... View Source

After briefly announcing its new foldable at CES, Motorola is now ready to debut its first book-style foldable in full at MWC 2026. There are several features we already knew, including support for Motorola’s new Pen Ultra stylus and no fewer than five cameras. However, many specs were still unknown. There are some pleasant surprises. Motorola decided to make both screens brighter than any of its... View Source

It’s all starting to unfold. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Motorola has revealed a little more about its upcoming folding phone, and all signs point toward a premium option - not the budget-friendlier alternative the category could use. For starters, the Razr Fold will cost €1,999 (about $2,350) bundled with the Moto Pen Ultra. It'll go on sale first in Europe, with North America to fo... View Source

Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. sold more vehicles than BYD Co. for a second consecutive month, piling pressure on the latter to beef up its lineup and reignite waning demand for electric vehicles... View Source

Amazon Web Services Inc. suffered a disruption to its services after unidentified objects struck one of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates, causing a fire... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares fell the most in almost a month, hurt by fears that rerouted shipments in the wake of US-Israeli strikes on Iran may drive up logistics costs for Europe-bound Switch 2 consoles... View Source

Eclipse will feature a deep, coppery-red full moon on 3 March, with scientists predicting the best times to see itFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNorth America, Australia and New Zealand will be treated to a rare total lunar eclipse on Tuesday known as a “blood moon”.As the full moon dips into the planet’s shadow it w... View Source

Australian artificial-intelligence startup Firmus Technologies Pty. has signed a new agreement with a global technology firm for a new data center in Melbourne, as the company prepares for an expected public listing later this year... View Source

Lenovo already has a large roster of gaming handhelds. However, it seems there's always room for another because at MWC the company showed off an ambitious concept device based around a flexible OLED display. And while the whole setup looks ungainly, after getting my hands on it, I'm very intrigued by its adaptability. Now I'll be the first to admit that an 11.6-inch display fe... View Source

The potential of modular laptops has never fully translated to the real world. While companies like Framework have made major strides in recent years, there's still quite a bit of room for improvement. At MWC, Lenovo is looking to address that with its Modular AI PC concept. It features not one but two displays and a detachable keyboard to create something that strains the definition of a lap... View Source

The AI Workmate Concept can move and rotate to accomplish various tasks, but can it ever truly know love? | Image: Lenovo Alongside a handful of new laptop concepts (and a range of real products too), Lenovo used MWC to announce a pair of AI-based productivity companion concepts. Both are standalone desk devices designed to boost productivity while providing office workers with a bit of artificial... View Source

Lenovo’s buzziest gaming-related MWC announcement is undoubtedly its foldable Legion Go handheld-cum-laptop hybrid, which you can read all about here. But that wasn’t all the company showed off. We’re also getting an updated Legion Tab, Lenovo’s powerful gaming tablet.Like the Gen 4 and 3 models before it, the latest Legion Tab features an 8.8-inch LCD display with an 165Hz refresh rate. The 3K pa... View Source

The magnetic pen case is pulling wedge duty in there. Lenovo has a few new Yoga laptops it's announcing at MWC 2026: the 14-inch Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, 15-inch Yoga Pro 7a, and 14-inch Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition. The most interesting of the pack is that 9i 2-in-1, outfitted with a 2880 x 1800, 120Hz OLED touchscreen. It includes a Yoga Pen Gen 2 stylus with a case that attaches to the laptop'... View Source

Lenovo has given the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition a refresh for 2026 and launched the new device at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The convertible laptop comes with a new Canvas Mode when the Yoga Pen Gen 2 case it’s bundled with is attached to the A-cover. When you lay the device down on a flat surface with the case attached, you’ll get a slight elevation on the display, which may make it easi... View Source

We’ve been waiting five years for this follow-up to the X12 Detachable. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo is announcing five new ThinkPads and a new ThinkBook laptop for MWC 2026. There are various new chip offerings and updates for this swathe of ThinkPads, but the device I find the most interesting is the X13 Detachable. We haven't seen a major update to Lenovo's tablet-style ThinkPad in years, when it was... View Source

Lenovo is updating its business-focused laptop lineup at MWC 2026. The best-selling ThinkPad T-series is getting a full refresh, and there's an updated ThinkBook 2-in-1 and an all-new Android tablet.The ThinkPad T-Series, the backbone of Lenovo's business PC lineup, now (optionally) ships with a 5MP camera that supports computer vision and vHDR. The 2026 versions of the laptops have larg... View Source

Lenovo goes a little Franken-laptop. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge One of Lenovo's big laptop concepts for MWC 2026 is a modular ThinkBook with two screens. Officially called the ThinkBook Modular AI PC Concept, the proof-of-concept is a 14-inch productivity machine with two plug-and-play interchangeable ports and a second 14-inch display magnetically attached to the rear of its lid... View Source

Lenovo Group Ltd. revealed several new proof-of-concept prototypes, including a “modular” laptop with two displays and detachable ports, along with a portable gaming device featuring a folding display... View Source

Lenovo can make a robot, too. Alongside proof-of-concept foldable gaming PCs and modular laptops, it introduced the AI Workmate Concept at MWC 2026. With its own Intel Core Ultra processor, 64GB of memory and its own Pico projector, it’s an AI-laced “workmate” meant to streamline office tasks and collaboration. And it has an LCD face. For now, it’s a proof of concept, musing on how to integrate vo... View Source

I love a tall boy. Lenovo put a foldable display on a gaming handheld. The Legion Go Fold Concept is a Windows-based handheld with a flexible POLED display, detachable Joy-Con-like controllers, and a folio case to turn the whole thing into a mini laptop. You can use it as a standard Steam Deck-esque handheld with the display folded down to 7.7 inches and controllers attached at its sides, or you c... View Source

China’s efforts to fuel tech sector growth through an onshore bond program targeting innovation have produced an unexpected beneficiary: Asia’s largest dairy producer... View Source

A product briefly posted on the Canadian Best Buy website this weekend suggests Sonos may soon announce a new portable speaker called the Sonos Play. The speaker offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, AirPlay 2 support, Trueplay to tune the sound based on wherever you've placed it and voice controls, according to a page that's since been removed. Best Buy Canada had it listed for $399.99 CAD (or... View Source

Why is this outdoor kitchen? | Image: Sonos An unannounced Sonos speaker called Play has been spotted on the Canadian Best Buy site. The Sonos Play looks like a slightly shrunk-down version of the Move 2 with a loop on the back for toting it around. While nothing is confirmed yet, it's listed at CAD $399.99 with a release date of March 31st, 2026. In addition to Wi-Fi for multi-room Sonos setups w... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket stage. The upheaval comes as NASA has struggled to fuel the massive Space Launch System rocket for the upcoming Artemis II lunar mission, and Isaacman has sought to revitalize an agency that has moved at a glacial... View Source

Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government, but it's gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard. At the top, Claude beat out both ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which respectively sit at the second and third spots on Apple's free apps charts. The sudden surge in user downloads isn't random. It follows... View Source

In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said his company would pay out positions on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?" at the last trading price before his death. Mansour said that Kalshi doesn't "list markets directly tied to death" and that its rules are designed to "prevent people from profiting from death." In addition, Kalshi is refunding fees related to the market and reimbursing an... View Source

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket will return to flight today (March 1) after a 10-month-long grounding, and you can watch the action live... View Source

In a lengthy post on Truth Social on February 27, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology" following strong disagreements between the Department of Defense and the AI company. A few hours later, the US conducted a major air attack on Iran with the help of Anthropic's AI tools, according to a report from The Wall Stree... View Source

When Block Inc. laid off nearly half its staff this week, co-founder Jack Dorsey offered a seemingly simple explanation: artificial intelligence was allowing the company to do more with fewer employees... View Source

Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C... View Source

Lego's new Smart Brick is a pretty big deal. It packs a miniature computer, a microphone, and NFC tech into a classic 2×4 Lego brick, which can power all sorts of new experiences with select sets. It has so much promise that we awarded it "best in show" at CES 2026, and now, eight Star Wars-themed sets that support the Smart Brick (and include it, in some cases) are now available. Three of t... View Source

Leon Kennedy, one of the game’s protagonists. Resident Evil turns 30 this year. The series is full of history - the new Resident Evil Requiem is technically the ninth mainline game, but there are a bunch of spinoffs, remakes, movies, and even a TV show - which can make it fun to follow for fans. But it's also intimidating for people like me who haven't played everything. The latest release, Reside... View Source

With Big Tech no longer leading stocks higher, traders are eyeing newly listed contracts to trade short-term opportunities in some of the biggest names... View Source

Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system's eight planets... View Source

We finally have an update to the Soundcore Space One that launched two and a half years ago. At MWC 2026, Soundcore has announced the Space 2, which will be available in the US on April 21st in three colors - linen white, jet black, and seafoam green - for $129.99. That's $30 more than the Space One's original price. According to Soundcore, the Space 2 have had a full-band noise cancellation upgra... View Source

Honor Device Co. demonstrated a humanoid robot and its so-called robot phone at MWC Barcelona 2026 on Sunday, as the Chinese device maker seeks to reinvent itself as an artificial intelligence-driven hardware company... View Source

While Honor has already made plenty of product announcements, with tablets, foldables, and more, its most interesting device at MWC 2026 is the Robot Phone — and maybe the humanoid robot that came alongside it.   After briefly showing off a model at CES, Honor isn't quite ready to launch its Robot Phone. However, we got more specs, tech demos and a closer look following the company... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the contemporary attention economy, follow Mia Sato. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started "KING BASEBALL, monarch of the American sport world, is sick," a New York Times story on the disappearance of amateur and small town... View Source

Oil and cryptocurrencies could see increased trading volatility after the death of Iran’s supreme leader. 'Bloomberg This Weekend' hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini speak with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I saw the camera arm unfold from this demo phone, though it didn’t do much else. Honor has revealed more details of its so-called Robot Phone at MWC 2026, and finally showed a working unit in action alongside a dancing humanoid robot. Specs are still thin on the ground, but the company has confirmed it plans to release the phone in the second half of this year - though I've been told that will onl... View Source

Goldman Sachs’s former CEO Lloyd Blankfein sits down with David Gura, host of The Big Take Podcast and Bloomberg This Weekend, to talk about the risks of private credit, what he learned running the bank during the global financial crisis, and how he thinks companies – and executives – should and shouldn’t engage with politics. Subscribe to the Big Take podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or iHeart... View Source

Apple’s satellite features are designed for situations where cellular and Wi-Fi coverage are unavailable. In supported regions, compatible iPhone 14 or later models can connect directly to a satellite to send messages, access Emergency SOS and share location data. Location sharing via satellite is particularly useful when traveling in remote areas, hiking or driving through regions with limited ne... View Source

A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red for billions across North America, Australia and East Asia... View Source

There's never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own increasingly intricate webs of sousveillance. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are sleek, unobtrusive wearables with front-facing cameras and a... View Source

Apple’s upcoming touch-screen MacBook Pro will show the company is still far from combining the Mac and iPad. Also: Apple is preparing its retail stores for significant interest in this coming week’s new products, and it’s readying a new artificial intelligence framework for developers... View Source

Honor launched the Magic V5 in August 2025 and yet its successor is being announced just seven months later. Speak to Honor’s representatives, and you can imply that it’s racing to push the envelope against both its real competition (Samsung) and its anticipated one (Apple). With so little time between launches, you’ll be unsurprised to learn that little has changed. The only other real reason thi... View Source

As AI invades everyday life, we’ve gone back and revisited the best video games with memorable AI characters, evil or otherwise... View Source

The Magic V6 is just slightly more water-resistant than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. For the third year running, Honor has announced what it says is the world's thinnest book-style folding phone. For the second year, it's combined that with the biggest battery in any foldable too. This year, for its third and final trick, the company went ahead and made sure it was the first foldable with an IP69 rating... View Source

BYD Co. reported a 41% drop in vehicle sales for February from a year earlier, after a record-long Lunar New Year holiday brought production and retail activity in China to a near standstill for much of the month... View Source

It'll be the last blood moon until New Year's Eve 2028... View Source

Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, is throwing its weight behind an effort to make sure the forthcoming 6G phone networks provide a strong platform for services and devices that take advantage of artificial intelligence... View Source

A Tokyo Electric Power Co. unit told renewable-energy producers to curtail output for five hours on Sunday, with electricity supply projected to surpass demand... View Source

Grok says the 1400+ nextbigfuture citations in grokipedia and Brian Wang’s evidence based quantitative forecast are trend synthesis that few can rival. A personal track record of success in deep-tech startups and multiple fundraising wins adds practical, real-world validation to the predictions and roadmaps detailed on the site, bridging theoretical futurism with executable outcomes. For ... View Source

South Korea’s exports accelerated in February, reinforcing the central bank’s view that solid semiconductor demand is helping cushion the economy as it maintains a neutral policy stance while monitoring financial stability risks... View Source

China kicks off its most important annual political meeting next week, with investors seeking clarity on how Beijing intends to press ahead with its tech ambitions while reviving a fragile consumer economy... View Source

Who would've guessed we'd get to play the original Banjo-Kazooie on a handheld with just a D-pad in 2026. HyperMegaTech!'s latest release is a collaboration with Rare Ltd., the legendary game developer known for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise and, more recently, Sea of Thieves, called the Super Pocket Rare Edition. The vertical handheld features 14 classics from the British developer,... View Source

It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it's actually happened and people have died, the prediction betting market is feeling some pressure. The site has been at the center of controversy before, including suspicions of insider trading on the Super Bowl h... View Source

That’s coming on a little strong, maybe. | Image: Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about asteroids, supernovas, and feasting black holes. And that number is o... View Source

Alaska's House of Representatives unanimously passed HB47, a bill that imposes sweeping limits on when and how minors use social media apps, along with bans on generating or distributing harmful deepfakes of children. The bill's original form was focused on prohibiting the possession and distribution of sexually explicit images of children using AI, but Alaska lawmakers decided to add am... View Source

The Binkov’s Battlegrounds video (uploaded before the attack started) provides one of the clearest, equipment-focused baselines for the current escalation. Details the largest US combat aircraft/tanker/AWACS concentration around Iran since 2003. Two carrier air wings (over 100 tactical aircraft, F-35 heavy on Abraham Lincoln south of Iran + Ford en route), 100+ US fighters at ... Read more... View Source

Bloodborne fans may not be happy to hear that a remake was reportedly rejected, but that doesn't mean it's completely off the table. Bluepoint Games, Sony's closed-down studio behind many PlayStation remakes, pitched remaking the classic Gothic horror RPG in early 2025, but was blocked by the game's developer, FromSoftware, according to a Bloomberg report. As Bloomberg reported... View Source

MWC 2026 officially gets underway on March 2 and will continue through March 5, but the announcements are already coming ahead of its start. We can always count on the annual tech event to bring tons of new phones, laptops and tablets, and we're expecting to see some robots and other gadgets too — plus plenty of AI news, of course. In addition to the announcements, MWC is our chance to get ha... View Source

There is the wrong assumption of the accuracy of crowd robotaxi counts BUT only 139 out of 200 Waymos counted in Austin with same methods. At least 30% undercounted. Harder to find robotaxi (Waymo-Tesla) in the SF Bay Area. 67 Waymos counted in SF Bay Area out of 1000 Waymo claimed. I believe the main ... Read more... View Source

Welcome to the weekend, friends! While the rest of our team was checking out Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S26 lineup and prepping for Apple’s “special experience” next week, we’ve been sifting through Woot’s “Video Games for All” sale and a truly weird slate of deals that, frankly, don’t have a throughline. (Some of us have also spent the last week unpacking what Huel is, but that’s neither here n... View Source

IBM losing 13% because Anthropic did some initial COBOL analysis is absurd. It was also an absurd part of the $1 trillion stock losses from the boogeyman story about AI job losses. 1. IBM only makes a tiny fraction from the COBOL business 2. BS the banks etc… will change the cobol running the ATMs ... Read more... View Source

The Xiaomi Tag is a bit larger than Apple’s second-gen AirTags. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has announced its first Bluetooth tracker, and while the Xiaomi Tag has a more elongated design than the Apple AirTag, that lets you use it in more places right out of the box. On one end of the tracker you'll find an integrated metal loop that can be attached to a keyring or clipped to a carabiner without the n... View Source

The Leitzphone has just launched internationally alongside a regular version of the 17 Ultra. Xiaomi and Leica's long-running phone partnership just got a little closer. Alongside the new international release of its 17 Ultra flagship, Xiaomi has been entrusted with manufacturing a separate version that is the first Leica Leitzphone to release outside of Japan, following three Sharp-made models ex... View Source

China’s biggest phone makers continue to relentlessly forge ahead with high-spec phones that you may never see in the US. With the Xiaomi 17 Ultra this year, the company has continued its pattern from previous iterations by focusing on powerful camera sensors, huge batteries and… being selective about global availability. Xiaomi’s 17 series is launching across multiple European territories months... View Source

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials... View Source

The Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra are launching together, but there’s no sign of the Pro. Xiaomi has just given a global launch to two of its latest flagship phones, the Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra, along with a Leica-branded Leitzphone edition of the Ultra. There's no sign, however, of the 17 Pro, which launched in China with an additional display mounted next to the rear cameras. The 17 and 17 Ultra will ap... View Source

Crypto traders flocked to decentralized exchange Hyperliquid over the weekend as the escalating conflict between the US, Israel and Iran rattled global sentiment and sent some investors seeking round-the-clock hedges... View Source

On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when robots may perform better —and more safely —than humans in space... View Source

I never knew how easy it was to die in an orgy. But that's just one of the many threats facing Geralt of Rivia in his latest adventure. The studio behind the Reigns series of Tinder-like choose-your-own-adventure games has now adapted The Witcher, following a handful of original titles and a take on Game of Thrones. And for Francois Alliot, creative director at Reigns studio Nerial, the series' st... View Source