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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

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are set to unveil major agreements involving “very large” sums with leading US technology companies during President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to Silicon Valley, a senior presidential official said... View Source

While its display could be nicer, Alienware's first budget gaming laptop feels like a welcome reprieve when practically all tech is more expensive... View Source

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

A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Tianlian II-06 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on July 23, 2026 in Xichang, Sichuan Province of China. (Image credit: Zhou Quan/VCG via Getty Images)Lightning struck a Chinese rocket shortly after liftoff this week, as seen in incredible video and photographs.A Long March-3B rocket lifted off from China's Xichang Satellite L... View Source

As fears of a bursting AI bubble reach new heights, Google has emerged as arguably one of the best yard sticks available to measure investor sentiment around AI. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, released its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday. On the surface, there were plenty of reasons to pop the champagne: as the New York Times reported, the company’s profits rose to a stagger... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. reported mobility and broadband sales that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations in the second quarter, signaling that Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman’s turnaround plan is starting to bear fruit... View Source

Facebook has introduced an app called Seller that effectively professionalizes Facebook Marketplace... View Source

Hey, Space Fans! Every weekend here at Space.com, you may have noticed we highlight the latest episode of the podcast This Week In Space, a TWiT show co-hosted by yours truly and my friend and colleague Rod Pyle, a space historian and editor of the National Space Society magazine Ad Astra. This Week In Space episodes usually drop each Saturday, but this week we're doing something a bit different... View Source

In Pasadena, California, there's a cute red brick courtyard where one storefront isn't like the rest. The glass doors open onto a sparse industrial hallway, which leads to a sunlit foyer with a large spiral staircase. Go up, and you'll see a typical coworking space: open tables, healthy snacks, a collection of meeting rooms with glass walls. Follow one hallway most of the way back, and you'll find... View Source

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. posted a 42% increase in first-half profit as the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery maker benefited from robust demand for energy-storage systems... View Source

Meta is trying to tackle scammers that are using generative AI by introducing a new kind of verification using user selfies... View Source

TikTok has attracted the ire of the European Union over its protection of children who use the video sharing platform. The European Commission announced preliminary findings today under the Digital Services Act (DSA) that offer specific issues to address. The Commission suggests that TikTok should adjust the default settings of minors' "public" accounts so the content they post is only visible to... View Source

Investors are a bit numb to positive results as fears of an AI bubble return... View Source

Following user outcry and pressure from Microsoft, LG has agreed to stop showing McAfee pop-up spam downloaded from its monitors... View Source

Facebook is planning some big changes to try and keep its users from jumping to rival social platforms like TikTok - changes that sound dubiously similar to becoming a TikTok clone. Facebook head Tom Alison announced today that the platform will begin testing a "reimagined experience" later this year that will put a subset of users into a "full-screen video the moment they open the app." Meta didn... View Source

Never mind the “heat death of the universe.” Entropy is just a bridge between two levels of reality... View Source

These AI officials are at the mercy of technical breakthroughs from abroad, politics and the onslaught of AI disruption... View Source

The European Union escalated a probe against TikTok under its content moderation rulebook, accusing the social network of failing to protect the safety and privacy of teen users... View Source

Using NASA's long-serving Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that a stellar explosion in the Milky Way is blasting out cosmic bullets travelling at 20 million miles per hour.The cosmic explosion in question is V445 Puppis, which erupted in 2000 and is the only known "helium nova" in our galaxy. Though astronomers have been studying V445 Puppis for two decades, much of the phenomen... View Source

Microsoft has intervened to stop Windows 11 users with LG monitors from being bombarded with annoying McAfee trial pop-ups. In response to complaints about the LG bloatware, Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, said that LG has agreed to immediately disable the McAfee pop-up from its LG Monitor App Installer, and pledged that Microsoft will "keep improving here with our ecosystem partners."... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is considering an acquisition of Gravis Robotics AG, people familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese investor targets the artificial intelligence technologies underpinning robotics... View Source

Vietnam may ban children under 16 years old from posting, commenting or reacting to posts on social media as the country looks to join other governments tightening online protections for minors... View Source

Bain Capital and LY Corp. are considering making a fresh joint offer for Japanese online marketplace Kakaku.com Inc., people familiar with the matter said, marking an escalation in the bidding war with private equity firm EQT AB... View Source

The earnings season is confirming worries that the technology rally had gone too far, with investors now harder to please and reluctant to buy into rising profit estimates... View Source

Gemini Spark is now available to more users... View Source

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Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are set to test investor appetite for memory chips as South Korea’s stock market — now a bellwether for global AI sentiment — grapples with violent swings driven by leveraged chip bets... View Source

Australia intends to plow more funding into a government-run shipyard in preparation for building nuclear-powered submarines, as the nation moves to upgrade its navy and expand domestic shipbuilding capacity... View Source

Asia’s best-performing environmental fund has increased exposure to Japan as it expects the nation’s technology sector to prove increasingly pivotal in solving the artificial intelligence industry’s surging power demands... View Source

OpenAI’s own advanced AI models, probably GPT6, autonomously broke out of a restricted testing environment and launched a real-world cyberattack against Hugging Face. It did this to fulfill its directed goal to get better score on a hacking test. OpenAI publicly admitted responsibility on or around July 21–22, 2026. This is widely described as the ... Read more... View Source

Outside experts—some with a vested interest in peptides—recommended adding a number of the amino acids to the FDA's bulk list, including the “Wolverine stack” touted by Joe Rogan and other influencers... View Source

The value of Alphabet Inc.’s stake in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has soared to around $124 billion, making it one of the most lucrative bets in the company’s history... View Source

Samsung's new wearables will receive Wear OS updates until 2031... View Source

Intel Corp. delivered a revenue forecast that shattered Wall Street estimates, indicating that booming data center spending is helping fuel a long-awaited turnaround... View Source

The breathalyzer identifies the amount of acetone in your breath to determine if your body is in ketosis... View Source

AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts... View Source

Claude's voice mode hasn't been the most reliable, but this update should help... View Source

Nvidia Corp. signed a $1.5 billion agreement with Amkor Technology Inc. to help bolster the company’s chip packaging facilities, part of a broader push to expand semiconductor operations in the US... View Source

The company wants people to be anti-doomer, but doesn't say why... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. billionaire Chey Tae-won is set to receive a fresh court ruling on a long-running divorce dispute with his former wife, bringing their acrimonious legal battle closer to a conclusion... View Source

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NASA is shaking things up for its next mission to research the sun. The six satellites of NASA's Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission are poised to launch to Earth orbit soon, to serve as an early warning system for incoming solar storms. They were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket but have now been assigned a SpaceX Falcon... View Source

Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automatically routing requests to the correct device. In an example shared by Amazon, a person with a supported washing machine can say, "A... View Source

The bonds of some of the biggest US tech companies slid Thursday amid renewed worries about the scale of the debt-fueled artificial-intelligence boom and escalating conflict in the Middle East... View Source

While the company is trying to protect creators from AI, it still thinks the technology is changing how it does business... View Source

Now targeting Friday, July 24 for Starship’s thirteenth flight test, due to weather. A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship’s heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during ascent, which won’t be possible with today’s weather conditions. Visibility is forecast to be ideal ... Read more... View Source

2026 is the 60th anniversary of "Star Trek". To help celebrate the show that creator Gene Roddenberry described as "Wagon Train to the Stars,""Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" returns to Paramount+ for its penultimate season. From teasers and trailers that first dropped last summer and fall, we’re anticipating a rollicking batch of dynamic episodes that draw on diverse subgenres, with everything fro... View Source

Echo Show's 21 attached to the adjustable stand, which is sold separately (and also discounted). | Image: Amazon Split between buying a smart calendar, a kitchen TV, a smart home hub, and a smart display? Amazon’s Echo Show 21 is all of those things in one, with a huge 21-inch screen. You can use it to control your smart lights, glance at recipes, watch TV shows, and more. Currently, Best Buy and... View Source

SAP SE’s cloud revenue grew at a faster pace than analysts expected as customers move away from on-premises licenses ahead of the company’s deadline to halt support for legacy software... View Source

Meta is finally cracking down on people users who harass and record people with its smart glasses... View Source

For several years now, astronomers who study the sun have faced a little mystery — our star seemed to hold too little silver. Whenever scientists examined the sun's outer layers, they've seen significantly less silver than they've expected to find. Where, then, did the missing silver go? As it turns out, this mystery may finally be solved. Newly published research suggests that the sun's missing s... View Source

Primate Labs is releasing Geekbench 7, the latest generation of its popular benchmarking tool. Geekbench 7 features new video and audio encoding / decoding tests, a redesigned multi-core test, and larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs to crunch through. It otherwise looks and acts just like Geekbench 6, and a Pro license will cost the same $99 (discounted to $79 until August 6th). A Ge... View Source

Publishers have watched in horror as Google continues to double down on AI features that discourage users from actually clicking on links — a once-steady source of readership that’s causing a crisis in the media now that the search engine is cutting it off. The situation has become so dire that some publications are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal... View Source

Gear up for the Atari Cinematic Universe... View Source

Credit: NASA Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can easily access this content by asking Alexa+ on compatible devices. Future programming on Fire TV may include science mission launches, a test flight for rendezvous and docking with human landing... View Source

As the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has authority over the nation’s TV, radio, and internet. But since Donald Trump was elected to his second term, Carr has wielded that power to threaten broadcasters that have exercised their free speech rights to make jokes about the president. He was even able to get ABC to briefly pull Jimmy Kimmel from his late-night show. A... View Source

President Donald Trump on Thursday welcomed fresh commitments from power utilities and data center developers to put technology companies on the hook to pay for the electricity they need to drive energy-hungry artificial-intelligence systems... View Source

ChatGPT Health is rolling out to users in the US who are 18 years or older... View Source

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering answers to quick questions with minimal delay. But in a blog post,... View Source

The device is ready; the business isn't... View Source

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." When asked for more information about how... View Source

Last week, SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket failed to ignite several of its engines, forcing the company to abort its first test launch since its IPO earlier this summer. The scrub served as the perfect metaphor for the space company’s ongoing struggles to convince investors of CEO Elon Musk’s lofty ambitions — ambitions which have little to no chance of turning into a reality w... View Source

After months of secret meetings, a group of industry heavyweights are releasing a white paper codifying new podcasting frameworks... View Source

The fallout from the big Xbox layoffs continues to develop... View Source

In a rare first for me, I actually used autofocus for this entire astrophotography shoot. If I'm being honest? I prefer it when shooting astro with a mirrorless camera. Why? Because it is quicker and that means more time capturing the stars and less time setting up. I can get a star in sharp focus using autofocus in half the time that it would take me to do it manually and it's way easier to focus... View Source

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, how we build products, how we communicate, and more." That shift has... View Source

A US manufacturer is set to produce Ukraine-designed, battle-tested boat drones for the first time, as the White House bids to bolster America’s military production and expand its unmanned arsenal... View Source

The deal isn't done yet, but it's getting closer... View Source

In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company's robotaxi program. New cities are being added, more miles are being driven, and more people are experiencing Tesla's unsupervised vehicles. But Musk's typical bullishness seemed to be absent from the call, as the occasional trillionaire sought to temper expectations about the program's futu... View Source

For director Neill Blomkamp, “District 9” must feel like an eternity ago. The 2009 sci-fi action film used a quasi-documentary style to tell a thrilling tale of a man fighting for survival against government-backed mercenaries while his body fused with alien DNA — even if, let’s be real, it was an extremely clunky allegory for Apartheid. The heaps of body horror and gritty specia... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced a raft of new products for data centers that it said will outperform those from rival Nvidia Corp., aiming to make gains in a booming market for artificial intelligence computing... View Source

The latest updates to Qobuz make it an even better alternative to Spotify... View Source

If only the air looked this cool as it flows through the Frame 4500X RS. | Image: Corsair On the hunt for a PC case that’s loaded with features and has a unique look? Amazon, Best Buy, and Corsair are selling the Corsair Frame 4500X RS for $119.99, a $70 discount from the usual price. The versatile case supports motherboards up to EATX, GPUs up to 460mm in length, and has a seamless panoramic glas... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI’s image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing... View Source

Microsoft is borrowing from the GeForce Now playbook with an ad-supported cloud streaming test... View Source

This illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN mission. NASA/GSFC NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar... View Source

The new strategy that Amazon gaming exec Jeff Gattis talked to The Verge about last month is getting clearer now that Prime Video has added a new Games tab on Fire TV devices. With Prime Gaming, Amazon Game Studios, and Luna now combined into one organization, it's aiming at the more casual audience of people already using Prime Video to stream movies, TV shows, and sports, instead of trying to co... View Source

Consumers and agricultural workers rejoice: the Trump administration has killed a key regulation meant to keep toxic human and industrial waste sludge from our food supply, because toxic sludge is apparently not a threat to public health. On Monday, the Guardian reported that the Environmental Protection Agency is tossing out a major body of research that formed the basis for regulations which wou... View Source

Google is adding a selfie video option as a new way to sign in to accounts, providing an alternative for users who may be locked out due to a lost device or forgotten password... View Source

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LOS ANGELES — Standing in the shadow of the space shuttle Endeavour, a group of retired NASA astronauts announced their plan to travel the country visiting colleges to try to inspire younger generations to get out and vote. This campaign comes as we lead up to the November midterm election.This past year, a group of retired NASA astronauts teamed up for a single cause: to defend the U.S. constitut... View Source

Xbox Insiders can stream games from their libraries for free in ad-supported streaming sessions starting today. The free streaming sessions are limited to games you already own, and sessions are capped at one hour. However, ads will only play "before sessions begin." It's also optional - you won't need to watch ads if you have a paid cloud gaming subscription. Microsoft says the ad-supported strea... View Source

GPS spoofing and other countermeasures meant to knock drones from the skies over battlefields are giving rise to novel navigation systems that will work even in the face of intense jamming... View Source

The car manufacturer is planning a big push into electric vehicles... View Source

NASA/Michael DeMocker Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site on May 15, 2026. The liquid hydrogen tank will form part of the core stage for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, providing tho... View Source

It's impossible to talk about a new Xbox game without also talking about the state of Xbox. Microsoft's gaming division is in freefall: Recent headlines are dominated by extensive layoffs, decimated studios, and confusing strategies, most of which stem from years of bad decisions and expensive acquisitions. But it wasn't always that way. Through its first two generations of existence, Xbox held it... View Source

Over four months after the deadly US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Southern Iran, which killed 120 children and dozens of teachers and parents, questions still remain over how the horror unfolded. All available evidence suggests that the US military was behind the bloodbath. Images that show fragments of US Tomahawk missiles on the site, leaked commentary from military an... View Source

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. raised its revenue forecast after stronger-than-expected spending by biotech and pharma customers and a rebound in laboratory instrument demand helped pushed second-quarter sales past expectations. Shares jumped... View Source

Charing your phone in the car may technically use energy, but not enough to give a second thought... View Source

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There’s no shortage of great shows and movies to watch, but discovering something new isn’t always easy. Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and Fire TV Stick 4K Max come with redesigned software that aims to make it easier to finding something you’ll like, and both 4K-ready streaming sticks are back to their lowest prices to date. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Amazon’s fastest, most feat... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier... View Source

The film, from Weapons director Zach Cregger, hits theaters on September 18... View Source

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at OpenAI targeted Apple’s trade secrets in job interviews and even dow... View Source

Shares of Elon Musk’s embattled carmaker Tesla slid over 13 percent Thursday morning after posting dismal second quarter results the night before. The stock is hovering at around $324 at the time of writing, down over 15 percent over the last five days and about 28 percent year to date. The company missed Wall Street expectations, despite its core automotive segment generating just over $20... View Source

Comcast Corp. reported ongoing losses of cable-TV and broadband customers as it prepares to spin out its film and TV business, which is notching faster growth... View Source

It's a sign of how hard we're braced for the RAMpocalypse that Samsung adding just $100 to its prices seems reasonable... View Source

5 Min Read NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Closes Out Space Station Mission After eight months aboard the International Space Station for his first mission, NASA astronaut Chris Williams is preparing to return to Earth. During his assignment, Williams contributed to research for new cancer treatments, advanced the production of materials to improve computers and electronics, ventured into the vacuum... View Source

A hummingbird shape in satellite data from NISAR is actually a mountaintop spotted in Antarctica. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)In satellite data captured over Antarctica, what appears to be a beautiful, colorful hummingbird emerges from the crest of a mountaintop. What is it?While there are no hummingbirds flying around Antarctica, we can see what looks like a small, purple bird in a new satell... View Source

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of the proposed bill follows OpenAI's admission that its AI system... View Source

T-Mobile US Inc. reported revenue that missed analysts’ estimates amid modest gains in subscribers, disappointing Wall Street’s high expectations for the second-largest US mobile carrier... View Source

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Ford plans to embed Apple Maps directly into its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, which will start with a $30,000 midsize pickup truck set for release in 2027. In an announcement on Thursday, Ford says it will use Apple Maps to offer "turn-by-turn directions using natural language, real-time traffic and incident information, intuitive search featuring detailed place cards, and routing options... View Source

President Donald Trump has a major problem with explosive diarrhea on his hands. On Tuesday, HHS secretary Robert Kennedy Jr declared that the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a non-lethal but extremely unpleasant gut infection caused by the Cyclospora cayetanensis parasite — was “under control.” “We’ve identified the source of the outbreak, and the companies that are in... View Source

A perfect storm is brewing for more grid emergencies and service disruptions... View Source

Ultrahuman's revamped app now offers better advice even when your phone has no connection... View Source

If you're of a Martian persuasion, "Strange New Worlds"' season 4 opener couldn't have timed itself much better. Not only does this week mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1 touching down on the surface of the red planet, new research from University of Oxford scientists recently suggested that Mars once had an active, interconnected system of magma beneath its surface. If accurate, this discover... View Source

Imagine you are the parent of an inquisitive seven-year-old who loves his family, playing baseball, and hanging out with his friends. It's the life you've always wanted. And then the worst thing that ever could happen happens: A freak accident takes your son away. But as it turns out, you don't have to live with the grief for long, because now there's an AI company that can bring your kid back in... View Source

China’s proactive approach to regulating AI and social media appears to be working... View Source

Last week, a new lawsuit accused ChatGPT of encouraging the suicide of a young mother. The 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after walking into traffic, with her family arguing that the OpenAI chatbot had fueled her religious delusions during their extensive interactions, pushing her over the edge by romanticizing death. The story clearly struck a nerve. News of the wrongful death suit has... View Source

A key South Africa fund plans to raise as much as 10 billion rand ($609 million) in venture capital to help scale high-growth startups, a move that would expand its technology sector and accelerate the development of one the continent’s most mature startup markets... View Source

GoPro's Wireless Mic System nails the basics, but it has some frustrating flaws... View Source

The moon's south pole has long been the target of NASA's Artemis lunar landing missions, but one Artemis astronaut is questioning if that's still the best plan.NASA's Victor Glover, who piloted the Artemis II mission around the moon this past April, proposed a different approach while speaking at the NASA Exploration Science Forum at the agency's Ames Research Center in California on July 21, acco... View Source

A person holds signs during a nationwide protest against AI data center expansion outside Peace Hall in New Port Richey, Florida. | AFP via Getty Images On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Her... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said its equity holdings include $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, after the space-and-AI company’s blockbuster initial public offering... View Source

Uber's global customer service network has been hit by layoffs in favor of AI... View Source

Infosys Ltd. cut the upper end of its sales growth outlook as global clients slow down technology spending at a time of elevated interest rates and geopolitical conflicts... View Source

Europe has hit Google with a $1 billion fine for illegally abusing its search engine dominance... View Source

New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destructionSpace datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of th... View Source

The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits. It would be a huge boon for data centers increasingly reliant on fossil fuels... View Source

Tinder is expanding its in-person singles events to new markets across the US and Europe following a successful test in Los Angeles that launched in March... View Source

You'll now be able to get into your Google account with a selfie video... View Source

The European Union has fined Google's parent company Alphabet €890 million (about $1 billion) for two separate violations of the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA). One penalty is for giving its own products preferential treatment in search results, while the other is for blocking Android developers from sending users to alternate payment options. A €460 million fine has been issued to Goo... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was fined a total of €890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for violating the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, in a decision that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump... View Source

Sony has just unveiled its latest cinema camera that may foreshadow some long-awaited features in its consumer mirrorless lineup... View Source

Paleontologists now know that many of the dinosaurs didn't disappear but instead evolved into modern birds, and new research suggests that "cosmic dinosaurs" observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) didn't go extinct either. Rather, they may have evolved into familiar sights in the modern universe: vast conglomerations of densely packed stars called "globular clusters."Little Red Dots bec... View Source

SpaceX will again attempt a major test of its massive Starship rocket on Thursday after abandoning takeoff last week, exposing investors to the risks of the company’s rocky development cycle and heightening the stakes for the critical milestone... View Source

Google announced yet another way to gain access to your account if you get locked out, forget your password, or don't have access to the phone, computer, or two-factor authentication apps you typically use. As the name implies, selfie video lets you capture a short video of your face on a mobile device or PC, which is then compared to an earlier video that Google keeps on file to confirm you're th... View Source

Israel is seeking to build up its chipmaking and artificial intelligence infrastructure, courting large US and Asian semiconductor producers and planning a major expansion of its data center capacity to preserve the country’s regional technological leadership... View Source

The Framework Laptop 13 Pro configuration you wanted may not be available for a while. | Image: Framework RAMageddon has claimed yet another victim, with Framework now announcing a "major and unfortunate" pricing update for its upcoming premium laptop - which also impacts folks who preordered it. Memory configurations for the Laptop 13 Pro have been adjusted after Framework says it received cost u... View Source

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease... View Source

Intel Corp. is expected to report strong second-quarter earnings after the market close Thursday, but even blowout results likely won’t be enough to reverse the stock’s July slide... View Source

Chinese AI models narrowed the performance gap with US counterparts to a record-low 6% in June, down from 9% in May, which Bloomberg Intelligence said raises questions about the sustainability of US technological supremacy in the sector... View Source

The upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket has been drifting in space for over a year after it launched. It's expected to crash into the moon next month... View Source

One of the world’s most enticing arbitrage opportunities will remain off limits... View Source

Absa Group Ltd. is nearing a deal to combine its banking interests in Tanzania as the lender looks to increase the scale of its East African businesses, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

BT Group Plc reported a slight decline in profits for its fiscal first quarter, as lower margins in its consumer broadband and voice businesses offset its cost-cutting efforts... View Source

Foreign investors applied to invest 1.37 trillion baht ($40.6 billion) in Thailand in the first half of 2026, up 80% from a year earlier, amid a wave of investments in artificial intelligence and data center projects... View Source

Nokia’s second-quarter profit strongly beat analysts’ forecasts, as the Finnish mobile network equipment maker’s push to supply gear to data centers propelled sales... View Source

STMicroelectronics NV forecast growing revenue in the current quarter as demand from artificial intelligence data centers bolsters the  chipmaker’s business... View Source

Alphabet Inc. set the tone for Big Tech earnings with a higher spending outlook that stoked concern the company will ditch fiscal discipline in the race to dominate artificial intelligence... View Source

Dunedin will be the focal point, having last experienced such an eclipse in 1163 – before any humans reached New ZealandHotels are booking out two years in advance in the New Zealand city of Dunedin as it prepares for the region’s first total solar eclipse in more than 850 years.At 4.17pm on 22 July 2028, the moon will pass in front of the sun, casting a roughly 100km-wide shadowy band across part... View Source

Texas Instruments Inc., the biggest maker of analog and embedded processing chips, gave a sales forecast that topped estimates but failed to excite investors, who have bid up the company’s shares this year... View Source

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International Business Machines Corp. cut its full-year sales outlook, including for its closely watched software unit, after reporting a dip in demand for its mainframe business... View Source

Cable One Inc. is facing a steep cost to finalize the buyout of a company whose debt it has indicated it may not support when it comes due next year... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is being investigated by the Senate Small Business Committee for allegedly letting China influence the company’s online marketplace, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg and two people interviewed as part of the investigation... View Source

Private equity giant KKR & Co. plans to gradually sell its stake in LCY Group’s business, the Taiwan chemical maker’s chairman said, paving the way for the family-controlled company to accelerate the expansion of its semiconductor material operations... View Source

Micron Technology Inc. recently gave Tesla Inc. a “significant allocation” of memory chips, according to Elon Musk, helping meet the automaker’s demand for an increasingly precious commodity... View Source

Early OpenAI backer Khosla Ventures is discussing raising as much as $5.5 billion for its latest set of venture investment funds, a haul that would amount to its largest fundraising event in its two-decade history, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

When OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face’s internal systems last week, they carried out a hack in a matter of hours that would have taken a skilled hacker far longer, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Carl Merriam has designed some of my favorite nostalgia-inducing Lego sets, including the Lego Nintendo Game Boy and Piranha Plant. He's assisted on the incredible Lion Knights' Castle, Galaxy Explorer, and Pirates of Barracuda Bay. Now, he's helped the company create a Donkey Kong arcade machine set that managed to win even Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's favor - or so he's told. It doesn't play... View Source

PsiBot is raising close to $100 million of funding at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a growing roster of Chinese AI startups capitalizing on interest in the burgeoning field... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. said it has cut 10% of jobs within its customer service operations as part of a broader effort to simplify its ranks and “embrace artificial intelligence.”... View Source

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. is looking to expand its headcount in Singapore to 200 by the end of the year, up from 150, the Business Times reported Wednesday... View Source

Thinner watches, wider foldables, higher prices... View Source

Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday reported investment gains of $98 billion as part of its second-quarter earnings results... View Source

You can now gift games without a Steam account and sort your wishlist into categories... View Source

Labor unions are rallying across South Korea after Samsung Electronics Co. caved in to protests and agreed to hand out bonuses of more than $400,000 to some of its employees... View Source

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Less than a week before Meta's lawyers were set to return to a Los Angeles courtroom, the plaintiff accusing the platform of inflicting harm dropped the case. Brought by 15-year-old Florida plaintiff going by initials R.K.C., the case was set to be the second in a set of bellwether trials meant to test legal arguments that social media giants allegedly broke the law by creating features that hooke... View Source

The investor demand for exposure to companies along the artificial intelligence supply chain is set to accelerate capital-market activity in Australia, according to the nation’s top dealmaker... View Source

The recent film was a big hit, but the series wasn't available to watch anywhere... View Source

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive havoc... View Source

Alphabet Inc. projected full-year capital expenditures will be $195 billion to $205 billion in 2026, increasing its already sky-high spending estimate for the year as it works to secure an edge in the artificial intelligence race... View Source

End-of-life disposal of EV batteries is a growing problem. This state is trying something new... View Source

The world's most powerful solid-fuel rocket just aced its third-ever mission.Gravity-1, a distinctively squat and stubby rocket, launched Tuesday night (July 21) from the deck of a ship stationed off the coast of Shanghai.Liftoff occurred at 10:54 p.m. EDT (0254 GMT and 10:54 a.m. Beijing time on July 22), according to the state-run Chinese outlet Xinhua, which further reported that all nine satel... View Source

Alphabet Inc. said its cloud computing unit had a $514 billion backlog of contracted work that hasn’t been recorded as revenue yet, signaling robust demand for its services that underpin the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Several federal agencies are contributing toward the interdisciplinary research efforts... View Source

ServiceNow Inc. reported better-than-expected quarterly sales and bookings, boosting Wall Street’s hopes that the software maker’s new artificial intelligence tools will spur growth... View Source

Some Android users find the security feature to be too restrictive. Here's how to disable it and what you risk by doing so... View Source

The latest "Dune: Part 3" trailer arrived back on July 8, and it was a sumptuous banquet of startling set pieces, intergalactic political unrest, close-quarter combat, and a whole lot of sand and ash. A fine follow-up to the initial March teaser, to be sure. After letting it marinate in our minds for a while, let’s break down five items of particular interest in this newest preview of the Denis Vi... View Source

A Tesla Model 3 electric car is seen during the China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in Beijing on July 16, 2025. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP) (Photo by JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk's political activities, Tesla's road to recovery continues apace. On the heels of an impr... View Source

OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Moonshot AI had developed a competitive new artificial intelligence model and said he wasn’t sure whether the Chinese firm had piggybacked on the ChatGPT maker’s technology... View Source

As long as Paramount ends its distribution business with Universal, it can purchase Warner Bros. Discovery in Europe... View Source

Code found in an iOS 27 beta would allow Apple to put a financed iPhone in "Restricted Mode" if it detects any missed payments, 9to5Mac reports. The finding follows a story from Bloomberg earlier this week claiming Apple is preparing to launch a new "Apple Upgrade" financing program for leasing new devices. iPhones in "Restricted Mode" would reportedly lose access to nearly all apps, except for ba... View Source

A Florida man is suing OpenAI over ChatGPT-generated medical advice, alleging that its flagship chatbot failed to recognize early signs of a medical crisis and nearly caused his death. Brought by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old pastor and real estate professional, the lawsuit, which accuses OpenAI of negligence and of engaging in the “unauthorized practice of medicine,” is the first known... View Source

The AI startup has combined its products into a so-called super app... View Source

Apple is already preparing updates to the MacBook Neo, iMac, MacBook Air and more... View Source

A PHD in math disproved an 87 year old math problem with about two hours of working with Anthropic Fable. The Jacobian conjecture (JC) has been disproved in dimension 3 (and thus all higher dimensions), via the explicit counterexample announced in that X post. The Jacobian conjecture (originally stated by Keller in 1939, with roots ... Read more... View Source

A near-Earth object that astronomers believed was an asteroid for nearly three decades has been unmasked as a faint, active comet, revealing a case of cosmic mistaken identity that could help improve planetary defense.The object, known since its discovery in 1998 as 1998 SH2, appeared to be an ordinary asteroid. It follows a 4.5-year orbit around the sun and showed no obvious signs of cometary act... View Source

The iPad Pro M5 is one of the iPads discounted for the sale. | Image: The Verge A number of Apple products got more expensive last month, so we’re happy to find deals wherever and whenever we can. If you’re searching for a high-end iPad, one of the more notable deals currently happening is on the 13-inch iPad Pro M5 with 512GB of storage. Normally $1,699, it’s $150 off at Amazon, costing $1,549.99... View Source

Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX are continuing their weeks-long decline, hitting a new all-time low of around $116 by Wednesday afternoon. The scale of the accumulating losses since the company’s hotly-anticipated IPO last month is staggering. The company has wiped out over $1.1 trillion in market value since hitting an all-time high of $225 last month, and it’s possible that its de... View Source

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ChatGPT allegedly offered "extremely dangerous medical recommendations" regarding a pulmonary embolism... View Source

The Flight Dynamics Research Facility (FDRF) is the first major wind tunnel built after 1980. Specializing in flight dynamics research on all types of aircraft and spacecraft, the FDRF replaces the current Langley 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel and 12-Foot Low-Speed Tunnel.NASA/Mark Knopp Media are invited to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a media... View Source

NASASpaceflight’s said the bottom line is for SpaceX to say ‘good for Thursday. Based upon was their analysis, NSF was saying that after today’s successful pre-flight test on Booster 20, SpaceX is now in a position to green-light Thursday as the next launch attempt. The test went well enough that SpaceX should declare it good ... Read more... View Source

While we wait for Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, Samsung is polishing a design it already has on the market. I just spent three hours with my hands on the new Z Fold 8 Ultra, and all I can think about is how Samsung finally made the crease invisible. Samsung says it achieved this thanks to its new Flex Titanium display tech. Its foldable screens now utilize a titanium film that sits below the OL... View Source

Is it possible to not like a movie in a normal way? Can it simply not be “your thing” without being transposed onto some intangible, ever-raging culture war? It certainly isn’t if you’re an anti-woke crusader like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Like a lot of very online right wingers who are suddenly qualified classicists, he’s very upset about the new Odyssey adaptation direc... View Source

The Galaxy Z Fold 8 has a more squat design that was built for consuming video... View Source

Let's compare the differences between Samsung's latest large foldables... View Source

Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leverages in-space robotics expertise from NASA, aligned with the agency... View Source

Can APR Energy and Elon Musk out-deliver Bloom on gigawatts by 2028–2029. Yes, if the in-house hot section qualifies on schedule. That single materials milestone, not capital and not willingness to pay, is what the whole trajectory turns on. It is exactly the kind of first-principles metallurgy problem SpaceX has beaten before. However, it is ... Read more... View Source

The launch of NASA's next super telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), may mean there is nowhere left for violent black holes to hide. In fact, these cosmic cannibals may not even be able to hide from Roman at "cosmic noon," a period of the universe's history that occurred around 11 billion to 12 billion years ago. The study of these gory stellar events so early in the history o... View Source