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Sony, the only major music label that has yet to sign a deal with Udio, has sued the AI music generator again... View Source

For the first time, astronomers have reconstructed the magnetic field of an entire cluster of galaxies, from its central nucleus to its outer limits. The record-breaking achievement is the product of the deepest-ever observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2255, located around a billion light-years away — and those observations are thanks to the European radio telescope LOFAR (Low Frequency Array... View Source

A consortium including BlackRock Inc.’s Global Infrastructure Partners and Abu Dhabi’s MGX plans to invest $5 billion to boost growth at Aligned Data Centers as it completes its purchase of the company, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

How does AI make you feel? Are you excited to “vibe-code” your smart home? Or anxious about all the added pollution and billions of gallons of water used by data centers? Dig a little deeper and you’ll start to question the actual value of the GPUs that underpin all the leaps and promises of generative AI.   Right now, GPUs, hundreds of thousands of them, are being crammed into data cent... View Source

A federal judge has approved the $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors who sued the company for using their work to train Claude... View Source

AI-generated sexual content is rapidly remaking young people’s lives as they confront sex and dating — and the effects are as sweeping as they are poorly understood. That’s according to a new survey from the nonprofit Common Sense Media, in which researchers dug into how youth are interacting with these new technologies. What they found suggests that the proliferation of this kind of c... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has held discussions with clients about price increases of as much as 10% in 2027 to cover the rising cost of manufacturing materials, the Nikkei reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

BlackRock Inc., Hillhouse Investment and Temasek Holdings Pte are set to be among cornerstone investors in the potential $8 billion listing by Zhongji Innolight Co. in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Several companies suspected of selling DJI products under their own brands might soon be banned in the US... View Source

Daily trading volume in the South Korean won has picked up since 24-hour trading began two weeks ago, a trend driven by foreigners offloading local chipmakers’ shares... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines… 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 Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kid... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. has hired one of South Korea’s leading robotics executives from Hyundai Motor Group to oversee a new robotics division, escalating competition in a sector emerging as the next battleground among global technology companies... View Source

Paytm reported a 79% rise in net profit, reflecting cost cuts as well as growth across its payments and financial services businesses... View Source

Jijia Vision is in discussions to hold an initial public offering on Hong Kong’s stock exchange as soon as this year, joining a flurry of Chinese AI firms planning public market debuts... View Source

NEXTDC Ltd. shares advanced after the Brisbane-based data-center operator said it had won new customer contracts, bolstering its contracted utilization by 11% in the three months to June... View Source

SpaceX Starlink V5 satellite terminal directly integrated into the Cybercab’s roof structure (alongside the GPS antenna, 5G LTE antenna, FSD computer, and various cameras). This is a clean, factory-integrated design rather than the external Starlink Mini dishes spotted on earlier prototypes/testing vehicles (often mounted on the trunk lid). Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab pic.twitter.c... View Source

The world-renowned athletic tracks installed for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the resurfacing was spearheaded by Mondo S.p.A.. They installed their state-of-the-art Mondotrack EI (Ellipse Impulse) at the Stade de France. If the world record mile run had the same conditions but had the most up to date track surface then the world ... Read more... View Source

South Korea’s exports extended robust growth in early July as artificial intelligence-driven demand for semiconductors continued to fuel the economy... View Source

New British premier Andy Burnham has named Kanishka Narayan as minister for artificial intelligence, promoting the role to attend the prime minister’s cabinet for the first time... View Source

Amazon's Adaptive Display accessibility feature for Fire TVs is officially rolling out today... View Source

The Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: AirPhotography Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC's getting ready to wield that power for the first time, by cracking down on the "DJI front companies" suspected of sneaking the Chinese company'... View Source

On Thursday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX was forced to call off the latest launch attempt of its enormous Starship spacecraft. According to the almost-trillionaire, several engines failed to start, unintentionally serving as the perfect metaphor for the company’s persistent Wall Street woes. While a scrub of a rocket launch isn’t exactly anything out of the ordinary, it was the first atte... View Source

The cost of protecting Oracle Corp.’s debt against default reached a fresh multi-year high on Monday while its existing bonds sold off, as doubts grew over whether the company’s massive investments in artificial intelligence will pay off... View Source

SpaceX will post financial and operational results for the second quarter of 2026 after market close on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. SpaceX management will host a live audio-only webcast to discuss the results at 3:30 p.m. CT / 4:30 p.m. ET the same day. We will post our Q2 2026 financial and operational results on ... Read more... View Source

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this list represents "only a small portion of Plaintiffs' works that Udio infr... View Source

The sharp selloff in momentum stocks may be nearing its end, creating an opportunity for investors to start rebuilding positions in artificial intelligence and semiconductor shares, according to UBS’ trading desk... View Source

It's a step toward making alternative energy accessible on a smaller, renter-friendly scale... View Source

SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back a few more days.Elon Musk's company is now targeting Thursday (July 23) for Flight 13 of Starship, the giant, fully reusable vehicle it's developing to help get people to the moon and Mars, among other spaceflight tasks.If all goes to plan, the 408-foot-tall (124.4 meters) Starship will lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South... View Source

After seeing Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey for the first time early last week, I came away impressed, but somewhat conflicted about two of the film's more fantastical set pieces. While those scenes were beautifully crafted and tremendously acted, there was something a little bit off about the way they hit my eye. I spent days wondering what, exactly, wasn't quite working for me during that first... View Source

Most of the nation may want nothing to do with Taylor Farms and its shredded iceberg lettuce, which was recalled in dozens of states for potentially being contaminated with a parasite that turns your bowels into a garden hose. Not so for the Amazon-owned Whole Foods, which is either hoping to capitalize on the controversy or proceeding as if nothing happened.  Over the weekend, we noticed tha... View Source

For Larry Fink, BlackRock Inc.’s more than $12 billion debt sale for a Meta Platforms Inc. data center is the result of years spent transforming a public investments giant into a heavy hitter in private markets too... View Source

Samsung's credit card gives you up to five percent back when you buy its products... View Source

One thing is for certain: there will absolutely be no shortage of superheroes in Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Doomsday", as evidenced by this first full trailer that showcases everyone from the Wakandans and the X-Men to the Fantastic Four and Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers. Plus, we get slivers of a metal-masked Victor Von Doom looming over the mayhem to further whet the appetites of MCU ac... View Source

AUUUUUGH | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX - a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced - is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does it suddenly threaten the stability... View Source

The ornament requires three 1.5-volt coin batteries, which are included in the box. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the col... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partner... View Source

Separated by billions of miles and shaped by very different environments, Saturn's smoggy moon Titan and the dwarf planet Pluto have, on paper, little in common.Titan is a geologically active world cloaked in an atmosphere denser than Earth's, its landscape shaped by seas of liquid methane and vast dunes built from organic particles that rain out of its skies. Pluto, by contrast, is a frigid outpo... View Source

Borderlands 3 is among the 15 games in the 2K Megahits 2026 Bundle. | 2K Games The aptly-named “2K Megahits 2026 Bundle” from Humble includes 15 Steam games for $15. It’s a smattering of the publisher 2K’s biggest games of the 2010s, including BioShock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands 3, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The bundle will be available until August 7th, though the bundle page notes that... View Source

Snap Inc. said it has reached a tentative agreement to settle the second case set for trial over claims that the world’s largest social media platforms are addictive to minors, leaving only Meta Platforms Inc. to face a jury starting next week in Los Angeles... View Source

A judge has paused the Paramount / Warner Bros. deal to review a multi-state lawsuit... View Source

Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us 6 Min Read New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights   Satellite imagery captured... View Source

The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem from spectators traveling to host cities... View Source

Do you need to be in your car to set up your digital car key?... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A modified Saab 340B aircraft in flight powered in part by a hybrid electric system built by GE Aerospace, along with NASA, BETA Technologies, and Boeing.GE Aerospace An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an i... View Source

The end of the Ford F-150 Lightning was also the start of a new era for the automaker. After failing to capture the market with the electric version of its popular F-Series truck, Ford is going back to the drawing board with its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. The first offering will be a $30,000 electric truck, engineered for efficiency and also — perhaps most importantly — profitability. Th... View Source

A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes... View Source

In a stunning reversal on Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration said that lettuce samples from Taylor Farms did not, after all, test positive for the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, which is behind the rising outbreak of explosive diarrhea sweeping the nation. Health officials have been racing to control the intestinal infection, which fortunately is not deadly, but can cause week... View Source

Netflix has teamed up with a company called SignUp Media to offer ASL interpretations on a bunch of kids shows and movies... View Source

Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle the fantasy that AI is poised to become an almost magical money-maker. Case in point, OpenAI wants you to believe that by 2030, it’ll be raking in $100 billion a year just from ads alone — even though it’s currently struggling to reach just $1 billion. That massive gulf was observ... View Source

Adobe's Project Indigo app will have new features like removing distractions and offering immediate photo feedback... View Source

Half a century after first putting hardware down on Mars, NASA is looking to explore the Red Planet's skies.On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 lander touched down in the western reaches of Chryse Planitia (the "Golden Plain"), a large circular landform that lies 22.5 degrees north of the Martian equator.It was the first-ever Mars landing for NASA. Viking 1, along with its twin Viking 2, went on to con... View Source

A judge partially granted the request from a dozen state attorneys general to temporarily place the $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on hold, as reported by Variety and Reuters. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said that based on the new company's market share, "the Court is persuaded that it can presume the proposed merger is likely to violate ant... View Source

Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto the scene. The open-weight model impressed with early benchmark results, trading blows with some of the most advanced closed-weight ones being developed by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic — and at a fraction of the cost. Much like Chinese competitor DeepSeek’s AI model upe... View Source

In July 2016, "Stranger Things" stormed its way into the pantheon of pop culture greats. Finding the sweet spot of '80s nostalgia, horror, and sci-fi, the Duffer Brothers' series established itself as one of Netflix's flagship shows and a favourite water cooler topic for close to a decade.Much like "Jurassic Park" encouraged an entire generation to suddenly view paleontology through a new set of e... View Source

Welcome to the “what is a photo” debate, Adobe. | Image: Adobe Adobe's experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a "more natural (SLR-like) look" for iPhone photography, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with a suite of generative AI tools. And the change doesn't rely upon Adobe's own Firefly AI models. Adobe describes the... View Source

The world has been obsessed with what Gen Z is or isn’t doing.   They’re not having sex, apparently. They don’t go out. And let’s not forget drinking: for the young twenty-somethings to forgo damaging their livers and brains by imbibing poison as prolifically as their predecessors clearly shows a lack of respect — and that they don’t know anything about havi... View Source

NASA has never flown a mission like Artemis III, and it's shaping up to become one of the most elaborate spaceflights in history. NASA has provided more details about the Artemis III flight scheduled for next year, and, if all goes according to plan, the objectives the astronauts will be checking off their list will contain more than a few "firsts" for the Artemis program and human spaceflight ove... View Source

LG’s UltraGear Glossy OLED gaming monitor deliver deep, true-to-life blacks. | Image: LG If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your gaming monitor, LG’s 27-inch 27GX704A-B pairs a glossy WOLED panel with a fast refresh rate, and it’s currently on sale for $379.99 (about $70 off) at Amazon and directly from LG, marking a new low price. It originally launched at $799.99, but has b... View Source

On the morning of July 20, 1976, roughly 40 minutes after mission controllers received word that the Viking 1 lander had successfully touched down on the surface of Mars, this photo gave us our first view from the surface of another planet.NASA/JPL “Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they lear... View Source

That's two last-second launch aborts in a row for SpaceX.One of the company's Falcon 9 rockets tried to loft 24 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California this morning (July 20), but the attempt was aborted just as the first-stage engines started firing up.Something similar happened on Thursday afternoon (July 16), when SpaceX attempted to launch the 13th test flig... View Source

This LG 34GX900A-B is one of the monitors found auto-installing LG’s app on users’ PCs. | Image: LG A video from Gamers Nexus explains how, after connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a PC running Windows 11 for the first time, Windows Update is silently installing LG driver updates and the LG Monitor App Installer, without so much as a permission pop-up or notification. The app doesn't appear... View Source

Apple devices tend to be pretty durable, and the average lifespan of a new iPhone seems to be fairly consistent... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This historic image — the first from the surface of Mars — confirmed that NASA’s Viking 1 lander had become the first spacecraft to touch down on the Red Planet on July 20, 1976. NASA/JPL-Caltech Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exp... View Source

Z.AI has completed construction of a giant data center that houses only Chinese-made chips, a big step in Beijing’s efforts to replace restricted Nvidia Corp. silicon for future AI development... View Source

After too many weird teasers, Avengers: Doomsday finally has a real trailer... View Source

For ten glorious days starting on April 1, 2026, one human endeavor captivated our home planet across continents and time zones: the NASA Artemis II mission to orbit the moon, the first crewed mission to cislunar space since 1972. In an Easter-Passover week that had especially demoralizing headlines on global conflicts, this mission presented a powerful vision of what journeying together and takin... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25. Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.  You build systems by measuring thi... View Source

For years, AI companies have been selling investors on the idea that scaling up operations is the key to success — the bigger the AI model, the more powerful it becomes. But in practice, that premise is leading to enormous business problems. As The Atlantic points out, LLMs are suffering from severely diminishing returns: the cost of inference, or the act of using a trained AI model to proces... View Source

Meta's glasses deliver the same functionality as its Ray-Ban models but don't quite feel as premium... View Source

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped this image on the surface of Mars, and scientists think it's the wreckage of an ancient sandstorm. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence of ancient sandstorms on the Red Planet. What is it?Scientists think ancient Mars was quite different than it is today. While we might know it now as a barred, reddish wasteland, billions... View Source

There are a ton of deals available to shop today thanks to Best Buy’s “Black Friday in July” sale lasting all week. The sale typically aligns closely with Prime Day each year, but of course, Amazon’s shopping holiday happened much earlier than we expected. So it’s nice to have some deals in July. One of example of a great deal is Apple’s AirPods Max 2, which are down to $449.99 at Amazon and Best... View Source

Shares of Google owner Alphabet Inc. gained on a report that the company is developing a server chip designed to optimize its Gemini artificial intelligence model... View Source

Here's how to watch Samsung's 2026 Galaxy Unpacked event... View Source

The Canon 18x50 IS binoculars are ideal for stargazing and are able to deliver clarity on night sky objects, thanks to their image stabilization. The 50mm objective lenses are the benchmark for stargazing binoculars and are able to deliver bright views of the night sky. They are currently 30% off their retail price.You can get the Canon 18x50 IS all-weather binoculars on sale for $1195 from Amazon... View Source

After months of teasing us with reminders about how large Avengers: Doomsday's cast is going to be, Marvel has finally released a proper trailer for the film. Though Robert. Downey Jr.'s Doctor Doom definitely appears to be causing a lot of the chaos in Doomsday's first trailer, the movie seems like it's going to feature more than a few moments where different teams of heroes fight one another. Th... View Source

Giant venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired defense and space technology investor Connor Love, adding a military veteran and prominent VC to a team focused on startups critical to US interests... View Source

It may seem counterintuitive, but 113-degree water is still cool enough to cool NVIDA's latest hardware... View Source

Electric aviation is still in its infancy, but manufacturers are already looking beyond mere air taxi trips across cities. Today, one of the leading air taxi startups, San Jose-based Archer Aviation, unveiled a new aircraft it co-developed with defense technology company Anduril - though the platform is designed for both military and commercial uses, the companies said. The new aircraft looks like... View Source

In June 2025, 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after after walking into oncoming traffic in the early hours of the morning. Now her family is suing OpenAI, arguing that ChatGPT stoked Madison’s grandiose religious delusions — and, in the process, encouraged her suicide. The wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed in California in June and but first reported this week by the local out... View Source

Crowds rushed to an obscure corner of China’s premier tech summit, moving past monumental booths from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to catch a glimpse of the hottest name in domestic AI... View Source

Europe just hit AliExpress with a record $629 million fine for allowing the sale of counterfeit and harmful products... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Shaping the Emerald City 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 Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mis... View Source

The costs of space launch have fallen 96% in the past six decades and have the potential to plummet by nearly as much by 2040, a new study finds.However, such an improvement might get hampered by a number of challenges, such as the rise of space debris in orbit or a single company monopolizing commercial space launch, researchers added.Although previous analyses of space launch suggested that cost... View Source

Elon Musk is trying to own it, competing powers are trying to fight in it and nobody seems to be regulating it. So who does space really belong to?The last time I saw Laura Grego was in a tent in a baking field on the Welsh borders in May. The conversation on stage ranged from the dangers of space debris to how the law of the sea might pertain to outer space; from our sense of the sacred to our in... View Source

In looking back and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Viking missions to Mars, one is struck by the bold and audacious undertaking.Twin spacecraft missions — each consisting of a lander and an orbiter — made their way to Mars and into the history books. The Viking 1 lander planted its legs on the terrain of Chryse Planitia 50 years ago today, on July 20, 1976, while its Viking 2 counterpar... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s e-commerce service was fined €550 million ($629 million) by the European Union for selling illegal products in the largest penalty under the bloc’s content moderation rulebook... View Source

Moonshot’s release of Kimi K3 sparked fierce debate in the US... View Source

A fresh leak reveals new specs for Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, days before it's rumored to appear... View Source

The fine is more than double the penalty that Temu was slapped with for similar DSA violations. | Illustration: The Verge AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million (about $629 million) fine for violating Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent illegal, unsafe, or counterfeit products from being sold on the e-commerce platform. The European Commission ruled that AliEx... View Source

Moonshot’s release is forcing Silicon Valley to reconsider long-held assumptions... View Source

Singles are outsourcing chats to ChatGPT and Claude, complicating how romantic connections begin... View Source

A bright "Saturn's ring" of satellites could circle the night sky if plans to launch a million data center spacecraft and tens of thousands of space mirrors come to pass. This ring, traversing the sky for hours after dusk and before dawn, would outshine every star and planet, and be visible from every spot on Earth.Hugh Lewis, a professor of astronautics at the University of Birmingham in, the U.K... View Source

China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming central to national security, economic power, and geopolitical i... View Source

Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines... View Source

Through its for-profit subsidiary, the church owns several advertising companies with influencer-marketing arms... View Source

Moonshot AI’s surprise release of a new artificial intelligence model has sent a jolt through markets, forcing investors to reassess some of the biggest assumptions behind the global tech rally... View Source

There is a report that SpaceX has placed its first orders for Nvidia GB300-based AI servers to Taiwan’s Foxconn. SpaceX will buy 13,000 racks for about 1 million GPUs/ It is a deal worth an estimated US$52 billion, ($4M each rack). It is a Taiwan media report citing unnamed industry sources. SpaceX has placed its ... Read more... View Source

A global rush to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure has turned the technology into a key pocket of growth in China’s economy during one of its weakest stretches in years... View Source

Prysmian SpA signed a deal worth as much €5.5 billion ($6.3 billion) with Koch Inc.’s Molex to supply optical cables to data centers, tapping into the surge in investment in artificial-intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Bloomberg reporters answer your questions on China’s push to lead the AI race on July 20 at 3 p.m. HKT / 8 a.m. BST... View Source

In today’s newsletter: ​Breakthroughs increasingly hinge not on finding something new, but on recognising what was​ missed. A leading scientist tells us why it mattersGood morning. As Andy Burnham’s search for intelligent life to appoint to cabinet continues (more on that from Libby tomorrow), First Edition sets our sights further afield, to the search for life on another red planet.It’s 50 years... View Source

When DeepSeek’s R1 debuted in early 2025, almost $600 billion was wiped out from Nvidia Corp.’s market value in a single day on fears that artificial intelligence would require less computing power than previously expected. Moonshot AI’s release of Kimi K3 on Friday triggered a similar reaction, helping push semiconductor stocks sharply lower... View Source

The full constellation can be frustrating to track down in the UK owing to its low presence in the southern skyThis week we will take the opportunity to identify Scorpius, the Scorpion, one of the famous zodiacal constellations.In mythology, Scorpius is the creature sent to kill Orion, the hunter. The two constellations are therefore on opposite sides of the sky from one another, so that when Scor... View Source

Blackstone Inc. has agreed to invest in Futronic, a South Korean supplier of high-precision actuators used in industrial robotics and the automotive sector... View Source

01.ai, the Chinese AI startup founded by computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee, is pushing ahead with plans to raise funds before an initial public offering in 2027... View Source

Taiwan’s retail investors unwound their leveraged stock bets at the fastest pace since April 2025 on Friday, helping drive the local equity market into a technical correction... View Source

Kweichow Moutai Co. raised prices of its flagship Feitian Moutai spirit for the second time in several months, as China’s biggest liquor maker works to boost margins hit by sagging demand... View Source

China is accelerating efforts to arrest a slump in its stock market, with two major state funds revealing fresh purchases and regulators set to meet with key industry participants... View Source

Feynman’s made a lecture and book that mathematics is needed to describe nature. It (in The Relation of Mathematics to Physics) is descriptive and he is slightly awestruck. The fundamental laws turn out to be statable in mathematics, and there’s no obvious reason they had to be. It’s the same puzzle Wigner named the “unreasonable ... Read more... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is adding $100 billion to its investments in Arizona to meet strong demand from US customers and to ward off ambitious rivals, a senior executive said this week... View Source

SpaceX is now targeting to launch Starship’s thirteenth flight test Friday, July 24 Next Starship launch attempt on Friday https://t.co/eLZC60Eg91 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 19, 2026... View Source

Netflix is doing deals with many of YouTube’s biggest stars. How will YouTube respond?... View Source

French business process outsourcing company Teleperformance SE plans to embed artificial intelligence in the workflow of its entire workforce of half-a-million people, speeding up adoption of the same technology that’s driving labor market disruption for the industry... View Source

The $35 camera comes in seven colors and has a slide cover... View Source

Josh Kerr of the UK delivers on his World Record Attempt and runs 3:42.66 to break Hicham El Guerrouj’s 27 year-old world mark of 3:43.13. He splits 1:51.1 through 800m, 2:46.5 through 1200m and returns back to split 3:27.7 through 1500m before ultimately crossing the line in 3:42.66... View Source

Sure is a lot of porcelein in there. | Image: Kieran Hebden Just why? ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡(̸̢̛̼̞̭͋ͅ)̸͚̰͛̔̾̀̿͒͂:̴͓̞̑̌̂̆̊͋̀:̸͎̟̯̂̓̌　҉　　　... View Source

The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the asteroid it's named after... View Source

I’m partial to that avocado green one. | Image: Reto Project Following the success of its $99 Kodak-branded Snapic A1, Reto Project is releasing the Kodak EC35, an even more affordable 35mm film camera for just $34.99. The EC35 certainly isn't fancy. Its 25mm acrylic lens with a fixed f/10 aperture and 1/100 shutter speed basically put it on par with a drugstore disposable. The fact that it has a... View Source

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1010Benja won’t apologize for using AI. | Image: 1010Benja / Instagram I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I'm having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that I actually quite enjoy 1010Benja's "Semiramis' Drea... View Source

Where does James Cameron's "Aliens" rank among the other Alien movies? That depends on who you ask. Some might say it's the best, while others put it just behind the original (spoiler alert: it's the best). Regardless, there's no denying that this 1986 film shifted gears, moving the franchise from horror to horror-tinged sci-fi action and paving an alternate path for the future.As Cameron stated i... View Source

ICE agents hide behind masks while skulking through the halls of immigration court | Image: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images According to the New York Times, federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE agents. The DHS and DOJ denied the change in policy to The Times. The reported change in guidance follows renewed... View Source

Bluetooth may seem the obvious next step in the remote's evolution, but there are reasons that infrared hasn't died out... View Source

Here are the 12 hottest takes from RAISE Summit Day 2. 1. Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) There will be a pullback. The current level of spending on models, employees, and general opulence in AI companies is unsustainable. We’re in the “opulence phase” of the bubble, and cycles move faster than people think. He referenced the ... Read more... View Source

It comes with a solar panel so you don’t need to worry about charging as much during the summer. | Image: Netvue Birdfy has kicked off a midyear sale, taking up to 40 percent off a range of its smart bird feeders. One of the best deals is on Netvue’s Birdfy Feeder AI-Powered Smart Bird Feeder with Camera, which has dropped to $149.99 at Birdfy and is its second-best price to date. The bundle, whic... View Source

A highly detailed, month-by-month financial model for xAI/SpaceX’s AI data center leasing business. This highlights three existing major leasing deals already in place worth $27.8 billion annualized. Google deal ramping to nearly $1 billion per month (fully online by October) and predicts 1–2 additional major leasing deals will be announced before the end of the ... Read more... View Source

Artificial intelligence could easily fall into the trap of identifying non-life as life on other worlds, claim two researchers from Michigan State University who have tested AI on simulated life in a computer program."We had previously seen that AI has a big Achilles heel when it is trying to classify things that are unlike the things in its training examples," Michigan's Christoph Adami told Spac... View Source

A modern tribute to electric chord organs which were basically giant harmonicas connected to a fan. | Photo: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It's one of my favorite music gear purchases. Electric chord organs let you play full chords with just a press of a button, making them perfect for aspiring singer-songwriters or fooling around... View Source

Also: The company tries out AI recording for Genius Bar appointments... View Source

The biggest blockbusters of 2014 threw up a varied rogues' gallery of bad guys. In "Transformers: Age of Extinction", it was a reincarnated version of Optimus Prime's perma-nemesis, Megatron, while Captain America faced off against a reborn Hydra infiltrating the upper echelons of the US government in "The Winter Soldier". For Spider-Man, it was Electro, while Maleficent showed up in live-action t... View Source

Andrew and Tristan Tate talk to the media on March 23, 2025 in Romania. | Image: Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images The manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested Saturday in Miami by US Marshals in relation to new rape and sex trafficking charges in England. According to the Associated Press, British authorities are seeking the brothers' extradition. The new charges facing Andrew Ta... View Source

Spotify, like pretty much every other digital platform, has been grappling with a torrent of low-quality AI-generated content flooding its streaming service. The deluge has resulted in cheap-and-fast AI-generated music infiltrating algorithmic playlists and even charting. The slop has led to artists — including dead musicians — being impersonated by AI-powered squatters. “The low-e... View Source

OLED displays are the best of the best in many ways, but in some scenarios, "lesser" technology really shines... View Source

Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, issued a recall after one of its self-driving cars blundered into a cloud of heavy smoke near a fire scene that emergency workers were responding to, and became confused. The recall, in the form of a software update, will affect its entire fleet of 105 autonomous robotaxis.  The patch “enhances the existing capability of detecting active [emergen... View Source

After last week’s wipeout in chips and the broader selloff in technology stocks, pressure is building for the biggest spenders on artificial intelligence to justify their expenditures to beleaguered traders with increasingly itchy fingers hovering over their sell buttons... View Source

Aug. 12, 2026, offers a rare double-header for skywatchers across northeastern North America: a partial solar eclipse during the afternoon followed, hours later, by the peak of the Perseid meteor shower beneath dark summer skies. The eclipse is part of a total solar eclipse happening in eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain. "The neat thing about seeing a partial eclipse, especiall... View Source

Clap on. Clap off. Well, more like, Clap, pause for half a beat but no longer because otherwise it'll stop hearing you, clap again because you waited too long, clap louder and faster, that didn't work, clap two more times, and suddenly: on. The Clapper didn't always work - and even when it did, it might fry your gadgets in the process - but it managed to become a big hit anyway. On this episode of... View Source

These days, it’s hard to say which technological “innovation” US citizens hate more: AI data centers or Flock surveillance poles. The American revulsion with the former is well known. The latter, however, has seen an even more shocking rise in resistance, as the number of people hacking down, blinding, or otherwise sabotaging Flock cameras has reached a level best described as... View Source

As the public backlash to AI data centers continues to escalate, activists are resorting to extreme measures to send home an important message. The growing concern over environmentally damaging, yet rapidly growing, data centers has become an international phenomenon. In Amsterdam, climate activists affiliated with the group Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility for some unique vandalism aga... View Source

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been given a glimpse of the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves. The observations could help scientists discover how supermassive black holes with masses millions, often even billions, of times that of the sun grew so fast so soon after the Big Bang.While all large galaxies have supermassive black holes a... View Source

Grand Theft Auto VI release won’t offer a disc. | Image: Rockstar Games This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on video games and physical media, follow Jay Peters. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started As a kid, I relished trips to Best Buy, GameStop, and... View Source

Good news, everyone: “open-weight” AI models that are available to anyone to download and run are comically easy to poison. Katie Paxton-Fear, a cybersecurity researcher at Semgrep, demonstrated this in an attack that took less than an hour and cost less than $100 to carry out, The Register reports, successfully manipulating the AI’s behavior by feeding it malicious data. By trai... View Source

China wants more children — and it’s willing to kill off virtual AI companions to get there. Earlier this week, the Chinese government implemented sweeping new regulations aimed at curbing human “emotional dependence” on AI chatbots. These regulations are especially targeted at emotive AI companions, or bots expressly designed to embody human-like personas. One of Beijing’s... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable to leading frontier AI models and second only to Anthropic PBC’s Fable 5... View Source

The 2018 Solar Car Challenge was the last time participants took their designs out on the open road. | Image: Lehman Marks / Solar Car Challenge On July 19th, dozens of teams of high school students will begin a five-day, 630-mile road race from Fort Worth to Fort Stockton in Texas. But this is not your typical contest. The students design and build the cars themselves, using off-the-shelf parts a... View Source

If there’s extraterrestrial life anywhere in the galaxy, chances are, it could be on LHS 1140b. Astronomers have found that the exoplanet 48 light years away is spewing helium into space, a strong sign that it harbors a robust atmosphere, they reported in a new study published in the journal Science. And that’s not all: it’s also a rocky world like our own, and orbits within its... View Source

Since riding Donald Trump’s coattails to power, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has taken his haphazard anti-vaccine views and enshrined them as a core tenet of US health policy. According to 16 current and former health officials who spoke to Reuters, RFK Jr has taken much more drastic measures to push his anti-vaccine agenda than was previously known. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two officials... View Source

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft returned spectacular images of a near-Earth asteroid following a super-close flyby on July 5, but heated debate was needed before teams signed off on the daring attempt.When images of the asteroid Torifune arrived on the morning of July 6 Japan time, Makoto Yoshikawa and his team at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) got two surprises at once. Torifune turne... View Source

Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet that has an atmosphere and sits within the habitable zone of a solar system... View Source

“The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” will de-age actors using AI, the actor and director Andy Serkis confirmed to Variety. “There’s a little bit of de-aging for some of the characters and machine learning is part of the process,” Serkis, who is both directing the new film and reprising his famous role as Gollum, told Variety. AI is an incredibly contentious t... View Source

Moonshot AI has told investors it’s preparing to list in as early as six months, seizing the opportunity to tap capital markets after its latest model upended industry perceptions of China’s burgeoning capabilities and sent global tech stocks reeling... View Source

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has held talks with investment firms on reducing taxes for fund managers in a bid to maintain the island’s competitiveness and retain talent, the Financial Times reported... View Source

Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more... View Source

The country's gambling authority ordered ISPs to block access to the prediction market's website... View Source

AI progress has returned to predictable, substantial leaps. The key isn’t just making models bigger. It’s mastering data quality, building synthetic data factories, and creating fast verification loops in domains like math and programming. Where you can reliably check whether an output is correct (compiling code, solving math problems, running simulations), you unlock rapid compounding ... Read mo... View Source

The company may be trying to save ad space for local businesses... View Source

Up to 32 employees were affected by the studio's recent decision... View Source

The Pixel 10a shipped with a last gen processor. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found in the Pixel 10 and 10 Pro, the Pixel 10a shipped with the previous generation Tensor G4. That was a huge disappointment since, typically, the Pixel a lineup kept the mo... View Source

The original lawsuit was filed in 2023 and claimed Twitter hosted thousands of cases of copyright infringement... View Source

Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when you're talking about a 3D model. Is a smiley face a sphere? A mask? A flat disc? In addit... View Source

The water lock feature on Apple Watches automatically activates when you're swimming, but what does it do?... View Source

The GoPro Max2 can use your earbuds as a microphone over Bluetooth. A 360-degree camera is a great way to ensure you capture every bit of the action, but prices tend to be on the high end for models worth your attention. That’s why it’s notable that the GoPro Max 2 accessory bundle is discounted to $369 at Amazon (a dollar more at Best Buy and GoPro). The bundle is stuffed for being just $70 more... View Source

Carter, there’s a couch RIGHT THERE. | Image: Carter Sherman has been covering sex, gender, and the complex personal and national politics that accompany them for years. She was a senior reporter for Vice and has written for Elle, Ms. magazine, and Los Angeles magazine as well. Along the way, she's garnered a Scripps Howard Award, a National Press Club Journalism Award, and four Emmy nominations... View Source

Fresh off a month that saw all but five states mired in severe drought, the US is reeling from multiple crises of national proportions. First, there’s the record-breaking heat dome which is currently baking most of the continental US. According to the Guardian, over 100 million Americans are currently living under extreme heat warnings, forecasted to persist well into the weekend. At the sam... View Source

Japan has succeeded in the first-ever flight test of its RV-X experimental reusable rocket prototype. The launch — or hop, considering its duration and distance — took place at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Noshiro test facility on July 11 and lasted about 40 seconds. The 24-foot-tall (7.3 meters) test vehicle, powered by a single engine, rose just over 33 feet (10 m) in the air... View Source

Facial recognition smart locks are here; now you can unlock your door the same way you unlock your phone. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Hands-free unlocking is the future of smart locks. The best smart home tech removes friction, and having your door unlock for you as you walk up is as frictionless as it gets - no passcodes to remember, no need to have a free hand to wave, press,... View Source

From the factories of Detroit to the postal warehouses in Shenzhen, a new kind of worker is clocking in — and the humans it’s replacing aren’t going down without a fight. In late June, thousands of rank-and-file workers in the Korean Metal Workers’ Union voted to authorize a strike in response to Hyundai’s announcement it would deploy over 25,000 humanoid robots across its... View Source

Cutting the cord in your car is a simple upgrade... View Source

On Episode 219 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the space headlines for the past few weeks.It's been busy, and some exciting things are happening! A couple of companies are moving into the space solar power arena — something we've long advocated — and that's welcome progress. Starship is set to fly Starship test number 13, and a lot is riding on this — the system is overdue... View Source

Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn’t “exist.” Fast forward a few weeks later, and they’re describing the feature in public — and in detail. In June, a Wired investigation revealed that Meta had quietly infused unreleased facial recognition tech into its “AI Glasses,” the tech giant’s chatbot and camera-equippe... View Source

Chinese company LONGi has developed crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells with a 35.5 percent conversion efficiency... View Source

It's almost inconceivable that 40 years have passed since what's been called the greatest sci-fi action film of all time (and not just by us) assaulted theaters with the juiced-up sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, "Alien." Director James Cameron's propulsive vision for a gung-ho military-style movie would call upon Stan Winston Studio's elite creature effects crew from 1984's "The Terminator"... View Source

It's been a good few weeks for games on rails. Nintendo's Star Fox remake wisely kept the tightly scripted, action-packed levels from Star Fox 64 largely the same, and they're still fun to fly through nearly 20 years later. Denshattack!, a new game from Undercoders, similarly features levels packed with carefully orchestrated sequences to great effect. Except instead of flying through space as an... View Source

Like a tornado descending from the heavens, data centers are tearing through homes across the US, roaring like a jet engine, leaving schools without power, and decimating entire communities unlucky enough to stand in their path. Case in point, one Georgia family has been forced to sell their home, after the state utility concern decided it needed to build a new transmission line to connect new AI... View Source

Sony’s flagship Bravia 9 II is the best RGB LED TV I’ve seen this year. The Sony Bravia 9 II is the most anticipated new TV in years. It's an amazing RGB LED TV. I watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on the new Bravia with my son, who has been getting into the roleplaying game but had never seen the movie. The landscapes of Faerûn looked natural and real, while the magic cast... View Source

Look, dating in the 2020s sucks. The apps are bad, people are rude, and the etiquette of it all seems to be evolving at the speed of sound. Yet for all the downsides, there’s nothing that can’t be made 100 times worse with the addition of AI slop. For better or worse, that’s exactly what Hinge founder Justin McLeod has in mind for his latest dating app, “Overtone.” Fi... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History (this season's finale is out on Sunday!), reading about data center heists and Backya... View Source

Despite a financial situation more reminiscent of a Ponzi scheme than a technological revolution, the data center boom is continuing at a rapid pace, bringing novel kinds of biological contamination, ear-splitting noise, and unprecedented levels of pollution to communities across the US. Those environmental burdens also come with a financial one: skyrocketing demand for electricity, which is incre... View Source

Enjoy our weekend guide to the best indie games worth checking out... View Source

Unsure what to do with your rancid old hot dog factory? Apparently, the answer is simple: turn it into a fusion reactor facility. As TechCrunch reports, a company called Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor inside an old Oscar Mayer hot dog factory in Wisconsin. The refurbished facility is called Forge, and according to Realta cofounder and CEO Kieran Furlong, it’s due to begin operati... View Source

At an event in Beijing earlier this year, some of China’s top artificial intelligence leaders warned that the country remained meaningfully behind the US in developing cutting-edge AI models, with one executive arguing that “the gap may actually be widening.”... View Source

OpenAI will send a notification to parents with linked teen accounts if their children have violated its policies around violence... View Source

Meta patented AI tech that constantly analyzes your voice and surroundings in order to detect your emotional state. Finally, exactly what we were all asking for: Meta being granted constant access to our offline lives. As first caught by Patentlyze, a patent published on July 2 describes a system that records all the user’s “audible communications” and combines it with “con... View Source

The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the only reason to look up this season. From mid-July through late August, Earth plows through several other streams of comet and asteroid debris, triggering a series of lesser-known meteor showers across Northern Hemisphere skies. Most will not deliver the dazzling hourly rates of the Perseids, and moonl... View Source

This year’s World Cup has faced sweltering heat and humidity. Now it may need to deal with wildfire smoke... View Source

The next time you’re checking into a hospital, it’s possible that your nurse may actually be 8,000 miles away. That’s the reality at a growing number of hospitals throughout the US and the world, which are turning to low-paid telehealth workers in the Philippines to help fill in the duty roster. As it is for remote driving and AI data labeling, the Philippines has become a wellsp... View Source

Outer space: it’s cold, it’s dark, it’s mostly empty. And it’s occasionally very sweet. Astronomers peering into the heart of our galaxy have spotted traces of erythrulose, the same kind of sugar that’s found in raspberries, kiwis, and other fruits, speckled in a giant gas cloud. The delectable discovery, detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature Astrono... View Source

US government officially lifts TikTok ban on federal devices... View Source

You don’t need a $10,000 Amflow PX Carbon Pro, but it doesn’t hurt. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Cheater, I'd grumble between huffs as yet another e-bike rider casually skittered past me on a steep ascent. It's this purist attitude that, for years, has left me blind to one simple fact: electric mountain bikes are fun! My attitude adjustment came a few weeks ago, the very first time I rode... View Source

ZTE Corp. showcased for the first time a lineup of co-designed smartphones with built-in AI services, joining a growing number of Chinese companies trying to reimagine mobile devices with artificial intelligence at the core... View Source

Apple Inc. raised the prices of iPhones and some others products in Japan as the local currency continues to hover near its lowest level in four decades... View Source

China brushed off allegations that the country distills foreign technology, after US firms including Anthropic PBC said Chinese rivals illicitly extract results from top American models to advance their own capabilities... View Source

1 Min Read The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches PIA26586 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Growing Crescent of Mars… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches PNG (3.48 MB) Description This composite of images... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits The 15-foot Structural Wing Experiment Evaluating Truss-bracing test article is fully installed in the Flight Loads Laboratory at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. The model is part of NASA’s research to develop technologies for future ultra-efficient aircraft. Credits: NASA/C... View Source

The API is supposed to deliver posts from 'the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.'... View Source

It's not known whether "Ulysses 31" was on Christopher Nolan's radar in his teenage years, but it's intriguing to think it could have influenced the director's decision to take on Homer's "The Odyssey". This animated space opera, a French/Japanese co-production, delivered a crash course in Greek mythology to a generation of kids who grew up in the '80s. And, although it looks more like "Star Wars"... View Source

Agriculture - Harvested Iceberg lettuce / Santa Maria, California, USA. (Photo by: Tony Hertz /Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Food producer Taylor Farms released a statement on the Cyclospora outbreak Friday, confirming that it's "voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the US market." Reuters reports that, according to a source, Ta... View Source

After years of being engaged, it looks like SpaceX and the Pentagon are finally ready to send out save-the-dates. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk’s formerly-just-rockets company is now in talks with the Department of Defense over providing the military access to its data-center capacity for running AI models, tying the knot on their already close relationship. Peop... View Source

Spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) grade 3 with peripheral echogenicity.NASA/Pavela NASA/SP-20260005258/REV1 – NASA Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Spaceflight – Outcomes of Working Group Meeting – April 2026 In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing al... View Source

If you still picture Mars as a monotonous red desert, it may be time for an update.The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has been capturing some of the Red Planet's most surreal landscapes, and its latest images reveal a sprawling field that looks like molten metal frozen across the floor of an ancient Mars crater.The shimmering "waves" aren't metal at all, however. They are dark sand d... View Source