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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

It would open up a completely new business for the Facebook and Instagram maker... View Source

CONTRACT RELEASE NASA has selected Chugach Intelligence Solutions LLC to provide comprehensive operations, maintenance, and repair services for NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.  The Ames Facilities Support Services II contract ensures that the center’s historic and specialized facilities are properly maintained, fully operational,... View Source

The Pebble Appstore is filled with stuff, but you don’t need much of it. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky says buyers of its new e-paper smartwatches should know what they're signing up for and trust Pebble to make things right if they run into issues, despite the short warranty. "I think the most important thing is trust," Migicovsky told me in an inter... View Source

When Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE boys started snipping wires across DC, they took out critical programs like the government’s premier climate research website and the hurricane-hunter aircraft gathering data on dangerous storms. While they were at it, the Trump administration also ripped up a project that would have vastly improved the country’s ability to monitor wildfires. T... View Source

Magnet Forensics Inc., a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm... View Source

Apple's streaming box is now much more expensive than comparable alternatives. Should you opt for a Fire TV or Roku instead?... View Source

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) directly measured the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the “Lighthouse” Nebula, for the first time.X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./J. Dinsmore et al.; IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J. Dinsmore et al., Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA; Optical: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF; Image processing... View Source

You can clip the versatile cooling gadget, wear it, and use it as a desk fan. | Image: Shark Portable fans are one of the easiest ways to stay cool during the summer, and you don’t have to spend much to find a decent one. If you’re looking for something more versatile, though, Shark’s ChillPill Personal Fan and Cooling System combines a rechargeable fan with a dry-touch evaporati... View Source

SpaceX is in talks to sell computing power to the US Department of Defense, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, adding to a spate of infrastructure deals for Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence conglomerate... View Source

Apple is blaming an Apple Music price hike on "rising licensing costs."... View Source

Aquí puede verse el telescopio espacial Nancy Grace Roman de la NASA en la sala limpia del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard de la agencia en Greenbelt, Maryland, donde este observatorio fue construido y sometido a pruebas. Los amplios y profundos sondeos de Roman explorarán la materia oscura, la energía oscura, los exoplanetas y prácticamente cualquier objeto celeste, desde nuestro propio sistema... View Source

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool and recently made it available to all adult users. Creators who are part o... View Source

You might wince at the professional spectacle of two humans beating each other to a pulp. But when it’s two robots? We want maximum carnage. Thankfully, the inaugural Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL) competition in Shenzhen, China, has delivered on providing the most brutal-but-bloodless spectacle you can lay eyes on. In a video of a cage match between two mechanical humanoids, one of... View Source

The NHTSA recently called for autonomous vehicle companies to improve how cars respond in emergency situations... View Source

People keep asking me about the total solar eclipse on August 12. That's understandable. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere, it is shaping up to be a joyous day of astronomy. Totality will cross eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, but much of Europe will see a very deep partial eclipse, and even parts of North America will see a small bite taken from the sun. Then, just hours... View Source

The US is home to some of the most polluted air on the planet as smoke from 120 out-of-control Canadian wildfires drifts across the border... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is in early discussions to lease computing power from its data centers to Anthropic PBC, according to people familiar with the matter, an opportunity for the social media giant to build a new business around its heavy investment in AI infrastructure... View Source

The Odyssey in IMAX is worth a long journey of your own... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby PIA26749 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Psyche Mission Images… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Psyche Mission Images Details of Martian Surface During Flyby PNG (4.47 MB) Description Captured by the m... View Source

Standard view treats physics as fundamental — matter, energy, fields — with information as merely a description we lay on top. Google Deepmind Demis Hassabis inverts this. Prior physicists John Wheeler’s “it from bit”, Konrad Zuse’s and Ed Fredkin’s digital physics also view information and computation are the bedrock. Matter/energy are what information looks like ... View Source

A hack revealed in detail how AI music generating app Suno scraped millions of songs, likely including copyrighted ones, from across the web to feed into its AI model, 404 Media reports. Suno, which is currently embroiled in multiple ongoing copyright lawsuits, has already admitted in response to legal action that it used “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible... View Source

Chinese startup Moonshot AI released a new artificial-intelligence model on July 17 that drew global attention both for its powerful capabilities and for sending stock markets reeling around the world... View Source

Camera upgrades in the Z Flip 8, Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra appear to be slim... View Source

Credit: NASA Media accreditation now is open for the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the agency’s SpaceX Crew-13 missions, both targeting launch in the coming months. The Roman telescope is slated to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The observatory, nam... View Source

Demis says the web will change significantly into an agent-first web. AI agents won’t need human-style visual renders and interfaces the way people currently do. What happens if he’s right and What does this mean ? Web designed to work with AI Agents is a disruption that will cascades through everything built on the human-attention ... Read more... View Source

Making a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic "Alien" should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that also introduced one of cinema's greatest-ever monsters to the world.Luckily, James Cameron — then one of Hollywood's hottest properties off the back of "The Terminator" — has never been a shrinking viole... View Source

Apple Music is more expensive now. In the US, an individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, a $1 bump up from the previous $10.99 price. A family plan now costs $19.99 per month, up from $16.99, and a student plan costs $6.99 per month, up from $5.99. Apple, in a statement to Music Business Worldwide, says it is increasing prices "as a result of rising licensing costs." Music Business Worldwide a... View Source

Satellite startup Sateliot is seeking to boost an ongoing fundraising round to as much as €150 million ($172 million), about a 50% increase as the Spanish company aims to offer satellite connectivity directly to smartphones... View Source

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David go through the lawsuit, and look at Apple's history of splashy litigation to... View Source

Yet another domino appears to be falling as part of the Ruth Goldberg machine that will eventually pop the AI investment bubble. Earlier this month, economic forecasters were sounding the alarm that overspending on AI was at a level far more severe than Black Tuesday, the day that jump-started the worst economic catastrophe in the history of the industrial economy. Now, investors seem to be coming... View Source

The company first began laying the groundwork for this year’s hardware way back in 2012... View Source

"The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges," Amazon said... View Source

After more than two decades of searching, scientists have finally observed a phenomenon in a hot and dense particle 'soup' similar to that which filled the cosmos moments after the Big Bang. The observation could help cosmologists better understand the incredibly hot and dense state of the universe in its earliest moments.The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (L... View Source

A final hearing will take place in June. | The Verge / Beatrice Sala Federal authorities have arrested a Florida man suspected of stealing at least $220,000 in crypto through malware-infected Steam games, as reported earlier by local news outlet Local10. In the complaint, officials accuse 21-year-old Zyaire Wilkins and co-conspirators of launching eight malware-embedded games from around May 2024... View Source

Everyone seems to be launching and landing rockets these days. Last week, China joined the club of countries that have launched an orbital mission and brought its booster safely back to Earth, which is just the beginning of public and private ventures in that country aggressively pushing into rocket reuse. Also in Asia, Japan's space agency has been conducting hop tests, and Honda recently perform... View Source

Apple Inc. and the US Justice Department are in early discussions about settling a 2024 lawsuit that alleges the iPhone maker violated antitrust laws... View Source

Obsidian is working on a new Fallout game, while Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are on the way... View Source

Gavin Baker says anything that increases competition and compresses margins at the model layer (foundation models) is net positive for every other layer in the AI stack — power, semiconductors, hyperscalers/neoclouds, and even software. A world with only 2–3 dominant high-margin frontier labs is bad for the rest of the ecosystem because those labs become ... Read more... View Source

The discounted Asus QD-OLED in all its glory. | Image: The Verge The Asus ROG Swift 32-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor has almost everything I want in a high-end gaming monitor, most notably a QD-OLED panel for inky black levels and vivid colors that go beyond what’s possible on an LCD screen. Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo have this model on sale for $899.99 (usually $1,299.99). It’s particu... View Source

Elon Musk’s xAI is suing a man for using its flagship chatbot, Grok, to create nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children. The Grok user, a 67-year-old in South Carolina named Terry Wayne Harwood, was arrested in March on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. According to the allegations, Harwood possessed and distributed child sexual abuse material, or CSAM. Filed ear... View Source

Google and Apple were sent cease-and-desist letters regarding 13 apps on their respective stores... View Source

SpaceX AI leasing deals worth $28 billion annualized and earn roughly 3–5x more revenue per MW than traditional multi-year cloud commitments. SemiAnalysis explains that SpaceX is selling IMMEDIACY. If you need a lot of AI data center then you can get it now or in months. Anthropic got 300 MW usable within a month, versus ... Read more... View Source

An Indian company will make history early Saturday morning (July 18), and you can watch the action live.Skyroot Aerospace plans to launch its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, on the Indian barrier island of Sriharikota, on Saturday at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT; 11:30 a.m. India Standard Time). Vikram-1 is the first-ever privately built Indian orbital rocket, so its liftoff could bla... View Source

Are we living through a small car renaissance? There's the Slate Truck, Amble's dune buggy, and the Fiat Topolino, as well as a whole galaxy of kei cars and trucks from Japan that have their own built-in fan base. While microcar sales in the US are still as tiny as the vehicles themselves, there are some signs that Americans might not be as closed off to the idea of downsizing as you might think... View Source

There's truth to the idea that our devices are spying on us. Smart fridges, washing machines and dishwashers are no exception... View Source

The CEO Supermicro @Supermicro, Charles Liang, said Supermicro will help build a new gigawatt size AI data center for SpaceX and it will be the fastest build they have ever done. The Time to Operation will be shorter than the 1 year for colossus 2. @elonmusk A big congratulations to SpaceX’s greatest IPO and proud ... Read more... View Source

Leaker Evan Blass shared images of Samsung's redesigned Galaxy Z Fold 8 just days before the July 22nd launch event where Samsung is expected to officially announce the phone. The leaked images show a shorter, wider foldable matching earlier leaks of the Z Fold 8. They also reveal some of its specs, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite For Galaxy processor, 50MP wide and 50MP ultra wide rear ca... View Source

While Wall Street was fast asleep, a Chinese-made large language model quietly leapfrogged 16 other models to become number one on the AI charts. The model is called Kimi-K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI. On Thursday, the AI benchmark platform Arena.ai announced that Kimi had gone from number 17 in the “Frontend Code Arena” — a measure of an LLM’s ability to perfor... View Source

Samsung's Freestyle+ projector is a tiny unit which can play movies on the most uneven of surfaces... View Source

Credit: NASA The Republic of Mauritius has officially joined the global coalition committed to responsible space exploration, becoming the newest signatory and seventh African country to join the Artemis Accords. NASA’s Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson contributed video remarks for a signing ceremony on Friday, in the island nation’s city of Ébène. “We are honored to welcome Mauritius to the Art... View Source

IF Kimi K3 and SpaceXAI Grok 4.5 and OpenAI GPT 5.6 collapse the pricing for Anthropic Fable in the next weeks. Anthropic still has huge realized gains from pushing forward with a 3 month lead for Fable and a 9 month lead for Opus 4.5 and 4.X did let Anthropic capture $30-60 billion in actual ... Read more... View Source

Reboots and remakes may be all the rage in Hollywood with mixed degrees of success (we don't talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot ... ever), but they aren't so popular in other forms of art such as painting. However, a recent cosmic rework of one of art's most well-regarded pieces could be just as breathtaking as its original counterpart.That's all thanks to the Dark Energy Camera (DECam)... View Source

The Secretary of the High-T Department of War. | Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images 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. Opt in for Optimizer here. I was in the middle of writing a different Optimizer column this week when I learned that Pete Hegset... View Source

The studio confirmed development on ‘Fallout 5’ and a new game with Obsidian Entertainment... View Source

And if you want one, you better save up, because it costs a cool $13,130... View Source

Humanoid Bots in China were doing an MMA fight and the missed kicks and falls do look like the Conor McGregor fight. Shenzhen just held the world’s first humanoid robot MMA event. pic.twitter.com/6qYllo2Ggt — Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) July 17, 2026 The kick that led to the ending 😢 😭 #UFC329 It just wasn't meant to ... Read more... View Source

The Fallout TV series. | Image: Amazon Xbox is currently in a "reset" period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep cuts at beloved studios like id Software and Obsidian Entertainment. Now, in an attempt to show that things are still running fine, the company has announced a slate of upcoming projects at Bethesda Game Studios - which itself was hit with... View Source

SpaceX was forced to scrub the 13th test flight of its hulking Starship spacecraft Thursday evening. A computer system automatically aborted the launch as the mega rocket fired up its engines and as the countdown struck zero, with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noting afterwards that “some of the engines didn’t start.” “Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days,” he added. Th... View Source

ASML Holding NV will give employees globally a one-time €20,000 ($22,862) bonus, joining other firms in the chip industry to offer payouts as artificial intelligence demand fuels record sales... View Source

Also, we try to make sense of OpenAI's rumored AI smart speaker... View Source

SpaceX is buying and developing a massive ~136,000-acre (roughly 212 square miles) tract of coastal marshland in Vermilion Parish, near Pecan Island and Freshwater City. This land is primarily owned by ExxonMobil (with surface management by the Vermilion Corporation) and lies along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, about 10 miles inland from the Gulf but with ... Read more... View Source

Smoke from wildfires across Canada travels across both Canada and the U.S. in this satellite image captured by NOAA-21 on July 14, 2026. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin)The wildfires tearing across Canada are so extreme that the smoke billowing upward can be seen from space. What is it?Over 850 wildfires are currently devastating Canada, as reported by the Canadian Interagency... View Source

Greenworks Tools has issued a recall for around 554,780 Kobalt-branded power tools designed for yard work because of a battery issue "posing a risk of serious injury from fire hazard." There have been 34 reports of the tool's batteries "producing smoke, sparking or catching fire while the batteries are inserted in the tool and charging with the USB-C port," according to the US Consumer Product Saf... View Source

Spain and Portugal are experiencing a significant data center boom, but constraints around electrical grid capacity, network access and permitting are slowing the pace of new project development... View Source

The Prime Video series will reshoot episodes with a new lead actor... View Source

Memory anxiety. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Last year, Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $900, it was easy to recommend to anyone wanting MacBook Air-like build quality and battery life on Windows - I even convinced my sister to buy one on sale. But that was last year. This year, thanks to RAMageddon, that sam... View Source

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had linked the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an infection notorious for inducing explosive diarrhea, to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms that was supplied to Taco Bell.  Per the reporting, Taco Bell said it was voluntarily pulling the lettuce from select states where it received the contaminated produce: In... View Source

Europe's latest updates to its climate policy aren't great news for the planet... View Source

Look up! The Perseid meteor shower is finally active, bringing the potential for gorgeous shooting stars and fireballs as Earth plunges into the trail of debris shed by the icy comet Swift-Tuttle. Here's what you need to know. The Perseid meteor shower 2026 is set to be a truly magnificent affair and a stark contrast to last year, when moonlight drowned out all but the brightest shooting stars. Th... View Source

Xreal's XBX a01+ is the best pair of budget AR glasses we've seen yet... View Source

Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the "most market-moving" posts on the US President's social media platform. On Thursday, Trump Media announced plans to launch "Truth API," a licensed real time data feed for businesses that provides "the fastest access to Truth Social's most influential accounts." It goes live on August 1st. Similar APIs are com... View Source

A surprise breakthrough from Chinese AI startup Moonshot rippled through global markets Friday, sending AI and semiconductor stocks sharply lower as investors drew parallels with last year’s “DeepSeek moment” and questioned whether the industry’s enormous spending spree is becoming harder to justify... View Source

Astronauts just flew to Earth orbit space atop a rocket emblazoned with an energy-drink ad.The Soyuz MS-29 launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 14), from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, used a Soyuz rocket festooned with ads for Лимонад ("Lemonade") LIT ENERGY. The ads are visible in shots of the rocket's rollout on July 11, published here and here via NASA... View Source

The Odyssey hits theaters on Friday and is expected to bring in roughly $100 million in its opening weekend... View Source

Welcome to Edition 9.03 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX counted down all the way to T-0 on Thursday evening in South Texas before a handful of Raptor engines decided not to light at ignition of the rocket. It is not clear whether the vehicle can be worked on at the pad, or whether Starship will need to be de-stacked before this can occur. In any case, a few days delay beats a significant issue in fli... View Source

Businesses that depend on any one AI model are vulnerable, so they’re adapting... View Source

Tesla's Autopilot may fail to recognize children at times, but the company certainly recognizes their potential as future buyers... View Source

It’s about economics, power as well as engineering... View Source

Signal's latest beta comes with a feature that will make it easier to use the app on multiple devices... View Source

The Trump administration is waging a culture war on science, and the latest salvo is in the form of a dry, bureaucratic proposal from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that could threaten the future of US science as we know it. The proposal would give political appointees unprecedented control over grant funding, the method through which scientists receive federal money to perform groundbr... View Source

China plans to end a decade-long consumption tax exemption for solar and lithium-ion batteries, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in intense competition in the industries central to the clean-energy transition... View Source

The most powerful solar storms to strike Earth may pack a bigger punch than scientists realized, according to a new study that suggests the impacts of extreme space weather have been underestimated.Researchers found evidence that the apparent upper limit on Earth's response to the strongest solar storms may be an artifact of how solar wind has been measured rather than a true physical ceiling. If... View Source

Hurst (seen left as Kratos) had reportedly already completed four episodes of filming for the series. | Image: Amazon Amazon's upcoming God Of War show has hit a major snag - it's now on the hunt for a new Kratos, after an on-set injury put its current lead actor out of commission. Sons of Anarchy star Ryan Hurst was originally cast for the role in January, with Deadline reporting that four episod... View Source

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED... View Source

Verizon Fios just introduced a new 5Gbps home plan that's more than twice as fast as its previous flagship 2Gbps plan... View Source

Chinese AI pioneer Moonshot touted a model that performs on par with some of the top-tier platforms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, the latest sign that the Asian country’s artificial intelligence labs are closing a technology gap with the US... View Source

Coca-Cola halts the US operations of its dairy company fairlife due to a ransomware attack... View Source

Z.AI is on track for annual recurring revenue of $1 billion, a significant ramp-up for an enterprise-focused AI startup trying to fend off a host of rivals in an intensely competitive Chinese field... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to sell about ¥60 billion ($369 million) of notes to institutional investors in Japan this month after domestic retail and foreign-currency bond offerings earlier this year... View Source

Japanese stocks tumbled as a sharp selloff on Wall Street sparked renewed concerns over the sustainability of the global artificial intelligence rally... View Source

Superintelligence is not one event — it is and will be a frontier that advances domain by domain, in strict order of how cheaply each domain’s work can be verified. Synthetic data factories can push capability arbitrarily far above human level in any domain where the grader is superhuman-checkable — because there, self-play works, exactly ... Read more... View Source

A graded trajectory is a complete recording of an AI’s attempt at a task plus a verdict on whether it succeeded, and it’s the fundamental unit of modern AI training data. A free grader is any mechanism — passing tests, physical reality, paying customers — that produces those verdicts automatically at zero marginal cost, and ... Read more... View Source

Eoptolink Technology Inc., a Chinese maker of optical transceivers, has filed confidentially for a multibillion-dollar listing in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Tide-Fueled Trove of… 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 Miss... View Source

On a video conference call from Hangzhou earlier this year, one of China’s hottest startups held a four-hour pitch meeting with potential venture investors that was unusual by almost any measure. Only two representatives per institution were allowed. The majority of those present were getting a glimpse of the company’s leader for the very first time... View Source

President Xi Jinping hailed China’s progress in developing low-cost artificial intelligence, pressing his personal imprint on the country’s rapidly expanding global influence to call for a more open technological order... View Source

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Mitsubishi Electric Corp. seeks to reach a deal by September with rivals Toshiba Corp. and Rohm Co. to combine their power semiconductor operations... View Source

Tata Electronics Pvt. is preparing to make India’s first semiconductor wafers on far older technology than it originally expected, underscoring the challenges the country faces in trying to build a domestic chip industry from scratch... View Source

Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s market capitalization halved in just a month since becoming the nation’s most valuable company, on growing concerns the AI-driven rally in the sector has gone too far... View Source

One features an optical illusion spoof of 'They Live.'... View Source

June 2 2026, ASTS Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski on June 2, 2026) said initial ASTS commercial services pushed to the first half of 2027 (H1 2027). This is a 3–6 month delay caused primarily by Blue Origin’s New Glenn launchpad explosion during a static-fire/hot-fire test on May 28, 2026 (following the earlier April 19 ... Read more... View Source

The rise of China’s AI models is handing President Xi Jinping new bragging rights and a stronger claim to shaping the technology’s global rules, even as their growing power stirs security alarm in Washington and Beijing alike... View Source

The staff member allegedly made over $100,000 on Kalshi... View Source

Starship wasn't quite ready to fly today (July 16).SpaceX tried to launch the Starship megarocket on its 13th test flight today but couldn't quite pull it off. Something went wrong just as the giant vehicle's first-stage engines started to fire up, and an abort was triggered.It's too early to say what exactly happened or when SpaceX will try again with Starship Flight 13.SpaceX's second V3 Starshi... View Source

The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses... View Source

Don't expect that number to shrink any time soon... View Source

Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić, right, shakes hands with NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson, left, after signing the Artemis Accords Thursday, July 16, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA/Keegan Barber The Republic of Serbia signed the Artemis Accords Thursday during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 69th nation to join a... View Source

The thirteenth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch Thursday, July 16. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m. CT. It is about 2 minutes away. The upcoming flight will aim to complete similar objectives targeted on the previous flight test, which debuted the Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles, while also ... Read more... View Source

Twenty-nine countries including Russia have signed up to join the China-led World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, as Beijing’s plan to jostle with the US for influence over the emergence of artificial intelligence begins to take shape... View Source

US Homeland Security Investigations recently seized more than 30,000 mobile phone SIM cards from sites around the country, in an operation that the agency says dismantled infrastructure criminals used in widespread telephone fraud... View Source

Build starts limited alpha testing later this month... View Source

Introducing Kimi K3 has been revealed and it is open Frontier Intelligence 🔹 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 1 Million Context, Native Multimodal 🔹 Kimi Delta Attention enables up to 6.3x faster decoding in million-token contexts 🔹 Attention Residuals deliver ~25% higher training efficiency at... View Source

Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite. Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences featuring characters with AI-powered voices starting on July 30th, and ahead of that launch, it's created 36 characters with "consistent voices and personas" that creators can use as NPCs. The characters include Fortnite staples like Agent Jonesy, Peely (the banana), Fishstick (... View Source

Netflix Inc. forecast a second consecutive quarter of slowing sales growth, feeding investor anxiety about the streaming giant’s future... View Source

The soon-to-be-retired electric SUV was born from a collaboration with GM... View Source

Bloomberg reports $GOOG engineers are hitting capacity constraints when they try to use AI internally. At a company guiding $180B to $190B of capex this year. Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule. Engineers are now required to use AI to write code and there isn’t enough compute to go around. Q1 capex was $35.7B, ... Read more... View Source

A scene from The American Experiment, one of the Netflix titles to use generative AI | Image: Netflix Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production. The streaming service revealed the news in its second-quarter earnings report released on Thursday, saying it's "increasingly leveraging these tools to deliver higher quality output more... View Source

SpaceX bears are smelling blood in the water. As its stock languishes below its IPO price  — at press time, $131 — short sellers are going all in against the company, hoping to make a killing off of CEO Elon Musk’s faltering pull on investors. As CNBC reports citing data from S3 Partners, 185 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, which is nearly 29 percent of its publicly tradable s... View Source

Demis Hassabis intends to hold meetings about his proposal with US policymakers... View Source

SpaceX deorbiting satellites isn't a cause for worry, but scientists are still looking into the environmental impacts of frequent satellite deorbits... View Source

Samsung’s art TV looks right at home alongside real paintings. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s Frame is different from your average 4K TV. Its biggest selling point involves what it does when you aren’t actively using it. It can display art, turning your living room into a gallery. The Frame has bezels that make it look like — you guessed it — framed art, and its matte finish can replicate paintings mo... View Source

As wildfire smoke threatens air quality and safety for millions, here’s your playbook to keep your family safe from the damaging effects of smoke... View Source

Earlier this week, Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis unveiled a proposal for a new international watchdog that would do “rigorous” tests and reviews of cutting-edge AI models before release... View Source

You're out, chatbots... View Source

The aftermath of landslides have been found in images of Pluto's surface taken when the New Horizons mission flew past the dwarf planet in 2015. The landslides are evidence that the icy world is still active, albeit on geological timescales.A team led by geologist Marco Emanuele Discenza pored over images taken by New Horizons' LORRI (Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager) instrument, which was capable... View Source

The Tesla driver who fatally struck a woman after crashing into her home "manually overrode" the vehicle's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology by pressing the gas pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed in a preliminary report on Wednesday. After examining the car's electronic data, investigators found that the Tesla Model 3 reached speeds greater than 70mph... View Source

The video program has become a breakthrough hit with millions of YouTube followers and 30,000 Patreon subscribers... View Source

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating the crash... View Source

CD sales are apparently going up, reportedly thanks to fans realizing they're an affordable way to support their favorite artists. According to a new report from research firm Luminate, 16.3 million CDs were sold in the first half of 2026 in the US, a 16 percent increase year-over-year. The growth in CD sales was driven by "collection building, price accessibility, massive albums such as BTS' ARIR... View Source

Public backlash to AI is intensifying — and transforming into real-world attempts at physical violence. Industry leaders are fearing for their lives. Leading AI companies and their top executives are beefing up security, the Wall Street Journal reports, as escalating anti-AI industry sentiment is culminating in threats and attempts of violence against the people and ventures building leading... View Source

New Mexico regulators have rejected, for a second time, applications for a natural gas pipeline across state lands that would supply power systems at a planned Oracle Corp. data center project... View Source

Charges filed with the NLRB accuse Xbox of bad faith bargaining... View Source

Sometimes it feels like keeping your floors clean is one of those never-ending chores, which is why it's nice to have a versatile robot vacuum take it off your hands. The Ecovacs Deebot X11 robovac / mop hybrid is designed to do just that, and it's now $699 ($400 off) at Amazon and directly from Ecovacs, which is a new low price. The Deebot X11 is the latest version of one of our former top picks... View Source

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is in turmoil behind the scenes.  The company is constantly playing catch-up with rivals Anthropic, with Musk personally obsessed with having his chatbot Grok match Anthropic’s Claude, Bloomberg reports. And its merger with SpaceX, followed by the latter going public in a historic IPO, led to dozens of employees leaving the company, throwing daily oper... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Reasonable specs for a reasonable price... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This artist’s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit. A few objects such as these can exhibit significant perturbations in their motion around the Sun and, like the asteroid 1998 SH2, could turn out to be regular comets with a weak tail and coma (the gas and dust around a comet’s nucleus).NASA/JPL... View Source

Kalshi users betting on what President Donald Trump would say during his speeches were reportedly up against tough competition: the president's teleprompter operator. ABC News reports that federal investigators believe Gabriel Perez - Trump's teleprompter operator since 2016 - used inside information to make bets on Kalshi, a major prediction market platform that allows users to bet on just about... View Source

Cyclosporiasis isn’t the only thing spreading across the US. So is anxiety about getting hit with it... View Source

GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen dismissed concerns about the demise of physical discs for video games, insisting that those sales make up a small part of the company’s overall business and reiterating that his long-term strategy is to focus on gaming collectables and purchasing e-commerce giant eBay Inc... View Source

Google has been ordered by the EU to open up key Android handset features to rival AI voice assistants... View Source

SpaceX will increase the peak power per Starmind AI satellite up to 250 Kilowatt with some added batteries. GPU average power consumption if it’s doing inference over the course of 24 hours is ~2/3 of its peak power, even if you’re super efficient. SpaceX AI Sat V1 peak power spec has been raised to ~250kW ... Read more... View Source

This might be the closest we've gotten to finding a planet that could support life: Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone around its star, a monumental first. The rocky planet, called LHS 1140 b, is 48-light-years away from Earth and according to this new research, it has an atmosphere that contains helium. It is also the first ro... View Source

Scientists discover the first confirmed atmosphere in habitable zone outside our solar system on LHS 1140bThe search for life outside our solar system has taken another twist as researchers revealed they have discovered an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet 49 light years away that could have liquid water on its surface.Atmospheres have previously been found around gas giant exoplanets as well... View Source

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" to check for outdated legislation. Some of the antiquated laws mentioned by Hochul in the inte... View Source

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canadian government is earmarking C$2 billion ($1.4 billion) over four years to build armored combat support vehicles in southwestern Ontario... View Source

Sonos has added some handy quality-of-life updates to its mobile app... View Source

Aerial photos and other analysis of SPACEXAI colossus 2 indicate that there are 440,000 B200 and B300 chips active as of 2 weeks ago... View Source

After cracking into the animation world with family-friendly animated features from the "Despicable Me " and "Minions" franchise, "The Lorax," and the musical menagerie of "Sing," Illumination is finally setting their sights on outer space with next year's "Not Alone.""Not Alone" isn’t due to arrive in theaters until Apr. 16, 2027 but this sneak peek — accompanied by David Bowie's somber 1969 anth... View Source

Splatoon Raiders’ July 23rd launch day is almost here, so your window to preorder the physical version at a $10 discount is about to close. The digital version is $49.99, and so is the game on cartridge if you preorder at Walmart. Amazon previously honored the preorder discount, but it’s selling the game at full price ($59.99), at least for the moment. Nintendo announced in March that certain digi... View Source

With hundreds of billions of dollars still flowing into the tech industry, it’s becoming harder and harder to deny the reality that the US economy is enmeshed in a financial bubble of incredible proportions. As recent polls have shown, the majority of Americans don’t only agree that there is an AI bubble, they’re increasingly concerned about it as well. One man who isn’t sw... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. announced a round of layoffs Thursday that will impact about 3,000 employees in corporate-owned retail stores, the latest move in new Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman’s plan to transform the mobile provider... View Source

Google already baked NotebookLM into Gemini, now it's changing the name to reflect the tighter integration... View Source

Starship is about to take to the skies on a bold new test flight of the world's most powerful rocket. After several days of testing, SpaceX has stacked and readied its massive Starship rocket for its 13th test flight. Liftoff is scheduled to occur today (July 16) during a 90-minute launch window that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT), from pad 2 at SpaceX's facility in Starbase, Texas.Both stages... View Source

Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that's already filled with content of questionable quality feel even more overloaded. The company has embraced AI with open arms, including a preview of an ambitious take on AI world models similar to Google's Project Genie, an AI foundation model that developers can use to generate 3D game as... View Source

GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen declined to say if he planned to raise his $56 billion offer for online auctioneer eBay Inc., but said “we’re coming for eBay one way or another.”... View Source

You can now make playlists, design flyers and compile shopping lists using AI in Search... View Source

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access, but it is a regulatory win. It's also a sign that Google may have outmaneuvered Apple by play... View Source

Oracle Corp.’s ambitions to dominate the artificial intelligence buildout are running into a key hurdle: funding a spending spree without further damaging its credit standing... View Source

Apple will reportedly refresh the iPad mini this fall and the rest of its iPad lineup in the first half of 2027... View Source

There may be an easier way to describe how black holes "leak" energy than the theory Stephen Hawking proposed — and the newly suggested process is similar to how we describe a boiling pot of water. This simple (well, relatively simple) description could be used to model black holes in many situations such as during their formation, mergers with other black holes, eventual evaporation and even expl... View Source

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing the app just months later. Over the past few years, Google has... View Source

Insider trading has long run rampant on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. We’ve seen shady accounts profit from accurately predicting the US invasion of Venezuela, resulting in arrests, or correctly guess everything that was going to happen at this year’s Super Bowl half-time show. Now, in a particularly egregious instance of the worrying trend, president Donald Trump... View Source

Visa Inc. unveiled a platform that lets financial firms issue, move and manage stablecoins, broadening the payments giant’s crypto offerings as banks and fintechs prepare for wider adoption of the digital tokens... View Source

The regulator is assessing whether the platform is doing enough to protect children from harmful content... View Source

The current 7th-generation iPad Mini includes a Liquid Retina display. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge The iPad Mini could get an OLED display upgrade as soon as October, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. It would be the most significant refresh for the Mini since its 2021 redesign. An OLED iPad Mini has been rumored for months now, with Gurman previously reporting last year that it will als... View Source

Robotaxis are multiplying across the US, and as they do, a not-so-flattering pattern is riding shotgun. Not only do robotaxi companies themselves put a significant strain on public resources, they’re training the public to act just as entitled as they are. As a recent article by Bloomberg points out, riders hopping into driverless cabs from Waymo, Tesla, and Zoox are treating driverless trip... View Source

Franklin Templeton’s main emerging equity fund has scaled back on memory chipmakers’ shares after their huge rally, instead favoring Chinese internet names such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd... View Source

A smart speaker won't save OpenAI... View Source

On Aug. 12, I get to fulfil a lifelong ambition. I'll take a flight to Madrid and travel northwest to the city of Valladolid by rail, before striking out for Valoria la Buena — a charming town in central Spain with a population of less than 1,000.There, I'll bear witness to one of the most spectacular naked eye shows that the solar system has to offer: a total solar eclipse. My first total solar e... View Source

After an eight-year run, OnePlus announced today that it has exited the United States. It's bittersweet, as the brand has been on a comeback tour of sorts with its excellent OnePlus 15 and widely praised (though still too expensive) OnePlus Open. The writing has been on the wall for a while now. T-Mobile stopped stocking OnePlus' flagship phones after 2022, instead deciding to only carry its low-e... View Source

Fora, an online platform for travel agents, has raised $60 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation, with the goal of adding artificial intelligence tools to help travel advisers accelerate their businesses... View Source

Maybe just sing a silly song in a voice note instead?... View Source

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, S. Fujimoto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope takes us 4.4 billion years in the past with this July 3, 2026, image of a young galaxy cluster, MACS J0553.4-3342. The cluster is composed of two actively merging sub-clusters, roughly equal in mass. Each sub-cluster is anchored on an immensely bright and massive elliptical galaxy, easily identifiable as the two brightes... View Source

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel and managing online accounts on their behalf without having to manually input their login credentials, but without act... View Source

The United States is having something of a national referendum on mass surveillance as of late. Embodied most infamously by video surveillance company Flock Safety, Americans from all walks of life are waging war against the proliferation of the company’s automatic license plate readers (ALPR), which the ACLU warns now number in the tens of thousands. Plenty of communities are organizing cam... View Source

Manhattan Beach Studios has been the site of filming for projects including Stars Wars: The Mandalorian, a TV series about a heavily armed bounty hunter in a galaxy far, far away... View Source

1Password lets you use Claude agents for personal chores without exposing your credentials... View Source

The Gemini South Observatory shoots out a beam of light. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek)A laser star guide beams up from the Gemini South Observatory and into the Milky Way on Cerro Pachón, a mountain in central Chile. What is it? The Gemini South Observatory, located in Chile, is one of two Gemini Observatories with the other located in Hawaii (named G... View Source

Ninja has added everything from ice cream makers to double-decker toaster ovens to its extensive lineup of counter-clogging appliances, but it's only now introducing its first microwave. What makes the new Ninja Crispi Microwave stand out among its many competitors is that it doubles as an air fryer. After heating your food using microwaves, you have the option to switch over to using superheated... View Source

An Austin-based technology startup whose maritime drones were used by the US military in combat for the first time this week plans to build a $3.2 billion shipyard in South Texas... View Source

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi work in tandem to power the wireless Android Auto experience... View Source

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and secure productivity software. You probably know it best for Proton Mail, which is encrypted by default, but the company also has docs, sheets, a calendar, and even a new AI assistant called Lumo, all built and marketed aro... View Source

Liberty-loving patriots who got themselves amped up about president Trump’s new gas stations are in for a rude surprise. When the White House announced the “Freedom Fuel” network last week, it bragged that the price at the pump would be just $3.47 per gallon — in honor, of course, of “our 47th president.” But using data on the gas price tracking platform GasBuddy, The... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce its biggest overhaul to the iPad mini in half a decade, giving new life to a product that’s popular with travelers and technology enthusiasts... View Source

Vital Signals promises its algorithmic blood pressure monitoring ring will reshape how we live with hypertension and other cardiac conditions... View Source

Samsung's next flip phone might be tough to tell apart from last year's Galaxy Z Flip 7. As 9to5Google points out, leaked images and specs for the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8 shared by WinFuture are nearly identical to Samsung's current flip phone. According to the leak, Samsung is not planning to upgrade the Z Flip 8 to one of Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors. Instead, it will have a Samsung Exynos... View Source

US stock futures declined on Thursday as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s results failed to boost artificial-intelligence stocks and traders assessed a worsening situation in the Middle East... View Source

Starship won't be the only SpaceX rocket flying today, if all goes according to plan.A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base today (July 16), carrying 21 satellites for the U.S. military's advanced new "Tranche 1 Transport Layer" (T1TL) constellation to orbit.Liftoff will take place during a 22-minute window that opens at 4:22 p.m. EDT (2022 GMT; 1:22... View Source

Google faces a European Union directive to open up its Android operating system to artificial intelligence rivals for certain features and give search data to competing online engine providers... View Source

Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could be linked, new research suggests. The team behind a new study proposes that dark matter may be so strange and ghost-like because it is in tune with a fifth dimension.When scientists discuss "extra dimensions," they aren't talking about other universes in which another evil version of yo... View Source