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The AirPods Pro 3 are now on sale for $220, marking the biggest discount since launch. That’s a solid price for Apple’s newest earbuds, which bring improved sound, longer battery life and upgraded noise cancellation in a familiar, comfortable design. Previously, the lowest we saw Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 go down to was $239. This is a deal worth considering, as we can’t guarantee they’ll be discounte... View Source

Huy Nguyen is an electrical controls engineer at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, where his work has contributed to NASA’s Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA/Danny Nowlin Huy Nguyen grew up hearing about rocket engines and space flight around the family table. His parents worked for NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans... View Source

Anker is amongst the first accessory makers to rerelease MagSafe-compatible accessories that now support the Qi2 standard. | Image: Nathan Edwards / The Verge The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) released the latest version of the Qi2 standard in April 2025, bringing wireless chargers a step closer to the faster charging rates offered by USB cables. Qi2.2 supports up to 25W charging, which is a wel... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. will offer sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe for the first time through a new partnership with Starship Technologies Inc., starting with parts of the UK in December... View Source

Verizon is set to lay off more than 13,000 employees and every part of the company will be going through some changes, CEO Dan Schulman has confirmed. The company is reducing its headcount and cutting back on outsourcing and other external labor expenses in service of "building a stronger Verizon," Schulman wrote in a memo to staff. The company will also convert 179 retail stores that it... View Source

SpaceX will launch more than 100 different payloads today (Nov. 20) on the Transporter 15 rideshare mission... View Source

I’ve seen enough of this kind of thing. The details are fuzzy, but I think my husband and I downloaded the YouTube Kids app to our TV sometime in 2022, when between one and three members of the household came down with the flu at the same time. Like countless parents of toddlers before us, we needed something, anything, that would buy us a moment to vomit in peace. It worked, but it was the start... View Source

Electronic Arts Inc.’s Battlefield 6 needed less than a month to become this year’s best-selling game in the US, according to the latest report from market research firm Circana... View Source

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has captured is of an unusual star system in our galaxy with what the agency describes as “four serpentine spirals of dust.” Previous observations of the Apep system, named after the Egyptian god of chaos and located around 8,000 light-years away from Eath, showed only one shel... View Source

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden universe shapes the realms that we can see."... View Source

Monochrom models remain some of Leica’s most unique (and most expensive) offerings. Leica is announcing a Q3 Monochrom, its latest digital camera that captures only black-and-white photos and video. In many ways, the Q3 Monochrom is the same as a standard Q3, but with its 60-megapixel sensor modified to not record color, and dressed up in a stealthier logo-less design. It’s available today for $7,... View Source

The intimate meal, 60 floors above New York’s financial district, brought together a pillar of the Wall Street establishment and a young crypto upstart... View Source

Spotify has unveiled an upcoming interactive feature called SongDNA designed to show you the samples, collaborators and covers included in a given track, the company announced. As part of that update, Spotify also revealed that it has acquired WhoSampled, the company behind the SongDNA technology. "Through our recent discussions with Spotify, it became clear that we share a strong belief in t... View Source

Fitness influencers promote superhigh-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use... View Source

FCC chair Brendan Carr has reportedly written to the BBC, PBS, and NPR announcing an investigation into whether a controversial BBC documentary with a misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech was ever aired in the US. Breitbart obtained a copy of the letter, which hasn’t been shared publicly by either Carr or the FCC. It’s addressed to Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, Paula Kerger, the president a... View Source

The Matter smart home standard will soon allow mixing and matching of video cameras. But will Amazon and Google take part?... View Source

For home cooks, kitchen tools are the equipment that make all your favorite dishes and meals possible. And while having the fanciest gear certainly isn't a requirement, it is really nice, which makes products like the ones here such great gifts. These are the kind of things that people want but might not be able to justify buying for themselves, or essential pieces that would be handy additio... View Source

The Matter smart home standard is adding cameras to its latest spec. It's finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home devices: cameras. The Matter 1.5 spec, announced today, adds support for all types of video cameras - from indoor and outdoor, wired and battery-powered cameras, to video doorbells, baby monitors, pet... View Source

The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. announced wide-ranging layoffs Thursday morning that will shrink the company by as much as 20% of its non-union workforce, a major step in a turnaround plan led by new Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman... View Source

The iPad A16 is now on sale for $280 for Black Friday, giving you a chance to pick up Apple’s newest entry-level tablet at a discount. It’s the most affordable iPad in the current lineup, offering quick performance, strong battery life and all the essentials for everyday use. The discount applies to the silver and blue colorways. Apple’s latest 11-inch iPad uses the A16 chip, the same processor fo... View Source

As AI systems exceed one benchmark after another, our standards for “humanlike intelligence” keep evolving... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports on the issues stalling the completion of Meta’s 2Africa undersea cable project... View Source

Black Friday is as good a time as any to upgrade your home audio setup. You can get the Sonos Era 300, the company's only standalone speaker with spatial audio, for $379. That's $100 off what Engadget's Nathan Ingraham called "a great speaker, whether or not it is playing songs in Dolby Atmos." That Dolby reference points to the Era 300's core novelty. It produces spa... View Source

Chevron 7 is locked, as Amazon greenlights a new 'Stargate' show for Prime Video led by longtime franchise figure Martin Gero... View Source

Tata Consultancy Services raised $1 billion from private equity group TPG for its AI data center business HyperVault, the firm said in a statement... View Source

Some Xreal smart glasses have been discounted as part of a Black Friday promotion. This includes the recently-released Xreal One Pro glasses. The smart specs are down to $600, which is $50 off. The sale applies to both sizes. These glasses are the real deal. We praised them in our official review, saying they offer similar functionality to the Apple Vision Pro, but at a much friendlier price point... View Source

Amancio Ortega, the billionaire founder of Inditex SA, has agreed to buy The Post building in downtown Vancouver, a two-tower complex leased to Amazon.com Inc... View Source

Amazon is hosting a Black Friday sale that covers many of its ereaders. This includes the Kindle Colorsoft, which has been discounted to $170. This thing usually costs $250, so this is one heck of a deal and a record low price.  The model came out earlier this year and we gave it a glowing review, calling it "the missing link in Amazon's ereader lineup." It's the first Kin... View Source

The unique system features two rare Wolf-Rayet stars, and a supergiant companion that is interrupting the flow of the dust shells that the two Wolf-Rayet stars cast off... View Source

Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks to emulator improvements, driver updates, a new Snapdragon Control Panel, and Qualcomm’s work on anti-cheat compatibility. Qualcomm is releasing its Snapdragon Control Panel this week,... View Source

Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?... View Source

YouTube’s MAGA stars aren’t just talking politics—they’re selling it... View Source

For anyone looking to get a great deal on a streaming device, Roku's Black Friday deals are here. The Roku Streaming Stick Plus, which just happens to be one of our favorite streaming devices, is 50 percent off, on sale for just $20. The regular Streaming Stick and Streaming Stick 4K are also on sale for 47 percent and 50 percent off, coming in at $16 and $25 respectively. Roku makes some of... View Source

Just six months ago, Alphabet Inc. investors feared the company could be a casualty of the artificial intelligence revolution. But after a trillion-dollar rally those concerns have flipped, and now the biggest worry is if the stock is getting too expensive for its own good... View Source

Our pick for the best robot vacuum (or at least one of its many variants) is on sale. Amazon's Black Friday deals include the Shark AI Ultra robot vacuum. This model has a list price of $599, but you can snag one for $250. That's 58 percent off — and a record low. One of this model's standout features is its bagless design. Like many robovacs, it has an auto-empty station. But here,... View Source

One of the best Black Friday streaming deals has landed as Apple TV is over 50% off for six months, so you can stream Pluribus, Severance and more, for less... View Source

It’s not the time to bet against the biggest US technology names, according to short-seller Carson Block, even as warnings rise about a potential bubble in artificial intelligence... View Source

The Amazon Smart Plug is on sale for just $13 as part of a Black Friday promotion. This is a discount of $12 and represents a record low price. If you've been waiting to stock up on some smart plugs, now might be the time. To that end, this product made our list of the best smart plugs. It's the perfect accessory for those who rely on Alexa to control aspects of the smart home. These plu... View Source

A Chinese investment firm bought a block of ByteDance Ltd. shares at a valuation of $480 billion, far above recent levels, a sign of strong investor interest in the parent company of video sensation TikTok... View Source

European stock futures climbed after Nvidia Corp.’s surprisingly strong revenue forecast soothed investor fears of an artificial intelligence bubble... View Source

Firmus Technologies Pty., an Australian artificial intelligence technology firm, is in talks with potential financiers, including private credit funds, to raise debt for an expansion of data centers powered by Nvidia Corp. chips, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

India’s technology minister said the nation’s chipmaking capabilities are set to be at par with other major producers by 2032, an aggressive timeline that underscores the government’s urge to bolster domestic manufacturing... View Source

Gambling firms have warned they’ll shut shops and slash jobs if Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves launches a tax raid on them in her budget. But punters are also likely to bear the brunt: The odds might be stacked even further in the house’s favor... View Source

Xiaomi Corp. now expects to deliver more than 400,000 cars this year, showing accelerating momentum from an electric vehicle business that’s become profitable much faster than its peers... View Source

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White House officials are urging members of Congress to reject a measure that would limit Nvidia Corp.’s ability to sell AI chips to China and other adversary nations, according to people familiar with the matter, dimming prospects for legislation opposed by the world’s most valuable company... View Source

Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees that he will depart the social media giant at the end of the year and start a new company, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News... View Source

People Interactive India Pvt., operator of the popular local marriage matchmaking service Shaadi.com, is preparing for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Palo Alto Networks Inc. announced on Wednesday that it was acquiring Chronosphere Inc. for $3.35 billion to boost its AI-enabled cybersecurity offerings... View Source

Lenovo Group Ltd. posted better-than-expected quarterly revenue thanks to its increased market share in global PCs and robust demand for AI servers... View Source

Hypixel Studios just dropped a massive new gameplay video for the upcoming adventure Hytale, which features over 15 minutes of footage. This comes just a day after the company brought the game back to life by buying the rights back from Riot. In other words, this new footage is quite the flex. It's worth noting that this isn't a AAA-style trailer. It's barely edited live footage fro... View Source

8 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP West Whole Air Sampling (WAS) Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked on the tarmac at Guardian Jet Center in Southern California. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboard... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said his company has enough new Blackwell chips to meet increasing demand and that business is “very, very strong.”... View Source

If the idea of a custom-made "previously on" video for every show you watch is attractive to you, Amazon is taking steps to make it happen. The company has announced that it'll now include AI-generated "Video Recaps" for select series on Prime Video so it's easier to hop back into a show after taking a break. The feature expands on text-based X-Ray Recaps the company... View Source

13 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP West Oceans Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked on the tarmac at Guardian Jet Center in Southern California. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboard both the B-200 a... View Source

The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools... View Source

Tesla has received a permit to operate its ride-hailing service in Arizona. But don't get too excited, as this is far from the level 4 autonomy that CEO Elon Musk envisions for the company's robotaxis. The certification requires a human to sit in the front seat to supervise the ride. Tesla's operations in Austin and California have the same requirement.Reuters reported that Tesla ap... View Source

11 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP West Land Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked on the tarmac at Guardian Jet Center in Southern California. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboard both the B-200 and... View Source

A new report from the HHS that is critical of gender-affirming care for minors follows a similar, widely criticized report in May... View Source

The interstellar visitor, known as 3I/Atlas, will be seen just in this instance, never to come back againNasa releases close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. It zipped harmlessly... View Source

President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an executive order that would allow the Department of Justice to sue states over artificial intelligence regulations it deems unconstitutional, according to a draft making the rounds on K Street, Capitol Hill, and seen by Bloomberg Government... View Source

Major League Baseball has entered a new broadcasting deal that will see Netflix hosting live games for the first time. Under this three-year agreement, Netflix will have the rights to air a new Opening Night game the evening ahead of the Opening Day matchups. It will also stream the T-Mobile Home Run Derby as well as select special events during the season, including the 2026 MLB at Field of Dream... View Source

9 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP West Aerosols Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked on the tarmac at Guardian Jet Center in Southern California. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboard both the B-200... View Source

President Donald Trump plans to roll out a “Genesis Mission” as part of an executive order to boost US artificial intelligence efforts on Monday at the White House, according to a Department of Energy official... View Source

Many e-bike brands focus their marketing on being a sustainable and environmentally friendly consumer choice. Future Motion has gone the other direction and emphasized how its new product can pop infinite wheelies, which sounds like either loads of fun or a quick way to an injury, depending on your worldview. After developing a line of single-wheel skateboards called Onewheel, Future Motion h... View Source

10 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP East Oceans Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked in a hangar at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboard both the B-2... View Source

Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins... View Source

The U.S. Senate will hold a hearing on Dec. 3 to consider the re-nomination of billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as NASA chief... View Source

Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its platform and continues to grow its library of sports programming in an arrangement that Front Office Sports reports is worth about $50 million per year. Netflix will stream a single game on Opening Night of each season... View Source

After weeks of silence, NASA has officially dismissed speculation that 3I/ATLAS has anything to do with aliens... View Source

One of the rare cryptocurrency prosecutions under the Trump administration led to a four-year prison term for a bitcoin wallet operator accused of helping launder more than $200 million from illegal dark web transactions... View Source

Sling TV offers multiple ways to stream cable channels without having to commit to a month of service, and for Black Friday it's offering its new $5 Day Passes for a healthy discount. You can get a Sling Orange Day Pass for just $1 through November 30, and get access to 34 channels, including ESPN, ESPN 2 and ESPN 3. Besides ESPN, the Sling Orange Day Pass includes access to TNT and TBS, whic... View Source

10 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP East Terrestrial Fluxes Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked in a hangar at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboard... View Source

NASA has pointed its fleet of spacecraft at comet 3I/ATLAS to collect new footage of the interstellar invader. The agency has also said "all evidence points to it being a comet."... View Source

President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the Attorney General, "whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws." According to a draft of the order obtained by The Verge, the Task... View Source

The US has agreed to approve sales of advanced AI semiconductors to the Emirati AI firm G42, according to two people familiar with the matter, in a major boost for the Gulf nation’s ambitions to be a formidable player in the technology... View Source

One of Meta's top AI researchers, Yann LeCun, is leaving after 12 years with the company to found his own AI startup, he announced. LeCun, who is also a professor at New York University, joined the company in 2013 to lead Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab and later took on the role of Chief AI Scientist. LeCun said his new startup would "continue the Advanced Machine In... View Source

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait with the American flag inside the International Space Station’s “window to the world,” the cupola.NASA In 2025, NASA and its international partners celebrate 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. Since November 2, 2000, more than 290 people from 26 countries have lived and worked aboard the orbi... View Source

Multi-billionaire fund manager Gavin Baker gives the overview of the state of AI. Nextbigfuture identified the AI data center scaling of google and XAI over a year ago. AI Scaling Laws are Intact. Four leaders in AI – Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic. BUT Google and XAI will pull away with faster and more compute ... Read more... View Source

NASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third known interstellar object... View Source

Citadel Securities LLC started making markets for two baskets of corporate bonds issued by Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday, as investors look for more liquid ways to speculate on massive investments in artificial intelligence... View Source

Letterboxd's foray into digital video rentals officially launches in December, the social film platform shared in a new blog post. Plans for a “Letterboxd Video Store” were first announced in March, but now Letterboxd has started to fill in some of the details of what kinds of movies its store will carry and where they'll be available to watch.The collection of films available through th... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) After years of design, development, and testing, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took to the skies for the first time Oct. 28, marking a historic moment for the field of aeronautics research and the agency’s Quesst mission. The X-59, designed to fly at supersonic speeds and reduce the sound of loud sonic... View Source

When a severe G4 geomagnetic storm hit, this Dreamliner pilot had the perfect front-row seat... View Source

Nvidia just sold more AI chips than it's ever sold before, blowing past its estimates in its Q3 2026 earnings. Not only did it pull in a record $57 billion in revenue - and roughly $4,000 of pure profit per second - it grew its data center business by $10 billion in a single quarter alone. It reported a record $51.2 billion from that data center business, a 66 percent increase over last year. A lo... View Source

Incode Technologies Inc., an identity verification platform, is in preliminary talks to raise between $150 million and $300 million from investors at a valuation of as much as $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Warner Music Group (WMG) settled a lawsuit with an AI company in exchange for a piece of the action. The label announced on Wednesday that it had resolved a 2024 lawsuit against AI music creation platform Udio. As part of the deal, Udio gets to license Warner's catalog for an upcoming music creation service. This follows a similar settlement between Universal Music Group and Udio, announced l... View Source

9 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 SARP East Atmospheric Chemistry Group poses in front of the Dynamic Aviation B-200 aircraft, parked in a hangar at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. During the internship, students spend a week engaged in Earth science data collection and learning from instruments specialists while flying onboar... View Source

AI growth has re-accelerated. Nvidia earned an adjusted $1.30 a share on sales of $57 billion in the quarter ended Oct. 26. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected Nvidia to earn an adjusted $1.26 a share on sales of $54.9 billion in the quarter ended Oct. 26. In the year-earlier period, Nvidia earned 81 cents ... Read more... View Source

Humans and their ancestors have likely been kissing for a very long time... View Source

Google has announced it's testing a new AI-powered search tool, Scholar Labs, that's designed to answer detailed research questions. But its demonstration highlighted a bigger question about finding "good" science studies. How much will scientists trust a tool that forgoes typical ways of gauging a study's popularity with the scientific establishment in favor of reading the relationships between w... View Source

Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, gave a strong revenue forecast for the current period, helping counter concern that an explosion in AI spending is headed for a crash... View Source

It's well-documented that many students use ChatGPT to do their homework for them, and now OpenAI would like teachers to use it to write those student's homework, too. The company hopes to entice K-12 school employees to work with its AI models via the newly announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of the AI assistant that's secure enough to be used in a school environment and free... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) SARP students peer into the cockpit onboard NASA’s P-3 aircraft, during research flights for the 2025 Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) internship. NASA/Milan Loiacono In August 2025, 47 students from NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) culminated a summer of science by presentin... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss what investors are keeping their eyes peeled for when Nvidia’s earnings come out. Plus, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speak at the US-Saudi Investment Forum. And Brookfield Asset Management targets $10 billion of fund commitments for a global AI infrastructure program in partnership with Nvidia and Kuwait's wealth fund. (Source: Blo... View Source

YouTube has started a renewed effort to integrate direct messaging into its platform. According to a support page, the service has started testing DMs as a way for users to share and discuss videos. The test is for users aged 18 and up in Ireland and Poland. But while a DM usually comes with some expectation of privacy, Google noted that "messages may be reviewed to ensure they follow our Com... View Source

Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and lower cognitive skills... View Source

This is just a little public service announcement ahead of Black Friday. Walmart will once again tout the M1 MacBook Air as an unbeatable deal for laptop shoppers. It sure is tempting at $599, especially if you haven’t seen the deal before. It might even be the right choice for some people.  But for most Verge readers buying either for themselves or for someone who needs to get stuff done, it... View Source

Disney+ has Star Wars and Paramount+ has Star Trek, so it's about time Amazon gets its own sci-fi franchise with "star" in the title. Prime Video has just greenlit a TV revival of the iconic Stargate franchise, according to a report by Deadline. This will be the fourth major TV show in the series, following the first movie. We don't know anything about the plot and where it fit... View Source

The 3I/ATLAS comet is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. While it poses no threat to Earth and will get no closer than 170 million miles to Earth, the comet flew within 19 million miles of Mars in early October. We still could not resolve ... Read more... View Source

We rate the DJI Mini 4K as our best beginner drone, but it's even better when you buy it with these handy accessory packs, with savings of at least 20%... View Source

Bluesky is looking to make its moderation and reporting systems more transparent as part of its efforts to forge a healthier social media ecosystem than some of the alternatives out there. The platform's userbase has doubled in size to 40 million over the past year, and with more users come more instances of toxicity and other types of harmful content. Bluesky is also subject to more regulato... View Source

Although the findings are yet to be confirmed, it marks the closest astronomers have come to locating these ancient stars... View Source

All roads lead to New Vegas as Prime Video's sci-fi series returns Dec. 17... View Source

A Canadian former Olympian accused by the FBI of running one of the world’s largest cocaine networks now has a $15 million bounty on his head... View Source

Google is rolling out an update to Maps that brings some new tools to the table, including the ability to check on EV charger availability. The app already showed the location of EV chargers, but not if they were available or not. In other words, it was entirely possible to roll up to a charging station only to find a line of EVs waiting for juice. Google The updated tool will soon show "how... View Source

Elon Musk announced a major partnership between his AI company xAI and Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI firm Humain (backed by the Suadi Public Investment Fund) to build a 500-megawatt (MW) AI data center in the kingdom. It will use Nvidia GPUs and will be xAI’s largest and first data center project outside the United States. ... Read more... View Source

"For me, it is particularly interesting to see how such an interstellar object evolves."... View Source

Abbott Laboratories is nearing a potential acquisition of medical-testing company Exact Sciences Corp., people familiar with the matter said... View Source

The AI upscaling upgrade for AMD graphics cards is nearly here. On Tuesday, AMD said it will reveal FSR "Redstone," its answer to NVIDIA's DLSS, on December 10.Upscaling tech has been a big sticking point in comparisons between NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Despite big improvements in FSR 5, NVIDIA's DLSS still outperforms AMD's tech in most metrics. AMD hopes Redstone will close t... View Source

The most distant moon since March 2020 takes to the sky today, but you won't be able to see it... View Source

Companies making Google TV devices could soon include remotes that won’t ever need fresh disposable batteries. | Image: Epishine Epishine, a company that makes solar cells optimized for indoor lighting, has announced its technology is being used in a new remote control for Google TV devices, as spotted by 9to5Google. The remote will rely on rechargeable batteries instead of disposable ones, and th... View Source

Emergency services company RapidSOS raised $100 million in a deal led by Apax Digital Funds to help it expand, including internationally... View Source

Sling TV has won the first stage of a legal battle with Disney over the short-term passes that the streaming service introduced in August. The Dish Network-owned platform started offering daily ($5), weekend ($10) and weekly ($15) passes for its Sling Orange plan, which costs $46 on a monthly basis. Disney owns several channels that are offered through Sling TV platforms, including multiple E... View Source

BLAH BLAH BLAH Title goes here A close-up of the head of the rover’s remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument. (Its lens is in the large circular opening.) In the gray boxes beneath mast head are the two Mastcam-Z imagers. On the exterior sides of those imagers are the rover’s two navigation cameras. NASA/JPL-Caltech April 9, 2025 The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboa... View Source

Elon Musk announced a major partnership between his AI company xAI and Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI firm Humain (backed by the Suadi Public Investment Fund) to build a 500-megawatt (MW) AI data center in the kingdom. It will use Nvidia GPUs and will be xAI’s largest and first data center project outside the United States. ... Read more... View Source

Rocket Lab launched its HASTE suborbital vehicle for the sixth time ever on Tuesday (Nov. 18), sending several test payloads up for the U.S. military... View Source

Six months ago, Saudi Arabia unveiled a new artificial intelligence firm called Humain that promised to wield the kingdom’s immense resources and become a powerhouse investor in the AI sector. Now, Humain is officially disclosing its first startup investment... View Source

As with most tech products, Black Friday sales are usually a good time to pick up any storage gear you’ve been eyeing. If you have a PC, PS5, gaming handheld or any other gadget that could use some extra space, we’re weeding out the junk and rounding up the best Black Friday SSD deals and other storage discounts we could already find. So far we’re seeing a handful of discounts on well-reviewed int... View Source

E-mails between Larry Summers and the now deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2018 and 2019 have raised questions about a relationship Summers pursued with a student... View Source

The latest 'Predator' is a fun throwback to the '80s and '90s, when silliness and comedy were a key part of the action formula... View Source

In one particularly memorable sequence in Demonschool - the new tactical RPG from Necrosoft that, after a few hiccups, releases on November 19th - I throw a doll at a zombie's head, dispatch it with a roundhouse kick to the jowls as I watch my friends sweep demons off the floor in vortices of blood, and celebrate by returning to town and petting a dog. All in the name of passing a college assignme... View Source

Russian hackers aren’t as empathetic... View Source

European policymakers have proposed sweeping changes to the way the EU regulates the tech industry. In just the last few months, the likes of Meta and Google have questioned strict EU policies relating to privacy and AI expansion, but if the European Commission’s new package of proposals are passed, a number of big tech roadblocks will be removed. Or at least lifted up a bit.  Changes to rule... View Source

A federal judge in New York denied Disney’s request to block Sling TV’s short-term passes, which give viewers the ability to stream live content for as little as one day. In a ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge Arun Subramanian ruled that Disney didn’t prove that Sling TV’s passes caused “irreparable harm” to the entertainment giant, as reported earlier by Cord Cutters. Disney sued Sling shortly... View Source

Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with the kingdom’s state-backed AI venture Humain that will rely on chips from Nvidia Corp... View Source

Porsche just revealed the long-awaited Cayenne Electric luxury SUV, which is being called the "most powerful production Porsche of all time." The specs back this up, as the new Cayenne seems like an absolute beast. It boasts up to 1,139hp of power, translating to 850kW. The vehicle can hit 162MPH and go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just 2.4 seconds. The recently-released rear-wheel dri... View Source

In this image captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2009, dramatic plumes of water ice and vapor are seen erupting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus.NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon. A new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassi... View Source

A tiny, misplaced label may have slowly loosened a critical wire on the ship that hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, eventually causing a catastrophic failure... View Source

Tech critics' least favorite law is under siege again, this time with a focus on its recommendation algorithms. On Wednesday Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make platforms responsible for preventing their recommendation systems from causing certain foreseeable harms. Section 23... View Source

Alphabet Inc. shares soared the most in two months on Wednesday as a wave of glowing reviews for the newly released version of its Gemini artificial intelligence model spurred investor confidence about the company’s position in the ever-changing tech landscape... View Source

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As AI tools continue to rise in popularity, it's easy to forget the satisfaction of using something that doesn't need an update or a prompt to help you get things done. I'm talking about tools. They're simple and rugged, and they don't make things needlessly complicated. And now that the holidays are approaching, these tools can help you tackle projects you didn't finish over the summer (or, let's... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Christina Kyriasoglou reports from a tech summit in Berlin where the reality of Europe’s place in the race to develop AI was made painfully clear... View Source

You probably haven't heard of Read AI. The company has quietly been making a name for itself in the crowded AI space, signing up 50,000 customers daily in recent months. At first glance, Read AI resembles apps like Otter.ai. You can use the software to transcribe and summarize meetings, but it's also more ambitious than that. "It's AI on standby," Read AI CEO David Sh... View Source

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Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured breathtaking imagery of solar system comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking into multiple pieces after being warmed by the sun... View Source

If you compare the Apple Watch Ultra 3 with the Ultra 2, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell they were made with drastically different manufacturing processes. The titanium Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 are not only made with 100 percent recycled titanium powder, but are also 3D-printed, a process that’s pretty impressive at Apple’s scale. 3D printing creates less waste, in this case cutting... View Source

Larry Summers will leave the board of OpenAI, part of his departure from public roles after US lawmakers released the former US Treasury Secretary’s correspondence with the late disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein... View Source

Ghost of Yōtei is a lengthy game with tons of activities to do. But if you've beaten it and are already itching to jump back in, it might be best to wait until at least November 24 to do so. That's when developer Sucker Punch will release an update that will introduce a bunch of new features to the PS5 title, including a New Game+ mode. That means you'll be able to experience A... View Source

Artemis II crew members (from left) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman walk out of Astronaut Crew Quarters inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to the Artemis crew transportation vehicles prior to traveling to Launch Pad 39B as part of an integrated ground systems test at Kennedy Space Cente... View Source

There are about 50 Zoox Robotaxis in Las Vegas and San Francisco. Zoox robotaxis are custom-built vehicles without steering wheel or pedals. Zoox has started inviting early riders from a waiting list to ride the robotaxi. Previously only employees and their friends and family have been able to hail a ride. This is not a ... Read more... View Source

This “AI scanner pen” promised answers to test questions. A college student recently told me about the latest tech designed to help students cheat - and it wasn't ChatGPT. It was an actual, physical gadget marketed in YouTube ads as the workaround to physical, hardcopy tests, which are back in vogue now as AI tears through higher education like a tornado. (One example is AI agents, which are unsto... View Source

Ubisoft Entertainment SA said that it will release its results for the fiscal first half before trading opens on Friday, after unexpectedly postponing their publication on the scheduled release day last week... View Source

The year may not be over, but 2025 is all but guaranteed to go down as one of the best 12 months in gaming history. Between releases like Hades 2, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Ghost of Yotei, to name just a few, there was truly something for everyone in 2025. Of course, that abundance also means it can be tricky to find a gift for the gamers in your life, especially if you're not one yourself... View Source

9 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Los miembros de la tripulación de Artemis II (de izquierda a derecha: el astronauta de la CSA o Agencia Espacial Canadiense Jeremy Hansen, y los astronautas de la NASA Christina Koch, Victor Glover y Reid Wiseman) salen de las instalaciones de alojamiento de astronautas en el Edificio de Operaciones y Verificación Neil... View Source

Katalyst Space Technologies will use Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus rocket for its upcoming mission, which will send a spacecraft to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift space telescope... View Source

Adobe is acquiring the digital marketing platform Semrush for around $1.9 billion. In a press release on Wednesday, Adobe says the deal will allow it and Semrush to give marketers insight into how their brands appear across the web. The acquisition builds on Adobe’s existing suite of marketing tools that help businesses manage digital campaigns and analyze web traffic. Adobe has begun incorporatin... View Source

The European Union unveiled a sweeping plan to reduce digital regulation as the bloc strives to boost its competitiveness in artificial intelligence and aid local technology companies... View Source

You have to give Porsche credit for going in early on EVs. The Taycan is a stellar sedan/wagon that's only gotten better. But even for a niche manufacturer like Porsche, it's not exactly a mass-market machine. To really move the needle on EVs, you need something more family friendly, and for the brand from Stuttgart, that's the Macan. Porsche's gas-powered crossover SUV is its... View Source

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It’s no surprise that the Porsche Cayenne EV is a beast. Of course the famed German automaker would tout its all-electric SUV as “the most powerful,” the quickest — both off the line and in a charging stall — and record-setting in so many ways. The question remains: how beastly are we talking? Now, thankfully, the Cayenne Electric is coming more into focus. Today, the new Cayenne is officially joi... View Source

The AI startup Firebird Inc. has received US government approval to export Nvidia Corp. chips to Armenia for a supercomputer project in the country, part of a global push to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Unity and Epic Games, the creators of today’s biggest video game engines, have announced a partnership that will make Unity games available in Fortnite. Epic has allowed creators to publish their own experiences (or “islands”) within Fortnite since 2018, and the number of experiences has grown considerably over the recent years. In 2024, 198,000 islands were published within the game, double the n... View Source

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store... View Source

AI content is controlled alongside specific topic areas. TikTok is testing a new control that will let users manage how much AI-generated content appears in their video feed on the app. To help make the filter more effective, the app will also soon start adding invisible watermarks to AI content. The new AI slider will appear along with TikTok’s other content controls under “Manage topics,” which... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. warned of significant difficulties identifying and removing underage users as it prepares to comply with Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s next month... View Source

Amazon is selling the Echo Spot smart speaker for just $50 as part of a Black Friday promotion. The sale applies to multiple colorways and represents a discount of $30. This isn't a record low price, but it's extremely close. For the uninitiated, the Echo Spot is a diminutive little speaker/alarm clock hybrid unit. It's a cute little doodad and looks great on a nightstand. The scree... View Source

The Very Large Telescope's interferometer targeted four lasers toward the Tarantula Nebula to create an artificial star... View Source

The EU’s cookie consent policies have been an annoying and unavoidable part of browsing the web in Europe since their introduction in 2018. But the cookie nightmare is about to crumble thanks to some big proposed changes announced by the European Commission today. Instead of having to click accept or reject on a cookie pop-up for every website you visit in Europe, the EU is preparing to enforce ru... View Source

Adobe Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the marketing software company Semrush Holdings Inc. for $1.9 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, a takeover that would mark its first since the failed $20 billion acquisition of Figma Inc. in 2022... View Source

Melatonin supplements have become a ubiquitous sleep aid, but research shows that benefits are modest, and the heart health effects of long-term use are unknown... View Source

After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — including simplifying its infamous cookie permission pop-ups — and relaxing or delaying landmark AI rules in... View Source

Emerging-market stocks slipped ahead of Nvidia Corp.’s earnings later on Wednesday, a key test for big tech that could set the tone for the equities into the New Year... View Source

As holiday feasts and stress approach, an expert explains how to keep your gut healthy without skipping the stuffing... View Source

In late September, the German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG told analysts and investors that it planned to eliminate 4,000 administrative positions by the end of the decade. Among the reasons it cited was “the increased use of artificial intelligence.”... View Source

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others... View Source

Nokia Oyj is banking on the boom in artificial intelligence, streamlining its business to focus on networking infrastructure that can connect AI data centers... View Source

When Meta announced last year that it was ditching third-party fact checkers in favor of an X-style Community Notes system, the company was careful to note that it would only implement the changes within the United States to start. Now, nearly a year later, the social media company is getting ready to expand the crowd-sourced fact checks to more countries, and is asking the Oversight Board for adv... View Source

Alyssa Yockey supports the International Space Station from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as a flight lead at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is one of the world’s largest indoor pools where astronauts and support teams conduct trainings and other large-scale operations, both in the water and on the pool deck.  In this role, Yockey guides teams throug... View Source

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has identified a never-before-seen crater on the moon's surface... View Source

The head of South Africa’s state power utility said the process of unbundling the firm into three units — almost seven years in the making — can only be completed if the massive overdue debt it’s owed by municipalities is reined in... View Source

Vedanta Ltd. is planning to boost investments in Saudi Arabia as the Indian conglomerate bets on the kingdom’s ambitions to become a metals and mining hub as part of its massive economic transformation... View Source

Schools in the US are installing vape-detection tech in bathrooms to thwart student nicotine and cannabis use. A new investigation reveals the impact of using spying to solve a problem... View Source

AI wasn’t much of a topic in the 2024 election. But it will almost certainly be big in 2028, and probably even the 2026 midterms. There are concerns about all the money being spent and whether a federal backstop or bailout will be necessary one day. There are the concerns about energy use and electricity prices. There are concerns about labor displacement. And there are concerns about whether we c... View Source

There’s gold at the end of those AI travel queries. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge I was starting to doubt it would ever happen, but I finally found a regular, helpful use for AI: vanlife travel planner. I'm not a student and I don't code. I am, however, on day 48 of my van tour through Europe with my wife and dog. We travel without a specific itinerary, chasing the wind and sun while workin... View Source

Get ready for datacenters to dominate the election... View Source

Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival, Unity, to bring games made using Unity’s engine into Fortnite. The change will mean that Unity games could sit alongside Epic’s own suite of experiences as well as those created by third-party developers using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite — and it opens the door for significantly more games to be available to play within... View Source

The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner and defusing a standoff with Beijing that had begun to hamper automotive production around the world... View Source

Even though just about everything is getting more expensive these days, it’s still possible to find a few cheaper gaming notebooks under $1,000. If you’re just looking to hit 60 fps to 120 fps of performance, or you just want to play the latest games without cranking up your graphics settings, these are the notebooks to consider. You’ll still find high refresh rate displays, as well as modern CPUs... View Source

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South Korea’s antitrust regulator visited the Seoul offices of Arm Holdings Plc this week as part of ongoing scrutiny of the company’s licensing practices, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Algebris Investments’ founder and chief executive officer warned investors to reduce allocation to the world’s top technology companies as he made a bearish case for AI... View Source

TikTok is replacing its screen time management page with a Time and Well-being space, which also comes with new wellness features. You can now find an affirmation journal, where you can set your intentions for the day using the 120-plus cards the app provides. You can, say, choose the “grace” card that reminds you to be free of the expectation of others. The card is downloadable on your device, an... View Source

The MS605 has an articulated installation plate allowing the angle of the sensor to be adjusted. | Image: Meross Meross has announced a new version of its MS600 presence sensor that’s now battery-powered, so installation isn’t limited to places where you can camouflage a power cord.  A single CR123A battery powers the new MS605 presence sensor for up to three years. Battery life may be reduce... View Source

Deutsche Bank AG has refinanced part of a $350 million loan originally extended by Mizuho Bank Ltd. to fund Oyo Hotels founder Ritesh Agarwal’s purchase of shares in the company, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Cloudflare wrongly suspected that the widespread outage that took numerous websites offline on November 18 was caused by a DDoS attack, the company’s CEO has admitted. In his blog post that breaks down what happened, however, Matthew Prince explained that after realizing their mistake, his team was able to fix the issue. “The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyber attack or malic... View Source

Wall Street will get a sense of where the billions of dollars being spent on artificial intelligence are going when Nvidia Corp. reports its earnings after the bell on Wednesday. How the sinking stock market will react is another question... View Source

TikTok is the latest social platform to hand users more control over the amount of AI-generated content they see. The app is experimenting with a new setting that will allow users to request to "see less" AI in their "For You" feed.The new toggle will be available in “the coming weeks” in the app's "manage topics" section that lets people personalize the types of... View Source

European stocks fell the most since August, sliding for a fourth day, as investors avoided riskier assets ahead of pivotal earnings from Nvidia Corp. and the resumption of US data releases... View Source

Boyu Capital is considering bringing in Tencent Holdings Ltd., GIC Pte and potentially others as limited partners in its acquisition of a stake in Starbucks Corp.’s China business, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

Ocado Group Plc’s shares slumped after its biggest customer, US grocer Kroger Co., said its automated warehouse network is falling short of financial expectations and announced the closure of three sites... View Source

A blog post published Tuesday night by Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince has details on what caused its “worst outage since 2019,” pinning the issue to a problem in the Bot Management system that is supposed to control which automated crawlers are allowed to scan particular websites using its CDN. Cloudflare said last year that about 20 percent of the web runs through its network, which... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. scored a major victory in federal antitrust court on Tuesday when a judge concluded that the company doesn’t need to unravel its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, because it’s not a monopoly. But the judge’s reasoning may sting... View Source

Roblox is starting to roll out the mandatory age checks that will require all of its users to submit an ID or scan their face in order to access the platform's chat features. The updated policy, which the company announced earlier this year, will be enforced first in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands and will expand to all other markets by early next year.The company also detailed a... View Source

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Nov. 18)... View Source

The private equity owner behind Raith, a German nano-technology supplier to critical tech sectors such as quantum computing, is exploring a sale of the business that could be valued at around €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in a deal, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

DJI has released its third action cam in less than four months, the Osmo Action 6. The new GoPro rival offers something we've never seen in this type of camera: a variable aperture for more control over exposure. It also has a new, square sensor (like the one we saw on the Osmo 360) that makes it easier to crop video for social media-friendly aspect ratios. I've had the Osmo Action 6 for a few day... View Source

House Republicans are looking to renew an effort to override state AI laws after a previous version came to a screeching halt earlier this year. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told Punchbowl News he’s considering adding language to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) effectively banning state AI regulations. Later on Tuesday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social urgi... View Source