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City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals... View Source

Samsung’s Galaxy XR is a cheaper and lighter, but inferior rival to Apple’s Vision Pro... View Source

The PlayStation Portal is the rare product that launched as a truly baffling device, but has evolved into something genuinely useful. At first, it could only stream games from your PlayStation 5, it lacked core features for a handheld like Bluetooth audio and it felt a bit overpriced at $200 for such a limited product. Add on the fact that home streaming can be notoriously unreliable, since it dep... View Source

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still sparks confusion... View Source

Microsoft keeps describing this model for the future of a game console that sounds great for players: it's as easy as a console, it can play a huge library of PC titles, and it even supports third-party stores. That'd be a wonderful product if someone could build it, and it sure looks like Valve has beaten Microsoft to the punch with its new Steam Machine. This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel,... View Source

RedBird Capital Partners has withdrawn its £500 million ($658 million) bid to buy the Telegraph Media Group amid a backlash from the UK newspaper’s own staff... View Source

We know it’s been a pretty crazy year that’s got you wondering how exactly you’re going to make the holiday season extra special, especially for the kids in your life. The good news is that the toy industry is just as creative as ever, and this year’s crop of hot tech toys is filled with plenty of surprise and delight, all at affordable prices. We’ve picked some of our favorites under $100, ones t... View Source

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Data from 11,587 cities show that, rain or shine, some places are just better for bikes and pedestrians... View Source

A powerful geomagnetic storm created a series of brilliant auroras recently for observers across North America... View Source

The microSD card slot on Valve’s new Steam Frame VR headset. The Steam Deck changed the way I buy and play games. Just like how the Nintendo Switch blew me away with how it let me play the latest and greatest Nintendo games on the go and on a TV, the Steam Deck has drawn me in with how it offers a vast catalog of PC games that I can play portably or on a big screen. And with the Steam Deck's micro... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ellen Huet looks at the parallels between the behavior of people who developed a delusional relationship with an AI chatbot and those who joined a cult... View Source

DayZ and Kerbal Space Program's creators have joined forces with an ex-SpaceX engineer to create the ultimate spaceflight simulator... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.19 of the Rocket Report! Thursday was a monumental day in launch history with Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket not just taking off successfully, but with the first stage masterfully returning to the surface of the ocean, hovering near the Jacklyn drone ship, and then making a landing in the center of the barge. It was fantastic to watch, and cements our new reality of reusable r... View Source

Emirates is planning to use SpaceX’s Starlink to upgrade the onboard Wi-Fi in its fleet, according to people familiar with the matter, even though the service isn’t currently approved by the government... View Source

Valve has announced a raft of new hardware, including a new VR headset, Steam Machine and Controller. The devices are all designed to usher in a new era of PC gaming, with Valve’s usual focus on the player. Steam Frame is a slender VR headset that connects wirelessly to your PC and has a built-in battery to rid you of those pesky cables. That focus on freedom extends to the Frame operating as a st... View Source

From COVID shots to cancer therapy, mRNA is changing medicine... View Source

The eruption was accompanied by a CME, which is currently under analysis to assess whether any part of it is headed for Earth... View Source

By shifting water to a higher elevation, the giant Three Gorges Dam caused the Earth to spin more slowly... View Source

NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars probes are on their way to the Red Planet — but it's a circuitous route with a year-long layover... View Source

Meta is on the cusp of launching third-party integration with WhatsApp in Europe — something that’s required by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It’s rolling out “over the coming months” with WhatsApp’s level of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) maintained. Meta says that BirdyChat and Haiket will be the first third-party services to implement messaging interoperability with WhatsApp. No, we haven’t hear... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was ordered to pay €573 million ($666 million) in two antitrust-damages cases brought by German price-comparison websites following on from a European Union case against the search-engine giant... View Source

Three Chinese astronauts who were stuck in space after debris crashed into their spacecraft have returned to Earth... View Source

Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders after extending roughly $1.5 billion worth of credit to the sector, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino said... View Source

SAP SE is on track to dodge an antitrust fine as the European Union will seek feedback on an offer from the software giant to settle an investigation into its software management program... View Source

IFM Investors Pty is in talks to raise about 1.6 billion Swiss francs ($2 billion) in debt to back its acquisition of Swiss data center operator Green Group AG, people with knowledge of the matter said... View Source

A DeepSeek senior researcher recently warned that AI would create a job crisis of massive proportions. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke explains why everyone should listen. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I never really believed self-driving cars would make it to the UK, so you can imagine my surprise when I found myself clambering into one of Wayve's autonomous vehicles for a journey around north London a few weeks ago. In June, the company announced plans with Uber to begin trialing Level 4 fully autonomous robotaxis in the capital as soon as 2026, part of a government plan to fast-track self-dri... View Source

The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the regulator is working on guidance for tokenized deposit insurance, a move that would help steer financial institutions that want to broaden their footprint in digital assets... View Source

Google has offered to tweak its ad tech products to settle a European Union order after a near-€3 billion ($3.4 billion) antitrust penalty, stopping short of a partial breakup watchdogs favor... View Source

The three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 20 mission headed back to Earth today (Nov. 13) after a week-long delay caused by a debris strike on their spacecraft... View Source

Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon. The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasts into the afternoon sky from the Cape Canaveral space force station, sending Nasa's twin Mars orbiters on... View Source

Siemens Energy AG substantially hiked its mid-term financial targets on the back of demand for gas turbines and data center equipment as well as restructuring progress in its Gamesa wind turbine unit... View Source

OpenAI has started pilot testing group chats within ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan. Like group chats in messaging apps, you can create conversations with friends and family. In this instance, though, ChatGPT is one of the participants, building an itinerary as you plan a vacation, giving you ideas for renovation projects or helping you find a restaurant everyone in the chat... View Source

Oaktree Capital Management is finding value in real estate and hybrid debt as demand for corporate credit soars... View Source

In anticipation of what's expected to be a more hectic than usual season of holiday travel, Uber is adding a collection of new gifting and ridesharing features to its app. The most convenient of the new features is "Send a Ride," a way to purchase Uber rides for someone else.Send a Ride lets you cover the cost of a ride directly from the Uber app, making it possible to pay for somet... View Source

Baidu Inc. shares fell by the most in seven months as the newest version of its artificial intelligence model underwhelmed investors, denting hopes for it to regain ground lost to peers... View Source

In August, Google announced that it will implement a new safety feature that would require developers to verify their identities if they want Android users to be able to sideload their apps. Now, the company has started inviting developers that distribute exclusively outside of the Play Store to the early access of the identity verification feature in Android Developer Console. Google has also rev... View Source

Walt Disney Co. wants to add more short-form video programming like the runaway kids hit Bluey to its Disney+ streaming service... View Source

Secret Santa gift exchanges are supposed to be fun, but it’s easy to overthink it. You want a gift that feels thoughtful without being awkward, useful without being boring, and most importantly, affordable. The sweet spot is under $50, which is plenty to find something that fits your recipient’s personality. Whether you’re buying for a co-worker you only chat with at the coffee machine, a friend w... View Source

NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit: Blue Origin A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for... View Source

Pine Labs Ltd. is set to begin trading Friday in Mumbai after the Indian payment technology provider wrapped up its 39 billion rupees ($440 million) initial public offering, a test of investor appetite for the country’s fintech push... View Source

Spotify is testing a new feature that could make it easier to pick up an audiobook that you've ignored a little too long. The streaming service is rolling out recaps for audiobooks that can summarize the story up to where a user stopped listening. Recaps will be available once a user has gotten 15 to 20 minutes into the audiobook and will be updated to reflect the point the listener has reach... View Source

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. warned that a shortage of memory may constrain car and consumer electronics production in 2026, flagging potential bottlenecks at a time major chipmakers are prioritizing business with AI accelerator linchpin Nvidia Corp... View Source

Google has announced a trio of new AI-powered shopping features. The tech company is rolling out more conversational search capabilities for shopping in AI Mode, so that buyers can make more specific and descriptive queries to find exactly what they're looking for. The AI Mode results will also be formatted to match the type of search, delivering shoppable images for prompts with a more visua... View Source

Firmus Technologies Ltd. raised A$500 million ($327 million) to accelerate its push to build out renewable energy-powered artificial intelligence data centers across Australia... View Source

If you’re reading this review, there’s a chance you’ve come to it with some confusion. Didn’t OnePlus already release a new flagship phone this year, and wasn’t it called the OnePlus 13? The answer is yes to both those questions. So, what gives? Well, over the last few years, OnePlus has been working to shorten the gap between when its phones debut in China and when they’re available in the rest o... View Source

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China’s massive buildout of power generation capacity will give it a leg up over the US in the race to expand data centers fueling artificial intelligence, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc... View Source

At the end of 2024, Google was one of the first companies to start offering a Deep Research tool through its AI chatbot. Now, nearly a full year later, the company is bringing that same capability to NotebookLM. Like its Gemini counterpart, the tool allows you to task the app with generating an extensive report on a single topic. When you queue a Deep Research task, NotebookLM will browse hundreds... View Source

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This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. I spent yesterday at Eric Newcomer's Cerebral Valley conference in San Francisco, which is now in its third year. I've attended this event for three years in a row because Eric does a great job curating the speakers and the audience, and the conversations... View Source

Applied Materials Inc. suffered a sales decline last quarter and predicted another drop in the current period, though the chip-equipment maker sees demand improving in the second half of 2026... View Source

Yesterday, Valve announced three (3) hardware products: a Steam Machine console, an accompanying Steam Controller and the long-rumored Steam Frame VR headset. This hardware, along with the excellent Steam Deck, gives Valve a pretty comprehensive way to get people playing games wherever they want, on any sort of screen. And, of course, the games are what this is all about. Steam’s catalog is imposs... View Source

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Asian currencies from economies tied to the artificial intelligence boom are poised to benefit the most against a sliding dollar next year, according to Sophia Drossos, a strategist and economist at Point72 Asset Management... View Source

It's been clear for some time that all is not well at Ubisoft. Between games not meeting the company's sales expectations, studio closures, downsizing elsewhere and sexual misconduct issues, it's been a rocky past several years for the company. But now it seems something else may be going on at the publisher. Just before it was set to hold a call with investors on Thursday, Ubi... View Source

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Kioxia Holdings Corp. shares were set to fall by their daily limit after the NAND memory maker’s current-quarter outlook missed expectations elevated by bullish comments from bigger rivals... View Source

During my many hours playing Vampire Survivors I often wondered what it would feel like to have the absolutely insane bullet hell action extremely close to my eyeballs. Now my dream is being fulfilled, as there's a VR port for Meta Quest headsets. The appropriately-named Vampire Survivors VR costs $10 and is available for the Meta Quest 2, 3, 3S and Pro. This isn't a game that puts you i... View Source

A Chinese equipment maker and a US steel producer have been tipped as stock favorites at the Sohn Australia conference in Sydney... View Source

Red Dead Redemption will finally be available on mobile devices, but only for Netflix subscribers. This was discovered by prolific news source and deals curator Wario64, who also revealed a release date of December 4. The game will be free to play on both iOS and Android devices and will include the zombie-centric DLC Undead Nightmare. Red Dead Redemption coming to Netflix on Dec 4thiOS https://t... View Source

Apple Inc. and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp. and xAI accusing the companies of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in artificial intelligence, a federal judge in Texas ruled... View Source

The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon plans to cut about 15,000 jobs over the next week. Sources told the publication that Verizon is attempting to reduce costs as it faces more competition for wireless service and home internet customers. At the reported scope, this would be the largest reduction in history for the telecom company. Verizon leadership indicated that a sea change was c... View Source

Two of the biggest franchises go head-to-head with these unique Lego sets — From cinematic history to lines of Lego, Star Wars and Marvel battle it out... View Source

A huge New Glenn rocket successfully took off to place two spacecraft in orbit for a later boost to the red planetBlue Origin successfully launched its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’s company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon.The 321ft (98-meter) New Gle... View Source

Buy Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.’s Shenzhen-traded shares and sell their Hong Kong-listed peers, as the expiry of a sales ban on some early key investors approaches, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co... View Source

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has completed its second flight, The Washington Post reports. The rocket launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, and successfully separated from its first-stage booster, which later landed on a sea platform Blue Origin calls "Jacklyn."The launch marks the first time the space startup has been able to catch a New Gle... View Source

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The Nov. 13 launch of two Mars probes atop Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket was a big deal for a variety of reasons. Here's a brief rundown... View Source

You basically get the same experience as the Series 11, only for much less. | Image: The Verge The Apple Watch Series 11 is only a few months old, so discounts have been hard to come by thus far. However, if you don’t need the latest tech, the Apple Watch Series 10 delivers nearly the same experience, and the 42mm base model is currently down to an all-time low of $279 ($120 off) at Amazon. If you... View Source

The idea that data centers can shut down during peak demand times — not requiring the buildout of power plants — is a concept that could cost utility customers billions of dollars, according to a new report... View Source

Mozilla is working on a new tool for Firefox called AI Window. This will be an opt-in space for chatting with an AI assistant and getting help from it while browsing. The goal with this project appears to be giving users more control over when and how they choose to interact with AI. AI Window will be another option for users alongside the standard Firefox window and the Private Window, which will... View Source

The International Space Station's three Russian cosmonauts were instructed to spend a night in a laboratory module to shelter from radiation during a solar storm... View Source

Starting with the 2026 Major League Soccer (MLS) season, “all MLS matches” will be available to Apple TV subscribers “at no additional cost,” Apple and the MLS announced today. Since the 2023 MLS season, streaming MLS games has required an MLS Season Pass subscription, which was available on its own or for a discount for Apple TV subscribers. But next year, like with Apple’s upcoming F1 streaming... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow speak with Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins after the company raised its outlook and showed progress capturing more of the global AI spend. Plus, their conversation with Disney CFO Hugh Johnston on the media giant’s plan to invest in its content slate and streaming bundling. And, Tesla is developing support for Apple's CarPlay system in its vehicles, according to sou... View Source

Apple has introduced a new plan for developers who offer mini-apps that could see the commission rate cut in half. Under the App Store Mini Apps Partner Program, devs would pay a reduced rate of 15 percent, compared to the current 30 percent, on qualifying in-app purchases. Apple has a bunch of more detailed explanations and an FAQ about how the partner program will work and what mini apps are eli... View Source

After delays, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company successfully launched a NASA mission to study Mars on Thursday... View Source

It's based on the colorful microorganisms that live in the clouds on Earth... View Source

After several successful launches this year, Project Kuiper has its official name: Amazon Leo. It’s a nod to the term Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), which refers to orbits at an altitude of 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) or less. That’s the region where Amazon’s constellation of 153 satellites orbit. The original code name referred to the Kuiper Belt, an asteroid belt in the outer solar system past Neptun... View Source

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket from Florida into space and successfully landed its first-stage booster rocket on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. It's a historic mission. The rocket will send two spacecraft on a trajectory toward Mars. The booster landing is key to Blue Origin’s goal of making New Glenn partially reusable. Recovered boosters would be recycled for multiple laun... View Source

Amazon is making its satellite communication network a bit more official with a rebrand. The company has announced that Project Kuiper will now be called "Amazon Leo," a nod to the fact that its network is composed of satellites in low Earth orbit. Project Kuiper's journey to becoming a proper Amazon brand has been a long one. The company introduced the project in 2019 with the... View Source

NASA/Jonny Kim NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s Harmony module. Attached to its latching end effector is Dextre, the station’s... View Source

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket launched for the second time ever today (Nov. 13), sending NASA's twin Mars ESCAPADE probes aloft —and acing an epic booster landing at sea... View Source

From the outside, it looks like virtual and mixed reality is having a moment. Three new headsets have launched or been announced in the last month: There's Apple's M5 Vision Pro, the Samsung Galaxy XR, and, just this week, Valve announced the Steam Frame. Given the marketing, you might assume that means Big Tech thinks this tech finally has some mass-market appeal. But, in the nearly 60 years sinc... View Source

Industry leaders weigh in on everything from the middling allure of Netflix to the debatable impact of AI... View Source

You can already get a solid deal on a Roomba robot vacuum a couple of weeks before Black Friday kicks off in earnest. iRobot's entry-level Roomba 104 Vac robot vacuum is available for 40 percent off right now, taking its normal $250 price to a record low of $150. In iRobot's lineup of robot vacuums, the Roomba 104 sits on the low end, adept at vacuuming up dust and hair, but without the... View Source

Elon’s companies are converging around space-based AI data centers as the ultimate mult-trillion-dollar opportunity. Analyze October sales dips (Tesla trailing BYD in China units but dominating revenue). Tesla dominates EV revenue and has even more dominance with EV profits... View Source

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday... View Source

Anthropic announced on Thursday that Chinese state-backed hackers used the company’s AI model Claude to automate roughly 30 attacks on corporations and governments during a September campaign, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Anthropic said that up to 80% to 90% of the attack was automated with AI, a level higher than previous hacks. It occurred “literally with the click of a b... View Source

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple will not be granted a preliminary option for appealing a landmark antitrust ruling in the UK. In October, the country's Competition Appeal Tribunal determined that Apple benefited from "near absolute market power" over app distribution and in-app payments and was "abusing its dominant position by charging excessive and unfair prices" as developer commission. At the t... View Source

Blue Origin had to scrub the New Glenn NG2 twice. Launched today. They counted down to 20 seconds about an hour ago. Reset the clock to 34 minutes. Counted down again and had a hold at about 14 minutes and reset the clock again... View Source

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds... View Source

As the moon becomes the center of the new space race, the United States is looking for new ways to track spacecraft and other objects flying to or from lunar space... View Source

When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve’s new Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; thanks to the Frame’s dedicated wireless adapter and a cool trick Valve calls “foveated streaming,” I didn’t detect any latency as I explored an industrial building and fought some head crabs. But the Frame also has an Arm chip inside, meaning it can run games locally. While I didn’t get to te... View Source

Artificial intelligence fueled a stronger-than-expected earnings season for Japan’s tech sector, with surging data-center demand prompting chipmakers and equipment suppliers to raise forecasts... View Source

Apple is reportedly doing away with its Major League Soccer Season Pass and including next season's soccer matches as part of its normal Apple TV subscription. That’s according to reports of a new MLS partnership agreement from The Athletic that’s similar to a deal the company made in October to bring F1 races to all subscribers.First announced in 2022, the MLS Season Pass remains one of Appl... View Source

Mustafa Suleyman’s is CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind. He thinks of superintelligence from a Humanist superintelligence (HSI) view. He verticalized, human-serving AI at enterprise scale—positions Microsoft. The microsoft superintelligence group is about a year old. The OpenAI agreement had to be modified to permit Microsoft ... Read more... View Source

Nearly two million U.S. turkeys have died from bird flu in recent months. An agricultural economist explains what ongoing outbreaks could mean for Thanksgiving meals... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Maine as geomagnetic storm conditions could continue tonight... View Source

Anthropic is detailing its efforts to make its Claude AI chatbot “politically even-handed” — a move that comes just months after President Donald Trump issued a ban on “woke AI.” As outlined in a new blog post, Anthropic says it wants Claude to “treat opposing political viewpoints with equal depth, engagement, and quality of analysis.” In July, Trump signed an executive order that says the governm... View Source

Jack Dorsey is capitulating to the rise of regulated digital dollars. The Bitcoin maximalist who long argued the cryptocurrency could anchor everyday payments is now steering Block Inc.’s Cash App to support stablecoins, marking a sharp break for a company that built its crypto identity around Bitcoin purity... View Source

The most recent Switch 2 software update looks to have bricked many third-party docks and related accessories, according to users across the internet and a report by Kotaku. We don't know if this was an intentional move by Nintendo or simply an accident. Engadget has reached out to the company for clarification. The Switch 2 update 21.0.0 brings some much-needed quality-of-life features, like... View Source

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has broken into three distinct pieces following its closest approach to the sun on Oct. 8... View Source

Apple is launching a new program for mini app developers that slashes its fees for in-app purchases. On Thursday, the company announced that mini app creators who join the program take advantage of a lower 15 percent commission rate — half of the up to 30 percent rate Apple charges other developers. Apple describes mini apps as “self-contained experiences” built using HTML5 and JavaScript that exi... View Source

Apple Inc. introduced a new program Thursday that lets the iPhone maker collect revenue from mini apps and games within larger “super apps,” an attempt to capitalize on a growing trend among software developers... View Source

Tesla may finally be capitulating to the calls of iPhone users wanting what practically every other major automaker offers them, Apple CarPlay. Bloomberg is reporting that the EV giant is working to add Apple’s car infotainment integration to its vehicles, according to the outlet’s sources. The feature has reportedly begun internal testing and could be ready for release in the coming months. Of co... View Source

Netflix's next stab at gaming is here. Starting today you'll be able to play a number of multiplayer party games on your TV using your phone as a controller. To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and Tetris Time Warp. A social deduction game based on the Knives Out series, Dead Man's Party: A Knives Out Game, is also part... View Source

Energy-hungry data centers test industry’s commitment to go carbon-zero by 2040... View Source

During Disney's latest earnings call, CEO Bob Iger spoke about next steps for the Disney+ streaming service, and he noted that the entertainment giant has had "productive conversations" with potential AI partners. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney+ might soon play host to user-generated short-form AI videos. "The other thing that we’re really excited about, that... View Source

Tesla Model Y outsells Top 15 other non-tesla EV model in sales revenue. Tesla is likely the only car company profitably selling EVs. Tesla sells cars for about $40000 versus $10000-15000 for BYD and other Chinese Car makers. China BEV sales surpassed 1.1 million per month. Tesla is selling about 150,000 per month on average ... Read more... View Source

The company is proactively discharging the units remotely to make them safe until they’re replaced. | Image: Tesla Tesla is expanding a Powerwall 2 battery recall that started in Australia last September to the US. A ”third-party battery cell defect” can cause units to “stop functioning normally, resulting in overheating, smoking and in some cases smoke or flame causing minor property damage.” The... View Source

Cursor, a fast-growing artificial intelligence coding startup, is buying a firm that has helped support leading AI companies like OpenAI in their own recruiting efforts, the latest sign of an increasingly fierce talent war in the technology industry... View Source

TikTok introduced a new "bulletin board" feature for creators that allows them to blast out updates directly to their followers' inboxes. The idea is similar to broadcast channels on Instagram or Telegram's one-way messaging feature. People who opt to join a creator's bulletin board will receive updates in their TikTok inbox. Updates can include text, links, polls or... View Source

The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar... View Source

In recent years, we've seen generative AI move quickly through different eras: chatbots, image-generation, voice, video-generation, and more. But Dr. Fei-Fei Li, longtime AI pioneer and co-director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), is staking out what she thinks is the next frontier: spatial intelligence, a nascent field that she believes is the "defining ch... View Source

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei Technologies Co. will be excluded from the country’s future telecommunication networks on security grounds as he pushes for more digital sovereignty... View Source

Don't forget to claim your $20 credit from YouTube. (Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty Images If you're a YouTube TV subscriber who relies on ESPN for football games, or maybe you never miss an episode of Dancing with the Stars (which airs on ABC), you're probably getting frustrated with the ongoing Disney feud. The two channels, along with other Disney-owned channels like Freeform an... View Source

The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is down to just $35 ahead of Black Friday. Amazon’s Black Friday officially starts on November 20th, but in reality, it’s already well underway. For the past week or so, we’ve been seeing the retailer drop a number of good Black Friday deals, and the latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max is one of the best. Right now, you can buy the streaming stick for just $34.99 ($25 off)... View Source

Rapid-delivery startup Gopuff has raised $250 million at a valuation of $8.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter — a significant markdown from its value in a 2021 funding round, as the company seeks to grow its services and sustain its financial health... View Source

Meta is revamping Facebook Marketplace in an effort to make it more appealing to "young adults" on the platform. The updates includes new collaborative shopping features, as well as AI-generated suggestions and "insights" about specific listings. Now, would-be buyers can create Pinterest-like "collections" of Marketplace listings and invite friends to join. These... View Source

After studying mice in the 1910s, Maude Slye concluded that vulnerability to cancer was hereditary. She thought she had a solution to eliminate it, but she made some crucial mistakes... View Source

Another day, another AI browser. This time, it’s Firefox, the self-described “independent browser” from Mozilla. Firefox says it is building an AI browsing feature called AI Window that includes an AI assistant and chatbot. The company calls it an opt-in “intelligent and user-controlled space” that is currently being built “in the open” with user input.  In September, the company launched a “... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. is discussing plans to announce job cuts across the company next week, according to people familiar with the wireless carrier’s plans, a major step in a transformation led by new Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman... View Source

We are about a month away from the premiere of Fallout season two on Prime Video. The streaming gods have blessed us with a beefy two-minute trailer that's packed with "blink and you'll miss it" Easter eggs and nods to the source material. This is the first real-deal trailer for the upcoming season, though we did get a teaser back in August. It checks in on every major characte... View Source

Another one of Rockstar’s greatest hits is coming Netflix. On December 4th you’ll be able to play Red Dead Redemption and it’s zombified standalone DLC Undead Nightmare for free as long as you have a Netflix subscription. The news broke when prolific video game news hound Wario64 found listings for the game on the iOS and Android store. And it seems like Netflix isn’t the only one that’ll let you... View Source

Tesla Inc. is developing support for Apple Inc.’s CarPlay system in its vehicles, according to people with knowledge of the matter, working to add one of the most highly requested features by customers... View Source

Valve’s second attempt at a console-like gaming PC for your living room is hopefully going to be a triumph worthy of plenty of cake, with or without fun accessories. But if you really want to make the Steam Machine feel extra special when it arrives in early 2026, you’re going to want to dress it up in Dbrand’s Companion Cube skin. A tribute to the iconic Weighted Companion Cube from Valve’s belov... View Source

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mar... View Source

Oceanographers hope to find otherworldly ecosystems at hydrothermal vents on the Arctic seafloor... View Source

A few new features are coming to the Uber app, including one that could make it simpler to pick someone up or cover their ride. The new “Send a Ride” feature allows you to pay for someone else’s Uber ride directly from the app. You set the number of rides and spending limit, then send a link to whoever you want to gift the rides to.  Additionally, John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia A... View Source

Crypto payments firm MoonPay Inc. will start issuing and managing stablecoins on behalf of clients, as demand for dollar-pegged tokens has soared in the wake of US legislation... View Source

An MMO based on Sony's Horizon series is on the way. However, Horizon Steel Frontiers is not coming to PS5, at least not initially. It's a mobile-first game that's also coming to PC, in another example of Sony Interactive Entertainment expanding beyond its core PlayStation console business.NCSoft, the MMO developer and publisher behind the likes of the Guild Wars series and Throne a... View Source

BioLite continues to light up our world with the USB-C chargeable, IPX4-rated Dash 450... View Source

Google DeepMind’s new AI agent learned how to play a bunch of video games — including No Man’s Sky, Valheim, and Goat Simulator 3 — to become a viable “interactive gaming companion.” The new agent tool, SIMA 2, builds on its earlier iteration, SIMA (Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent), which DeepMind released in March 2024. It also incorporates Google’s Gemini AI for the first time, meani... View Source

In what will likely be his most consequential act as NASA’s interim leader, Sean Duffy said last month that the space agency was “opening up” its competition to develop a lunar lander that will put humans on the surface of the Moon. As part of this move, Duffy asked NASA’s current lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for more nimble plans. Neither has specified those plans publicly, b... View Source

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is launching a money-market fund tailored to issuers of stablecoins who need to comply with a recently signed US stablecoin law... View Source

In case you missed it, Valve announced a load of new hardware this week, including a second stab at the Steam Machine, a Steam controller, and a long-rumored new VR headset called the Steam Frame. But in with the new often means out with the old, and perhaps inevitably, the company has confirmed that its previous headset, the Valve Index, is no more. Valve’s Lawrence Yang told The Verge that... View Source

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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has been over a decade in the making, but its opening day is finally in sight. It’s officially less than a year away on September 22nd, 2026. The museum will include over 40,000 works of “narrative art,” ranging from murals to comic book art and, of course, cinematic artifacts. Among those are the Lucas Archives, “containing models, props, concept art, and costume... View Source

Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of the transition... View Source

The OnePlus 15 has top-tier gaming performance and can control TVs as a universal remote... View Source

OnePlus has launched its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 15, today in a live event. It’s supposed to mark the availability of the phone outside of China, where it came out in October, but the US government shutdown apparently put a damper on the manufacturer’s plans. “As is the case with every smartphone manufacturer, the United States’ Federal Communications Commission certifies OnePlus d... View Source

The European Space Agency has completed the Orion service module for NASA's Artemis 4 mission to the moon, which was saved from cancellation earlier this year by the U.S. Congress... View Source

The OnePlus 15 will land later than expected. OnePlus wants to sell you its new flagship phone; it just doesn’t know when it will be able to. Like so many other things these days, the OnePlus 15 is in limbo thanks to fallout from the government shutdown. The 15 launched earlier this year in China, and OnePlus has announced pricing for the US: $899 for a version with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storag... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is expanding the availability of its reserved rides option to include popular ski destinations, part of a larger effort to lure wealthy consumers toward more premium services... View Source

DoorDash is bringing its robot delivery service to Miami, following an initial rollout in Los Angeles and Chicago earlier this year with over 600 participating merchants. The company continues to work with Coco Robotics as part of its push towards a "muliti-modal system" that allows it to make human, robot and drone deliveries at scale. As well as adding a third city to the initiative, D... View Source

NASA’s Technology Transfer Office invites entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative thinkers to apply NASA’s patented technologies to practical applications. Participants will select an existing NASA patent and develop a business or product concept that will be evaluated based on value proposition, business model viability, development feasibility, and quality of presentation. Entries should clearly... View Source

The Analogue 3D is compatible with N64 cartridges from all over the world. | Image: Analogue First announced in October 2023 with an expected release sometime in 2024, the Analogue 3D is finally shipping on November 18th following repeated delays. The console is Analogue’s reimagined and upgraded version of the Nintendo 64 with 4K output and full compatibility with original N64 cartridges from eve... View Source

Large companies have been stuffing artificial intelligence software into every possible product for years. Now, Founders Fund is backing a startup that wants to help small businesses use the technology, too... View Source

Hideo Kojima has unveiled Death Stranding Isolations (working title), an original anime series based on his franchise, coming to Disney+ in 2027. The gaming legend made the announcement at a Disney+ event in Hong Kong alongside series director Sano Takayuki. It will be the first Kojima Productions' partnership with a global streaming platform, with Kojima serving as an executive producer... View Source

Spotify is launching a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what you’ve already heard without needing to rewind. The company likens the feature, called Recaps, to a “previously on” segment at the start of episodes in a TV series.  Recaps will be available automatically in the iOS app for a limited number of English-language audiobooks, with plans to expand to more audiobooks in an unspeci... View Source

Telegram billionaire Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov’s travel ban has been fully lifted by French authorities investigating him over his messaging platform... View Source

Amazon has early Black Friday savings on its most potent streaming stick. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is 41 percent off, bringing it close to its record low. You can get it now for $35. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max is one of Engadget's favorite streaming devices. The stick supports a solid mix of advanced technologies for its price: Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, 4K and HDR10+. As long as the rest of yo... View Source

An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary swells stacking up—an insight that could make prediction possible... View Source

The launch helped strengthen Europe's ambitions in climate monitoring, disaster response and maritime security... View Source

Valve has created a PC-based game console that lives under your TV. The Steam Machine takes everything that's great about the Steam Deck and adds the raw power to compete with the latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles. It also puts a huge amount of pressure on Microsoft to perfect its Windows and Xbox combination, as the Steam Machine brings Windows games to the living room in a way that Microsoft... View Source

The artificial-intelligence startup that makes Cursor, a tool that helps engineers write code, has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner looks at Mark Zuckerberg’s musings about what his company might do if it builds too many data centers for its AI needs... View Source

Even with its US future in limbo, DJI keeps releasing impressive drones. Its latest is the Neo 2, an inexpensive, lightweight model aimed at creators and hobbyists. It’s an upgraded version of the Neo, an immensely popular drone both in the US and elsewhere. The new model is equally safe and easy to fly thanks to the shrouded props, palm takeoff and voice control. DJI didn’t just tack on a number... View Source

The Neo 2 adds obstacle avoidance but still features prop guards as a backup. | Image: DJI After launching exclusively in China last month, DJI is announcing wider global availability for its Neo 2 selfie drone, including Japan, Canada, the UK, and other countries where the company sells its drones. But as with the Mavic 4 Pro and 8K Osmo 360 camera, the Neo 2 won’t be available in the US. “DJI re... View Source

German startup Ferroelectric Memory GmbH has raised €100 million ($116 million) in investor financing and subsidies to commercialize energy-saving memory chips... View Source

Parts of Earth's magnetic field work in reverse compared to what long-standing models predict, new research suggests... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd. has agreed a deal with Apple Inc. that will see the iPhone maker handle payments and take a 15% cut of purchases in WeChat mini games and apps, according to people familiar with the discussions... View Source

Withings announced that its multi-function medical device BeamO has received clearance from the FDA. BeamO contains sensors to perform an electrocardiogram, a stethoscope and a thermometer. The company claims all three tests can be completed in less than a minute.  It is now available for purchase and will retail for $250. The company unveiled BeamO at CES 2024. It's being posi... View Source

The 100AZ is our best telescope for beginners and kids, with a host of user-friendly features that make viewing the moon and planets a breeze. Now, with $106 off, it's also a bargain telescope buy... View Source

Google is under investigation by European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it unfairly demotes some news results in a probe that risks adding to its €9.5 billion ($11 billion) EU fines tally and worsening fraught relations with the Trump administration... View Source

The Singapore family office of alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi and three companies linked to him are seeking access to funds that were frozen by the city-state’s authorities last month... View Source

Samsung’s trifold phone on display at the K-Tech Showcase exhibition in October. | Photo: SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg via Getty Images Reputable gadget leaker Evan Blass has taken to X with “some confirmed details” on Samsung’s upcoming trifold phone. It’ll be called the “Galaxy Z TriFold,” according to Blass, with a 6.5-inch cover display that maxes out at 2600 nits brightness. It unfurls to produc... View Source

JD.com Inc.’s revenue grew a faster-than-anticipated 15%, boosted by government-directed consumer subsidies as well as an aggressive drive into new arenas such as meal delivery... View Source

Google says that it’s softening its plan to require every Android developer — even outside of the Play Store — to verify their identity, a move which critics warned could kill sideloading for good. The company now says it’s developing a workflow to allow “experienced users” to install apps from unverified developers. Mandatory verification for developers even outside the official Play Store was fi... View Source

Anduril Industries Inc. and Emirati defense company EDGE Group PJSC are launching a joint venture to build drones in the United Arab Emirates, as the US startup makes its first foray into the Middle East... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted a faster-than-anticipated 15% rise in revenue, sustaining the steady growth that’s helped the social media leader attract investors despite eschewing splashy investments in AI infrastructure... View Source

Singapore’s central bank has proposed a set of guidelines that will hold the board and senior management of financial institutions responsible for risks that arise from their use of artificial intelligence... View Source

Baidu Inc. released the latest iteration of its flagship AI models, trying to keep up in the highly competitive Chinese artificial intelligence arena... View Source

Deutsche Telekom AG said it would raise dividends for 2025 after third-quarter profit rose from a year earlier, bolstered by a record number of new users of home fiber lines in Germany... View Source

Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. is preparing an overhaul of its main mobile AI app in coming months to help it more closely resemble OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a key step in a broader effort to catch rivals and eventually earn money off individual users... View Source

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Ian Sample joins Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intriguing science stories from the week. They discuss the complicated legacy of James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA; a new breakthrough in the quest to understand the autoimmune disease lupus; and why everyone from Joe Rogan to Kim Kardashian is talking about comet 3I/Atlas.Clips: PBS, Fox 32... View Source

Flutter Entertainment Plc, parent of the FanDuel sports-betting app, has surrendered its license to operate in Nevada, according to the state’s Gaming Control Board... View Source

AirTrunk, the Australian data-center operator bought by Blackstone Inc. last year for A$24 billion ($16 billion), will build its next facility in India to help meet overwhelming demand in the sector, said founder and Chief Executive Officer Robin Khuda... View Source

Japan Exchange Group Inc. is mulling measures to limit the growth of listed digital-asset treasury companies, as concerns deepen over losses connected to the crypto hoarding frenzy... View Source

The geomagnetic storm, caused by powerful bursts of energy from the sun, also postponed the launch of two Mars-bound Nasa spacecraft in the USFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSkywatchers enjoyed a stunning treat on Wednesday night, with the southern lights visible across large parts of Australia and New Zealand.The aur... View Source

In a new teaser trailer for Toy Story 5, Buzz, Woody and the rest of the gang face what may be their ultimate enemy in the war for a child's play time: electronics. With INXS's Never Tear Us Apart playing in the background, we see the delivery of a parcel to Bonnie Anderson, Andy's younger sister, who inherited his toys back in Toy Story 3. Our heroes including Rex, Mr. & Mrs. P... View Source

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Following a teaser in September that confirmed the movie’s title, Nintendo and animation studio Illumination unleashed the first proper trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in a dedicated Nintendo Direct. The sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the highest-grossing movie based on video games, will hit theaters in the US on April 3. The trailer opens with Bowser engaging in a little art ther... View Source

The rumored MMO set in Sony’s post-apocalyptic Horizon universe is real — and we’ve seen a video spilling details about the game before it’s been announced.  The new game is called Horizon Steel Frontiers, and Sony and the Korean video game company NCSoft are working on it together. Based on a more than 10-minute video we’ve seen featuring a mix of cinematic and pre-alpha gameplay footage as... View Source

FanDuel, the US online gambling division of Flutter Entertainment Plc, is launching its own prediction market product, which will allow it to open up in states where traditional sports betting is illegal and deal with competitive pressure from new startup exchanges in the space... View Source

A lot of people think the original Google Glass failed because of subpar tech. But the larger issue was that they were so ugly that people simply didn't want to wear them. And when it's a device that sits on your face, that's kind of important. Thankfully, that's a lesson Even Realities seemingly took to heart when it made the G1, which combined the stylishness of proper eyewea... View Source

Chinese tax authorities ordered e-commerce giants including Amazon.com Inc. to hand over sales data for the first time, according to people familiar with the matter, in a rare move to crack down on tax evasion by merchants who use the online platforms for cross-border business... View Source

Sometimes, the best features in a new operating system aren't the flashy ones that get broadcast during a keynote. They're subtle improvements that naturally fit into how you use your device and just make the experience better. One of those appears to be coming in the next macOS update. The dev beta of Tahoe 26.2 includes a feature that essentially lets your computer screen function as a... View Source

Brie Larson and Benny Safdie join the original vocal cast for this cosmic Super Mario Brothers sequel... View Source

As fears grow over concentration in technology stocks amid a possible bubble in the artificial intelligence trade, investors are piling into Tencent Holdings Ltd. shares as a safer bet... View Source

Plenty of companies have promised to produce a gaming laptop that could be upgraded over time. If we’re honest, nobody has managed to properly deliver on that pledge until now, as Framework launches a meaningful CPU and GPU upgrade for the Laptop 16. Almost two years after the machine first went on sale, you can now swap out its discrete Radeon RX 7700S for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070. If the compan... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the continued data center boom, as Anthropic pledges to spend $50 billion building data centers in the US, and Meta announces plans for a $1 billion data center in Wisconsin. Plus, shares of AMD spike after the Nvidia rival projected accelerating growth for its chips. And fitness tracker Whoop eyes an IPO. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Backbone just released a new Pro version of its Xbox controller. The Backbone Pro Xbox Edition looks like an improvement over the pre-existing One controller in nearly every way. It's still a USB-C shell that wraps around a phone or related device, but the actual controller is now more in league with an actual Xbox gamepad. It features full-size control sticks, hall effect triggers and two cu... View Source

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.1 today, an update to the flagship model it released in August. OpenAI calls it an “upgrade” to GPT-5 that “makes ChatGPT smarter and more enjoyable to talk to.” The new models include GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The former is “warmer, more intelligent, and better at following your instructions” than its predecessor, per an OpenAI release, and the latter is “now... View Source

Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd.’s infrastructure arm UEM Group Bhd. plans to use its vast land holdings to supply clean energy and industrial land to accommodate power-hungry data centers in the southern state of Johor, said Managing Director Amran Hafiz Affifudin... View Source

It's not always easy to find gifts for dads, especially for those who are often quick to snap up whatever they need on their own. But even the geekiest and most well-informed dads have blind spots — the trick is to find something they've never heard of, but could actually make their lives useful. We've collected some of our favorite dadcore gift ideas, which would suit everyone from... View Source