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New Zealand company Zenno Astronautics has tested the first of its kind thruster based on superconducting magnets to maintain the position of a satellite in space.Superconducting magnets can convert solar energy directly into momentum in space and provide a source of acceleration that needs no fuel, but until recently, the technology was too large and complex to fit on a satellite. That's no longe... View Source

Microsoft is spinning off four of its Xbox game studios - Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs - as part of the restructuring announced today. However, two that are going independent, Double Fine and Compulsion, will get to keep their franchises and games catalog, according to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. "Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to man... View Source

Record spending on AI infrastructure and power grids is fueling a flurry of capital raises by listed companies, giving bankers one of their busiest starts in years and eclipsing the slowdown of initial public offerings in the region... View Source

Reddit to combat AI with more AI... View Source

Credit: NASA On Monday, NASA released a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy, aimed at ensuring a seamless transition of activities in low Earth orbit from the International Space Station.  “NASA’s review reflects what we’ve been hearing from industry throughout this process. Industry believes it... View Source

Tesla had its best-ever Q2 vehicle deliveries and there will be strong FSD sales. FSD V14-lite is rolling out to Hardware 3 vehicles and there will be more FSD sales in China and Europe. This is expected to significantly boost subscription revenue and improve used car resale values. The +34% QoQ delivery has fixed‑cost absorption ... Read more... View Source

Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from the $500 it’s sold at most of the year to $378 at multiple retailers. But there’s a better deal happening on a nearly identical portable camera, the Xtra Muse, which is $329 (roughly $100 off what it sold for three months ago). It’s not just some copycat; my colleague Sean Hollister’s report... View Source

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an aging Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa2, which completed its initial sample-return objective more than half a decade ago, found success with an extended mission that saw the vehicle fly by a peanut... View Source

A rebound in chipmakers lifted stocks as dip buyers emerged amid speculation that the artificial-intelligence trade that has powered the bull market has more room to run. Lori Calvasina, Head of US Equity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, discusses AI influence on the broader market and stronger earnings driving stock upside. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

To comply with battery regulations, Nintendo will stop selling the Switch 1 in Europe next year... View Source

5 Min Read NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) has achieved all primary and extended mission objectives. Credits: NASA As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate with... View Source

One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a friend's birthday party one year, Ayla D'Silva spent $100 on sour candy and made a "sour candy salad." Even sweeter was that she didn't have to foot the bill - the money came from Partiful. As a college ambassador for the startup, D'Silva got a small stip... View Source

Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios... View Source

The Artemis 2 astronauts look up at footage from their flight during a visit to Capitol Hill. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)As we reflect on this past July 4 weekend, and America's 250th birthday, we look to NASA's Artemis II astronauts, who recently reflected on their historic mission during a visit to Capitol Hill.What is it? Following their return to Earth from a 10-day journey around the moo... View Source

We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I’m talking with Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky, who run the Creators division at United Talent Agency. UTA is an enormous talent agency. Half the people you’ve ever heard speak or perform or who show up anywhere have UTA agents representing them. For full disclosure, that... View Source

Holes in socks have become a curious sight at this year’s World Cup. The reasons why are a weird mix of biomechanics, perception, and player habits... View Source

Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox plans to eliminate 3,200 jobs, or around 20% of its staff over the next year, as part of a massive reorganization to spur growth in the struggling gaming division. Jason Schreier reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Xbox will lay off 3,200 workers as part of mass restructuring... View Source

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A Japanese spacecraft has gotten up close and personal with yet another asteroid, beaming home stunning new imagery of the distant space rock.On Sunday (July 5), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s Hayabusa2 probe performed a close flyby of asteroid Torifune, a 1,475-foot (450-meter) space rock currently traveling through space some 62 million miles (100 million kilometers) from Earth... View Source

Nintendo is making a new version of the Switch 2 with a replaceable battery in Europe - but its predecessor has a very different future. As part of an updated FAQ about revisions to Nintendo hardware in Europe, the company confirmed that it will stop selling all iterations of the original Switch on the continent starting next year. Here's the full statement: From mid-February 2027, almost ten year... View Source

Mysterious metallic orbs washed up on a secluded beach in Australia, and experts say they likely fell from a spacecraft. Locals called the police after discovering three large metal orbs on Friday. A total of six were eventually found, with local news outlet 7 News reporting that police warned the public that the items may contain hazardous chemicals. Emergency responders approached the orbs in ha... View Source

Max Kettner, chief multi-asset strategist at HSBC, says the ``melt-up'' moment in tech stocks is set to swing momentum back to the hyperscalers. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's ``Surveillance.'' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

They're for more than just fast charging... View Source

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma at the Bloomberg Tech conference in June 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company's Xbox division. The significant gaming cuts will affect nearly every part of Xbox and also involve four game studios being spun off to be run independently from Microsoft. Today's layoffs, whic... View Source

Kelsey Berro, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at JPMorgan Asset Management, discussed the Federal Reserve's monetary policy outlook, indicating that a rate hike in July is probably off the table and she expects the Fed to stay on hold for the year. Berro also says while the recent payrolls report suggests the labor market is stable, it's not going to decisively influence Fed decisions. She speaks o... View Source

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Pasadena, California — NASA's new alien-hunting telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), will be serviceable out in space (and it will have gamma-ray detectors, to boot).Do you remember seeing NASA's Space Shuttle astronauts working on the Hubble Space Telescope out in space? Well, it will likely be robots this time around, but NASA is planning for HWO to be serviceable, which means that... View Source

Broadcom Inc. said Monday that it will provide custom chips for Apple Inc. in an expanded deal that runs through 2031... View Source

Bentley has confirmed that it will finally add an electric car to its exclusive lineup... View Source

Morgan Stanley Chief US Equity Strategist Mike Wilson says investors are rotating out of some of the year's biggest winning technology trades. He says hyperscalers will stabilize and semiconductors stocks will correct. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Comcast subsidiary Sky plans to buy the UK's biggest broadcaster, ITV... View Source

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Silent neutron stars at the center of supernova blast sites may actually be whispering softly, following the detection of faint radio emissions coming from one such object for the first time. The discovery raises the prospect that there could be many more pulsars in our galaxy than we thought.When a massive star explodes as a supernova, the devastation leads to the star's core collapsing under its... View Source

The former champion of sharing-friendly policies has changed... View Source

Csquare Inc., a data center company backed by Brookfield Corp., is seeking to raise as much as $1.35 billion in a US initial public offering... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. kicked off its formal marketing process for its US listing on Monday, as the South Korean chipmaker looks to capitalize on surging investor demand for the high-flying memory-chip sector... View Source

A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise... View Source

South Korea’s memory giants will put the artificial-intelligence trade to yet another test this week. Samsung releases earnings on Tuesday. Investors are also getting ready for SK Hynix’s massive US listing days later. Eleven people were killed and 60 injured in a deadly overnight attack in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara where President Donald Trump is due to... View Source

A judge has ruled that the Pentagon must give Alibaba a reprieve over its placement on a Chinese military list... View Source

Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists have already begun charting exactly when and where billions of people can watch it sweep across the sky.Speaking at an "Apophis T-3 Years" workshop held earlier this month at the University of Padua in Italy, retired cartographer Michael Zeiler and astronomer Rick Fienberg shared deta... View Source

As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with spaceWearing a shiny silver spacesuit, Alan Shepard clutches his helmet and looks like an archetypal blue-eyed American hero. The 1961 portrait by Bruce Stevenson paid tribute to the first US astronaut in space. It also planted a seed.James Webb, the then administrator of Nasa... View Source

Ireland's technology sector, heavily exposed to US multinationals, is facing widespread AI-driven labor market disruption and declines in its high tech employment rates. Bloomberg's Olivia Fletcher has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology... View Source

Growing doubts about sustainability of the AI rally are pushing more investors toward old-economy stocks, according to the latest Markets Pulse survey... View Source

Amundi Investment Institute Head Monica Defend explains where she sees value in the AI supply chain. "Industrial is going to be a key sector because of its weight on on the market and because this is the sector where we have the AI enablers," Defend tells Bloomberg Television. "This is where we think the value and the performance might come from." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. is poised to raise HK$24.3 billion ($3.1 billion) after telling prospective investors it wants to price shares for its Hong Kong listing at the maximum amount it had set, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Many people who want Apple's rumored folding iPhone 'Ultra' may not be able to get it at first... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp. shares may see passive inflows of ¥3 trillion ($18.5 billion), because of the potential jump in its weighting on the benchmark Topix index, according to SMBC Nikko Securities Inc... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Singaporean prosecutors filed additional charges including money laundering against a key suspect in an AI server fraud case, part of the Southeast Asian nation’s growing efforts to clamp down on Nvidia Corp. chips being diverted illicitly to other locations including China... View Source

ITV Plc has agreed to sell its media and entertainment arm to Comcast Corp.-owned Sky Group Ltd. in a deal worth as much as £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) including debt... View Source

Cluster might look like a mini version of the Plough unless you grab your binocularsIn the early hours of 11 July, the waning crescent moon will be gliding past the beautiful Pleiades star cluster, which is also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters.The chart shows the view looking east-north-east from London at 3am BST. By then, the sky will getting ready to start brightening for the coming day, so a... View Source

EQT AB agreed to acquire Australia’s Orikan, saying it will help the smart parking technology company invest in innovation, strengthen its business and expand into adjacent markets... View Source

Organisation says objects consistent with ‘debris from a foreign rocket body that recently re-entered the atmosphere’ The Australian Space Agency has said the six so-called “space balls” found in north Queensland were likely from a “foreign rocket body” that had recently re-entered the atmosphere after being in orbit.The six mysterious objects were found by the public washed ashore in the Forrest... View Source

James Park, CEO at Rakuten Travel Xchange, discusses the trends shaping Japan’s tourism market as inbound arrivals extended its decline in May, weighed down by reduced flights across routes and a prolonged slump in Chinese visitors. He speaks with Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ByteDance Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. are pulling the plug on features that let users build and chat with AI companions, preparing for new Chinese regulations governing human interactions with artificial intelligence... View Source

The boost to Australia’s trade from the mining boom looks to be fading as imports soar and export growth flatlines, potentially putting it on track for the first annual deficit since 2016... View Source

Patients with the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola have started receiving experimental treatments in a clinical trial that aims to improve care for the rare viral disease, which has killed more than 500 people in Democratic Republic of Congo... View Source

Self-driving tech developer Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its list of backers and begun adopting Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s AI accelerators in its systems... View Source

The world must urgently develop guardrails to contain the threat posed by artificial intelligence, Britain’s foreign secretary is set to warn... View Source

Political donors will need to wait a year after returning to the UK before they can give more than £100,000 ($133,510) as part of a proposed crackdown on offshore political finance that threatens to hit Nigel Farage’s Reform UK... View Source

Hyundai Motor Co. showcased its Atlas humanoid robot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, highlighting its technical progress on football’s biggest stage as the South Korean automaker gears up for mass production and factory deployment... View Source

Netflix’s biggest hits are losing more than half of their audience after one season... View Source

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools. Companies like Forge Prep and Alpha School are charging families tens of thousands of dollars to turn their kids into beta tes... View Source

Avoiding old-school labor ideology, a new generation of tech workers finds itself divided by the AI boom... View Source

Everyone knows SpaceX is making launching to space 100 to 1000 times lower cost with Starship. The volume will also go up by thousands of times. How can people and things get back at high volumes and low cost? SpaceX is solving that as well. SpaceX is making the return from space or from Starships ... Read more... View Source

AI data centers and compute represent a much bigger and faster-growing opportunity for Tesla than robotaxis. AI can generate $50–100 billion in annual revenue per gigawatt of power — dramatically outpacing typical robotaxi economics. Massive Untapped Grid Capacity The U.S. grid can unlock tens to ~100 GW of new AI data center load without building ... Read more... View Source

A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop it while she considers its constitutionality in a case set to test the ability of the US government to restrict Chinese companies’ activities... View Source

They were annoying to use and bad 3D movies didn't help... View Source

First, you drop bombs, then you send aid. Totally logical. | Image: Definitive Jux There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featured plenty of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically minded acts, Lif stood out as the most "conscious rapper" in the traditional sense. It was clear though, t... View Source

Here's how to find out whether you're charging your Apple mobile devices at top speed... View Source

Anything released after 2028 will still be digital-only... View Source

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk maintains an extremely close relationship with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr. Under Carr’s leadership, Musk’s rocket company has effectively been given carte blanche in its efforts to roll out its orbital Starlink broadband service to more Americans, a glaring conflict of interest that could have profound implications for society. That’... View Source

Minions & Monsters, the seventh film in the animated franchise depicting the yellow, mischievous creatures who speak in expressive gibberish, was the highest-grossing movie over the July 4 holiday weekend, with $61.4 million in US and Canadian box office sales... View Source

A look at in-game cosmetics you’ll get with the Ultimate edition. | Image: Rockstar Games Rockstar's long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be available digitally at launch, with physical cases containing codes, not discs, so your options for preordering are straightforward. The preloading phase for the game b... View Source

Scientists turned a bunch of cockroaches into remote-controllable cyborgs — and then built them little scuba suits so they can swim underwater, transforming them into powerful amphibian troopers. Rest assured, they (the scientists, not the roaches) aren’t intent on world domination. Instead, they propose that one day a swarm of these biological drones could be used to poke around dangerous e... View Source

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th centuryAn increasing number of scientists think we have let the climate crisis fester for so long that our only hope to stave off ever-intensifying catastrophes is to use technological interventions. Cloud brightening, injecting sulphur into the atmosphere and the use of t... View Source

A comprehensive review found that mRNA vaccines — a popular target of viral vaccine conspiracy theories and medical misinformation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic — are a resoundingly safe and effective feat of modern medicine. Published this week in the journal The Lancet, the review confirmed that mRNA vaccines are robustly effective at preventing the spread of infectious diseases like... View Source

I call BS: the founding fathers definitely would have been Microsoft Teams users. | Image: Google "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben... View Source

A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust.The Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain (ERNEST), developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently completed a 16-mile (26 kilometers) trek through the desert in Southern California. The j... View Source

Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly measure. Just altogether gross. After Keurig? You could make your own coffee, a cup at a time, exactly when you needed it. The single-cup brewer was an elegant solution to an extremely common problem. At least, that's how it started. On this episode of... View Source

Government officials in Alabama are giving an old riverboat casino a from Indiana a new life — not floating down the state’s copious waterways, but at the bottom of the sea. Alabama-based news channel WPMI detailed the unusual plan to scuttle the riverboat, called the Argosy VI, off the coast of Orange Beach, a small city roughly an hour south east of Mobile. According to the outlet, the Ala... View Source

It's good to know how long your phone will get updates before you purchase... View Source

The Sourdough Sidekick was codeveloped with King Arthur Baking Company. Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix. The trick to the Sourdough Sidekick - backed and branded by King Arthur flour - is that it promises to automate the b... View Source

Vizio OS works well, but you don’t even need to use it. When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for under $398 - the cheapest on the market. Vizio's been pretty quiet since it was acquired by Walmart in 2024, so putting out a TV with quantum dots, which allow for higher brightness levels and... View Source

Over the past five decades, China has planted 66 billion trees in a massive wall that spans the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. This reforestation effort intended to stop the deserts’ spread is working — but, it turns out, with a surprising twist. In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that the trees planted in the so-called “Great Green Wa... View Source

Bloomberg Technology & Strategic Industries Senior Editor Mike Shepard says semiconductor stocks have come under pressure as investors question whether the rapid pace of AI infrastructure spending can be sustained beyond 2026, despite continued commitments from major technology companies. Shepard also explains to hosts of Bloomberg This Weekend David Gura and Christina Ruffini SK Hynix's plann... View Source

Kids who grew up in the '80s and '90s couldn't enjoy the massive selection of live-action sci-fi TV available right now. With the biggest out-of-this-world adventures likely to be found in theaters, many of the most memorable — and undoubtedly the weirdest — concepts tended to be found in Saturday morning cartoons.This is a realm of exposition-heavy opening credits, relentlessly earwormy theme tun... View Source

Gears of War: E-Day. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the bleak state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Microsoft closed out Summer Game Fest with a bang. The company's annual June showcase wa... View Source

We’re officially in an El Niño year, and as predicted, it’s a scorcher. Record temperatures are already being recorded around the world, from the streets of New York to the icy shelves of the Antarctic. Even the surface waters of the world’s waterways are under unprecedented stress from the heat, with the average global ocean temperature breaking the all-time record high for the... View Source

South Korea plans to create an investment fund using tax revenue from its burgeoning semiconductor industry to finance long-term economic growth, Yonhap News reported Sunday citing the presidential chief of staff... View Source

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson... View Source

Set foot in Dowagiac, a sleepy town in Southwest Michigan, and you’ll immediately notice two things that stand out in the otherwise rustic surroundings: a massive 30 megawatt data center — and the constant ear piercing noise it emits. No one knows this better than the Marjorie and Billy Finn, a married couple who live right in front of the sprawling complex. The constant hum is like a jet en... View Source

For the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse, Spain's great cities will be pulling in eclipse-chasers from across Europe, but not every famous destination is equally well placed. In Barcelona and Madrid, the eclipse is a near miss — dramatic on paper, yet ultimately disappointing. Madrid gets a 99.96% partial eclipse, which means no totality, so no corona, no twilight sky and no plunge in temperatur... View Source

A large-scale clinical trial has shown that even long-term consumption of DHA—an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish—may not lead to improvements in cognitive function... View Source

Do you like kicking back and watching some sports after a long day? Do you like AI? Would you like more AI-generated content in your sports? You might not have much of a choice — at least if Itai Epstein, vice president of new ventures at WSC Sports, has anything to say about it. At the Microsoft AI Tour Tel Aviv 2026, Calcalist reports, Epstein bragged that his company is blazing new territory by... View Source

India notified Meta Platforms Inc. that it needs to remove sexual content involving children from its platforms including Instagram, marking the latest regulatory headache for the US tech giant... View Source

A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s server assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a stronger-than-expected increase in quarterly sales, a sign of sustained AI demand... View Source

Australian Space Agency working to confirm origin of objects as space archaeologist says they may be connected to a rocket launchGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSix pieces of suspected space debris found washed up on north Queensland beaches could be “space balls” that are often left over from rocket launches, according to one expert.The Australian Space Agency confirmed... View Source

China issued guidance for establishing international scientific organizations in the country, setting out registration requirements for nonprofit groups focused on scientific cooperation, exchange and governance... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

Engineers from Katalyst Space Technologies testing Link. | Image: NASA/Scott Wiessinger The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmosphere as soon as this year. To try and stave off its demise, NASA has enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies. The company's Link spacecraft launched Friday with the goa... View Source

Wearables are best at noticing breaks from your body's usual patterns. Those outliers can hint that something warrants further investigation with your doctor... View Source

Happy Fourth of July, Space Fans! As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, we here at Space.com got to thinking. How have things changed in space since 1776? What was the night sky like? What have we learned and where might we go in the next 250 years?The results are what you see below. A series of stories (some serious and some less so) about the last 250 years of space exploration, NA... View Source

The company's robotaxi roadmap mentions future expansions to Orlando and Tampa... View Source

Last month, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta became embroiled in a major controversy after Wired found that it had discreetly included facial recognition tech in the software of its lineup of popular smart glasses. The camera-equipped spectacles had already become a privacy lightning rod, with users secretly recording strangers, often without their consent — earning the spectacles the pejorative nickn... View Source

Some Apple devices are about to get much more intelligent, while others are getting left behind... View Source

China cut oil imports hard — and why it is not and may never rush back. China cut crude imports from 11.7 million b/d in February to just under 9 million by late May, and by May imports hit 7.8 million b/d — the lowest since 2018 — with state refinery run rates at 66.3%, ... Read more... View Source

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing it sooner than later. The company will raise its price by $250 on September 9th, going from $1,245 to $1,495. Matic told The Verge that the new price reflects its rising costs for memory and other components for the vacuum, which it says are now tenfo... View Source

NASA has made contact with LINK, the robotic spacecraft made for the Swift Boost mission... View Source

Kilpatrick of Google Deepmoind is claiming what we historically thought of as “the model” is no longer just weights — it’s a sprawling system of tool calling, hosted search, code execution, containers, and an agent harness. The harness is the quintessential current example of scaffolding that the model will “eat” — within roughly 12 months, ... Read more... View Source

On Episode 217 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the progression of American space efforts.Since 1958, the United States has been part of the spaceflight adventure, and since the mid-1960s has led in just about any category that counts. In this episode, we review which flights launched or landed on July 4, and relive some of our very favorite US space missions of all time!Dow... View Source

The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz (who has famously fled severe weather in his home... View Source

Researchers are starting to get a closer view of the various gray-market peptides making the rounds on the back of the “looksmaxxing” trend, and it isn’t looking good. In a new interview with Axios, Anthony Rossi, a dermatological surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, warned that the substance “Melanotan II” isn’t exactly the best thing you can put... View Source

The incident is also being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration... View Source

What if the AI revolution didn’t just make a handful of companies insanely rich — but actually lifted up young workers, families, and small businesses across America? We need a pro-growth, pro-family, pro-entrepreneur tax plan that puts broad AI participation at the center of a sustainable economic boom. The 5 Pillars of the Plan Keep ... Read more... View Source

That is the face of a man who enjoys what he does. | Image: Reato Morris Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies. He's toured the world, performed on Kimmel and Fallon, played Coachella, and collaborated with everyone from Joey Bada$$ and the Rza to James Blake and hardcore punk band Trash Talk. But perhaps the most unexpected colla... View Source

One woman is dead after a wayward Tesla barreled into the Urbane Cafe, a strip mall restaurant in Simi Valley, California. The driver of the Tesla, identified as a 64-year-old woman, was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, ABC News reported. The woman was riding with four juvenile passengers, one of whom also had to be taken to the hospital. At least five others were injured when the Tesla b... View Source

India’s CG Power & Industrial Solutions Ltd.’s new semiconductor unit has started production with an annual capacity of 200 million chips, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday, marking a fresh milestone in the country’s goal to build a domestic chip industry and gain a foothold in the global supply chain... View Source

Humanity has likely dreamed of flight since the very beginning, marveling at birds soaring overhead and trying to puzzle out their seemingly magical secret. We made some halting steps over the centuries — getting kites aloft in ancient China, for example, and drawing up ambitious but unrealized flying machines during the Renaissance — but our boots were still firmly rooted on the ground when the U... View Source

I’m right-hand dominant but a lefty at heart. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven't cared about using one - until I put my hands on the Epomaker RT98. It's a mechanical keyboard with a charming retro aesthetic, a fun CRT-like screen, VIA compatibility, a nice typing feel, and most impo... View Source

Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates. These days, incoming college students are lucky if they can get through Judy Blume’s “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.” According to a new “Survey of Adult Skills” conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development —... View Source

Wi-Fi standards remain as confusing as ever... View Source

Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors’ AI models with disturbing prompts ranging from suicide to cannibalism. Internally known as “Cannes,” the project, run by Meta contractor Covalen, targeted OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Character.AI chatbots using throwaway under... View Source

A great concept that falls flat. The Ikko MindOne Pro is delightfully small. I keep calling it a square phone, which isn't quite right; the screen is square, but the phone itself is slightly rectangular. The camera flips up so you can use it for selfies - you can even open it partway to use as a stand or a kind of PopSocket. There's a Clicks-style keyboard accessory that also adds a magnetic ring... View Source

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What did the evening sky look like for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and their contemporaries on July 4, 1776? As the United States marks its 250th birthday, many astronomy enthusiasts may be asking exactly that. If you stepped outside around 9 p.m. local time on July 5, 1776, the sky would look much as it does today. Only careful measurements would show that the stars were not in quite the... View Source

Fanfiction communities are trying to hunt down writers who haven’t written works with their own hands. | Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer could be caught in the crossfire. Broad distaste around the use... View Source

Robotaxi companies are learning the hard way that operating driverless cars also means that there’s no one supervising what happens inside them. Take Zoox, the Amazon-owned self-driving startup that’s been offering rides, free of charge, in Las Vegas and San Francisco since September. It claims that it’s served more than 500,000 passengers — while acknowledging that some of them... View Source

Midjourney is asking the court to get Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal to submit information on their AI use... View Source

"Independence Day" definitely isn't "The War of the Worlds". The characters are all new, the alien invaders don't come from Mars, and HG Wells sure as hell didn't write about spaceships engaging in "Star Wars"-esque dogfights over Victorian England. But here's the contradiction. "Independence Day" totally is "The War of the Worlds". It's about Earth being hopelessly outgunned by aliens from outer... View Source

Hundreds of freedom lovers are rallying behind a US Air Force engineer accused of chopping down over a dozen AI-integrated surveillance cameras last year. According to local channel WAVY, Virginia-based Air Force engineer and mechanic Jeffrey Sovern is facing 13 counts of destruction of property, as well as six counts of both petit larceny and possession of burglary tools related to the destructio... View Source

India’s technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked his team to summon Meta Platforms Inc. over sexual content involving children on Instagram, government officials familiar with the matter said Friday... View Source

One of the most powerful labor unions in the United States is furious, as over 1,000 workers at General Motors’ leading Detroit factory are being pushed out to make room for dozens of new robots. According to Crain’s Detroit Business, the lack of work coincides with the installation of 50 AI-integrated manufacturing robots, which GM installed in its Factory Zero plant, a major all-elec... View Source

Aa large-scale study demonstrates that preservatives widely used in everyday processed foods may exacerbate common health risks... View Source

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli is the first fossil salamander to be formally identified in Mexico, revealing that axolotls have inhabited the country for millions of years... View Source

The Kuxiu D5 keeps Qi-compatible phones cool while also charging a watch and earbuds. Despite my initial skepticism, I'm now sold on wireless Qi chargers that add integrated fans to keep your phone cool while charging. I figured they'd be too loud, or too weak, or too gimmicky, but I'm a convert after spending a week with the new $59.99 Kuxiu D5 Qi2.2 charging dock. Its active cooling system has k... View Source

AI agents, karaoke and coffee shops may appear at Chinese cinemas under new guidelines that encourage theaters to expand beyond traditional film screenings... View Source

The cryptocurrency market in Germany is expected to gain significant momentum in the coming months as millions of people will soon be able to trade virtual currencies directly through their local banks, without having to go through specialized third-party platforms... View Source

Micron Technology Inc. on Saturday broke ground on the expansion of its factory in western Japan, a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) undertaking to produce advanced memory chips... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is considering paying about 0.5% of the proceeds from its US listing — one of the largest share sales ever — to banks working on the deal, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

China released draft amendments to its E-Commerce Law that would expand coverage beyond platforms and merchants, and revise rules governing the digital economy... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is looking to expand access to its leading artificial intelligence hardware by supporting AI cloud computing providers in exchange for a share of their future revenue... View Source

I used to think Uranus was the sort of planet you graduated into. Saturn and its rings first, obviously. Jupiter and its cloud bands soon after that. Venus, if it's shrinking to a crescent (which it soon will be), and, of course, Mars and its ice caps. But Uranus? The seventh planet feels like something reserved for people with huge telescopes, expensive eyepieces and incredibly lucky atmospheric... View Source

For a franchise where the main hook is time travel, "Terminator" probably wishes it could take us back in time… or just borrow the neuralyzer from "Men in Black" to wipe everybody's mind after everything post-1991. Now, as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" turns 35 this month, we think it's time to call it: Terminator shouldn't be back.The decline of the "Terminator" franchise might be one of the great... View Source

The spacecraft has been in LA since 2012, but now it's moving to a new permanent home at the California Science Center... View Source

In case you were wondering in which country you should buy a Pixel phone, you world traveler you... View Source

BOULDER, Colorado - Humans have been exploring outer space since April 1961 with the pioneering flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.Today, several nations are making new plans to launch human beings back to the moon, then onward to Mars and perhaps beyond. But will that pursuit be short-circuited by the fast-paced merger of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced humanoid robots?That proposi... View Source

The companies’ Fourth of July plans include celebrating new reactor designs coming online. But there’s still a long way to go before they deliver energy at a meaningful scale... View Source

The Fire HD 8 that launched in 2024 was the last new addition to Amazon's budget-minded tablet lineup, but the company has quietly updated the Fire HD 10 that debuted the year before. In 2023 it was offered with multiple storage configurations that each came with 3GB of RAM, but the 32GB version now ships with 4GB of RAM, and a small price bump from $139.99 to $154.99. The Fire HD 10 with 64GB of... View Source

Happy 30th birthday to "Independence Day," the sci-fi mega blockbuster that made Will Smith an instant Hollywood star, crushed the box office by becoming the fastest film to reach $100 million, and obliterated Washington, D.C, all in one fell swoop of pure popcorn movie entertainment.We often talk about certain works of art ushering in or being ushered in by, but "Independence Day" ("ID4") truly b... View Source

Earlier this year, a major scandal rocked the prediction markets world after an account correctly bet $20,000 on an imminent attack on Venezuelan soil. Just hours later, US president Donald Trump issued orders authorizing the military strike, an invasion that saw Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro get kidnapped by US soldiers. Rampant insider trading has long plagued platforms like Polymarket and... View Source

An Israeli artificial intelligence startup is betting that election victories by Trump-aligned leaders across Latin America will boost demand for its government-focused cybersecurity products... View Source

A pro-growth, pro-family, pro-entrepreneur tax plan that keeps the AI economy broadly owned — and therefore politically and socially sustainable. This is a Nextbigfuture, Brian Wang proposal for broadening AI participation. The strategic bet, you don’t beat the appeal of confiscatory, anti-market politics by arguing against it. You beat it by giving the people most ... Read more... View Source

A U.S. Space Force mission pitting two satellites against each other has been deemed a success, completing its first tactical intercept of an orbital target. The news comes less than two weeks after Rocket Lab broke a spaceflight readiness record, launching the company's Pioneer-class Puma satellite aboard an Electron rocket on June 19, delivering the second spacecraft of the Space Force's Victus... View Source

The latest week-long speedrunning marathon starts on July 5... View Source

Aside from fireworks, what better way to celebrate 250 years of independence than by launching your own model rocket into the sky? The limited edition Estes Liberty Star rocket is the perfect model for the job, decked out with a blue and red styling and featuring beginner friendly assembly for an easy setup.You can get the Estes Liberty Star America 250th Celebration model rocket for $38.84 on Ama... View Source

The headline practically writes itself. A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on quantum physics experiments related to the question of “matter existing in two places simultaneously,” has mysteriously gone missing. Countless netizens deployed their tinfoil hats after Anthony Chavez, a retired HVAC technician who was... View Source

A RAM upgrade? In this memory economy?!... View Source

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BYD regained the global lead in battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales in Q2 2026 (April–June) by selling 557,090 passenger BEVs compared to Tesla’s 480,126 deliveries. BYD’s Q2 performance was a solid sequential rebound (strong QoQ growth) after a weak start to 2026, but still slightly down YoY overall. The main forcus is overseas sales to ... Read more... View Source

Unlike most phones, the T1 still ships with a charger. Trump Mobile seemingly isn’t too worried about e-waste. Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. One year on, our phones have finally arrived. 12 months, 16 days, 21 hours, and 54 minutes after I first heard about Trump Mobile's T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), I'm finally holding one in my own hands. That's right... View Source

It's a big year for America. It's the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spectators at these events - and the millions of people who live in the cities hosting them - may not realize that they, too, are being watched. From Kansas City to New York, the US cities hosting the World Cup have been ramping up their surveillance capabi... View Source

Celebrities that you don’t actually know probably shouldn’t be your role models. Still, we’d be lying if we said we weren’t a little inspired to hear about how comedic musician Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic told the AI industry to “Eat It” after being approached to star in an ad. In an interview with Syracuse.com spotted by AV Club, Yankovic dished on A... View Source

On July 4, the United States of America celebrates its 250th birthday, marking the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and becoming a sovereign nation. Today, this relatively young country leads the way in our understanding of the universe. It's where many major players in space science, like NASA, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo... View Source

Despite the fact that smartphones have become impressively capable shooters, standalone point-and-shoot cameras are enjoying a renaissance. The tiny Kodak Charmera is still wildly popular, while influencers are scrambling to find aging Canon cameras on eBay. Godox, a company best known for its photography lighting products, is the latest to join the simple camera craze, but its new C100 stands out... View Source

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The protostars of the star system FS Tau as seen by the JWST (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI))Infant stars or "protostars" celebrate their independence with cosmic fireworks in a stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NASA released this image to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the U.S. It is a fitting tribute as th... View Source

Powerade is appropriate for World Cup athletes, but unless you’re also sweating buckets, water is usually enough. | Photo: Megan Briggs / Getty Images This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Europe is melting, the eastern US... View Source

Researchers at the British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt spurred ChatGPT to drop its most basic safety guidelines, in another example of how the guardrails surrounding even the most popular AI models can easily be circumvented. Specifically, according to reporting from the BBC, they coaxed OpenAI’s model to generate gruesome photorealistic scenes depicting gore and... View Source

Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed a new head of anti-corruption efforts in the armed forces as he continues the country’s biggest military purge in half a century... View Source

This week on the Engadget Podcast, we've got our first impressions of Valve's pricey Steam Machine, and we chat about Sony dumping PlayStation discs in 2028... View Source

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At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatical... View Source

YouTuber Jon Prosser has finally filed a formal response to Apple's lawsuit made against him and another defendant over allegedly stealing iOS secrets. In his response, Prosser denied that he "planned or participated in any conspiracy or coordinated scheme" for the "purpose of injuring Apple." However, Prosser admitted to recording a FaceTime call showing unreleased iOS software and sharing revenu... View Source

Amazon is breaking all kinds of records on the back of the AI boom, and not the good kind. According to new reporting by Axios, Amazon’s AI buildout has fueled an unprecedented leap in the company’s emissions, a black mark on a corporation that pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 not even a year ago. In its newly released environmental report, Amazon disclosed that its t... View Source

Quantum Systems has raised $1.2 billion in a funding round, more than doubling the German drone startup’s valuation to about $8 billion post-money. The firm is one of a number of German startups making unmanned aerial vehicles that are benefiting from a surge in military spending in Europe. Co-CEO Sven Kruck spoke to Bloomberg The Opening Trade on July 2 about the startup's potential growth, conso... View Source

Killing game discs is an anti-consumer move that only benefits Sony... View Source

In the AI slop-loaded, algorithm-powered modern reality, trends come and go - and the tech industry is no different. For the last few years, The Verge staff has compiled a selection of things that are IN for summer and OUT for summer - and each time there are some strong feelings. (Here are the last two years' predictions.) Let's do it again! Mia Sato, senior report INOUTMotion sickness glassesAI... View Source

Want to see Uranus for yourself? Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades, as the distant ice giant passes extraordinarily close to Mars in the predawn sky.Although we often hear that only five planets are visible to the unaided eye, Uranus can also be seen from Earth under the right conditions. As the seventh planet from the sun, it is very faint — near the thresho... View Source

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. | Image: Apple Since its inception, Apple TV, née Apple TV Plus, has built a reputation on quality over quantity. It has far fewer shows and movies than the likes of Netflix or Disney Plus, but generally speaking, the projects it does put out are quite good. It's a strategy that has brought comparisons to the HBO of old, and 2026 has featured a particularly stro... View Source

David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of boiling the creatures alive. But new tech brings new horrors, and perhaps Wallace, if he were alive today, would instead be writing about biohacking lobster brains so they can be taken over by an AI agent. Because that’s exactly what a group of young tech founders in San Fra... View Source

Bernard Arnault extolled the virtues of mathematics after pledging a record €50 million donation for a planned maths research institute at his alma mater, highlighting the discipline’s importance in a world increasingly shaped by AI... View Source

A new mandatory compliance report released by Microsoft shows how it declares profits in different European nations to reduce its tax bill... View Source

A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions. | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, which it plans to deploy in spas... View Source

Microsoft, Amazon follow AI companies by creating units of “forward-deployed” engineers... View Source

Sony is converting its PlayStation disc factory into a plant for optical microlenses... View Source

A new hack can trick AI browsers into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false reality around them where the rules are made up and actions don’t have consequences. Put another way, they’re basically hypnotized into doing stuff that could have devastating consequences for the user. These were the findings of new research from the cybersecurity firm LayerX, and they further illu... View Source

The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European regulations that could limit kids’ access to some video games, potentially crimping sales across the globe... View Source

ZYN nicotine pouches, the FDA found, can be advertised as a less-harmful option for adult smokers. But quitting all tobacco and nicotine products remains the best idea... View Source

Kaley Glenn-Mills’ lawsuit reshaped the fight to protect children from social media. She says she still can’t stop scrolling... View Source

The United States has taken some significant steps into the final frontier during its first 250 years.The nation has put people on the moon, helped build and operate a long-running space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) and sent fleets of robotic explorers to many corners of the solar system — and even beyond it, into interstellar space. All of this work has been done relatively recently, as the s... View Source

Google’s electricity use and emissions skyrocketed last year due to its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company’s most recent environmental impact report. “The biggest change to our environmental impact is the expansion of our technical infrastructure — and the energy needed to operate it,” reads the report. The report adds that in the years sin... View Source

Most developing-world currencies rallied on Thursday after weaker-than-expected US employment data prompted investors to scale back bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates as soon as this month... View Source

The mobile phone of a Greek politician was repeatedly hacked by spyware while he was working on a European Parliament investigation into sellers of the surveillance technology, new research has found... View Source

Artificial intelligence is likely to have a less even impact on economies than the market hype would suggest, according to Allianz Chief Economist Ludovic Subran... View Source

Ludovic Subran, chief investment officer and chief economist at Allianz, says there isn't enough evidence to say that the AI trade is in "bubble" territory. Speaking to Bloomberg's Caroline Connan at the Aix-en-Provence Economic Forum in France, he also says emerging-market stocks are looking more attractive due to demand for semiconductors, and that Europe might fail to reap the "AI dividend." (S... View Source

South Korean officials are preparing for currency flows related to SK Hynix Inc.’s offering of American depositary receipts as soon as Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source