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Fans of co-op beat-‘em-ups and fictional bass players who kind of suck as human beings might want to mark March 3 on their calendars. That’s when Scott Pilgrim EX is set to hit PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam. Developer and publisher Tribute Games announced the release date in a new trailer, which also revealed two more playable characters: Matthew Patel (a memb... View Source

Author Mike Chen returns fans to the galaxy's grimy underworld in this thrilling crime caper book... View Source

Two notable foldables. A book-style folding phone is a gadget that poses one radical idea: What if you always had a computer in your pocket? When you'd like to be writing a blog while your plane is taking off, and large electronics (Computer) must be stowed? When you're sitting on the couch putting together a grocery order, and Computer is in the other room? When your job is to write blog posts, b... View Source

Abby Joseph Cohen, Columbia Business School professor and retired Goldman Sachs partner, discusses the outlook for AI-related stocks, investing amid a weakening US dollar and her concerns about the "erratic nature" on US policies on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Services have been a huge part of Apple’s business for the past several years — to the tune of tens of billions of dollars in revenue last year alone. Now, with the new Apple Creator Studio bundle, the company is leaning harder into the professional creative software space. Apple Creator Studio packages a bunch of the company’s pro apps into a single subscription service that you can pay monthly o... View Source

Space fans looking for a Lego Artemis set to build now have an interesting conundrum, as there are two Lego NASA Space Launch System Artemis II sets to choose from... View Source

Sprout stands just 3.5-feet tall and is light enough for one person to carry around. | Screenshot: YouTube A startup called Fauna Robotics has revealed a new humanoid robot called Sprout it's been developing over the past two years. Standing around 3.5-feet tall, Sprout's design, featuring a soft padded exterior, a wide head, and expressive mechanical eyebrows, was inspired by some of science fict... View Source

Volkswagen AG plans to increase exports of cars made in China as the manufacturer tries to benefit from the Asian country’s low production costs amid a bruising price war there... View Source

Snap’s augmented reality glasses business will now be its own entity, with the company establishing Specs Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary. It will enable Snap to more easily secure investors and partnerships for its wearables, as well as to grow Specs into a distinct brand while running it within Snap Inc. As The Information reported in mid-2025, Snap was thinking of ways to raise outside money... View Source

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Save 33% on this UK-only Disney+ streaming deal; it's a must-get for sci-fi fans, giving you access to the entire Star Wars and Marvel catalogues and much, much more... View Source

Beyond Meat just launched a new product that's even further from meat than ever before: a protein soda. Beyond Immerse is the company's first product that makes no attempt to replicate meat whatsoever, marking a sharp shift in Beyond's business model. It might seem like it comes out of left field, but it all clicks into place once you know just how badly the veggie burger business is working out f... View Source

Snap Inc. created a standalone subsidiary within the company dedicated to Specs, its first consumer pair of augmented reality glasses slated for launch later this year... View Source

LinkedIn has long been a platform for showing off professional accomplishments. Now, the company is leaning into the rise of vibe coding by allowing users to show off their proficiency with various AI coding tools directly on their profiles.The company is partnering with Replit, Lovabl, Descript and Relay.app  on the feature and is working on integrations with fellow Microsoft-owned GitHub as... View Source

That’s me, wearing the Wim S at CES — and the backpack I carried it in. Oops, I did it again: I wore an exoskeleton to the world's biggest tech show, walking the streets and casinos of Las Vegas with a robot powering my legs. I don't mean I briefly tried a new gadget there. I mean that for the second year in a row, robotic legs helped me walk the miles it takes to do my job at CES. But this year,... View Source

Apple Inc.’s new Creator Studio software bundle represents a new test for the company’s fast-growing services business: What happens when the tech giant packages some of its most popular creative apps into a recurring subscription?... View Source

Last year fans of Ted Lasso received the good news that the show would be returning for a fourth season, despite having referred to its third season as its "final" one. Now Apple TV has shared some still images and further confirmation that production is underway. As first shared by The A.V. Club, this latest batch of still images depicts the eponymous coach back in action, this time coa... View Source

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A consumer version of Specs (unlike the developer preview pictured here) are still expected to get a public launch sometime this year. Snap is launching a separate business for its upcoming Specs augmented reality glasses in a bid to lure new investors to the project. The new company, aptly named "Specs," will operate under Snap as a distinct subsidiary ahead of the long-awaited public launch of S... View Source

Advantest Corp. seeks to speed up its production capacity expansion plans for chip testing equipment, a sign of upbeat sentiment around spending on artificial intelligence hardware... View Source

Last summer, Google announced that Android 16 would include a desktop interface built from Samsung DeX, a mirroring and phone integration tool for PC. Thanks to a (now permissions-restricted) bug report discovered on Google's Issue Tracker, we have what is almost certainly a first look at the Android-on-desktop project, codenamed Aluminium OS. First spotted by 9to5Google, the bug report was a... View Source

One of Apple TV's biggest hits is returning later this year: the streamer confirmed that season 4 of Ted Lasso will premiere this summer. There's no firm date beyond that, but the announcement marks an important moment for the service, as the show, which is one of Apple TV's most popular series, has been dormant for several years. Ted Lasso's third season wrapped up back in 2023, and at the time a... View Source

European chip stocks surge after ASML smashes expectations in its latest numbers. The continent's most valuable company benefited from the rapid development of artificial intelligence infrastructure, which boosted demand for its cutting-edge chip-making machines. ASML's CEO told the Opening Trade that he believes in the sustainability of AI demand. Meanwhile luxury stocks drop after LVMH dims hope... View Source

Rarely does a set of open-fit earbuds actually impress me. I tend to find them underwhelming because overall sound quality is subpar compared to the more “traditional” in-ear models. Any promise of noise reduction, or a far-fetched claim of noise cancellation, usually doesn’t hold true. The first time I used the Shokz OpenFit Pro ($249.95) I was immediately met with better audio performance than I... View Source

One of NASA's high-altitude WB-57 research jet made a fiery wheels-up landing on Tuesday (Jan. 27) after a mechanical issue prevented it from lowering its landing gear... View Source

Waabi Innovation Inc., a Canadian startup that develops self-driving technology for trucks, has secured $1 billion in funding for its commercial expansion, including entering the robotaxi market with partner Uber Technologies Inc... View Source

Amazon has confirmed that it’s letting go of 16,000 workers and employees across its organization. In an announcement by company SVP Beth Galetti, she explained that Amazon was going through organizational changes to reduce layers and remove bureaucracy. Affected employees in the US will be given 90 days to look for another internal role and will receive severance pay if they do not find any. Gale... View Source

Waabi, the Toronto-based autonomous trucking startup, is expanding its portfolio to include robotaxis. And it's bringing Uber along for the ride. Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber's now defunct Advanced Technologies Group, founded Waabi in 2021 to be a more "AI-centric approach" to autonomous vehicles. That approach initially focused on trucking, with Waabi using its proprietary s... View Source

The backlog on future sales depends on AI demand... View Source

Windscribe is a virtual private network (VPN) with intense "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy. It has servers in 69 countries and an annual plan that costs $69, an obsession with the sex number that rivals Elon Musk's. I'm shocked that it doesn't have a subscription costing $4.20 per month. But there's another side to Windscribe's cringe: an obsession with inde... View Source

Across six top large language models, xAI's Grok performed the worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, according to a study published Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League. On the other end of the spectrum, Anthropic's Claude performed the best according to the report's metrics, but the ADL said all models had gaps that required improvement. The ADL tested Grok, OpenAI's ChatGPT... View Source

AT&T Inc. reported fewer new mobile phone subscribers than analysts expected for the fourth quarter, a sign that the third-largest US wireless provider is feeling the squeeze in an escalating battle for customers... View Source

Six anomalies found in Hubble’s archives. A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding in Hubble's archives. To do so, researchers David O'Ryan and Pablo Gómez trained an AI model to comb through Hubble's 35-year dataset, hunting for strange objects and flagging them for manual review. It's "a trea... View Source

Amazon.com announced plans to terminate about 16,000 corporate employees, only a few months after announcing it was cutting 14,000 roles. The company will offer US-based employees 90 days to search for a new role internally, as well as severance and other transition support. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft is getting ready to improve Windows 11's ability to resume Android apps on a PC. The software giant first introduced its cross-device resume last year, letting Windows 11 users resume OneDrive sessions from their Android device on a PC. Now, it's expanding this to Spotify playback, browsing sessions, and more. The improved cross-device resume support, which has been in testing since Augu... View Source

Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is estimated to be below 400... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. announced plans to terminate about 16,000 corporate employees, ratcheting up efforts to streamline bureaucracy amid rising competition over artificial intelligence... View Source

Apple’s CEO is the latest executive to speak out following the killing of Alex Pretti. | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook has spoken out about "the events in Minneapolis" after federal agents shot and killed another protester over the weekend, telling employees that he has shared his feelings with President Trump. In an internal memo reported by Bloomberg, Cook said tha... View Source

Business-process outsourcing companies in the Philippines are spending about 1.4 billion pesos ($24 million) a year to upskill their workers, as the industry grapples with talent shortage, artificial intelligence and increased competition... View Source

Sword Health agreed to acquire rival Kaia Health for $285 million in its biggest deal to date, expanding the AI health startup’s footprint in the US and marking its entry into Germany... View Source

Aluminium OS looks like exactly what it is: a hybrid of Android and ChromeOS. We've been waiting months for our first look at Android running on a PC in Google's upcoming ChromeOS / Android hybrid platform, codenamed Aluminium OS. Now we've seen it in action, and have Google to thank for the leak. 9to5Google spotted a bug report related to Chrome Incognito tabs published to the Google Issue Tracke... View Source

ASML Holding NV plans about 1,700 job cuts mainly in its Technology and the IT organizations, Chief Executive Officer Christophe Fouquet said in a statement on the same day the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker reported its 13th consecutive year of sales growth... View Source

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SK Hynix Inc. reported its strongest quarterly results to date, underscoring the depth of an artificial intelligence wave that’s triggered an unprecedented surge in memory demand... View Source

Japanese video game publisher Capcom Co. posted its biggest single-day share gain in 18 months on Wednesday after December-quarter earnings beat expectations, helped by unexpectedly strong sales of older titles that bolstered optimism the company will surpass forecasts... View Source

, the Maia 200 packs 140+ billion transistors, 216 GB of HBM3E, and a massive 272 MB of on-chip SRAM to tackle the efficiency crisis in real-time inference. Hyperscalers prioritize inference efficiency and cost (40-50% reductions). By 2028, custom ASICs could capture 20-30% market from Nvidia’s ~90%, with total AI chip sales ~$975B in 2026. ... Read more... View Source

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Chairman of The Board Yoshinori Kanehana discusses how a strong yen may affect his company's business. He speaks with Menaka Doshi from the sidelines of India Energy Week 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASML Holding NV’s orders in the fourth quarter exceeded analysts’ expectations, as the rapid development of artificial intelligence infrastructure boosted demand for its cutting-edge chip-making machines... View Source

Revolut Ltd. launched banking operations in Mexico on Tuesday, offering a 15% interest rate on deposits as it seeks to grab a chunk of the country’s embattled market... View Source

Digital Edge, an Asian digital infrastructure firm backed by alternative asset manager Stonepeak Partners, plans to invest $4.5 billion to build one of Indonesia’s largest data center campuses... View Source

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Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human spaceflight remains a difficult business... View Source

Northwood, a maker of critical ground infrastructure for space satellites, raised $100 million in a new funding round led jointly by Washington Harbour Partners and Andreessen Horowitz... View Source

Dangote Industries, owned by Africa’s richest man, appointed MTN Group Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Ralph Mupita to the board of its fertilizer business as it prepares to expand and list the operation in Nigeria... View Source

OpenAI is releasing a free tool aimed at making it easier for scientists to use ChatGPT to draft research papers and collaborate with colleagues, part of a larger effort to position its chatbot as an aide for scientific work and discoveries... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. employees who have been anticipating layoffs numbering in the thousands got one more thing to worry about late Tuesday: a meeting invite and email from a top executive that was sent prematurely... View Source

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook became the latest executive to weigh in on the ICE killing of a man in Minneapolis, telling employees he is “heartbroken” by the events and calling for a “deescalation.”... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: FG Nexus CEO of Digital Assets Maja Vujinovic and Chainalysis Co-Founder CEO Jonathan Levin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

World GDP has been doubling every 25 years for last 100 years even after adjusting for inflation. This means we would be expecting 3 doublings from 2025-2100. However, the world appear to be seeing changing and accelerating technology. Doubling every 25 years is 3% real GDP growth each year. There is already Atlanta Fed reserve ... Read more... View Source

South Korea overtook Germany in stock market value, powered by tech giants riding the global boom in artificial intelligence and robotics... View Source

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.’s shares dropped as much as 10% after it missed earnings estimates amid concerns about its polyvinyl chloride business in the US... View Source

Pinterest is planning on laying off up to 15 percent of its workforce, according to a report by CNBC. The company has been posting stellar earnings reports these past few quarters, so why punish employees? You already know the answer. It's AI. The company said it's "reallocating resources" to AI projects and prioritizing "AI-powered products and capabilities." It... View Source

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), from left, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), Rep. French Hill (R-AK), and David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto czar, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. | Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, the Verge newsletter about the technology politics... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is in discussions to invest an additional $30 billion in OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google has begun rolling out two upgrades for Search. Starting today, Gemini 3 is the default model powering AI Overviews. When the company debuted its new family of AI systems last November, it first deployed Gemini 3 in AI Overviews through a router that was programmed to direct the most difficult questions to the new system. Now Google is making Gemini 3 the standard for all users globally. In... View Source

Illicit cryptocurrency laundering climbed above $82 billion in 2025, according to a Chainalysis report, with Chinese-language money laundering networks accounting for $16.1 billion of that total. Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Jonathan Levin says that governments can significantly disrupt crypto-related money laundering if they act on real-time data and target networks at scale. He joined the conv... View Source

OpenAI is releasing a new app called Prism today, and it hopes it does for science what coding agents like Claude Code and its own Codex platform have done for programming. Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For the uninitiated, LaTeX is a typesetting system for formatting scientific documents and journals. Nearly the entire scien... View Source

As gold holds above $5,000 an ounce amid geopolitical risk and a broader move away from sovereign bonds and currencies, FG Nexus CEO of Digital Assets Maja Vujinovic tells Bloomberg that investors are searching for places to protect capital. She says Bitcoin remains part of that mix, with ETF flows showing continued interest, but notes that in periods of heightened uncertainty, gold often comes fi... View Source

Meta has started blocking links to ICE List, a website that compiles information about incidents involving Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, and lists thousands of their employees' names. It seems that the latter detail is what caused Meta to take action in a move that was first reported by Wired. ICE List is a crowdsourced Wiki that describes itself as... View Source

3 Min Read Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter PIA26702 Credits: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. Pagan Photojournal NavigationSciencePhotojournalWebb Data Reveals Dark MatterPhotojournal HomePhotojournal SearchLatest ContentGalleriesFeedbackRSSAbout  Downloads Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter PNG (42.87 MB) This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with... View Source

Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington, with a clear mission: win over viewers on the construction of new data centers. As the New York Times reports, the ad campaign is anchored by short, folksy video spotlights on Meta's data centers in Altoona, Iowa, and Los Lunas, New Mexico. The ads make t... View Source

Don Winslow, acclaimed crime novelist and political activist, discusses why he came out of retirement and is developing his books for TV and film with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” He says the war on drugs has been a massive failure. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General's Office revealed that although Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was opposed to the chatbots having "explicit" conversations with minors, he also rejected the idea of placing parental controls on... View Source

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An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a whole bunch of things, like manage reminders, log health and fitness data, and even communicate with clients. The tool, called Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot), runs locally on a variety of devices, and you can ask it to perform tasks on your behalf by chatting with... View Source

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall promised to offer training in artificial intelligence for all UK workers as the government seeks to embrace a technology that it said has the potential to boost economic output by £140 billion ($193 billion) a year... View Source

Google AI Plus, the company’s most affordable AI subscription plan, is now rolling out in the US. It will cost you $8 a month for its features, though you can get it for $4 a month for the first two months for a limited time only. AI Plus gives you access to 200GB of storage, as well as access to the Gemini 3 Pro model, Deep Research and Nano Banana Pro inside the Gemini app. Nano Banana Pro gener... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Testing Advances Space Nuclear Propulsion Capabilities Written by Daniel Boyette Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit future deep space missions by completing a cold-flow test campaign of the first flight reactor engineer... View Source

Power lines during a winter storm in Irving, Texas, on Sunday, January 25th. | Photo: Getty Images The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Bitterly cold temperatures lingering after Winter Storm Fern are still testing power grids, already under stress from a rush of new AI data centers. Over the weekend, wholesale electricity... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss stocks closing in on record highs driven by tech shares with earnings imminent. Plus, Bridgit Mendler, CEO and co-founder of Northwood, discusses the company’s $100 million Series B to modernize space infrastructure on Earth.  And Amazon is shuttering its physical stores, doubling down on deliveries. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

TikTok has reached a settlement in a closely-watched lawsuit over social media addiction, narrowly avoiding a trial that's scheduled to begin jury selection Tuesday. Terms of the deal, which was reported by The New York Times, weren't disclosed. TikTok's settlement comes about one week after Snap reached a settlement in the same case. The trial is expected to move forward in Lo... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment, or NURTURE, is an airborne campaign that uses a suite of remote sensing instruments to collect atmospheric... View Source

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link."... View Source

In a rare occurrence in their long and intertwined histories, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are set to report earnings on the same day, the latest salvo in their high-stakes race in AI memory chips... View Source

Adobe Photoshop introduced some new features that are rolling out for creators today. As you'd expect from any service operator in this day and age, there's some AI involved. Adobe has improved the tools for Generative Fill, Generative Expand and Remove that are powered by its Firefly generative AI platform. Using these tools for image editing should now produce results in 2K resolution... View Source

One of NASA's three large WB-57 aircraft made an emergency landing at Ellington Field on Tuesday morning in southeastern Houston. Video captured by KHOU 11 television showed the aircraft touching down on the runway without its landing gear extended. The pilot then maintains control of the vehicle as it slides down the runway, slowing the aircraft through friction. The crew was not harmed, NASA spo... View Source

Texas Instruments Inc., the biggest maker of analog chips, gave a strong revenue forecast for the current period, indicating that demand for industrial equipment and vehicles is beginning to rebound... View Source

Sonos has unveiled its first new product of 2026, the Amp Multi. This amplifier is a niche option for the owners of very large or complicated spaces, and it's being billed as professional grade option for residential audio installations. The Amp Multi has eight 125W outputs and four configurable zones, and each channel can support up to three Sonos Architectural speakers. In other words, that... View Source

Google is making Search less about links and more about AI. The company is upgrading its AI-powered search features, adding Gemini 3 to AI Overviews and letting users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" to make sure Search can answer "whatever's on your mind," a move that feels closer to using an AI chatbot than a search engine. If Overviews' summary leaves you wanting more, you can now jump stra... View Source

SpaceX, the satellite company founded by Elon Musk, is asking state regulators for a number of concessions related to a $42.5 billion government program to provide Internet access to remote parts of the country... View Source

Here's a use of AI that appears to do more good than harm. A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) developed a neural network that searches through space images for anomalies. The results were far beyond what human experts could have done. In two and a half days, it sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts, discovering 1,400 anomalous objects.The creators of the AI mod... View Source

The SLS wet dress rehearsal is the rocket's last major hurdle before launch... View Source

WhatsApp is launching new "Strict Account Settings" that add even more protections against cyberattacks. The feature is built for people at a high-risk of attacks - such as journalists or public figures - and automatically blocks attachments and media from senders you don't know, while silencing calls from unknown contacts. The new setting limits other functionality inside WhatsApp, including turn... View Source

Tether Holdings SA said it has launched a US-focused stablecoin, as the world’s largest issuer of dollar-pegged tokens prepares to return to crypto’s largest market. Bloomberg's Anna Irrera discusses the story on "Bloomberg Crypto" with Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Wireless audio has become the industry standard, but there are still options out there for people who prefer a wired connection. Two new choices joining the market come from Sennheiser, which has released the CX 80U wired earbuds and HD 400U wired over-ear headphones. These new takes on the company's previous models for wired listening have replaced the 3.5mm audio jack connector with a USB-C... View Source

If you are interested in talking about SpaceX and AI data centers in space as deep tech trends you can sign up or book a calendly. Full disclosure: I’m working with a wealth management firm and will soon be a certified advisor (Series 65 pending). This is not investment advice, solicitation, or an offer to ... Read more... View Source

What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?... View Source

Anker’s MagGo Wireless Charging Station (Foldable 3-in-1) can quickly charge compatible iPhones and Apple Watches. Buying separate chargers for your phone, watch, and earbuds adds up quickly. Anker’s MagGo Wireless Charging Station (Foldable 3-in-1) replaces all three, and now through January 30th it’s just $49.99 ($60 off) at Amazon-owned Woot. That’s the best price we’ve seen, and cheaper than m... View Source

Morgan Stanley tapped longtime executive Amy Oldenburg for a newly created role as head of digital-asset strategy, the bank’s latest move to push into the space. Bloomberg's Katherine Doherty discusses the story on "Bloomberg Crypto" with Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pornhub will stop offering full access to new users in the UK on February 2, its parent company Aylo said Tuesday, citing the nation's Online Safety Act and its age-verification requirements. The company said users who already verified their ages before the cutoff will still be able to access the adult site through existing accounts. The move follows the Online Safety Act’s Protection of Chil... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. The images show the fractures, ridges, and bands that crisscross the moon’s surface.Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Björn Jónsson (CC BY 3.0) Results fro... View Source

Razer’s new browser-based customization tool is now available in beta. | Image: Razer Razer has announced the beta release of a new online customization tool compatible with several versions of its Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards at launch. Razer Synapse Web isn't a full replacement for the company's Synapse 4 desktop app. It's instead designed to be a streamlined alternative accessible through a browse... View Source

Sequoia Partner Konstantine Buhler discusses opportunities in artificial specialized intelligence. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.”  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A recent investigation by an online advocacy organization called the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) found that the Apple App Store and Google Play Store are rife with so-called "nudify" apps. These are AI applications that create nonconsensual and sexualized images, which is a clear violation of both companies' store policies. All told, the investigation found 55 of this type of ap... View Source

When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense. The studio had been around for over a decade and had several hits with mobile games like Triple Town and Alphabear. That approachable style of puzzle game seemed like a good fit for Netflix's mobile-first strategy, and, as Spry Fox cofounder David Edery tells me, the partnership also meant that the team could... View Source

Autonomous trucking company Gatik says it has brought in more than $600 million in contracted revenue. Gatik CEO and co-founder Gautam Narang discusses what comes next for the company with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The French government is saying au revoir to Microsoft Teams and Zoom as it embraces a home-grown alternative. By next year, civil servants across all departments will have switched to French videoconference platform Visio, as EuroNews reports.As with Teams and Zoom, Visio has an AI-powered transcription tool. Visio runs on a French company's cloud infrastructure as well. The platform has aro... View Source

The moon will be closest to the Pleiades in the hours following sunset... View Source

Amazon Go and Fresh physical store locations will soon be no more, with Amazon announcing on Tuesday that it's closing up the majority of the stores and converting others into Whole Foods Market locations. Customers will still be able to order from Amazon Fresh online, but won't be able to shop at physical stores with the same name. Amazon is also planning to expand its same-day delivery option fo... View Source

Northwood, the maker of ground infrastructure for the space industry, has closed a $100 million Series B, led by Washington Harbour Partners. Bridgit Mendler, CEO and co-founder of Northwood, discusses the demand driving this funding round. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon is rethinking its grocery business, and as part of that, it will shut down all of its remaining Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores. The company will convert some locations into Whole Foods Market stores. "While we've seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven't yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the righ... View Source

The next Star Wars show from Lucasfilm Animation sees the fallen Sith lord build a criminal empire right under the Empire's nose... View Source

Reincubate, which makes the Camo and Camo Studio apps for turning your iOS or Android phone into a webcam for your Mac or PC, is suing Apple, alleging anticompetitive conduct and patent infringement. Camo first launched in 2020, but two years after, Apple launched a similar feature called Continuity Camera, which works just with Apple devices. Reincubate alleges that Apple "copied the technology"... View Source

Pinterest Inc. said it plans to cut “less than 15%” of its workforce and reduce office space as it shifts resources toward investing in artificial intelligence... View Source

Meta's WhatsApp just introduced something called Strict Account Settings, a tool "that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks." This is a one-click button in the settings that automatically initiates a series of defenses. So what does it do? It blocks media and attachments from unknown senders, disables link previews and silences calls from unknown sen... View Source

The Lego Technic NASA Artemis has a few nifty tricks up its sleeve... View Source

The routine is familiar by now. A new online shooter with bright, colorful graphics launches and rockets up the charts despite the fact that you maybe haven't even heard of it. Or maybe it just has a really forgettable name. But everyone seems to be talking about it, and it's free, so you figure you may as well jump in. This moment of promise and anticipation may end up being the best this game wi... View Source

A woman who sued TikTok over allegations that the company designed its platform to addict young users is moving to settle her lawsuit with the social media giant... View Source

Yahoo has announced a new AI-powered "answer engine", dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic's Claude. The company says Scout "synthesizes" info from the web, as well as Yahoo's own data and content when constructing responses to user's natural-language search queries. Yahoo says the interface will include interactiv... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Athena, NASA’s newest supercomputer, is housed at the agency’s Modular Supercomputing Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is announcing the availability of its newest supercomputer, Athena, an advanced system designed to support a new generation of mi... View Source

Unistellar co-founder tells Space.com about how citizen scientists are using smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense... View Source

As we moved into the third day of the TikTokalypse, the app appears to have finally stabilized in the US, as we verified that it's possible to consistently publish new videos and even have other people watch them. That hasn't been a simple task since the service started having problems early Sunday morning, but on Tuesday morning, I was able to post a new short video and watch one published by my... View Source

Gemini Trust Co., the cryptocurrency exchange owned by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, said it will shut down its digital-art-token marketplace, Nifty Gateway, in February... View Source

After more than two months of contract disputes, NBCUniversal's lineup of channels are still not being carried by Fubo, which is a bummer for anyone hoping to watch the 2026 Winter Olympics. Once again, NBC will be the primary place to watch the Winter Games, but Fubo subscribers will need to find alternate viewing methods if they want to watch events like figure skating, ice hockey, luge or... View Source

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left) in the Serpens Nebula in this image released on Jan. 21, 2026. Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of... View Source

The day Alex Pretti was shot 10 times in the street by federal agents, I was delivering a eulogy for my grandfather, who died the way we're supposed to: old, asleep, surrounded by family. Because it's my job to coordinate visuals for this website, I locked myself in a bathroom stall, watched a video of the shooting twice, and emailed a photographer, asking if he could get onto the streets and star... View Source

Sonos Inc. introduced its first new device in over a year, marking the end of an intentional lull in product launches as the company prioritized improving its software and restoring the brand’s reputation under new Chief Executive Officer Tom Conrad... View Source

Every time Apple's AirPods 4 with active noise cancelation go on sale I have the same thought: maybe I made a mistake. Don't get me wrong, I love my regular AirPods 4, but the noise canceling aspect makes their sister pair very enticing. Take now, for instance, when the AirPods 4 with ANC are on sale for $119, down from $179. The 34 percent discount brings them to only $4 more than the s... View Source

3 min read NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a second early version of a key element of the upcoming LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission. The LISA mission, a collaboration between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, will use infrared lasers to detect... View Source

Removing or restricting access to Grok's AI image editor might not be enough to stop the flood of nonconsensual sexualized images being generated by AI. A report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) released on Tuesday found dozens of AI "nudify" apps similar to Grok on Google and Apple's platforms, as previously reported by CNBC. TTP identified 55 apps on the Google Play Store and 48 on Apple... View Source

Amazon will close all of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The European Commission has started proceedings to ensure Google complies with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in certain ways. Specifically, the European Union’s executive arm has told Google to grant third-party AI services the same level of access to Android that Gemini has. "The aim is to ensure that third-party providers have an equal opportunity to innovate and compete in the rapidly evol... View Source

The Carson RD 10x50 binoculars are a good all-rounder, but didn't shine when it came to stargazing... View Source

Yahoo's big AI play is, in many ways, actually a return to the company's roots. Three decades ago, Yahoo was known as "Jerry's guide to the world wide web," and was designed as a sort of all-encompassing portal to help people find good stuff on an increasingly large, hard-to-parse internet. In the early aughts, the rise of web search more or less obviated that whole idea. But now, Yahoo thinks, we... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is shuttering its Amazon-branded grocery stores and automated grab-and-go markets, eliminating two centerpieces of its push into physical retail... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

The Artemis 2 moon mission's SLS rocket is on the pad at Kennedy Space Center for testing ahead of a possible Feb. 6 launch, and you can watch it 24/7 via this livestream... View Source

The color-changing feature is only available for Nintendo’s $100 Virtual Boy Switch accessory. | Screenshot: YouTube Following the initial reveal last September, Nintendo has released a new trailer detailing which Virtual Boy games will be available to Switch Online subscribers starting on February 17th alongside revamped headsets, and which titles will launch later this year. The company also rev... View Source

The European Union has switched on parts of its homegrown secure satellite communications network for the first time, as part of a €10.6 billion push to provide an alternative to Starlink and wean itself off US support amid growing tensions... View Source

The views of the setting sun are just as spectacular from space as they are on Earth... View Source

Amazon is resolving claims that it incorrectly processed returns with a proposed settlement valued at over $1 billion, as reported earlier by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. The settlement includes $600 million in refunds, along with an additional $309.5 million in payments to affected customers. Initially filed in 2023, the class action lawsuit claims that while Amazon advertises "free, no hassle retu... View Source

A company that seeks to disrupt the way in which data from space is received and transmitted has found some key investors and customers. On Tuesday morning Northwood Space announced that it has closed a $100 million Series B round of funding to support a rapid ramp-up in the deployment of its phased-array radar system, known as Portal. The company also said it has received a $49.8 million contract... View Source

Lyft Inc. is working on offering its rideshare service to teenagers, catching up to an in-demand category that larger rival Uber Technologies Inc. first launched about three years ago... View Source

As promised, Samsung is bringing its Galaxy Z Trifold smartphone to shoppers in the US. The unique foldable goes on sale on January 30. The phone was announced along with its select markets' sale dates at the close of 2025. We didn't have price information for Samsung's domestic market at that time, and even though we were anticipating the Galaxy Z Trifold to cost a bundle, the... View Source

Hunt for the names of mysterious dwarf planets, most of which orbit on the fringes of our solar system... View Source

Pinterest is making cuts to fund its AI plans. Pinterest is planning to lay off hundreds of workers and reduce its office space to reallocate resources for its artificial intelligence initiatives. In a regulatory filing posted Tuesday, Pinterest says the reduction is expected to impact "less than 15 percent" of its current workforce, and that the layoffs should be complete by September 30th, 2026... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang, the longest-serving chief executive officer in Silicon Valley, was recently asked how he’s managed to stay in the job more than three decades... View Source

California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that his office is investigating whether TikTok is truly censoring content critical of Trump, days after ByteDance finalized a deal to spin off its business in the US. Newsom made the announcement in response to a post on X, claiming that you can no longer send messages in the app with the word “Epstein” in it. Newsom’s office, in a separate post, sai... View Source

When federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, video of the shooting - from lots of people, and lots of angles, with wildly varying levels of quality - immediately began to fly around the internet. This is what always happens in times like these, and there have unfortunately been a lot of times like these recently. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive acces... View Source

A “sophisticated, criminal cyber attack” is threatening to hold up thousands of home sales in two of London’s richest boroughs... View Source

Lego unveiled its Smart Play system at CES 2026 earlier this month, with a selection of sets designed for the engaging feature. Now, the toy company has announced five new compatible sets — all Stars Wars themed — available now for pre-order. Anthony Daniels, the original C-3PO, shared the news during the Nuremberg Toy Fair.  The Smart Play system, Lego's newest venture, involves a Smart... View Source

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe."... View Source

“This is likely not an AI story as we saw in 2025,” says Cameron Dawson, CIO at Newedge Wealth, as she examines expectations for AI baked into corporate earnings estimates for 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google Photos users are no longer limited to using preset editing suggestions. Google is giving Photos users more control over the app's generative AI photo-to-video feature. Google Photos now supports text prompts for video generation, according to the update announcement on Monday, allowing users to describe the specific movement, style, or effect they want to see when bringing still images to l... View Source

Fans look for workarounds as more games, matches and races go behind subscription paywalls... View Source

Between the new Macs, iPhones and rumored AI gadgets, Apple surprised us with an upgraded, second-generation AirTag. It has Apple’s latest Ultra Wideband chip — the same one used in the iPhone 17 lineup and the Apple Watch Ultra 3. It also uses Precision Finding to reach items up to 50 percent further away than the previous AirTag model. This feature will now work with any Apple Watch Series 9, Ul... View Source

This is actually tidier than my desk normally looks. It took way too long, but Roland finally caved and gave the people what they want: a proper analog successor to the iconic TR-808 drum machine. The 808's sound, especially the kick drum, is embedded so deeply in the DNA of modern music that it would be a gross disservice to try and boil its influence down to a single sentence or a list of artist... View Source

Wall Street is giving off mixed signals about Tesla Inc. Analysts are increasingly skeptical of the electric-vehicle maker’s earnings potential this year, but their expectations for the company’s stock price keep climbing... View Source

Bridget McCormack is used to correcting judges' work. As the former chief justice on the Michigan Supreme Court, it was her job to review complaints about how judges at the lower courts failed to consider key evidence or rule on certain aspects of a case. In her current job, McCormack is working on a new kind of legal decision-maker. Like a judge, it would make mistakes. But unlike many judges, it... View Source

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially sparking an impressive meteor shower... View Source

Microsoft has started testing a refreshed web experience for Xbox Cloud Gaming that looks even more console-like. Xbox Insiders can now try out the preview UI, which includes updated navigation features, plenty of new animations, and a refreshed design. It all feels like a teaser of what's to come for Xbox consoles in the years ahead. The existing Xbox Cloud Gaming interface got its last major ove... View Source

Khaby Lame, the world’s biggest TikToker, partnered with Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd. to transform his 360 million social-media followers into a commercial venture... View Source

Instagram’s premium subscription may include unlimited audience lists and the ability to see which accounts you follow aren’t following you back. Meta is gearing up to trial new premium subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp in the coming months that will allow users to access expanded AI capabilities and additional features. TechCrunch reports that the upcoming subscription plans aim... View Source

Google was handed a six-month European Union deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers in the latest round of its Big Tech crackdown... View Source

Komoot offers more features to all users for free, including turn-by-turn navigation. | Image: Komoot Strava and Komoot - two of the most popular apps for cyclists, hikers, and runners - are each bringing offline maps to the Apple Watch, ending a major source of frustration for many. Now you can easily see routes and record your workouts all in your preferred app, without having to bring along a r... View Source

Artificial intelligence is impacting the physical world as it’s being used to enhance efficiency and productivity in buildings from airports to hospitals, according to Honeywell International Inc... View Source

Gulf Air signed an agreement with SpaceX’s Starlink to deploy onboard Wi-Fi on Bahrain’s national carrier, giving Elon Musk’s company another win in the competition for connectivity among Middle East carriers... View Source

French lawmakers passed a bill banning children aged under 15 from accessing social media, the latest government to push forward rules to shield minors from toxic content following the passage of Australia’s landmark legislation last year... View Source

Andreessen Horowitz has led a pre-seed funding round for Dentio AB, a Swedish startup that has developed a dental software platform underpinned by artificial intelligence... View Source

Xpeng Vice Chairman & President Brian Gu discusses business outlook and AI transition. He speaks exclusively with Bloomberg’s David Ingles at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, Founding Partners at WndrCo, discusses the investment opportunities in the technology, AI and media sectors. They speak with Stephen Engle from the sidelines of the Goldman Sachs Global Macro Conference Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. shares jumped, headed for an all-time high closing level, after local media said the company is the sole supplier of advanced memory for Microsoft Corp.’s new artificial intelligence chip... View Source

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead of an expected rollout by Chinese sensation DeepSeek... View Source

TikTok’s newly established US entity is working to resolve a major infrastructure failure triggered by a data center power disruption, marking a rocky start for the venture just days after its historic spinoff... View Source

Micron Technology Inc. will inject an additional $24 billion in Singapore over the next decade to expand its manufacturing capabilities amid an AI-induced memory chip shortage... View Source

While social media rumors have suggested the errors are examples of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center that it is working to resolve. Rumors of censorship targeting anti-ICE protesting or attempting to block discussion of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be misguided (even the governor of California is reshar... View Source

Quantum computing firm IonQ Inc. has agreed to buy SkyWater Technology Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal that values the chipmaker at about $1.8 billion... View Source

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei joined a growing chorus of Silicon Valley leaders expressing outrage over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, aligning with tech industry workers who’ve urged CEOs to take a stronger stand against the violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis... View Source

Italian fiber carrier Retelit SpA is considering a sale of its data-center business in a deal that could value the unit at as much as €700 million ($823 million), according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

TikTok's newly formed US entity is off to a very bumpy start. As the app continues to face technical issues affecting the recommendation algorithm, view counts and other features, TikTok is also seeing a wave of frustrated users uninstalling it, according to new data.Analytics firm Sensor Tower, which tracks downloads and other app store-related metrics, told CNBC that there has been a 150 pe... View Source

Y Combinator, the US startup incubator behind companies like DoorDash Inc., Airbnb Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc., has removed Canada from a list of countries where it will invest... View Source

Ben Zweig, founder of Revelio Labs, discusses the impact of AI on the job market with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” He says AI is unlikely to hurt long-term employment prospects, as new roles continue to emerge. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot. In its announcement, the Commission says it will evaluate whether X "properly assessed and mitigated risks" associated with Grok's image-generating capabilities in the EU, as reported earlier by The New York Times. Advocacy groups and lawmakers from around the world have raised... View Source

Earnings estimates for China’s broader information technology firms have been outpacing the country’s biggest consumer-internet names, with a record-high divide that has been growing for two years... View Source

Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement regarding claims that its voice assistant inappropriately spied on smartphone users. Plaintiffs claimed that the company’s Google Assistant platform began listening to them after it misheard conversations that sounded like its wake words. The suit argued that private information that Google Assistant shouldn't have heard was then used to deliver t... View Source

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far."... View Source

Ursula Marchioni, BlackRock's EMEA head for investment and portfolio solutions, discusses investors' sentiment as the US face another potential shutdown. She also talks about artificial intelligence earnings and says investors are taking into account "diversification elements" while also wanting to stay invested in the sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Cyber Hornet ETFs co-founder and CEO Michael Willis tells Bloomberg his firm’s 75/25 strategy, blending equities with Bitcoin exposure, is designed to give investors a more familiar, stable entry point into crypto. Willis adds that the firm is moving its Bitcoin exposure from futures to spot and plans to launch additional ETFs using the same methodology. He joined the discussion on "Bloomberg ETF... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Research from NASA and GE Aerospace led to the successful testing of a jet engine at the company’s Peebles Test Operation site in Ohio in December. The hybrid engine is a modified version of a GE Aerospace Passport.GE Aerospace To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December... View Source

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet."... View Source

Shares of GameStop Corp. rallied on Monday after Michael Burry, the money manager made famous by The Big Short, wrote that he has been buying the stock... View Source

Google is rolling out a Gemini feature that could turn out to be pretty useful for many folks. It's a Google Calendar tool that can help figure out the best time to schedule a meeting, taking into account attendees' schedules. When creating a meeting, you can click the "Suggested times" option and Gemini will look at the availability that people have marked on their calendar an... View Source

Credit: NASA The Sultanate of Oman signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Muscat attended by NASA on Monday, becoming the 61st nation to commit to responsible space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. “Oman’s accession to the Artemis Accords sets an important example about the value of responsible behavior and shared pursuit of discovery,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman i... View Source

All colors are on sale right now, including the attractive blue shade. If you prefer over-ear headphones to earbuds and own an iPhone or another Apple device, the AirPods Max with USB-C are worth a look, especially now that you can buy them at Best Buy as part of a flash deal for $429.99 ($120 off) through tomorrow, January 27th. That’s $30 shy of their lowest price to date, and a notable deal giv... View Source

Oracle Corp. predicted that a massive data center it’s developing for OpenAI in New Mexico will create more jobs than previously announced, another example of tech companies trying promote positive impacts of server farms... View Source

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission went into quarantine on Jan. 23, keeping everything on track for a possible launch in early February... View Source

Google could owe you some money, now that it's moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated by something other than Google Assistant's actual trigger word, "Ok Google." German outlet VRT NWS's 2019 report exposed the issue, and court filings from last Friday say the proposed settlement number is $68 million, as reported previously... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia’s additional $2 billion investment in CoreWeave, to accelerate the buildout of AI factories. Plus, IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi discusses the quantum company’s continued acquisition spree, as it buys chipmaker SkyWater Technology in a cash-and-stock deal worth $1.8 billion. And investors gear up for big tech earnings with Meta, Apple and Tesla all... View Source

If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it's not just you. TikTok says it's working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of its data centers that's caused widespread issues in the app. TikTok users have reported problems logging in and uploading videos, as well as with the app's "for you" algorithm."Since yesterday we’ve been wor... View Source