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Sony Group Corp. will end production of physical discs for its PlayStation video-game consoles starting in January 2028, going all in on a digital approach that will require consumers to download titles from the company’s online storefront moving forward... View Source

5 Min Read NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way This artist’s concept visualizes a super-Jupiter orbiting an orange dwarf star at a distance similar to Jupiter’s distance from the Sun. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to ripples in space... View Source

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue to coincide with the United States' 250th anniversary on July 4.The four images reveal superheated gas in a distant galaxy cluster, the swirling spiral galaxy known as Messier 94, a glowing nebula found in our own Milky Way galaxy, and the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, respective... View Source

Rhythm Heaven isn't Nintendo's best-known series, nor its most prolific. Prior to the launch of Rhythm Heaven Groove on the Switch this week - it's out on July 2nd - there were only four previous entries, one of which was exclusive to Japan. The most recent came out more than a decade ago. Even still, there's a case to be made that this is Nintendo's most consistent franchise. There are few guaran... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, setting up a new vector of competition with industry leaders like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud... View Source

It's the end of an era for the PlayStation store on PS3 and PS Vita, with Sony now planning to shut down its digital distribution service on both consoles. The PlayStation store on PS3 will close in select markets later this year, including Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua starting in August, with "additional Latin American and Middle Eastern countries" to follow in late 2026. The shutdown across b... View Source

Fewer teens than ever are reading books, and boys especially. And the ones who do read are either years behind where they should be developmentally, or too scared to branch out to challenging literature. According to a new study of children’s reading habits in the UK and Ireland, most boys are still reading primary school level books (in Europe, primary school is the rough equivalent of elem... View Source

Taiwanese prosecutors detained two Super Micro Computer Inc. employees following a raid of the US company’s local offices earlier this week over alleged shipments of Nvidia Corp. chips to China... View Source

UN panel says 'AI is neither inherently good nor bad,' but better safeguards around it are needed... View Source

Over the past 250 years, the number of "planets" in our solar system has ranged from six to nine — and, briefly, even 11 — depending on what astronomers knew at the time and how they defined a planet. As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, that changing tally offers a unique lens on humanity's evolving understanding of the cosmos since 1776.Throughout history, astronomer... View Source

Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro doesn’t even feature a disc drive. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony has announced that from January 2028 it will entirely stop the production of physical discs for new PlayStation games. From that point onwards, new releases will only be available in digital versions from the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games released before January 2028 will still be av... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was ordered to pay almost $2 billion to Klarna Group Plc’s Pricerunner unit in a dispute over the search-engine giant’s abuse of power in the market for comparison shopping services... View Source

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The Google Home Speaker is Google’s first smart speaker in years. And it’s pretty! | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The Verge Smart speakers have spent the past few years searching for a compelling second act. Beyond music, timers, and controlling your lights, they've struggled to justify taking up space on the kitchen counter. AI promised to change that. Amazon debuted its new hardware powered b... View Source

Four former college friends who founded software rollup Bending Spoons SpA have emerged as Italy’s youngest cohort of self-made billionaires... View Source

Getty Images has moved to terminate a $3.7 billion merger with rival Shutterstock due to restrictions imposed by UK regulators... View Source

Dbrand is the company that shipped a product that told Nintendo's legal team to "go fuck yourself," and the company that had a second set of lawyer-dodging PS5 plates ready when Sony threatened to sue over the originals. But on June 29th, the company finally ate some serious humble pie, canceling its Portal-themed Companion Cube external shell for the Steam Machine after Valve lawyered up. I could... View Source

Planning a Fourth of July getaway? Use less gas—and cut your emissions—by easing up on the pedal... View Source

Autonomous driving software company Wayve Technologies Ltd. has filed to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange’s new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test the novel system... View Source

It's unclear when Boeing will be able to send more astronauts to the International Space Station, a new NASA audit warns.Technical issues with Boeing Starliner's spacecraft, across two uncrewed flights and a two-astronaut test mission known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), come under scrutiny in a new report about NASA's Commercial Crew Program from the agency's Office of the Inspector General (OIG)."Ma... View Source

The storm developed quickly over west central Illinois on April 17th, first as a single high-intensity system called a supercell, and then later that evening transforming into a long squall line of thunderstorms. Tucked inside a wall of wind were several smaller, quick-forming tornadoes, one of which landed directly on Rivian’s electric vehicle factory on the outskirts of the college town of Norma... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and UK actor Idris Elba will fund access to artificial intelligence tools for African creators, with the goal of helping them produce high-quality content faster and more cheaply... View Source

BMW's X5 lineup finally has an electric option with impressive range... View Source

A restless Earth-facing sunspot unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare on June 30, triggering radio blackouts across parts of North America. The X1.1 solar flare erupted from sunspot region AR4479, peaking at 4:50 p.m. EDT (2050 GMT) according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. The intense burst of X-rays released during the eruption reached Earth in just over 8 minutes, triggering stron... View Source

Here are some example shots taken with the QuickSnap Black and White (left), and the QuickSnap Active (right). | Images by Fujifilm Fujifilm is expanding its QuickSnap lineup with a new disposable camera focused on taking monochrome photos and another built to survive harsh outdoor environments. The $22.90 QuickSnap Black and White and the $24.75 QuickSnap Active are expected to launch sometime la... View Source

Whether artificial intelligence will cause mass workforce cuts over time remains up for debate, but it is starting to leave an imprint on US employment data... View Source

The TikTok creator’s $39 billion data center is the latest payoff from Lula’s courtship of Chinese investment... View Source

A new Amazon transatlantic fiber-optic link is symbolic of the country’s tech economy, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending... View Source

Meta's Conversation Focus feature for smart glasses is now only free for three hours a month... View Source

Getty says it’s “not required” to accept approval conditions that would force Shutterstock to offload its editorial business. | Image: The Verge Getty is planning to axe its $3.7 billion merger agreement with Shutterstock after a UK regulator imposed restrictions that would prevent part of Shutterstock's business from being included in the deal. The move comes despite the US Department of Justice... View Source

New satellite imagery reveals how much terrain has shifted in the wake of the twin quakes... View Source

TikTok is considering cutting about 300 jobs at its European hub in Dublin, following a similarly sized round of layoffs last year... View Source

Peter Oppenheimer, chief global equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, says the ramp up in spending by hyperscalers will continue to drive earnings growth in other sectors and regions, including Europe. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

French natural gas consumers are set to pay more for network maintenance over the coming decades as falling demand for the fuel means the infrastructure will be financed by fewer users, the industry regulator said... View Source

MGX has raised $49 billion for one of the biggest ever funds dedicated to artificial intelligence deals, propelling the two-year-old Abu Dhabi firm into the ranks of the most consequential investors in the sector globally... View Source

The US government removed foreign access restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 artificial intelligence model, clearing it for wider distribution. Anthropic said it had received notice that Commerce was lifting the curbs on access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models. Some of the restrictions on Mythos had been eased on June 26. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Kim Dotcom, the internet entrepreneur facing extradition from New Zealand, has lost the latest round in his legal battle to avoid facing prosecution in the US... View Source

With origins in the English countryside, The Cotswold Company is known for upscale furniture that evokes its bucolic backstory. Now it’s bracing for the era of artificial intelligence... View Source

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.  plans to increase its annual technology spending, including on artificial intelligence, to more than S$1 billion ($771 million), said a top executive... View Source

Padraig McDonnell, President and CEO at Agilent, discusses the company's business strategy and the innovations he sees in the life sciences sector. He speaks with Minmin Low from the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Dalian. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Yuka Hata, Senior Managing Director & Head of Fund Investments at Japan Investment Corporation, says demand for capital is growing as Japan shifts its focus toward physical AI and deep technologies. She adds that Japan’s labor shortages have heightened the need for AI-driven solutions, making the sector a key investment priority for JIC. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Gemini macOS app now has access to Google's Spark agentic AI assistant... View Source

SpaceX is offering discounts for Starlink internet plans in Memphis, Tennessee, as the Elon Musk-led company endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its data centers in the area and neighboring Mississippi... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Dushyant Shahrawat joins Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." Securitize debuts on the New York Stock Exchange this Thursday after investors approved its SPAC merger, which will make it one of the first publicly traded pure-play tokenization companies. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Panasonic Holdings Corp., the Japanese electronics conglomerate, is attracting renewed investor attention as a beneficiary of the artificial-intelligence boom... View Source

Anthropic will start its users' access to Mythos and Fable tomorrow, July 1... View Source

Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, joins Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US government removed foreign access restrictions on Anthropic PBC’s Fable 5 artificial intelligence model, clearing it for wider distribution after the startup resolved the Trump administration’s safety concerns... View Source

Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, priced its initial public offering at $25 per share, the midpoint of the marketed range, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription. In a help article, the company insists that it won't require a subscription to use your glasses,... View Source

Bending Spoons SpA, which acquires struggling software businesses, and some of its backers raised $1.68 billion in a US initial public offering priced above a marketed range... View Source

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soo... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are BlackRock Global Co-Head of iShares Fixed Income ETFs Steve Laipply, BNY Head of Market Structure Nate Wuerffel, RBC Capital Markets Managing Director, Software Equity Research Rishi Jaluria, Former US Ambassador to Israel... View Source

Samsung teases wide-as-hell new foldable... View Source

Digital infrastructure services firm ITG Inc. raised $312.2 million in a US initial public offering, pricing its shares below a marketed range... View Source

The app's arrival follows an announcement at last year's Meta Connect conference... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Kalshi Head of Enforcement Robert DeNault, BitGet CEO Gracy Chen, Luxor Technology COO Ethan Vera, and Fireblocks Policy Director Dea Markova. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Dish, the company that operates Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy," as reported earlier by Reuters. The plan will allow the EchoStar-owned company to continue to wind down its wireless operations after "unforeseen delays" held back its sale of $23 billion worth of 5G spectrum to AT&T. Dish TV, Sling TV, and other brands involved will continue to operate during the proce... View Source

Jeff Christian, Founder and CEO of Executive Search firm Christian & Timbers, discusses Nike's strategic shift following the completion of its CEO transition. He highlights that the company is now in 'proof mode,' emphasizing execution and delivering improved financial results. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The retailer allegedly failed to meet requirements under the Fair Credit Reporting Act... View Source

Blue Origin has started rebuilding the launch pad damaged by an explosive accident last month, but the company is working from a very different blueprint this time around.The company's huge New Glenn rocket exploded on May 28 during a routine engine test at Launch Complex 36A (LC-36A) at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket was destroyed, as were some important pieces of pad in... View Source

An AI boom has spurred historic rallies in Taiwan and South Korea’s stock markets. But with gains fueled by borrowed money and risky bets, what comes next? Find out on the Big Take Asia podcast. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users... View Source

Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit tonight (June 30), and you can watch the action live.An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-13 satellite is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site tonight at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT and 1 p.m. local New Zealand time on July 1).You can watch the launch live here at Space.com courtesy of Rocket Lab, or directl... View Source

Microsoft is set to announce a wave of layoffs for its Xbox studios and employees next week. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the layoffs will lead to studio closures or spinoffs, potential mergers of studios, and canceled games. I understand Microsoft is currently weighing closing at least five studios, including the developers behind Marvel's Blade. Sources tell me Mic... View Source

On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, how an AI-driven stock boom in Taiwan and South Korea is enticing investors to take big risks on one of the world’s hottest market rallies... View Source

The cuts will apparently start next week... View Source

Three artist renderings depict commercial lunar landers from Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Firefly on the Moon. NASA announced June 30 the landers will deliver more NASA science investigations and technology demonstrations to the lunar surface for NASA’s Moon Base Program.Credit: Astrobotic/Intuitive Machines/Firefly Editor’s note: This release was updated on June 30, 2026, to clarify... View Source

NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four robotic landers th... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its complaint, the FTC accuses Amazon of refusing to provide customers with information about purchases made with fraudulent accounts, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). As alleged in the filing... View Source

NASA officials said Tuesday that they are seriously considering sending the full-scale engineering model of the Perseverance rover, which is currently housed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, to the Moon to expedite their efforts to explore the south pole region. The car-sized rover nicknamed "Promise," which serves as a testbed for Perseverance and was not otherwise planned for a la... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligences Nathan Dean joins Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." One of the Republican senators spearheading efforts to pass an industry-backed measure to regulate cryptocurrency and digital assets said Thursday lawmakers plan to soon release an “updated draft” of the bill that seeks to address members’ concerns over ethics. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple filed an appeal after being found in contempt of an order related to App Store fees... View Source

An artist’s concept of astronauts working on the lunar surface.NASA Notice ID: Coming Soon July, 2026 – Anticipated Synopsis Release [System for Awards Management] NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations... View Source

Two NASA astronauts gave a robotic arm a hand up — or rather, a replacement wrist joint — during a successful spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday (June 30).Chris Williams and Jessica Meir, both flight engineers on the station's Expedition 74 crew, spent seven hours and 20 minutes repairing the Canadarm2 remote manipulator system (RMS) after it was observed drawing current... View Source

The GIF-picking interfaces in some of your favorite online platforms might look different going forward, as Google prepares to shut down the Tenor API today. While the Tenor website, along with its searchable GIF library, will remain live, platforms like X, Discord, Bluesky, and WhatsApp that previously integrated the API are now having to migrate to alternative GIF picker services. Google acquire... View Source

Dea Markova, policy director at Fireblocks, joins Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." They discuss the expected updated draft to the Clarity Act that may be released soon. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

So much for magic... View Source

7 Min Read NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images are accompanied by a trio of new sonifications – a technique that translates astronomi... View Source

The Acer Swift Go 16 AI has a massive trackpad. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge As high memory and storage prices have driven up the cost of everything from consoles to computers, finding a competent laptop for under $1,000 has become a challenge. Thankfully, the Acer Swift Go 16 AI is on sale for $899.99 at Best Buy, a steep discount from its usual list price of $1,549.99. The well-e... View Source

Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor Technology, joins Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." Many miners are shifting their focus to AI. More broadly, crypto firms are beginning to apply the infrastructure and market expertise they built around digital assets to AI, from converting mining sites into data centers to building markets for GPUs and computing power. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA flight test engineer A.J. Jaffe and pilot Nils Larson walk on the ramp before a flight Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The two support the agency’s Crossflow Attenuated Natural Laminar Flow (CATNLF) project, which aims to lower fuel costs for future commerc... View Source

Workers at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar Games have submitted a request for their union, the IWGB Game Workers Union, to be voluntarily recognized, according to a press release. The request follows Rockstar firing more than 30 staffers last year in a move accused of being "union busting." According to the release, IWGB members have been "actively" organizing since 2019 and "claim they now... View Source

US and Chinese AI researchers are calling for global cooperation on the tech, fearing that its unchecked development could lead to an unimaginable catastrophe.  “AI is a global technology with global benefits, global harms, and a consistent tendency for new capabilities to eventually proliferate,” Stephen Casper, a computer scientist at MIT who spoke at a major AI conference in Be... View Source

Robert DeNault, head of enforcement at Kalshi, joins Isabelle Lee on "Bloomberg Crypto." Last month the CFTC permitted the listing of perpetual futures on US exchanges. Kalshi’s contracts were the first perpetual futures approved by the CFTC, marking an expansion beyond the company’s core business of listing event contracts. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tres representaciones digitales muestran módulos de aterrizaje lunar comerciales de Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines y Firefly en la Luna. La NASA anunció el 30 de junio que estos módulos de aterrizaje entregarán más investigaciones científicas y demostraciones tecnológicas de la NASA en la superficie lunar para el programa Base Lunar de la agencia.Créditos: Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, Firefly R... View Source

Tesla Cybercab production lines are already running. Actual manufacturing and scaling are underway (not just prototypes). There will be a significant announcement that is related to GigaTexas scaling on July 7th. One week from today. Tesla is super confident about dominating operational cost dominance with Cybercab. Tesla will crush others with the lowest cost per ... Read more... View Source

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google details Australia's unsuccessful war on emus, pairing paper cutout-style AI art of emus with narration. I... View Source

David Rubenstein, the founder and co-chairman of the Carlyle Group and host of "Bloomberg Wealth," says he doesn't expect the AI bubble to pop anytime soon. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You can use any sound you want for an iPhone alarm, and here's how to set it up... View Source

The price of LG’s UltraGear 27GX700A-B 1440p gaming monitor that came out last August has dropped to nearly its best price yet. You can grab it at Amazon for $484.99 or at LG for $499.99 (originally $599.99). That’s a great deal considering this is one of LG’s Primary RGB Tandem panels built with fourth-generation WOLED tech that delivers higher brightness and punchier contrast than its predecesso... View Source

Award winning economist and Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history. As Spanish newspaper El País reports, Serrano noticed red flags as soon as he looked at the scores of a March midterm exam for one of the classes he teaches, an advanced undergrad course in mathematical economics. The take-home and cl... View Source

TikTok is finalizing a settlement related to a lawsuit claiming that the world’s largest social media platforms are addictive to minors, according to people familiar with the matter, avoiding a jury trial scheduled for July in Los Angeles... View Source

Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest. The marsquakes detected by InSight show a boundary 15 miles (24 kilometers) deep between two different types of rock that were formed by enormous pools of magma. The presence of these magma pools could completely change what we thought we knew about the early development... View Source

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series and 007 First Light, announced that it is laying off staff after a relationship with an "external partner" on its next big franchise, Project Fantasy, "has come to an end." IO has described Project Fantasy as an "online fantasy RPG", and Kotaku and Bloomberg report that Microsoft, which is planning significant cuts as part of a broader "reset" of... View Source

The Supreme Court officially struck down President Trump's signature restrictions on birthright citizenship, with implications for the future of the US tech workforce, which relies heavily on immigrant talent. Hiba Anver, partner with Erickson Immigration Group, joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For now, only the “Laurel Oak” color option is available for $20, not the “Arabesque” color. | Image: Motorola Announced at CES 2026, the Moto Tag 2 has finally arrived in the US. The Bluetooth tracker with improved battery life over its predecessor, plus UWB sensing for more accurate tracking, is available through Motorola’s site at a special $19.99 launch price (originally $29.99). There a... View Source

As the Trump administration continues to debilitate the United States’ path to green power, other parts of the world are all-in on renewable energy. In fact, some countries have ramped up green energy generation so much that prices are dropping precipitously — and venture capitalists are unhappy as their margins take a big hit. As Bloomberg reports, investors, utilities, and banks have inves... View Source

Shares of companies that supply semiconductor equipment are soaring this week as increased investments from leading chipmakers in South Korea bolster investors’ optimism... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Most “Pleasantly… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kids Mission:... View Source

Star Fox 64 is the Nintendo game that refuses to fade away, and we're not complaining, especially when the new Switch 2 remake — simply titled Star Fox — amplifies its replay value and expands the original vision with a bunch of new content.Roughly a decade ago, Star Fox Zero almost killed the franchise for good. The ill-fated Wii U entry's structure and plot stuck staggeringly close to Star Fox 6... View Source

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not some Glasgow-style AI fakes, the voiceover is AI-generated. Deadline reports that Netflix worked with AI audio company Elev... View Source

Schneider Electric SE agreed to buy Cognite in a $3.1 billion transaction to expand its industrial data and AI software business... View Source

All the Apple products avoiding the price hike (for now)... View Source

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn't stopped Donald Trump's science adviser from promising a "quantum computer powerful enough for scientific discovery by 2028" and Trump from issuing a new executive order to speed up the US quantum c... View Source

Over the weekend, Elon Musk publicly challenged anybody to “cite a single name of someone who died” as a result of him gutting USAID last year during the early weeks of the second Trump administration — a “death sentence for an estimated 4.5 million children around the world,” according to representative Ro Khanna (D-CA). Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times... View Source

The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by Apple Inc. regarding a contempt ruling in its long-running antitrust battle with Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc... View Source

At least for this session, the Stop Killing Games campaign has hit a wall in the California Senate... View Source

The six charts are daily load curves (duck-curve style) with a red horizontal line likely representing average/baseload demand or a target firm threshold. In the video, Tesla experts explain how batteries and the VPP can shape energy demand. The shaded area is the net load (demand minus variable generation). Dips at 4 AM and peaks ... Read more... View Source

The universe is ready for its close-up! That's because today marks the day that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins it's 10-year mission to shoot the greatest cosmic move ever created. The decade-long project officially known as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is set to revolutionize our view of the universe. That means June 30, 2026 marks the beginning of a new era for astronomy."Toda... View Source

The Bose Soundlink Max is usually $399, but has been on steep discount this week at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Bose for $279. This Bluetooth speaker has a big and bold sound, with a wide soundstage that impressed us in our review. It’s great for the outdoors thanks to its IP67 rating, meaning splashes and sand won’t affect it. The built-in battery lasts up to 20 hours on a sin... View Source

When the World Cup knockout round began Sunday, Kalshi joined the likes of Coca-Cola, Visa and Adidas with sideline advertising in the stadiums — an unusual addition, given that the event is halfway over, and also that FIFA already signed up an “official prediction markets partner” in ADI Predictstreet, a startup with ties to the Abu Dhabi royal family... View Source

The second animated Mario movie made over a billion dollars... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. "AI is the new frontier for us," says Marc DeBevoise, who took over as the new CEO of OverDrive last week. OverDrive is best known for the ebook lending app Libby that is available through tens of thousands of public libraries. Like th... View Source

On the same week as his 55th birthday, almost-trillionaire Elon Musk attempted to defend himself after representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) accused him of sentencing millions of children “to death” by dismantling USAID program. A heated Musk threatened to sue Khanna for defamation, arguing he “should be in prison” — yet there’s extensive documentation of the humanitarian c... View Source

From market outlook and cross-border flows to private capital, IPO momentum, China opportunities and AI infrastructure, Bloomberg Invest Hong Kong 2026 convened allocators, dealmakers and investors for conversations on the forces shaping Asia’s markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Music Studio 7 is an excellent Sonos alternative that can pull double duty in the living room... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto This image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer). Globular clusters like NGC 6723 contain s... View Source

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The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope's inventor, a seventeenth century spectacle-maker by the name of Hans Lippershey, maybe wouldn't have believed possible. When we look back through the annals of telescope history, we find that a significant turning point came, coincidentally, just five years after the United States' Decla... View Source

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches... View Source

The rise of artificial intelligence won’t make human workers superfluous, according to OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji... View Source

You can use Gemini to quickly search your Gmail inbox with natural language... View Source

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The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, ruling 6-3 against President Donald Trump's effort to end the longstanding constitutional right via executive order. Birthright citizenship dates back to Reconstruction. Under the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship and equal protection to the children of formerly enslaved people, anyone born in the United States "and... View Source

US President Donald Trump has been desperately trying stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC from looking like an algae-infested swamp. He’s already spent over $16 million of taxpayer funds to turn the iconic 2,000-by-600-foot body of water into a crystal-clear pond, only to make matters far worse, with the refurbishment attempt suffering from peeling blue paint and unna... View Source

Nvidia rival says it has raised $800 million and has $1 billion in contracts... View Source

Clicks has released the first hands-on video of its Blackberry like Communicator Android phone... View Source

AI is all about building Gigawatts on Earth or in Space faster and powering millions of AI chips with them to deliver more AI tokens and more powerful AI. Tesla is able shape the Grid on Earth. Tesla signed a deal with Sunrun to get control of 16 Gigawatts of solar power and 4+ gigawatts ... Read more... View Source

Land surface temperature data captured by Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Wednesday, June 23, 2026. The data were captured in the late morning, local time. (Image credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA)Over 1,300 deaths have been attributed to a heat wave that swept across Europe and broke temperature records earlier this month.From its perch in sun-s... View Source

Blackstone Inc. President Jon Gray has steered his firm to more artificial-intelligence investments, and the same is true with his science philanthropy... View Source

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Videos purporting to show the iPhone 18 Pro undergoing a drop test were removed from X shortly after they surfaced, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. An account imitating leaker Evleaks was suspended from X after sharing the clips, while the post was removed as well, with X saying it "violated" the platform's rules. Another leaker, IceUniverse, also shared the clips. In a post on Weibo, IceUniverse... View Source

Out of all the big AI players, Anthropic is the one that likes to doomsay about AI the most — because it’s also the most concerned about AI safety, of course. So you’ll never guess what kind of wacky stuff that its newly hired economist, Chad Jones, believes. As the Financial Times recently highlighted, Jones — a longtime Stanford economics professor — once wrote a paper that weighed u... View Source

Dan Ives, global head of tech research and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities, sees the upcoming earnings season as a “huge validation moment” for big tech stocks, which he says were “way oversold in June.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Shark has launched a new vacuum with three form factors... View Source

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BOULDER, Colorado — After Earth's moon and Mars, where could humans plant their footprints? The "Humans to Titan Summit 2026" was held here on June 11 and June 12 to explore the concept of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, as the next human exploration destination, post-Mars. Researchers looked into how demanding such a trek could be and what would be required to make it, along with next steps to... View Source

Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden says the use of autonomous artificial intelligence agents “could amplify volatility in stress” in financial markets and may need tighter regulation. She speaks at the European Central Bank's annual symposium in Sintra, Portugal. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of the industry — has skyrocketed. Tech giants are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to construct massively resource-intensive data centers across the country, but the aging power grid and an increasingly resistant public are quickly turning these expansion efforts into nightmare. As an alternat... View Source

Artificial intelligence debt issuance may point to more of a financial stability concern than stock valuations, according to a senior International Monetary Fund official... View Source

NASA will provide an update about its moon base plans this afternoon (June 30), and you can watch it live.Agency chief Jared Isaacman and Carlos García-Galán, the manager for NASA's moon base program, "will discuss the next set of awards for new lunar lander missions and preview upcoming opportunities as the agency works toward building a sustained presence on the moon," NASA officials wrote in a... View Source

“After college, my plan was to come to New York and get a record deal.” | Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt's questions were "de... View Source

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents risk causing “market meltdown” and may need tighter regulation, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden warned... View Source

Signs that companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to handle customer service tasks has triggered a fresh selloff in shares of two call-center companies... View Source

Executives and companies are grappling with how to manage the tools’ often uninvited presence... View Source

The time between a software vulnerability being found and then exploited by a bad actor is shrinking says Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund. This poses a real threat to financial stability, says Adrian. He spoke to Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua on the sidelines of the ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sint... View Source

Proton has launched a major upgrade for its Lumo chatbot, giving it image generation and editing capabilities... View Source

The first full moon of summer, June's Strawberry Moon, wowed skywatchers worldwide with a spectacular display. June's full moon was the lowest-hanging full moon of the year for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. That's because a full moon always sits opposite the sun in the sky. During the summer solstice that just passed on June 21, the sun was following its highest path of the year; that mean... View Source

The Avinox MG Concept MGU coming next year. | Image: Avinox Imagine an e-bike motor that lets you select your preferred pedaling cadence and then automatically adjusts the gears to keep your legs spinning at that exact speed, no matter how steep the hill gets - all without a fragile derailleur or heavy multi-speed cassette to maintain. Prefer manual control? No problem, you can have as many gears... View Source

A shortage of job openings in the US is playing a much bigger role in young people’s unemployment than their lack of artificial intelligence skills, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis... View Source

NASA Ames Science Stars of the Month: July 2026 Pictured left to right: Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborati... View Source

Case designs for the wide-style Galaxy Z Fold 8 have appeared online, and some show the phone inside them. | Image: Android Headlines Samsung is expected to unveil its next generation of foldables at a Galaxy Unpacked event next month, but now we know what they might look like, courtesy of some leaked images published by Android Headlines. Images shared by the publication include case designs for... View Source

The maps and images show the extent of destruction and give rescue operations a tool to find any remaining survivors... View Source

At Manifest, some tech intellectuals wondered whether Super Bowl bets were really helping humanity... View Source

Anthropic PBC has said its Mythos artificial intelligence model is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can’t be released to the general public. As of early June, the AI giant had released Mythos to only 200 partner organizations because if a tool this powerful fell into the wrong hands, Anthropic said, it could help attackers more easily steal data or disrup... View Source

A consortium led by NeoPulse is close to a deal to buy nearly 40% of South Korean firm Wemade Co. from founder and Chairman Park Kwan-ho, a spokesman for Wemade said in response to a Bloomberg News query... View Source

Fabiana Fedeli, CIO of multi-asset at M&G Investments, says that while there is still value in equities, markets such as South Korea have displayed "exuberant" behavior. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, she says: "there is a whole host of stocks which are the AI losers — the stocks that have been forgotten by the AI trade — that I still think I still think are very worthwhile inve... View Source

Heat pumps are more than just a way to keep your home comfortable without using fossil fuels... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Comcast is shaking up media, with shares soaring on plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky. Tech rebounds as South Korea’s AI spending push lifts chip stocks. Plus, the US . and Iran agree to halt attacks ahead of Doha talks. Tyler Kendall breaks down the Supreme Court’s Fed independence ruling, and Del Monte Cor... View Source

From small businesses to government agencies, legitimate websites are getting caught in the crossfire of LaLiga's fight against illegal sports streams... View Source

It was supposed to be the deal that vaulted Mirae Asset Securities Co. into the global big leagues... View Source

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner have hired investment bankers and discussed making a bid for the National Basketball Association expansion team in Las Vegas, according to sources. Bloomberg's Natasha Mascarenhas joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Taiwan government agencies raided the offices of Super Micro Computer Inc. and several of its local affiliates, deepening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia Corp. chips into China using the company’s servers... View Source

Activist investor Jana Partners has built a larger stake in Alkami Technology Inc. and is urging the financial technology company to move forward with a sale, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

The South Korean government will consider ways to cut atomic power construction times as it looks to ramp up energy supply to meet the demands of artificial intelligence... View Source

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. cut Group Chief Executive Officer Yuen Kuan Moon’s pay by 17% after a year marked by emergency service disruption and network outages in Australia and Singapore... View Source

Taiwan’s main opposition party outlined plans to develop the drone industry just days after stalling a similar proposal from President Lai Ching-te’s government, amid a debate on unmanned systems with crucial implications for the island’s defense... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle US claims that it routinely failed to provide records to help customers who were victims of identity theft... View Source

Standard Chartered Plc’s former global head of AI enablement, David Hardoon, has joined Accenture Plc as managing director and head of advanced AI for Southeast Asia... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are PIMCO Head of Short-Term Portfolio Management Jerome Schneider, Former FTC Chair & Commissioner William Kovacic, Seaport Research Partners Senior Analyst David Joyce, LSEG CEO David Schwimmer, JPMorgan Executive Director G... View Source

China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. is ramping up buybacks as its Hong Kong-listed shares struggle to recover from a selloff that’s wiped out about $309 billion in market value since early October... View Source

Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. has started taking investor orders for its Hong Kong listing that may fetch as much as HK$24.3 billion ($3.1 billion), the city’s biggest share debut so far this year... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. has been sued by Australia’s consumer watchdog for introducing advertising to its Prime Video streaming service and then forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid the ads... View Source

The UK will probably miss its clean electricity target by five years because of capacity constraints on its grid and could struggle to deliver on promises to cut household energy bills, according to consultant LCP Delta... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation Northwest Earth and Space… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   4 min read Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways Project Celebrates Student Innovation Through ROADS from Earth to Venus National Challenge The Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways (NESSP) project recently concluded its 2025–20... View Source

The House on Monday passed legislation to require new online safety protections for children, a sign of growing momentum in Washington to address a widespread concern among US parents even as the measure sets up a clash with senators seeking stronger safeguards... View Source

Some of Apple's corporate secrets aren't so secret any more... View Source

Brian Roberts lost out on an opportunity last year to merge NBCUniversal with Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. But the process helped get the chairman and co-chief executive officer of Comcast Corp. thinking about what NBCUniversal would look like on its own... View Source

If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In a new interview with Vogue Italia, the Queen of Pop emphatically declared that AI is antithetical to art itself because it stifles creativity and pushes you down the boring and safe route. “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the oppo... View Source

Chris Marangi, president and co-CIO of Gabelli Funds, joins Katie Greifeld, Scarlet Fu, and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Comcast plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky, unwinding a strategy that began more than a decade ago after struggling to demonstrate that a cable and media conglomerate would benefit shareholders. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Smartphones are welcoming the agentic AI overlords... View Source

Impulse Space has over a $1 billion raised and $4.26 valuation and has key SpaceX people like Tom Mueller. They will be selling in-space mobility as a service rather than hardware. They provide orbital transfer, last-mile delivery, hosting, deployment, and high-agility maneuvering after a launch vehicle separates the payload in LEO. Nextbigfuture covered Impulse in ... Read more... View Source

California-based launch company Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.Rocket Lab has brought a variety of companies into its space systems architecture in recent years, but none of those previous purchases were as notable as the acquisition announced today (June 29). Rocket Lab and Iridium settled on the purchase at $54 per shar... View Source

Exiled Chinese tycoon Miles Guo, who promoted himself as a crusader against the communist government in Beijing, was ordered to spend 30 years in a US prison for duping investors out of $1 billion... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The Flight Dynamics Research Facility, located at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is the agency’s first major wind tunnel built in more than 40 years. NASA/Mark Knopp For more than 100 years, wind tunnels at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have helped shape the future of flight... View Source

While Kara Zor-El's appearance at the end of James Gunn's Superman was a very pleasant surprise, Warner Bros. Discovery's plan to fast-track a standalone Supergirl feature always felt a little dubious. It seemed odd that, after Superman, the studio wanted to flesh out its new cinematic universe with films about another Kryptonian and one of Batman's less notable villains. But Gunn implored fans to... View Source

South Koreans are getting richer more quickly than anyone else in the world, creating an unprecedented opportunity for the country’s asset managers... View Source

Dbrand did not do its homework when it made the Companion Cube case for the Steam Machine... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, right, and Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler, left, pose for a photo after signing a Memorandum of Agreement Monday, June 29, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. This Memorandum of Agreement will provide the framework for NASA and the Small Business Administration Office of Investment and Innovati... View Source

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary today, it’s worth noting a certain sense of irony that Steven Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" seems oddly prescient into today’s AI-obsessed environment, especially when compared to the master director’s recently released "Disclosure Day," which sadly feels three decades late to the whole governmental cover-up UFO/UAP party."A.I. Artificial Intell... View Source

Time to say goodbye to that legacy Sprint plan. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans. This move includes plans that date back to the 3G era, and it's going about as well as you'd expect. Affected customers began sharing screenshots of the text on redd... View Source

David Schwimmer, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), discussed the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the financial markets. He emphasized that despite a challenging 2025 for shares, AI presents a significant opportunity for LSEG by enhancing the value of its proprietary data, which constitutes over 90% of its dataset. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld... View Source

Rather than external partnerships, Uber may start leaning on its own robotaxis for driverless options... View Source

Ever wanted to role play a claims adjustor in Southern California? Now you can — with Wyldfyre, the world’s first standalone prediction market dedicated to wildfire risk. Even more than usual, this summer promises to be hot, dry, and primed for horrifying wildfires throughout North America and beyond; families are already fleeing deadly blazes in California. With mainstream prediction market... View Source

Meera Pandit, Executive Director of Global Market Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, joined the program to discuss the strong finish to the quarter for US equities. The segment highlighted that US stock markets are on track to deliver their best quarterly performance in six years, reflecting positive momentum and investor confidence as the quarter closes. She speaks with Romaine Bostick... View Source

Google expands personalized intelligence to Gemini app image creation... View Source

Two NASA astronauts will fix the International Space Station's big robotic arm during a spacewalk on Tuesday (June 30), and you can watch the action live.Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will perform a roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today, starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT).You can watch it live via NASA; Space.com will air the stream as well, if th... View Source

The iPhone 17 Pro. | Image: The Verge Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple's key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters. The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo. This comes just a week after Tata Electronics, an Ind... View Source