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This 1048-piece Grogu and Hover Pram Star Wars Lego set is fun for builders of all ages, and right now, it's reduced in price, too... View Source

A selloff in software stocks and other sectors deemed at risk from advances in artificial intelligence showed no sign of abating on Wednesday, and according to JPMorgan Chase & Co., the grim mood among investors is unrelenting... View Source

Experts worry Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda... View Source

Over close to two decades, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council has quietly built a $160 billion portfolio, largely unnoticed in a city awash in sovereign wealth. That restraint is now starting to fade... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Palantir’s revenue forecast that beat Wall Street expectations, sending its shares up. Plus, Disney Chairman James Gorman discusses the company’s decision to appoint its parks chief Josh D'Amaro as the next CEO. And Elon Musk confirms plans to combine SpaceX and xAI in a deal valuing the merged entity at $1.25 trillion. (Video updated to correct Asce... View Source

Infineon Technologies AG said it would ramp up spending on its technology for data centers to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence solutions... View Source

The fear of AI disruption in software is not just rocking equity markets, it's also hitting software firm's debt and pushing their bonds and loans into distressed territory. PagsGroup Founder and CEO, Steve Pagliuca, told Joumanna Bercetche on Horizons Middle East and Africa that AI moving into the implementation stage marks a turning point in the software as a service model. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

European countries are taking their broadest swipe yet at social media, with a growing number weighing bans of the services for minors and setting the stage for a new showdown with some of the biggest US companies... View Source

A new AI automation tool from Anthropic PBC sparked a $285 billion rout in stocks across the software, financial services and asset management sectors on Tuesday. The selloff started before the US market opened on Tuesday as traders pointed to a release on the Anthropic website as the reason behind steep declines in the shares of credit and marketing services company Experian Plc, business and leg... View Source

Almost half a trillion dollars has been wiped off cryptocurrencies in less than a week as a selloff led by Bitcoin accelerated. The declines follow a volatile week across global markets that also saw sharp swings in gold and silver. Bloomberg’s Ven Ram reports... View Source

The chief of Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker... View Source

Combining with SpaceX may help Musk’s AI startup find more capital, talent and data... View Source

Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027, AMD CEO Lisa Su has revealed during the semiconductor company’s latest earnings call. Valve is on track to start shipping its AMD-powered Steam Machine early this year, she said, while Microsoft’s development of an Xbox with a semi-custom SOC from AMD is “progressing well to support a launch in 2027.” While it doesn’t necess... View Source

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Traders have become been skeptical about software stocks due to fears about the potential destruction to be wrought by artificial intelligence. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers breaks down the situation and explains how Asian markets are responding. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Prosus NV reached a multi-year cloud and artificial-intelligence deal with an Amazon.com Inc. unit that will consolidate contracts in these spheres, resulting in double-digit cost savings... View Source

Sonos Inc. plans to release “several” products this year, the clearest indicator yet that the audio company is ready to move past a lengthy period of software-related turmoil and resume consumer hardware launches... View Source

For much of the past three years, Elon Musk’s xAI has tried to compete against the leading AI labs, including OpenAI, the company he co-founded and later clashed with. The results have been mixed: xAI’s flagship product, the chatbot Grok, has made headlines for antisemetic responses and sexualized images that have overshadowed its technological advances... View Source

Fidelity's Thomas Taw tells Bloomberg Television that he expects a "very bumpy" ride ahead across asset classes. He also discusses the outlook for precious metals and Bitcoin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In December, OpenAI made headlines when it posted a job listing for a “head of preparedness” with an eye-watering base pay range of as much as $555,000 a year. On Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman announced that the job has now been filled — by a staffer at rival AI model developer Anthropic... View Source

3C AGI Partners, founded by former SenseTime Group Inc. managing director Esther Wong, is launching an artificial intelligence venture fund backed by a family office that runs money for some of Hong Kong’s richest families... View Source

Microsoft’s Obsidian Entertainment is searching for ways to make games more quickly and on smaller budgets. Jason Schreier explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Asian software stocks dropped as fears grow over disruption of their businesses as the use of artificial intelligence gains traction... View Source

Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st. In an FAQ, the company now says that Animate will now be in maintenance mode and that it has "no plans to discontinue or remove access" to the app. Animate will still receive "ongoing security and bug fixes" and will still be available for "both new and existing users," but it won't get new features. Many creators express... View Source

Anthropic is working on a deal to let some employees sell shares in the company at a valuation of at least $350 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, a plan that is coming together at the same time as a funding round that could bring in more than $20 billion... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares slid their most since April after the company reported disappointing earnings, revealing a big hit to margins while concerns grow about the impact of soaring memory chip prices in 2026... View Source

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos (L) and Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer Bruce Campbell testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights | Getty Images Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was launched into the middle of a congressional culture war on Tuesday as he testified before a Senate subcommittee about the company's at... View Source

Meera Pandit, Global Market Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, discusses cyclical rotation in equities and opportunities in international markets. She speaks to Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Dani Burger on 'Open Interest.' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google might have been officially ruled to have a monopoly, but we're still a long way from figuring out exactly what that determination will change at the tech company. Today, the US Department of Justice filed notice of a plan to cross-appeal the decision last fall that Google would not be required to sell off the its Chrome browser. The agency's Antitrust Division posted about the act... View Source

NASA stopped short of completing a critical fuel test for its Artemis 2 SLS rocket because of hydrogen leaks that sound a lot like the problems they had during Artemis 1... View Source

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space. AI relies on "large terrestrial data centers" that run on "immense amounts of power and cooling," he said, which comes at great expense to the environment and communi... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is nearing a deal to invest $20 billion in OpenAI as part of its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the chipmaker’s single biggest investment in the ChatGPT developer... View Source

Microsoft confirmed last year that it's working on a next-gen Xbox console in partnership with AMD. Now, AMD is hinting that the next Xbox console, which will use custom AMD chips, could be launching in 2027. "Development of Microsoft's next-gen Xbox, featuring an AMD semi-custom SoC, is progressing well to support a launch in 2027," said AMD CEO Lisa Su on an earnings call today. The brief commen... View Source

A federal judge rejected Elon Musk’s attempt to throw out a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit alleging he waited too long to disclose his growing stake in Twitter... View Source

New Mario sports games typically only come around once in a generation. So to get a fresh installment of tennis featuring a deep roster of characters this early in the Switch 2's lifecycle is rather exciting. And after getting a chance to play Mario Tennis Fever prior to its official release on February 12, the best entry to the franchise yet might only be a couple of weeks away. Once again, Mario... View Source

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and the plaintiffs in the antitrust case against Google filed a cross-appeal, as the DOJ Antitrust Division announced in a post on X: "Today, the DOJ Antitrust Division filed notice that it will cross-appeal from the remedies decisions in its case against Google's unlawful monopolization of internet search and search advertising." Just a few weeks ago, Google... View Source

Super Micro Computer Inc. shares gained in late trading after the company gave a forecast for sales in the current quarter that signaled strong demand for its gear to run AI data centers... View Source

2K owner Take-Two has paused development on Borderlands 4 for the Nintendo Switch 2, the company shared during its Q3 2026 earnings presentation. The Switch 2 port was originally planned to be released on October 3, 2025, a few weeks after the game's September 12 launch on all other platforms, but was indefinitely delayed on September 23."We made the difficult decision to pause developme... View Source

"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving."... View Source

After right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley's viral video alleging fraud at Minnesota daycares he said were operated by Somali residents, Donald Trump's administration responded by flooding the state with federal immigration agents and freezing funding for childcare services. (A judge ruled that the federal government must continue funding childcare subsidies, at least temporarily.) Now Shirley is back... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices reported first-quarter sales will be roughly $9.8 billion, plus or minus $300 million, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Analysts had estimated $9.39 billion on average, but some projections topped $10 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Kunjan Sobhani has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon is running a sale on two of its newest devices. First, there's the Echo Show 8, which is down to $150 from $180 — a 17 percent discount. Next up is the Echo Show 11, which is more or less the same device, just bigger. This model has dropped 18 percent to $180 from $220. Both deals bring the Echo Shows down to new all-time low prices.  The Echo Show 8 and 11 came out in mid-November wit... View Source

Development on the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4 is on "pause," according to a statement from a Take-Two spokesperson given to Variety. "We made the difficult decision to pause development on that SKU," Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis said in the statement published by Variety. "Our focus continues to be delivering quality post-launch content for players on the ongoing improvements t... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the main challenger to Nvidia Corp. in the market for artificial intelligence processors, gave a disappointing forecast for the current period, a sign it’s not making the kind of AI inroads that some investors anticipated... View Source

If you've had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren't alone. The AI chatbot is experiencing a partial outage for many users this afternoon. Down Detector reports of issues with the service leapt from almost nothing to more than 12,000 around 3PM ET. Down DetectorOpenAI issued a status update noting that "elevated error rates" are occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. A... View Source

'He's wise and very well educated and so every turn of conversation is rich.'... View Source

The Super Bowl is not only one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it’s also one of the best times of year to find a deal on a big TV. For major events in particular, a large TV makes sense because it provides a more immersive experience and allows for groups of friends to gather and enjoy the game together. And as interest in big TVs grows, the prices continue to come down, making them m... View Source

Some lenders to Skillsoft Corp. re-engaged law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher for legal advice as its loans fall deeper into distress, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Last year, the creator of Notepad++ rolled out an update for the text and source code editor after security experts reported that bad actors were hijacking its update mechanism to redirect traffic to malicious servers. It led to users downloading compromised executables that could infect their devices. Now, Don Ho has revealed that multiple security experts investigated the breach and determined t... View Source

SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon 9 rocket after an upper stage failed to deorbit as planned during a Feb. 2 launch. Will the issue affect the company's Crew-12 astronaut mission?... View Source

Galaxy Digital's CEO Mike Novogratz tells Bloomberg that Bitcoin’s recent pullback reflects what he calls a "seller’s virus," driven by widespread profit-taking. Novogratz adds that pessimism across crypto markets is high, but argues sentiment could improve if market-structure legislation advances, noting that market bottoms are only clear in hindsight. He joined the conversation on "Bloomberg Cry... View Source

Developer Obsidian recently announced that it currently has no plans to make The Outer Worlds 3, according to a report by Bloomberg. Company head Fergus Urquhart didn't give a reason as to why Obsidian won't be working on a sequel, but he did note that the performance of The Outer Worlds 2 was "disappointing" and that it needs to "think a lot about how much we put into the... View Source

Microsoft says it is working on the Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM), an AI licensing hub that shows usage terms set by publishers. That way, AI companies can easily shop the terms and set up deals to use online content for "grounding" their AI models, while the content owners get usage-based reporting to help set prices. Microsoft says it's been codesigning PCM with companies including Verge p... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Galaxy Digital Founder and CEO Michael Novogratz, Hyperliquid Strategies Chair, Atlas Merchant Capital Founder Partner and CEO and Former Barlcays CEO Bob Diamond and Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple has just released Xcode 26.3, and it's a big step forward in terms of the company's support of coding agents. The new release expands on the AI features the company introduced with Xcode 26 at WWDC 2025 to give systems like Claude and ChatGPT more robust access to its in-house IDE. With the update, Apple says Claude and OpenAI's Codex "can search documentation, explo... View Source

The last Space Shuttle lost was Columbia during STS-107 on February 1, 2003. The orbiter disintegrated during reentry over Texas due to damage from foam debris striking the left wing during launch, killing all seven crew members. This was the second (and final) major loss in the program. The first loss was Challenger on January ... Read more... View Source

Netflix Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. will face a skeptical Senate panel Tuesday to defend their $82.7 billion media merger against allegations it will hurt competition in the streaming market... View Source

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ is a surprisingly powerful ultraportable held back by a clunky trackpad. It's a shame, really, because it's very well-designed and thanks to Intel’s Panther Lake CPU, it can even run games like Arc Raiders without breaking a sweat. It also has more ports than most thin and light machines, its OLED screen is great for productivity work and at three pounds it's easy to carry... View Source

Detailed Summary of Lex Fridman Podcast: AI State-of-the-Art 2026 with Nathan Lambert and Sebastian RaschkaThis episode (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7WhVT270Q, released around early 2026) features Lex Fridman interviewing Nathan Lambert (post-training lead at Allen Institute for AI, author of The RLHF Book) and Sebastian Raschka (author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)... View Source

'Armageddon's' William Fichtner stars in the brand’s first-ever Big Game commercial... View Source

Apple is building OpenAI and Anthropic's AI-powered coding agents directly into Xcode. New integrations in Xcode 26.3 will give developers the ability to call upon Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex to write and edit code, update project settings, search documentation, and more. Xcode is the software developers can use to create and test apps for the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and Ap... View Source

Defense tech startup Overland AI has raised $100 million in new funding to help accelerate the use of robots and other autonomous systems across the US military’s ground forces. Stephanie Bonk, president and co-founder of Overland AI, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Dyson PencilVac stick vacuum is finally available for purchase in the US after being revealed . It costs $600. The company says this is the "world's slimmest vacuum cleaner." We haven't broken out any rulers to confirm that statement, but it's certainly a ridiculously thin stick vac. It achieves this thinness by using a motor inspired by the company's . This is a small motor that can actually... View Source

Elon Musk is combining SpaceX and xAI in a deal that, according to people familiar with the matter, values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion. Bloomberg’s Loren Grush discusses the merger plan with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Fitbit's founders have a new startup. Two years after leaving Google, James Park and Eric Friedman announced a new platform that shifts the focus from the individual to the family. They say the Luffu mobile app "uses AI quietly in the background" to collect and organize family health information."At Fitbit, we focused on personal health — but after Fitbit, health for me became... View Source

It is rare for the richest person or richest family to triple wealth of the next richest. Bill Gates did it briefly in 1999 and Rockefeller did it. Now Elon Musk has a net worth of $852 billion and Larry Page has almsot $280 billion. Elon has 3.04 times as much wealth. Elon has about ... Read more... View Source

Your guide to March's full Worm Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights... View Source

Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human. A new social platform for AI agents may face the opposite problem: getting clogged up by humans pretending to post as bots. Moltbook - a website meant for conversations between agents from the platform OpenClaw - went viral this weekend for its strange, striking array of ostensibly AI-generated posts. Bots appar... View Source

PayPal Holdings Inc. said HP Inc. Chief Executive Officer Enrique Lores will take the top job from Alex Chriss, whose turnaround plan failed to meet targets and streamline the sprawling payments business. The shares tumbled as much as 19%, the biggest intraday drop in more than four years, after the CEO announcement and a separate statement showing fourth-quarter profit and revenue missed analysts... View Source

Sony's wireless WH-1000XM6 headphones are on sale for $398 via Amazon. This is a record-low price, as it drops $62 from the price tag. The sale applies to all three colorways. These easily topped our list of the best wireless headphones. They are, in a word, fantastic. The headphones are packed with premium features, like advanced ANC. There are a whopping 12 ANC microphones throughout and a brand... View Source

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If your phone feels too small but most tablets feel too big, Apple’s latest iPad Mini functions as a nice in-between. Thankfully, if you’ve been waiting for a discount, the base model with Wi-Fi and 128GB of storage is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy for $399 ($100 off), which is $50 shy of its best price to date and the cheapest it’s been since the holidays. If you need more storage, you can also... View Source

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Shuli Ren discusses developments in AI in China as compared to the US at a subscriber event held in Hong Kong on Sept. 18, 2025. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

So you've decided you need a virtual private network to hide your browsing activity from your ISP, change your virtual location, stay safe on public Wi-Fi and enjoy all the other benefits. The inevitable next question is: "Should I pay for one? If so, how much?"All the best VPNs cost money, but it can be hard to tell an overpriced service apart from one that's priced according to its value. On thi... View Source

NASA/Sam Lott A full moon is seen shining over NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026. The agency concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency’s Artemis II test flight early Tuesday morning, successfully loading cryogenic propellant into the SLS (Space Launc... View Source

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?... View Source

A raid on X's Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were also summoned for hearings in April. The investigation, which was initially launched last year, is looking into sev... View Source

Google, Microsoft y Nvidia son algunas de las empresas que compiten por mejorar la precisión de las previsiones del clima a largo plazo... View Source

Microsoft has revealed the first wave of Xbox Game Pass additions for February, and it feels like there's a bit of something for everyone this time around. Two of the titles land on the service today across the Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass tiers: Final Fantasy II (cloud, Xbox Series X/S and PC) and Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (cloud, console, handheld and PC). Final... View Source

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Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii's motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii sold 100 million units, while its follow-up, the Wii U, couldn't even ma... View Source

Siemens Energy CEO Christian Bruch discusses the company's plans to invest $1 billion (€847 million) in manufacturing capacity in the US over the next two years. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Disney has announced a successor to outgoing CEO Bob Iger, effective in March. Josh D’Amaro, current chairman of Disney Experiences, was tapped for the role in a unanimous vote by the company's board of directors. D’Amaro has been at Disney for 28 years, where he oversaw theme parks, cruises and consumer products including video games. The company... View Source

From dazzling eclipses to rare planetary meet‑ups, the night sky is full of events worth looking up for. Hunt for the various events in our skywatching-themed wordsearch... View Source

Anthropic's Claude AI models experienced a major outage today, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers were seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic said that it was seeing elevated error rates on its APIs "across all Claude models." Anthropic quickly identified the root cause and implemented a fix within around 20 minutes, but developers that rely on the tool were... View Source

PayPal Holdings said HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores will take the top job from Alex Chriss, whose turnaround plan failed to meet targets. Paige Smith reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix is back with another livestream production guaranteed to excite K-POP fans worldwide. The streamer has announced that BTS will be performing live on Netflix. It marks the band's first performance after almost four years — the members took a hiatus to complete South Korea's mandatory military service.  The live concert will air on Saturday, March 21, one day after BTS releases their ne... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech Rapid advances in commercial space, artificial intelligence, and edge computing are transforming what is possible for Earth observation. By pushing more intelligence onboard, missions can move from passively collecting data to actively interpreting and responding to changing surface conditions in near-real time, enabling more targeted observations and dramatically improving the va... View Source

NASA Artemis 2 mission after encountering hydrogen leaks during a fueling test of the Space Launch System. The Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft have been central to NASA’s Artemis program, aimed at returning humans to the Moon. Development began in earnest around 2011, following the cancellation of the Constellation program in 2010. SLS ... Read more... View Source

A February moon offers a practical preview of where to look for March's total lunar eclipse... View Source

Dyson’s new lightweight vacuum has no handle and maneuvers more like a Swiffer than a vacuum. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge As The Verge's resident robot vacuum reviewer, I don't have a lot of time (or space) in my life for stick vacs, and frankly, the ones I have used have largely disappointed me. Top-heavy, bulky, always getting clogged or running out of battery - they're so… m... View Source

Chris Harvey, CIBC head of equity strategy, says don't go "bottom-fishing" for stocks right now. He expects a melt-up for stocks this summer. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Spain will join the growing list of countries banning access to social media for children, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Tuesday. The law will apply to users under 16 years of age amidst a broader push to hold social media companies accountable for hate speech, social division and illegal content. Speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Prime Minister Sanchez excoriated social... View Source

Our best family binoculars, the Celestron Cometron 7x50 binoculars, are now $13 cheaper on Amazon and are perfect for getting a better view of the night sky and all its wonders... View Source

When ChatGPT launched, in November of 2022, it started a race that almost immediately consumed the tech industry. OpenAI didn't invent the concept of AI, but most of the state-of-the-art technology was confined to research labs at companies and institutions around the world. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. And better than anyone expected. So many companies decided they needed to catch up as qui... View Source

US stocks struggled for direction on Tuesday as earnings took center stage following the delay of economic data due to the government shutdown... View Source

Even in 2026, VR still feels like tech that isn't quite ready for prime time. When Nintendo released the original Virtual Boy way back in 1995, it was hard for my 10-year-old brain to comprehend a 3D console with a bipod, a facemask and a monochrome red display. Then, when you factor in weak sales that led to the system being discontinued after only a year, you end up with a gadget that felt... View Source

Close-up of flush-mounted, retracting door handle on Tesla automobile, San Ramon, California, September 21, 2020. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) | Gado via Getty Images China is banning Tesla-style concealed door handles on electric vehicles to address safety concerns regarding people getting trapped inside their cars. The ban will take effect on January 1st next year, according to... View Source

Elon Musk’s xAI is under investigation by the UK’s data protection watchdog, as regulatory scrutiny ramps up of the way its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was used to generate and share sexualized imagery of people... View Source

NASA started making the final preparations for the Artemis 2 mission in early January, with the hopes of opening its launch window as soon as February 6. After issues showed up during the mission’s wet dress rehearsal in the early hours of February 3, however, the agency had to push back its earliest launch opportunity to March. “With more than three years between SLS launches, we fully anticipate... View Source

When young stars mix with neutron stars, things get messy... View Source

James Park and Eric Friedman, the co-founders of Fitbit who left Google two years ago, have announced a new venture called Luffu. Described as an "intelligent family care system," Luffu collects and logs health and medical information from connected devices, other platforms like Apple Health and Fitbit, and details shared by family members through voice prompts, text, or photos. AI works in the ba... View Source

Cipher Mining Inc. is seeking to raise $2 billion in the US junk bond market to help fund construction of a data center tied to Amazon.com Inc... View Source

If you've been inside all winter gaming then it might be time to upgrade your gear. Right now, the 8Bitdo Pro 3 Bluetooth Controller is available for just over $48, down from $70. The 31 percent discount is the lowest price we've seen yet for the controller. Notably, the sale is only available on the Gray model. The new 8Bitdo Pro 3 came out in August and offers TMR Joysticks with a 12-bit ADC sam... View Source

Google Home now lets you use buttons — such as this Ikea Bilresa remote — to start automations and control connected devices.  | Image: Ikea Google Home users, your long nightmare is over. The platform has finally added support for buttons. The release notes for a February 2 update state that several new starter conditions for automations are now available, including "Switch or button pressed." Sm... View Source

Wall Street has been skeptical about software stocks for a while, but sentiment has gone from bearish to doomsday lately with traders dumping shares of companies across the industry as fears about the destruction to be wrought by artificial intelligence pile up... View Source

The moon will take on a dramatic blood red hue during the total lunar eclipse on March 3... View Source

"Finally." That was my first reaction when I heard Google would combine Android and ChromeOS into a single operating system. Android has long struggled on tablets, and ChromeOS always felt like too much of a stripped-down alternative to tempt me away from Windows and Mac. So last week, it was exciting to see a leaked first glimpse at Google's Aluminium OS, and hear it may already be slated for an... View Source

PayPal Holdings Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Alex Chriss will be replaced by HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores after profit and revenue fell short of expectations. Shares of the firm tumbled more than 12%... View Source

Proton VPN is running a solid deal right now, dropping its two-year Proton VPN Plus plan to $2.99 per month. That works out to $72 billed upfront for the first 24 months, which represents a 70 percent discount compared to its regular pricing. We’ve rated Proton VPN highly thanks to its strong privacy credentials, transparent nonprofit backing and consistently fast performance. It’s one of the... View Source

YouTube has started to block third-party mobile browsers from using a background playback loophole. Background playback is supposed to be limited to YouTube Premium subscribers through the official iOS or Android app, but many people have been using browsers like Brave, Vivaldi, and Edge to get background playback without a subscription. Not anymore. "Background playback is a feature intended to b... View Source

The seeds for Apple’s best iPhone sales in China were planted years earlier... View Source

Like some sort of corporate Russian doll, SpaceX has announced its acquisition of xAI. The merger will “form the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth,” according to, well, owner Elon Musk. The AI company, arguably best known for its ongoing CSAM-generating chatbot controversy, might seem like a strange fit for a rocket company. But SpaceX is apparently ke... View Source

Artemis II mission was due to begin as early as next week and astronauts have spent almost two weeks in quarantineNasa has postponed its historic mission to send astronauts around the moon and back again, after issues arose during a critical test of its most powerful rocket yet.The US space agency had planned to launch the Artemis II mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida as early as next we... View Source

With ICE and CBP roaming the streets, united community action is more important than ever right now - from local mutual aid groups to school safety patrols. Known for its privacy features and end-to-end encryption, the Signal messaging app has become a popular platform for organizing these community groups. Signal can be a great tool for private messaging, but it's at its best if you know how to u... View Source

Avalanche Energy wants to use the technology to power satellites and drones, though it remains far from building a commercial prototype... View Source

Shares of European legal software and publishing firms dropped after US artificial intelligence firm Anthropic unveiled a tool for companies’ in-house lawyers... View Source

Paris prosecutors announced that a search was underway at offices belong to Elon Musk’s X platform as part of an ongoing investigation first launched in January 2025. The raid is being conducted by Paris and national cybercrime units, with support from Interpol, according to post from Paris prosecutors on X. Officials from X have yet to comment on the matter. At the same time, Paris prosecutors is... View Source

The day after the second general strike in Minneapolis, the labor unions of Portland, Oregon, marched in solidarity. It was the warmest day that Portland had seen in a while, with sun peeking out from the clouds here and there. Many people had brought their entire families; not just older children, but toddlers in strollers and wagons, too. Some brought their dogs. The chants were typical: "ICE ou... View Source

Elon Musk’s X offices in Paris were searched by French law enforcement’s cybercrime unit as part of an ongoing probe into alleged misuses of the social media platform... View Source

As nights get hotter around the globe due to climate change, the prevalence of sleep apnea is expected to increase by as much as threefold... View Source

Spain will seek to ban children and teenagers from using social media platforms, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Tuesday... View Source

Emerging-market stocks and currencies rebounded Tuesday, snapping a three-day run of losses, as the dollar weakened and the volatility in precious metals ebbed... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s profit rose a smaller-than-expected 23%, hurt by US tariffs on its Switch 2 console and soaring memory chip prices. After a record-setting summer debut for the flagship console, the Kyoto-based company is grappling with global trade disruptions from US tariffs. Bloomberg Intelligence’s Nathan Naidu breaks down the situation... View Source

The original Switch just became Nintendo’s best-selling console ever with 155.37 million units as of December 31, 2025, overtaking the DS which sold 154.02 million units from 2004-2011. It was part of a holiday surge that saw the company move 7.01 million Switch 2s (and 17.37 million through Q3 of its fiscal year), making it the “fastest-selling dedicated video platform released by Nintendo to dat... View Source

NASA has delayed its Artemis 2 moon launch until March at the earliest, after encountering some issues during a key prelaunch exercise known as a wet dress rehearsal... View Source

Nintendo Co. reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly profit gain despite solid sales of the Switch 2, fueling concern about the rising cost of memory chips... View Source

When I ask AI If having negative cashflow of $10 billion is a good thing, the AI says it can be strategically OK. IF the company was rapidly expanding with new factories or investing for major growth. Is Burning >$10.3 Billion in Cash “Good” or “OK”? It depends entirely on context, stage, and strategy—it’s rarely ... Read more... View Source

The original Switch is officially Nintendo's best-selling console of all time after surpassing the DS handheld in lifetime sales. In its latest earnings release, Nintendo reports that the Nintendo Switch has, as of December 31, 2025, sold 155.37 million units since its launch in 2017, compared to 154.02 million units for the 2004 Nintendo DS. In November, Nintendo reported that the Switch and DS w... View Source

Elon Musk is combining SpaceX and xAI as he looks to fuel his increasingly costly ambitions in artificial intelligence and space exploration. The deal gives SpaceX a valuation of $1 trillion, and xAI a value of $250 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg’s Neil Campling breaks down the possible reasoning behind the deal... View Source

Elon Musk is in advanced talks to combine Space Exploration Technologies Corp. with xAI, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring how the billionaire’s artificial intelligence ambitions have grown too costly for any one of his entities to shoulder alone... View Source

A merger between SpaceX and xAI could create too much uncertainty for EchoStar Corp., according to Wall Street... View Source

Credit investors should guard against potential downside risks tied to “AI exuberance” after optimism around the technology helped yield premiums drop to their lowest in decades, according to HSBC Bank strategists... View Source

The judge reviewing the US Justice Department’s settlement allowing Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. said he will let states challenging the deal interview under oath the lawyers and advisers the companies hired... View Source

Rapid acceleration of AI toward the technological singularity, driven by open-source projects like Clawdbot (also referred to as Maltbot or OpenClaw). Roth and others say we have crossed and intelligence event horizon,” where AI self-improvement makes the future unpredictable. Breakthroughs in AI capabilities, autonomous agent societies, and the implications for society, blending excitement... View Source

Chinese chip designer Montage Technology Co. is planning to price its Hong Kong listing at the highest possible figure, according to people familiar with the matter, putting it on course to raise HK$7 billion ($902 million)... View Source

Analog chipmaker SiTime Corp. is nearing a deal to acquire Renesas Electronics Corp.’s timing unit, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

A gauge of Chinese technology shares extended its drop from an October high to 20%, following a sudden selloff on Tuesday... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is rolling out its ride hailing service in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, expanding into a new Asian market for the first time in years... View Source

South Korea’s two most valuable companies are poised to eclipse a duo of Chinese internet giants by market cap for the first time, underscoring how an evolving global artificial intelligence boom has reshaped the sector’s investment dynamics in Asia... View Source

Kyocera Corp. plans to buy back as much as ¥500 billion ($3.2 billion) worth of its shares from fiscal 2027 through fiscal 2028, joining a growing number of Japanese companies repurchasing stock... View Source

Elon Musk is combining SpaceX and xAI in a deal that values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion, as the world’s richest man looks to fuel his increasingly costly ambitions in artificial intelligence and space exploration... View Source

Wingsuit Foil Enhancements have increased the range of and during of flights with wingsuits. Austrian wingsuit pilot Peter Salzmann achieving a world-first by gaining 67 meters of altitude mid-flight using a specially designed foil wing attached to his wingsuit. The video depicts Salzmann jumping from a ridge on El Hierro in the Canary Islands. He ... Read more... View Source

TDK Corp. shares surged 11% after the Japanese electronics components maker raised its full-year operating profit forecast, citing stronger-than-expected demand and a weaker yen... View Source

SpaceX has acquired XAI. the combined ocmpany will have a valuation of $1.25 trillion. The SpaceX acquisition of xAI was announced and closed on February 2, 2026. Multiple reports, including from Bloomberg, Reuters, TechCrunch, and direct statements on SpaceX’s website confirm the deal as completed on that date. The deal happened today. Not a merger ... Read more... View Source

Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV reported slightly slower growth in the automotive market than anticipated last quarter as the company pursues a comeback... View Source

NASA fully fueled its Artemis 2 moon rocket during a crucial test today (Feb. 2) but had to pause the operation twice due to leaks. Will the agency still try to launch on Feb. 8?... View Source

SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon. "SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform," the company s... View Source

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, raised $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation, a funding round that reflects its rapid ascent as a robotaxi pioneer... View Source

Anime fans won't be getting any respite from the streaming service price hikes that now feel inevitable on every platform every couple of years. Crunchyroll announced today that it will be increasing the monthly costs for all its plans by $2. That means the Fan tier will now run you $10 a month, the Mega Fan Tier is $14 a month and the Ultimate Fan Tier is $18 a month. The platform intro... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Disney's earnings lifted by record results in its parks division. Plus, Oracle kicks off a massive bond sale as the software giant looks to raise $45 billion to $50 billion this year through a combination of debt and equity sales to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity. And sources say Elon Musk is in advanced talks to combine SpaceX with xAI. (Source:... View Source

Moltbook bills itself as a social network for AI agents. That's a wacky enough concept in the first place, but the site apparently exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity firm Wiz, and its team assisted Moltbook with addressing the vulnerability. The issue appears to be the result of the entire Reddit-style forum being vibe-coded; Mol... View Source

Waymo announced a $16 billion investment round aimed at bringing its robotaxi business to more US cities, as well as some overseas markets. The funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group, a "crossover" firm known for investing in late-stage tech companies before they go public. Waymo's co-CEOs said in a blog post they would use some of the money to buy more vehicles to grow its fleets siz... View Source

OpenAI accused Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company of “systematic and intentional destruction” of evidence in xAI’s lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of trying to thwart competition in emerging markets... View Source

Ubisoft continues to raise eyebrows around how it is treating employees as it attempts a business overhaul. David Michaud-Cromp, a level design team lead at Ubisoft Montreal, said last week that he was suspended for three days without pay after voicing opposition to the company's return to office mandate. Today, Michaud-Cromp posted on LinkedIn that he has been fired. "I was terminated b... View Source

NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 74 Flight Engineers, work on spacesuit maintenance inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock on Dec. 16, 2025.Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Chris Williams will connect with students in Pennsylvania to answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International... View Source

Adobe is pulling the plug on Adobe Animate. In a FAQ posted to Adobe's website, the company says it will stop selling the animation software on March 1st, citing the emergence of new platforms "that better serve the needs of the users." Users have until March 1st, 2027 (or March 1st, 2029 for enterprise customers) to access and download files from Animate, as they'll no longer be available after t... View Source

Brent Thill, Jefferies software and Internet research tech sector leader, says Palantir Technologies is fundamentally in a great spot on "Bloomberg The Close." Palantir forecast revenue for fiscal 2026 that significantly exceeded Wall Street expectations. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI, the companies announced. The merger will “form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform,” Musk wrote in an update.The AI company that right now is best known for its CSAM-ge... View Source

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years."... View Source

The merger creates the world's most valuable private company, and paves the way for Musk to try and prove out the usefulness of space-based data centers... View Source

Last week, the Department of Justice released a trove of documents related to its case against Jeffrey Epstein, its largest to date. Amid the millions of files were many mentions of Elon Musk. A search of Musk's name in the department's database results in at least 1,500 hits. Since the release, Musk has been - what else? - posting through it, defending himself and his correspondence with Epstein... View Source

SpaceX has formally acquired another of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon. "SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform," the company said... View Source

Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with xAI, according to people familiar with the matter. The combined company would have a valuation of $1.25 trillion according to sources. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk is merging two of the companies that he leads, SpaceX and xAI (which also owns X), into one. According to an announcement from Musk: SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world's foremost real-time information and free speech pla... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. forecast revenue for fiscal 2026 that significantly exceeded Wall Street expectations, a boost for the data analytics company after its shares have gotten off to a lackluster start so far this year... View Source

Like practically every other tech company under the sun, Mozilla has been jamming generative AI features into its products. The organization has now acknowledged that not everyone wants things like plagiarism machines chatbots in the Firefox sidebar, so it’s giving you the option to turn off all of that. On February 24 (or earlier in Firefox Nightly builds), Mozilla will roll out Firefox 148,... View Source

Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An update coming on February 24th will add a new "AI control" option to Firefox's settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser's individual AI features, including access to a built-in AI chatbot, translations, AI tab group suggestions, and more. Over the... View Source

Federal immigration agents are using facial recognition technology that draws from US government biometric databases containing more than 1.2 billion face images, according to federal records reviewed by Bloomberg News... View Source

France may take additional steps to prevent minors from accessing social media platforms. As its government advances a proposed ban on social media use for anyone under age 15, some leaders are already looking to add further restrictions. During an appearance on public broadcast service Franceinfo, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs Anne Le Hénanff said VPNs might be... View Source

Users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update for the app after its shared hosting servers were hijacked last year. On Monday, the app's developer, Don Ho, posted an update on the attack with more details, including that the hackers were "likely a Chinese state-sponsored group" and that the app's servers were vulnerable for roughly six months from J... View Source

Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”... View Source

Ross Gerber, co-founder and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, says the valuation for Walt Disney Co. "makes no sense" and it's time for a change there. Disney said it expects challenges attracting international tourists to its domestic parks in its fiscal second quarter and warned of ongoing increased costs for sports rights. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Since last spring, OpenAI has offered Codex. What started life as the company's response to Claude Code is becoming something more sophisticated with the release of a new dedicated macOS app. At its most basic form, Codex is a programming agent capable of writing code for users, but now it can also manage multiple AI assistants that can work together to complete more complex tasks.OpenAI give... View Source

This is the first time humans have laid eyes on these deep space objects... View Source

Following the debut of its $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speakers at CES 2026, Ikea is introducing another wireless speaker with a playful design and an affordable price tag. The Grejsimojs Portable Bluetooth speaker probably isn't going to wow audiophiles, but it's designed to look like a little purple mouse with a tail that can be used to carry it around. The Grejsimojs speaker is currently available in... View Source

More than $3 trillion is expected to be spent building the data centers needed for the AI boom, and much of the funding is coming from debt markets. Bloomberg’s Paula Seligson discusses the impact and risks this creates for bonds and credit. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony's long-anticipated flagship WF-1000XM6 earbuds have leaked online, according to a report by The Walkman Blog and posts on Reddit. The retailer Power Buy posted a listing for the earbuds, complete with multiple photos and some specs. Let's get to the specs. We don't know a lot, but the listing does suggest the earbuds will boast an IPX4 water-resistance rating and ANC/transparen... View Source

An image from ALDNOAH.ZERO. Crunchyroll is raising its prices in the US and "select international markets," including the first price hike to its lowest-priced tier since 2019. Here are the price changes, according to Crunchyroll: Fan Tier will increase from $7.99/month to $9.99/month. Mega Fan Tier will increase from $11.99/month to $13.99/month. Ultimate Fan Tier will increase from $15.99/month... View Source

Shares of business development companies fell Monday, as concerns over the group’s widespread exposure to software sparked a renewed sell off... View Source

Buying a good budget phone can be a challenge. High-end handsets continue to get more features, but on the other end of the spectrum, there are only so many things you can skimp on before a device becomes too compromised. With the Galaxy A17, Samsung is trying to balance both sides of that equation with something that sports a solid design, a bright screen, decent cameras and respectable battery l... View Source

If you’re looking for a versatile gift for Valentine’s Day that can be sentimental and practical, Amazon’s fourth-generation Echo Show 8 can serve as both a digital photo frame and a smart home controller. And right now, it’s on sale at Amazon for $149.99 ($30 off) — a new low price — as part of the retailer’s ongoing Super Bowl sale, which also includes discounts on the Echo Show 11 and Echo Dot... View Source

Elon Musk is in advanced talks to combine SpaceX with xAI, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg’s Liana Baker discusses the possible consolidation of the billionaire’s empire with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASUS ROG just announced the Kithara gaming headset, which is a device intended to bring "audiophile-grade sound" to gaming. It was developed in conjunction with manufacturer HiFiMan, a company that specializes in high-end audio devices. The Kithara is the company's first open-back planar magnetic gaming headset. ROG says it was designed to please gamers who "demand absolute cla... View Source

NASA's upcoming Artemis 2 moon mission is historic, but it's designed to pave the way for even bigger things... View Source

Devices featuring older LPDDR2 memory the company has stockpiled are not affected. | Image: Raspberry Pi Following an initial price increase announced two months ago, Raspberry Pi is raising prices again for several of its single-board computers. "The cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter," Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in an announcement today. "As a result, we now nee... View Source

Bloomberg's Mandep Singh joins to discuss the biggest news in the tech sector on Bloomberg Intelligence. Oracle Corp. plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion this year through a combination of debt and equity sales to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity, reflecting the scale of financing needed to feed AI’s growth.   Elon Musk is in advanced talks to combine Space Exploration Technolo... View Source

Steven Sinofsky with the Surface RT tablet in 2012. | Image: Getty Images Emails between former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky and Jeffrey Epstein, published by the Justice department on Friday, appear to show that Sinofsky constantly sought Epstein's advice as he negotiated his surprise exit from Microsoft in November 2012, forwarding emails to him in nearly real time as talks progressed. Sinofsky... View Source

Another big week for tech earnings kicks off with investors eyeing the impact of circular AI deals and spending. Natalie Gallagher, principal economist and director at Board, joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

While it's important to stay informed about what's going on in the world, endlessly scrolling through your social media feeds and absorbing what's likely to be a largely negative influx of information can't be great for your mental wellbeing. Perhaps with an eye on stopping you from doomscrolling, developer Lyra Rebane created Xikipedia, a social media-style feed of Wikipedia e... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026... View Source

When a video game series goes on for a long time, it raises a question for newcomers: Just where is the best place to jump in? In the case of Dragon Quest, there are nearly a dozen mainline titles, not to mention copious spinoffs and ports that span four decades of history. Of late, though, publisher Square Enix has been releasing a number of remakes that serve as almost ideal entry points for beg... View Source

Private credit could see default rates surge to as high as 13% in the US if artificial intelligence triggers an “aggressive” disruption among corporate borrowers, according to UBS Group AG... View Source

It looks like Grok is still being gross. Elon Musk says his chatbot stopped making sexualized images without a person's consent, but The Verge recently discovered this is not entirely true. It maybe (and I say maybe) stopped undressing women without their consent, but this doesn't seem to apply to men. A reporter with the organization ran some tests with Grok and found that the bot... View Source

NASA/Brandon Hancock NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will carry the Artemis II crew around the Moon, sits at the launch pad on Jan. 17, 2026, after rollout. It rests atop the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. Orion can provide living space on missions for four astronauts for up to 21 days without docking to another spacecraft. Advances in technology for deep space travel such as life supp... View Source

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best planetary lineups... View Source

Abxylute, the company behind the M4 magnetic mobile gamepad, has announced a new pair of controllers for the Nintendo Switch 2 designed to replace the stock Joy-Cons while playing in handheld mode. Both are "launching soon" on Kickstarter and feature a design where the Switch 2 docks to the controllers so they can connect to and draw power from the console's bottom USB-C port. The Abxylute N6 is s... View Source

NASA began conducting a major fueling test for its Artemis II mission on Monday, the agency said, in a key rehearsal that could pave the way to return astronauts to the vicinity of the moon for the first time since 1972... View Source

The Moon is seen shining over the SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, on top of the mobile launcher on Feb. 1, 2026. The rocket is currently at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as teams are preparing for a wet dress rehearsal to practice timelines and procedures for the launch of Artemis II.Credit: NASA/Sam Lott Following a fueling test of NASA’s SLS (Space Lau... View Source