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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

Pimco Head of Short-Term Portfolio Management Jerome Schneider expects the Federal Reserve to not move on interest rates for the rest of this year. He talks about how clients and investors can find growth amid hidden risks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It may be tempting to control an entire power strip with a smart plug, but there are some things you should know about this setup... View Source

Tesla v14 Lite is being rolled out to FSD Hardware 3 customers. This gives most of the FSD 14 capability to older HW3 cars. They distilled the intelligence from HW4 V14 into HW3. This allows HW3 to directly learn how to handle scenarios using HW4 V14 as a guide. This process unlocks the improvements that ... Read more... View Source

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's priority is ensuring royalties go to original w... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow speaks with the CEO of Rocket Lab about the company's biggest bet yet: buying Iridium in an $8 billion deal to challenge SpaceX in the orbital economy. Plus, South Korean firms, including Samsung and SK Hynix will spend at least $880 billion on chips and data centers, as the country seeks to maintain its edge in the AI era; and Anthropic wins US approval to restore some acces... View Source

Xbox union members argue for transparency and good-faith bargaining... View Source

Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions might look like a direct sequel to Astroneer on the surface, but it's a space exploration game with very different objectives. While its predecessor focuses (it continues to get updates and content packs) on base-building and creative tools, this second title instead takes players on shorter, breezier trips all about discovery and mission-based tasks.Even in its e... View Source

There are already a few ways to play PlayStation games on the go, but Sony is also rumored to be working on a new handheld. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience that lets you play games outside of your living room. Here's the relevant portion from the transcript, emphasi... View Source

Indie Hollywood darling A24 scored a massive financial hit with its “Backrooms” horror flick this year, netting over $330 million globally on a minuscule $10 million budget — the studio’s highest-grossing film of all time. The movie’s director Kane Parsons, a 21-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, is an outspoken critic of AI, calling it “genuinely harmful” to c... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. said it has wound down its robotaxi offering with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo in Phoenix, the latest relationship twist between two companies that simultaneously function as partners and competitors... View Source

The US Supreme Court has surprisingly decided to restrict geofence warrants... View Source

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the te... View Source

Washington’s most powerful lobbying firms are rushing to cut ties with Chinese tech giants including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. as new US restrictions reshape the influence game for many Chinese companies... View Source

Apple's rumored touchscreen MacBook may launch soon, here's what to expect... View Source

An air-launched Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket is scheduled to fly for the very last time early Tuesday morning (June 30), sending a private spacecraft on a rescue mission to save one of NASA's most iconic space telescopes from falling back to Earth. The Swift Boost mission will send the LINK satellite, built by Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies, to grapple NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Ob... View Source

The iPad Air supports Apple Pencil Pro, plus hover support. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $50... View Source

As government scrutiny over Anthropic's Mythos AI model takes center stage in the public debate over AI's national security concerns, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says being labeled "too dangerous" may actually be good marketing for frontier AI firms. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to explain. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tidal's new policy says that 100-percent AI-generated music will be demonetized... View Source

The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissioners, even though it broke with decades of prior legal precedent at the time. The justices have officially killed that precedent, based on a... View Source

A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer from enthusiastic to downright obsessive. First he started using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate his Slack messages and emails. Then he mandated AI use for all employees. “He called a company-wide meeting to announce that from then on, we had to discuss with the AI prior to all meetings or... View Source

WhatsApp will let the messaging service’s 3 billion global users select a username for their account, a change meant to increase privacy by letting people connect on the platform without having to share their phone number... View Source

If you want a 4K display you can easily move around the house, LG has you covered... View Source

The United States' 250th birthday is right around the corner and what better way to celebrate than by looking for a star whose light began its journey to Earth around the time the Declaration of Independence was signed? Starlight travels through the near-perfect vacuum of space at a staggering 186,282 miles (299,791 kilometers) per second— or the speed of light. Even at this pace, it can take hund... View Source

You can reserve the username you want to use before the feature starts rolling out later this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will be launching "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from... View Source

Momei Qu, managing director at PSP Growth, discusses two contrasting viewpoints surrounding AI investments: one emphasizing that the significant scale of investment indicates strong and genuine demand for AI technologies, and the other cautioning that the escalating costs of supporting AI infrastructure continue to rise, increasing the burden of proof for these investments. She speaks on "Bloomber... View Source

WhatsApp is launching usernames later this year, but you can reserve yours starting this week... View Source

The Govee Uplighter in action. | Image: Govee July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is hosting its own 4th of July sale, fo... View Source

Bidders accustomed to buying prized art or luxury goods were recently introduced to a new category of coveted items at auction: Mementos from the world’s most popular internet stars... View Source

A new report found half of social media safety features intended to keep children safe online do not work as claimed... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artistic concept of lunar surface technologies and infrastructure capabilities, including in-situ resource utilization oxygen production systems, surface power systems, in‑space manufacturing tools, and advanced nanomaterials production.NASA Long-term lunar exploration requires technology, infrastructure, and operations... View Source

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former... View Source

Rocket Lab announced on Monday that it is acquiring the satellite communications company Iridium. The deal, made for cash and shares of Rocket Lab stock, values Iridium at about $8 billion. The deal pairs the launch company, founded and led by Peter Beck, with a decades-old profitable satellite company whose network of 80 satellites in low-Earth orbit provides telecommunications services. "We beli... View Source

China has announced a formal plan to integrate artificial intelligence across all levels of schooling, aligning its education system with President Xi Jinping’s campaign to dominate advanced technologies... View Source

Want to go back to your ex... AI assistant? We don't blame you. Take these steps to get Google Assistant back after your fling with Gemini... View Source

NASA’s Earth-observing satellites track an enormous range of phenomena: how aerosols move through the atmosphere, how moisture descends through soil, how land-cover shifts over decades. It’s some of the most consequential data NASA produces, informing science, policy, agriculture, and climate research around the world. As NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) manages this vast portfolio,... View Source

Dbrand announced Monday that it's refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made "without a license from Valve." Dbrand announced the Portal-themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday. But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company's website and the teaser video promoting it had been made private after... View Source

The world’s first trillionaire just celebrated his 55th birthday. And we can’t tell which possibility is more depressing: that his mother used AI to either generate or enhance pictures of him blowing out the candles on a rocket cake made to look like a SpaceX Starship — or that his social media network is convinced it was actually him that posted the slop under his mom’s name... View Source

Ardian SAS plans to invest over €3 billion ($3.4 billion) to build data centers in the Nordics, as lower energy prices and ample available land draw more digital infrastructure providers to the region... View Source

Comcast plans to spin out NBCUniversal and leave the entertainment business... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) helps flight engineer Chris Williams of NASA as he tries on his spacesuit on June 23, 2026, testing its comfort and mobility as well as its communications and life support systems inside the International Space Station’s Quest a... View Source

Every year, millions of people travel to remote, protected "dark-sky parks" in search of experiences that depend on true darkness — photographing the Milky Way's heart arcing overhead, observing nocturnal wildlife in its natural rhythm, or simply standing beneath an ink-black sea of stars unblurred by artificial light.Scientists have long warned that rising levels of artificial light — increasingl... View Source

We’re one step closer to Tony Stark’s smart glasses, but still quite a few steps behind J.A.R.V.I.S. Xgimi, the Chinese company known for its all-in-one smart projectors, is expanding its portfolio with a new line of screen-equipped smart glasses that first debuted at CES 2026. Unlike AR glasses from companies like Meta and Snap, Xgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One skip cameras for a lighter... View Source

AI bots are showing up to remote meetings faster than humans can create social norms to guide them... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Artistic concept of lunar surface technologies and infrastructure capabilities, including ISRU oxygen production systems, Stirling radioisotope generators, in‑space manufacturing tools, and advanced nanomaterials production.NASA NASA issued a draft BAA under NextSTEP‑3, Appendix A, on June xx, 2026, to advance concepts... View Source

In the China tech space, Baidu is now a full-stack player in the AI industry. As the maker of its own chips, AI model (Ernie), cloud system and a self-driving car business (Apollo Go), the tech giant is a very desirable company to work for. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Baidu CFO Henry He joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss how the company uses AI to evolve its own organiz... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Star-Spangled City 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

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted Perseverance rover as it completed driving the distance of a marathon (26.2 miles or 42 kilometers) on the Red Planet. (Image credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)A spacecraft orbiting Mars watched as its "friend," the Perseverance rover, finished its first marathon on the Martian surface. There weren't any medals handed out, and there... View Source

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle lifting off from its launch complex in New Zealand. | Image: RocketLab Rocket Lab, the space company best known for its small satellite launcher Electron, has announced plans to acquire Iridium Communications for $8 billion. The deal will combine Rocket Lab's launch services and spacecraft manufacturing with Iridium's satellite-based communications network, put... View Source

NASA’s Swift observatory, designed to study the most powerful explosions in the universe, launched into orbit over two decades ago. Since then, it has provided scientists with a constant stream of invaluable multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray bursts, which are extremely energetic events that rock our and distant galaxies, providing groundbreaking insights into the earliest days of th... View Source

Comcast said it plans to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a new publicly traded company as it looks to separate its media businesses from its cable-TV and internet operations. Kelcee Griffis reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Burn-in is often overblown, but understanding the phenomenon is still important... View Source

It’s time for our annual Fourth of July grill episode here at Decoder. This is when we invite the CEOs of outdoor cooking companies onto the show to explain just how their businesses kind of look like every other business. And this is a very special edition.  Today I’m talking to Roger Dahle, the CEO of Weber Blackstone, a full circle moment for Decoder. Roger was our first-ever grill CEO on... View Source

Dip buyers emerging to pick up beaten-down technology stocks and easing tensions in the Middle East helped lift US stock-index futures before the bell on Monday... View Source

NASA is taking the "America 250" birthday celebration to new heights.The agency has big plans for July 4 — the 250th anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence — which involves both aircraft and spacecraft."From the earliest days of exploration, to the first steps on the moon and the missions shaping our future, NASA represents the spirit of discovery that defines our natio... View Source

The Busy Bar makes it obvious to others when you don’t want to be distracted. | Image: Flipper Devices First announced over a year ago in April 2025, the Busy Bar will be available for purchase starting on July 14th when the device also starts shipping. Created by the same team behind the Flipper Zero wireless multitool, the Busy Bar is instead described as a "productivity multitool" that relies o... View Source

There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way. In the United States, a YouGov pol found that three-quarters of Americans think AI should be more heavily regulated, an anxiety shared across the political aisle, the Economist observed. The US populace is likewise increasingly fearful of the economic impacts of AI, especially as powerful tech companies pour mon... View Source

Relx Plc plans to repurchase shares valued at as much as £100 million ($132.1 million) next month, as the British information and analytics company continues to grapple with concerns that artificial intelligence tools will displace its core research products... View Source

Oura took its class-leading smart ring, made it 40 percent smaller and made the battery last longer... View Source

Millennium Management is setting up an artificial intelligence laboratory to expand the development and application of cutting-edge technologies at the firm... View Source

Rocket Lab will own satellites connecting the most remote corners of the Earth... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a massive and densely packed galaxy cluster at "cosmic noon." The fact that this cluster is so highly evolved could change theories of cosmic evolution, as it seems to exist before such structures were thought to be possible.Designated XLSSC 122 and first seen in 2014, the cluster immediately stood out to the team in James Webb Space T... View Source

Ending any story is hard, but that's especially true of mystery-packed TV shows. Series like Lost initially hook viewers with constantly building secrets and questions, to the point that they can often seem incomprehensible. But the promise is that it will all pay off in the end - a feat that few shows ultimately manage. This creates tension as viewers try to put all of the pieces together while h... View Source

South Korea is orchestrating investments of at least $880 billion from companies including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix into infrastructure it called essential to surviving the AI era. Bloomberg's Sangmi Cha reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A sneaky rule change has the potential to blow up scientific research in the United States. But there's still time to fight it. On May 29th, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a 412-page proposal to revise federal financial assistance. The language is a combination of distinctly Trumpian attacks on "woke" policies and boring governmentese designed to make your eyes glaze over as quic... View Source

Ive, Hoenig reflect their Apple experience in new vehicles... View Source

Google was forced to cap Meta's use of Gemini AI due to a lack of capacity... View Source

Comcast has announced plans to separate itself into two publicly traded companies, spinning off its NBCUniversal and Sky broadcasting arms. The shake up aims to protect the media conglomerate's profitable broadband and wireless brand, which will retain the "Comcast" company name, as its media and entertainment business - now collectively named "NBCUniversal" - faces increasing pressure from indust... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. projected a second-quarter loss of between $700 million and $800 million after striking a deal with UK’s BT Group Plc to create a joint venture for their international businesses... View Source

Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium... View Source

Comcast Corp. said it plans to split its media and technology businesses, spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate publicly traded company... View Source

Get ready to see the first full moon of summer as the stunning Strawberry Moon rises tonight (June 29). The moon officially reaches its full phase at 7:57 p.m. EDT (2357 GMT) on June 29 when it sits opposite the sun in Earth's sky and appears fully illuminated. While that will mark the exact moment of the full moon, our lunar neighbor will appear bright and round for a night or two before and afte... View Source

Two Chinese robotics startups have been valued at more than $2.9 billion in recent funding rounds, demonstrating steady interest in the sector and boosting the country’s efforts to compete with US firms like Tesla Inc. and Figure AI Inc... View Source

Blackstone Inc.-backed data center operator AirTrunk is close to filing confidentially for an initial public offering of a real estate investment trust in Singapore, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

In the China tech space, Baidu is now a full-stack player in the AI industry. The company makes its own chips, has its own AI models (Ernie), its own cloud system, and it's integrating AI into its self-driving car business, Apollo Go. But before all this, Baidu was known for being China's leader in search. Things, obviously, have changed a lot since the company was founded in the late 1990s. In to... View Source

South Korea is launching a 1,350 trillion won ($880 billion) plan in corporate investments to build out critical AI infrastructure and cement its global dominance in the semiconductor market. President Lee Jae Myung called the sweeping mega-project a "national survival strategy" for the AI era. Bloomberg’s Avril Hong breaks down the press conference, where President Lee was joined by the CEOs of t... View Source

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P introduces a new D-Log2 format and promises 17 stops of dynamic range... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Prosus CEO Fabricio Bloisi says its food takeaway firm Just Eat will start delivering growth in the next few months and has plans for global growth. Bloisi speaks on Bloomberg Television after Prosus announced that profit more than doubled last fiscal year, beating analysts’ estimates helped by growth in the tech investment company’s e-commerce businesses. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Chinese humanoid robots are stealing the spotlight at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai — but can they keep up with the World Cup spirit? From penalty kicks to piano playing, Bloomberg's Stephen Engle puts them to the test. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea unveiled an ambitious plan aimed at cementing its status as a technological powerhouse, with companies led by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. initiating large-scale investments in memory chips, data centers and robotics. Samsung and SK Hynix leaders sat next to President Lee Jae Myung at a briefing, and are expected to give more details of their future investment plans. Bloom... View Source

Spot this large constellation with differing classical backstories as moon sits squarely in ‘teapot’ of SagittariusThis week we will look for another large but faint constellation: Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer. One of the original 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, it sits in the sky on the opposite side to Orion, the hunter. The chart shows the view looking south from London... View Source

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At a made-to-order homebuilder in northwest Germany, processing more than 250 invoices a week used to swallow the equivalent of four working days. After introducing artificial intelligence last year, the task takes half as long... View Source

Autonomous-driving firm Momenta Global Ltd. started taking investor orders for its Hong Kong initial public offering to raise HK$5.9 billion ($752 million), pouncing on a multiyear high for share sales in the city... View Source

AIブームが変えたアップルの価格戦略。コスト増を受けた値上げは一時的か、それともAI時代の新常態なのか。... View Source

Homegrown platforms, banned from real-money gambling, are tapping the country’s loyalty-point culture to build an alternative to Polymarket. ... View Source

RBC BlueBay Asset Management remains bullish on Japanese AI-related stocks, expecting the rally to extend into 2027, while trimming near-term risk ahead of a potential slowdown in July and August... View Source

Mythos-class models (Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, Fable 5, and Mythos 5) represent a new capability tier above the previous Opus-class frontier models (Claude Opus 4.x series). They mark a meaningful step up in agentic/long-horizon reasoning, complex multi-step planning, software engineering, and especially autonomous cybersecurity capabilities (vulnerability discovery, exploit chaining, and... View Source

China, India, and Hong Kong have emerged as the only major stock markets worldwide where top companies account for a smaller share of market capitalization than a year ago, underscoring their lag in the global AI race... View Source

You may not be able to predict the changes but at least accept that change has already happened. It will help save your investments. AI revenue beats all other revenue and all other profit. Things are changing fast in AI and have already changed. Nvidia will likely soon get passed by Micron and Anthropic and ... Read more... View Source

South Korea’s Samsung Group and SK Group are poised to announce as much as 2,000 trillion won ($1.3 trillion) of investments over the next decade as part of President Lee Jae Myung’s flagship industrial strategy, Korea Economic Daily reported Monday... View Source

Some animators believe AI will make films better. Others believe it will bring costs down... View Source

Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a US opioid crisis... View Source

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US. This level of advancement is partic... View Source

The true scourge of American roadways isn’t pot holes, rush hour traffic, or grandmas ambling down the fast lane. It’s oversized pickup trucks and SUVs. A new investigation by The New York Times found that the number of pedestrian deaths has surged by 75 percent since the explosion of these large vehicles around 2009, translating to thousands of more pedestrians being killed who otherw... View Source

Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support. To apply, artists need to be an unsigned singer, songwriter, or producer releasing music under their own name. They also need to agree to some t... View Source

In February 2024, scientific journal Frontiers was forced to retract a paper by a team of Chinese and Indian researchers after finding that their study contained nonsensical, AI-generated diagrams, including one of a rat with wildly oversized genitals. As the scandal unfolded, the researchers admitted that they’d produced the absurd picture using Midjourney, an AI-powered image generator. Tw... View Source

These little tricks will help you spend more time driving instead of charging... View Source

The law’s gaze has grown harder to escape, as surveillance drones and AI-integrated cameras now track movement across public and private spaces alike. And as one Virginia resident recently discovered, Johnny Law is a good listener, too. According to reporting by Virginia’s WSLS 10, Kat Vaughn of Roanoke was alarmed to discover a Flock audio detection pole had been erected in her front... View Source

Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth. The five-legged alien is composed of a rock-like material, hence its nickname, and comes from a fictional planet where temperatures and a high-pressure ammonia-dominant atmosphere has driven evolution in a radically different direction (still, he... View Source

The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million... View Source

The LineShine supercomputer at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen. | Photo: Liang Xu/Xinhua via Getty Images Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That's despite strict limits on what high-powered computing components can be so... View Source

Human activity-driven climate change has exacerbated droughts, making them more frequent, last longer, and more severe. This summer is already breaking records, with all but five US states currently experiencing droughts. The effects can be devastating, from decimating livestock and straining agricultural supply chains to reducing crop yield and threatening global food security. In parts of Turkey... View Source

The new models will launch with the M5 Pro and M5 Max, according to Mark Gurman... View Source

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday (June 28), continuing to expand its broadband internet relay network.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the new batch (Group 17-40) launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff took place at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT or 9:09 a.m. PDT local time).The Starlink satellites reache... View Source

That sure is a man in a cube, alright. | Image: NBC / Jim Henson Company I'm sure we're all familiar with Dark Crystal, so we know that Jim Henson can be weird and tackle slightly more mature subject matter. But there is little in his oeuvre that is quite as mind-bending as the Muppetless The Cube. This 1969 teleplay was produced for an NBC anthology series called Experiment in Television, which f... View Source

Wi-Fi extenders are cheap, but come with distinct drawbacks... View Source

We love apes. We love that they’re uncanny but pure reflections of our human quirks and foibles, at times silly, and at others sagacious. So what does an ape’s laugh say about them? And what does it say about humans?  Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very serious avenue of inquiry that involved tickli... View Source

The latest on the smart glasses competition... View Source

It's a contested field, but John Williams' majestic "Superman" theme is up there with the best the composer's ever written. Almost five decades on, that stirring orchestral march remains synonymous with Krypton's most famous son, still more than capable of making grown men want to run out of telephone boxes (remember those?) while ripping their shirts open.It's perhaps not surprising, then, that B... View Source

It’s one of those technologies that were always around the corner but never arrived. Now it has, kind of... View Source

Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a tool that still can’t match the value of a competent human. As AI companies and their financial backers continue to dump billions of dollars into AI development, the consequences of that basic contradiction are spilling out into offices and shops throughout the US. The fintech firm S... View Source

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. will build its first data center project in Indonesia as part of a partnership with US chip giant Nvidia Corp., which the Australian artificial intelligence infrastructure firm said is expected to win it as much as $30 billion in committed offtake agreements in its first six years... View Source

Japan's Hayabusa2 sample-return spacecraft is on target to make one of the closest ever flybys of a near-Earth asteroid in early July, as part of its extended mission campaign.Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later. The spacecraft collected samples and delivered them to Earth in 2020, completing its primary objectives. But the hardy spacecraft... View Source

Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony. But they also turned to his ChatGPT logs. Prosecutors said that Rinderknecht had ChatGPT generate images of fire, asked the cha... View Source

California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators have reached an agreement on a $351.7 billion state budget that will be bolstered in part by a newly proposed tax on digital software sales... View Source

Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned... View Source

College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots. Starship Technologies, a leading delivery bot company, announced earlier this month that it was ending its university operations and redeploying over a thousand of its meal machines. But the news is just starting to sink in, as various partnered universities all issue official communications mourning the... View Source

OpenAI appointed Uber Technologies Inc.’s former India and South Asia President Prabhjeet Singh as its managing director for the country, deepening its investment in one of its fastest-growing markets... View Source

Efrain Morales captured a breathtaking view of the Tiangong space station crossing the moon from Puerto Rico. (Image credit: Efrain Morales)Astrophotographer Efrain Morales captured spectacular footage of China's Tiangong space station as its silhouette buzzed Tycho Crater during a lunar transit on May 29, one night before May's Blue Moon.Morales recorded the outlines of Tiangong's vast solar pane... View Source

Austria is pushing the European Union to consider hosting Anthropic PBC within its borders to counter US efforts to block foreigners from using its most advanced artificial-intelligence models... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about the streaming industry, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Streaming was once a reprieve from cable. Not only could you watch whatever you wanted at any given time, but you didn't have to sit thr... View Source

After giddy business executives, cops are emerging as some of the AI industry’s most devoted disciples. Police officers are increasingly using AI-integrated tools on the job, though not without courting significant controversy. The error-prone nature of large language models has left law enforcement operations in a scramble, resulting in hallucinated police reports, evidence fabricated with... View Source

An artificial-intelligence bust, inflation and fiscal stress are among the most alarming threats to global prosperity at present, the Bank for International Settlements warned... View Source

SpaceX will launch a big SiriusXM radio satellite to orbit from Florida's Space Coast tonight (June 28), and you can watch the action live.A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the 15,400-pound (7,000 kilograms) SXM-11 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a four-hour window that opens at 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 GMT on June 29).You can watch it live via Sp... View Source

The founding story of Nest is pretty much a perfect tech myth. A legendary product maker (in this case, Tony Fadell) helps create one of the most successful products ever (the iPhone) and then rides off into the sunset to enjoy the rest of his life, only to have an experience that drags him back for one last job. For Fadell, that job was to try and reinvent the thermostat. And maybe change the way... View Source

A French ophthalmologist is performing surgery that can permanently change the color of your pupils. But not everybody agrees that it’s safe. Called Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Annular Keratopigmentation, or FLAAK, its creator Francis Ferrari has invited plenty of controversy since inventing the procedure over a decade ago and opening his clinic in 2019. The American Academy of Ophthalmology... View Source

Investors who want additional exposure to artificial intelligence in Europe are getting creative, searching out companies that enable the technology or stand to benefit from it as the usual suspects get more pricey... View Source

One of the world’s most effective parasites doesn’t spread through mosquito bites or undercooked snails — but through the common house cat. Called toxoplasma gondii, the parasite is a single-cell organism that primarily spreads to humans via cat turds, but also through raw or undercooked meat, contaminated water, and from a mother to her fetus. Its symptoms range from mild aches and pa... View Source

Engineers looking for safe water and recycled air for astronauts should look no further than nature, according to one team of researchers.Oysters and other forms of "biogenerative" life support systems, which use living beings for food, water recycling and air regeneration, are under study at Pennsylvania's Harrisburg University with Monolith Space, a small company featured on the This Week in Spa... View Source

The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars... View Source

Google has placed limits on Meta Platforms Inc.’s use of its Gemini artificial intelligence models because it could not provide as much computing capacity as the social media company wanted, according to the Financial Times... View Source

A $280 bike lock on a $10,000 e-bike. I've seen lots of so-called "smart" bike locks over the years, but none so far could justify the added cost. A newcomer that got its start securing ATMs for banks is trying to change that. There's nothing wholly unique about the TMD Chain Lock, but the combination of materials, performance, and insurance-friendly ART-2 certification makes it worth considering... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is testing an app aimed at helping overseas visitors navigate daily life in China, Jiemian News reported on Sunday... View Source

Hong Kong share sales surged to a five-year high in the first half of 2026 as investor enthusiasm around the artificial intelligence boom overpowered the drag of a sluggish equity market and regulatory headwinds... View Source

Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $329 EP-133 KO II sampler. Its latest is one of the biggest yet. OS 2.5 adds audio over USB, selectable sample rates for lo-fi fun, sample reverse, an arpeggiator, equal-length autochopping, and it extends the maximum length of a sample from 20 seconds to 40 seconds by capturing mono, instead of stereo... View Source

Do the benefits of features like dimming and scheduling make up for the constant energy draw needed for connectivity?... View Source

People in Europe will soon lose access to Studio Canal movies they paid for on the PlayStation Store... View Source

All that matters today for SpaceX and Tesla is the life and death battle to win AI. Every strategic move is URGENT. There is no time to wait years for robotaxi. Tesla and SpaceX must merge ASAP. There is more money and more gains from AI than anything else. The prize is thousands of trillions ... Read more... View Source

Margaret Atwood onstage at Detroit Opera House on January 26, 2026 | Photo: Monica Morgan/Getty Images Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. As it usually does at these things, the issue of AI came up, and Atwood didn't mince words. According to Deadline's recap, Atw... View Source

It’s 2026 and we’re still getting new “Toy Story” movies. In fact, we’re now on “Toy Story 5” — and the original was released in 1995, some 31 years ago. How long can Disney and Pixar keep this madness up?  It’s a thought that’s crossed the mind of Tom Hanks, the voice behind series’ rootin’ tootin’ protagonist Woody.  In... View Source

The lawsuit dates back to a deadly incident in Arizona in 2023... View Source

The 1970s were truly when science fiction cinema made astronomical leaps into the public's consciousness and catapulted out of the B-movie bin to become a respected entertainment genre. Aside from a few serious science fiction standouts like "The Andromeda Strain," "Silent Running," "Soylent Green," "Westworld," and "Rollerball," the pre-"Star Wars" era of Hollywood sci-fi was mostly forgettable f... View Source

Online spending across all retailers in the US hit $26.4 billion during Amazon.com Inc.’s annual Prime Day sale, according to Adobe Inc., narrowly beating the firm’s earlier estimate of $26.3 billion... View Source

Europe is in the grips of a devastating and deadly heatwave, shattering temperature records for the month of June across the continent. The United Kingdom, a nation known for its generally moderate and rainy summers, has been hit hard. In one particularly ironic development, a Wednesday event at the London School of Economics titled “Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening actio... View Source

Apple is looking to alleviate some of the pressure on its supply chain by seeking an exception from the Trump administration to buy RAM chips from CXMT, a company blacklisted by the Pentagon over ties to the People's Liberation Army, according to the Financial Times. The skyrocketing prices of RAM and storage have driven Apple to raise prices on almost all of its products this week, so it makes se... View Source

The 8-mile pipeline would bring fuel for Starship to the company's Starbase... View Source

Sensing where the winds are blowing, Hyundai factory workers in South Korea have voted to go on strike over fears that they could be replaced by humanoid robots. The Financial Times reports that the employees, who are members of the Korean Metal’s Worker’s Union, are demanding that they have a say over any attempts at automation and deploying AI. They’re also asking for a pe... View Source

The Pocket Micro 2 has a larger battery, improved controls and even a 3.5mm headphone jack... View Source

Amazon's Kindle AI features help you read beyond the lines, so long as you have the right ereader... View Source

The hits keep coming for Waymo, whose self-driving taxi cabs are behaving like European tourists who haven’t quite gotten the hang of driving on the right side of the road. During peak congestion due to the World Cup in Los Angeles, frustrated commuters caught a Waymo trying to drive the wrong way through a jammed intersection. Video shared by ABC 13 shows the red Waymo stopped on the wrong... View Source

On Episode 216 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with physicist Dr. Daniel Whiteson about other intelligences is beyond our scope.Whiteson, particle physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider and professor at UC Irvine, joins us to explore less conventional thoughts on first contact. We look at the challenges of communicating with extraterrestrial intelligences, potential difficu... View Source

That is an objectively dope couch. | Image: Kai Wright Kai Wright is the co-host of Stateside with Kai and Carter over at the Guardian. But Wright has been bringing his unique insights to listeners for years. He's also hosted Notes From America, The United States of Anxiety, and Indivisible. He's a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has profiled powerful men, explored what it means to be America... View Source

"Think Her Story, but weirder."... View Source

Boeing’s Starliner, originally intended to serve as an alternative to SpaceX’s workhorse Dragon spacecraft, has been nothing short of a disaster. It’s been just over two years since the spacecraft launched to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on board, a maiden crewed voyage following years of delays and major technical setback... View Source

Within a span of five hours Thursday, Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. hiked the prices for such popular products as Xbox video-game consoles, Macs and iPads... View Source

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget... View Source

When "SpaceCamp" landed in theaters in June 1986, it should have been the ultimate wish-fulfillment movie, as if "The Goonies" had cashed in their hard-earned pirate treasure in return for a spin in an actual Space Shuttle. It boasted a bigger budget than "Top Gun", a cast of up-and-coming young stars — including a future Oscar-winner — and a score by Hollywood's most famous composer. Twentieth Ce... View Source

Nostalgia remains a powerful force. So much so that, in exploring the echoes of a late-'90s childhood spent skimming the water of Corneria and sneering "cocky little freaks!" in time with a monkey encased in a Gundam suit, I'm simultaneously describing playing Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars if you're nasty) in 1997 and streaming it through Nintendo Switch Online today. The franchise has been revived thro... View Source

How to decide which of these surround sound formats is best for your home theater... View Source

Tim Cook recently said price increases were "unavoidable" and described the company's pricing as "unsustainable." The 16-inch MacBook Pro saw its price go up by $300. The 11-inch iPad Air went from $599 to $749. Even the HomePod Mini got a $30 bump to $129. Cook squarely placed the blame at the feet of the AI industry, which is not surprising. RAMageddon has already come for your desktop PCs and g... View Source

Who needs palm readings? New research suggests that scanning a preterm baby’s eyeballs can predict how its brain will develop. The resulting study, published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, found that specific features in the retinas of infants who were born premature are linked to cognitive motor, and behavioral outcomes at the age of two. Promisingly, a noninvasive eye scan is all that... View Source

The artificial intelligence boom has a power problem, and Wall Street is betting billions on companies that promise to solve it — even if some of the technology hasn’t been fully developed yet... View Source

Uber is adopting a more stringent background check process for drivers and couriers in the US... View Source

Blue Origin is hard at work at its Cape Canaveral launch pad, collecting debris and repairing the damage after an explosive accident last month.The company's New Glenn rocket exploded during a fueling test last month at Launch Complex-36 (LC-36). The resulting fireball laid waste to the surrounding facility, and erupted in a burst with a glow visible more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) away. In t... View Source

Four years ago, overlooking a canal in Amsterdam, the smart home industry collectively launched Matter, the one interoperability standard to rule them all. Heralded as the solution to the industry's struggles, Matter was built on open standards and existing technologies and is the result of years of collaboration between traditional rivals, including Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung. Matter prom... View Source

Australia will grant its online safety watchdog more powers and increase the maximum penalty for breaches of its world-first social media ban, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying big tech companies are not doing enough to comply... View Source

NASA is testing a 'cryocoupler' developed by L3Harris for in-orbit refueling... View Source

What's the Password? has a simple concept: To solve each of the game's more than 100 puzzles, you have to type in the right four-digit password on a number pad. That might sound like a limited constraint. But the simplicity gives solo developer Dan DiIorio, better known as TrampolineTales, lots of room to play with clever ideas. Over the course of a few hours, the game never stopped surprising me... View Source

Nobody likes a night interrupted by blinding artificial light, least of all the fish who make their home on coastal reefs. As a new study published in the journal Current Biology found, even a faint amount of artificial light during quiet hours is enough to cause a fish to have a crappy day. Specifically, the researchers found that artificial light from coastal settlements is associated with major... View Source

The Steam Summer Sale is underway... View Source

NASA is hoping to use drones to speed up organ delivery for transplant patients.A flight test earlier this month at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia saw a drone pick up a kidney and fly it for the first time beyond "line of sight", or the distance from which a drone is visible by an operator. Keeping a line of sight on a drone is a typical requirement for flight safety, but NASA is devel... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 134, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're okay in all this heat, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Polymarket lies and Jalen Brunson and the Arts and Crafts Movement, watching Not Suitable for Work and way too much of the World... View Source

For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious than raw, original data. To keep the large language models underlying our favorite AI chatbots up to date, tech companies have to feed them reams of fresh inputs. As one study found, the amount of data being used to train AI has doubled every nine months since 2010 — exponential growth which may soon hit a... View Source

Today’s teens are putting a new spin on joyriding. Why steal a car when you can just summon a robotaxi and get up to all sorts of shenanigans while it tools around town? Because it’s phenomenally less cool than driving a stolen Porsche? Whatever. With no one at the wheel, who’s going to stop you? Case in point: a posse of teens who were recently spotted hanging out the windows of... View Source

A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen "bow-and-arrow" structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are reshaped by colossal shock waves as they plunge through galaxy clusters.Named RAD-BAARG (short for Radio Bow-And-Arrow Radio Galaxy), the object spans nearly 1.8 million light-years across, making it almos... View Source

An unbalanced stalker posed as an unwitting man’s fiancé, claiming they had a child together. To sell the act — and live out her obsessive fantasy — she used AI to edit images that showed them going on dates together, and even that she was pregnant with his child. And she was doing this for years. It’s a saga that’s somehow even more bizarre than it sounds. The man, pseudonymousl... View Source

Apple is seeking clearance from the Trump administration to buy chips from a company linked to the Chinese military, according to Financial Times... View Source

Factors like the short interval between the two powerful quakes and different types of soil led to some structures collapsing while others stayed standing... View Source

Apple Inc. is pressing the White House for approval to purchase memory chips from a blacklisted Chinese company as it grapples to rein in chip costs, the Financial Times reported on Saturday... View Source

Apple's Vision Pro chief is reportedly leaving for OpenAI to start a hardware division... View Source

Trustpilot Group Plc partnered with e-commerce giant Shopify Inc. to allow merchants to showcase and manage Trustpilot reviews directly on their online stores... View Source

A global selloff in the shares of chipmakers dragged US indexes sharply lower amid doubts about the sustainability of the AI-fueled tech rally. Katherine Kostereva, CEO, Creatio joined Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

From data center backlash to boundless cash from tech billionaires and concerns about deepfaked campaign ads, AI is everywhere in the 2026 US elections... View Source

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, including its most powerful and its most affordable models yet... View Source

The increase in China’s industrial profits softened for the first time since November, suggesting that strong exports and price gains failed to offset the drag from tepid domestic demand... View Source

BlackBerry CEO John Giamatteo discusses the company’s evolution into a software and infrastructure player, centered on its QNX operating system. He highlights that QNX now powers over 275 million vehicles globally and is increasingly used in robotics, medical devices and industrial automation. Giamatteo speaks with Bloomberg's Dani Burger and Alpine Saxon Woods Chief Market Strategist Sarah Hunt o... View Source

Elroy Air is going public at a roughly $1 billion valuation, aiming to replace delivery trucks with long-range cargo drones. CEO Andrew Clare joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how the company’s heavy-payload aircraft works, why public markets are the right funding path and why defense demand and US supply-chain automation make this the ideal moment to scale. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

BlackBerry Ltd. Chief Executive Officer John Giamatteo had a direct answer when asked about one of the biggest challenges to software providers: Artificial intelligence isn’t ready to displace his safety-certified products... View Source

President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods imported from countries that impose digital services taxes, escalating pressure on European nations that just ratified a trade pact with the US... View Source

Anthropic is restoring select organizations' access to Mythos after getting permission from the US government... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies in the US have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop more advanced chatbots, betting they can earn enough from customers to justify the investment. That approach carries the risk of being undermined by rivals who build competing AI systems for far less... View Source

SpaceX and Charter Communications Inc. have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Mesh came out of stealth in February with a $50 million Series A... View Source

After a rollercoaster negotiation process with the Trump administration that dragged on for two weeks, Anthropic's Mythos 5 is finally back in action - at least, somewhat, for a select group of organizations, according to a letter from the government to Anthropic that was viewed by The Verge. Fable 5, however - the public-facing Mythos-class model - appears to still be in limbo, with no apparent t... View Source