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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

Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Pictures Group, discusses the future of Hollywood and how studios can create cultural pressure to keep theater seats filled. He joins Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on set. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group Chairman & CEO, Tom Rothman; Former Pro Tennis Player, Caroline Wozniacki; Earn Your Leisure Co-Founders and CEOs, Rashad Bilal & Troy Millings; Forum AI Co-Founder... View Source

The US eased restrictions on the use of Anthropic PBC’s powerful Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model for “trusted partners,” according to a letter from the Commerce Department... View Source

Campbell Brown, Co-Founder and CEO of Forum AI, discusses the need for AI companies to open up for scrutiny. She discusses with Romaine Bostick on Bloomberg's "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We’ve already rounded up the best Philips Hue deals of Prime Day, but if you’re looking for something a little more budget-friendly, Govee’s latest sale is worth checking out. The company has heavily discounted several of its color-changing smart lamps, including the Table Lamp 2 ($53.99, down from $79.99), Floor Lamp Basic ($59.99, regularly $99.99), the portable Table Lamp... View Source

The explosive popularity of prediction markets, spearheaded by Polymarket and Kalshi, has shocked experts, who are warning of a surge in gambling addiction. The platforms have massively lowered the barriers to entry for problem betting, allowing practically anybody to wager their hard-earned cash on events ranging from the outcomes of deadly wars to who will win the World Cup. Given all that contr... View Source

An intelligence analyst’s missed remarks are among the missteps surfaced in an investigation into a deadly strike against an elementary school in Iran... View Source

I’m ready for the Vamplier weekend. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge We’ve covered so many deals during Prime Day that my head is spinning. But after four days of doing our damndest to try and help folks save money, the thing I’m most hyped for is a simple tool for fixing my most egregious mistakes. I bought a pair of Vampliers. If you’re unfamiliar, Vampliers are Jap... View Source

Anthropic PBC and the Trump administration are moving closer to an agreement that would lift US restrictions on the company’s top two artificial intelligence models after weeks of talks between the two sides over security of the systems, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Dan Skelly, managing director and head of the equity model portfolio team at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, joins Lisa Mateo and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Money." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The loudest crash of gravitational waves ever heard has offered us insight into event horizons, the boundaries beyond which nothing can escape the grips of black holes.The gravitational wave signal GW250114 was picked up in January 2025 by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), Virgo, and KAGRA ( Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector). The signal was created when two black holes... View Source

Govee’s floor lamps are just $60. | Image: Govee: Prime Day has a funny way of convincing you to buy things you weren’t shopping for in the first place. You sign on intending to buy something sensible you actually need, like a pack of USB-C cables, and an hour later you’ve also added a gadget that can press your coffee maker’s power button and a color-changing smart lamp that syn... View Source

Bloomberg's Justina Lee joins Lisa Mateo and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Money." The share of stock volumes of retail investors has doubled over the past 15 years, Bloomberg Intelligence estimates. Social media and the gamification of trading have played a decisive role in the growth of investing in crypto, options, sports betting, and prediction markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A shocking aviation incident occurred in China when a small aircraft flew into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper on Friday, sending debris raining down onto crowds of people below. In footage of the incident circulating online, the building, the CITIC Tower, appeared to sustain minimal damage, with a small section of its glass curtain wall shattered. But the aircraft itself was all but obliterate... View Source

Adam Dell, founder and CEO at Domain Money joined Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the intersection of fintech, VC, and early stage startup mechanics and building a tech business. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

At some point next year, when planets and stars momentarily align, we’ll hopefully be getting what’s sure to be the most anticipated sci-fi RPG in recent memory — Wizards of the Coast and Archetype Entertainment's "Exodus", which is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.This far future "Mass Effect"-like saga follows the daring time-traveler Jun Aslan as he and his companions hop about the cosmos... View Source

Artificial intelligence may fuel inflation not just by driving up the cost of chips, but also by making consumers wealthier and more willing to spend, according to the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist... View Source

This is a prime example of a bad deal... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Announces Winners for 2026 Human Lander Challenge NASA has announced the top student-developed solutions for environmental control and life support systems in future crewed lunar landers from participants in the 2026 Human Lander Challenge. The announcement marks the culmination of months of research by university teams working to advance technologies supporting the agency’s Artemi... View Source

Ford just admitted that it scrambled to rehire former employees and find new technicians after its AI systems simply weren’t good enough. “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,” the automaker’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering Charles Poon t... View Source

Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and the company’s smart glasses efforts is leaving for OpenAI, continuing a streak of high-profile defections to rivals in the artificial intelligence and hardware sectors... View Source

About a month has passed since the first launch of SpaceX's "Version 3" Starship rocket, and the spaceflight company has already begun testing on its next such vehicle. SpaceX recently transported Ship 40, the upper stage in line to launch Starship's upcoming Flight 13 demonstration mission, to the Massey test site at its facilities in Starbase, Texas. Secured at its base, Starship performed a ful... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is tightening driver background checks in the US and applying the new standards retroactively to existing workers, the company’s latest response to a wave of sexual-assault lawsuits brought by passengers... View Source

Homes with many phone chargers pay more even when they're not using them... View Source

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoEngineers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and L3Harris con-duct operational testing on a developmental cryocoupler, a vital technology for future in-orbit spacecraft refueling.NASA/Tyson Eason For NASA’s next generation of deep space exploration missions, s... View Source

The asteroid will be visible for several nights from different parts of the world. We’ll tell you when and where to look, and what equipment you’ll need to spot it... View Source

As Europe bakes in the throes of a deadly heatwave, residents living near the continent’s largest data center in Slough, a town just west of central London, UK, are enduring extreme temperatures. As The Guardian reports, the enormous facility ten miles from London Heathrow is making the sweltering heat even more unbearable, with local residents likening the experience to something “pin... View Source

Apple announced price hikes across its hardware products, citing unprecedented price gains in memory chips. Missing from that price hike list, for now, is the iPhone. Nabila Popal, Senior Research Director at IDC, joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Foldables, watches and glasses could be on the way from Samsung... View Source

5 min read Partners, NASA Ready for June Launch of Swift Boost Mission NASA is on a mission to lift its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory along with partners Katalyst Space and Northrop Grumman. Watch to get a sneak peek.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katalyst Space/Northrop Grumman A mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than... View Source

China is set to expand its space station from three to six modules in the coming years and add a co-orbiting Hubble-class space observatory, even as the International Space Station approaches the end of its lifetime.The three-module, T-shaped Tiangong space station was assembled in orbit across 2021 and 2022 and has hosted numerous three-astronaut Shenzhou crews, but China is now set to expand the... View Source

While European tourists marvel at ranch dressing, Buc-ee's, and other wonders of Middle America, would-be World Cup attendees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East have experienced a different American pastime: exclusion. President Donald Trump's nakedly racist immigration policies have prevented scores of people from traveling to the United States for the event - even, in some cases, the players... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down OpenAI's decision to potentially hold off on an IPO until next year - sending shares of SoftBank falling. Plus, global tech stocks drop after Apple hikes hardware price due to a memory crunch, and SpaceX's $25 billion bond sale is off to a rocky start. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you've been looking for a good time to take the leap into the drone world, the 30% discount on this sub-250 g beginner drone might be enough to tempt you.Before the release of the DJI Neo 2, we ranked the DJI Neo as the best DJI drone for simplicity. Our drone expert, James Abbott, gave it four out of five stars in his hands-on DJI Neo review, noting that not only is it a lot of fun to operate,... View Source

I can understand why The Verge readers are flocking to the BirdBuddy deal we posted at the beginning of Prime Day. The BirdBuddy Pro with Solar Panels is a wholesome upgrade for your yard, but the full price of $299 is tough to stomach. After all, the BirdBuddy is essentially a video doorbell and solar panels stuck to a bird feeder, something you could assemble yourself in an hour for under $100... View Source

To get SpaceX’s mammoth Starship all the way to the Moon and back with astronauts on board will require an enormous amount of fuel. Over a period of eight days, Elon Musk’s space company will need to launch at least 15 of them to fully load a fuel depot in low-Earth orbit. That fuel will then have to be transferred into a separately-launched Human Landing System variant of the spacecra... View Source

OpenAI is rolling out a preview version of a more capable new artificial intelligence model to select partners before making it available more widely in the coming weeks, following pressure from the Trump administration to stagger the release... View Source

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore observed that processing power doubles every two years whilst almost halving in cost. That should translate to older technology dropping in price and year on year seeing the cheapest prices in the sales, right? The reality is far from simple in the world of skywatching.For stargazers who have dipped their toes into the world of binoculars and telescopes, prices stack... View Source

Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limited preview of its new GPT 5.6 model suite: Sol, the flagship; Terra, a medium-tier model for "high-volume work"; and Luna, a "fast and affordable" everyday model. OpenAI says it's especially skilled a... View Source

Can geothermal energy solve the AI energy crunch? I-Pulse Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO Robert Friedland explains how a $250 million US investment will accelerate breakthrough semiconductor technology designed to drill deep into Earth's heat, delivering around-the-clock clean energy. He joins Bloomberg Open Interest to make a  case for government-backed industrial policy and why geothermal, and not... View Source

The most beautiful of all the zodiacal constellations is now visible, low toward the south-southeast as darkness falls. This is Scorpius the Scorpion. It really does look like a scorpion, one of the few star patterns that readily suggests the mythical form assigned to it by the ancients. Composed of several fairly bright stars, its body is formed by the upper stars of this star pattern; its tail s... View Source

Level’s defining innovation was hiding the battery, motor, and electronics that power the smart lock inside the deadbolt itself. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Assa Abloy has laid off the majority of staff at Level Home, the smart lock company known for building smart tech into traditional-looking deadbolts, and is folding the business into Kwikset, according to a source familiar with the deci... View Source

[Edit: France Already Demolishing..?] [alas, a bit of a pull back! but that feels more accurate] Whether it’s on a bicycles for the Tour de France or in the mercury slurry of a thermometer, the French can move fast when they want to. So fast, in fact, that the country has blasted past the temperature threshold set by a hypothetical forecast imagining what an August heatwave in the year 2050... View Source

Nearly a month has passed since the New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad in Florida, creating a massive fireball. It was likely the largest ever rocket explosion at the historic Florida spaceport, and we are still dealing with its implications today. The rocket's explosion took out its only launch pad, LC-36A. So even if Blue Origin can quickly diagnose the cause of the failure, it has nowh... View Source

One of the promises of AI was alleviating the burdens of work, but the workaholic culture in Silicon Valley hasn't disappeared. Bloomberg's Natasha Mascarenhas explains why round-the-clock managing of AI agents and intense competition are driving longer hours and heightened anxiety for tech workers. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This image by ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid (with color added using ground-based images) provides an earlier snapshot of a region of our galaxy that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will repeatedly observe during the upcoming years.ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay) Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mis... View Source

There are heaps of streaming services available, and if you're anything like us, you'll have subscriptions to several — Apple TV for Severance, Disney+ for Avatar, Hulu for Solar Opposites, and more. What you need is something where you can access them all in one place, on any device, whether you're home or away.This is where the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus comes in. If you have a device with an... View Source

Arduino's Raspberry Pi-like microcomputer the Uno Q is joining many other devices in getting a price hike this week. The 2GB version of the Uno Q, which is powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 processor, will increase in price from $44 to $59, while the 4GB model is getting a slightly steeper increase from $59 to $79. If you've been eyeing the Uno Q as a cheaper alternative to Raspberry Pi's c... View Source

Asian technology stocks slumped after Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. raised prices for their products, stoking concern that rising component costs will curb demand for devices and eventually slow the memory chip rally that has powered much of the AI trade. Bloomberg Tech Host Ed Ludlow discusses the move from Apple to raise prices as well as what's next for OpenAI as they mull a delay for the comp... View Source

Samsung will start charging for SmartThings API access... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA selected 41 proposals from 37 companies to advance technologies in support of the agency’s goals to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and enable human exploration of Mars. These American companies, picked from NASA’s 2025 Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), will mature technologies creating solutions for space transportation, planetary surface operations, an... View Source

If you’ve been curious about the emerging world of smart glasses, Prime Day is your chance to try some of the best models with a rare discount from Best Buy or directly from Xreal. The high-end Xreal One Pro is $549, $50 lower than the usual price, and the more entry-level Xreal 1S is $399, $50 off the usual price, but only until 1:00 AM ET. Both feature tiny micro-OLED screens filtered through op... View Source

Only a few days into what looks to be a summer for the history books, droughts are already sweeping the United States by storm. According to fresh data from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s drought monitor, all but five US states — Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Alaska, and Hawaii — are completely drought free. And if you really squint, only Ohio is completely clear of any abnormally dry condi... View Source

Shares of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fell on Friday after OpenAI is said to weigh holding off on an initial public offering until next year amid volatility in technology stocks... View Source

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

A giant asteroid roughly the size of a skyscraper will pass within seven lunar distances of Earth on June 27. Here's how to watch the rare flyby during two livestreams on June 26 and June 27.How can I watch the flyby online?The Virtual Telescope Project will host two YouTube livestreams starting at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) on June 26 and 27, before and after asteroid 1997 NC1's closest approach to Ea... View Source

The Fitbit Charge 6 is now priced like a budget wearable. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Prime Day is making it much easier to pick up a Fitbit without spending more than you want. Both the Fitbit Charge 6 and Fitbit Ace LTE are on steep discounts today. Right now, you can buy the Charge 6 for $85.45 ($74.5 off) at Amazon, while the kid-friendly Fitbit Ace LTE is $69.99 (a whopping... View Source

A decade ago, it seemed like chief executives were broadly admired if not universally beloved. But these days, general sentiment over top executives has significantly shifted. And on top of that, CEOs increasingly complain they are overworked, overstressed and subjected to endless scrutiny. Bloomberg Opinion's Beth Kowitt joins Brad Stone and Max Chafkin on the Everybody's Business podcast to unpa... View Source

The northern lights could mean lights out for the infrastructure we rely on... View Source

At Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Eric Fernandez stands in front of Building 836, where he performs work as a telemetry engineer for NASA. NASA/Brandon Satterthwaite Growing up on the central California coast, watching rocket launches with his father was part of Eric Fernandez’s childhood routine. Fernandez had posters of rockets on the wall, but despite being fascinated by them, he ne... View Source

It's been two weeks since Anthropic took its Mythos-class models offline after a Friday evening ultimatum from the Trump administration. The company sprang into action immediately, sending a barrage of executives to Washington, DC. But updates have been suspiciously lacking, with no resolution in sight. Anthropic declined to comment multiple times this week about the state of the talks, saying the... View Source

The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn’t just driving up electricity prices, wasting huge amounts of water, and reviving heavy-polluter power stations — it’s also making life more expensive for the average American. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the data center boom is driving a “third wave of inflation” which — fol... View Source

Anastasia Amoroso, chief investment strategist at Partners Group, discusses the recent volatility in tech stocks with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

3 min read NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite’s three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their movement. This data will help scientists piece together clues that deepen... View Source

Auroras from space dazzle in this image captured from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot. (Image credit: ESA/NASA/S. Adenot)If you've ever seen auroras in the night sky, then you are one of the lucky few who has enjoyed a view of one of nature's most colorful and spectacular phenomena. But for the very lucky, very few who've seen auroras from space, the view is on a who... View Source

Meta is, by and large, a company built on other companies' ideas. It has almost perfected the strategy: wait for a new platform or social mechanic to take off, then either buy or clone it, put it next to Meta's unmatched user base and advertising engine, and watch the money pile up. Well, the next big thing appears to be turning everything into gambling. So why wouldn't Meta make a Polymarket? On... View Source

Grand Theft Auto VI’s $79.99 launch price marks a new high for mainstream video games and signals a potential shift in industry pricing power. This segment examines how Rockstar’s strategy could reshape revenue models and consumer expectations. Joost van Dreunen, NYU Stern Adjunct Assistant Professor and author of One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games, joined Paul... View Source

Apple is reportedly skipping the M6 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants in favour of jumping to its M7 chip lineup. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple is expected to shake up its usual Mac silicon release strategy, with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reporting that there won't be Pro or Max versions of the upcoming M6 chip. Instead, Apple wants to "fast-track technologies that it originally plan... View Source

After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, scientists confirmed that Perseverance had discovered a rock that contained “complex organic ma... View Source

European shares fell from record levels amid shifting sentiment toward artificial intelligence and technology stocks... View Source

Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs... View Source

A new memo from NASA's Office of Inspector General has revealed how major pieces of Artemis program hardware became costly components of lunar missions that no longer align with the agency's new plans to return astronauts to the moon and have since been canceled.NASA announced a major shakeup to its Artemis plans earlier this year at its "Ignition Day" event, restructuring its mission goals in ord... View Source

One of the best deals this ongoing Prime Day has been on Apple’s latest flagship headphones. The AirPods Max 2 are still available for a heavily discounted price of $399 ($150 off) at Walmart, even though they sold out at Amazon. Since the Amazon deal kicked and Walmart is out of stock on one of the Max 2’s five colors, it seems this deal is not long for this world. Even discounted to $399 the Air... View Source

A ship was hit by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday in the first reported attack since an interim US-Iran peace deal, marking a setback to efforts to restore traffic through the vital energy thoroughfare. Apple shares fell after it raised prices of all Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro on Thursday, seeking to offset cost hikes caused by an unprecedented shor... View Source

Philips Hue products don’t often see major discounts, which makes this year’s Prime Day deals especially notable. Prices have dropped significantly across much of the company’s smart lighting lineup, with deals on everything from smart bulb starter kits and sleep lamps to smart buttons. In some cases, the lowest prices are available directly from Philips Hue rather than Amazon, s... View Source

In today’s global economy, even robots are begging for help. In a now-viral stunt involving a Unitree G1, a humanoid robot was seen begging on the streets of Chengdu, China in order to get “help with electricity bills.” The robot sat on the back of its heels like a resting yogi, hands clasped together in deference to people passing by, who hucked coins and scanned a QR code to fi... View Source

The global economy will see $1 trillion of losses per year by 2050 if we don't adapt to changing climate patterns says Sarah Kapnick, Global Head of Climate Advisory at JPMorgan. She sees this leading to a 'structural investment trend' which will see more investment in the power grid and energy transition, especially geothermal and nuclear energy. She spoke to Bloomberg's Lizzy Burden on "The Puls... View Source

A study finds that Australia's social media ban hasn't been that effective due to self-declared age verification checks... View Source

On paper, it seems like the math would be clear. A nearly 22-year-old space telescope, well past its prime, is falling out of space after decades of hunting the biggest explosions in the universe. Rest in peace, right? After all, it would cost NASA $30 million to save the telescope, called the Swift Observatory, which the agency launched in 2004 on a planned two-year mission. Some of us have cars... View Source

The release of Grand Theft Auto VI is a singular moment, the kind of massive cultural phenomenon that makes people want to go out and buy a console to play it. It is the preeminent modern example of what's known as a "system seller." There's almost certainly a large audience of people who were waiting to buy a console because all they really play on it is GTA, and they haven't needed to upgrade si... View Source

The move may act as a tailwind for rival China, boosting demand for the Asian nation’s open source AI... View Source

This week, we've been hit with major price hikes from major players, including Microsoft and Apple... View Source

From October this year Samsung will roll out a variety of new paid tiers for access to its SmartThings API, including a $4.99 monthly plan for "non-commercial, individual developers." It won't just be developers that pay the price though. Some more advanced smart home users are likely to fall afoul of the rule change if they directly access the SmartThings API for more flexible smart home controls... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.47 of the Rocket Report! We have now very nearly reached the midpoint of 2026, a year in which several new US rockets were advertised as potentially making their debuts. But now, we have to wonder whether any of them—Rocket Lab's Neutron, Stoke Space's Nova, Relativity Space's Terran R, and Astra's Rocket 4—will make it. I'd probably put the over/under at something like 0.5 of... View Source

The ChatGPT maker offers the industry a new marketing vehicle... View Source

NASA's TESS space telescope has discovered two 'super puffy' giant planets with the density of cotton candy... View Source

We’ve arrived at the final day of Prime Day, which at this point should probably be called “Prime Week.” We’ve found discounts on all manner of gadgets, including TVs, smart home tech, chargers, headphones, and more. Some of the best deals have started selling out at some retailers, so if you’ve been craving a popular upgrade like the AirPods Max 2, time is running low. The good news is that our t... View Source

What began as a “flamingo revolution” to protest the $1.4 billion development on Sazan Island has spiraled into mass protests against a ruling party that thousands now want out... View Source

SoftBank Group’s stock tumbled the most since August 2024 after reports that OpenAI may hold off on an initial public offering until next year, delaying returns for its Japanese backer. Neil Campling reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Christian Mueller-Glissmann, managing director for portfolio strategy and asset allocation at Goldman Sachs, discusses the tech selloff and why he thinks it could make sense to diversify away from semiconductor makers and lean more toward hyperscalers. "These are incredibly cyclical companies," Mueller-Glissmann tells Bloomberg Television. "So to some extent, it could make sense to diversify a bit... View Source

The author of a tell-all book says Meta is using her as an example to deter future whistleblowers... View Source

Full moons are overrated and, frankly, a pain. They wash out the stars, ruin deep-sky observing, and they all look the same. Technically, all of that is true. Yet every month — and particularly each June — I find myself standing outside at dusk waiting for the full moon to rise like it's an old friend arriving for an annual visit.The main attraction of June's Strawberry Moon is that it stays so lo... View Source

Volkswagen is looking to cut tens of thousands of additional jobs and may shutter factories in a push by CEO Oliver Blume to make Europe’s biggest automaker more competitive, according to a report in Manager Magazin. Bloomberg's Elisabeth Behrmann has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

California governor Gavin Newsom worked with the state's employment department to roll out an AI job loss tracker... View Source

Bain Capital and LY Corp. are poised to make a binding bid for Kakaku.com Inc., challenging a tender offer from EQT AB that values the price-comparison site operator at around ¥595 billion ($3.7 billion)... View Source

Executives from German satellite firm OHB SE and KKR & Co. rang the opening bell at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Friday after they raised €789 million in a share sale to increase investors’ access to the space company... View Source

YouTube has made several key changes to Shorts by removing dislikes and offering a clear screen mode... View Source

Yours for $499 (plus tax and an indeterminate amount of time for processing and shipping). | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We still don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week the T1 hit open sale, no deposit required. Trump Mobile's T1 Phone is now available for anyone to buy directly. The phone has previously trickle... View Source

John Wren, the chief executive officer of ad giant Omnicom Group Inc., said he’s starting to see results after closing the deal for rival Interpublic Group about seven months ago — racking up customer wins and cost savings. He’s still got to convince the market... View Source

The World Bank and African Development Bank plan to accelerate their program to bring electricity to hundreds of millions of Africans this year by approving new projects, investing in Eritrea and promoting the development of regional power pools... View Source

South Korean stocks were hit by a second trading suspension this week as chipmakers plunged, highlighting the market’s sensitivity to swings in global artificial-intelligence sentiment. The benchmark Kospi extended losses after the Korea Exchange’s 20 minute trading halt, falling as much as 9%. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The case for the artificial-intelligence trade remains intact, but the risk of getting it wrong has risen considerably. This week showed just how unforgiving the theme has become... View Source

Naples is leading a regional revival in Italy, fueled by European Union cash and investments in technology and infrastructure. The economy of the Campania region, where Naples is located, grew 0.9% last year, outstripping the 0.7% in Milan’s province of Lombardy and well ahead of the 0.5% national average, according to Bank of Italy data. Bloomberg's Alessandra Migliaccio reports. (Source: Bloombe... View Source

Apple Inc. shares fell after it raised prices of all Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro to offset cost hikes caused by a shortage of memory chips and storage. The price increases are in effect globally and are largely unprecedented, with no equivalent in the company's modern history of sweeping hikes across much of its product line. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Myron Xie, AI supply chain research lead at SemiAnalysis, explains who, within Asia's hardware suppliers, are standing out as the winners in the market's surge in AI demand. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg Tech: Asia. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch another Strix satellite for Japanese company Synspective's imaging constellation, in orbit above the island nation. An Electron rocket will lift off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex-1 (LC-1) in New Zealand today (June 26), during a window that opens at 12:45 p.m. EDT (1645 GMT; 4:45 a.m. on June 27 local New Zealand time). As its name suggests, the "Ten Owl of Ten... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence says Apple has to hike prices for its iPhones after raising prices for its Macs, iPads and home devices. Those hikes went into effect globally on Thursday. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana spoke with Bloomberg's Yvonne Man and Avril Hong on "Bloomberg: The China Show." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elroy Air Inc., a cargo drone startup aiming to replace delivery trucks, is in advanced talks to go public through a merger with a blank-check vehicle that will create a company with an enterprise value of about $1 billion... View Source

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JPMorgan Asset Management Global Market Strategist Stephanie Aliaga discusses the current whipsaw in markets surrounding AI and gives her outlook on what’s ahead. She speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI is leaning toward holding off on an initial public offering until 2027, the New York Times reported, citing three people involved in the company’s deliberations... View Source

How many star projectors do you need? I still don't have an answer. It started with a blue, Northern-Lights style projector, then one capable of projecting actual stars, albeit not in the right color. Now I'm eyeing up these Prime Day star projector deals, finger over the 'Buy Now' button, and I'm inviting you to join me.Not all star projectors are the same, mind you; some are there purely to crea... View Source

South Korean stocks fell as renewed selling in chipmakers highlighted their heightened sensitivity to swings in global artificial-intelligence sentiment... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s stock fell as much as 13% on concerns that OpenAI may hold off on an initial public offering until next year and delay returns for its Japanese backer... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are preparing to announce hundreds of billions of dollars worth in new investments on Monday, according to South Korean media reports this week... View Source

The Pentagon has quietly revised its doctrine on how the US military picks its targets in battle, opening the way for artificial intelligence to make critical wartime decisions in the future... View Source

Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller discusses AI buildout and what’s next for chips. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amy Sullivan, CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond, said that consumers are feeling 'a lot of pressure' but that company's outlook is that if they can do business at a low point there is a high upside to come. Sullivan also talked about Bed Bath & Beyond's efforts to engage with consumers, including a new sweepstakes around the company's iconic coupons. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese hardware technology stocks have been on a tear. The next challenge is showing the earnings to back it up... View Source

Lingyi iTech Guangdong Co. a Chinese maker of electronic devices, is set to begin trading in Hong Kong on Friday after raising HK$8.3 billion ($1.06 billion) in a share sale, part of the city’s busiest month for listings this year... View Source

Some devs working on Marathon have also been laid off and studio head Justin Truman has stepped down... View Source

Spacex Starship 40 rolled out to Massey’s on June 23–24. It successfully completed an engine igniter test on June 24. Today, SpaceX has been doing multiple propellant loading cycles as part of the static fire campaign. There was an earlier attempt (or series of attempts) today that ended with detanking. Observers noted what looked like ... Read more... View Source

Even Tim Cook couldn’t supply chain his way out of the RAM crisis. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge As far as prices go, Apple is kind of a reverse canary in the coal mine. With its famously generous margins and immense purchasing volume, it can afford to ride out price fluctuations in its supply chain in a way no other consumer tech company can. So when Apple raises prices across nearly all o... View Source

Elon Musk is expanding access to digital payment venture X Money to a subset of premium users on social network X, part of his bid to turn the platform into an “everything app.”... View Source

So much for voluntary review... View Source

Android 17 is getting a dedicated gaming mode for foldables that will put a virtual gamepad with touch controls on half of your screen to theoretically make it easier to play games. With foldable gaming mode, which is set to launch in the coming months, the virtual controller emulates physical button presses at a system level and is designed to work "with any game that supports physical controller... View Source

The country was hit hard by a pair of quakes that happened in quick succession and were likely driven by stress being transferred from one part of the fault that runs through the country to another... View Source

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of an upcoming powerful artificial intelligence model, according to a person familiar with the matter, nearly two weeks after rival Anthropic PBC suspended its most capable offerings from the market under regulatory pressure... View Source

NSFW uses account for "well over half" of traffic, a new report says... View Source

From left to right, Senior Advisor on Space for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Greg Autry, NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson, Minister of Communications and Innovation David Tshere, and Acting Ambassador of the Republic of Botswana to the United States Mabedi Ngwenya pose for a photo following an Artemis Accords signing ceremony with the Republic... View Source

YouTube is adding even more TikTok-like features to Shorts, including a new "clear screen" mode that removes the icons and text from the video you're watching. In a blog post on Thursday, YouTube says it's also replacing the "thumbs-up" button with a "heart" icon, and is introducing a new option that lets you watch Shorts at 2x speed. As noted by YouTube, you can speed up a video by holding down t... View Source

Zynga founder Mark Pincus said that the consumer side of AI is being underweighted in comparison to the engineering and coding aspects of the technology and that capping the consumer influence is not in line with the the way the internet has developed. Pincus said that while most of AI is still a 'single player experience,' it is going to massively change our labor market and economy as it further... View Source

A refreshing direction for a price change... View Source

The Expedition 73 crew attends a debrief and awards ceremony at Space Center Houston’s IMAX theater on June 16, 2026. NASA/Luna Posadas Nava On June 16, astronauts and cosmonauts gathered at Space Center Houston to share stories from their missions aboard the International Space Station and recognize the teamwork and people on the ground that made their missions possible.  The Expedition... View Source

SpaceX recently completed the largest IPO ever, raising more than $85 billion and debuting at a ~$1.77 trillion valuation. Shares have since pulled back (a common post-IPO pattern, especially in volatile markets), but the raise was enormous. xAI is part of that story because of the earlier integration. FEb 2026, SpaceX acquired xAI and the ... Read more... View Source

The Trump administration, apprehensive of potential security issues, has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next big-ticket model, GPT-5.6. The Information reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday in a company Q&A that it would release GPT-5.6 in limited preview form - granting access only to a small group of enterprise customers - in compliance with a re... View Source

South Korea’s stock market has surged about 200% year-on-year, powered by an AI-fueled chip rally. But extreme volatility and heavy reliance on two companies may mean it’s a bubble waiting to burst. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's not so much about using a wrong port, and more so about freeing up the more capable ones for needier devices... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration will sign a memorandum of agreement during a ceremony at 1 p.m. EDT, Monday, June 29, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The agreement will create a new interagency initiative that directly responds to President Donald J. Trump’s National Space Policy and supports the growth of the American space economy. Participants include: NASA Admi... View Source

What is rarer than discovering a "super-puff" planet with densities much (much) lower than those of the solar system gas giants? Discovering two orbiting the same star.That is exactly what astronomers have done, finding two extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, that are super-puff siblings orbiting the same star. Both planets, designated TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, have densities lower than that of cott... View Source

Thanks to the component crisis, it's a bad time to want a new computer. But if you are waiting on a preorder for the Framework Laptop 13 Pro - which Framework's CEO has called the "MacBook Pro for Linux users" - the company shared good news on Thursday that might mean yours will cost less than you expected. The company announced that it has secured cheaper new PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from its supplier, Ad... View Source

US chipmaker Onsemi has agreed to buy Synaptics Inc., a firm that specializes in semiconductors for smart devices, in an all-stock deal that values the company at about $6.2 billion... View Source

The skyrocketing cost of computer components needs to foster a new mindset... View Source

This week, Instagram launched a series of new features for its smart TV app that are all designed to get people to spend more time on the platform through the biggest screens in their homes. In addition to vertical Reels, Instagram for TV - which is currently available for Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung Smart TVs - users can now watch disappearing Stories and horizontal videos with aspect... View Source

Apple charged into video podcasts earlier this year after ceding market share to YouTube. Shows that opted in early are cautiously optimistic about the results... View Source

Spain's mobile networks will need to stay live for at least four hours during power outages, per new rules... View Source

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions. The two selections are part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This contract allows the agency to award fixed-price indefinite-delivery/... View Source

Epoch.ai tracks the top ~17+ frontier sites via satellite. SemiAnalysis uses its Datacenter Industry Model for hyperscaler self-build/colocation forecasts. Here is a tight compilation of the most prominent ones from Epoch, SemiAnalysis mentions, and cross-referenced industry tracking. Focus is on hyperscaler/AI lab projects (hundreds of MW to GW-scale). Many announced 2026 projects face delays lik... View Source

The Xbox Series S and Series X consoles together. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft announced today that the price of all Xbox models will rise in August, the second time in less than a year as memory prices continue to wreak havoc on every industry from cars to computing. Thankfully, we’re already out looking for Prime Day deals, and we were able to find some discounts on both t... View Source

I-Pulse Inc. will receive $250 million in US funding for semiconductor and pulsed-power development as the venture co-founded by Robert Friedland joins American efforts to reduce reliance on foreign-chip supply chains... View Source

So long, Notion Mail... View Source

Traffic has rebounded sharply since the US-Iran MoU/deal around June 17–18, 2026, which eased the effective blockade and sanctions waivers. However, it remains volatile, below pre-war levels. Traffic has rebounded sharply since the US-Iran MoU/deal around June 17–18, 2026, which eased the effective blockade and sanctions waivers. However, it remains volatile, below pre-war levels June ... Read mor... View Source

The solstice can even be seen from space in this new image from the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) mission. (Image credit: ESA/Eumetsat)Twice each year, we celebrate what we call a solstice when Earth is at its maximum tilt toward or away from the sun. And during this June's summer solstice, a European weather satellite managed to capture a striking image of the celestial moment from space. What... View Source

Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their voices, effectively allowing them to reproduce their likenesses in perpetuity. Not even underage performers are safe from the encroaching tech. As Deadline reports, the owner of “Peppa Pig,” US entertainment juggernaut Hasbro, is now asking child actors of the beloved chil... View Source

Qualcomm says its expansion into chips for data centers will produce “billions” in revenue in the fiscal year that begins in October, suggesting the company is gaining a foothold in the booming market for AI gear. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon joins Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow and Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Polestar moved some of its production to the US, but it may be locked out from selling its cars here soon... View Source

DC's new "Supergirl" may or may not turn out to be a classic of the comic-book genre. It may or may not be a smash hit in theaters. But whatever else happens when Kara Zor-El flies into the unpredictable headwinds of the worldwide box office, one thing the new movie has got 100% right is its promo poster. Let's take a look at its components. The bright, primary-colored House of El logo in the back... View Source

You can get a great, color-accurate 5K monitor for half the price of an Apple Studio Display. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge RAMageddon has come for computers. The price of memory chips, hard drives, and solid state storage has skyrocketed. That’s led to price increases on desktop and laptop RAM, SSDs, spinning hard drives, and pretty much everything that uses any of those things. Consoles ar... View Source

Revenue from AI has reached a tipping point, showing that the hundreds of billions of dollars tech companies are spending on it may be economically sustainable, according to a report from research firm Exponential View. Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss the findings of this report. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Retroid's Pocket Nova seems capable of handling games up to the GameCube and PS2 era... View Source

An intense demolition derby of at least six galaxies smashing into one another has been found lurking in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. This merger is also expected to fuel the growth of a supermassive black hole and trigger the formation of what will eventually become one of the most massive galaxies in the cosmos."What makes this special is that we can follow both the buil... View Source

It's not exactly surprising that RAMaggeddon is making new tech hardware really expensive. But if you've been in the market for things like a new computer or tablet, this week has been filled with sticker shock. Given how many companies announced price hikes related to component shortages, it seems unlikely things will get cheaper any time soon. Valve started the week off by finally revealing the... View Source

For years, Japanese investment group SoftBank has been all-in on the AI gold rush. In early 2025, mere weeks into his second term as president, Donald Trump announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed Stargate, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son proudly watched on inside the Oval Office. Over the proceeding year and a half, snowballing AI hype has sent valuation... View Source

Two leading AI researchers at Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic, according to sources, adding to a series of high-profile departures that risk undercutting the search giant’s position in AI. Bloomberg's Julia Love joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple may skip the M6 Pro and Max chips... View Source

Canon is rightly regarded as one of the premier manufacturers of cameras and optical equipment, and the Canon EOS R5 is a reminder of why. Labelled 'a camera of epic proportions' by our reviewer Jacob Little, it's an astonishing $699 off for Prime Day. Buy this Canon EOS R5 body from Amazon for $2599.Couple this 45 megapixel Canon EOS R5 body with one of the best lenses for astrophotography and yo... View Source

You can save hundreds on the latest iPad Air. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple just raised prices across its iPad and MacBook lineup. The good news is that many retailers are still selling their inventory at the old prices or far less, which means you can still score some of the best iPad deals we may see in awhile — if ever again. So if you’ve been thinking about picking... View Source

Waymo is planning to offer its driverless robotaxis in Germany, the latest move by the Alphabet Inc. unit to expand outside the US... View Source

We're all trying to find the guy who did this... View Source

The world of science fiction books is vast and inspiring, with tales of distant planets and alien life transporting you into a new world to get lost in. It's the perfect genre for audiobooks, whether you like listening on the sofa, on a walk or on your daily commute, these books can fill you with wonder about the possibilities of our modern scientific age. We have tales of sentient rocks, long-ter... View Source

Polestar won't be allowed to sell its electric vehicles model year 2027 and beyond in the US after the federal government denied the company's request for authorization under a new rule banning vehicles with software from China. In a press release, the company says the decision to retreat from the US follows a recent decision by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security to not g... View Source

There’s something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line is an AI agent, not an actual human. If it hasn’t happened to you, it’s certainly happened to someone you know. Industries leaders warn that AI could wipe out entire categories of human jobs — and customer service agents have frequently topped the list, indicating the... View Source

Micron's pricing power may have permanently changed the semiconductor industry. D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why AI has turned memory into a strategic asset and how Apple could actually emerge stronger despite rising chip costs. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Cellebrite claims the hardware predates current sanctions and was used without its consent... View Source

LOS ANGELES — The space shuttle Endeavour is absolutely breathtaking in its 20-story new home at the California Science Center's brand-new Air & Space Center, which is set to open on Nov. 13, the museum announced on Wednesday (June 24). After over three decades of ideation, development and construction, the California Science Center has officially announced an opening date for its brand-new Sa... View Source

We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But with the rising cost of just about everything these days, many once-cheap gadgets aren’t so affordable anymore. Amazon and other retailers sell all sorts of products from word salad brand names, but only some of it is handy and affordable enough to be worth telling you about. We’re highlighting some of our... View Source

Markets may be near record highs, but Bob Sloan, S3 Partners Founder & Managing Partner says the real story is happening beneath the surface. He joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why passive investors are fueling AI stocks higher while hedge funds quietly sell into the rally and why tracking investor positioning may be just as important as earnings or valuations. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Galaxy A27 5G has a stronger chipset, at least... View Source

NASA, ESA, CSA, Adam Smercina (STScI, Tufts), Thomas Williams (University of Manchester); Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently observed edge-on starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82), nicknamed the Cigar Galaxy. Webb’s new view of M82, added to archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, gives us a more complete picture of this starburst galaxy... View Source

Five years ago, an internet meme turned into a reality in "F9" when the Fast & Furious crew launched a car into space. Depending on your sense of humor and ability to suspend disbelief, it's either peak cinema or extreme tomfoolery, but it's clear that the only way this franchise will ever top this moment is by drag racing a velociraptor in a "Jurassic World" crossover.The "F9" scene sees Tej... View Source

Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox consoles again. Starting August 1st, 512GB models will be $100 more expensive, while 1TB models will be $150 more expensive. This means that the Xbox Series S will start at $499.99, the Xbox Series X without a disc drive will start at $749.99, and the Series X with a disc drive will start at $799.99. Microsoft also says it will be "sunsetting" its 2TB Xbo... View Source

According to DuckDuckGo’s AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. As the AI feature explains, Trump was apparently predeceased by Vice President JD Vance, who also died from the incurable virus. In fact, if you click the article it cites as evidence — which looks like it was published by a local West Virginia broadcaster called WKNA News, but... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers: - IBM (IBM) shares gained in premarket trading on Thursday after the technology giant unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology. - McCormick (MKC) is moving after it reported second-quarter profit that beat estimates, buoyed by higher prices and a tariff refund, and reaffirmed its full-year guidance. - Darden Restaurants (DRI) shares fell afte... View Source

Google Finance is a standalone Android app now, with an iOS version on the way... View Source

Gavin Baker described how in ~3 years (around 2028–2029), a bigger/bulkier iPhone with enough extra DRAM could run a pruned/distilled/quantized version of a frontier model like Gemini 5 (or Grok 4.x / ChatGPT equivalent) at 30–60 tokens per second on-device. This would be free, private, and good enough for most users. An enhanced future iPhone ... Read more... View Source

With the next total solar eclipse coming up on Aug. 12, you still have plenty of time to grab solar viewing gear for getting a better look at it. If you are hosting a solar eclipse party or want to make sure everyone in your family has a chance of observing the sun safely, grabbing a multipack of solar eclipse glasses is a great shout. Whilst they may seem like once-in-a-lifetime events, they happ... View Source

The Bubble needs additional magnets to actually attach to a phone. The Oppo Bubble is a smart second screen for your phone, one that can be attached and detached at will, connects wirelessly, and serves as either a selfie screen or a wireless camera remote. It's the best version of this idea I've used yet, but also a frustrating reminder that it could be even better if only Oppo and other Android... View Source

From coast to coast, the people of the United States are growing resentful of AI. It’s not hard to see why: they’re constantly told the tech will take their jobs and leave them for broke, while the data centers used to train them hike up their utility bills and belch horrid fumes into their communities. Then there’s the harrowing economics of AI, infinitely less tangible but impo... View Source

Sonos Inc. made cuts across its user experience, product and design teams, citing a need to streamline the organization and operate more efficiently... View Source

IBM says it has created the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip... View Source

Earth's moon is due for a human-made impact this August courtesy of a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage. The Falcon 9 upper stage is left over from the launch that sent Firefly's Blue Ghost-1 lander to the moon on Jan. 15, 2025 by way of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Also sent moonward on that flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar lande... View Source

Slate Auto is a new startup that emerged out of a secretive project called “Re:Car” within Re:Build Manufacturing, a domestic manufacturing project backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The company’s first electric vehicle is a barebones electric pickup that’s roughly a third of the size of your typical gas-powered truck. And the proposal is pretty radical: would you trade a... View Source

A fund that includes President Donald Trump’s eldest sons among its investors has booked hundreds of millions of dollars in paper profits through a lucrative playbook that involves taking stakes in a steady stream of small, thinly traded public companies... View Source

Sony's A7R VI finally serves up speed and resolution together thanks to the new 67MP stacked sensor... View Source

Apple just raised the prices on Macs and iPads in response to the rising costs of memory chips, right in the middle of Amazon Prime Day. That means existing discounts (even small ones) on Apple laptops like the MacBook Neo, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro just became significantly better deals. As an example, the 13-inch MacBook Air M5 that used to start at $1,099 and is currently on sale for $949 wi... View Source

Since September of 2024, federal science agencies in the US have axed nearly 120,000 employees, in a stinging loss for public research. Some of the heaviest impact was felt by scientists studying the climate, at bureaus like the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Luckily for us, climate scientists are a resourceful bunch. A recent initiative pu... View Source

China’s DeepSeek, fresh off a blockbuster fundraising, said it is working to at least double the size of all departments, as it steps up efforts to compete with domestic rivals and global leaders such as OpenAI and Anthropic... View Source