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Silver Spring, USA/ Maryland, 30th October 2025, CyberNewsWire... View Source

Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured high-resolution views inside the eye of the powerful Hurricane Melissa... View Source

Sora can turn almost anything into a reusable AI video character. OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These “character cameos” are one of several new features that have been added to the Sora 2 video generator, alongside clip stitching and leaderboards that showcase the app’s most popular videos and cameos. Character cam... View Source

Roblox Corp. reported its best quarter ever with daily active users beating analysts’ expectations on the heels of three hit games... View Source

It looks like Meta's Vibes feed is just the start of the company's pivot toward AI slop. In an earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that "we're going to add yet another huge corpus of content" to Meta's recommendation system, via AI's ability to create and remix content — so you're likely to see even more AI generated posts on Facebook and Instagram... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Matt Day sizes up the latest spending plans announced by Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta... View Source

Proton, the company behind Proton VPN and other encrypted apps like Proton Mail and Proton Drive, just launched a new web page called the Data Breach Observatory that aims to make accurate cybercrime data more widely accessible. The Observatory is intended to be a continually updated report that records any data leak detected on the dark web, with information sourced from the underground data mark... View Source

The Nobel committee will love this. | Image: Getty President Donald Trump says he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start testing nuclear weapons, citing a need to match “other countries [sic] testing programs.” Trump’s post on Truth Social included very few details on the nature of the tests, but says the “process will begin immediately.” It’s not clear whether Trump is referring to expl... View Source

Legora, an artificial intelligence startup tackling legal grunt work, has raised $150 million in funding, valuing the company at $1.8 billion... View Source

An ideological war over how tech giants can account for AI data center emissions has bled into the international arena... View Source

Blue Energy Global Inc., a nuclear startup, is planning a power plant in Texas that will supply as much as 1.5 gigawatts of electricity to a new data center, initially using natural gas systems and eventually shifting to small reactors... View Source

Black Friday (which is now basically all of November) is one of the best times of the year to pick up things for yourself and for other people. But to say money is tight is an understatement this year. If Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days was any indicator, folks are spending more on essentials than anything else during these big sales. That, combined with the rising trend of holding on to big tech pur... View Source

SpaceX will launch its 100th Starlink mission of the year today (Oct. 30), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Oil giants in the Middle East are taking a more direct role in using the region’s oldest resource to finance a multibillion-dollar bet on a new one: Artificial intelligence... View Source

Ursa’s classic spherical profile and centered legends dress up any Topre keyboard. Your Happy Hacking Keyboard can finally get fresh caps. While regular keyboards have an embarrassment of keycap options, Topre boards like the HHKB or Realforce R3 don't. They've more or less been relegated to OEM-profile PBT keycaps with dye-sublimated legends, in light grey, charcoal, white, or (recently) a few mo... View Source

Apple Inc. has been on a tear in the stock market over the past few months, as iPhone optimism powers the shares to record highs. Investors will get a sense of whether that enthusiasm was warranted when it reports earnings after the bell Thursday... View Source

When you buy the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, you aren’t just getting a pair of smart glasses: you’re also getting Meta’s Neural Band, a small wristband that you use to control what’s on the glasses’ display. It’s an essential part of the product. But, if by some unfortunate circumstance, you need to buy a replacement for the wristband, it’s been unclear how you would do that. The wristband isn’t li... View Source

Elon Musk’s Starlink struck its first UK telecom deal to bring satellite connectivity directly to customers’ phones... View Source

Beijing pledged to work with Washington to resolve the fate of TikTok’s US business, stopping short of saying it’s agreed to a deal touted by President Donald Trump to spin off ByteDance Ltd.’s crown jewel... View Source

Garmin Ltd. plans to build its first production base in Southeast Asia with a factory in Thailand that will manufacture smartwatches and GPS navigational devices... View Source

Bitcoin continued to lose ground after hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dampened expectations for another interest-rate cut this year... View Source

A former director at a US military contractor that sells computer vulnerabilities pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing and reselling $35 million in trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker whose clients include the Russian government... View Source

The international arm of Ant Group Co., the online finance company co-founded by Jack Ma, is making inroads in Latin America through a strategic investment in embedded lending firm R2... View Source

US President Donald Trump said he didn’t discuss approving sales of Nvidia Corp.’s Blackwell chips to China with his counterpart Xi Jinping, dampening speculation that Washington will allow exports of the powerful AI accelerators to the world’s largest semiconductor market... View Source

Shares of semiconductor linchpin Lasertec Corp. surged 21% after Nvidia Corp. hit a $5 trillion market capitalization that’s spurring hopes for more spending on bleeding-edge chipmaking to develop AI... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reports on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GTC conference in Washington... View Source

Honda Motor Co. is cutting or suspending production at some of its North American plants due to a shortage of critical semiconductors that threatens to spread throughout the industry’s automotive supply chain... View Source

Elon Musk’s lawyer pledged to continue the billionaire’s legal crusade against OpenAI as he slammed the attorneys general of California and Delaware for not blocking the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring as a for-profit company... View Source

Alphabet Inc. sales topped quarterly Wall Street estimates, fueled by a surge in demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence services. Shares rose as much as 7.5% in extended trading... View Source

Rode’s range of tiny, portable microphones are a mainstay for creators looking for crisp audio on their phone videos. The company knows that those using digital cameras probably want that same blend of portability and performance for their own footage. That’s why it’s launching the new Wireless Micro Camera Kit, which outputs audio over USB-C or via a 3.5mm line-in. As with the Wireless Micro, the... View Source

Universal Music Group NV signed an agreement with artificial intelligence-powered music startup Udio to settle a copyright lawsuit and collaborate on a new commercial music creation and streaming service... View Source

Chey Tae-won, the billionaire chairman of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, projected strong demand for artificial intelligence over the next few years, joining other tech leaders in playing down fears about a spending bubble... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Washington D.C. was a sweeping celebration of American innovation and a call to action for America to lead the AI revolution. NVIDIA at the epicenter of this next Apollo moment. The 90-minute talk blended technical deep dives, major announcements, and forward-looking visions for AI, quantum ... Read more... View Source

The largest technology companies are betting on an AI future powered by gigantic complexes of data centers filled with humming servers... View Source

It hasn't been a good year for Xbox so far. Microsoft has released its earnings report for the quarter ending on September 30, and it has revealed that its revenue from the Xbox hardware fell by 30 percent year-over-year. Take note that the revenue decline doesn't reflect any dip in sales caused by the console's $20-to-$70 price hike, since that took effect on October 3. Similarly,... View Source

MercadoLibre Inc.’s third quarter net income missed analysts’ estimates despite a jump in revenue from the company’s expansion of its free shipping policies in Brazil and the ongoing growth of its credit card offerings... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor arm reported a stronger-than-expected rise in profit, suggesting global AI demand is helping drive a recovery at the Korean company’s most important business... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering as soon as next year that could give the company a market capitalization of $1 trillion, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing unidentified sources... View Source

Tech products that are packaged and ready for sale aren't launching in the US as planned right now, thanks to the government shutdown. Earlier this month, Leica delayed its M EV1 camera due to holdups on approval from the partially shuttered Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The WiiM Sound audiophile speaker, currently shipping in international markets, has been delayed in the US for the sa... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is still suffering from a computing capacity crunch despite massive spending on data centers, a scenario that weighed on the company’s closely watched Azure cloud unit... View Source

When OpenAI launched its TikTok-like Sora app, a key feature was "Cameo" that allows people to add any likeness to videos they generate. Now the maker of Cameo, an app that allows you to buy short videos from celebrities, has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of violating its trademark by using the same name, Reuters reported. It claims that OpenAI's use of "Cameo" is likely... View Source

Rode’s Wireless Micro Camera Kit includes a charging case to extend the battery life of its receivers and mics. | Image: Rode Last November, Rode launched its Wireless Micro microphone system that paired two tiny lavalier mics with a small receiver that connected to your phone’s charging port. Rode later gave that product a free upgrade, sending out another receiver that let the mics connect to d... View Source

EBay Inc. gave a profit forecast for the fourth quarter that missed the average analyst estimate, stoking investor concerns about narrowing margins heading into the holiday shopping season... View Source

Uber's robotaxi service with EV maker Lucid and self-driving car company Nuro is officially coming to the Bay Area in 2026. The ride-hailing service previously announced plans to deploy at least 20,000 self-driving Lucid cars powered by Nuro's driving software in July. The partnership between the companies also included investment from Uber in both Nuro and Lucid.Uber's final robota... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to dump even more AI-generated posts into your social feeds. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will “add yet another huge corpus of content” to its recommendations system as AI “makes it easier to create and remix” work that gets shared online. “Social media has gone through two eras so far,” Zuckerberg said. “First was when... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia’s impact on the market as the chipmaker becomes the first $5 trillion firm off the back of its GTC event. Plus, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta are all set to report results after the closing bell today. And, AI startup Character.AI will ban kids from having conversations with chatbots on its platform. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chalk this one up under "The most clever (alleged) legal sidesteps this side of Tony Soprano." On Wednesday, The Guardian published a report about a so-called "winking mechanism" regarding Israeli cloud computing contracts with Amazon and Google. The stipulation from 2021's Project Nimbus is said to require the US companies to send coded messages to Israel. According to th... View Source

At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, including satire. Google, meanwhile, held firm in its stance, saying that evaluating - and often rejecting - government content requests is bus... View Source

Harvey develops generative AI products aimed at automating legal work... View Source

Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users. Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest milestone for the company's text-based app during Meta's third-quarter earnings call. The company previously reported in August that Threads had reached more than 400 million monthly users.Zuckerberg, who has mused that Threads could become Meta's next billion-person app, said that it was "on... View Source

Hurricane Melissa’s powerful winds and drenching rains devastated Jamaica. But is its wrath a sign that we need a new designation for monster storms?... View Source

Kat Abughazaleh, who has announced a campaign for Illinois' 9th Congressional District, carries yard signs into her campaign office Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Palestinian American and Democratic candidate for Congress in the 9th District of Illinois, has been indicted by the Department of Justice on charges connected to protests outside an ICE facility. The indictment alleges that Abughazaleh... View Source

ServiceNow Inc. gave an outlook for strong revenue growth and said AI is helping the company reduce costs... View Source

It looks like a hundred thousand people fell for a fake NVIDIA livestream featuring an AI-generated version of CEO Jensen Huang, as reported by PC Gamer. Perhaps the scariest part is that the fake stream ran at the same time as an actual NVIDIA event and dwarfed the live viewership numbers. The actual keynote speech of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) garnered around 20,000 live views... View Source

Japan declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus climate probe failed to respond to calls from mission control... View Source

Xbox sales have been tanking for a while now — and the story hasn’t gotten any brighter. Microsoft just released its Q1 2026 earnings and Xbox hardware revenue was down 29 percent year-over-year. Last quarter, it was down 22 percent. Down 29 percent in the first two quarters of 2025, down 42 percent in Q4 of 2024… You get the picture.  As tariffs and inflation take their toll, Microsoft... View Source

After months of back-and-forth with regulators and stakeholders, OpenAI said it has completed the process of restructuring as a more traditional, for-profit company – a key step in its bid to secure billions more in capital to build cutting-edge artificial intelligence products... View Source

Sometimes, game development is a labor of love. Other times, it's an agonizing experience akin to pulling teeth. More than a decade after first announcing the project, Lunar Software and Raw Fury appear to be in the home stretch with their project Routine. The sci-fi horror game has been given a December 4, 2025 release date. For their sakes, I hope it comes to pass.The duo first announced Ro... View Source

A popular ski resort town in Colorado is adopting a new AI Smart City Solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help it better detect wildfires, as well as update a range of other city services. Vail is expanding its firefighting toolbox as hotter, more arid weather with climate change raises wildfire risk in the western US. Colorado has suffered 11 of the 20 largest fires in state history... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. said it expects total expenses to significantly increase in 2026, and will continue to invest at historic levels in artificial intelligence... View Source

General Motors announced that it will cut more than 1,700 manufacturing jobs in reaction to changes in the electric vehicle market. "In response to slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment, General Motors is realigning EV capacity," the company said in a statement reported by CNBC. "Despite these changes, GM remains committed to our US manufacturing footpr... View Source

Researchers claim flashes of light seen in sky surveys could have been UFOs drawn to Earth by nuclear tests, but more mundane explanations should be explored first... View Source

AOL will soon have a new owner. Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that has bought up a range of other digital businesses like Evernote, MeetUp, WeTransfer, and soon Vimeo, announced plans to purchase AOL from Yahoo after securing a $2.8 billion debt financing package. Over the past couple of decades, AOL has been passed from company to company, merging with Time Warner in 2001 before ge... View Source

Fiserv Inc.’s massive earnings shortfall baffled analysts even as it dealt a crushing blow to the company’s shares... View Source

YouTube is rolling out some updates aimed at making visuals look better on its TV apps, including automatic AI video upscaling. To begin with, YouTube plans to upscale videos that were uploaded in under 1080p to an HD resolution. It aims to support 4K upscaling in the future.The platform will still retain the original files and video resolution options. Creators can opt-out of the AI upscaling fea... View Source

Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old debate about the function of these structures... View Source

OpenAI has cleared the path for raising far more capital, though major questions remain about its corporate restructuring. But first…... View Source

A decade ago, when smart speakers with built-in voice assistants were the hot new thing, many imagined they'd quickly evolve into highly intelligent companions. (Think C-3PO or Star Trek's Data living inside a speaker.) That road has been much longer than expected, as virtual helpers like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant seemed to sit in neutral for years. But now that generative AI is h... View Source

Kratos Defense will utilize the Hermeus high-speed Quarterhorse aircraft as part of its support work for the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency’s Multi-Service Advanced Capabilities Hypersonic Testbed (MACH-TB) program. The rapid expansion of the Kratos Defense hypersonic test team follows the award of a $1.45 billion contract in January 2025 to support the MACH-TB ... Read more... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists mapped the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b in three dimensions, uncovering a blistering hotspot where water molecules are torn apart... View Source

Almost immediately in The Outer Worlds 2, the player receives news of a corporate shake-up: Auntie Cleo and Spacer's Choice, two of the in-game retail brands, have merged to form Auntie's Choice. Less a chain of stores and more a feudal power, Auntie's Choice manages its employees - serfs, really - with the cruelty of the balance sheet, its military business far more important than the faux-cheery... View Source

In late 2024, OpenAI, still recovering from the aftershock of the brief, messy ousting of Sam Altman, initiated what it hoped would be a relatively straightforward process of converting to a more traditional for-profit business that would be more appealing to investors. Then came the pushback... View Source

Character.AI will no longer permit teenagers to interact with its chatbots, as AI companies face increasing pressure to better safeguard younger users from harm. In a statement, the company confirmed that it is removing the ability for users under 18 to engage in any open-ended chats with AI on its platform, which refers to back-and-forth conversations between a user and a chatbot. The changes com... View Source

Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed his nation conducted a successful flight of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here’s how that missile might work... View Source

Abxylute’s M4 Snap-On phone controller trades clamps for magnets. | Image: Abxylute Abxylute, a company known for its Android-based handhelds, has announced a new compact mobile controller for smartphones. Unlike controllers from companies like Backbone and 8BitDo that use an expanding mechanism to clamp onto phones, Abxylute’s smaller and lighter M4 Snap-On controller uses a Q-shaped mount to mag... View Source

Google’s YouTube will use artificial intelligence to improve the visual clarity of many low-resolution videos on its platform when viewed on TV screens... View Source

Sony just announced the PS Plus Monthly games for November and there are some standouts. All of these titles will be available to download on November 4 until December 1. First up, there's the cat sim Stray. We praised the third-person cyberpunk adventure in our initial review, in which we lauded the game's unique mechanics and puzzles. After all, you play as a cat in a dystopian and fut... View Source

The award-winning anthology of animated Star Wars shorts is back with a third batch crafted by Japanese studios. Here's our take on all of them... View Source

Finally cut down on that rat’s nest of cables. | Image: The Verge The thing about carrying multiple devices is you usually end up hauling a nest of cables along with them. Now imagine trimming your kit down to a single, versatile cord that can provide power to your smartphone and laptop simultaneously. That’s where Anker’s 140W 2-in-1 USB-C to USB-C Cable comes in, and right now you can pick it up... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has suffered an outage in its Azure cloud service that has disrupted its own products and the operations of several companies, including Alaska Airlines... View Source

The 2025 Fall Classic is tied up again after Game 4 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays saw Toronto dominate to win 6-2. The World Series continues with one more game in Los Angeles tonight — Wednesday, Oct. 29 — at 8PM ET/5PM PT. The World Series odds favor the Dodgers ahead of tonight's game. Every 2025 MLB World Series game will air on Fox and Fox Deportes.  Of c... View Source

How the "Supergirl" TV series shaped DC's modern age of heroes... View Source

You’re going to start seeing more warnings in Chrome when accessing insecure sites. Starting next October, Chrome will soon warn users when they visit a public website without an encrypted HTTPS connection. Chrome already issues a “Your connection is not private” message when you visit pages that have an HTTPS connection that’s misconfigured. But this will expand the warnings to websites tha... View Source

AI companies offer rewards for reported vulnerabilities... View Source

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is experiencing an outage that appears to have hit both Microsoft 365 and Xbox. Both services show spikes in outage reports on DownDetector around 12PM ET, and the Azure status page indicates Microsoft is dealing with issues with “Azure Portal access.”In the most recent Azure status update as of writing, Microsoft says that “starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we b... View Source

Two new climate reports warn Earth's vital signs are flashing red after the hottest year in 125,000 years, but say recovery is still possible with swift action... View Source

A screenshot from Halo: Campaign Evolved. Halo coming to PlayStation is one of those events that, five years ago, would have been the tell that "something is not right here" in a show about time travel or alternate universes. Looking at the state of Xbox with its layoffs, game cancellations, price hikes, studio closures, and a soft release schedule light on attention-grabbing titles, it certainly... View Source

As temperatures increase, trains and subways are becoming unendurable. Potential solutions include everything from cooling tunnels with water to painting rolling stock—but there’s no magic fix... View Source

BCE Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mirko Bibic said sensitive Canadian data must stay within the country, as geopolitical tensions rise... View Source

Magic Leap is once again trying to make a name for itself in augmented reality. The company revealed an Android XR smart glasses prototype and it extended an existing partnership with Google. It said it built the glasses "as a reference design for the Android XR ecosystem."They look similar to other modern smart glasses, with thick frames to house all of the electronics and what appears to be a ca... View Source

Elon Musk posted that Tesla autonomous driving might spread faster than any technology ever. In interpret that this would mean: * going to no supervised driving monitor in December of 2025 in Austin then they will spread in months to all cars. * Q2 2026 they will have about ten cities without safety drivers or ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Oct. 29), sending them up from Florida's Space Coast... View Source

Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage just one week after issues with AWS took out swaths of the internet. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and even Minecraft. Microsoft confirmed Azure Portal issues on the service’s status page, adding that the outage started around 12PM ET: Startin... View Source

Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup, is releasing a new version of its popular AI assistant that’s designed to carry out more complicated software development tasks from start to finish, rivaling products from OpenAI and Anthropic... View Source

Amazon Games is winding down support for New World: Aeternum amid layoffs in the division and even deeper job cuts across its parent company. The game debuted on PC in 2021 and it landed on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S just over a year ago."After four years of steady content updates and a major new console release, we've reached a point where it is no longer sustainable to continue supporting... View Source

Nvidia CFO clarified $500 billion in datacenter revenue at analyst dinner yesterday. 30% already shipped as of end-October. Morgan Stanley had modeled ~$407B cumulative Blackwell + Rubin for 2025-26 vs $500B, implying ~$93B upside. The Timing is unclear but you’ll start seeing larger magnitude beats (on revenue and income). This will be about 12 million ... Read more... View Source

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest pass to the sun on Oct. 30, and various spacecraft will be watching, seeking clues about the icy wanderer's chemistry and composition... View Source

The high-end OLED TV is 41 percent off. | Image: LG If you want one of the best home theater experiences LG can provide, the 65-inch LG G5 OLED is down to a new record low price. Regularly $3,399.99, you can buy the TV for around $1,996.99 at Amazon and directly from LG. Other configurations are also on sale, with the 77-inch going for around $3,456.99 (about $1,000 off) at Amazon and LG. If you p... View Source

Caterpillar Inc., the company synonymous with yellow bulldozers and mining trucks, is getting a boost from another type of machinery... View Source

Grammarly is no more, at least with regards to its name. The AI-powered writing assistance tool founded in 2009 has been absorbed into a new software platform called Superhuman. It follows Grammarly’s acquisition of Superhuman Mail earlier this year, with the former taking the somewhat unusual step of adopting its newly obtained company’s name, rather than the other way around. Superhuman unites G... View Source

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Separate brain processes cope with moment-to-moment versus big-picture experiences, which helps explain how parenting both increases and decreases aspects of well-being... View Source

Tesla’s Cybercab isn’t scheduled to go into production until 2026, but when it does, it may end up stuck with a vestige of the automotive past: a steering wheel. To be sure, we still use steering wheels. But the Tesla Cybercab was meant to be the first vehicle of the new future, and there’s nothing futuristic about steering wheels. Robyn Denholm, chair of Tesla’s board of directors, let slip in an... View Source

The billionaire cable-TV mogul John Malone is stepping down as chair of his media and telecoms empire, the Financial Times reported, marking an end to a decades-long career as an industry pioneer and master architect of some of the most significant media and cable deals of his time... View Source

Nintendo is teaming up with Laced Records on a couple of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vinyl soundtrack releases, which is pretty darned cool. There's even a massive 8-LP box set that ships with some franchise-friendly bells and whistles. Let's start with that box set. It's available in limited-edition colored vinyl or standard black vinyl. At eight vinyl records, it proba... View Source

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together... View Source

Google introduced support for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro in 2021. But if you’ve been struggling to get your Pixel phone to precisely locate one of the few Android-compatible trackers that support UWB, it’s because that feature is only enabled on the Pro models of the Pixel 8 and above, Google confirmed to Android Authority. Google didn’t explain why UWB precise... View Source

WB Electronics SA is considering selling shares on the Warsaw bourse, as the largest drone producer by sales in the European Union prepares to scale up investments under the bloc’s new defense program... View Source

I vividly remember testing the first Echo Studio. Even though that was nearly six years ago, I can clearly recall my surprise that Amazon had finally built a smart speaker that actually sounded good. It certainly helped that Amazon created a device that appropriately broadcasted spatial audio, and one that offered a boost to movies in the living room (if you bought a pair of them).  I was sim... View Source

Nvidia has become the world’s first $5 trillion company. Shares soared by up to 5 percent to over $211 around 9:30AM ET on Wednesday morning, according to Bloomberg, marking the latest milestone for a company that only just hit the $4 trillion mark in July. Nvidia shares have been on the rise as the company continues to make waves in AI. Apple currently sits behind Nvidia with a $4 trillion market... View Source

Review: The $100 Echo Dot Max outshines the pricier Echo Studio... View Source

Do you have one streaming service too many? While you're far from alone in that, sometimes it's worth saying goodbye to one and saving some cash. Take Paramount+, which starts at $8 per month for its ad-supported Essential plan. Then there's its ad-free Premium plan, coming in at $13 a month.  If you're not really using it, or just can't justify the cost, canceling yo... View Source

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset... View Source

Google smart home users in the US can now get an early taste of the new Gemini for Home assistant, which began rolling out in early access on Tuesday. It’s slated to replace the current Google Assistant on Nest devices, marking one of the most significant updates yet to Google’s smart home ecosystem. It runs on the Gemini LLM, allowing it to complete more complex tasks and offer a more conversatio... View Source

Credit traders are buying protection against Oracle Corp. defaulting on its debt, a trend that Morgan Stanley sees continuing in the near term as the tech giant pours billions into artificial intelligence... View Source

The Nothing Phone universe continues to expand. On Wednesday, the company launched the fourth model in the Phone 3 lineup: the Nothing Phone 3a Lite. (It joins the Phone 3, Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro.) The cheapest model in the series, the Phone 3a Lite pairs the brand's distinct styling with solid all-around specs for an entry-level handset. However, with the company saying its non-flagship d... View Source

Experiments suggests H9N2 has adapted to human cells, but cases of person-to-person transmission haven’t been reported yet... View Source

A massive coronal mass ejection erupted from the sun's far side late on Oct. 21, 2025 and was captured by a NOAA coronagraph... View Source

Smart Split uses AI to edit down a longer video into smaller shorter clips with captions. | Image: TikTok TikTok announced three new features at its US Creator Summit yesterday. They include an update to revenue sharing for creators that offer subscriptions plus tools that can help with both the early planning stages of a video, and the process of editing longer clips into multiple shorter ones. S... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Character.AI will ban kids from having conversations with chatbots on its platform following growing pressure from lawmakers and a raft of lawsuits alleging the company’s so-called characters are responsible for harms to children... View Source

US lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced a bill called the "GUARD Act," which is meant to protect minor users from AI chatbots. "In their race to the bottom, AI companies are pushing treacherous chatbots at kids and looking away when their products cause sexual abuse, or coerce them into self-harm or suicide," said the bill's co-sponsor, Senator Richard Bl... View Source

The iPad Mini is reportedly the next device to get an OLED upgrade. Apple is planning to incorporate OLED displays across more of its devices, including the MacBook Air, iPad Mini, and iPad Air, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company added an OLED display to the iPad Pro last year and the upgraded M5 model released this month, offering improved brightness, better contrast,... View Source

Blank-check deal veteran Harry You’s latest special purpose acquisition company is looking to merge with a business that operates portable health-care stations... View Source

YouTube will enforce new rules that are supposed to strengthen the enforcement of its guidelines around online gambling and graphic video game content starting on November 17. One of the biggest changes it's implementing is age-restricting gaming videos featuring realistic human characters in scenes depicting torture or mass violence against non-combatants.  The streaming website says it... View Source

Uber has picked the first city for the launch of its new robotaxi service with Lucid and Nuro. No surprise, it’s San Francisco. The companies have already begun on-road testing after the delivery of their first vehicle, a Lucid Gravity SUV modified with Nuro’s self-driving software. But they will still need to obtain the driverless operational permits from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles,... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. is preparing to offer driverless rides on vehicles developed by Lucid Group Inc. and Nuro Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time next year, thrusting the company into direct competition with Waymo’s robotaxi service... View Source

Apple is planning to introduce OLED displays to its iPad Air, iPad mini and MacBook Air devices, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. The technology offers deeper blacks and better contrast than the LCDs currently used on those devices, which would make them better for things like content creation and entertainment. However, OLED is also more expensive, so it could result in higher prices on fut... View Source

Space agencies around the world are planning moon missions that will depend on water ice for resources, but much remains unknown about its availability of water ice on the lunar surface... View Source

Cameo is requesting a court order to block OpenAI from using the term “cameo.” | Image by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Cameo is suing OpenAI over Sora 2’s “cameo” feature, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using the name to compete directly with its personalized celebrity video service. The trademark infringement lawsuit filed in a California federal court on Tuesday alleges that OpenAI’s u... View Source

Online marketplace Etsy Inc. will elevate Chief Growth Officer Kruti Patel Goyal to the CEO job, entrusting the company veteran with navigating the artificial intelligence era... View Source

Engadget has been reviewing the latest devices for over two decades, adding well over 100 in-depth product tests to our tally every year. For 2025, we have compiled a list of the best gear we reviewed this year based on the highest review scores in each category. From Pixel to iPad, and Switch 2 to Sony WH-1000XM6, our reviews team has spent thousands of hours testing new products this year to dis... View Source

TikTok’s U.S. spin-off could reshape its algorithm and the way culture is curated online... View Source

The used-car industry isn’t exactly on firm footing, going by recent events. A major lender went bust just before a big parts supplier followed suit. Loan delinquencies have skyrocketed, car prices remain high and the lower-end consumer is showing signs of buckling... View Source

I really like Surfshark VPN. Like I said in my full Surfshark review, it's the fastest VPN on the market, with download speeds that beat all the other best VPNs. It also gives you universal split tunneling, multi-hop with customizable endpoints and unlimited simultaneous connections. Surfshark does have its flaws, though. The apps hang up on error messages a bit too often and features sometim... View Source

It's been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld "Xbox" that can't be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem with the white Xbox Ally or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. (Asus tells me it needs more time to test.) But if you want... View Source

Viola Credit, an asset manager specializing in alternative credit, has raised a $2 billion fund to lend to financial technology startups... View Source

Designed by a German incel, the FGC-9 was created in a distinctly American spirit... View Source

Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station for the first time ever today (Oct. 28), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Actis GP LLP is eyeing a possible investment in data centers in Saudi Arabia, a sector that’s assuming growing importance in the oil-rich kingdom’s economic diversification plans... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is on track to become the first $5 trillion company as Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s spree of deals around the world propels the artificial intelligence trade to new heights... View Source

Keen to bolster a domestic nuclear industry that’s built just three reactors this century, the Trump administration is opting to use a government-investment strategy it’s applied to the mining, steel and semiconductor industries... View Source

Japan’s NEC Corp. said it’s buying CSG Systems International Inc., a US supplier of customer care and billing services for cable and phone companies, for around $2.9 billion in a move to shore up its operations in the US... View Source

A brighter earnings outlook for artificial-intelligence companies is allaying concerns that the AI-led global equity rally is in a bubble territory after hitting records... View Source

New Mexico City International Airport was canceled when only half built, and has since been flooded and restored into wetlands... View Source

Nvidia Corp.’s shares extended their dramatic ascent to a record after US President Donald Trump said he’ll discuss the chipmaker’s Blackwell artificial intelligence processors with Chinese leader Xi Jinping... View Source

Chinese carmakers posted their best month ever in Europe, roaring past previous highs in September on surging demand for battery-powered and hybrid-electric models... View Source

A secretive American startup has emerged with aspirations to challenge two titans of the semiconductor industry: ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... View Source

It’s been nearly three years since Withings first showed off U-Scan to a bemused world, and now it’s finally on sale. U-Scan is the company’s at-home urinalysis gizmo which sits in your toilet bowl and tests your first splash of the day. The device runs a tiny sample through a microfluidic to test, depending on what cartridge you use, either your nutritional or kidney health. These results are the... View Source

Royal Philips NV received a letter from the US Food and Drug Administration warning that three manufacturing sites don’t meet standards, a blow to efforts to draw a line under high-profile issues with some of its products... View Source

California-based AI and robotics company 1X is now accepting pre-orders for its humanoid robot NEO, which was designed to automate everyday chores and to offer personalized assistance. Users will be able to control NEO and have it accomplish tasks around the house with the click of a button or a verbal command. It will come with the ability to do basic tasks autonomously when it starts shipping ne... View Source

The U-Scan can be left installed in your toilet for up to three months between charges. | Image: Withings Withings first announced its U-Scan, a non-invasive device you install in your toilet to track various health metrics, at CES 2023 two years ago. Unlike Kohler’s Dekoda, which uses a camera to analyze your poop, the U-Scan detects and samples your urine, tests it using replaceable cartridges,... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is taking a $1 billion equity stake in Nokia Oyj and plans to supply the telecom company with artificial-intelligence powered computers for wireless networks. Nokia shares jumped the most in more than a decade... View Source

Advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA agreed to buy Singapore’s Hepmil Media Group to bolster its social-media expertise in Southeast Asia’s rapidly growing online market... View Source

Cheaper artificial intelligence tools from China threaten to trigger a sudden sell-off in US tech giants betting on generative AI, according to the investment chief at one of Australia’s largest pension funds... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is setting aside another $5 billion for investment in South Korean data centers, sharply ramping up the spending it’s already devoting toward building AI infrastructure in the country... View Source

Nvidia Corp. boss Jensen Huang plans to unveil new contracts to supply AI chips to major South Korean companies, including Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Motor Group, when he visits the country this week to carve out new opportunities for his business... View Source

Tareq Amin, the head of Saudi Arabia’s artificial intelligence startup Humain, said he is confident the US will clear the sale of advanced chips to the kingdom after his firm provided detailed guarantees to American officials... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. reported a 62% jump in profit and said customers have already secured its entire memory chip lineup for next year, illustrating how a global AI infrastructure buildout is ratcheting up sector-wide demand... View Source

China is on track to lead the world in science — at least by one revealing measure... View Source

The Bot Company, a startup working on robots that can do chores for people, is set to raise $250 million in a funding round that will value the company at more than $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

When the first big wave of handheld PCs hit the market two to three years ago, they were designed as more travel-friendly and convenient alternatives to traditional gaming rigs. That meant reduced performance in exchange for increased portability. However, there will always be enthusiasts who want more: increased horsepower, better battery life and all sorts of extra features. Out of all the handh... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that maintaining the US edge in artificial intelligence will require a steady approach that ensures China remains hooked on American technology... View Source

Adobe Max kicked off today with a slew of announcements — mostly in the world of AI. But the company also used its creative conference to share that Adobe Premiere's video editing tools are being integrated into YouTube Shorts.  It's no secret that YouTube has been taking every step it can to make Shorts compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels. Now, YouTube creators will be able to... View Source

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky completed a 6 hour and 54 minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025... View Source

Nvidia Corp. unveiled a new system to connect quantum computers with the company’s artificial intelligence chips, seizing on an emerging technology that holds the promise of significantly faster processing to drive advances in medicine and materials science... View Source

If you’re a person who enjoys the social side of online gaming, this product launch is not for you. Board was designed by entrepreneur Brynn Putnam, alongside former World of Warcraft exec Seth Sivac, as a way to make the idea of "screen time" a more immersive in-person experience. "Families want to connect, but they’re competing with incredibly powerful technologies," Putnam t... View Source

A new piece of legislation could require AI companies to verify the ages of everyone who uses their chatbots. Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the GUARD Act on Tuesday, which would also ban everyone under 18 from accessing AI chatbots, as reported earlier by NBC News.  The bill comes just weeks after safety advocates and parents attended a Senate hearing to call at... View Source

In a potentially far-reaching shift, the Federal Reserve is weighing whether to redraw the perimeter of the US financial system. A proposal under consideration would grant fintech giants like Circle Internet Group Inc. and Stripe Inc. a form of direct access to the central bank’s core payment infrastructure — a privilege historically reserved for banks... View Source

GOG kicked off its annual Autumn Sale today with some discounts on excellent PC games that can carry you through the end of 2025. The sale runs through November 4, and notably also includes discounts on several older games maintained as part of the GOG Preservation Program. The Autumn Sale includes sales on newer games like Cyberpunk 2077, which normally costs $60 but is available during the sale... View Source

The mission had previously targeted a launch at the end of 2025... View Source

YouTube is updating its policy to age-restrict more content containing video game scenes with “graphic violence,” the company announced on Tuesday. The update will go into effect on November 17th and will prevent accounts under 18 and signed-out users from watching videos with games focused on showing “realistic human characters” involved in scenes of “mass violence against non-combatants” or tort... View Source

BASF SE is bringing forward parts of its share buyback program to bolster its stock price as the chemicals industry struggles with trade barriers and subdued demand from the car industry... View Source

The BBC has today announced Doctor Who will return for a Christmas Special in 2026, with news of the next series to be revealed “in due course.” The broadcaster says the special will be written by current executive producer Russell T. Davies, putting to rest more than a year’s worth of doubt. For the unaware, Doctor Who has been a mainstay in the BBC schedules since its 2005 revival, but the BBC f... View Source

The idea that real estate builds wealth isn’t a surprise to anyone. But what many people don’t realize is just how powerful it can be as part of a retirement plan. While traditional investments like stocks, bonds, and 401(k)s play their part, real estate offers something unique — steady income, tangible value, and the ability ... Read more... View Source

Hasselblad is still the camera partner on Oppo’s phones. Oppo has announced the international launch of its Find X9 and Find X9 Pro flagships, and both phones are going on sale in the UK and Europe. Best of all, unlike some other Chinese phones, there’s been no reduction in battery capacity for the global release, making these two of the longest lasting phones in the European market. The Find X9’s... View Source

Nvidia will make a $1 billion equity investment in Nokia Oyj as they work to integrate Nvidia technology into Nokia's network products. Nokia Chief Executive Officer Justin Hotard and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speak to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow about the partnership. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two directors from MultiVersus are striking out on their own, forming a new, independent game studio. The platform brawler's production director, Justin Fischer, and technical director, Brock Feldman, have joined forces to launch a new endeavor called Airlock Games. Rather than continuing to follow the AAA route, the first project from Airlock is a sci-fi sim management horror game called Wha... View Source

Tesla will put a steering wheel and pedals in the Cybercab if that’s what regulators require, according to Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm. “If we have to have a steering wheel, it can have a steering wheel and pedals,” Robyn Denholm told Bloomberg. This would likely be a sub-$30,000 car. There are about 5 months for ... Read more... View Source

The wireless earbuds feature an over-the-ear hook style for a more secure fit. | Image: The Verge If you spend most of your time commuting, walking around, or exercising, the Nothing Ear Open earbuds are worth considering. These open-ear-style earbuds rest securely in your outer ear rather than inside of your ear canals, allowing you to more easily hear what’s going on around you at all times. Rig... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing major changes to its MacBook Air, iPad mini and iPad Air lines, with a plan to give the popular devices higher-end displays... View Source

It keeps happening. HBO Max just raised prices again, around 16 months after the last price increase. If your debit card is feeling the pain, or if you're just not excited about that weird Harry Potter remake nobody asked for, you may decide to take a break from the perpetually renamed platform. Here's everything you need to know about canceling your HBO Max subscription, so you can stre... View Source

Nvidia today announced it is partnering with Uber to help build the world’s largest Level 4 autonomous fleet, targeting 100,000 Robotaxis starting in 2027. Nvidia will work with Uber to scale the world’s largest level 4-ready mobility network, using the company’s next-generation robotaxi and autonomous delivery fleets, the new Nvidia Drive AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous ... Read more... View Source

Lucid says it will eventually sell “privately owned” autonomous vehicles with the help of Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technology. The company is the latest to declare its intention to sell Level 4 autonomous vehicles to its customers, despite a range of theoretical and logistical challenges standing in the way. Lucid’s autonomous vehicles — which do not exist at the moment — will be powered b... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss OpenAI’s agreement to give Microsoft a 27% stake in the startup as part of a restructuring plan that clears the path for the ChatGPT maker to become a for-profit business. Plus, the chair of Tesla’s board of directors talks about efforts to convince investors to approve the proposed $1 trillion compensation package for Elon Musk. And, Nvidia plans to... View Source

With digital games outselling physical ones by embarrassing margins, it's easy to conclude that the latter is done for. But sometimes, approaching extinction leads to pockets of nostalgic enthusiasm. (Think the modest resurgence that point-and-shoot cameras are currently enjoying.) That leaves room for Limited Run Games, which specializes in physical copies. The company's latest showcase... View Source

The US government and the owners of Westinghouse, Brookfield Asset Management and Cameco, have struck an $80 billion deal to build a fleet of nuclear reactors, using funding from a trade agreement with Japan. They had formed a new partnership to provide the reactor technology for the plants, which would help reach the US goal ... Read more... View Source

These images of Hurricane Melissa show the Category 5 storm in all its power... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator. When it comes to the news cycle, only the actual destruction of the White House could have overshadowed the slate of dubious pardons that President Donald Trump issued last week, including former Rep. George Santos, the compulsive fabulist who had been expelled from Congress for making false statements and went to prison for numerous counts of fraud, and Changpeng Z... View Source

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about his relationship with President Donald Trump. Huang says Trump has to do what's right for America when it comes to trade. Huang speaks to Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA has entered a partnership with Uber to equip more of the rideshare company's vehicles with its autonomous driving infrastructure. The deal centers on NVIDIA's Drive AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous vehicle development platform, a computer and sensor system that can make any vehicle capable of level 4 self-driving, as well as its Drive software. According to the press release, this partn... View Source

A haunting grin appeared on the sun as bright active regions and dark coronal holes combined to create a jack-o'-lantern face just in time for Halloween... View Source

This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a national security risk. Officially, it's a way to close loopholes and protect US networks from backdoors in Chinese telecom gear. But it could also give the Trump adm... View Source

One day after NextEra Energy Inc. revealed it would reopen a nuclear plant in Iowa to feed Google data centers, the energy developer said it’s now planning for more power generation in the area for the AI boom... View Source

Vampire Survivors just dropped a free update that includes an expansion based on the indie sensation Balatro. The expansion is called Ante Chamber and includes a new stage, new characters and a new power ups that makes the top-down rogue shooter feel more like, well, Balatro. First up, the titular Ante Chamber stage is filled with playing cards, calling to mind the source material. The new charact... View Source

Apple’s 4K streaming device rarely goes on sale, but right now it’s available for its lowest price to date at Costco.com. Now through October 31st, Costco members can buy the third-gen Apple TV 4K online with an expanded 128GB of storage for just $119.99 ($30 off). If you’re not already a member, you can still take advantage of the deal if you sign up for an annual subscription, which starts at $6... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble, saying the company’s latest chips are on track to generate half a trillion dollars in revenue during the coming quarters... View Source

Don't Nod has a long history of making memorable narrative games, and it looks like the studio's next project will come from Netflix programming. In the company's half-year financial report, Don't Nod noted that it has signed "a development agreement with Netflix for the creation of a new narrative video game based on a major IP." Its Montreal studio is helming the pr... View Source

NASA's X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet took off on its first-ever flight on Oct. 28, flying from Palmdale, California to its new home at Edwards Air Force Base... View Source

A screenshot from Throne and Liberty, one of Amazon’s MMOs. As part of Amazon’s mass layoffs announced today, the company is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, including halting much of its work on first-party AAA MMOs, according to a memo from Steve Boom, VP of audio, Twitch, and games.  “While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing,... View Source

Lucid Group Inc. is partnering with Nvidia Corp. to develop a fully autonomous vehicle platform, as it races to become one of the first automakers to build a passenger car that requires no supervision from drivers... View Source