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Valve's Steam Machine will cost well over $1,000, and that's without a controller... View Source

The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a wide-ranging glow-up that added an always-on display, gestures like double tap and wrist flick, a wrist-temperature sensor, 5G connectivity, fast charging, a speaker, and an upgraded processor that’ll su... View Source

Baseten, which provides software and computing capacity to companies tapping into lower-cost AI models, just closed a $1.5 billion Series F round at a $13 billion valuation. Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava and Apoorv Agrawal, partner at Altimeter, which co-lead this round, sit down with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Ray-Ban Meta Optics lineup adds a premium fit and a few extra features, but comes with a higher price... View Source

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our galaxy.X-ray: NASA/CXC/UCLA/Z. Zhu et al.; ESA/XMM-Newton; Optical: PanSTARRS; Radio: MeerKAT; Infrared (JWST): NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and P. Edmonds Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers... View Source

The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary, according to new research. This means that dark energy, the mysterious force that dominates the universe, is not weakening but continues to get stronger, considered something of a "cosmological crisis" as it was so against expectations.In 1998, via the study of cosmic expl... View Source

It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of affordable handhelds is over, all largely due to the global RAM shortage, which has had a similarly costly impact on PC gaming, including portable devices like the Steam Deck. This all led to some trepidation a... View Source

The boom in artificial-intelligence spending is actually accelerating, setting up the rally in tech stocks to continue for at least another couple of quarters, according to Tiffany Wade, a senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. She speaks with Ed Ludlow on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Uber's shareholders have filed a lawsuit against the ride-sharing giant... View Source

3 Min Read NASA’s Experimental Fabrication Branch Fuels Aircraft Innovation An engineering technician works in the Experimental Fabrication Branch at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Thursday, March 14, 2023. The branch transforms engineering concepts into hardware for research aircraft and technology development, supporting advances in aviation safety, efficiency... View Source

The Steam Machine is a cool little console that's about as powerful as a PlayStation 5, according to my colleague Sean Hollister's in-depth review. But one area where it lags behind is with its earlier version of AMD FSR upscaler: It's just not as good as it should be. Yes, it can sharpen low-res graphics to make games look higher-res, but the PS5 (and especially the PS5 Pro) render a clearer imag... View Source

Chevron Corp. signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US. The proposed plant, Project Kilby, is expected to start producing power by 2028 and will ramp up to 2.67 gigawatts over time, Houston-based Chevron said in a statement Monday. That’s enough to power more than 530,000 Texas h... View Source

Post-spacetime physics refers to the idea that our familiar 4D spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from deeper structures—whether geometric (fiber bundles, higher-dimensional manifolds), quantum (entanglement, information), or vacuum effects. Eric Weinstein’s Geometric Unity (GU) proposes a 14-dimensional geometric framework (involving a metric bundle over 4D spacetime) from which the Standar... View Source

You certainly can't accuse Remedy Entertainment of playing it safe and sticking to what they know.2019's Control was a third-person shooter, last year's multiplayer spin-off, FBC: Firebreak, was a first-person shooter, and now this year's direct follow-up, Control Resonant, is a melee-focused action game. Despite the genre flip, though, it's undeniably Control — a freaky sci-fi horror mash-up that... View Source

The deal is reportedly non-exclusive, and will span “multiple projects over time.” | Image by The Verge Google's DeepMind AI lab is teaming up with A24 to develop new movie production technologies that aim to help future filmmakers "expand their storytelling possibilities." As part of this new research and development collaboration, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is investing "around... View Source

Technology stocks will extend their rally for at least another couple of quarters as artificial intelligence infrastructure spending accelerates beyond the pace of the past two years, Columbia Threadneedle Investments’ Tiffany Wade said... View Source

A24 is taking $75 million in Google money to help build AI tools for movie production... View Source

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir waves at the camera during a seven-hour, two-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 18, 2026. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the orbital complex’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8 a.m. EDT. Experts fr... View Source

SpaceX is adding another $900 million of revenue in 2026 and $1.8 billion of revenue per year with another AI rental. This is with Reflection. It adds from July 2026 to 2029. This means $900 million more in 2026 and a runrate of $2.35 billion per month in Q4. $28 billion per year in 2027 ... Read more... View Source

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee... View Source

Observations suggest comet spent billions of years on ‘vast unimaginable trajectories’ around our galaxyAn interstellar comet that blazed past the sun last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic back yard, astronomers said on Monday.The comet 3I/Atlas is just the third visitor from beyond our solar system that humanity has... View Source

Smart ring maker RingConn's marketing copy says Lord of the Rings' "enduring narrative highlights a simple but powerful idea: that meaningful transformation often begins with the choices we make each day. RingConn embraces a similar philosophy, believing that lasting change begins with everyday awareness and small, intentional decisions." Of course, the "intentional decisions" Frodo makes in Lord... View Source

Alphabet Inc. shares tumbled on Monday following the departure of another high-profile artificial intelligence leader to a rival... View Source

Sitara Sundar, JPMorgan Private Bank Head of Alternative Investment Strategy, provided insights on the recent explosive growth in memory chip stocks, highlighting companies like Micron which have seen gains of up to 1,000% over the past year. She discussed the current bottlenecks in chip supply and explored potential next steps for investors seeking opportunities in the AI sector beyond the chip m... View Source

Instagram's TV app is expanding to Samsung TVs in the US, half a year after it launched for Amazon Fire TV devices... View Source

Scientists have discovered that dying stars don't go down without a fight. New research suggests that when stars like the sun enter their red giant phase, they spit out blobs of plasma and receive a corresponding "kick" in the opposite direction. Stars become red giants when the hydrogen in their cores is exhausted, and that core collapses. This results in the outer layers of the star where nuclea... View Source

Upside Co-Founder and CEO Alex Kinnier joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why American consumers are feeling squeezed despite falling gas prices, reveals what transaction data says about spending habits. He also discusses how AI is transforming retail with hyper-personalized offers that save consumers money while helping retailers grow profits. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

One woman is dead after a Tesla with "an automated driving assistance system" engaged crashed into a home in Katy, Texas... View Source

Explore Webb Science James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to… Webb News Latest News Latest Images Webb’s Blog Awards X (offsite – login reqd) Instagram (offsite – login reqd) Facebook (offsite- login reqd) Youtube (offsite) Overview About Who is James Webb? Fact Sheet Impacts+Benefits FAQ Webb Timeline Science Overview and Goals Early Universe Galaxies Over Time Star Lifecycle... View Source

GOLDEN, Colorado — The moon is in need of good and accurate artists! As NASA's Artemis program hits its stride, and in a few years "reboots" our moon with a human presence, there's an urgent need to guard against artistic misrepresentations of the lunar landscape, experts say. We've all seen those alluring lunar renderings of vehicles and astronauts bounding about while setting up equipment and pu... View Source

It’s a small but rare discount. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Prime Day has brought a number of Apple deals, but one of the most useful if you’re planning to travel over the July 4th weekend or later this summer is on the new AirTags. The four-pack has dropped to a new low of $90 ($9 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, bringing the price of each tracker down to about $22.50. It... View Source

There’s a lot to unpack with AI right now, including its potential impacts on the labor market and society and more extreme questions about existential risk. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Anthropic’s Jack Clark (co-founder and head of public benefit) and Peter McCrory (head of economics) join Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss how the company views the possibility of AI killing... View Source

Gareth Martin drew on diverse inspirations for Signet City, from horror manga to a musical from Sting... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month shows the giant molecular cloud Orion A, an area of the sky replete with star-forming clouds. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Megeath, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç)The image of the day for Monday (June 22) shows the star-forming clouds of Orion A in stunning detail. Released as the James Webb Space Telescope (JW... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon. Jack last joined me on the show almost exactly five years ago, in the summer of 2021, and a lot has changed on the internet and in the creator landscape since then, so I was very excited to talk to him again, especially since his ideas about what Patreon is and how it should work have changed dramatically as big social media platforms have go... View Source

BLUEMONT, Va.—From an overlook in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dan Roelker gazed across the green splendor of the Shenandoah Valley. With the pleasant spring afternoon drawing toward evening, the Sun lazily crossed the sky, casting light all around. The pleasing environs had put Roelker, who was drinking rye whiskey procured from a local distillery called Catoctin Creek, in an expans... View Source

SpaceX is selling investment-grade bonds for the first time to fund the company's AI ambitions following its record IPO. Ed Ludlow has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Prime Day kicks off tomorrow, but there are some excellent deals already out there on some of our favorite gear, such as this DJI Neo drone, which is $30 off. It's easy to transport and, thanks to its sub-250g, you don't have to worry about registering it under the current drone regulations. At well under $200, you really can't go wrong. Get the DJI Neo drone on sale right now at Amazon for $169.I... View Source

Will Cathcart, who led WhatsApp for the past seven years, is stepping down from his role as Meta appoints a new leader. On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that Kunal Shah, the founder of an Indian fintech startup called Cred, is taking over as the head of WhatsApp. Cred is an app that allows people to manage their bills and receive rewards for making payments through the pla... View Source

Shawn Rosemarin, Global VP of Research & Development, Customer Engineering, Everpure and Pradeep Bandaru, Head of Platforms & AI Workflows at Sanofi join Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec to discuss the way better data can help the pharmaceutical industry develop new drugs. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The AirPods Max 2 have some updates on the inside, but look identical to the original AirPods Max. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Walmart has the Apple AirPods Max 2 in every color discounted to $399.99 (normally $549) during Walmart Deals, the lowest price we’ve seen yet by a long shot. Amazon currently has the starlight color selling at this price. In our review, we praised Apple’... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is working to make humanoid robots safer around people, arguing that they’ll need to handle split-second decisions before they can be trusted to work closely with humans... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Signs of Thaw in the Bering Sea Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO K... View Source

Seven months after introducing its $119.98 Ultra BodyScan smart scale, Wyze announced a cheaper $79.98 alternative available today that makes a few compromises to shave $40 off the price. There's no Wi-Fi, but you can sync the BodyScan's measurements to Apple Health and Google Fit by connecting to the Wyze mobile app over Bluetooth. And instead of a customizable LCD screen, the new scale uses a si... View Source

Robinhood Markets Inc. is seeking to raise $2 billion in a convertible bond offering as it joins a roaring market for pooling cash... View Source

SpaceX is selling investment-grade bonds for the first time in what’s expected to be the start of a massive borrowing spree to fund the company’s AI ambitions following its record $75 billion IPO... View Source

Octopus and CATL are pledging to roll out a network of battery swap stations for heavy trucks across Europe... View Source

SpaceX has now launched more satellites than the rest of humanity combined —and the gap will continue to widen over time... View Source

Online retailer hasn’t had success in the competitive dinner-delivery market... View Source

Getty Images will allow OpenAI to use its content library in AI search and ChatGPT... View Source

Lime, the electric bike and scooter rental firm backed by Uber Technologies Inc., and it shareholders are seeking to raise as much as $180.9 million in its US initial public offering... View Source

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. "Boomberg" showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn't until months after the site went live that he realized there was a problem: a hidden SQL injection risk. It could've left the site open for an attacker to read or alter data they shouldn't have access to. "It wa... View Source

Beijing has eliminated over 12,000 university degree programs, dismissing many as relics of a bygone era... View Source

Chevron Corp. signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US... View Source

Scientists have drawn up a research blueprint for assessing the viability of warming the Red Planet, outlining what it might take to make Mars a place in space where Earth life can thrive... View Source

Shares of Getty Images Holdings Inc. jumped about 200% in premarket trading on Monday after the photography repository announced a licensing deal with OpenAI... View Source

SpaceX shares slid as much as 4.6% in premarket trading on Monday, putting the stock on pace for a third straight loss as markets reopened following a public holiday... View Source

Chinese investor NewTrails Capital will invest $55 million into African electric mobility startup Spiro, helping boost the company’s valuation... View Source

South Korean authorities are weighing measures to curb risks from leveraged single-stock exchange-traded funds tracking Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., reflecting concern over an asset class whose popularity has surged with the AI boom... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd. has started testing a new AI assistant for WeChat as part of its efforts to catch up with peers in China’s white-hot artificial intelligence race... View Source

かつて世界を魅了したアップルのデザイン。次期CEOに託されたのは岐路に立つデザイン部門の再建だ。... View Source

South Korea’s presidential policy chief said policymakers need to consider how gains from the country’s chip-led boom will spread through the broader economy, warning that excess liquidity has historically found its way into the property market... View Source

US Vice President JD Vance heaped praise on Pakistan’s prime minister and army chief on Sunday as peace talks with Iran finally kicked off... View Source

Hong Kong is in talks with Chinese authorities to expand cross-border investment channels and grant mainland buyers access to local initial public offerings, following a regulatory crackdown on illicit offshore capital flows, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan... View Source

Biing-seng Wu has spent most of his career developing tiny chips that tell pixels on flat-screen displays how and when to light up... View Source

Drone walls and layered short/medium/long-range droning have effectively recreated a modern version of trench attrition warfare, where large-scale land capture is extremely difficult and costly for near-peer adversaries. Only small, incremental gains have been seen in Ukraine. Countries that cannot match drone quantity and integration at scale risks failure or stalemate. Drone Walls and Layered ... View Source

In an interview of Elon Musk, Elon talks about getting greater than 10X the world economy in 10 years. What does this mean, if it were to happen. It means averaging 27% per year GDP growth but starting with a ramp in the first half. NOTE: in WW2, the USA had 18% gdp growth for ... Read more... View Source

The Wall Street Journal reviewed 1,105 videos along with guidance given to creators for crafting their posts... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, June 21, 2026... View Source

The history books are littered with the corpses of corporate record labels started by companies that had no business being in the music industry. Bose thinks it can be the exception to the rule. It thinks it can be Red Bull. And, while Bose has more of a right to dip its toes into the media world than Build-a-Bear, there's little reason to believe it can succeed where so many others have failed. I... View Source

Cold Court is a brother-sister duo from Philly that seems to love nothing more than shoving all of their influences together in a messy soup that at least superficially resembles the hyperpop you've come to expect from acts like 100 Gecs. But, where songs like "Dumbest Girl Alive" goofily wink at pop punk and emo, Cold Court are a bit more self-serious, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The... View Source

It did so in just five years... View Source

Based upon oil flows Hormuz were 15-20% open at 3 to 4 mbpd last month (May) but yesterday 17 mbpd. This means Hormuz was 85% open. 17 mbpd is 85% of 20 mbpd. It was 20% open with complete opposition from Iran. And now it is 85% open. The ships know they are getting through. ... Read more... View Source

Big tech companies design their products to maximize user attention, often without regard to whether the content is beneficial, especially for children. Beeban Kidron, author of 'Users,' joins Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini the need for government intervention to regulate product design, parental responsibility in managing usage, and consumer awarenes... View Source

Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans... View Source

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips. The videos posted on social media look legit at first, but there are... View Source

Amazon has moved its annual Prime Day sales event up by one month. The event is strategically important for Amazon as it aims to capture consumer spending, especially in a market where discretionary dollars are tightening and AI is increasingly influencing shopping behavior. Senior E-commerce and retail analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence Poonam Goyal explains the importance of Prime Day for Amazon... View Source

Joby flight at JFK airport. | Image: The Verge This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Last year, two of the leading air taxi companies... View Source

New research has failed to rule out self-annihilating dark matter as the source of a hotly debated gamma-ray emission known as the Galactic Center Excess radiating from the heart of the Milky Way... View Source

If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. Not that it mattered, though. You probably loved your Roomba. You probably gave it a name. On this episode of Version History, we tell the st... View Source

The 1 VIII doesn’t look much like any Xperia that’s come before. The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone. It's not all different. Sony staples like a 3.5mm headpho... View Source

The summer solstice marks the longest day and the start of astronomical summer... View Source

Starfall is explicitly designed for mass production (like Starlink satellites), so unit costs drop sharply with volume. It is tiny compared to a Starship upper stage (~2.1 t dry mass vs. ~85–100 t), with far simpler systems (no main propulsion, parachute landing, jettisonable shield). Here is a realistic BOM (Bill of Materials) breakdown and cost ... Read more... View Source

AI Gives a venture capital take of Anything anywhere delivery via Space rocket. 1hr global TAM for 2k lb / 5.6m³ container • Core TAM: $50B to 100B slice of ~$250B air cargo + $300B express for time-critical high-value goods (pharma, electronics, auto/aero parts, medical). • Expansion opportunity True global JIT slashes inventory costs across ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX will be proving out a key part of delivery from space or anywhere on earth in one hour anywhere. Starship flying then eject Starfalls. 50-100 per Starship. Reusable system delivers anywhere. No launch tower and no drone ship needed. Can also deliver people (military commandos first). Two of the last few pieces have been ... Read more... View Source

The space agency shared footage of tests with its Ernest prototype rover... View Source

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over 100,000 songs each. According to Reisner, the sets have been downloaded thou... View Source

Launcher V2 will go through a private beta before a public release... View Source

NASA mission to save a falling space telescope is ready to launch... View Source

Brazil’s Integration and Regional Development Ministry and federal police are investigating an intrusion into the civil defense alert system that sent messages containing the word “misanthropy” to the mobile phones of millions of Brazilians... View Source

Once you remove lockscreen ads and toggle on book covers, here's what else you can do to customize your Kindle's screensaver... View Source

A new SpaceX vehicle will be demonstrated on Tuesday June 23 2026. It changes everything. SpaceX will be able to deliver anywhere on Earth. They can take anything up and down from space. This opens up multiple huge revenue streams. Deliver even without catch towers or drones ships. ANYWHERE. In future, variants will deliver people ... Read more... View Source

The crash reportedly happened on an airstrip near the western coast of France on June 19... View Source

On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling sci-fi/sci-fact author Dr. David Brin... View Source

Indulging in the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” | Image: Aleksander Stojanov / Hainbach Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis." Despite using "hard mode" production techniques that o... View Source

A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter... View Source

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027. Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access vid... View Source

Car buyers love Android Auto. Automakers? Not so much... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on... View Source

CMF by Nothing won't be able to release a follow-up to the Phone Pro 2 this year... View Source

Steam Next Fest demos, a Virtual Boy-inspired shooter and other new indie games worth checking out... View Source

Jio Platforms Ltd. plans to use part of the proceeds from its proposed initial share sale to repay its telecom unit’s external commercial borrowings of almost $3 billion, a draft IPO document showed... View Source

As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a lunar building code... View Source

An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34... View Source

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co. said it rejected allegations it breached environmental rules in Hungary during the construction of its first plant in the European Union... View Source

I’m a fan. I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot. As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a r... View Source

Elon exercised his remaining ~304 million Tesla options from the 2018 performance package. This was done via net share settlement — Tesla withheld ~17.5 million shares to cover the ~$7.1 billion exercise cost. No cash changed hands and no shares were sold on the open market. Elon’s Tesla ownership rose to roughly 19.9% (~20%), giving ... Read more... View Source

Throughout the nearly four-month Iran war, few countries were more visibly at the center of the efforts to end it than Pakistan, an unlikely actor thrust into the spotlight by US President Donald Trump... View Source

A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's global environment... View Source

Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be coming this year: We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can't build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a r... View Source

"I don’t have a relatable thing. This is not like life that we’ve experienced."... View Source

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t view Anthropic PBC as a national-security threat, days after his administration took steps to cut off foreign access to the tech company’s most advanced artificial intelligence models... View Source

Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC... View Source

The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts... View Source

The short answer is: sometimes, but it's complicated... View Source

Relativity Space’s CEO is former Google executive Eric Schmidt. | Image: Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA's Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the "spacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations"... View Source

Norway will reportedly ban young kids from using AI in schools... View Source

The new Wired Wall Switch Modules fit behind existing switches. | Image: Signify Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem for the first time. Hue also announced new Play table and floor lamps that are more affordable versions of its Signe series, along with up... View Source

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom and other classic shooters, has died... View Source

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jail... View Source

Turkish financial technologies firm Midas has applied to the central bank for an electronic money institution license as it seeks to launch digital consumer payments products... View Source

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft in nine months to save it?... View Source

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jail... View Source

A disruption at Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd.’s manufacturing facilities has led to shortages of oral contraceptives across South Africa, according to the health department and a local pharmacy chain... View Source

"Three companies... can make decisions that fundamentally harm our collective cybersecurity." Signal President Meredith Whittaker tells Mishal Husain why she believes AI and big tech pose a major threat to privacy. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Maybe the next Sally Ride won't be asked the "100 tampons" question... View Source

You need a quarter teaspoon for your face alone, a half teaspoon if you include the neck (which you should!) This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. On TikTok, the tanned youths are explaining why they no longer wear sunscre... View Source

At UnitedHealth Group Inc., artificial intelligence reads aloud summaries of medical charts as nurses drive to patients’ homes. It listens to millions of customer calls to find the causes of complaints. One trial even has AI agents calling doctors’ offices to schedule appointments for patients... View Source

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 19th June 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

Have I found my Chromecast Audio replacement? | Image: NTS Radio NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo's existing Streamplayer, you can also listen to your favorite streaming services with it, using AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Spotify Connect,... View Source

People who already own one of the company’s older models have less of a reason to upgrade to the $399 device... View Source

Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year. The cast also includes A Complete Unknown actress Monica Barbaro as OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Ike Barinholtz as El... View Source

Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo... View Source

Investors in European collateralized loan obligations piled into AutoForm’s latest deal, the first test of demand for junk-debt borrowers in the software sector since a selloff earlier this year... View Source

Not everyone wants a screen on their wrist... View Source

Easley was a human computer for the agency who helped with building the Centaur upper-stage rocket... View Source

With CPUs back in the spotlight, so too is the PR fight over benchmarks... View Source

Toy Story 5 introduces a tablet as a villain, but it's also smart enough to realize tech isn't always bad. Parents just need to step up... View Source

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Short nights and bright stars make the midsummer night sky surprisingly beginner-friendly... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations manager. If you've been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you'll know that Trump Mobile doesn't exactly keep open lines of communication with the media. That doesn't look to be changing, with the... View Source

Scatec ASA’s Obelisk solar and battery storage project in Egypt can save the country as much as $400 million a year in liquefied natural gas imports, according to Chief Executive Officer Terje Pilskog... View Source

Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic has to find a new studio after Amazon dropped it... View Source

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn't become clear until halfway through the season. "I knew that I could get the show in deep shit if I revealed certain things," he tells me. Now as... View Source

The Trump administration’s push to rein in Anthropic PBC, outlined in a recent Commerce Department order, relies on an unprecedented use of export control laws and raises legal questions about whether the US can dictate who can access artificial intelligence systems... View Source

The engineers who spoke negatively about AI data centers at Seattle city hearings accuse Amazon of threatening their jobs over their testimonies... View Source

The Strato E player (here with a Mini Terra Prime server on top of it) is smaller than a Blu-ray disc collection, but you can get a lot of 4K discs for $3,000. We've lost something in the past 15 years. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple; they've all convinced us that streaming is the best way to watch movies and shows at home. With everything at our fingertips, there's no need to run to Blockbuster f... View Source

Henna Virkkunen, EU's top technology official, & Executive Vice President sat down with Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie on the sidelines of VivaTech in Paris to discuss EU AI regulation, cybersecurity risks, Europe's technological sovereignty, and reducing reliance on non-European technology providers in critical sectors. This interview occurred on Wednesday, June 17. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Jio Platforms Ltd. is weighing plans to build its own satellite constellation, as it seeks to cement control over the nation’s communications infrastructure while Elon Musk’s Starlink faces hurdles... View Source

UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer... View Source

There’s a lot to unpack with AI right now — everything from its potential impacts on the labor market and society to more extreme questions about existential risk. Anthropic, which builds frontier models like Mythos, Fable, and Claude, is actively grappling with these issues, including whether governments should limit AI development. Just last week, the Trump administration forced Anthropic... View Source

Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed further from the sun before being shoved inwards... View Source

Starling Bank Ltd. is streamlining its board in light of a number of departures, a move that increases the sway of UK digital bank’s largest shareholder... View Source

In an update, Valve says it may not ship some Steam Controller orders until next year... View Source

Siemens AG expects revenue from its online store to more than double this year, though the maker of industrial software and trains is stopping short of disclosing concrete figures that would track its progress of turning into a tech-led company... View Source

A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters... View Source

US stocks rose on Thursday as chips shares extended Wednesday’s rally. Nvidia Corp. topped S&P 500 Index gainers on a points basis, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, known as the SOX, advanced 6.4% to a record high... View Source

US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country’s grids while simultaneously attempting to slow surging utility bills that have angered Americans... View Source

With 416 horsepower, a 31-inch 8K screen and Dolby Atmos, Benz's electric "Grand Limousine" might just make minivans cool... View Source

Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars... View Source

A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide... View Source

Prosus NV expects core earnings to surge as much as 28% in the year ended March 31st on the back of its growing e-commerce business and an increase in the value of the stake it owns in China’s Tencent... View Source

Google waged a secret court fight against a US warrant demanding identities of hundreds of internet users who searched for the Democratic and Republican party headquarters in Washington before pipe bombs were planted there on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, newly unsealed records reveal... View Source

As the AI hype continues to grow, investors are looking beyond chips to find the next big thing to revolutionize the tech sector. Ankur Crawford, Portfolio Manager at Alger, says there hasn't been a business like SpaceX before as markets react to the significance of the AI trade. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Investors looking for the stock market’s next artificial intelligence winner have honed in on embattled French car parts maker Valeo SE... View Source

A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving astronomers a chemical blueprint to predict them early... View Source

SpaceX's historic public debut comes during a critical inflection point as a wave of multibillion-dollar AI companies prepare to go public. With the unprecedented IPO, investors are anticipating a wide-scale "distribution event" that will give private markets the fresh cash it desperately needs. Matt Witheiler, Head of Late-Stage Growth at Wellington Management, thinks the private tech ecosystem w... View Source

For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space... View Source

Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned to OpenAI, the company said he would lead its push into enterprise - a... View Source

Shares of Indian software firms tumbled on Friday, joining a global selloff in tech stocks after Accenture Plc forecast slower revenue growth, deepening concerns over a sector that has shed nearly 30% of its market value this year... View Source

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Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien landscape... View Source

Some firms chosen early on by Anthropic PBC to test the Mythos AI model ahead of a wider release have preserved their access to a preview of the system, despite a US government order that led to the total shutdown of other versions... View Source

The Lagoon Nebula is best spotted in the months surrounding August in the Northern Hemisphere... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe, bolstering the infrastructure it needs to support an ambitious artificial intelligence expansion... View Source

"That's what makes this field so exciting. You really are solving a mystery."... View Source

George Gatch, CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management, discussed the current excitement surrounding mega-cap initial public offerings (IPOs) in the technology sector. He emphasized the strong innovation and investment opportunities these IPOs present, describing the trend as a 'rising tide that is lifting all boats.' He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Fujinon Techno-Stabi TS-L 1640 image-stabilized binoculars are perfect for steady stargazing with 16x magnification, 40mm objective lenses and strong image stabilization, on sale for $1,125 at Walmart... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said Canada’s changes to a proposed law that would help police obtain citizen data from private companies don’t resolve many of its concerns... View Source

SpaceX will launch the latest batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government early Friday morning (June 19), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Japanese fiber-optic cablemaker Fujikura Ltd.’s shares are set to surge to their daily limit after the firm unexpectedly raised its profit guidance above market estimates... View Source

'He was a joy to work with on set, he really was. He was a lot of fun and there was this charismatic presence every day.'... View Source

ASML Holding NV, the Dutch chip-equipment giant, is grappling with a major challenge after US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned its leaders that one of the company’s advanced lithography machines may have reached China, potentially violating US export restrictions. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Dutch chip-equipment giant ASML Holding NV is contending with its biggest challenge yet under the Trump administration: In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick outlined concerns to ASML’s senior leaders that one of its top-of-the-line machines may have made its way into China, in violation of US-led export restrictions... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that one of the coldest exoplanets ever discovered, the so-called Pink Planet, harbors a salty surprise... View Source

Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow discusses the latest announcement made by President Donald Trump, which will see Apple and Intel joining forces to produce chips domestically, sending shares of the chipmaker higher. Plus, Anduril's CEO discusses how the company won a contract with the US Air Force to produce autonomous fighters. And, SpaceX wraps up its first full week of trading, with shares falling for a s... 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 GenTrust Head of NY Office, Senior Client Advisor Mimi Duff, Principal Venture Partners Founder & Managing Partner Songyee Yoon, Wedbush SVP of Equity Research Alicia Reese, Goldman Sachs Northeast Region Head Nicole Pulle... View Source

Kevin Mayer, former Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International Chair, discusses Fox's recent $22 billion acquisition of Roku, highlighting a significant strategic move from traditional media towards streaming. Fox, which previously lacked a major streaming platform, aims to strengthen its position by integrating Roku's streaming service alongside its existing ad-supported streamer, Tubi. H... View Source

Fox Corp.’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku Inc. illustrates how free-to-watch, ad-supported streaming services are becoming a major force in the entertainment industry, according to Candle Media Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Kevin Mayer... View Source

SpaceX criticized the European Union’s plans for the distribution of satellite spectrum, a key element in the growth plans for the Elon Musk-led company’s Starlink service following its record-setting initial public offering... View Source

"If confirmed, Shadow Blaster would be the first-ever individual dusty star-forming galaxy directly linked to a high-energy neutrino event."... View Source

Joel Montaniel, Co-Founder and CEO of SevenRooms, discussed the company's new platform, Channel Connect, which aims to simplify reservation management for restaurants by consolidating bookings from multiple channels into a single system. Unlike the hotel industry, where centralized booking systems are common, restaurants currently manage reservations across various apps and platforms, often using... View Source

Artist’s rendition of the DAPHNE (Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer) mission concept. The coloring represents auroras and atmospheric waves in Earth’s atmosphere.Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary Tostanoski NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction cap... View Source

Michael Cardaci, CEO of FedHIVE said that the government is moving 'faster than its ever moved before' to secure data and make sure that US computing companies are compliant in case of national security risks as AI use ramps up. Cardaci said that the US government is focused on keeping US technology inside of its borders as the race for global AI dominance heats up. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the surface. As part of this, officials said work would be paused on the Lunar Gateway planned to orbit the Moon. Of the two elements that were furthest along, NASA also revealed that one of them—the  Power and... View Source

Julie Averill, former CIO of Lululemon, REI, and Nordstrom, discusses this shift in the context of her new book, "Chief Impact Officer," which offers a fresh perspective on leadership amid the ongoing technological revolution. Averill brings her extensive experience scaling Lululemon's revenue to over $10 billion to the conversation, emphasizing the critical role of AI adoption in maintaining job... View Source

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You don’t need a Game Boy Camera or a GB Operator dock to use Epilogue’s new Flashback app. | Image: Epilogue The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it's getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Camera into a charmingly awful d... View Source

Even if you’re one of the biggest pop stars in history, Grindr and Bilt can help you sell albums... View Source