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Brian Haidet, a scientist creating videos on YouTube under the handle AlphaPhoenix, showed off a camera in a new video that can capture footage of a laser pointer at the speed of light. The camera is an update on a previous design that could capture footage at one billion frames per second, but it comes with a major caveat: it can only shoot one pixel at a time.Haidet's camera is made from a... View Source

Everything has to go right for China to launch a human moon mission in 2029 or even 2030. China is also building a new rocket and they have not assembled it yet or flown it. China is still testing a lunar lander. Long March 10 Rocket Certification (2026–2027) Verification: On Track, with Accelerated 2025 Testing. ... Read more... View Source

Although Apple said in a recent court filing that Jon Prosser “still has not” replied to the company’s July lawsuit against him for allegedly stealing trade secrets, Prosser tells The Verge that he is in communication with Apple about the case. “All I can tell you is that regardless of what is being reported, and regardless of what the court documents say — I have, in fact, been in active communic... View Source

The clock just ticked past noon here in Houston, Texas, so it’s acceptable to have a drink, right? Because after another turbulent morning of closely following the rough-and-tumble contest to become the next NASA administrator, I sure could use one. What has happened now? Why, it was only SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who is NASA’s most important contractor, referring to the interim head of the space... View Source

Apple Inc. is back before a US federal appeals court Tuesday contesting an order forcing it to open its lucrative mobile App Store to links to cheaper payment options... View Source

Players aren't the only ones facing higher price tags from Xbox. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft has upped the cost of the Xbox Development Kit from $1,500 to $2,000. That's a 33 percent jump in cost for these custom hardware kits, which are essential for devs to make and test games for release on the console. "The adjustment reflects macroeconomic developments,... View Source

As of October 21, 2025, Blue Origin has conducted only one New Glenn launch to date. The maiden flight occurred on January 16, 2025, from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-36, successfully reaching orbit with a prototype Blue Ring payload, though the first stage was lost during reentry. The second Blue Origin launch of New Glenn is taking ... Read more... View Source

The Soundcore Sleep A30 sit flush in your ear and are comfortable enough to wear all night. | Image: The Verge If you’re a light sleeper who needs complete silence before dozing off, Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A30 are built for you. Luckily, right now, the wireless sleep buds are on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for $193.99 ($36 off), which is just shy of the price drop we saw during Amazon’... View Source

Worldline SA said a review following allegations it had turned a blind eye to fraud discovered “uneven” implementation of anti-financial-crime controls across the company... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will have to testify in an upcoming trial that deals with social media safety and whether the executives' platforms are addictive. A Los Angeles judge ruled that the three men will need to testify in the trial set to begin in January, according to CNBC."The testimony of a CEO is uniquely relevant, as that of... View Source

We spoke with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new Q&A book "Just Visiting This Planet: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin From Omniscia" arriving on Oct. 21, 2025... View Source

Yesterday, we learned how Google plans to let 15 lucky fans try new Pixel phones while they're still in development, thanks to a Bloomberg scoop. We have now obtained copies of the official rules and entry form for that contest, as shared with fans by the head of the Pixel Superfans program, and you can read the full versions at the bottom of this story. TL;DR: Google wasn't asking for much! To ge... View Source

OnlyFans Chief Executive Officer Keily Blair said that the company has paid out $25 billion to creators since it was founded in 2016. “There’s not very many companies that can talk about creating wealth for others rather than just profiteering,” Blair said at Bloomberg Tech in London on Tuesday.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix, no stranger to adapting games into streaming hits, has announced that it's partnering with game publisher Asmodee to create new TV shows and films based on the board game Catan, with multiple projects already in development. While the streamer has primarily specialized video game adaptations, the belief in post-Barbie Hollywood is that any recognizable IP could be the source of a fut... View Source

NASA’s acting administrator Sean Duffy says he plans to “open up the contract” SpaceX holds to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis 3 mission because the company has fallen behind schedule. Duffy previously maintained that Artemis 3 would launch in 2027, the agency’s official target, even as multiple Starship test flight failures earlier ... Read more... View Source

The ornament also plays the console’s startup sound. | Image: Hallmark The Halo 3 soundtrack could soon be joining classics like “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Deck the Halls” on your holiday playlist, if you deck your halls with Hallmark’s new Xbox 360 Keepsake ornament. It’s now available from Hallmark’s online store and Amazon for $28.99 and pressing its power button plays the console’s swooshy startu... View Source

Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to offspring... View Source

Apple Inc.’s effort to reinvent the iPad by adding a giant foldable screen has hit development hurdles, potentially delaying the planned launch... View Source

When AI tools first began proliferating around the web, worries about deepfakes quickly rose alongside them. And now that tech such as OpenAI's recently released Sora 2 is getting more capable and more widely available (and being used exactly as irresponsibly as you might have guessed), both famous and ordinary people may want more control over protecting their likenesses. After teasing the f... View Source

Titan's chemical inventory is believed to bear some resemblance to the prebiotic soup on the early Earth... View Source

Last month, my colleague Liz Lopatto explained how a gummy bear battery bank was taking over the ultralight backpacking world. I'm talking full-grown, outdoorsy adults nerding out about gummy bear merch beating the battery pros at their own game! Liz and I quickly agreed: We should put it to the test. Could the gummy bear company truly have the best ultralight battery, and could I bring some hard... View Source

Microsoft Corp. will exempt many sales roles from its coming return-to-office mandate, offering a more flexible approach than many of its tech industry peers... View Source

Apple's war of words with Europe over its Digital Markets Act (DMA) is bleeding into the court system. Bloomberg reports that the company criticized the regulations at the General Court in Luxembourg. The European Commission is currently conducting its first formal review of the law. Apple lawyer Daniel Beard told the court reviewing the DMA that it "imposes hugely onerous and intrusive... View Source

Google announced several upgrades and new features coming to its Google Fi Wireless phone plans, including an update to web calls and messages with a new interface that now fully supports RCS messaging so you can share high-quality photos and videos in message threads, even when your phone isn’t nearby. That functionality is expected to be available in early December at no extra cost. Call quality... View Source

China’s Commerce Minister warned that the Dutch state’s move to take control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia has “seriously affected” the stability of the global supply chain... View Source

OpenAI's long-rumored browser has a name, and you can try it out today — provided you're an Apple user. ChatGPT Atlas is available to download on macOS, with the company promising to bring it to Windows, Android and iOS soon. Atlas integrates ChatGPT directly within the browser interface, allowing users to engage with the chatbot while they're surfing the web — no need to jump betwe... View Source

Not even Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can save you from this Martian disaster... View Source

OpenAI’s next move in its battle against Google is an AI-powered web browser. The tool, dubbed ChatGPT Atlas, is out today. The company announced it in a livestream after teasing it earlier Tuesday via a mysterious video of browser tabs on a white screen. ChatGPT Atlas is available “globally” on macOS starting today, while access for Windows, iOS, and Android is “coming soon,” per the company. But... View Source

OpenAI is set to unveil its first artificial intelligence-powered web browser, putting the ChatGPT maker in competition on a new front with Alphabet Inc.’s Google... View Source

If you’re on the go a lot, a power bank is practically a backpack essential, and while a chunkier device is sometimes necessary for power users, if you just need something to juice up your phone you can easily stay within the realms of pocketability. Baseus’ Picogo 5K belongs to the latter category, and right now you can pick one up for $36, which is a record low price. While this particular acces... View Source

After raising prices on Xbox consoles and subscriptions, Microsoft is now turning its attention to Xbox developers. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the company is significantly increasing the price of its Xbox Development Kit (XDK) - the custom hardware used by developers to build Xbox games. The current Xbox dev kit is moving from $1,500 to $2,000, a 33 percent jump in... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google moonshot factory plans to review Rio de Janeiro’s power grid ahead of the potential construction of data centers that would put the city at the forefront of Latin America’s artificial-intelligence industry, according to the city’s vice mayor... View Source

Yet another streaming platform is asking people to dig deeper into their wallets and pay more to keep using the service. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has jacked up the prices of all HBO Max plans, 16 months after the last increase to the ad-free offerings. The entry-level, ad-supported plan is now $11 per month (an extra $1) or $110 per year ($10 more). HBO Max Standard will run you an extra... View Source

An electronic retinal implant has improved vision in people with age-related macular degeneration—but it isn’t a full restoration, and it didn’t improve participants’ quality of life... View Source

Another day, another price increase for a streaming service, and this time it’s HBO Max, which has higher prices for everyone at the same time that its parent company puts everything up for sale. The first price hike for HBO Max hit in early 2023 before the service changed its name, and while that decision was rolled back in a re-re-branding, the prices still keep going up even after last year’s i... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s reputation as a reliable provider of cloud services took a hit on Monday when an outage lasting some 15 hours disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies, ranging from Apple Inc. to McDonald’s Corp. to Epic Games Inc... View Source

Amazon is reportedly moving towards an era of unprecedented automation that would put half a million jobs in the US at risk. According to a series of interviews and internal documents referenced in an extensive report from The New York Times, Amazon executives expect to sell twice as many products by 2033. But by scaling up its robotics operations believe it could avoid the 600,000 hires it would... View Source

General Motors has parked many unsold BrightDrop electric delivery vans on vacant lots in Flint and in Canada. | Image: Getty General Motors will end production of its Chevy Brightdrop electric vans at its factory in Ingersol, Ontario, the company said during its third quarter earnings call Tuesday. The decision was made as slow demand in the electric van market led to hundreds of Brightdrop vehic... View Source

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei put out a lengthy blog post pushing back at “inaccurate claims” about its policy positions days after White House AI czar David Sacks criticized the company’s calls for more AI regulation... View Source

Nintendo has another livestream planned for the upcoming Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders. This one takes place on October 23 at 9AM ET. That's less than a month before the game will be available for purchase. The company also says the stream will be a full hour, which is a heck of a long time to spend on just one game a few weeks before launch. It's worth noting, however, that Kirby... View Source

OpenAI has started teasing a livestream today that will likely be related to its rumored web browser. A mysterious teaser with a set of browser tabs appeared on OpenAI’s X account today, signaling that a livestream will reveal all at 1PM ET / 10AM PT today. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the announcement is about “a new product I’m quite excited about.” Reuters reported in July that OpenAI was p... View Source

Cohere Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aidan Gomez said the artificial intelligence startup hopes to make its public market debut “soon,” in what would be one of the first IPOs from an AI model maker... View Source

Portable chargers are great and all but, between a hefty weight and a tangle of cords, many are more of an annoyance than anything else. Anker's Nano Power Bank has served as the solution to all that for me, with a charger built-in to a device that's barely bigger than a lipstick.  Now our choice for best portable charger for Android is even more tempting, thanks to a 36 percent markdown. The... View Source

The first official look at the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome (pictured). Ricoh is developing a new addition to its GR compact digital camera series that’s designed specifically for black and white photography. The GR IV Monochrome is expected to launch sometime in Spring 2026, and aside from a new monochrome CMOS sensor, it shares many of the same core features as the GR IV model that Ricoh released last... View Source

Playtech Plc shares fell as much as 39%, erasing more than £400 million ($535 million) of market value, after Swedish rival Evolution AB accused the British gambling technology group of commissioning a smear campaign in an attempt to “destroy its reputation.”... View Source

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the Earth... View Source

Tapo’s new solar-powered pan-tilt camera adds a bright floodlight. | Image: Tapo TP-Link’s Tapo smart home brand announced a new solar-powered outdoor security camera with pan-tilt capabilities, 2K video recording, and an 800-lumen LED floodlight. Tapo says the C615F can operate for as long as 24 hours with just 45 minutes of sunlight, and it’s now available through Tapo’s online store and Amazon... View Source

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is testing a new system to streamline how medical claims are processed, an early example of what the company says is the potential for artificial intelligence to smooth out friction in billing... View Source

Test your knowledge of NASA's triumphs, setbacks, and space-age breakthroughs that define this space agency's legendary history... View Source

What do you get the tablet that has everything? Last year, Apple debuted a massive overhaul to the iPad Pro, with a thin new design, a gorgeous new screen, a bunch of updated accessories, and a speedy new chip. I called it the best iPad ever. I also wondered how it could even get much better. The answer, at least this year, is apparently it couldn't. The new iPad Pro is, in every way that matters,... View Source

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller says the agency will be more active in studying ways to embrace innovative advancements in payments... View Source

Apple is back with the latest version of the iPad Pro, and like the iPad Air earlier this year the surface-level changes are minimal. Like that iPad Air, there’s a new chip on board here. It’s the M5, which was also added to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and Vision Pro. There are new Apple-designed networking chips: the N1 handles Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and Thread, while the C1X handles 5G connectivity. B... View Source

The Artemis 2 SLS rocket that will launch the next astronauts around the moon is all put together inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building... View Source

This automatic litter box can monitor multiple cats’ toilet habits using AI-powered cameras. The Litter-Robot 5 Pro is the newest poop-scooping machine from Whisker, makers of the excellent Litter-Robot 4, and it brings facial recognition for your cats to the self-cleaning litter box line. The company is also introducing an optional subscription service, Whisker Plus, that monitors and tracks your... View Source

Veeam Software, owned by private equity firm Insight Partners, agreed to buy Securiti AI for about $1.73 billion in cash and stock, adding software that helps secure corporate data used in artificial intelligence applications... View Source

AI is the star of Yelp's fall product update. The review site has updated Yelp Assistant, its chatbot to answer users' questions, rolling the tool out for all business categories. Its responses will draw on information from the business' website as well as posts by other Yelp users. The chatbot will also remember past queries and preferences when it's used for finding services... View Source

Your TV is an Xbox. Your computer is an Xbox. Your phone, your crummy Android tablet, your car's infotainment display, oops all Xboxes. If Microsoft is right about the future of gaming, your game console might soon be an Xbox even if it's not an Xbox. It's an interesting idea, and raises some fascinating questions about the gaming industry. Here's one of those questions: shouldn't an Xbox play Xbo... View Source

Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky said he didn’t integrate his company’s online travel app with OpenAI’s ChatGPT because the startup’s connective tools aren’t “quite ready” yet... View Source

Meta is launching new tools aimed at trying to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. The company says its teams have "detected and disrupted" nearly 8 million accounts associated with scam centers in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines since the beginning of 2025. It has also taken action on over 21,000 Pages on Facebook pretending t... View Source

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JAXA has successfully deployed three new Cubesats from the International Space Station's Kibo module, marking another step in democratizing access to space... View Source

Investors are betting on new software tools to grapple with one of the thorniest problems in business and life — taxes... View Source

If you're not a big fan of the, well, glass in iOS 26's Liquid Glass interface, Apple has apparently heard you. The latest iOS 26.1 Beta 4 has a new toggle that lets you apply a "tinted" setting to boost the opacity of elements and add contrast, making them stand out better against the background, MacRumors reported. "Choose your preferred look for Liquid Glass. Clear is m... View Source

Yelp’s Host AI will speak to customers for restaurants. Yelp’s AI-powered solutions promise to answer calls, take reservations, and manage bookings for “understaffed” restaurants. Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist are part of a broader push from the company and similar platforms embracing AI to streamline customer management “around the clock.”  Host is an AI agent that can answer calls from gu... View Source

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he’s asked Deputy Finance Minister Vorapak Tanyawong for a written response to allegations that he’s linked to Southeast Asian scam networks... View Source

A decent-sized chunk of the internet stopped working after a fairly massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. This included Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite — even Amazon’s own products went on the fritz. Your humble narrator’s Ring Chimes started turning their night lights on and off entirely at random, with no prompting from yours truly. The company has already fixed the DNS issue that caused... View Source

Amazon has deployed over a million robots to its facilities, and is testing bipedal bots like Agility Robotics' “Digit” (pictured). | Image: Jason Redmond / Getty Images Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hopi... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. won’t increase its $9 billion offer for data center provider Core Scientific Inc., despite opposition to the deal from major shareholders... View Source

Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules... View Source

Reflect Orbital has applied for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license to launch a giant mirror to space next year... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Mark Bergen previews the Bloomberg Tech summit in London, which focuses on the future of European tech sovereignty... View Source

Whether you’re into adventure sports or just want to log your day-to-day activities, an action camera is the way to go. On top of regular models from the likes of GoPro, DJI and Insta360, you can film your adventures with 360-degree models and a new class of tiny cams that can even be attached to kids or pets. In other words, there are more options than ever for types of action shooting or vloggin... View Source

An archaeological mystery gets one step closer to being solved... View Source

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Ming Yang Smart Energy Group announced plans to build the world’s largest floating wind turbine, as Chinese firms seek a larger share of the global market while rivals grapple with rising costs... View Source

A South Korean court dismissed the stock manipulation case against Kakao Corp. founder Brian Kim, clearing the billionaire of charges that marred his reputation as an internet pioneer... View Source

Lifeline Ventures raised €400 million ($470 million) to create Finland’s biggest fund investing in European technology startups, building on its track record of identifying unicorns... View Source

Visa Inc.-backed fintech Moniepoint has raised an additional $90 million in investment to accelerate the startup’s African expansion plans, taking its latest funding round to $200 million... View Source

A European push to stop relying on the US military has spawned a new generation of companies... View Source

Sea Ltd. founder Forrest Li told employees a trillion dollar market capitalization — an increase of about 10 times — is possible as the Southeast Asia e-commerce leader joins tech companies globally betting on artificial intelligence for growth... View Source

Fintech firm GCash is aiming for an initial public offering in Manila in the second half of 2026, according to people with knowledge of the matter, later than previously anticipated as the Philippine stock market sags... View Source

The mysterious impact of a United Airlines aircraft in flight last week has sparked plenty of theories online, from space debris to high-flying birds. However the question of what happened to flight 1093, and its severely damaged front window, appears to be answered by a weather balloon. “I think this was a WindBorne balloon,” Kai Marshland, co-founder of the weather prediction company WindBorne S... View Source

Haier Smart Home Co. is considering an initial public offering of its internet-of-things unit Cosmoplat, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

The US and its hyperscalers are spending more money on AI and AI data centers. The US hyperscalers have huge capacity for $400 billion on capital expenditure and hundreds of billion on research. The US hyperscalers have more free cashflow to expand AI investments towards $1 trillion per year and beyond. China is getting Nvidia ... Read more... View Source

Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now a joint statement from actor Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, the union, and others says that after videos of him appeared on Sora — one even showed him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson — the company... View Source

Two days from today, October 22nd, was Google’s deadline to begin opening up its app store, stop forcing developers to use Google Play Billing, let them set their own prices, and more, following Epic’s repeated wins in Epic v. Google. But both Epic and Google have just successfully and mysteriously argued for one final week’s delay. US District Court Judge James Donato has just agreed to push back... View Source

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are very clear for population impacts on workforce and retirement. People who will be 20 years older are alive today. ... Read more... View Source

Home products company Kohler is launching a new Kohler Health division, and its first product is a $599 camera for your toilet. The item, dubbed Dekoda, is equipped with sensors that analyze whatever liquid or solid waste goes into the toilet bowl with "validated machine learning algorithms." The data, which can offer insights on hydration and gut health as well as detecting the presence... View Source

When the first 3D Ninja Gaiden came out on Xbox in 2004, I really wanted to play it; though the game looks a little antiquated now, at the time, teenage me thought that ninja protagonist Ryu Hayabusa was cool as hell. But alas, I didn't have an Xbox, and I don't think I could have convinced my parents to let me get such a (for the time) violent game. Even as an adult that could buy whatever game I... View Source

X is finally following through on its long-rumored plans to sell old user handles, and some of the most sought-after usernames could fetch millions of dollars. The company shared more details about and opened a waitlist for its "handle marketplace," that will enable paying subscribers to request and buy "inactive" handles. According to the company, X will make two types of... View Source

In August 2016, my son and I met Chess Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky. Daniel has sadly died at the young age of 29. I only got to see him for a couple of hours but he was already a great chess communicator and educator. He reached as high as 18th in the world rankings. Naroditsky was ... Read more... View Source

A new study finds that even elite endurance athletes run up against a hard metabolic ceiling... View Source

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories... View Source

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to the Moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the secretary of transportation frequently appears in his acting role as NASA chief, Duffy said SpaceX has fallen behind in its efforts to develop the Starship vehicle as a lunar lander. Duffy also indirectly... View Source

A plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is spurring a record number of buyouts of young companies in Japan, reflecting Tokyo’s push to create more billion-dollar startups to better match the country’s global standing in scientific research... View Source

LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) Telescope Mirrors for the LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) Telescope. NASA Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The OLI telescope uses a four-mirror compact design. The optics are positioned inside a lightweight, yet highly stable, carbon composite optical bench (i.e., a substrate on which the optics are mounted) that has special features to control undesir... View Source

Massive marches nationwide in the U.S. marked a turn against an increasing acceptance of political violence among protesters, report sociologists... View Source

British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to artificial intelligence data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects... View Source

Meet the “Scene Select Mechanism”—Part of the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor Engineer (in a “bunny suit”) working on the Scene Select Mechanism of the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on LDCM. NASA Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Scene Select Mechanism is an apparatus that rotates the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) mirror among three scenes: the Earth view (“nadir;” whe... View Source

A piece of smoldering wreckage found in Western Australia is likely part of a Chinese rocket that crashed to Earth on Saturday (Oct. 18), experts say... View Source

There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been publicly unboxed, disassembled, and even reviewed before Google can show them off.) But it seems Google doesn’t want leakers to have all the fun — it plans to let 15 lucky fans try new Pixel phones while the... View Source

As Europe pushes to build sovereign AI, there’s plenty of disagreement about what the term even means. But first…... View Source

There's a lot to like about NordVPN, as I covered in my full NordVPN review. It's one of the fastest among the best VPNs, and it's got a bunch of cool, specialized servers for various VPN tasks. But the apps can be frustrating, and beyond that, no VPN is perfect for everyone. If you've decided NordVPN isn't for you, here's how to cancel your subscription and get your... View Source

Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory TIRS being hoisted into place on the LDCM satellite in Gilbert, Ariz. Orbital Science Corp • Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and TIRS instruments... View Source

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at WWDC this year, Apple has tweaked exactly how glassy Liquid Glass is — early on, there were some legibility issues — but this new setting gives you the choice of making things more transparent or more frosted. The option is available now in... View Source

Bed bugs: the nightmare of any city dweller, frequent traveller, and now Google employee. The team at the company's Chelsea campus were notified on Sunday that a possible bed bug infestation had been discovered in the building and were told to remain at home so the location could be treated. As if working over the weekend wasn't enough of a bummer. Fortunately, exterminators collected th... View Source

Patients wore these smart glasses that paired to a retinal implant in their eye. Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired with a set of smart glasses. The study was published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine, and researchers report that patients could see well enough using the technology to fill out crossword puzzles and read re... View Source

Cohere Inc., the Nvidia Corp.-backed artificial intelligence startup that raised funds at a $7 billion valuation a month ago, is holding a so-called tender for employees who want to sell their stakes in the company to outside investors... View Source

Five years after the release of the Galaxy S20 FE, Samsung has settled into a predictable pattern with its "Fan Edition" line of phones. Each new phone doesn't offer much new or different from its immediate predecessor, with the company opting to offer iterative updates instead. That might have been fine before, but with the arrival of the Nothing Phone 3a Pro and Pixel 10 — devices that changed t... View Source

SpaceX has long held the contract to land NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts on the moon a few years from now. But the agency plans to reopen the bidding, according to acting NASA chief Sean Duffy... View Source

Government investigators are gathering data to confirm what exactly cracked the windshield of a 737 Max aircraft at above 30,000 feet... View Source

Samsung is set to officially reveal its long-anticipated Android extended reality (XR) headset, which has been codenamed Project Moohan. The company has scheduled a livestream event for October 21 at 10PM ET. The event will be streamed live via the company's YouTube page and on the official Samsung Newsroom site. We don't know how long the stream will be, but Samsung promises that Projec... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company’s next handset ahead of its public introduction... View Source

At the end of February, Anthropic announced Claude Code. In the eight months since then, the coding agent has arguably become the company's most important product, helping it carve out a niche for itself in the highly competitive AI market. Now, Anthropic is making it easier for developers to use Claude Code in more places with a new web interface for accessing the agent.  To get started... View Source

Mathematician Thomas Bloom, runs erdosproblems.com, explains that OpenAI surfaced erdos problem solutions that were not unsolved. OpenAI GPT-5 simply surfaced existing papers solving them that he had personally overlooked, mislabeling them as “open” on his site. No new mathematics was generated—GPT-5 acted as an advanced search tool. OpenAI’s Mark Sellke and Sebastien Bubeck prev... View Source

A physicist explains the idea of virtual particles and why they are important to study... View Source

The Sims Mobile is going away as EA will shut it down on January 20, nearly eight years after its debut in March 2018. An update that went live on Monday is the final one and the company is delisting the game on October 21. Since the game requires online servers (game progress is stored there), it'll no longer be possible to play The Sims Mobile in three months' time. "The Sims... View Source

As of September 2025, the total amount of gold ever mined and remaining above ground (the investable stock used for market valuation) is approximately 218,000 metric tonnes. This figure accounts for all gold in forms like jewelry, bars, coins, central bank holdings and industrial uses. At the current gold price of $4,307 per troy ounce ... Read more... View Source

Cards Against Humanity, the irreverent party game company known for its provocative humor, has settled its trespassing lawsuit against SpaceX, one year after filing the complaint and launching a profanity-laced marketing campaign against Elon Musk’s rocket company. The dispute centered on a plot of land along the Rio Grande River in Cameron County, Texas, that […]... View Source

If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ads in the tunnels, tried to avert your eyes from the near-constant presence of the device pictured on all the ads inside subway cars, or had a friend text you, “What is that thing?” Although Friend was fo... View Source

Oura has redesigned its official app with a refreshed visual interface and new health-tracking insights. The company boasts that the app refresh offers "modern visual language with deeper personalization." To that end, there are now three main and easily identifiable tabs. The "Today" tab includes only the most relevant data to help inform daily decisions. The "Vitals... View Source

TSMC’s semiconductor manufacturing facility in Phoenix celebrates the first NVIDIA Blackwell wafer produced on U.S. soil. The US Nvidia Blackwell has reached volume production. The chip packaging is still done in Taiwan. TSMC Arizona will produce advanced technologies including two-, three- and four-nanometer chips, as well as A16 chips, all essential for applications like AI, ... Read more... View Source

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the moon-forming impact, a new study reports... View Source

Nasa head said agency is opening up contracts for crewed lunar program Artemis after SpaceX had to delay timelinesNasa is looking to contract with other companies for its crewed lunar program as Elon Musk’s SpaceX is “behind” on its timeline, the space agency said Monday.In an interview with CNBC, Sean Duffy, transportation secretary and interim head of Nasa, said the agency is “not going to wait... View Source

Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price during Amazon’s recent October Prime Day sale, but a fresh discount has now made the power bank cheaper than ever. Right now, you can pick it up at Amazon in black for just $13.74 (a little over $19 off) after applying the automatic 45 p... View Source

A company whose primary purpose is to hold the cryptocurrency tied to the Ripple payment network, XRP, is set to go public via a blank-check company... View Source

Meta is getting ready to pull support for its desktop Messenger apps on Windows and macOS. Both apps have already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, and existing users are starting to get notifications that the desktop apps will disappear fully in December. A Meta support page, first spotted by Apple Insider, reveals that Mac Messenger app users will have 60 days to use the a... View Source

Canada is launching a new financial crimes agency and making changes to banking laws to clamp down on online fraud and other scams... View Source

Using an expanding clamping mechanism the Kohler Dekoda installs on most toilets without tools. | Image: Kohler Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for maintaining a healthy lifestyle as being choosy about what goes into it. As part of a new initiative focused on “turning the bathroom into a connected, data-informed health and wellness hub,” Kohler has announced a health t... View Source

NASA wants companies to compete with SpaceX over a contract it holds to put astronauts on the moon, a fresh sign of blowback over delays with Elon Musk’s Starship spacecraft... View Source

Spotify just introduced a feature that lets users follow their favorite concert venues. This will provide people with updates and details about upcoming concerts. Once a venue is selected as a favorite, it gets saved in a user's library. Browsing each venue provides information on scheduled concerts, general announcements and other stuff. Folks can even filter upcoming shows by genre. Clickin... View Source

The Anbernic RG DS will launch in four colors including blue and one with a translucent white shell. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has shared footage of its upcoming RG DS dual-screen clamshell handheld playing a selection of emulated games, including stylus-driven titles like Kirby: Canvas Curse from the Nintendo DS and 3DS games like Shovel Knight. Anbernic announced the RG DS earlier this mont... View Source

Blackstone Inc. has completed its second debt sale of 2025 linked to UK warehouses, according to a person familiar with the transaction, as it capitalizes on relentless demand for online shopping logistics... View Source

The Sims is in a period of transition — and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. EA announced that today’s update for The Sims Mobile will be its last, and that on January 20th, 2026 the game “will no longer be accessible to play and will be sunset.” The mobile iteration of the franchise first launched in 2018, and has seen more than 50 updates since t... View Source

The S&P 500 rose into a second day, helped by signs trade tensions with China may be easing. Better-than-expected corporate earnings trends and a rally for Apple Inc., which neared a record as analysts highlighted improving iPhone demand trends, also boosted sentiment... View Source

On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running. According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the U... View Source

You can grab the AMD-based model, or spend an extra $150 on the slightly faster Intel version that also has double the internal storage. | Image: The Verge As part of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days coverage earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening at Walmart. My favorite was the $600 off deal on Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming laptop, which has a 15.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600... View Source

"The Russians and the Chinese are demonstrating more sophisticated orbital maneuvering abilities. There's no denying that,"... View Source

On August 19th at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message from his roommate. A man, the text said, was knocking on their door with legal documents to serve. Johnston is the founder and sole employee of The Midas Project: a nonprofit that monitors the practices of "leading AI companies to ensure transparency, privacy, and ethical standards are maintained." The Midas Project is behind The OpenAI F... View Source

Panama will require that any agreement to restart the $10 billion Cobre Panama copper mine clearly stipulates that the country is the owner of the land and the resources, the country’s finance chief said in an interview... View Source

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.  You’re almost certainly familiar with Zocdoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and book appointments with doctors. It’s a classic of the early app economy, right alongside Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and others — it’s a friend... View Source

A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that blend computing with analysis, interpretation, and data... View Source

Oura Health Oy, the Finnish smart ring maker, is the latest wearable company seeking to move into blood pressure monitoring... View Source

A new WHO report warns of rising antimicrobial resistance, and researchers uncover satellite data leaks and insect surprises... View Source

The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red star Antares for observers in South America... View Source

The redesigned Oura app includes new features to help users track and manage their stress levels. Oura is launching a redesigned app with expanded stress-tracking insights as it develops new blood pressure features that could identify signs of hypertension. The updated Oura app will introduce a new Cumulative Stress feature that provides a weekly overview of how the body manages and recovers from... View Source

A special class of immune proteins protect us from pathogens but also drive inflammation and cell death... View Source

Revolut Ltd was cleared to start its banking operation in Mexico, heating up the fintech race with Nu Holdings Ltd and MercadoLibre Inc in Latin America as it receives its second regulatory green light in the region this month... View Source

Beats devices have been the more colorful, full-of-personality complements to Apple’s clean-and-minimal gear ever since Apple bought the company back in 2014. Beats earbuds and speakers are the more flexible alternatives to things like AirPods and HomePods, and the new Beats Powerbeats Fit keep that tradition alive. Some six months after the Powerbeats Pro 2 debuted earlier this year, Beats now ha... View Source

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 6951, where a central bar fuels a spectacular ring of newborn stars... View Source

In 2022, Jake Clay started an Amazon delivery firm in Odessa, Texas, after hearing about the company’s program from a friend. He sank $75,000 into the business and earned more than $200,000 in the first year. An Air Force veteran, Clay, 50, felt like he’d joined an elite unit... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ed Ludlow talks with executives at space tech startups about their companies’ work with the US military... View Source

Here's what to expect when the Orionid meteor shower peaks on Oct. 21-23 in a dark, moonless sky... View Source

US investigators are advancing a criminal probe into Builder.ai, demanding a former executive’s communications with the firm’s UK auditor and with others involved in the financial reporting for the artificial intelligence startup ahead of its June bankruptcy... View Source

Starlink satellites awaiting deployment. | Image: SpaceX On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of those 10k satel... View Source

Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest social media companies... View Source

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, suffered a widespread disruption on Monday morning that degraded services for several companies, including artificial intelligence company Perplexity and the Coinbase and Robinhood financial platforms... View Source

Here are just a few of the services impacted by the outage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multi... View Source

Early birds on the east coast will have the best chance of seeing this annual astral light showFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEarly rising stargazers in Australia will be in prime position to catch a glimpse of the Orionid meteor shower, which will this week pass through our atmosphere.Those who tend to wake before d... View Source

This hybrid documentary about the Cree astronomer offers evocative, poetic insight into a formidable community leaderFor Cree astronomer Wilfred Buck, the stars hold an immense power that extends beyond the realm of science. Coming from an Indigenous group whose stories have been systematically effaced by official narratives, he looks to these clustered dots of light as both historical document an... View Source

The Chinese unit of chipmaker Nexperia said operations continue as normal and employees should follow the guidance of local leadership, highlighting tensions with the Dutch headquarters after the Netherlands government’s seizure of the company... View Source

The speed of the shower creates swift, bright streaks across the night sky, at a typical rate of 20 meteors an hourAs seasoned meteor spotters will tell you, each meteor shower has its own peculiar characteristics. Earlier in the month, the Draconids were characterised by their slow-moving meteors. The Orionids, on the other hand, are zippy.Barrelling into the atmosphere at about 66 km/s, they cre... View Source

Vietnam’s government is targeting annual economic growth of at least 10% over the next five years, even as US tariffs and global trade uncertainty threaten to weigh on exports and investments flows... View Source

Muji-brand retailer Ryohin Keikaku Co. suspended its e-commerce site late Sunday after its logistics supplier Askul Corp. was hit by a cyber attack... View Source

Masan Group is in talks with Costco Wholesale Corp. to sell its branded noodles, fish sauce and coffee in the retailer’s US stores as the Vietnamese conglomerate accelerates its global expansion... View Source

Apple Inc.’s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity... View Source

Toyo Tire Corp. Chief Executive Officer Takashi Shimizu expects the tiremaker to exceed its profit guidance this fiscal year and plans to start buying back shares, helped by resilient US demand... View Source

Software and computer services companies saw the biggest rise in profit warnings among UK-listed firms last quarter, according to a report from consultancy EY-Parthenon... View Source

X is testing a change to the way it handles links on iOS so that the buttons to like, reply, and repost will always be visible. Normally, when you click a link on X the page opens up and completely covers the original post. Apparently, this leads to fewer people clicking like or otherwise engaging with the content.  A good chunk of people probably just don’t return to Twitter at all after fol... View Source

Kering SA agreed to sell its beauty division to L’Oreal SA as part of a long-term strategic alliance, with Chief Executive Luca de Meo seeking to turn around the French luxury giant’s fortunes... View Source

Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement. On platforms like Threads, data suggests that people often don't click the links in posts, and creators on X have complained that posts including links don't get as much visibility. X is now trying to solve that. Head of product Nikita Bier shared that the platform is "testing a new link experience... View Source

Burning object made of carbon fibre discovered on desert road near mine site close to Newman on 18 OctoberFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAuthorities are investigating how suspected space debris ended up in outback Australia after mine workers found burning items.Western Australia police are leading the response after... View Source

Premium Plus and Premium Business users will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace. Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories. Priority handles will be free and “often include full names, multi-word phrases, or alphanumeric combinations.” Rare handles, on the other hand, will be a paid option, and “may be priced anywhere from $2,500 to... View Source

As political tensions between the two global superpowers grow, China's State Security Ministry accused the US' National Security Agency of a cyberattack operation that took place between 2023 and 2024. As first reported by Reuters, the Chinese agency posted on WeChat that the NSA targeted the country's National Time Service Center. As part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the cen... View Source

Japan’s Ishin opposition party held an executive meeting on Sunday as it mulled the possibility of joining forces with the ruling party, a decision that could determine the country’s next prime minister... View Source

We still have a few months to wait before the next Cult of the Lamb DLC, Woolhaven, arrives, but the Massive Monster team just shared a closer look at one of the new experiences the expansion will bring and, oh boy, I cannot wait to play this. In addition to adding a new mountain area with two new dungeons, Woolhaven will introduce ranching, so you can raise animals — the regular, non-anthropomorp... View Source

Violent video games have found themselves in the crosshairs of politicians yet again, but this time with Mexico's government. Earlier this week, Mexico's Chamber of Deputies approved a comprehensive financial package that includes an eight percent tax on video games with mature content. As first reported by Insider Gaming, the proposed tax covers games that have a C or D rating under Mex... View Source

Andrej Karpathy says that reinforcement learning is still terrible but better than all other AI learning approaches. Elon Musk believes there is a 10% chance that XAI Grok 5 can achieve AGI. Musk defines AGI as capable of doing anything a human with a computer can do, but not smarter than all humans and computers ... Read more... View Source

Elena Vera, a growth leader at Lovable with 10+ years running growth teams, argues that distribution—not just product quality—determines company success. Great products fail without it, while mediocre ones thrive with strong distribution. She defines growth as answering four questions predictably: Acquire, Activate, Monetize, and Retain customers. Fast-growing companies succeed via growth loops (c... View Source

By the time I arrived, the waterfront park in downtown Portland, Oregon was already awash with people as far as the eye could see. The No Kings protest in June had turned out around 10,000 people across the city; this one saw several times that number just downtown, with thousands more choosing to join localized protests in their neighborhoods or in the suburbs. Unable to get a precise crowd estim... View Source

Nearly four years after the release of Halo: Infinite, the sixth installment in the franchise has failed to live up to its name. Instead, the studio behind the sci-fi series may be working on a "live service, long-term updating multiplayer" Halo game that could do just that. According to YouTuber Rebs Gaming, a source claimed that Halo Studios, previously known as 343 Industries, is work... View Source

I've read a lot of horror books over the last two years. But my absolute favorite is easily Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night. The book was originally published in 2019 in Argentina, but it only got an English translation in 2023. While it doesn't quite reach Stephen King lengths, at nearly 600 pages, I'd say it still counts as an epic. There are certainly scary and gruesome moments in the stor... View Source

This quiz will test your knowledge of 'Star Trek' ships, species, episodes, and the ideals that explore the final frontier... View Source

Fallout Season 2 is taking us back to New Vegas as the legendary RPG turns 15, but there are more reasons to return to the Mojave... View Source

European Central Bank Governing Council member Joachim Nagel warned that financial markets should be watched carefully for signs of instability... View Source

No Kings protest in Chicago. Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million people took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president, his policies, and his tactics. Indivisible, the group behind the protests, claims that there were over 2,700 events in all 50 states. That... View Source

From Apple TV Plus to Peacock, a number of streaming services have recently increased their pricing — and Disney Plus is no exception. Starting on Tuesday, October 21st, the standalone plan with ads will jump from $9.99 to $11.99 a month, while the ad-free Premium tier will increase by $3 to $18.99 a month. The ad-free annual plan is also going up by $30, at which point it will cost $189.99 a year... View Source

To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when "TV" wasn't just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and 89 minutes, available on every screen everywhere for a few bucks a month. In 1982, when Sony first started selling its new device, "TV" was a piece of furniture. It was probably humungous, and often made largely of wood. Sony helped change all that. Fo... View Source

Techtober is a busy time for our reviews team as a deluge of new devices arrive before the holiday season. We’ve been hard at work conducting our in-depth testing, but it’s understandable if you missed a review or two over the last few weeks. Read on to catch up all the reviews you might’ve missed, including the latest trio of Google Pixel devices. Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel... View Source

The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser is recognizing that it's not just a browser with an AI bot added to it, but a browser with three AI bots all living side by side. This is both a strength and a weakness, because while you don't have to leave to do all the AI things you want, knowing where to go for which AI tasks can be really confusing. Opera began taking people off the waitlist for... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 102, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy spooky season, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about personal chefs and TikTok's algorithm and deep sea divers, tearing through Cory Doctorow's fabulous Enshittification book, helping curate the... View Source

Apple’s range of M5 products has a new chip — and little else to entice typical shoppers. Also: The company’s AI division brain drain continues, and Apple gears up to launch a touch-screen MacBook Pro... View Source

The livestream is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT) on Oct. 20... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry's power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Since ChatGPT became a household name, people have been trying to get sexy with it. Even before that,... View Source

The Heart Nebula shines 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia... View Source

China said it’s uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of US government cyber attacks on the country’s main agency responsible for timekeeping... View Source

SpaceX will launch its 10,000th Starlink satellite today (Oct. 19) on the record-breaking 31st flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and you can watch the action live... View Source

A pivotal political gathering in Beijing this week could deliver fresh policy measures to extend China’s strongest equity rally in eight years and shore up the yuan, as investors weigh risks from escalating US trade tensions... View Source

Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read Near Flesh, a collection of short stories by the late Katherine Dunn, and 30 Days of Night: Falling Sun, the revival of the hit horror series. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-near-flesh-and-the-return-of-30-days-of-night-215141747.h... View Source

Arrow Electronics Inc. said its affiliates will be dropped from a US Commerce Department sanctions list, sparing the Colorado-based chip distributor’s subsidiaries from a possible ban on purchases of American technologies... View Source