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OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to Friday's global release. "In markets where Go has been available, we've seen strong adoption and regular everyday use for tasks like writing, learning, image creation, and problem-solving," the compan... View Source

Analyst Mike Mayo pressed State Street management to spell out its strategy... View Source

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside of ChatGPT "in the coming weeks." In a blog post published Friday, the company said adult users in the US of its free and Go tiers (more on the latter in a moment) would start seeing sponsored products and services appear below their conversations with its chatbot. "Ads will be clearly labeled and separated from the organic answer," Open... View Source

NASA hopes to launch its crewed Artemis 2 moon mission in early February, but everything will have to go right to hit that ambitious target... View Source

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interconnection, the biggest electricity market in the US, to hold a power auction meant to spur a massive buildout of new power plants. Together, they're "urging" PJM to hold an "emergency" auction for com... View Source

The humanoid robotics market is on track to reach $200 billion by 2035, according to a report from Barclays. Zornitsa Todorova, team director for Thematic FICC Research at Barclays, discusses with Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

CyberGhost is the middle child of the Kape Technologies VPN portfolio, but in quality, it's much closer to ExpressVPN than Private Internet Access. I mainly put it on my best VPN list because it's so cheap, but I wouldn't have done that if it didn't earn its place in other ways — affordable crap is still crap, after all. My universal impression of CyberGhost is a VPN that'... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) By Supreet Kaur In an era where data security is critical to aviation safety, NASA is exploring bold new solutions.  An Alta-X drone carries a custom built simulated Unmanned Aircraft Systems environment payload for the new blockchain system tests.   Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarette  Through a drone flight test at... View Source

'I think walking onto the bridge and sitting on the captain's chair blew my mind.'... View Source

A prize wheel in Steal The Brainrot. Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions. Beginning January 20th, experiences - which Epic Games calls "islands" - will not be able to offer in-island transactions as "a 'spin' or 'increased luck' for a prize wheel," according to an Epic staffer on Reddit... View Source

The US Federal Trade Commission is taking a closer look at moves by major tech companies to hire away the employees of a startup instead of buying the venture outright, the agency’s Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, addressing a growing practice seen as a way to avoid antitrust review... View Source

Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant for taking care of simple tasks on your computer, is now available for anyone with a $20 per month Pro subscription to try. Anthropic launched Cowork as an exclusive feature for its Max subscribers, who pay a minimum of $100 per month for more uses of Claude's expensive reasoning models and early access to experimental features. Now Claude Cowork i... View Source

Four ISS crewmembers were brought home a month early due to an undisclosed but non-emergency "medical concern"... View Source

An AI-generated scene created by Flow. Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too. Flow uses Google's AI video generation model Veo 3.1 to generate eight-second clips based on a text prompt or images... View Source

HP was hit with back-to-back downgrades. Barclays turns bearish, warning of structural PC weakness, rising memory costs, and no clear catalysts ahead. CFRA flags margin pressure from unprecedented inflation. New Street Research analyst Antoine Chkaiban joined Bloomberg Open Interest with his take on the sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Although X removed Grok’s ability to create nonconsensual digitally undressed images on the social platform, the standalone Grok app is another story. It reportedly continues to produce “nudified” deepfakes of real people. And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Musk’s 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok al... View Source

SpaceX will launch its first national security mission of the year tonight (Jan. 16), and you can watch the action live... View Source

As we predicted, the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads, but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs - not from Nvidia, not from Intel, and not from AMD. But if you dig deep, AMD said two things at this year's show that are worthy of attention. Did you catch that the company's about to make socketed mob... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Hardware companies like HP are under pressure as prices skyrocket for memory chips. As President Trump moves to make tech giants pay for surging power costs, we'll discuss the AI boom with Vicky Peacey of Resolution Copper. President Trump may unveil a plan next week that will allow people to take... View Source

Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and minifigures. It was unexpected and delightful to see Lego come up with a way to modernize its bricks without the need for apps, screens or AI. So I was a little surprised this week when the Lego Education group announced its latest initiative is the Compute... View Source

Customers of Visible Wireless, which is owned by Verizon, may be getting a $5 credit toward their next bill in response to a Verizon cell service outage earlier this week. Verizon customers were offered a $20 credit after the outage. As spotted by 9to5Google, a message sent to Visible customers explains: "Yesterday we let you down and for that we are sorry. We are giving you a $5 credit towards yo... View Source

OpenAI will start testing advertisements in the ChatGPT app for certain US users, marking a major shift for the company as it seeks to bolster revenue from the popular chatbot... View Source

X is still struggling with an outage that has intermittently taken the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The iss... View Source

Though Netflix's plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery has prompted concerns about how the deal might hurt the movie theater business, the streamer's co-CEO says that there is nothing to worry about. In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD acquisition go through, the streamer will commit to 45-day theatrical release windows for the legacy stud... View Source

The makers of ‘The Seance of Blake Manor’ say it took years of iteration for their game to work... View Source

Canada has agreed to drastically reduce its tariffs on imported Chinese EVs from 100 percent to 6.1 percent as part of a new deal between the two countries. In return, China will be reducing tariffs on Canadian canola seeds from 84 percent to about 15 percent. The move is a break from the United States, which maintains a 100 percent tariff on EVs from China, effectively banning them in the country... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, some impressive alleged sales figures have gone viral - but they might be too good to be true. This week, I saw something new in my regular scouring of the web for updates on the Trump phone... View Source

Tech companies no longer need creative workarounds, like acquihires, to get M&A deals through, says Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson. Ferguson says the commission will review these deals to make sure they comply with the law. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We already knew something Ocarina of Time-related was coming from Nintendo and Lego in 2026, and now we know exactly what that set will look like. Weighing in at a surprisingly modest 1,003 pieces, the typically word salad-y Lego The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The Final Battle is the second Lego Zelda set, following the 2,500-piece Great Deku Tree set in 2024. While the latter lets you cho... View Source

On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage map noted over 600 X servers around the world that were having problems. Attempts to load the site with either the Twitter.com or X.com addresses were showing a Cloudflare connection error or failing t... View Source

"We think valuations look high, but they actually are driven by fundamentals," BlackRock's Alex Brazier tells Bloomberg Television. He also adds the artificial intelligence theme is "broadening out." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Is the North American blockade on Chinese EVs softening? Today, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a deal with China to slash tariffs on electric vehicles in exchange for lowering duties on canola products. Canada will initially allow up to 49,000 Chinese EVs at a 6.1 percent tariff, Carney said, though the exact timeline was unclear. The news comes a few days after President Donald Tru... View Source

It didn’t take long for a fairly innocuous debate between two outspoken corporate leaders to escalate into an ugly brawl, name-calling and all... View Source

TikTok is bolstering its age-verification measures across Europe. In the coming weeks, the platform will roll out upgraded age-detection tech in the European Economic Area, as well as in the UK and Switzerland. The systems will assess the likely age of a user based on their profile information and activity. When the tech flags an account that may belong to a user aged under 13 (the minimum age to... View Source

Fintech firm Pagaya Technologies Ltd. raised $350 million through a bond backed by personal loans in a so-called hybrid private-public transaction, the first for the company using such collateral... View Source

San Francisco-founded Smart glasses maker Viture has been sued in a US court by rival XREAL over claims it infringed on its patents, XREAL announced in a press release. The complaint, lodged in a federal Texas court, accuses Viture of illegally incorporating XREAL's patented tech into its products including the Luma Pro, Luma Ultra and Beast models.  "The lawsuit is not merely about... View Source

Cloudflare operates as a content delivery network and distributed DNS (domain name server) and it is down this morning. This is causing many other sites to be down like X. Its services protect website owners from peak loads, comment spam attacks and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks... View Source

US stocks extended gains on Friday as the euphoria over technology stocks continued for a second day... View Source

Apple's next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it'll be using Google's Gemini AI for its new foundation models. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonifacic discuss why Apple teamed up with Google again, instead of OpenAI or Anthropic. Also, they chat about Meta's Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the company on AI hardwa... View Source

NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA’s Crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B ahead of the Artemis II launch which will journey Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina... View Source

Why not get your custom insole engraved? This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. I take my feet seriously. Which was why, in De... View Source

DoorDash Inc. Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months to pursue a new opportunity... View Source

Meta is killing the standalone Workrooms app on February 16, 2026. The company presented Workrooms as a virtual reality space where teams can meet and collaborate in an immersive environment when it launched the product. Now Meta says its Horizon platform has evolved enough to support “a wide range of productivity apps and tools,” so it “made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone a... View Source

5 Min Read Out of This World Discoveries: Space Station Research in 2025 As Earth completed its orbit around the Sun to close out 2025, the International Space Station circled our planet more than 5,800 times. Serving as humanity’s unique laboratory in space, the station has hosted thousands of experiments and technology demonstrations, advancing science in ways that cannot be replicated on Earth... View Source

Sony’s WH-1000XM6 are among the wireless headphones affected by the Fast Pair vulnerability. Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw that can allow attackers to listen in on conversations or track devices that use Google's Find Hub network, as reported by Wired. Researchers from KU Leuven University's Computer Security and Industri... View Source

Dragoneer is leading a $400 million funding round for the startup... View Source

The fate of Warner Bros. Discovery remains the biggest story in Hollywood, with Paramount Skydance refusing to back down from its rival bid to the proposed Netflix acquisition of the company. If the Netflix deal does go through, the company’s co-chief executive, Ted Sarandos, has attempted to ease concerns around what that could mean for theaters. In an interview with The New York Times, Sarandos... View Source

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We know how the next-generation Siri is supposed to work. Apple showed it off in 2024, made commercials about it, and generally promised that AI would change the way we used our gadgets forever. And then, well, none of that came to pass. So Apple made a deal: It tapped Google's Gemini technology to help it turn Siri into the assistant we were promised. This deal's a big one, and it could change th... View Source

President Donald Trump, along with the governors of several US Northeastern states, agreed to push for an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would effectively force technology companies to fund new power plants. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has opened two investigations into Microsoft-owned game studio Activision Blizzard, centered around the mobile games Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile. The AGCM alleges the free-to-play games use "misleading and aggressive practices" to encourage in-game purchases. Regulators say the games rely on a "deceptive user interface design... View Source

A former Microsoft Corp. executive has left Cerved Group, the Italian credit-information company that is part of billionaire Andrea Pignataro’s ION Group, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

After telling the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed that it was putting its RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 5070 Ti into "end-of-life status," ASUS has backtracked on those comments and now says the GPUs will remain on sale.  "Certain media may have received incomplete information from an ASUS PR representative regarding these products," the company said in a dedicated press release... View Source

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

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore... View Source

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Elon Musk first sued OpenAI in February 2024. Despite OpenAI's repeated attempts to throw it out, the case is now headed to a jury trial on April 27th in Northern California federal court. Musk's main allegation is that OpenAI and its leaders abandoned th... View Source

Data centers aren’t popular with local communities. Microsoft and Meta are running PR campaigns to fix that... View Source

Down the street from the Los Angeles Angels' stadium in Anaheim, a crowd gathers to watch two homes burn. In less than 30 minutes, one structure is reduced to its smoldering, blackened wood frame, while the other, thanks to simple changes to its design, is remarkably unscathed. Of course, this was the point of the demonstration, which was held last June by the Insurance Institute for Business... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.25 of the Rocket Report! All eyes are on Florida this weekend as NASA rolls out the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to its launch site in Florida for the Artemis II mission. NASA has not announced a launch date yet, and this will depend in part on how well a "wet dress rehearsal" goes with fueling the rocket. However, it is likely the rocket has a no-earlier-th... View Source

Harold Hamm, the billionaire wildcatter who helped kick off the US shale oil revolution, said he’s about to shut down drilling in North Dakota’s Bakken for the first time in decades because of low crude prices... View Source

If you thought we were exaggerating, the hunger for memory and GPUs is making many companies reassess their priorities. YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed discovered ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. Both GPUs are 16GB models, making them more expensive to manufacture in the current climate. “Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memor... View Source

The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and blaming "incomplete information" from its own Asus PR representatives. "The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB have not been discontinued or designated as end-of-life (EOL)," says an Asus... View Source

The “Joining” seems to connect people via radio waves. Let’s dig into the physics at play... View Source

US regulators granted Tesla Inc. a five-week extension to start addressing a defect investigation into cars violating traffic laws while the company’s Full Self-Driving system is engaged... View Source

Intel Corp.’s dramatic rally to start the year shows investors are increasingly optimistic about the chipmaker gaining new foundry customers, putting it back into the artificial intelligence trade it appeared to abandon in 2024... View Source

3I/ATLAS is heading away from the sun on an escape trajectory from our solar system... View Source

A group of shareholders in Salto Systems SL are weighing a sale of their stakes in the Spanish electronic locks manufacturer, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Morgan Stanley laid out its bullish case for why investors should buy ASML Holding NV shares, saying in the most optimistic scenario the stock has a 70% rally ahead as chipmakers ramp up spending to meet soaring demand for artificial intelligence... View Source

The once-distant threat of quantum computing has prompted one of the most closely followed market strategists to walk away from Bitcoin, underscoring how doubts over the token’s security are creeping into mainstream portfolio thinking... View Source

European stocks’ outperformance over the US has taken a surprising turn this year, with technology names in the driving seat... View Source

Several Fed officials signal a willingness to pause rate cuts at their next meeting, citing a US labor market that appears to be stabilizing as well as lingering inflation pressures; the US and Taiwan strike a trade deal that lowers tariffs on goods from the island to 15% and ramps up chip investment in America; Adnoc mulls investing in Venezuela as the energy giant looks to build out its global n... View Source

South Africa extended the deadline for public comment on a proposed 20% online-gambling tax due to requests for more time... View Source

German investor Digital Transformation Capital Partners GmbH is on track to raise Europe’s largest-ever dedicated venture capital fund for defense startups, signing its first big backers for a fund targeting €500 million ($580 million)... View Source

Kuaishou Technology tapped offshore markets for the first time, selling bonds to bolster artificial intelligence funding and extend last year’s surge in debt issuance by major companies in the sector... View Source

Taiwan sought to downplay concerns its tech industry is being hollowed out by a US trade deal, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and other chipmakers invest hundreds of billions of dollars in America... View Source

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XAI has created Grokipedia and Grokipedia has a Nextbigfuture article. Nextbigfuture provided early coverage of Companies that Become deep tech Unicorns. Dozens of top Nucleqr fission and Fusion, quantum computer and Space Companies before They Became Billion $ Unicorns. There has been a surge in Grokipedia traffic to approximately 3.5 million daily visits, representing a ... Read more... View Source

Japan joined the growing list of countries probing X over Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok and the chatbot’s role in creating and spreading sexualized images of people without their consent... View Source

Venezuela’s oil industry is running its day-to-day operations via phone calls and handwritten reports in the month since a cyberattack on state-owned oil giant Petróleos de Venezuela SA... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Last month, Netflix made the surprising decision to kill off a key feature: With no prior warning, the company removed the ability to cast videos from its mobile apps to a wide range of smart TVs and streaming devices. Casting is now o... View Source

Lithium refiner Mangrove Water Technologies Inc. secured $85 million from the Canada Growth Fund, BMW AG’s i Ventures and Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy LLC... View Source

Replit Inc., an artificial intelligence coding startup, is nearing a deal for a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9 billion, including the money raised, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

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The AI company’s newest product has put much of the software industry on alert... View Source

The rising costs of memory and storage components are putting pressure on the stocks of hardware makers. Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work: Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to collaborate. Today, the company announced it's shutting that space down: "Meta has made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app, effective February 16, 2026," reads the note tucked away on... View Source

OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims that Sam Altman’s startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity when it took billions in funding from a software giant and made plans to operate as a for-profit business... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will try to accelerate the transfer of its advanced chipmaking expertise to the US in the future, though it will still develop and maintain its most cutting-edge fabrication techniques at home... View Source

Memory stocks are the place to be as artificial intelligence continues to push up chip demand over the next decade, according to emerging‑market equity fund manager Divya Mathur at ClearBridge Investments... View Source

Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as president of Lucasfilm. Although she will continue as a producer for several Star Wars projects, including upcoming movie The Mandalorian and Grogu, the company will now be helmed by a duo in Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan. It's a big changing of the guard for Star Wars fans, and marks the start of a fresh chapter for the sci-fi universe. Before takin... View Source

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company for harassment, accusing xAI’s Grok chatbot of generating sexually explicit images of her without her consent... View Source

On Thursday, Hardware Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, Asus "explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as such, they have placed the model into end-of-life status." They added that the same applies to Asus's 16GB RTX 5060 Ti, and mentioned how retailers in Australia have had trouble sourcing the product. Nvidia's direc... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing CFO and Senior VP Wendell Huang says that it will try to accelerate the transfer of its advanced chipmaking expertise to the US in the future, though it will still develop and maintain its most cutting-edge fabrication techniques at home. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After testing the feature in a limited beta, Bluesky is making its "Live Now" badge for streamers available for everyone on the social network to try. Live Now is included as part of Bluesky's v1.114 update, alongside "cashtags," a separate type of hashtag for collecting conversations about publicly-traded companies.Bluesky first started testing its Live Now badge in May 2... View Source

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the many people over the past couple weeks who have found themselves undressed without permission by X's AI chatbot, Grok. The chatbot has been gingerly complying with users' requests to remove clothing from... View Source

After reporting huge profits in 4Q25, TSMC CFO Wendell Huang affirmed the company’s strong conviction in the “mega trend of AI demand". He says that the chipmaker is eyeing a smaller tech gap between US and Taiwan by working towards accelerating the transfer of its advanced chipmaking expertise to the US in the future, though it will still develop and maintain its most cutting-edge fabrication tec... View Source

After a tumultuous 2025 that saw it lose around 4,000 employees, NASA finally has an operating budget for 2026, and one that largely preserves its scientific capabilities. On Thursday, the Senate passed an appropriations bill funding NASA, alongside the National Science Foundation and a handful of other federal agencies. Going into the appropriations process, the president called for a 24 per... View Source

Exlumina’s EVERLIGHT delivers wireless laser power to satellites and spacecraft, enabling longer missions, lower costs, and sustainable exploration in LEO, lunar, and deep-space environments. They will try to make the planned AI data centers in Space more efficient... View Source

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system... View Source

There's a new name in charge of stewarding Star Wars at Lucasfilm. The studio just announced that Dave Filoni - best-known for his work on The Mandalorian and The Clone Wars - will be taking over as president. Former president Kathleen Kennedy, whose departure had been rumored for some time, will be stepping down and returning to producing films full-time. Under the new structure, Filoni will cont... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. and other major social media platforms blocked 4.7 million underage accounts in Australia last month as the country’s landmark social media ban for under-16s took effect... View Source

The US and Taiwan have signed an agreement that will see a multi-billion dollar investment into domestic development of semiconductors and related infrastructure. The US Department of Commerce announced that Taiwanese businesses will make an upfront investment of at least $250 billion into their US production capacity, while Taiwan's government will provide credit guarantees of at least anoth... View Source

Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a wristband that measures skin temperature, heart rate, and movement during sleep. The newly-launched wristband costs $129.99 and syncs with the Natural Cycles app, which uses an algorithm to determine a person's "daily fertility status." Users can already track their fertility by pa... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss TSMC’s strong earnings and forecast, a sign that demand related to AI remains robust. Plus, OpenAI strikes a $10 billion deal with Cerebras for compute, and hunts for hardware partners across data centers and consumer devices. And New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sues a delivery tech company, accusing it of breaking local worker-protection laws. (S... View Source

SETI@home has been one of the largest citizen science projects ever, with millions of users around the world... View Source

The 65-inch LG C5 OLED TV is rarely this affordable. LG might have just revealed its new C6 OLED TVs at CES 2026, but we still don't know when they'll actually hit stores. If you don't want to wait - or spend a couple thousand dollars on a brand new model - the current-gen LG C5 OLED is a fantastic option now the 65-inch model is $1,197.59 ($1,502 off) when you use code FAVEFINDS20 at eBay. That's... View Source

JPMorgan Chase Chair and CEO Jamie Dimon says there's no chance he'll be Federal Reserve chair but doesn't rule out becoming US Treasury Secretary during an interview with David Rubenstein at the US Chamber of Commerce's 2026 State of American Business. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After reaching a proposed settlement last year, the FTC has banned General Motors from sharing specific consumer data with third parties, TechCrunch reported. The finalized order wraps up one of the more egregious cases of a corporation collecting its customers' data and then using it against them.  Two years ago, the New York Times report released a report detailing how GM's OnStar... View Source

One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs of mental health struggles in a chatbot conversation. OpenAI's head of that type of safety research, Andrea Vallone, has now joined Anthropic. "Over the past year, I led OpenAI's research on a question with almost no established precedents: how should models respond when confronted... View Source

Legal software firm Relativity ODA LLC has cut borrowing costs on existing private debt in the leveraged loan market, the latest example of public market investors displacing private lenders... View Source

As part of a new agreement, films from Sony Pictures Entertainment will stream on Netflix first, the companies announced via a joint statement. The new deal expands on the exclusive rights Netflix had to Sony films in the US, and means the service will be the first place people will be able to stream upcoming projects like the live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda, and a quartet of biopics... View Source

4 Min Read NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Wraps Up Space Station Science NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with agency astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth after a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. During their stay, Cardman, Fincke, and Yui contributed more th... View Source

It's apparently never too early to start the MCU hype machine rolling!... View Source

The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday. Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwanese technology companies will invest $250 billion into building and expanding chipmaking facilities in the US, supported by at least $250 billion in credit offered by... View Source

President Donald Trump’s plan for the Golden Dome missile shield has increased the focus on space defense. Laura Crabtree, former SpaceX engineer and co-founder and CEO of Epsilon3, a software provider for the space industry, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Today, Amazon shared more details about the final chapter of its game New World: Aeternum. The company announced in October that it would wind down support for the MMO, with the Nighthaven season to be its last. New World will be delisted and no longer available for purchase starting today, but the game's servers will not be taken offline until January 31, 2027. People who own the game will b... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Oregon Air National Guard ground crew guides one of the NASA’s newest F-15 aircraft onto the ramp at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. The retired U.S. Air Force F-15s come from the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing and will transition from... View Source

PUBG developer Krafton has 26 games in development, and in a recent town hall meeting, the company outlined a plan to "focus on its core gaming business while outlining a disciplined approach to building long-term Franchise IPs." "During the past year, KRAFTON has prepared for Franchise IP development by strengthening its creative leadership, as well as upgrading its overall game development and p... View Source

The biggest grid operator in the US cut its power demand forecast for summer 2027 by more than 2%. Mehdi Paryavi, CEO of the DC-based think tank International Data Center Authority, discusses with Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

President Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on “certain advanced computing chips,” the White House has announced. As The New York Times notes, the administration previously threatened much bigger and broader tariffs for chips. Trump even said that he was going to impose a 100 percent tariff on companies unless they invest on semiconductor manufacturing in the United Stat... View Source

A recent string of cyberattacks against the European Space Agency is just the tip of the iceberg, a researcher said, claiming that email credentials of ESA employees are regularly leaked online... View Source

Ema. | Image: Fábula Every year, countless independent films without distribution deals make their debuts on the festival circuit only to disappear into the ether before the general public has had a chance to see them. Pijama, a new VOD streaming service, is trying to change that. Created by filmmakers (and brothers) Juan de Dio and Pablo Larraín - whose past work includes Spencer and Jacki... View Source

"There were surprises in the bill," says Rebecca Rettig, who has been in the room for some of the negotiations as the Senate Banking Committee crafts the crypto market-structure bill. She also serves on the CFTC's Digital Assets Subcommittee. Senate Banking Committee delayed its discussion of the crypto market-structure bill after Coinbase pulled its support for the latest version. Rettig joined t... View Source

Now would be a good time to update all your Bluetooth audio devices. On Thursday, Wired reported on a security flaw in 17 headphone and speaker models that could allow hackers to access your devices, including their microphones. The vulnerability stems from a faulty implementation of Google's one-tap (Fast Pair) protocol.Security researchers at Belgium's KU Leuven University Computer Sec... View Source

a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz join a16z general partner Erik Torenberg and Not Boring founder Packy McCormick for a discussion on the evolution of the media and information ecosystem over the past decade. The conversation explores shifts toward open, decentralized speech, the rise of creator-led platforms like Substack, and the decline of centralized ... Read more... View Source

Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum, one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase starting today, January 15th. Last year, Amazon announced that it would be pivoting away from MMOs to put more of a focus on party games, and the company said at the time that it wouldn't be releasing... View Source

Harried consumers are testing new ways to cram as much podcast information into their brains as possible without listening to full episodes... View Source

The second season of Amazon's excellent Fallout show is currently airing, but the company is already looking to expand its programming around the popular franchise. Prime Video has greenlit a unscripted reality show titled Fallout Shelter. It will be a ten-episode run with Studio Lambert, the team behind reality projects including Squid Game: The Challenge and The Traitors, as its primary pro... View Source

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Siri, are you there? It’s me, Gemini. For an AI loser, Apple did an awful lot of winning last year. The mess that was the Apple Intelligence rollout was embarrassing, to be sure, but through it all, the company kept doing what it does best: selling iPhones. With this week's news that it'll use Gemini models to power the long-awaited smarter Siri, Apple seems to have taken a big 'ol L in the whole... View Source

Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the largest corporate holder of the cryptocurency Ether and chaired by Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, said it will invest $200 million for a stake in Beast Industries, the private company behind YouTube star Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson. Isabelle Lee has more on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

During CES 2026, Samsung unveiled plenty of new TVs, monitors and other hardware. However, the company is also looking to expand further into video games and has announced a significant refresh to its Gaming Hub on smartphones. Engadget spoke with Samsung’s Jong Woo, VP of Game Services, who explained that the update will offer more personalized, faster ways to play and place greater emphasis on u... View Source

Amazon's data centers will reportedly utilize copper from a mine in Arizona that's leaching metal from ores using microorganisms, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon Web Services will be the first customer for Nuton Technologies, which developed the "bioleaching" technology. AWS will also be providing "cloud-based data and analytics support," helping to optimize Nuton's mining process. Nuton's... View Source

Netflix Inc. obtained global streaming rights to Sony Group Corp.’s films after they complete their run in theaters, adding releases from one of Hollywood’s biggest studios... View Source

The intriguing Africanfuturist heist game, Relooted, is out on February 10. Developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop, the game focuses on a ragtag crew from Johannesburg that liberates real-life African artifacts from a series of fictionalized Western museums. Relooted is best described as a 2.5d side-scrolling action platformer with stealth and puzzle elements. You have to care... View Source

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" from Trump Mobile. The company first announced its T1 Phone more than six months ago, but is yet to ship a single phone to buyers. The letter is signed by 11 Democrats, led by Senator Warren and Congress... View Source

Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is earmarking as much as $56 billion in capital spending for 2026, a stronger-than-anticipated projection that signals its confidence in the longevity of the global AI boom. Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh joins to discuss on Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that NVIDIA has “effectively” discontinued the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS “explicitly” told it the RTX 5070 Ti is “currently facing a supply shortage.” As a result, the company has “placed the model into end of life status,” and no longer plans to produce it. Hardware... View Source

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Raspberry Pi is launching a new add-on board capable of running generative AI models locally on the Raspberry Pi 5. Announced on Thursday, the $130 AI HAT+ 2 is an upgraded - and more expensive - version of the module launched last year, now offering 8GB of RAM and a Hailo 10H chip with 40 TOPS of AI performance. Once connected, the Raspberry Pi 5 will use the AI HAT+ 2 to handle AI-related worklo... View Source

Xreal Inc., a Chinese pioneer in smart glasses, is suing Viture Inc. for patent infringement in the US, arguing its rival has unfairly capitalized on Xreal’s extensive research and investment in the segment... View Source

Verizon is offering a very small mea culpa after Wednesday's massive outage, which drew more than 1.5 million reports on Downdetector and lasted hours. The carrier posted on X that it will offer a $20 credit, but customers must redeem it in the myVerizon app. "This credit isn’t meant to make up for what happened. No credit really can," the company wrote. "But it’s a way of ackn... View Source

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"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren't there?"... View Source

Move over Squid Game: another bleak fictional world is being turned into competitive reality television. In the midst of season 2 of Fallout, Amazon has announced a new series called Fallout Shelter. According to a casting call, the show will put competitors inside of Fallout's iconic vaults and then test their survival skills in a recreation of the post-apocalyptic world. Presumably there will be... View Source

The AI startup is requesting proposals from hardware makers as part of a product expansion... View Source

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, parent company Wikimedia announced a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to alleviate some of the cost associated with AI chatbots accessing Wikipedia content in enormous volumes by giving the tech companies streamlined access. As noted by The Verge, the timeline on the... View Source

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. There have also been decades old open significant math problems solved by OpenAI GPT 5.2. The problem reduces to identifying the pointwise maximal function U(p,q) under ... Read more... View Source

Subway Surfers City, a follow-up to the popular endless runner mobile game / sludge content star Subway Surfers, will be launching on February 26th on iOS and Android, with preregistration open now. "Building upon the original title, Subway Surfers City brings players home from the franchise's World Tour and into the heart of the Subway Surfers universe: Subway City," according to a press release... View Source

Tensor Auto Inc., a startup that develops autonomous vehicles, is considering raising several hundreds million dollars ahead of a potential initial public offering in the US, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The indie RPG Sea of Stars is being released for mobile platforms on April 7. The iOS and Android versions are priced at just $10, which is a steal considering it cost $35 when it was first released for PC and consoles. Heck, it still costs that much on many platforms. This is a mobile release, so it's not an exact port. The interface has been revamped to allow for complete touch control. It... View Source

YouTube is now home to the "largest digital library of Sesame Street content" with the arrival of over a hundred older, "classic" episodes of the show, as first announced last year. YouTube's collection of Sesame Street episodes spans the series' history, as the announcement for the streaming launch mentions: "More than 100 full Sesame Street episodes from previous seasons are now available on You... View Source

Oracle Corp. was sued by bondholders who claim that the database giant failed to disclose plans to raise more debt when it borrowed $18 billion in one of 2025’s largest corporate bond offerings... View Source

Mentra will soon start shipping its first smart glasses, the Mentra Live. At first glance, there’s nothing obvious setting Mentra’s glasses apart from its more well-known competitors, but they come with their own dedicated app store, and employ an open-source OS with an SDK that developers have had access to since early 2025. Mentra says the MiniApp Store is the first app store of its nature for s... View Source

Jets of ionized gas streak across a cosmic landscape from a newly forming star.NASA, ESA, and B. Reipurth (Planetary Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image... View Source

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Verizon is offering customers a $20 account credit following a massive outage that brought down service across the US on Wednesday. In an update on X, Verizon says you'll receive a text message when the credit is available, which you can redeem by logging into the myVerizon app and accepting it. "Yesterday, we did not meet the standard of excellence you expect and that we expect of ourselves," Ver... View Source

In remarks this week to a Texas space organization, a key Senate staff member said an "extension" of the International Space Station is on the table and that NASA needs to accelerate a program to replace the aging station with commercial alternatives. Maddy Davis, a space policy staff member for US Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made the comments to the Texas Space Coalition during a virtual event. Cruz... View Source

Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million... View Source

If you’re looking for something to entertain your kids for the next several months (and potentially longer), YouTube would like you to know that more than 100 classic episodes of Sesame Street are now streaming on the platform. The partnership between Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop and YouTube was first announced last year and encompasses both old episodes as well as new content. Some... View Source

The camera in this color photo can’t take this photo. The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome now has a price and is already up for preorder. The dedicated black-and-white camera, based on the standard GR IV with a fixed 28mmm-equivalent lens, will cost $2,199.95 - a $700 premium over the GR IV. Ricoh first announced the GR IV Monochrome was being made back in October, and it was due for launch in the spring... View Source

Technology stocks bounced back on Thursday after TSMC revived confidence in the durability of artificial-intelligence demand. Nasdaq 100 futures swung from losses to a gain after the AI-bellwether said it would lift capital spending by at least a quarter to as much as $56 billion in 2026 and forecast faster-than-expected revenue growth. Tech also lifted Europe’s Stoxx 600 to a fresh record. A rall... View Source

IO Interactive raised a few eyebrows last week when it announced the minimum and recommended PC specs for 007 First Light. To run the James Bond adventure at in 1080p at 60 fps, IOI initially said you'd need to have a rig with at least 32GB of RAM and a GPU with 12GB of VRAM. The studio has now revised those numbers and other elements of the specs after "the community flagged some incons... View Source

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It was an overcast January morning in 2025 the day I decided to delete my operating system. The Ubuntu installer warned me that it would remove everything on my hard drive, permanently wiping the entire Windows 10 installation I'd been running for years at that point. I hesitated for a second - maybe I should just dual-boot? No, I'm going all in! Finally, I hit the button to install Linux. One yea... View Source

Germany’s state of Saxony-Anhalt will temporarily finance Domo Chemicals GmbH’s insolvent plastics production site in Leuna to prevent a potentiallly damaging shutdown... View Source

After a widely hyped and successful Kickstarter campaign, Valerion’s 4K VisionMaster Max laser projector has finally arrived. It’s the company’s new flagship model in the VisionMaster series, offering better image quality and more convenience than its other models. However, it’s quite expensive and has some stiff competition from Anker’s Nebula X1 and XGIMI’s Horizon 20 Max. I was eager to see how... View Source

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

The noisy fandom is about to have a field day with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy... View Source

The best deal that I’ve seen on The Matrix: 4 Film Deja Vú Collection containing the four main films on 4K Blu-ray discs is $34.99. After missing out on that price around Cyber Monday, I’ve been waiting patiently for it to return. I can wait no longer to rewatch the 1999 classic, so Walmart’s $44.99 price suffices. It’s not a bad deal at roughly $11 per movie, considering the collection regularly... View Source

Amazon Web Services struck a deal with Rio Tinto Group to use copper from an Arizona mine in US data centers... View Source

OpenAI has debuted a dedicated ChatGPT-powered translation tool. While folks have been using the main chatbot for translation for some time, you can now find ChatGPT Translate on its own webpage, as Android Authority spotted. The tool can translate text, voice inputs and images into more than 50 languages in seconds, OpenAI says. There’s an automatic language detection function too.Most inter... View Source

Plans are increasing by $1-$2 per month. The price of Spotify Premium is about to jump again in the US, marking its third price hike since 2023. Spotify announced that subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia will be contacted about the updated pricing over the coming month. Individual Premium plans in the US will increase from $11.99 to $12.99 by the next billing date. Student plans are also in... View Source

BlackRock Inc. has raised $12.5 billion as part of a partnership with Microsoft Corp. to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, advancing its efforts to cash in on the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Spotify is raising the prices for its premium subscriptions by $1 to $2 across the board, starting this February. Those are similar figures to the company’s last price hike in 2024. Subscribers across the US, Estonia and Latvia will soon receive an email, notifying them that they’ll be paying a larger amount for their February bill. The streaming service said it’s raising its prices occasionally t... View Source

Space school is officially in session and here's your center seat invitation!... View Source

Though House of the Dragon tells a different story than Game of Thrones, there are enough tonal similarities to make the spinoff feel more like a remix of its predecessor than a show with its own distinct voice. That's part of what made it a little hard to get excited when HBO first announced that it was producing yet another Game of Thrones prequel focused on digging into the annals of Westeros'... View Source

Mastercard Inc., Visa Inc. and UK fintech Revolut ltd. lost a lawsuit with the UK payments regulator over its plans to usher in a cap on cross-border card fees... View Source

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Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's and Google's policies, yet it and xAI's Grok remain on both companies' app stores. In open letters published Wednesday, a coalition of 28 advocacy groups, including women's organizations and tech watc... View Source

The AI startup and public carmaker are headed for a tighter relationship... View Source

NASA leaders said the Crew-11 mission's astronaut medical evacuation shows how the agency is prepared to handle the unexpected... View Source

The WeChat channel 纽约移民记事网Documented (or the New York Immigrant Chronicle) is part newsfeed and part public service. The channel, run by the nonprofit newsroom Documented NYC, is filled with local news for Chinese speakers in New York: stories about healthcare and immigration arrests, but also information on local events like toy giveaways, places w... View Source

Spotify Technology SA is raising the price of its premium subscription service by 8% in an effort to achieve sustained profitability... View Source

The DJI Neo 2 delivers improved image quality alongside Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance and many other new and impressive features... View Source

This is the moment a SpaceX capsule departed the International Space Station on an emergency return flight to Earth prompted by a medical issue afflicting one of the astronauts. It is Nasa’s first medical evacuation, with the mission being cut a month short. Onboard were American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui. Computer mo... View Source

Canon Inc. said it will explore acquisitions in lucrative arenas such as medical devices and chip tools in the coming years, while setting a lower dividend payout target of around 40%... View Source

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."... View Source

This UI will already be familiar to any Google Translate users, though ChatGPT Translate does include some style presets. | Image: OpenAI / The Verge OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone web translation tool that supports over 50 languages and is positioned as a direct competitor to Google Translate. The two services look visually similar: both feature two text boxes - one for typin... View Source

Soaring prices for memory and storage components have turned companies like Sandisk Corp., Micron Technology Inc. and Western Digital Corp. into the hottest stocks in the market over the past year. But they’re causing headaches for many of their customers... View Source

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the Crew-11 astronauts has splashed down into the ocean after they left the ISS a month earlier than planned due a medical issue. It’s the first time NASA cut a mission short due to a medical concern. The agency didn’t name the crew member and their condition but stated that they were stable and that it wasn’t a case of medical evacuation. NASA merely decided... View Source

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, left, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. Cardman, Fincke, Yui, Platonov are returni... View Source

Oracle Corp. is trying — and sometimes struggling — to attract workers to Nashville, where it is developing a massive riverfront headquarters... View Source

You don’t need to spend a fortune to stay on top of your health goals while tracking your fitness. These days, even cheap fitness trackers come packed with features that help you monitor your heart rate, track your steps and even analyze your sleep stages. Many budget options now include GPS tracking for those outdoor runs, real-time heart rate tracking to keep you in the right zone during workout... View Source

The Philippines will join Malaysia and Indonesia in blocking Elon Musk’s Grok AI amid growing concerns over sexualized images generated by the artificial intelligence system, according to a top government official in Manila... View Source

Thailand approved proposals worth 96.9 billion baht ($3.1 billion) to build new data centers and data-hosting projects, underscoring the Southeast Asian nation’s emergence as a regional technology hub... View Source

It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articles that get almost 15 billion views each month. To celebrate, the Wikimedia Foundation - the nonprofit that backs Wikipedia - is releasing brief clips that highlight eight of its editors from across t... View Source

The fund controlling Novo Nordisk A/S will make the largest donation in its history with a grant worth as much as 5.5 billion kroner ($860 million) for a Danish life science organization to help boost European innovation and jobs... View Source

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission splashed down safely today (Jan. 15) after the first-ever medical evacuation of the International Space Station... View Source