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The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission went into quarantine on Jan. 23, keeping everything on track for a possible launch in early February... View Source

Google could owe you some money, now that it's moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its devices were activated by something other than Google Assistant's actual trigger word, "Ok Google." German outlet VRT NWS's 2019 report exposed the issue, and court filings from last Friday say the proposed settlement number is $68 million, as reported previously... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Nvidia’s additional $2 billion investment in CoreWeave, to accelerate the buildout of AI factories. Plus, IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi discusses the quantum company’s continued acquisition spree, as it buys chipmaker SkyWater Technology in a cash-and-stock deal worth $1.8 billion. And investors gear up for big tech earnings with Meta, Apple and Tesla all... View Source

If your TikTok feed has felt a little off lately, it's not just you. TikTok says it's working to fix its service in the US following a power outage at one of its data centers that's caused widespread issues in the app. TikTok users have reported problems logging in and uploading videos, as well as with the app's "for you" algorithm."Since yesterday we’ve been wor... View Source

OpenAI's co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn't just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC - together, he and his wife Anna's September 2025 donations equaled the largest of them all, totaling $25 million to "MAGA Inc.," per a recent filing. The Brockmans' donations made up nearly one-fourth of the six-month fundraising cycle. It's the latest in a string... View Source

Baker Hughes Co., one of the world’s biggest oilfield contractors, said it plans to double its data center equipment order target to $3 billion over a three-year period, driven by surging demand for power to run artificial intelligence... View Source

It looks like Ubisoft is planning even more layoffs to accompany last week's studio closures and game cancellations, according to reporting by IGN. The company is planning a massive reduction of the workforce in its Paris headquarters. It has proposed the loss of up to 200 jobs, which is nearly 20 percent of the current staff. This will be organized under France's Rupture Conventionnelle Collectiv... View Source

Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Darth Vader are coming to Batuu!... View Source

Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily access tools and data across the internet. Users will now be able to interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, letting you draft and format Slack messages to colleagues and create presentations for clients in Canva without having to switch tabs. As of... View Source

Quantum computing firm IonQ has agreed to buy SkyWater Technology in a $1.8 billion cash-and-stock deal. IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi discusses the reasoning behind this latest acquisition with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It’s time to jump back into the pit. Ball x Pit is one of the very best games of 2025 and there’s now even more to play around with in the brick-busting roguelite. The first major free update for the game (one of three that’s on the cards this year) just arrived on all platforms. It added a bunch more stuff to the mix, including two new characters, eight extra special balls with powerful abilities... View Source

Spinoff 2026 marks the publication’s 50th year documenting commercial uses of NASA technology. This edition’s cover features NASA astronaut Alan Bean holding an environmental sample container filled with lunar soil during the Apollo 12 mission of November 1969. NASA astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., who took this picture, is reflected in Bean’s helmet visor. Credit: NASA As NASA fosters technolo... View Source

"Fuck ICE first, second, third, and fourth. Then worry about fucking me," a Reddit post reads. "Immigrants of any status are my friends, neighbors, and colleagues." Across the internet - and in the streets - the sentiment is unavoidable, especially after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday. The killing came just weeks after an im... View Source

AI inference startup Baseten Labs has raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, doubling its value in just six months. Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava and one of its backers, Conviction founder Sarah Guo, join Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic has been building out support for third-party apps inside of Claude. As of today, the chatbot can now connect to platforms like Slack and Canva, fetching up files from inside those apps or performing tasks within them on a user's behalf.For instance, when connected to Box, Claude can now search for files, preview documents inline and answer questions about the content in front of yo... View Source

Most vertical video microdrama apps have been focused on putting out newly-produced series meant to be watched on your phone. But Tattle TV thinks that people might also be interested in checking out bite-sized pieces of cinematic history. Though Tattle TV - a UK-based streaming platform created by filmmakers Philip McGoldrick and Marina Elderton - features a reality dating series about dog-owners... View Source

Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, invested an additional $2 billion in the cloud computing firm and key customer CoreWeave Inc., marking the latest example of the circular financing deals that have lifted valuations of AI companies and fueled concerns about a bubble. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana joins to discuss on Bloomberg intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Trump administration is planning on using Google Gemini to draft important federal regulations, as reported by ProPublica. This is starting with the Department of Transportation, according to interviews with agency staffers. Regulations created by the DOT help keep us safe when traveling. The plan was initially presented to DOT staffers last month, with agency attorney Daniel Cohen writing to... View Source

TikTok's takeover in the US has prompted users to join an alternative social platform called UpScrolled. The app, which is available on Android and iOS, currently holds the 12th spot in Apple's App Store, and it's struggling to keep up with an influx of new traffic. "You showed up so fast our servers tapped out," UpScrolled writes in a post on Bluesky, adding that it's working to get things up and... View Source

Ubisoft Entertainment SA has entered discussions to cut as many as 200 jobs at its French headquarters as part of a reorganization of the Assassin’s Creed maker... View Source

The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are coming up. (Mattia Ozbot/Getty Images) Mattia Ozbot via Getty Images The 2026 Winter Olympics are taking place in Italy this year, with all the action taking place in Milan and the Alpine city of Cortina. This year marks the fourth time Italy has hosted the Winter Games; most recently, Turin hosted in 2006. Of the 16 sports that will be featured at the W... View Source

Detergent bottles and other litter can travel thousands of miles across the ocean before washing up on the remote Island of Kaho’olawe in Hawaii. JPL remote-sensing technology recently showed that it can spot plastic pollution on land, but doing so in the sea presents challenges.NOAA Space-based technology could help track plastic and other flotsam by its ‘fingerprints.’ In late 2025, scientists r... View Source

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, offering a new clue to how comets evolve... View Source

OpenAI is reportedly asking a high price to advertise on ChatGPT, around $60 per 1,000 views, or triple what ads on Meta's platform usually cost, according to The Information. Despite the higher price, OpenAI won't be offering advertisers the same level of detailed information that Google and Meta do, such as whether users took any action in response to seeing an ad on ChatGPT, like making a purch... View Source

Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, invested an additional $2 billion in the cloud computing firm and key customer CoreWeave Inc., marking the latest example of the circular financing deals that have lifted valuations of AI companies and fueled concerns about a bubble... View Source

Recently released documents show the big business opportunity that social media companies saw in recruiting teens to their platforms and how they discussed risks that heavy digital engagement could pose. The documents were released last week as part of a major set of trials brought by school districts, state attorneys general, and others against Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube, alleging the design... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out its second-generation artificial intelligence chip, the centerpiece of the company’s push to power its services more efficiently and provide an alternative to Nvidia Corp. hardware... View Source

The ninth mainline Resident Evil is trying to split the difference between the series’ action-heavy entries and the stress-inducing hide-and-seek episodes. During a four-hour playthrough of some early parts of Resident Evil Requiem, I spent time with both of the two main characters, Grace and series mainstay Leon. They offer distinctly different playstyles, talents, strengths, and weaknesses. Whil... View Source

A seemingly serene landscape of gas and dust is hopping with star formation behind the scenes.NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constel... View Source

The Artemis 2 moon mission will send a swatch from the famous Wright Flyer, along with a number of other aerospace artifacts, when it launches in the coming weeks... View Source

TikTok says a power outage is causing ongoing issues and outages that started in the US early Sunday morning. In an email to The Verge, TikTok USDS spokesperson Jamie Favazza pointed to a statement posted to the joint venture's newly-created X account, which says the company has been "working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we... View Source

Earnings from the Magnificent 7 tech companies start rolling in this week. Meta, Tesla and Apple will be among the most closely watched. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence and Momei Qu of PSP Growth talk about what to look for on Bloomberg Surveillance. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

While we got a peek at a few Xbox Game Studios projects during last week’s Developer Direct event, neither Bethesda nor Activision Blizzard made appearances. Fans of several Blizzard franchises won’t need to wait too long to find out what’s next for their favorite games, though, as the publisher has lined up several showcases to help mark its 35th anniversary.The developer-led streams will include... View Source

Containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Researchers used Webb data to find the invisible substance via its gravitational influence on regular matter.NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. Pagan With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence... View Source

Over the next year, top social media executives are expected to take the witness stand to defend their companies from an avalanche of claims about their failure to protect kids. The first of many trials is set to begin this month in California, when Meta, TikTok, and YouTube face claims that tech addiction harmed a teenager's mental health. This case is just the tip of the legal iceberg. It kicks... View Source

Apple Inc. unveiled an upgraded AirTag accessory, with the $29 item finder now offering longer range, a louder speaker and other improvements... View Source

Apple has launched its next-generation AirTag for $29 and brought a slew of new features along with it. But, first, it's important to get this out of the way: The new AirTag still doesn't have a keyring hole, so you'll still need a case or secure pocket. Once you get over that, the new Apple AirTag does offer some nice improvements. For starters, it's now powered by Apple'... View Source

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the night sky... View Source

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket's booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Alex Lintner, who is the CEO of technology and software solutions at Experian, the credit reporting company. Experian is one of those multinationals that’s so big and convoluted that it has multiple CEOs all over the world, so Alex and I spent quite a lot of time talking through the Decoder questions just so I could understand how Experian is structured, how it functions, a... View Source

Information feeds on Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp messaging platform have become the latest Big Tech service to fall under European Union content-moderation rules likened to censorship by the Trump administration... View Source

Apple has revealed a new AirTag that comes with the company's upgraded ultra wideband chip, allowing for more precise location tracking. It has the same $29 for one or $99 for a four-pack price as the AirTag it's replacing, while the new chip powers Apple's Precision Finding feature, which uses haptic, visual, and audio feedback to guide you to items from up to "50 percent farther away." Along wit... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is offering new open-source software and models designed to help governments and businesses more easily use artificial intelligence and complex data to build their own weather forecasting systems... View Source

A good home theater setup goes beyond just having the right TV (although that certainly does help a lot). Getting the right sound for your space, the right lighting and making sure your streaming gear is up to date are all things that can go a long way to making your setup feel premium.And don’t think that just because you’re not hosting movie night every weekend that a good home theater setup is... View Source

Exhaust from lunar landers drifts across the moon and contaminates ultra-cold polar craters that are rich in ancient ice and organic clues, a new study reports... View Source

I’m seeing double, and I’m digging it. The most helpful thing you can add to any laptop for productivity is a second screen. That's why I love laptops like the Asus Zenbook Duo. Its twin 14-inch OLED displays are attached by a redesigned hinge that now holds them closer together and on a single plane, for a more seamless look than previous models. The Zenbook Duo and its nearest rival look odd at... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is investing an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave Inc., purchasing Class A common stock at $87.20 a share, to help speed up an effort to add more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Europe is probing Elon Musk’s X for failing to take action to prevent the spread of AI-generated sexually explicit images including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), regulators said in a press release. The European Commission’s investigation could result in “further enforcement steps” against X, not long after it levied a $140 million fine against the platform. “Sexual deepfakes of women and chi... View Source

Experian Plc shares have fallen to a two-year low as investors bet that one of analysts’ favorite FTSE 100 stocks will suffer as artificial intelligence automates credit scoring... View Source

It's that time of year where a great pair of headphones double as earmuffs and a current sale will ensure you get a great quality — and good looking — option. One of our favorite wireless headphones for 2026 is available for 35 percent off.  Amazon is offering the first-generation Bose QuietComfort Ultra Bluetooth Headphones for $279, down from $429. Since coming out last April, they... View Source

Health care technology startup Tandem Technology Inc., which aims to smooth the process of writing and receiving medical prescriptions using artificial intelligence, has reached a valuation of $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

SpaceX will launch an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida tonight (Jan. 26), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Debut funding for startups has exploded, spurring the need for a new label... View Source

'There will be loss. There will be sacrifice. We must all face judgment for the evils of our past'... View Source

Microsoft's first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has been a buggy mess, to say the least. After reports of shutdown issues on some machines, Microsoft issued an emergency update to fix its January 2026 Windows 11 update last weekend. Now, exactly a week later, the software maker has been forced to issue a second unusual out-of-band fix to address OneDrive and Dropbox crashes. Microsoft is also inve... View Source

A year ago, the Chinese startup DeepSeek freaked out the stock market with the idea that developing artificial intelligence was much easier and cheaper than everyone imagined. But 12 months later, that’s turned out to be largely a mirage so far... View Source

Elon Musk’s X has been hit by a European Union probe over concerns it failed to prevent its Grok AI chatbot from spewing out deepfake images “that may amount to child sexual abuse material.”... View Source

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion."... View Source

Tech companies are turning to green concrete to help reduce the massive environmental footprint of building out data centers... View Source

German defense start-ups Helsing and Stark Defence are set to receive military orders worth €300 million each to deliver loitering munitions for a German armored brigade in Lithuania, while local giant Rheinmetall AG will be passed over for now, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Whether you love cooking already or you want to try to cook more at home to spend less money on takeout, there are tons of gadgets that can make your time in the kitchen even more enjoyable. As food lovers and tech reviewers, the Engadget team has tried out pizza ovens, sous vide machines, air fryers, ice cream makers and more. Here, we gathered all of the best gear we’ve tested, reviewed and used... View Source

TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing the sale of its US arm, though some issues appear to have spread globally. TikTok has yet to confirm any issues a day after troubles began, making it difficult to surmise the extent of the problems. Nevertheless, Tiktokkers - including some Verge writers - have confirmed issues including difficulty logging in, an ina... View Source

DeepWay Technology Co., a Chinese company that makes technology for heavy-duty trucking, has raised about 1.2 billion yuan ($173 million) in a funding round ahead of a planned Hong Kong initial public offering... View Source

Next time you apply for a job, your initial interview and training sessions might be with a talking bot... View Source

MediaTek Inc. shares notched their best two-day rally on record, as investors flock to the Taiwanese chip designer on excitement over its tie-up with Google... View Source

A startup that runs one of the world’s largest health-care digital platforms is seeking to leverage artificial intelligence to capitalize on its trove of medical data, potentially ushering in a new era for diagnostics and positioning the firm for a public listing... View Source

Seven sisters constellation’s brightest members will be hidden from view for about an hourOn the night of 27 January, the moon passes in front of the Pleiades star cluster, temporarily hiding (occulting) some of its brightest members from view.The Pleiades, also known as the seven sisters, lie about 440 light years away in the constellation Taurus, the Bull. They are one of the most recognisable s... View Source

The UK is losing more jobs than it’s creating because of artificial intelligence — and at a faster rate than its international peers... View Source

Revego Africa Energy Fund raised 1 billion rand ($62 million) in its first capital-raising round since 2021 as the Investec Bank Ltd.-backed firm seeks to bankroll renewable power projects in South Africa... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. has halted talks about an acquisition of US data center operator Switch Inc., a setback to founder Masayoshi Son’s ambition to roll out Stargate AI infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

China opened a probe into Zhang Youxia, a Politburo member and vice chairman of the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission over suspected “serious discipline and law violations,” Xinhua News Agency reported... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. is getting close to securing certification from Nvidia Corp. for the latest version of its AI memory chip, called HBM4, making progress in narrowing the gap with rival SK Hynix Inc... View Source

Paramount needs to raise its offer to reclaim the initiative... View Source

Never underestimate the chilling powers of grainy grayscale imagery and ethereal whooshing sounds. Outside Parties asks, "What if I Spy, but in an alien hell dimension?", and it is impressively unnerving despite the fact that nothing's really happening at any given time. It goes all in on atmosphere, to great effect. This is the Playdate horror game that I've been waiting for... View Source

Just days after launching its "Get Low" legging collection, Lululemon temporarily paused its online sales after customers complained that the product is not "squat proof." The leggings are available for sale again online with disclaimers advising buyers to size up and pair with skin-tone underwear. Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith break down the company's latest setback on the Everybody's Busine... View Source

Earlier this week, we saw a rare trifecta of market moves: stocks dropped, bond yields climbed and the dollar weakened. Talk of the "sell America" trade has been rekindled as investors worry about the Trump administration's threats to take over Greenland. PIMCO CEO Emmanuel Roman tells Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal what he thinks about the "sell America" trade and why his firm is betting on the... View Source

When it comes to AI, the new hot thing everyone is talking about is Claude Code. Noah Brier, co-founder of Alephic, joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss the evolution of AI-assisted coding, what Claude Code actually is, and why traditional software firms have been getting destroyed in the stock market lately. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft issued another out-of-band update to fix a bug that caused Outlook to crash for Windows 11 users. This second emergency patch addresses issues seen with Outlook and files stored in the cloud following Microsoft's January 2026 Windows security update. According to Microsoft, this update fixes a bug where some apps that "open or save files stored in cloud-backed locations" b... View Source

A new and improved Siri may finally make an appearance, but this time, it could be with a Google Gemini glow up. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple wants to announce a new Siri in "the second half of February" that will show off the results of its recently announced partnership with Google and offer demonstrations of the Gemini-powered capabilities. After this reveal, Gurma... View Source

Shortly after federal agents killed Alex Pretti Saturday morning, DHS began to run with the story that the dead man had been armed and dangerous. He had a gun, DHS said. (A Bellingcat analysis of the video concludes that Pretti was unarmed when he was shot.) He had approached the agents holding the gun, DHS said. (He was holding a phone, the New York Times reports.) Pretti died on his knees, surro... View Source

It's not surprising when the guy who's been yelling about the horrors of late-stage capitalism on Instagram for the last five years turns his ire towards ICE. But something different has been happening over the week or so, following the most recent shootings of civilians by federal agents - even accounts that stay laser focused on golfing, chopping wood, and playing cats like bongos have started t... View Source

Turning your phone into a handheld with the M4 could be risky. As a retro gaming fan, I was thrilled when Apple opened its App Store to emulators in 2024, but I've yet to find a controller that makes me want to fully embrace retro gaming on my phone. Clamp-on controllers like the Backbone Pro are a bit too bulky, and I don't want to prop my phone up somewhere to use a standalone gamepad. The Abxyl... View Source

There's a new trailer for the upcoming Super Mario movie, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it confirms some beloved characters are joining the crew for its latest adventure. The trailer provides our first official look at Yoshi in the new movie, whose appearance was leaked back in the fall by a Pillsbury cookie box design. And, just as exciting, we also see Birdo in the mix. The trailer was... View Source

Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines... View Source

Americans do not like masked secret police. There is really no other way to put it. The reasons why are manifold: accountability, trust in law enforcement, and just plain overall vibes. More concretely, not being able to tell who's a cop and who's not is dangerous. An assassin masquerading as law enforcement killed Minnesota legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband last year. How is anyone suppo... View Source

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before... View Source

The Sony LinkBuds Clip can be customized with different colored covers for the case. The Sony LinkBuds Clip are the company's first clip earbuds. They follow the innovative donut-hole LinkBuds and LinkBuds Open and, like their predecessors, allow you to listen to music or podcasts, make phone calls, or be active outdoors while still maintaining awareness of your surroundings. The clip design has b... View Source

The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky... View Source

Apple shakes up its AI efforts with a Google partnership, management changes and two new versions of Siri. Also: The company gets ready to kick off its 2026 Mac launches and puts CEO candidate John Ternus in charge of design... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the e-bike movement, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Last week, I did something I don't typically do, which is call up one of my elected officials and yell at them about a new bill. New Jersey... View Source

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn't entirely clear why that layer forms... View Source

Bennell-Pegg tells ceremony in Canberra she hopes to use award to inspire young people to chase their dreamsCathy Freeman leads Australia Day 2026 honours listGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs a girl, Katherine Bennell-Pegg would lie on the dry grass in her backyard, gazing up at the stars and dreaming about reaching them one day.While she’s yet to enter space, the now-... View Source

The satellites in Amazon's new internet-beaming megaconstellation in low Earth orbit are bright enough to disrupt astronomical research, a study has found... View Source

Global betting companies are increasingly looking to secure a foothold in Africa's fast-growing gambling market. Super Group has been among those moving early and investing heavily in the continent. Super Group CEO Neal Menashe discusses why Africa has become such a key growth play for the company. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Future of AI copilots and agents, impact on white collar work Nadella discusses Microsoft’s Copilot evolution: started with GitHub Copilot (code suggestions), expanded to desktop/Windows, and now includes chat, actions, and autonomous agents (foreground/background, local/cloud). He uses coding as the prime knowledge-work example: from next-edit suggestions → chat → actions → full agents. Vis... View Source

vision for healthcare in America Healthcare broken: Americans pay double what other nations for inferior outcomes. Drugs cost 10× more in US. Trump’s demanded most-favored-nation pricing (negotiate lower prices like other countries pay). Pressure pharma without killing innovation (make offers that they cannot refuse). Goal is affordability + access. Think healthcare as investment (extra work ... R... View Source

An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service... View Source

The cost of infrastructure build-out, energy challenges Massive data center/GPU buildout driven by real demand (no “dark GPUs”—all utilized for tokens/AI apps like chatbots/coding). Unlike dot-com fiber overbuild (unused “dark fiber”), current demand sustains growth; added ~2% to 2025 GDP, expected similar in 2026. Trump’s AI plan has 3 pillars—out-innovate, build infrastru... View Source

Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle: I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from the Minnesota Star Tribune that there had been a shooting. I was on assignment at a pond hockey event, and someone who was supposed to play later that evening said he probably wouldn't be able to make it - they knew there would be protests and demonstrations happening. I arrived a little... View Source

Netflix Inc. kicked off one of its most ambitious live events yet, streaming US free-solo climber Alex Honnold as he began scaling Taipei 101 after a 24-hour delay caused by rain... View Source

A tale of two economies is driving China’s stock market, prompting investors to raise bets on the beneficiaries of an industrial export boom at the expense of firms mired in a consumption slump... View Source

The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID unemployment assistance program in Guam - and Microsoft complied. Typically, companies resist handing over encryption keys to authorities. Most famously, Apple refused to grant the FBI access to a pho... View Source

We need to reinvent and rebuild the world’s factories, warehouses, supply chain and systems where AI and automation can integrate, move and track everything. We need to do this from first principles. We will have more than just a future of robotaxi. We will have roboeverything. In a future dominated by drones, Optimus-like humanoid robots, ... Read more... View Source

OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its "most advanced frontier model for professional work," but tests conducted by the Guardian cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia, the online encyclopedia powered by xAI, when it came to specific, but controversial topics related to Iran or the Holocaust. As seen in the Guardian's report,... View Source

SpaceX’s Starship Block 3 (aka Version 3 or V3) is a huge shift from prototyping to scalable mass production. SpaceX is focusing on enhancing reliability, reducing costs, and enabling high-volume manufacturing to support ambitious goals like frequent Mars missions and expanding the Starlink constellation. Key advancements include automated assembly processes, particularly for the heat shield... View Source

If your Gmail inbox is all out of whack today, you're not alone. Gmail users have been encountering issues with the automatic filters that keep their main inbox free from the clutter of promotional emails and non-urgent updates, and some have reported seeing notices that emails have not been scanned for spam. Google confirmed to Engadget and in an update on its Workspace status dashboard that... View Source

Before Electronic Arts goes private in a groundbreaking sale, some US lawmakers are pleading for some federal oversight. Democratic members of the US Congress, as part of the Congressional Labor Caucus, penned a letter asking the Federal Trade Commission to "thoroughly review" the $55 billion acquisition of EA. EA confirmed the sale to the Public Investment Fund, or the sovereign wealth... View Source

Welcome to the weekend, friends! We’re still in a bit of a deals lull before the Presidents Day and V-Day sales begin, the bulk of which we anticipate kicking off the first week of February. However, for now, we’re still seeing some solid discounts on a few newer gadgets and some old, Verge-approved favorites. Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter has returned to its best price to date, for instance, as has... View Source

Some Gmail users have noticed that promotional emails that normally go to their own siloed tab have started flooding their inbox. Reports have been hitting the Google forums and Reddit that messages are bypassing the Updates and Promotional filters and going straight to Gmail inboxes. Some are also reporting seeing a banner at the top of some messages warning them to "be careful with this message,... View Source

Federal agents in Minneapolis repeatedly punched a man, forced him to the ground, and then shot him multiple times. The man was later pronounced dead. This is just the latest incident of deadly violence involving ICE, which has grown increasingly frequent, especially on the streets of Minneapolis. It's been less than three weeks since an agent murdered Renée Good on January 7th. Just as in... View Source

Waymo has caught the attention of the National Transportation Safety Board as the federal agency launched an official investigation into the company for its robotaxis improperly passing school buses in Austin, Texas. The NTSB said on X that it would "examine the interaction between Waymo vehicles and school buses stopped for loading and unloading students." The latest federal probe stems... View Source

In an exclusive interview, bestselling author Martha Wells talks "Platform Decay," from its moral stakes to Murderbot's bitter humor... View Source

Every month, Circana video game analyst Mat Piscatella posts fascinating data about video game sales on Bluesky, highlighting trends like November's historically bad month for game hardware and Battlefield 6's big launch in October. But he doesn't just share data about what is selling the most; as of late, he's also posted delightful lists of games that have sold just a single physical copy over a... View Source

Before you set a course for the final frontier, find out which legendary 'Star Trek' captain's leadership style aligns with your own... View Source

Of course ad agencies love AI commercials, this Kalshi ad only cost $2,000 to make. I'll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads. Artsy ones, funny ones, weird ones, emotional ones - TV commercials were my childhood TikTok before any of us were using terms like "short-form video." But like most creative things in my life, AI is sucking the joy out of it. And it's only going to su... View Source

Google has started rolling out a new feature for its Photos app that can turn your images into memes. The feature, called Me Meme, uses Google Gemini to take meme templates and recreate them with the photo you use from within the app. It’s still in its experimental stages and will only be available for users in the US in the English language. In addition, it seems to be rolling out for Android use... View Source

We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe... View Source

There's a lot about Perfect Tides: Station to Station's Mara that I find relatable. Like me, she's recently moved to a place simply called "the City" from the middle of nowhere, and like me, she's an avid writer. But these biographical details aren't the important thing; it's the way she's painted by the game's incredibly sharp writing where I start to feel uncomfortably seen. There are a lot of c... View Source

Vegemite, the yeasty spread from Australia, gets a passing green checkmark. So does a French bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. But Diet Coke, a favorite of President Donald Trump? To that, a popular new mobile app in Denmark assigns a failing red X — a message to shoppers to put that American stuff back on the shelf... View Source

I respect Gemini using the royal “we” here. By lots of metrics, Gemini is winning. It has raced ahead of OpenAI, become scarily good at creating convincing imagery, and even won Apple's business. So last week's news that it was enabling something called Personal Intelligence felt like a victory lap. Personal Intelligence allows Gemini to reference past conversations and access your data in other G... View Source

Apple’s iOS 26 and watchOS 26 introduced a new fitness companion called Workout Buddy. This feature uses Apple Intelligence to provide spoken feedback during workouts and give motivation based on your activity history. Workout Buddy analyzes your pace, heart rate, distance and other metrics to deliver real-time encouragement and performance insights directly through connected Bluetooth headphones... View Source

The Wolf Moon is named for the hungry predators that sometimes can be heard howling in the winter month... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send hot cocoa to my freezing-cold house, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about private garbage collectors and vintage watches and My Favorite Murder, watching The Running Man (which was not gre... View Source

The head of the World Trade Organization said the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence may underpin global merchandise trade this year, helping overcome US tariff headwinds and lead to higher overall growth than currently projected... View Source

Our reviews team is rested up after the CES grind and we’re back to business. This week we reviewed the latest devices from Valerion, Canon, Samsung and Sony, covering a wide range of product categories in the process. Grab yourself a beverage and cozy up with all the reviews you might’ve missed. Valerion VisionMaster Max The weeks leading up to the Super Bowl are a popular time to upgrade home th... View Source

Singapore will pour in more than S$1 billion ($786 million) to fund public artificial intelligence research over the next five years, accelerating a bid to bolster a homegrown AI industry in a field dominated by US and Chinese players... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. It’s been a very busy week of fun game releases (next week will be too!), so let’s get into some of them after a quick reflection on gaming while traveling.I love my Steam Deck. I really truly do. It’s a fantastic machine. And yet when I brought it with me on a five-week trip over the holidays, I used it for barely an h... View Source

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous objects in near real time... View Source

Tesla is adding about ten robotaxi per day to its Austin fleet. This will pass the 137 known Waymo robotaxi in about one week. Waymo claim to have 200 robotaxi in Austin but only 137 different license plates have been seen. In 30-50 days Tesla could reach the 500+ Austin robotaxi that Elon Musk suggested ... Read more... View Source

The Loch Capsule in a tiny house that lacks space for a built-in dishwasher. A dishwasher is a luxury item some people can't live without. It's one of the first major kitchen devices I bought just as soon as I could afford one. And now that the kids are grown, it's the appliance I thought I'd miss most in my nomadic vanlife pursuits. Loch sent me its $459.99 / €459.99 countertop Capsule dishw... View Source

On this episode of Bloomberg Next Africa, we take a closer look at how the continent's gambling industry is evolving. Driven by rapid digital adoption and a growing sports audience, Africa is emerging as a major betting powerhouse. Global companies like Super Group are betting big on future growth as to governments struggle to keep pace with the regulatory challenges rising alongside them. Bloombe... View Source

This is not an Nvidia Arm laptop, but the old image seemed thematically appropriate. Intel and AMD have split the Windows laptop market for years, but the x86 players may be getting outnumbered. It's not just Apple MacBooks and MediaTek-based Chromebooks using Arm chips anymore. There are finally competent Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops running Windows, and - as soon as this spring - Nvidia will fina... View Source

Atlanta Fed GDPNow shows real GDP growth at 5.4% (Q4 2025/early 2026 tracking), far above recent norms, driven by AI data center buildouts (0.5–1% contribution), productivity gains from LLMs, factory investments, and Trump-era policies/deals. Sustained high growth (5–8%+ real GDP) if AI investment continues without a bubble pop, comparing it to 1990s internet boom or ... Read more... View Source

Internal documents revealed as part of a child safety lawsuit hint at Google's plan to "onboard kids" into its ecosystem by investing in schools. In this November 2020 presentation, Google writes that getting kids into its ecosystem "leads to brand trust and loyalty over their lifetime," as reported earlier by NBC News. The heavily-redacted documents, which surfaced earlier this week, are linked t... View Source

Intel Corp.’s stock slide is delivering a reality check to President Donald Trump’s vision for quickly reviving domestic chip manufacturing led by an American champion, four months after the US moved to acquire as much as a 10% stake in the company... View Source

Fitch Ratings upgraded Turkey’s rating outlook to positive from stable on Friday, owing to a continued decline in inflation and strong foreign currency reserves... View Source

US transportation safety investigators are probing a series of incidents in which self-driving cars operated by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit drove improperly near parked school buses in Austin... View Source

Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, announced the departure of director Persis Drell, who is leaving the board to “pursue a new professional opportunity.”... View Source

Tony Fadell, principal at Build Collective, iPod co-creator and Nest Labs founder, discusses hardware innovation and the future of AI with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” He says the last truly great platform was Microsoft Windows, and nothing since has matched it. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew, from left to right, is NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in H... View Source

Kevin Mayer, Candle Media co-CEO and former TikTok CEO, reacts to TikTok's deal to avoid a nationwide ban in the US. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Mayer also discusses the future of the app, who he thinks should lead Walt Disney Co. and the Warner Bros. Discovery saga. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Stars like the sun don’t just stop shining for no reason."... View Source

TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on. The company announced Tuesday that its US service is now part of the separate TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, with parent company ByteDance holding just a 19.9 percent stake in that new entity. The rest is... View Source

TikTok picked an insider to lead its newly created US business, choosing an executive with deep ties to the entertainment world and history reporting up to ByteDance Ltd.’s leadership... View Source

In Big Tech's never-ending quest to increase AI adoption, Google has unveiled a meme generator. The new Google Photos feature, Me Meme, lets you create personalized memes starring a synthetic version of you.Google describes Me Meme as "a simple way to explore with your photos and create content that's ready to share with friends and family." You can choose from a variety of tem... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected ADNET Systems, Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland, to provide global modeling and data assimilation support at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling and Assimilation Support contract is a single-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum ordering value of approximately $84 million... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Intel’s manufacturing struggles as the company’s shares fall post-earnings. Plus, China's largest tech firms get an initial green light from Beijing to start preparing orders for Nvidia's H200 AI chips. And, TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance have closed a long-awaited deal to transfer parts of their US operations to a group of American investor... View Source

4 Min Read NASA Selects Participants to Track Artemis II Mission A visual representation of NASA’s Artemis I mission. Credits: NASA NASA has selected 34 global volunteers to track the Orion spacecraft during the crewed Artemis II mission’s journey around the Moon. The Artemis II test flight will launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft and a crew of four... View Source

Artemis 2 is at the launch pad, but several big tests must be performed before it launches as soon as Feb. 6... View Source

The Texas grid operator is forecasting very little wind generation — a key source of power — over the weekend just as a nearing major winter storm promises to prompt a surge in electricity demand... View Source

Meta is being sued by Solos, a rival smart glasses maker, for infringing on its patents, Bloomberg reports. Solos is seeking "multiple billions of dollars" in damages and an injunction that could prevent Meta from selling its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as part of the lawsuit.Solos claims that Meta's Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Gen 1 smart glasses violate multiple patents covering "co... View Source

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe tells Bloomberg that proposed market-structure legislation like the CLARITY Act would give investors and companies a more stable framework. Belshe says BitGo supports regulation and wants crypto rules codified into law to avoid policy swings between administrations. He joined the discussion on "Bloomberg Markets" with Scarlet Fu. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

File this one under "Things that make you go, 'Hmmm…'" Retro handheld maker Anbernic is launching a new controller with a screen. But unlike Nintendo's Wii U controller, there's no second-screen gaming capability here. Instead, the display is designed to "make customization intuitive and effortless." Oh, and the controller also has a heart rate sensor. Becau... View Source

4 min read NASA Finds Lunar Regolith Limits Meteorites as Source of Earth’s Water A close-up view of a portion of a “relatively fresh” crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface moonwalk. Credit: NASA A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery. These findings place upper bounds on... View Source

Blue Origin will use a flight-proven booster on the next launch of its New Glenn rocket. The liftoff, which is targeted for late February, will be just the third for New Glenn to date... View Source

Meta is "temporarily pausing" the ability for teens to chat with its AI characters as it develops a "new version" of the characters that will offer a "better experience." The company made the announcement in an update to a blog post from October where the company had detailed more parental controls for teen AI use. The change blocking teens from accessing the characters will go into effect "starti... View Source

After almost seven years, three US presidencies and a near-total ban, ByteDance Ltd. has secured a definitive victory in its standoff with Washington... View Source

Tesla just objectively decreased the value of the Model 3 and Model Y. On Thursday, the company said it’s paywalling its lane-centering feature, Autosteer, for new purchases of the two EVs in the US and Canada. This was previously a standard feature. Lane centering is now part of the Full Self-Driving Supervised (FSD) package, which costs $99 per month.Speculating on why Tesla would do this doesn... View Source

NASA/Chris Williams A green and red aurora streams across Earth’s horizon above the city lights of Europe in this Jan. 19, 2026, photograph, which looks north across Italy toward Germany. The International Space Station was orbiting 262 miles above the Mediterranean Sea at approximately 10:02 p.m. local time when the image was captured. Also known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southe... View Source

Will the ice storm hitting the US this weekend shut down the power grid? Not if the new batteries do their job, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

More ads are coming to App Store search results starting in March, Apple shared on an advertising help page. The company first said that it would increase the number of App Store ads last month, and this new rollout of search ads will begin on Tuesday, March 3, according to a developer email viewed by MacRumors."Search is the way most people find and download apps on the App Store, with nearl... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dustin Gohmert Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager, sits in the OCSS Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. During NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon, th... View Source

Learn how to spot Sirius, Procyon and their canine constellations, and discover the myths and science behind the dog stars... View Source

TikTok is officially under new ownership in the US, and that could spell big changes for the video-sharing app. On January 22nd, ByteDance - TikTok's Chinese parent company - and a group of investors closed a $14 billion deal to spin off the platform's US operations, introducing a new slate of American executives. The Silver Lake investment firm, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and the cloud giant Oracle will ea... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc., the reigning leader in the growing smart glasses category, is being sued by another glasses maker over patent infringement in a case that also targets eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica SA and its Oakley subsidiary... View Source

Vimeo just got hit by a brutal round of layoffs, according to a report by Business Insider. Staffers are posting on various social media sites that the layoffs have impacted most of the company, including the entire video team. Vimeo is a video-hosting platform, so that sounds bad. “Yesterday, following Vimeo’s recent acquisition by a private equity firm, I learned that I, along with a large porti... View Source

Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged stretch of frigid weather and a massive winter storm that could wreak havoc on roads and power grids over the next several days. At least 170 million Americans are under winter weather alerts. "Bitterly cold temperatures and dangerously cold wind chills" will linger even after the storm is done dumping heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain across the Southe... View Source

Famed artificial intelligence researcher Richard Socher is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new startup called Recursive that’s focused on building more advanced AI systems, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Meta will no longer allow teens to chat with its AI chatbot characters in their present form. The company announced Friday that it will be "temporarily pausing teens’ access to existing AI characters globally."The pause comes months after Meta added chatbot-focused parental controls following reports that some of Meta's character chatbots had engaged in sexual conversations and othe... View Source

5 Min Read NASA’s Chandra Releases Deep Cut From Catalog of Cosmic Recordings Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has a “back catalog” of cosmic recordings that is impossible to replicate. To access these X-ray tracks, or observations, the ultimate compendium has been developed: the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC). The CSC cont... View Source

Spawned by Mattel's classic 1980s toy line, this summer spectacle arrives June 5, 2026... View Source

Casio SX-C1 sampler prototype on display at NAMM. Casio showed up to NAMM (CES for music gear nerds) this year with a prototype sampler called the SX-C1 that looks every bit the lovechild of a Game Boy and an SP-404. The top has a directional pad and four buttons just like you'd find on a game controller, flanking a 1.3-inch OLED screen. But at the bottom, there are 16 rubberized pads for triggeri... View Source

Alaska Air Group Inc. rose after it beat Wall Street’s expectations and reported strong demand for premium and business flying, though it joined larger rivals in offering a more tepid outlook for 2026... View Source

The findings are a big clue as to why the far and near hemispheres of the moon look so different... View Source

The AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s best noise-canceling earbuds. If you’re considering gifting the AirPods Pro 3 for Valentine’s Day, now’s a great time to pick them up. Today only, Best Buy is selling the noise-canceling earbuds for $199.99 ($50 off), matching their all-time low. AirPods Pro 3 Where to Buy: $249.99 $199.99 at Best Buy $249 $239.95 at Amazon For iPhone owners, nothing else really compa... View Source

Software maker Databricks Inc. has lined up $1.8 billion of new financing from broadly syndicated loan investors and private credit lenders... 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, it turns out we might have two Trump Phones to worry about. The Trump Phone may be no more than a whisper in the wind, but Trump Mobile is already planning a second. One of the company's top... View Source

Oura Health Oy, the maker of popular smart rings, is working on a tender offer for existing investors at a discount to its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that will allow it to stay private for longer... View Source

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently went on record saying that AI still needs to prove its worth if society is to adopt it long-term, but he presumably thinks his company has cracked it with its latest innovation: AI coloring books. A new Microsoft Paint feature currently rolling out to Windows Insiders allows you to generate coloring book pages based on the text prompt you enter. The example Mic... View Source

The Heddon hub simplifies streaming audio to multiple speakers. | Image: Marshall Marshall has announced a new music streaming hub called the Heddon that can broadcast to multiple speakers using the Bluetooth Auracast feature that's finally starting to catch on. Similar to Sennheiser's BTA1 TV Transmitter announced earlier this week, the Heddon doesn't require wireless audio devices to go through... View Source

Whether it’s in pharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, or defense, executives attending the World Economic Forum in Davos this week had a stark warning for Europe: Get your house in order or lose out to the US and China... View Source

2 min read AMS 2025 Hyperwall Schedule 106th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, January 25 – 29, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #323) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, JANUARY 26 6:05 – 6:20 PM Expanding Discovery from Earth Science Missions in Space Highlights of NASA Earth Science Missions to Advance Research, Data, Models, an... View Source

'For the look of the Athena, our ship has wings, and that was very intentional.'... View Source

Every week, more than 230 million people ask ChatGPT for health and wellness advice, according to OpenAI. The company says that many see the chatbot as an "ally" to help navigate the maze of insurance, file paperwork, and become better self-advocates. In exchange, it hopes you will trust its chatbot with details about your diagnoses, medications, test results, and other private medical information... View Source

DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. lost a bid to block a New York City law requiring a tipping option be presented to customers at checkout from going into effect next week... View Source

Here's why a pair of binoculars is your best option for stargazing as a beginner... View Source

The RG G01’s screen is potentially far more useful than its pulse sensor. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has announced its second wireless controller through a teaser video on YouTube highlighting its features. The company's first gamepad, the RG P01, offered features like Hall effect triggers and joysticks for just $18. Pricing for the new Anbernic RG G01 hasn't been revealed, but it may be more... View Source

At their core, refrigerators are relatively simple devices. If you're the type of person to view every extra feature as a component that could potentially go wrong, basic iceboxes are probably the kind you go for. But for those on the other end of the spectrum, Samsung's latest Bespoke Refrigerators with AI inside have more bells and whistles than you might think possible — including an... View Source

NASA conducts a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 2063 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Jan. 22, 2026.NASA/Chris Russell NASA conducts a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 2063 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Jan. 22, 2026.NASA/Chris Russell NASA conducts a hot fire of RS-25 engine N... View Source

Leaders from NASA's Johnson Space Center and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins helped turn a Texans home game into a pop-up space expo... View Source

There aren't many tech companies that can claim Sony's level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the Trinitron, Sony has been making excellent gadgets in multiple categories for decades, which makes this week's news just a little sad. Sony's new joint venture with TCL isn't the end of Sony TVs - and it might even be good news - but it's certainly the end o... View Source

After being one of the first countries in the world to block Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, Malaysia has now lifted its ban. Along with Indonesia, the country moved swiftly to temporarily halt access to X's frequently controversial AI chatbot earlier this month, after multiple reports emerged of it being used to generate deepfake sexualized images of people, including women and children. At the ti... View Source

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets, and unique objects that resist definition. Based on the input of astronomers from across the globe, the Roman Space Telescope will spend three-quarters of its five-yea... View Source

Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of DeepMind Technologies Ltd., during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images 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. The leaders of the three preeminent frontier AI labs spent this week... View Source

Nintendo Co. shares surged after US market tracker Circana data said sales of the flagship Switch 2 console rebounded last month, allaying concerns of a slowdown in demand... View Source

Ring has launched a new tool that can tell you if a video clip captured by its camera has been altered or not. The company says that every video downloaded from Ring starting in December 2025 going forward will come with a digital security seal. “Think of it like the tamper-evident seal on a medicine bottle,” it explained. Its new tool, called Ring Verify, can tell you if a video has been altered... View Source

4 min read TESS Status Updates Jan. 23, 2026 NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Observations NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) entered safe mode Jan. 15 and returned to normal science operations Jan. 18.  The operations team determined the issue arose when TESS slewed to point at a target, but its solar panels did not rotate to remain pointed at the Sun relative to the spacecraft’s n... View Source

Bikers on Mars, but no mice in sight... View Source

The private equity owner of Xebia is considering a sale of the artificial intelligence consulting firm, which could be valued at €1 billion ($1.2 billion) or more in a deal, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Africa’s largest telecom company has become embroiled in Iran’s decision to shut down communications during this month’s deadly crackdown on protests... View Source