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After spending a week with Meta’s new display-embedded smart glasses, I’m convinced that Apple made the right call pivoting from the so-called Vision Air to spectacles. Also: The company begins reshuffling its executive team, and its latest product launch is imminent... View Source

Don't miss the moon, Jupiter and the stars of the constellation Orion rise along the southern horizon on Oct. 12... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the downward spiral of the internet, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Back in 2018, two years after the UK government decided to implement mandatory hard age gates on adult websites, it floated an... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 101, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you like silly accessories, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Intel factories and Nobel Prize winners and ATM thieves, watching this pop-punk "Defying Gravity" cover on repeat, reliving my tee... View Source

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks... View Source

Two bright wanderers share the autumn sky as Jupiter rises beside the half moon... View Source

Plus: A prediction market recap, AI forecasters, drone walls and more... View Source

Qantas Airways Ltd. said customer data stolen during a cyber incident in July has been released online, and that it’s working with security experts and Australian authorities to determine the extent of the exposure... View Source

Tata Capital Ltd. and LG Electronics India Ltd. will begin trading in Mumbai over the next couple of days after they concluded two of the nation’s biggest initial public offerings this year, with their debuts set to test the strength of one of the world’s hottest equity capital markets... View Source

It seems to be the end of the road for Apple's Clips app. The company said on a support page that it has stopped updating the video-editing app, and new users can no longer download it from the App Store. Existing users on iOS and iPadOS will continue to have access for the time being, but the company hasn't said how long that will last. "If you previously downloaded the Clips app,... View Source

Apple’s Clips video editing app is no more. It debuted in 2017 as a way to stitch together videos with music, text, and filters with a clear focus on sharing to social media. Over the years Apple added AR features and more advanced video editing tools. But recently updates had slowed to a trickle.  Apple finally decided to pull the plug though, removing Clips from the App Store. The company also u... View Source

The controversial preservation order requiring OpenAI to indefinitely keep records of its ChatGPT data has been terminated. Federal judge Ona T. Wang filed a new order on October 9 that frees OpenAI of an obligation to "preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis." The case kicked off in late 2023, with the New York Times suing Open... View Source

After remaking every Game Boy model imaginable, Anbernic is ready to take on the next frontier of classic gaming handhelds: the Nintendo DS. In its usual drip-feed fashion, the handheld maker released a teaser video revealing the Anbernic RG DS. The company didn't offer many details for its Nintendo DS clone, but announced that it would cost less than $100.  That price tag isn't sur... View Source

This week the Pew Research Center published a study about how parents managed screen time for their kids 12 and under. The results were not particularly surprising (or enlightening, if we're being honest). A full 90 percent of parents said their children watched TV, and 61 percent said their kids interact with smartphones at least on occasion. Somewhat surprisingly, only 50 percent said they let t... View Source

One of the most affordable EVs in America, the Chevrolet Bolt, has made its long-awaited comeback. After discontinuing the Bolt in 2023, the American automaker has refreshed the popular EV with a 2027 model that has some key upgrades. Chevy said the new Bolt will be available at dealerships in the first quarter of 2026, starting with a comfort trim that goes for at least $29,990. The updated Bolt... View Source

Although Amazon’s fall Prime Day event has come to an end, there are still some lingering discounts available. That means you have yet another chance to pick up an early gift for the holidays, or just something for yourself. Right now, for instance, Apple’s base AirPods 4 are sitting at their lowest price to date, as is Lego’s adorable Star Wars Grogu set. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to add smart... View Source

When Donald Trump's administration issued orders to send the National Guard into Portland, Oregon, a person in a frog balloon suit showed up at the city's ICE facility, where protesters had gathered. After the frog humped the air in front of a throng of federal law enforcement - many dressed in head-to-toe camo with military-grade helmets, gas masks, and riot shields - the feds slowly began to ret... View Source

On Episode 181 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Alma Okpalefe to discuss World Space Week, a global celebration of all things space... View Source

This 'Star Wars' quiz is your chance to prove your knowledge of the saga that changed cinema — and pop culture — forever... View Source

Dreams of Another is like playing an art-filled dream. It's filled with unexpected events, disjointed acts, and hazy landscapes. Scenes end abruptly, and then you unexpectedly pick up the thread later on. You'll meet talking angel statues and fish that want to escape their home and swim to the ocean. But it's that same unstable, dreamlike quality that makes the game so memorable. In Dreams of Anot... View Source

You'll get access to Windows 10 a little longer by doing this. (Getty Images) You've known it for a while: Microsoft has determined that it's moving Windows 10 to "end of life" status starting on October 14. That means while Windows 10 PCs will continue to work after that date, they'll stop getting important security updates by default. That leaves you with three choices if you want to make sure y... View Source

A decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missed... View Source

SpaceX plans to launch the 11th test flight of its Starship megarocket at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) on Monday (Oct. 13). Here's how you can watch... View Source

Coros' Nomad is marketed as a "go-anywhere, do-anything" adventure watch. It's got GPS and offline maps and will track a lot of activities, from yoga to bouldering. There's an "Adventure Journal," which the marketing copy promises will help you record "every step, catch, and summit." While it doesn't have some of the bells and whistles of a more expensive competitor like Garmin, it's a product see... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Some gorgeous new games arrived this week, and we've got some demos and reveals from upcoming projects to take a look at. Later this month, Lorelai and the Laser Eyes studio Simogo is going to celebrate its 15th anniversary with some news and surprises. Perhaps the developer is porting some of its earlier game... View Source

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries... View Source

A baby exoplanet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a never-before-seen view of planet formation... View Source

Crypto project Ethena’s yield-bearing stablecoin briefly lost its dollar peg during a market rout that triggered record liquidations... View Source

Bending Spoons SpA, a serial buyer of software companies, is pursuing the acquisition of app developers Typeform and Elysium following its recent bids for Vimeo and AOL, according to Il Messaggero... View Source

Amazon shows how capex-heavy bets can terrify investors yet compound into fortunes. From 1997–2003, Amazon had over $5 billion in cumulative losses amid relentless infrastructure spends—warehouses, servers, logistics—totaling ~$10B adjusted, or 5–6x annual revenues at peaks. In 1999, Amazon’s market cap was approximately $25.7 billion, fell as low as $3.6 billion in 2001 and got ... Read mor... View Source

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies... 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. This week, I got an up-close look at how far apart Silicon Valley and Hollywood are on what to do about AI. First, at OpenAI DevDay, Sam Altman presented the new Sora app as a gift to content creators. If anything, he suggested, OpenAI was being too censo... View Source

Bose Corp. announced this week that it will discontinue the cloud infrastructure for its “SoundTouch” line of audio speakers in February, rendering the devices unable to directly stream music from services like Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music and others... View Source

Science and maintenance work continue on the International Space Station, but updates have been all but halted by the U.S. government shutdown. A JAXA astronaut's social media posts are the exception... View Source

PicPay, the Brazilian mobile banking app owned by the billionaire Batista family’s investment holding company, is looking to raise as much as about $500 million in its US initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has announced that as part of a test, some Instagram users will be able to try a new menu bar in the app with a different arrangement of tabs. Notably, the new menu bar has dedicated tabs for both Reels and DMs, two of the app's most popular features. If you opt-in to the test, Instagram's current tabs for your feed, search, creating a new post, Reels and your profile p... View Source

Will OpenAI send police to your door if you advocate for AI regulation?  Nathan Calvin, a lawyer who shapes policies surrounding the technology at Encode AI, claims OpenAI did just that. “One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI,” Calvin writes on X. In addition to subpoenaing the organization he works f... View Source

These are tough times for Russia's civilian space program. In the last few years, Russia has cut back on the number of Soyuz crew missions it is sending to the International Space Station, and a replacement for the nearly 60-year-old Soyuz spacecraft remains elusive. While the United States and China are launching more space missions than ever before, Russia's once-dominant launch cadence is on a... View Source

Bloomberg Tech's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow are live from Anduril's headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, speaking with leaders in the defense tech industry. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey discuss competition and the need for reindustrialization in the US amid threats of fresh tariffs on China from President Donald Trump. Vannevar's VP of Mission Erin Biggers weighs... View Source

Bose is discontinuing support for the cloud-based features available on its SoundTouch products on February 18th, 2026. “After February 18, certain features — including access to integrated music services like Spotify and TuneIn, as well as multi-room playback — will no longer be available,” Bose says. That same day, the SoundTouch app will stop working, too, meaning you won’t be able to use it to... View Source

Businesses across the global semiconductor supply chain are bracing themselves for disruptions from China’s most targeted move yet to limit their supplies of rare-earth materials, which are critical to building the chips fueling the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Lyft Inc. has ended a test that showed some drivers how often a passenger tips, following backlash from riders... View Source

“ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction,” OpenAI wrote in a post on Thursday. The latest GPT-5 models come the closest to achieving that objective goal, according to results from an internal company “stress-test” of ChatGPT’s responses to divisive issues. The test has been months in the making, the company says, and falls on the heels of a yearslong effort to tamp down on complaint... View Source

Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has ... Read more... View Source

Four proposed sun-gazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study suggests... View Source

US auto stocks took a major hit this week as cracks emerged in the sector following the high-profile implosions of parts supplier First Brands and sub-prime lender Tricolor Holdings, while renewed tariff tensions raised fresh concerns for investors... View Source

Apple is partnering with Spectrum SportsNet to stream select Los Angeles Lakers games directly to the Apple Vision Pro during the 2025-2026 basketball season. The games will be filmed in the Apple Immersive video format, the same VR-friendly filming style the company used to capture the Metallica concert film it released earlier this year. Beyond giving you a reason to blow the dust off your $3,50... View Source

Amazon’s October Prime Day is in the rearview mirror, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait until Black Friday and Cyber Monday to score a deal. Case in point, Apple’s AirPods Max (USB-C) are still available for $429.99 ($120 off), at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, which is their lowest price since July. Apple AirPods Max Apple’s AirPods Max feature exemplary build quality, sound phenomenal, and... View Source

Cybersecurity firm Cleafy just issued a report warning against a rising malware called Klopatra, which infects personal devices by posing as a free VPN app called Mobdro Pro IP + VPN. This is the latest corroboration of a series of warnings delivered by Kaspersky security researchers in 2024 about the increasing number of malware apps pretending to be free VPNs — a warning that's more relevan... View Source

Kevin Pathrath an other warn of an AI Bubble and AI Ponzi with a potential 80% collapse. The core of the argument is the circular financing structure of the recent OpenAI-Oracle-Nvidia deal and the OpenAI-AMD deal. Nvidia commits up to $100B in investments ($10B per gigawatt deployed, up to 10GW), starting with the first GW ... Read more... View Source

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more than a month... View Source

Here's how to find Comet Lemmon in October's night sky... View Source

It takes up as much room as a desktop PC, but Edifier’s Cyber is just a speaker. | Image: Edifier With RGB lighting, exposed electronics, and a full color screen inside a transparent enclosure, Edifier’s latest desktop accessory can easily be mistaken for a decked out gaming PC. In reality, it’s primarily a speaker that can connect to sources over Bluetooth, a USB cable, or an analog audio cable,... View Source

Entergy Corp. has applied to connect new natural gas generation to the grid in Louisiana to meet increasing demand from new data centers and industrial projects in the state... View Source

Chrome is getting a new feature aimed at cutting back on notification overload. If enabled, Chrome can now revoke notification permission for websites that the user hasn't interacted with recently. It's a similar option to the automatic actions taken by Chrome's Safety Check for apps such as the camera or location information. The new feature will roll out to Chrome on both Android... View Source

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of quasar OJ287... View Source

LG’s C4 OLED TV is an excellent value now it’s $800 off. | Image: The Verge It’s normal to feel some FOMO after a big sales event like Amazon’s fall Prime Day, but don’t worry — not every great deal has vanished. LG’s 48-inch C4 OLED TV, for instance, is still going for its lowest price yet of around $799.96 ($800 off) at both Amazon and Best Buy. Even the newer C5 model is on sale, starting at $9... View Source

Yacht Club Games hasn't given a new release date, but the delay shouldn’t be more than a few months... View Source

When Google announced the Pixel Watch 4, it made a point to mention that the smartwatch was "designed with serviceability in mind." Now that it's out, the repair experts at iFixit have taken a look and can confirm Google's claims. The how-to specialist site has called the Pixel Watch 4 the most repairable smartwatch you can buy right now. That’s notable, as iFixit points out, b... View Source

Scientists have spotted the first clear sign of water from an interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, offering new clues to the chemistry of other planetary systems... View Source

Google is introducing a new Chrome browser feature for Android and desktop users that automatically turns off notifications for websites that you’re already ignoring. Chrome’s Safety Check feature already provides similar functionality for camera access and location tracking permissions. This new auto-revocation feature builds on a similar Android feature that already makes it easier for Chrome us... View Source

Novo Nordisk A/S cut its cell therapy division, which has been trying to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, as the Ozempic maker continues to slash headcount to focus on lucrative areas of obesity and diabetes treatment... View Source

These binoculars guide you through the night sky in real time, with a database of 200,000 stars, and in this hands-on test, I was impressed with their quality. They're currently also $500 off for pre-orders... View Source

Boox’s first pocket-sized color e-reader. | Image: Boox Now that the latest versions of Boox’s pocketable e-readers are finally available in China, we have a rough idea of what the new P6 Pro and P6 Pro Color will cost if and when the company releases them globally. Unfortunately, in keeping with the theme of price increases in 2025, they’re now quite a bit more expensive, as spotted by Liliputing... View Source

Securitize, a blockchain firm that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a blank-check company started by Cantor Fitzgerald LP, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

The Delta Aurigids 2025 will make for a challenging skywatching event, here's why... View Source

SmartThings Aeotec hubs can now join existing Thread networks. We’re one step closer to a smart home that can manage Thread border routers from different manufacturers. Samsung SmartThings now supports “two-way Thread network unification,” its fancy way of saying Thread credentials sharing. This means that now, if you add a Samsung device that’s a Thread border router to your home, it can jo... View Source

Geopolitical tensions with China are part of the new reality for American companies, Anduril Industries Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Schimpf said on Friday, shortly after new tariff threats by US President Donald Trump sent the markets skittering... View Source

The FCC has submitted a proposal that would make it harder for consumers to receive itemized bills with accurate information from their ISPs, as spotted by The Verge. The draft would revise previous "unnecessary" requirements on the grounds that a fact-based list of charges "may confuse customers." This comes as a response to complaints by ISPs over a Biden-era transparency rul... View Source

OpenAI is winning AI in 2025. They are valued at $500 billion and have nearly 1 billion users. With the huge pace of deals and construction, who wins AI in 2026? Does AMD come from behind to seriously challenge AMD? Who can seriously challenge OpenAI?... View Source

Ford and GM are both backing off their effort to continue offering the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit to customers through the end of the year, Reuters is reporting. Last week, it was revealed that the automakers were working with their respective dealer networks on short-term programs that would allow customers to continue to receive the tax credit on leased EVs through the rest of the year... View Source

Quantum computing operator IonQ Inc. raised $2 billion in a sale of shares and pre-funded warrants to an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group, as firms increasingly invest in the technology... View Source

If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer... View Source

Hulu's adult animated sci-fi series launches its final season on Oct. 13... View Source

Apple is preparing to shuffle executive positions ahead of former COO Jeff Williams’ retirement this year, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.  Among other changes, Eddy Cue, Apple’s head of services, will reportedly oversee the health and fitness teams that may soon launch a rumored Health Plus subscription. Williams previously led Apple’s health initiatives and passed the ro... View Source

Tech shoppers in Asia enjoy a wide assortment of phone straps, at lower prices than what Apple is asking... View Source

Ford is cutting the price of the 2026 F-150 Lightning by up to $4,000, as confirmed by the automaker to CarsDirect. The price cuts vary by trim, however, and will only apply to more expensive packages for the electric pickup truck. This comes as the $7,500 EV tax credit expired at the end of September. The 2026 model has a starting price of $63,345 for the STX trim, which is the same price as the... View Source

A train of glittering SpaceX Starlink satellites shine brightly above a green aurora in a new video released by NASA astronaut Don Pettit... View Source

This is wearable maximalism but subtract two smartwatches and smart glasses, and this could be you in three years. 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... View Source

Regulators are still at an “early stage” in their efforts to track the risks posed to the financial system by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, global financial watchdogs warned on Friday... View Source

Sonos’ Ace headphones didn’t get off to the best start, but the brand’s first headphones have come a long way since launch, and for $100 off when purchased directly from Sonos or Amazon, they’re well worth considering. The Ace are down to $299 from both retailers, and for that price you’re getting one of the most feature-packed pairs of noise-canceling headphones on the market right now. When the... View Source

The sun's returning coronal hole could stir up geomagnetic storms and dazzling auroras under clear, dark skies this weekend... View Source

This headset includes a magnetic charging dock that removes almost all the friction usually involved in charging a headset. Not many gaming headsets have a Scandinavian minimalist aesthetic, which is why Fractal's $199.99 Scape caught my eye. Like many of Fractal's PC cases, this headset looks more sophisticated than you might expect from gaming gear, with clean lines and simplistic color schemes... View Source

Telefonica Chile confirmed Friday that its parent company — Spain’s Telefonica SA — is selling the local unit... View Source

Control: Ultimate Edition will be available on the iPhone, the iPad and the Apple Vision Pro in early 2026, its developer Remedy has announced. The developer says you can either "tap into the action with touch controls," which presumably includes hand tracking and gestures on the mixed reality headset, or use controllers to play the game. Remedy first made it available for the Apple ecos... View Source

Microsoft is now selling its Windows XP-themed Crocs. After initially revealing them as a sweepstakes item on Instagram earlier this month, anyone can now purchase the limited edition Crocs for $79.95 at Microsoft’s online company store. The Crocs feature the iconic blue sky and clouds from the Windows XP wallpaper, with a green sole to mimic the grass. They also include a six-pack of Microsoft Ji... View Source

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Google with strategic market status (SMS) under the new digital markets competition regime. Specifically, it found that Google holds "substantial and entrenched market power and a position of strategic significance" when it comes to general search and search advertising services. The digital markets competiti... View Source

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A compilation of various images from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the effects of gravitational lensing caused by dark matter... View Source

Vegetarian patties like Beyond Burger’s would also be hit by the restrictions. | Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images This week the EU Parliament voted in favor of an amendment that would ban vegetarian and vegan products from using terms including “burger” and “sausage.” But the proposed ban goes further than that, and would also prevent cell-cultured meat — a.k.a. lab-grown — from using th... View Source

Ukraine and the UK plan to start joint production of interceptor drones to combat the swarms of Shahed-type unmanned aircraft launched by Russia on a daily basis, causing severe damage to civilian and energy infrastructure... View Source

After years of trying, a dedicated team has managed to download and archive a fully playable version of the long-lost canceled mobile game, Ratchet & Clank: Clone Home. The story of its search and recovery has been detailed in a new video by YouTuber The Golden Bolt, who helped kick off the search himself back in 2019.  Ratchet & Clank: Clone Home has usually been attributed to Handhe... View Source

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. is making a renewed push to get more merchants using its payments network, which it casts as a less expensive alternative to credit-card behemoths Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc... View Source

China's antitrust regulator has opened an investigation into Qualcomm's acquisition of Israeli connected-vehicle chip company Autotalks. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) alleges that Qualcomm is suspected of violating China's anti-monopoly laws by not disclosing certain details of the deal. Qualcomm had initially agreed to acquire the fabless chip company in 202... View Source

Researchers hope the finding could point to new therapeutic approaches for the disease... View Source

Saturn's moon Mimas may have an ocean — and a future space mission could find it, scientists say... View Source

China’s expansion of export controls to production facilities outside of China is a concern being discussed in Germany and at the EU level, a spokesperson for the German Economic Ministry said in an email... View Source

If you pick the right time, our home world and our moon could be easily visible from the Red Planet... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ellen Huet talks with science fiction author Eliot Peper about the interest tech leaders have in the sci-fi genre... View Source

A little after the launch of the rest of the Pixel 10 family, Google’s new foldable is here. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is a beast — which may not be the first thing you want to hear about a foldable. Engadget It’s perceptibly thicker than its biggest rival, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7. But avoiding the race for thinness gives Google’s new foldable some advantages. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold has the best came... View Source

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in quick succession over the past 3,000 years... View Source

Shipments from Tesla Inc.’s Shanghai factory increased in September as China’s car market kicks off its busy sales period and automakers start their final push to meet annual targets... View Source

Apple is updating its Security Bounty program this November to offer some of the highest rewards in the industry. It has doubled its top award from $1 million to $2 million for the discovery of "exploit chains that can achieve similar goals as sophisticated mercenary spyware attacks" and which requires no user interaction. But the maximum possible payout can exceed $5 million dollars for... View Source

China has begun an investigation into a months-old Qualcomm Inc. acquisition, taking aim at yet another US technology giant before a pivotal meeting of the leaders of the world’s two largest economies... View Source

A former White House physician reveals the medical realities of caring for the president of the U.S... View Source

World Space Week 2025 casts a lens on life in space — here, we take a look at how astronauts traveling beyond Earth can affect their families... View Source

The emergence of artificial intelligence will not lead to a wave of job losses in the UK, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said, despite fears that the new technology is already sapping demand for young workers... View Source

Microsoft is updating its Copilot app on Windows to allow it to create documents from a chat session and connect to Gmail and Outlook accounts. The updated Copilot app is rolling out initially to all Windows Insiders, ahead of a general release to all Windows 11 users. Copilot on Windows can now create Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs all from the chat interfa... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google became the first company to be designated with so called strategic market status in the UK, exposing the US firm’s online search and advertising business to a closer scrutiny by the country’s antitrust watchdog... View Source

You don’t need to spend a fortune to level up your gaming setup. The right budget-friendly gear can still deliver the comfort, performance and style you need whether you’re on Xbox, PlayStation, a gaming PC or a Nintendo handheld. Affordable doesn’t have to mean low quality — today’s peripherals often bring the same features as pricier gear, like RGB lighting, noise cancellation and even USB-C con... View Source

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility... View Source

High-flying Chinese chipmaker stocks tumbled Friday as mounting concerns over lofty valuations and reported margin cuts soured investor sentiment... View Source

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. made its steepest-ever job cuts as strained ties with the US and a rapid shift toward artificial intelligence reshape the country’s $280 billion IT services sector... View Source

From technology firms to translators, the world has not faced up to the consequences of artificial intelligence wiping out swathes of jobs, according to one of AI’s biggest cheerleaders in finance... View Source

A gauge of emerging-market currencies slid for a third day on Thursday, with the dollar rallying as traders monitor political turmoil in Europe and Japan while they navigate the market without US economic data... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to borrow $5 billion from global banks, refilling its coffers at a time Masayoshi Son is accelerating the Japanese investment firm’s bets on artificial intelligence... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares jumped, on track to close at an all-time high, riding investor enthusiasm for its potential in artificial intelligence chips and renewed confidence in its conventional memory business... View Source

HashKey Group, the operator of Hong Kong’s biggest licensed crypto exchange, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the Asian financial hub, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Advanced artificial intelligence chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. would have to ensure US companies get priority access to their products before China under legislation the Senate passed, a setback for the industry’s efforts to block the measure... View Source

Shares of Delta Electronics (Thailand) Pcl, the country’s most valuable publicly traded company, are set to fall after the stock exchange imposed market surveillance measures on the securities following a record-breaking rally this month... View Source

Rising US scrutiny of the global chip industry puts the spotlight on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s and Samsung Electronics Co.’s earnings outlook next week... View Source

New Zealand’s plan to sell its non-voting stake in fiber optic network operator Chorus is an example of the government using its balance sheet smarter, according to Finance Minister Nicola Willis... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing to expand the roles of some top executives in response to the pending departure of longtime Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

China’s chip stocks have staged a world-beating rally in the past few months on the nation’s self-sufficiency push, but some investors are beginning to balk at their lofty valuations... View Source

If Intel wants to come back as a chip fab, its upcoming Core Ultra series 3 laptop processors will be a crucial part of that. The company has just revealed more information about those processors (codenamed Panther Lake), that will use its 2-nanometer 18A process and be built in the US at its Arizona plant.  The Core Ultra series 3 system-on-chips will be utilized mainly in high-end laptops a... View Source

The heads of Japan’s biggest financial firms are going out of their way to assuage worries that artificial intelligence will take away jobs... View Source

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a probe into 2.88 million Tesla electric vehicles currently equipped with the company's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) system. As first reported by Reuters, the NHTSA has received more than 50 reports of traffic-safety violations as well as numerous crashes. The agency, which oversees the nation’s motor vehicle safe... View Source

Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”... View Source

DoorDash Inc. is partnering with sidewalk-robot developer Serve Robotics Inc. for autonomous deliveries across the US, adding to an array of methods the company is exploring to complement human couriers... View Source

As the 7-pound Razer Blade 18 sat on my desk, its all-black unibody case and enormous 18-inch screen towering before me like the monolith from 2001, I couldn’t help but think, “Who the hell needs such a big-ass computer?” I’m sure they’re out there — the gamers with deep pockets and little regard for portability, the video editors who demand as much screen space as possible. But on the whole, the... View Source

A Minecraft Movie is getting a sequel, and according to a post on X, the new film will debut in theaters on July 23rd, 2027. Jared Hess, who directed the first film, is returning for the second, Deadline reports, but Warner Bros. Discovery hasn’t yet said who from the first film’s cast might return.  Building terrain. See you in theaters July 23 2027. #Minecraft pic.twitter.com/9myRslRG4c— A... View Source

Consumers with credit scores that hover at or below 600 don’t have many options to access credit. There are costly payday loans, with their exorbitant annual interest rates, and not much else... View Source

Heart Machine will wind down development on the third-person roguelike Hyper Light Breaker, seemingly confirming that it will never make it out of early access. The follow-up to indie darling Hyper Light Drifter was first announced in 2022 and after several delays finally entered early access at the beginning of 2025. But it looks like a 1.0 release won’t be arriving, with the studio confirming th... View Source

NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study will raise from a valid concept to a proof of concept experiment. Nuclear-micropowered probes could be used for autonomous exploration of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) and other space missions. Tritium betavoltaics are a class of nuclear batteries ... Read mor... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Spellbook raised $50 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures managing partner Keith Rabois — making the firm the latest venture player to bankroll AI companies tackling the legal industry... View Source

Proton VPN, my favorite VPN service right now, has expanded its free plan in response to surging demand for free VPNs. As Proton's general manager announced by tweeting in French and later in Norwegian, free users now have access to servers in Canada and Norway, joining the existing locations in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Poland, Romania and Singapore. Free servers in all eigh... View Source

Lyft Inc. is partnering with autonomous vehicle developer Tensor Auto Inc. to deploy a fleet of hundreds of robotaxis in Europe and North America starting in 2027... View Source

The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world's first video games, but as the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and very slow iPod, too. In the video, Boards of Canada's "Olson" is playing off of paper tape that's carefully fed and programmed into the PDP-1 by engineer and Computer History Mus... View Source

Intel Corp., the embattled chipmaker now backed by the US government, introduced new products and manufacturing technology that are central to its turnaround bid... View Source

Last month, Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee that it would allow some creators who were banned from YouTube for spreading COVID-19 and election-related misinformation to come back to the platform. Now, the company is outlining how that process will work, though it's not clear exactly who will be provided that opportunity,YouTube says that beginning today it will give "some pre... View Source

The Apple Vision Pro is getting new “immersive” content for the upcoming NBA season: a “selection” of live Los Angeles Lakers games that will be available to watch on the headset in the Apple Immersive Video format, Apple announced today. “Vision Pro users will be able to feel the intensity of each game as if they were courtside, with perspectives that are impossible to capture in traditional broa... View Source

The German government is scaling back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting planned subsidies by €3 billion ($3.5 billion) over the next few years as it seeks to overhaul aging infrastructure... View Source

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that a blockbuster that makes bank will get a sequel (or seven). Enter A Minecraft Movie, with its surprisingly effective humor and $957 million box office payday. (Who had "Jack Black will anchor a nearly billion-dollar movie" on their 2025 bingo card?) So, it's no surprise that Warner Bros. has officially greenlit a sequel. Variety re... View Source

We're not the only ones who see a baboon in this nebula photo, right?... View Source

The Elettrica’s motor can put out up to 1000 horsepower. | Image: Ferrari Meet the Ferrari Elettrica. Well, meet some of it. The Italian supercar maker lifted the hood on the technology that will power its hotly anticipated first electric vehicle, the Elettrica. At an event at its Maranello headquarters, Ferrari showed reporters the chassis and powertrain of the upcoming EV, including its battery... View Source

Bloomberg Tech's Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow are live in LA for Bloomberg Screentime 2025, speaking with celebrities, entrepreneurs and leaders across the media, gaming and streaming landscape. NPR CEO Katherine Maher discusses the state of media under the Trump administration, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy and Scopely COO Eunice Lee weigh in on the gaming landscape, while streamer Imane Anys - aka “Pokim... View Source

The Entertainment Software Association has released its Power of Play report, which presents a snapshot of who is playing video games, and why, all around the world. There are a lot of interesting data points here from more than 24,000 respondents, all of whom are older than 16 and play at least weekly. The doubters who think gaming is just for kids may be surprised to learn that the average age o... View Source

OpenAI has positioned itself at the center of a growing swath of the tech sector and wider economy. But first…... View Source

After announcing its intentions to make an XR device in 2023, and revealing the design and intended use-cases for the headset alongside the announcement of Android XR in 2024, Samsung has shared precious few details about Project Moohan. A new leak from Android Headlines is set to change that, detailing not only the specs of Samsung's new headset, but also a final name and new controller acce... View Source

OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did at launch despite being an invite-only app. The company launched its new Sora app for iOS on September 30th, giving users the ability to scroll through a... View Source

Instagram is exploring building a dedicated TV app as part of a deeper push into video, a move that could get Instagram videos in front of more viewers and also provide more competition for YouTube, which already makes it very easy to watch videos on a television... View Source

Sora, OpenAI's app and social network for AI-generated videos, has been downloaded over one million times, according to Sora head Bill Peebles. The app reached one million downloads in less than five days, Peebles says, "even faster than ChatGPT did." That's despite OpenAI only making the app available in North America, and its decision to require users to have an invite to act... View Source

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it... View Source

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) was one of a handful of Republicans to speak out against the “mafioso”-like comments Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr issued ahead of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension last month. Now, he’s hoping the liberal outrage over government censorship will fuel bipartisan support for a new bill letting Americans sue over speech violations. ... View Source

Microsoft Corp.’s data-center crunch will continue for longer than the company has previously outlined, underscoring the software giant’s struggles to keep up with cloud demand... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies have been working at breakneck speeds to develop the best and most powerful tools, but that rapid development hasn't always been coupled with clear understandings of AI's limitations or weaknesses. Today, Anthropic released a report on how attackers can influence the development of a large language model.The study centered on a type of attack called pois... View Source

The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses... View Source

SpaceX moved its Super Heavy booster to the pad recently to gear up for Flight 11 of its Starship megarocket, which is scheduled for Oct. 13... View Source

YouTube is now giving some creators, including those who were banned for spreading covid and election misinformation, a chance to make a new channel, according to a blog post. Under political pressure, the company had said last month that it was going to set up this pilot program for “a subset of creators” and “channels terminated for policies that have been deprecated.” YouTube said in a letter t... View Source

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, says he’s not concerned that AI will replace creativity on Instagram, but says it will change how creators tell their stories. He speaks with Kurt Wagner at Bloomberg Screentime in Los Angeles. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nintendo just released an odd little game onto the SNES Virtual Console that was previously exclusive to Japan. The simply-titled Mario & Wario is a point-and-click puzzle game that finds the plumber on the search for his brother after his money-obsessed doppelganger drops a bucket on his head. That's the actual plot. Players lead the bucket-headed Mario through 100 levels, each of which... View Source

Full-screen ads have started to appear regularly on Echo Show smart displays. Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The redesign - led by former Microsoft design chief Ralf Groene, whom Amazon Devices & Services head Panos Panay coaxed out of retirement - included two new Echo Show smart displays. According to Panay, these new... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.’s film chiefs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, fresh off the renewal of their contracts, confirmed that the studio will make a sequel to this year’s hit A Minecraft Movie... View Source

Lyft is partnering with San Jose-based Tensor Auto. Lyft says it has reserved "hundreds" of Tensor robotaxis and will operate its own fleet. The other piece of the partnership: Tensor will make its Robocar "Lyft-ready" straight out of the factory. Shipping the Robocar with Lyft's platform will allow a futuristic form of passive income for owners in regions with level 4 reg... View Source

Just four minutes of darkness was enough to confuse dozens of species of birds... View Source

The 512GB card is on sale for $88.47 ($31 off) If you’re a Nintendo Switch 2 owner who mostly buys digital games as opposed to cartridges (like me!), its 256GB of internal storage will run out quickly. Buying a microSD Express card gives you more storage, though at a higher cost than most people likely want to pay. However, Lexar’s 512GB and 1TB microSD Express cards are currently selling at the l... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out an updated version of its main artificial intelligence tool for business, the latest effort to grab a slice of the market for software designed to automate and speed up office work... View Source

Monarch Money is one of our favorite budgeting apps and, fittingly enough, there's a way for newcomers to save money on a subscription right now. If you use the code WELCOME at checkout, you can get an annual plan for 30 percent off. It typically costs $100, but you can get 12 months of access for $70 with this code. There are some key caveats here. The discount is only for new users, and it can't... View Source

Belkin’s PowerGrip improves your smartphone’s ergonomics while you’re taking photos. | Image: Belkin First announced at CES 2025, Belkin’s Stage PowerGrip is finally available for $79.99. You can find power banks with wireless charging and more than 9,300mAh capacity for less than that, but Belkin has packed a lot of extra functionality into its latest that could justify the price if you’re a smar... View Source

Chad Williams was a force behind Wall Street’s bet on artificial intelligence before he stepped down from QTS, the fast-growing data center landlord owned by Blackstone Inc... View Source

Sony just dropped a new video with Mark Cerny, and it’s a big one, with significant implications for the company’s next console and AMD’s future GPUs. Over nearly nine minutes, Cerny, who was the lead designer for the PlayStation 4 and PS5, chats with Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group, about a series of technologies, collectively dubbed Pro... View Source

It's not too late to hop aboard the alien mothership for the sensational Apple TV+ sci-fi series... View Source

There’s still no telling when George R. R. Martin will turn in The Winds of Winter, and it’s not clear when House of the Dragon will be back for its penultimate season. But HBO has finally released a trailer and revealed the premiere date for its newest Game of Thrones spinoff series. Today at this year’s New York Comic-Con, HBO announced that A Knight of Seven Kingdoms’ six-episode-long first sea... View Source

The Trump administration is considering whether to take a major step toward restricting the US operations of TP-Link Systems Inc., a China-linked router-maker whose Wi-Fi equipment is popular in the American market, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is getting another update to celebrate developer MachineGames 15th birthday. The big news here is the addition of a New Game+ mode, which is always a good time. This mode will be available upon finishing the main story and most of the upgrades carry through, including adventure books (skills) and medicine bottles. Currency also follows from the first playthrough,... View Source

After a bunch of very cryptic teasers, Apple has finally revealed a proper look at Pluribus, it’s next big sci-fi series. The show comes from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, and stars Rhea Seehorn as Carol, “the most miserable person on Earth” who “must save the world from happiness.” The brief teaser trailer shows Carol seemingly being catered to by the rest of the world’s population, who ha... View Source

YouTube users who were banned from the service for violating its policies related to issues like the 2020 election results or Covid-19 misinformation may soon be able to rejoin the platform... View Source

Who among us hasn't fantasized about escaping hell as a skateboarding demon made of glass? That's the task laid out for you in the offbeat indie title Skate Story. Devolver, always up for creative and subversive risk-taking, announced on Thursday that the game will arrive on December 8. Skate Story has you performing ollies, kickflips and grinds to swallow the moon and free yourself from... View Source

Figure AI has revealed a new humanoid bot, the figure-03. They are targeting a total of 100,000 built within 4 years (by the end of 2029). They anticipate making $1000 per month or $12,000 per year. This would mean $1.2 billion per year from 100,000 bots. The humanoid bots now wear clothes to make them ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX plans to launch 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites today (Oct. 9), bringing the total number of spacecraft lofted for the nascent broadband megaconstellation to 153... View Source

Hey there, and welcome to Decoder! I’m Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. I’m subbing in for Nilay while he’s still out on parental leave, and I’m excited to keep diving into the good, the bad, and the questionable in the AI industry. It’s been a very big news week in AI, and a lot of it had to do with OpenAI. The company hosted its annual DevDay in... View Source

The EU’s Global Gateway plan is challenging China’s Belt and Road Initiative to influence Africa, by providing funding that will expand access to electricity... View Source

For most hardware makers, there aren’t any easy answers to a slowdown in buyer demand. But in the highly esoteric business of Bitcoin mining, upstart manufacturers such as Bitdeer Technologies Group have an ace up their sleeve: they can simply deploy their machines themselves... View Source

The how-to website iFixit posted a teardown of Meta's new Ray-Ban Display augmented reality glasses and came away impressed by the tech but wary of repairability. As a matter of fact, one of the techs said in the accompanying video that it's "very clear that the first iterations of these smartglasses are going to be unrepairable." This repairability issue is relatively unsurpri... View Source

Retro looks and limited functionality. | Image: Timex In 1972, Hamilton’s Pulsar Time Computer launched the first commercially sold digital watch, but its LED screen was power hungry and only showed the time when you pushed a button. What helped make digital watches practical was the eventual upgrade to low-power, always-on LCD displays, which Timex first introduced on its SSQ watch in 1975. Now,... View Source

1Password founders have agreed to sell a $75 million stake to a fund established earlier this year by Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and Accel partner Ryan Sweeney... View Source

The Browser Company’s AI-powered browser is now available to download for all macOS users. Dia started rolling out to private beta testers in June, following its initial reveal at the end of last year, but if you’re a Mac user you can download it here if you want to try it. Note that you need a Mac with an M1 chip or later running macOS 14 or later. AI is being baked into a lot of web browsers rig... View Source

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will work to streamline space regulations, a push just announced in the newly christened "Space Month" of October 2025... View Source

This is a PS5 Pro, Sony’s $750 console that won’t get all of these new features. Sony’s next console (presumably the PS6) is coming in “a few years time,” according to someone who I’d believe to make that claim. Mark Cerny, lead architect on the PS5 and PS5 Pro, joined Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD’s computing and graphics group, in a YouTube video wherein the pair spend nine minutes going through... View Source

OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc... View Source

Nintendo has cleared up the biggest mystery since Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story by revealing what the two animated shorts it released this week were all about. The company says these are the first short films from Nintendo Pictures, which it bought in 2022 (the production house was previously called Dynamo Pictures).“We hope you enjoyed the two ‘Close to You’ videos released on O... View Source

Samsung showed off its Project Moohan headset at its Unpacked event in January. Samsung is expected to launch its Project Moohan XR headset as soon as this month, but a leak shared by Android Headlines may give us an early look at its specs. The leak suggests that the Android-based headset will offer a 4K micro-OLED display with 4,032 pixels per inch — higher than 3,386ppi on the Apple Vision Pro... View Source

The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want... View Source

The social networking giant has found a new category that consumers will need to take seriously... View Source

This quiz is your chance to explore the wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope, from its mind-blowing discoveries to the science behind its design... View Source

When Nintendo unexpectedly dropped a cute cartoon about a baby learning how to walk earlier this week, people understandably thought that the game studio might have been teasing a new or animated feature. "Close to You" turned out to be a Pikmin situation instead of a reveal for new IP, and Nintendo has just clarified that the video is actually a short film rather than a teaser for a new game. In... View Source

Salesforce Inc. is launching a product for information technology management, moving into a new area for the company’s software and deepening its competition with ServiceNow Inc... View Source

You can get Sony's WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones for $250 in a limited time deal for Amazon Prime Day. That's $150 off its launch price, $50 off its regular Amazon list price and only a cent more than its all-time low of $249.99. While the model was released a few years ago, it's still a fantastic alternative to the newer but pricier WH-1000XM6, which you can also get with a discount of $20 from... View Source

CAS Space is preparing to launch its first liquid propellant rocket, the Kinetica 2, carrying a prototype cargo spacecraft — the latest sign of China's accelerating commercial launch sector... View Source

A court order will require Google to scale back some of its more aggressive tactics to get its search engine in front of as many users as possible, but it’s still fighting to make sure new restrictions won’t limit its AI expansion.  At a hearing in a federal courthouse in DC on Wednesday, Google attorney John Schmidtlein told Judge Amit Mehta that he should not prevent the company from bundli... View Source