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I like the UE Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker so much that I bought two of them, though I wish I could have paid less for them. Fortunately, you can stock up on the cheap, so long as you like the color blue. The Wonderboom 4 is available in blue at Amazon for $51.49, and at Walmart and Best Buy for $51.99 ($28 off its regular price). That’s the lowest price we’ve seen yet for the waterproof speaker... View Source

Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Back is often considered to be the creator of Bitcoin, which he has repeatedly denied. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The first gameplay trailer shows off bloody melee combat... View Source

Image Credit: Motiv Space Systems The Fly Foundational Robots (FFR) mission will launch a robotic arm, with seven degrees of freedom, to low Earth orbit. NASA is opening access to the robotic arm to a select group of U.S. researchers — principal investigators, post-doctoral researchers, professors, and highly qualified graduate students — who have a compelling experiment and the capability to exec... View Source

The origin of enigmatic long-period radio bursts has been shown to be from the clash of magnetic fields as a white dwarf steals matter from a close red dwarf star... View Source

At its big State of Play show on Tuesday, Sony shared new look Marvel's Wolverine, the next big title from Insomniac Games that's launching exclusively on PS5 on September 15th. Dressed in the iconic yellow Wolverine outfit, Logan slunk around and stabbed his way through a bunch of enemies, using his blades to take them out. Combat looked weighty and satisfying - though the game is extremely blood... View Source

Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Fireblocks, the crypto infrastructure company launched Fireblocks Flow today as part of the Money 20/20 conference in Amsterdam. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

While the majority of Summer Game Fest takes place over the weekend, Sony is getting a jump on things with its next State of Play showcase, which airs on June 2nd at 5PM ET. It’s coming at a pivotal time for the PlayStation brand: The PS5 keeps getting more expensive and Sony’s big bet on live-service games has largely fallen flat. A good showing at SGF won’t fix everything, but... View Source

Denelle Dixon, CEO of Stellar Development Foundation, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation said last week it plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar network. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hollow Knight joins the Amazon Luna game catalog this month... View Source

China launched its partially reusable Long March 12B rocket for the first time ever on Monday (June 1), sending it up without issuing airspace closure notices ahead of time... View Source

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According to Microsoft, MAI-Thinking-1 is a "medi... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Nathan Dean joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Jamie Dimon took aim at Coinbase Global CEO Brian Armstrong, and vowed to fight back against digital-asset legislation making its way through Congress. Original filename: 20260602_192622_Crypto_Yield_Restrictions_and_Bank_Secrecy_Act_Debates_Stall.mp4 (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hackers used brute forced about 20 password vaults from Dashlane... View Source

The new MSI Claw with Intel Arc G3 Extreme. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Intel couldn't catch a break. Layoffs. Shakedowns. Crashing CPUs torpedoing its reputation, sending desktop gamers fleeing to AMD. Apple and Qualcomm pushing Intel out of multiple flagship laptops. A gaming graphics card going MIA. But its Panther Lake laptop chip, the first on its all-important 18A process, turned o... View Source

Anthropic has confidentially filed to go public, pulling ahead of rival OpenAI in the IPO race, this as SpaceX gets ready to IPO this month. Emily Zheng, a senior venture capital research analyst at PitchBook, says "we are in unchartered territory" in terms of how "gargantuan" these mega IPOs are. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ring is the source of a new lawsuit that claims one of its features can capture facial data from passers by without their knowledge... View Source

Casio G-Shock takes timely inspiration from the galaxy far, far away... View Source

Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on personal assistant and updates across Microsoft's in-house AI models. If you didn't watch the event live, you can catch up on all the latest news in the roundup below. A mini Surface PC designed for AI... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Blockstream CEO & Co-Founder Adam Back, Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson, Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon, and Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulox. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Camp Snap 2 is a slight improvement on the nostalgic throwback camera... View Source

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order says the US AI industry has succeeded in part "because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burde... View Source

Microsoft Corp. announced an updated quantum-computing chip, betting it can set up a commercially useful machine by 2029... View Source

Google Photos and Google Play Books are also getting new AI-powered updates... View Source

The U.S Space Force has awarded SpaceX $4.16 billion to help the military track airborne targets using satellites... View Source

Microsoft’s new Majorana 2 quantum chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is announcing Majorana 2 today, the next generation of its topological quantum chip. Majorana 2 contains qubits,... View Source

Anthropic PBC pulled ahead of OpenAI with its confidential IPO filing Monday, as the free-spending artificial intelligence startups battle for a fundraising edge that’s set to determine who will win the ultimate battle for computing power. The oneupmanship in the firms’ private funding rounds, and now their progress toward going public, isn’t just about bragging rights. The risk for both firms is... View Source

The EU's moves towards digital sovereignty might include its Parliament ditching Google... View Source

Microsoft just announced "Project Solara," a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it "a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences." It's built on Android, not Windows. Microsoft demonstrated two concept Project Solara devices at Build today: Desk concept and badge concept. The desk concept is an Amazon Echo Show-like de... View Source

The new action-platformer is the best-reviewed video game of 2026 so far... View Source

TikTok-style superimposed reaction videos are coming to X now... View Source

After the fantastic Total War: Warhammer trilogy, Creative Assembly is marching into the grim darkness of Warhammer 40K's far future... View Source

Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today with a promise of making Windows a trusted platform for development. As the company continues to focus on performance and reliability fixes for Windows 11, it's also creating a developer-optimized experience that bundles a lot of useful tools and apps and embraces Linux even further. "We have optimized the Windows 11 experience for deve... View Source

Perplexity AI Inc. is trying to manage the huge demand for artificial intelligence computing power by building a platform that diverts AI work between personal computers and cloud-based servers... View Source

Microsoft is making a Surface AI dev desktop for people who don't want a laptop... View Source

On the Friday before Memorial Day, on the eve of a long weekend, the Trump administration announced that it was further gutting legal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security didn't use this language. "This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes," the agency said on X. "The era of abusing our nation's immigration system is ov... View Source

HPE shares soared by the most ever after the company gave an outlook for annual sales that topped Wall Street’s estimates, citing massive growth in AI-fueled demand for its servers and networking. HPE CEO Antonio Neri joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss the company's demand growth, memory prices and outlook. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pokémon is the second Lego theme to have Smart Play sets, following Star Wars... View Source

ESA/Sophie Adenot Astronauts Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Jack Hathaway of NASA, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, look out a window in the cupola, monitoring the automated approach and docking of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on May 17, 2026. The orbital outpost was soaring 259 miles above the Indian Ocean just west of the Maldives at... View Source

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of magnetic worlds beyond the solar system thanks to their high-speed, violent winds, representing a major step forward in exoplanet research... View Source

If you’re looking for a way to add a personal touch to Father’s Day or graduation gifts, the Cricut Joy 2 can help you customize everything from water bottles and bookmarks to greeting cards and gift cards. The Cricut Joy 2 Rainbow Essential Bundle includes enough vinyl, cardstock, iron-on materials, and other supplies to create up to 75 projects, and it’s currently down to a new... View Source

OpenAI is expanding the functionality of its artificial intelligence coding agent for a number of professions beyond software engineering, a bid to compete with rivals such as Anthropic PBC in signing up more business customers... View Source

Season 3 of Silo premieres on July 3... View Source

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced.  The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of the... View Source

The chief executive of Blue Origin, whose large New Glenn rocket exploded spectacularly less than a week ago at the company's launch site in Florida, vowed Monday night that the company would launch again before the end of 2026. Writing on the social media site X, Blue Origin's Dave Limp said the company had been able to complete a preliminary survey of the LC-36A launch site. "Now that we’ve had... View Source

Guy Rosen, Meta Platforms Inc.’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw the company’s election integrity work, is departing in the coming months... View Source

Anthropic has invited approximately 150 more organizations to Project Glasswing... View Source

From urban beaches and hidden capes to lighthouses and mountain peaks, here's where to see the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, if you're on Spain's east coast or in the Balearic Islands... View Source

The new Camp Snap 2 is 15 percent slimmer than the original version. | Image: Camp Snap After expanding its offerings to video with the CS-8 inspired by Kodak and Canon's retro Super 8mm film cameras, Camp Snap is returning to its roots. The Camp Snap 2 is a sequel to the company's first screenless digital point-and-shoot camera that updates the original with a slimmer design, faster performance,... View Source

Blue Origin faces a formidable challenge that goes beyond simply replacing the New Glenn rocket it lost in last week’s explosion: rebuilding a destroyed launchpad that took years to construct... View Source

ASUS was one of the launch customers for NVIDIA's new RTX Spark ARM "superchip" and it's laptops look like the most interesting ones for creators... View Source

Technicians prepare the Divergent Deployable Wastewater Treatment Facility, designed to turn crew wastewater into useful resources, for transport at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. NASA/Kim Shiflett A mobile wastewater treatment system built at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that can help prepare for long-duration missions on the Moon and Mars... View Source

The Celestron Origin Mark II smart telescope will have you capturing crisp images of deep-sky objects within minutes of taking it out of the box... View Source

Poland needs to put technology sovereignty at the top of its political agenda to curb artificial intelligence-related risks threatening its security and economy, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said... View Source

Motorola has unveiled a new mid-range phone and earbuds... View Source

In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries where stars are born at an explosive rate. Curiously, these clumpy galaxies were much more common in the early universe than they are today. We still don’t know why they vanished.  The Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with critical... View Source

Hundreds of students came together to design, build, and test rovers on an Earth obstacle course to prepare for the moon as part of a NASA challenge... View Source

Spark is Google’s new agentic answer for everything. According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will exhaustively search travel options, read up on all the fun things to do, check all the local hotspots, and offer you a fully fledged itinerary. So... View Source

Bank of America Corp. expects strong deal-making activity in South Africa to continue in this year despite ongoing global volatility, the head of its local operation said... View Source

Nintendo is trying to bring back Fox's mojo with a beautiful remake of the series' best game... View Source

Liv 2.0 is the next generation of Thermacell’s Wi-Fi-connected mosquito protection system. | Image: Thermacell Thermacell has launched Liv 2.0, the next generation of its Wi-Fi-connected smart mosquito protection system. It features new hardware and can cover a larger area, and Thermacell says its formula can now deter no-see-ums. But it's also more expensive and requires professional installation... View Source

A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — a landmark verdict... View Source

The company's CEO is expected to present for two and a half hours and cover a lot of ground, and we believe Windows and Copilot will be on the agenda... View Source

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated... View Source

Some of the sets’ props are drawn directly from the games, others are more… unexpected. When Lego announced its tech-packed Smart Bricks at CES, we were impressed by the potential - enough to give it our Best in Show award. But when the first Star Wars sets actually launched in March, we were less enamored. All that promise of clever interaction and creative play ultimately boiled down to a few vo... View Source

ElevenLabs sees Warsaw as its fastest-growing hub as the artificial intelligence voice company chases new customers in central and eastern Europe... View Source

Amazon bucked its usual tradition of having Prime Day in July. Prime Day 2026 is happening in June, kicking off in just a few weeks. Prime members will get access to many deals starting June 23rd at 3:01AM ET through June 27th at 3:01AM ET. As with Amazon’s previous events, you don’t need to be a Prime member to buy products during Prime Day, but there will likely be member-exclusive sales. Moreov... View Source

Getting around space, as it turns out, is kind of a big deal. On Tuesday, Impulse Space, a company dedicated to improving space mobility, announced it has raised $500 million in Series D funding. Since it was founded five years ago by SpaceX veteran Tom Mueller, the company has now raised more than $1 billion. "Timing is everything," Mueller said in an interview about the new round of funding. By... View Source

A majority of Palo Alto Networks investors have voted against the cybersecurity company’s executive pay seven times in 11 years. That’s despite the company’s stock soaring. ... View Source

Withings' mid-range BodyFit is targeted at GLP-1 users who need to keep a closer eye on their muscle mass... View Source

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Impulse Space — which was founded by Tom Mueller, SpaceX's first-ever employee — just raised $500 million to build out the ultra-mobile spacecraft that it believes will transform the space economy... View Source

A unicorn Beanie Baby. A 15-pound green bowling ball. A pair of dentures. These are just some of the items left behind in robotaxis in the past year, according to Uber's annual Lost and Found Index. For the first time, the company is expanding its annual of accounting of things forgotten in Uber vehicles to include self-driving cars because, for the first time, Uber has enough self-driving cars on... View Source

Backed by the retailer and Ribbit Capital, OnePay is reaching beyond its initial customer base to take on banks... View Source

In its biggest new product for consumers in years, Nvidia is now making PC chips... View Source

The restrictions affect posts related to body image and mental health... View Source

Build 2026 is looking to be another AI-heavy affair. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is kicking off its yearly Build developer conference in San Francisco today, sandwiched between the recent Google I/O and Apple's upcoming WWDC event. While tickets to attend Build in person are sold out, the conference is being streamed for free online, with CEO Satya Nadella opening with a keynote at 12:30PM ET / 9... View Source

Investors are about to get a read on the durability of the soaring rally in cybersecurity stocks when two of the industry’s major players report earnings in the coming days... View Source

Maverick Games has unveiled Clutch, an open-world driving game... View Source

Russia’s Federal Security Service said it uncovered a large-scale operation by foreign intelligence agencies to implant spyware on senior officials’ mobile phones... View Source

What does SpaceX's coming IPO mean for the company, investors and markets in general?... View Source

German industrial robotics startup Agile Robots is in discussions to raise about $800 million in new funding from backers including SoftBank Group Corp., as investors seek out companies deploying artificial intelligence in real-world settings... View Source

John O’Toole, head of CIO solutions at Amundi, discusses risk diversification strategies as the war in the Middle East continues and the artificial intelligence trade dominates equity markets. "We've seen opportunities in high-yielding commodity currencies for example," O’Toole tells Bloomberg Television. "We have had exposure to gold, and continue to have exposure to gold," he adds. (Source: Bloo... View Source

Amazon has announced that its Prime Day event will take place this year from June 23 to June 26, a couple of weeks earlier than it happened last year... View Source

6 Min Read Spacewalking With Scott Wray, Artemis EVA Training Lead Scott Wray conducts an underwater test of NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) spacesuit in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Bill Brassard Scott Wray’s experience with spacewalks started when he was about 6 years old. A tent resembling a lunar lander provided the pe... View Source

Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek Inc. will hike hiring to support a push into new AI activities, joining fellow tech firms in assuaging concerns about job losses in the era of artificial intelligence... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Advantech COO and President of the Intelligent Systems Sector Linda Tsai discusses the company's collaboration with Nvidia to power next-generation AI solutions. She also lays out the company's strategic vision behind integrating AI across products and services. Linda speaks with Stephen Engle from the sidelines of 'Computex 2026' in Taipei. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon Prime members will be able to buy July 29 tickets for Spider-Man: Brand New Day... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. plans to double its memory chip wafer capacity over the coming half-decade, a major expansion that should help ease a global shortage of an essential component of AI... View Source

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Ryusuke Yokoyama, CEO at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, says the bourse is talking with the nation’s Financial Services Agency to make it easier to list a wider range of actively managed ETFs. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Paul Allen from the sidelines of the S&P Dow Jones Indices Japan ETF Conference in Tokyo. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

European fintech firm Twinco Capital has raised a total of €165 million ($190 million) in a series B equity round and a securitization fund... View Source

In a post on X, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp provided an update on the investigation into the New Glenn launchpad explosion... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he pays his workers as much as possible, weighing in on a growing global debate about how profits from the AI infrastructure boom should be shared... View Source

John McFall prepares for mission to Haven-1 space station after UK Space Agency signs deal with US startup VastA British Paralympian and surgeon could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit after the government signed a deal with a US company that is building a small commercial space station.John McFall, a member of the European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut reserve, wa... View Source

A boom in artificial intelligence-related borrowing may become a bigger influence on bond markets over time, but the idea that it’s behind a recent rise in long-dated Treasury yields appears overstated, according to Pacific Investment Management Co... View Source

Renewable-energy investor Schroders Greencoat is targeting newer data center-linked assets as AI fuels a surge in electricity demand... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fire’s Footprint on Santa… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble:... View Source

Anna Paglia, Executive VP and Chief Business Officer at State Street Investment Management, discusses the company's partnership with SBI Group and the outlook for ETF flows. She speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts and Paul Allen from the sidelines of the S&P Dow Jones Indices Japan ETF Conference in Tokyo. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Craig McDonnell, Business Line Managing Director Industries at ABB Robotics, discusses the company's partnership with Nvidia and the outlook for physical AI technologies. He speaks with Stephen Engle from the sidelines of Computex in Taipei. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Chinese prosthetics developer BrainCo expects sales of its robotic hands to surge this year as demand grows from the country’s fast-expanding humanoid robotics industry... View Source

At least seven Chinese universities that support the country's armed forces and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia Corp's H200 chips, the most powerful artificial intelligence processors ever allowed by the US to be sold in China. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For leveraged finance practitioners, artificial intelligence is the only game in town — especially in the absence of more debt deals to finance mergers and acquisitions... View Source

ASUS revealed new convertible Windows laptops and three Zenbook 14 models with ARM64 and x86 processors... View Source

Vast Space, founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, will establish a European headquarters in Paris and send French astronauts on two crewed missions to space, the company announced Monday... View Source

South Korea’s equity market has overtaken India’s as the world’s sixth largest, driven by a relentless surge in chip heavyweights powering the global artificial intelligence buildout... View Source

It’s been a source of intrigue and confusion among currency traders for years. Just how does China decide each day where it’s going to set its fixing rate for the yuan — a reference point that determines its permitted trading range for the next session?... View Source

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is finally available globally, and it's a solid performer for $549... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA NASA selected Denmar Technical Services of Nevada to provide aircraft modifications, maintenance, and testing services to the Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and Johnson Space Center in Houston. The award is a firm-fixed-price contract and wil... View Source

Jensen Huang speaks to reporters in Taipei about the high potential of South Korean tech companies. He speaks as Nvidia enters the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel technology in that arena. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are RBC Capital Markets Equity Derivatives Strategist Amy Wu Silverman, Sidley Austin Partner Kai Liekefett, Union Square Advisors President & Co-Founder Ted Smith, Bancorp’s Stephen Philipson & BTIG CEO Anton LeRoy, New Y... View Source

Defense startup Mach Industries notched a $1.8 billion valuation in a funding deal to ramp up production of its autonomous aircraft, strike systems and other gear for the Pentagon and allied forces... View Source

Anthropic PBC pulled ahead of OpenAI with its confidential IPO filing Monday, as the free-spending artificial intelligence startups battle for a fundraising edge that’s set to determine who will win the ultimate battle for computing power... View Source

At least seven Chinese universities that support the country’s armed forces and defense industry are seeking access to Nvidia Corp.’s H200 chips, the most powerful artificial intelligence processors ever allowed by the US to be sold in China, according to a review of procurement records... View Source

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands complete in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. With its deep, sweeping views of the universe, Roman will observe billions of cosmic objects to explore fundamental questions about dark energy and planets outside our solar system.Credit: NASA/Scott Wiessinger Registration is open for media to cove... View Source

Google's new "24/7" AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on tasks and work on them in the background - even tasks that have multiple steps - allowing you to put your phone down o... View Source

Google parent Alphabet will raise $80 billion in equity capital to pay for ambitious artificial intelligence spending plans. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the rings," the bright beautiful structures exoplanets create... View Source

We may just have gotten an early look at the Google Pixel Watch 5 - and from an unusual source. Randy Pitchford, the creator of the Borderlands game franchise, posted a pair of images of a watch on X, saying that his friend found it underwater while scuba diving near Saint Martin, as reported earlier by Kotaku. "He noted that the reverse of the watch indicates that it is a Google Pixel 5, which ha... View Source

Google parent Alphabet Inc. is raising $80 billion in equity offerings, including an investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to help raise money for its ambitious artificial intelligence spending plans... View Source

Pat Casey and Josh Miller, the pair behind the Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy, are penning the script for the Streets of Rage movie... View Source

If you’re planning to travel this summer, both a Bluetooth tracker and a personal safety device can come in handy, especially if you’ll be exploring on your own. The Pebblebee Halo combines those two gadgets into one, and it’s currently on sale for $49.99 ($10 off) at Amazon, which is the best price we’ve seen. Amazon is also throwing in a fourth Halo for free when you buy three... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. gave an outlook for annual sales that topped estimates, citing massive growth in demand for the company’s servers and networking that it expects to continue through next year. The shares soared in extended trading... View Source

Our first look at the Pixel Watch 5 may have emerged from a truly unexpected place... View Source

3D simulations reveal how shockwaves from stellar explosions and winds may carve hub-and-spoke structures in molecular clouds, shaping star formation in the Milky Way... View Source

Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great battery life - at least on the Mac. In the Windows world, performance hasn't fully matched up under Qualcomm chips, mostly in the graphics department. There's clearly still untapped potential, and... View Source

Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO, Meredith Whitney, discusses the economy, artificial intelligence, credit and housing markets. She speaks with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on “Open Interest.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta says it's working on securing accounts that were affected by a hack... View Source

Some news: The Vergecast is now a daily podcast! Starting today, we'll be posting every weekday, with even more gadgets and rankings and conversations and feelings and podcasts-within-podcasts. We're excited for all the ways this new schedule lets us tell new kinds of stories, experiment with new tech and new formats, and involve you even more in the show. (The other immediate change to know about... View Source

Surging memory costs are pushing action-camera maker GoPro Inc. to the brink. The company, founded by Nicholas Woodman, warned of risks to its ability to continue as a going concern and is seeking financing to avert a default, according to a latest filing... View Source

California lawmakers are progressing a bill to preserve access to video games... View Source

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Venus and Jupiter meet after sunset, the Moon passes in front of Venus, summer begins, and deep-sky treasures rise into view. Skywatching Highlights June 9: Venus and Jupiter conjunction June 11–15: Mercury joins Venus and Jupiter after sunset June 17: Moon pass... View Source

Conspiracy theories, print media, and James (sorry, Jimmy) Bond collide in an all-too-brief extension of Mulder and Scully's world... View Source

Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else's profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has since been patched, cropped up around the same time Barack Obama's White... View Source

Economist, Author, and Member of the House of Lords Dambisa Moyo discusses the advancements of technology and how it may lead to the diminution of jobs. She points out that there is still so much uncertainty with how the effects of artificial intelligence will be felt. She speaks to Romaine Bostick on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you remember Zeus: Master of Olympus, you'll want to watch this game closely... View Source

NASA’s C-20A research aircraft takes off from the Edwards Air Force Base runway on an envelope-expansion flight test with the unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar pod. NASA/Tony Landis Five research aircraft will support a Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) mission out of Ellington Field in Houston. Flights are expected from Wednesday, June 3 to Saturday, June 13... View Source

Satellites zoomed-in on the aftermath of the New Glenn rocket explosion at Blue Origin's LC-36 launchpad, and the extent of the damage is visible from orbit... View Source

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen.  Well, it’s been 18 months since that conversation, and you’re going to hear Harvey say that AI is now “omnipre... View Source

Anthropic has confidentially submitted draft paperwork for a public listing, potentially leapfrogging longtime rival OpenAI in the race toward a Wall Street debut as soon as this fall. Edward Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company behind Claude says it confidentially submitted a draft version of its S-1 form... View Source

NASA's X-59 jet is on the verge of finally breaking the sound barrier as the agency looks forward to the aircraft's first supersonic flight this month... View Source

The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge... View Source

Computex 2026 is kicking off in Taipei, Taiwan this week, where Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, and other tech brands are announcing new laptops, handhelds, chips, and more.  Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, its first family of consumer PC chips, arriving in laptops and mini PCs starting this fall. Intel is launching two new custom chips made for handheld gaming devices, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme... View Source

The next AI race is in the physical world, according to Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and Luma AI listened. The company is announcing the launch of an open research lab that will allow anyone to train robots on its software. Luma AI CEO Amit Jain joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony will deliver more than an hour of trailers and game news this week... View Source

It's early June, which means it's video game event season once again. Now that E3 has been gone for a few years, a bunch of showcases and presentations have started to fill the void, including big productions like Summer Game Fest Live and smaller affairs like Wholesome Games Direct. If you love following gaming news, it's a good time of year. There will be a lot to take in that will set the stage... View Source

A seemingly boundless rally in space-related firms is showing further signs of weakness, with several stocks stumbling for a second day on Monday, as the public debut of Elon Musk’s SpaceX looms... View Source

BYD is giving its self-driving tech a big vote of confidence... View Source

Mattel's musclebound response to 'Star Wars' had a life of its own... View Source

Sony is sharing new details about some of its upcoming gaming-focused hardware, including pricing and August launch dates for its FlexStrike fight stick and its 27-inch monitor. The FlexStrike fight stick will be available starting August 6th - the same day as the new PlayStation-published fighting game Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls - and will cost $199.99. Preorders begin on June 12th at 10AM... View Source

Anthropic PBC has confidentially filed draft paperwork to go public as it races rival OpenAI to make a Wall Street debut as soon as this fall. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not been set yet. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI comes after a mass shooter at FSU reportedly consulted ChatGPT to plan the attack... View Source

The company said Monday it has filed confidentially for an IPO... View Source

After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for what's sure to be a massive IPO. As of its fundraise last week, Anthropic is being called the world's most valuable startup, with a post-money va... View Source

Salesforce Inc. has a stake in Anthropic PBC worth about $5 billion after repeatedly investing in the ascendant AI startup... View Source

The new PlayStation monitor and fight stick arrive this summer, but you'll have to wait until later in the year to snag the Pulse Elevate wireless speakers... View Source

The company added a warning to prospective investors that a major dilution could be in the cards after it goes public... View Source

Though Gen Z has developed a reputation for being so disinterested in sex that they don't even want to see it on TV, the popularity of series like Heated Rivalry and The Summer I Turned Pretty has made it very clear that more than a few young people do, in fact, like their entertainment a little steamy. However prudish you might think today's twentysomethings are, they've helped turn these sexuall... View Source

The build-out for artificial intelligence will be inflationary in the early going, preventing new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh from cutting interest rates as quickly as he has suggested should be possible, according to Torsten Slok of Apollo Global Management Inc... View Source

Malaysia's under-16 social media ban has taken effect... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Introduction From the first glider flight to the first powered flight, aviation pioneers have paved the way for remarkable innovations in flight. At NASA, our pilots conduct research, study wildfires, and support unmanned aircraft missions. In fact, out of the 360 astronauts who have been selected, 191 of... View Source

Forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict a below-normal number of named storms in the upcoming 2026 Atlantic hurricane season... View Source

Get ready for some gaming news. It’s officially June, which means splashy new events from PlayStation, Xbox, and gaming hype man Geoff Keighley. But this season doesn’t just feature the big tentpole shows; there will be a bunch of smaller events, too, and they might feature some promising games as well. But this year’s events are taking place at a difficult time for the industry... View Source

Nvidia is entering the PC market with a new superchip. With Windows running on the chips, the company is going head-to-head with Intel and AMD, Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Atari's buying the maker of the Crossy Road games... View Source

Gaze into the orb. | Image: The Verge There are many solid Bluetooth trackers for iPhones that tap into Apple’s expansive Find My network. Some are thin, some are a bit chunkier. And, evidently, some look like tiny soccer balls. Ugreen’s FineTrack 2 glows in the dark, and it has a loud 110-decibel alarm when you need to find it. It’s just $14.99 at Amazon for Prime members (originally $19.99). Ugr... View Source

Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO Meredith Whitney says the economy is doing "well" amid the expansion of AI and rising inflation on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Sejong Univ./Hur et al; JWST: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, V. Almendros-Abad, M. Guarcello, K. Monsch, and the EWOCS team. Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand This image of Westerlund 2 released on March 19, 2026, features Chandra X-ray Observatory data (pink) and infrared data from NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope (red, orange, green, cyan, and blue)... View Source

Rome, Italy, 1st June 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can't remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it's moving Build into a smaller, more intimate venue. Trust in Windows and Gi... View Source

Fund managers are snapping up beaten-down European software stocks as fears of disruption from artificial intelligence fade... View Source

The city spectacle is back for 2026 — and don't worry you'll have another chance to see it in July... View Source

The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app using Strava's data now need to pay for a flat $11.99 / month subscription. In an update on its developer hub, Strava blames the change on "zero-code AI tools" that allow users to quickly create apps... View Source

French Ambassador for International Investments and President of C4 Industries Pascal Cagni joins Bloomberg's Matt Miller on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss foreign investments in France as French President Emmanuel Macron announced €93 billion ($108 billion) investment pledges at the "Choose France" summit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Revolut Ltd. plans to add another 200 employees in France as the UK fintech continues its European expansion... View Source

Here's how to watch Microsoft Build 2026... View Source

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Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing... View Source

People from Delaware to Montreal reported either hearing loud booms or seeing the fireball in the sky over weekendA meteor over Massachusetts during the weekend ultimately prompted reports of booms and sightings across New England into Canada.The American Meteor Society said that the meteor in question was about 3ft (1 meter) wide as it entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with M... View Source

Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that grace period could be nearing an end. Earlier this year, Bloomberg outlined the contents of civil investigative demands (CIDs) - similar to a subpoena - the FTC sent to at least half a dozen compan... View Source

Honeywell International Inc.-backed quantum computing company Quantinuum Inc. boosted the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion, raising the number of shares offered and the price range... View Source

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, explains what people are getting wrong about the impact of AI on the US labor market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ASUS' new ROG Xbox Ally X20 has mostly the same hardware as last year's handheld, but now comes with a new OLED panel... View Source

This could change our understanding of how the cosmic titans collide... View Source

The artificial-intelligence trade locked in fresh gains on Monday, allowing global equities to shrug off a rebound in oil prices as the US and Iran remained deadlocked over a peace deal. Ozan Tarman, Global Macro Vice Chair at Deutsche Bank joined Stephen Carroll and Lizzy Burden to discuss the the moves in stocks as where Bond yields go from here. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google announced it will open a flagship store in Tokyo this summer, the first of its kind outside of the United States... View Source

The second full moon of May put on a spectacular show on May 31... View Source

Lawsuit claims Valve’s Steam store squeezes developers just like other app marketplaces... View Source

A lot of details are still under wraps, but at least we know what the new Nvidia Spark laptops look like. | Image: Nvidia Nvidia has officially entered the world of consumer laptop chips with the RTX Spark, and several device makers already have hardware lined up for it. Microsoft, Asus, HP, MSI, Lenovo, and Dell are expected to launch RTX Spark laptops sometime this fall, and some of those partne... View Source

“The technology worked. The value didn’t arrive,” Bain concluded in the report... View Source

Sellers of products with names like Boner Bears and DTF have voluntarily recalled their products after testing positive for the active ingredients in Viagra and Cialis... View Source

Anthropic PBC is set to give the European Union’s cybersecurity agency access to Mythos, its powerful artificial intelligence tool capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in computer systems... View Source

The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is a big setback for the spaceflight company and will have implications for NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon... View Source

The Xbox Ally X20, and the glasses you’ll have to buy with it. | Image: Asus If you asked me what I'd change about the Xbox Ally X handheld - aside from fixing Windows, I mean - I'd tell you two key things. First, give me a bigger, better screen. Even a little bit bigger, so games feel less claustrophobic and with less ugly bezel. Second, get rid of the "Library" button. I am so tired of an accide... View Source

There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it... View Source

MediaTek, Taiwan’s foremost designer of chips for mobile devices, is hiring more engineers on expectations of revenue to multiple in 2027 from its developing AI data center business. Vince Hu, MediaTek, Corporate Senior Vice President, speaks with Bloomberg News' Stephen Engle at COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA announced the new Isaac Gr00t reference design humanoid robot platform that combines humanoid robot, five-fingered hands and NVIDIA Jetson Thor compute... View Source

Ozan Tarman, global macro vice chair at Deutsche Bank, discusses the artificial intelligence trade and how the industry could impact jobs. He speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source