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Apple is making it a little easier to use third-party devices with iPhones in order to comply with Europe's Digital Market Act (DMA), MacRumors reported. For iOS 26.3, Apple's devices will support third-party proximity pairing and notifications in Europe only, according to the latest beta notes. That will make it a bit easier to connect devices like Sony headphones or receive notificatio... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Grace Lauderdale Grace Lauderdale, exploration project manager for the Training Systems Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, sits inside the Orion Mission Simulator used for training the Artemis II crew and flight control team. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Grace Lauderdale, exploration project manager for the Traini... View Source

This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask. It's 2025, and AI still can't reliably control my smart home. I... View Source

This late in the game, it’s not possible to ship gifts to friends and family and have them arrive before the holidays. But that’s ok because it’s never been easier to give a digital gift that will arrive basically whenever you want it to. If you’re looking for more creative digital gift ideas, we’ve got you covered. But right now, you may just be looking for the best gift card ideas that you can b... View Source

The "America 250" logo commemorates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... View Source

The first crack showed right before Inauguration Day. The year before, Congress had overwhelmingly passed a bill banning TikTok unless it broke ties with its Chinese parent company. The Supreme Court unanimously upheld it, and it was clear what needed to happen next: either the president could give TikTok another 90 days to complete a deal or it would be banned immediately. But neither of those th... View Source

The outlook for Europe’s €635 billion ($744 billion) chemicals industry has rarely been grimmer, setting the stage for waves of consolidation... View Source

Giving a child an Apple Watch can offer extra peace of mind and tools that promote independence in a controlled way. Apple’s Family Setup feature makes it possible for a kid to use an Apple Watch without owning an iPhone, and the feature set has expanded thanks to recent watchOS updates. It supports communication controls, location tools, Schooltime limits and privacy protections that allow a pare... View Source

Third-party developers have to show users two prompts like this to obtain consent for app tracking. Apple has been fined more than €98 million (about $116 million) by Italy's antitrust regulator over the "excessively burdensome" privacy rules it imposes on third-party apps. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) says that Apple abused its dominant app store market position by burdening deve... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reports on the changing fortunes of the memory chip industry... View Source

As many of us hunker down for the holidays, you might want to tackle some of the best games we’ve seen this year: the long-time-coming Silksong, the critically acclaimed (and sumptuous) Expedition 33 and the bizarre world of Baby Steps. Engadget Not to mention the Switch 2, which is slowly building out its own exclusive library with Metroid Prime 4 and Donkey Kong Bananza. Rare for me, this year,... View Source

We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite that recently suffered an anomaly in orbit, thanks to Vantor's WorldView-3 spacecraft... View Source

The Dometic Recon 360 Faucet pumping water out a Dometic Go Jug through a LifeStraw water filter. As a reluctant doomsday prepper and eager vanlifer, Dometic's battery-powered Go Faucet has, for the last few years, played a central role in my bougie bug-out kit and my camping rig's water system. So it took me all of two minutes with Dometic's new Recon 360 Faucet to realize it's an upgrade in ever... View Source

From a crescent moon and a 'Christmas Star' to deep sky delights, the wonders of the holiday night sky are yours to explore... View Source

A Chinese reusable rocket that launched into space fell short of its mission to be recovered, marking the second such incident this month and illustrating the difficulties the country faces chasing Elon Musk’s SpaceX... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.-owned Harman International is buying the advanced driver assistance systems business of Germany’s ZF Group for €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) in a bid to expand into the price-competitive automotive electronics sector... View Source

FlexShopper Inc., a publicly traded provider of lease-to-own financing for appliances, electronics and other consumer products, filed for bankruptcy months after firing its chief executive officer following an internal investigation into fraudulent loan documents... View Source

Nigeria is in advanced talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Google for a new undersea cable to strengthen the West African nation’s digital resilience, a senior government official said... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission has added foreign-made drones and their critical components to the agency’s “Covered List,” making them prohibited to import into the US. In a public notice published by the FCC, it said several national security agencies have determined that umanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their critical components produced in foreign countries pose an unacceptable risk to... View Source

The bosses of some of Britain’s biggest companies predict a fresh wave of challenges next year, as they absorb the impact Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising budget in November... View Source

Liza Tobin, managing director at Garnaut Global, says the Trump administration has been lowering the bar on national security concerns related to TikTok as it works to find a deal to keep the app in the US. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Robin Feldman, professor of law at UC Law San Francisco, discusses challenges AI is raising for intellectual property rights and how that fits into broader geopolitical tensions. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co.'s Maextro S800 sedan is outselling Porsche AG's Panamera, Mercedes-Benz Group AG's S-Class and all other vehicles with sticker prices of at least $100,000 in China. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A South Korean rocket took off from Brazil’s Alcântara Launch Center, but fell and crashed into the ground almost immediately, the Brazilian Air Force said... View Source

BREAKING: SpaceX has announced that Starlink now has over 9 million customers, up from 8M in November and 7M in August 2025. I predicted that SpaceX would get to 9-10 million by the end of 2025. 9 days at 14-15K per day is another 140k-150k.  Starlink added a record 21,275 new customers on average per ... Read more... View Source

The South Korean startup Innospace failed during its first orbital launch attempt, which sent five satellites aloft on Dec. 22 from Brazil... View Source

Electronic Arts Inc. shareholders approved the $55 billion sale of the company, a leading video-game publisher, in a deal led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund... View Source

Rakuten Group Inc. is expanding its AI team under the stewardship of a Google veteran and building models with a focus on cost efficiency... View Source

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Jeff Thomas, Nasdaq Capital Access Platforms chief revenue officer and global head of listings, says activity should pick up strongly in the first quarter and accelerate further in the back half of the year. He tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that he expects a strong year ahead. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Space Development Agency awarded $3.5 billion in contracts to four defense companies to provide a variety of missile tracking satellites for a low-earth orbit deployment, a significant investment in a part of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome defense shield... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission has banned new drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the US unless the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security recommends them. Monday's action added drones to the FCC's Covered List, qualifying foreign-made drones and drone parts, like those from DJI, as communications equipment representing "unacceptable risks to the... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Larry Ellison’s personal guarantee to back Paramount Skydance’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Plus, Google agrees to buy power provider Intersect Power for $4.75 billion, as the tech giant makes a push to grow its data center presence. And New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a bill regulating advanced artificial intelligence into law. (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 Morgan Stanley’s Kathy Entwistle, Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management’s Ross Gerber, HSBC’s Eric Fisch, Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders, Nasdaq’s Jeff Thomas, NEPC’s Sarah Samuels, Hamilton Lane’s Elizabeth Bell... View Source

Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it's popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segment online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at least one platform for distribution: Canada's Global TV. Some people u... View Source

Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide will soon be available in a daily pill Americans can take for weight loss... View Source

Tomasz Tunguz, general partner at Theory Ventures, says AI innovation isn’t showing signs of slowing down, but state-level regulation like the one recently passed in New York could hurt startups. Tunguz joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Overexuberance and complacency dog the market and the AI trade going into next year, says Ted Mortonson, managing director of Baird. He discusses the headwinds he sees around the corner with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elizabeth Bell, Co-Head of Real Estate at Hamilton Lane, says demand for data centers has surged more than 200% since 2010, driven largely by cloud computing and digital transformation. She tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that computing needs are accelerating while data center supply is struggling to keep up. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Test your cosmic eye: can you match these dazzling nebula images to their names?... View Source

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Australia’s Goodman Group agreed to set up a multibillion dollar European data center business, as the rise of artificial intelligence drives demand for power and storage sites... View Source

Nintendo is in a giving state of mind this season, offering some holiday deals on games in the eShop, including a few recent Switch 2 titles. For instance, the Switch 2 version of Ball x Pit, which was one of our staff's favorite games of 2025, is 20 percent off at $12. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is $40, down from the usual $50 on Switch 2, which is about as good a deal as... View Source

Watch those skies! In 2025, quality television really did come from outer space... View Source

ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It's rolling out a "Year in Review" feature that will show you a bunch of stats - like how many messages you sent to the chatbot in 2025 - as well as give you an AI-generated pixel art-style image that encompasses some of the topics you talked about this year. The image I received showed an aquarium beside a game cartridge, an... View Source

Bids for Warner Bros. Discovery could go higher, and the company’s cable networks may be worth more if sold separately from the studio assets, says Jon Klein, co-founder of Hang Media and former president of CNN. He joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NORAD celebrates its 70th year of tracking Santa Claus as he flies around the world delivering joy this Christmas Eve... View Source

Singapore-based Megaspeed has imported tens of thousands more chips than Nvidia saw when checking its data centers. ... View Source

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 million actual songs, and is just under 300TB in total size. "A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preser... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 15 min read Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite Observations Introduction In an era where satellite observations of Earth are commonplace, it’s easy to forget that only a few decades ago... View Source

Yuletide season is officially upon us and here's a joyous array of new titles to add to your holiday reading list... View Source

"This is quite a battle," Ross Gerber, co-founder and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, says about the latest in the Paramount and Netflix bids for Warner Bros. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Game developer Vince Zampella, known for his work on many popular first-person shooter franchises, has died. According to Los Angeles news channel NBC4, Zampella was killed in a single-vehicle car crash on Sunday along with one other unnamed person. He was 55.Zampella has helmed several well-known first-person shooter titles. He was a founder of Infinity Ward, where he was a creator of the Call of... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 7 min read Sentinel-6B Extends Global Ocean Height Record Introduction On November 16, 2025, the Sentinel-6B satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California. The mission is a... View Source

Vince Zampella, who had a major hand in developing franchises like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and Battlefield, died in a car crash on Sunday, NBC Los Angeles reports. He was 55. NBC Los Angeles and CBS Los Angeles report California Highway Patrol responded to a single-car crash at around 12:45PM local time on Angeles Crest Highway in Altadena. An Emergency SOS request came in via satellite from... View Source

Telefonica SA will book a cost of €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) to pay for the exit of about 5,500 employees as part of a sweeping cost-reduction plan... View Source

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 13 min read Keeping Up with PACE: Summary of the 2025 PAC3 Meeting Introduction Launched in Feb. 2024, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is a cornerstone of Earth system... View Source

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit... View Source

Ahead of CES 2026 getting underway in early January, Birdfy has announced two new camera-equipped smart bird feeders that can identify and capture visitors in slow motion. The Birdfy Hum Bloom is specifically designed to attract and record hummingbirds using a nectar bulb that mimics flowers they're naturally attracted to, while the Feeder Vista introduces a 360-degree camera and a bottom-up feedi... View Source

Bank of America Chair and CEO Brian Moynihan says the US consumer is in "pretty good shape" going into 2026. Speaking with David Westin on Bloomberg Television, Moynihan also says the Federal Reserve will have room to cut rates next year. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bitcoin culture, by nature, is anarchical and chaotic. It has to be, given the nature of Bitcoin itself and the people who adopted it: free-market libertarians who've gone all in on turning computer code into a form of money divorced from central banks, government intervention, and traceability. In short, it's the exact opposite culture of Washington, DC, home of the federal government, where ever... View Source

Bank of America Chair and CEO Brian Moynihan comments on the economic outlook for 2026 and how much artificial intelligence will play a role during an interview with David Westin on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter... View Source

Spotify says it has launched new protections against "anti-copyright attacks" after the open-source library / pirate activist group Anna's Archive announced it's ripped 86 million songs from the platform that it plans to make available in torrents, as reported earlier by Billboard. According to the group, "We have archived around 86 million songs from Spotify, ordering by popularity descending. Wh... View Source

Tory Bruno, the chief executive officer of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.’s rocket joint venture United Launch Alliance, has resigned after serving in the position for nearly 12 years... View Source

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 had earned another Game of the Year award by the Indie Game Awards last week, but the organization has since announced that the award would be retracted because developer Sandfall Interactive used generative AI during development. The Indie Game Awards also rescinded the Debut Game award given to Expedition 33. Here is the Indie Game Awards' explanation, from an FAQ: Th... View Source

FanDuel, the US online gambling division of Flutter Entertainment Plc, launched its own prediction-market app in five states just days after its main rival, DraftKings Inc., rolled out a similar product... View Source

A Silicon Valley-focused banking startup backed by Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder Peter Thiel is expected to raise $350 million in a funding round that would more than double its valuation... View Source

NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. The spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day miss... View Source

Instacart is ending its AI-powered pricing tests, which led some users to see higher prices on certain products than others. "Now, if two families are shopping for the same items, at the same time, from the same store location on Instacart, they see the same prices - period," Instacart writes in a blog post on Monday. The change comes just weeks after a study from Groundwork Collaborative, Consume... View Source

The social network is launching podcast previews in a bid to attract more creators to the app... View Source

An investigation by the New York Times into Uber's background checks and safety procedures for its drivers found a patchwork approach that opens the door for violent felons to drive for the ride-hailing platform. Uber outright rejects applicants convicted of murder, sexual assault, kidnapping and terrorism. However, in 22 states, the Times found Uber can approve applicants convicted of many o... View Source

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field... View Source

Although Netflix Originals are shows the streamer produces itself or has exclusive licensing arrangements for, they aren't always available on the platform indefinitely. What's on Netflix has compiled a comprehensive list of 100 Netflix Originals movies and series set to be removed from the platform throughout 2026. The list includes several animated series like seasons one through three of The Ep... View Source

Huge takeovers agreed across railways, drugstores, film studios, video game makers and more, mean dealmakers’ roughly $4.5 trillion haul for 2025 is their second biggest on record... View Source

The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of two major awards, including Game of the Year and Debut Game. This is due to developer Sandfall Interactive's use of generative AI, as reported by Mashable. This looks to be fairly cut and dry. The awards ceremony clearly states in its FAQ that any game that uses generative AI in the development process would be "strictly i... View Source

12 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) In 2025, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration technologies, and emerging aviation systems, reinforcing its role as one of the agency’s primary test sites for aeronautics research. From early concept evaluations to full flight test c... View Source

From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive from above, as well as below... View Source

Christmas Eve is in two days, and if you’ve got a problem with procrastination, it’s time to, well, stop procrastinating. There are still some really good deals to be gotten out there, some of which may arrive just in the nick. (Worse comes to worst, you can say it’s a New Year’s gift, right?) One of these are the Beats Studio Pro headphones, which are currently $200 off ($149.99 down from $349.99... View Source

Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant in its push to dramatically expand its data center footprint to power AI... View Source

These two galaxies are named NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, and they’re located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). They are the closest known interacting dwarf-dwarf galaxy system where astronomers have observed the interactions between them, as well as been able to resolve the stars within.ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University), G... View Source

The AI data center build-out, as it currently stands, is dependent on two things: Nvidia chips and borrowed money. Perhaps it was inevitable that people would begin using Nvidia chips to borrow money. As the craze has gone on, I have begun to worry about the weaknesses of the AI data center boom; looking deeper into the financial part of this world, I have not been reassured. Nvidia has plowed ple... View Source

Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management and General Catalyst agreed to buy asset manager Janus Henderson Group Plc for about $7.4 billion. Kristine Aquino has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A suspected cyberattack disrupted services provided by French postal service La Poste on Monday, delaying package deliveries and online payment systems during the holiday season... View Source

Bitcoin-mining mega data center seen leaking heat into the environment in an image captured from orbit by a thermometer satellite... View Source

US equities advanced at Monday’s open with strategists expecting a year-end rally to take hold amid bullish positioning into tech stocks... View Source

Paramount Skydance isn't giving up on obtaining Warner Bros. Discovery just yet. The company has amended its $108 billion offer to include Larry Ellison's "irrevocable personal guarantee" equaling $40.4 billion. Ellison is the founder or Oracle and a backer of Skydance, created by his son David Ellison, Paramount Skydance's CEO.  On December 17, WBD formally recommend... View Source

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time... View Source

Almost all of them are independently developed, which speaks to the state of the games industry... View Source

The Nintendo Switch 2 supports a wide range of controllers, from Nintendo’s own Pro Controller to many Bluetooth gamepads you might already have. Whether you’re setting up your new console for the first time or adding extra controllers for multiplayer games, pairing them is simple as long as you know where to look. Here’s how to connect the Switch 2 Pro Controller, how to sync additional Bluetooth... View Source

The first scientific balloon flight happened on Dec. 16, 2025... View Source

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landedPatches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientific importance, researchers say.The number of satellites circling the moon is set to soar in the next... View Source

According to YouTube's 2025 Recap feature, the podcast I consumed the most on its platform was Seth Meyers' recurring segment "A Closer Look" on his show Late Night. Last year, I would have argued that this is not a podcast. That it is, in fact, a clip of a TV show. But in 2025, with almost every major podcast now having a video component, the definition of the word "podcast" has become pretty mea... View Source

Deutsche Telekom AG has made a strategic investment in Quantum Systems, a German drone developer active in Ukraine, marking one of the most significant forays into defense for Europe’s largest telecom operator... View Source

Instacart has announced it will be ending price testing on its platform. This comes after a study published earlier this month revealed pricing experiments that led to some customers seeing higher prices than others and the FTC saying last week it would be investigating the grocery delivery app. "Effective immediately, Instacart is ending all item price tests on our platform. Retailers will n... View Source

The upcoming “Wide Fold” will seemingly be shorter and wider when unfolded compared to Samsung’s Z Fold 7 (pictured). Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that Samsung's upcoming "Wide Fold" is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size and 4:3 aspect ratio of A... View Source

Paramount Skydance Corp. sweetened its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., including offering a personal financial guarantee by Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison, as it seeks to beat out a rival bid from Netflix Inc... View Source

It might be hard to believe, but foldable phones have already been around for the better part of a decade. Granted, the first one I saw back in 2019 — which actually predates Samsung's Galaxy Fold — was a cobbled-together mess. But since then, phone makers have been steadily iterating and tweaking their designs, and this year,  manufacturers have finally addressed all the major issues ab... View Source

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to eventually create a home for us in it."... View Source

These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The Verge to find out what books they read over the past year that really struck a chord - because the books were enlightenin... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Sangmi Cha from Bloomberg’s markets team reviews a big year for initial public offerings of Chinese chip firms... View Source

Netflix Inc. has refinanced part of a $59 billion bridge loan to support its potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc... View Source

Waymo has resumed its robo-taxi service in San Francisco after a power outage stranded vehicles around the city, CNBC reported. The blackout, caused by a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) substation fire, caused traffic light disruptions that affected Waymo's automated driving systems.  "Yesterday’s power outage was a widespread event that caused gridlock across San Francisco, with non-fu... View Source

A bevy of comets, a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse and impressive northern lights were just three of the skywatching highlights in 2025. Here's how they unfolded... View Source

Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?... View Source

In the quarter century that humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, astronauts and visitors from around the world have celebrated countless holidays more than 250 miles above Earth while traveling 17,500 miles per hour. Crews have marked Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah, New Year’s, birthdays, and national holidays as they circle the planet every 90 minutes. ... View Source

A tight budget does not mean you have to settle for a slow or outdated laptop. Many affordable models today offer solid performance for work, classes and everyday browsing, and some even pack in extras like bright displays or long battery life. Whether you need something for school, travel or streaming, there are plenty of budget laptops that deliver more value than you might expect.Since the opti... View Source

Willem Sels from HSBC discusses artificial intelligence and the capex cycle. "Investment is going to the delta, so the growth rate of investment is going to slow," he tells Bloomberg Television. "We think that's going to slow to 45% from a higher base," Sels adds. "Still very substantial and still going to drive a lot of economic growth." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A Japanese H3 rocket suffered an anomaly during the launch of a navigation satellite on Sunday night (Dec. 21), resulting in the loss of the spacecraft... View Source

Bitcoin set to end the year lower despite a risk-on period for stocks, and demand for havens like gold. But Yoni Assia, Founder & CEO of eToro back bitcoin in his conversation with Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden on Horizons Middle East and Africa. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

KKR & Co. is providing private credit financing to a desalination plant in Saudi Arabia, marking the alternatives giant’s first foray into the kingdom and highlighting the region’s growing appeal to global investors... View Source

Patient watchers should wrap up warm to witness one of nature’s subtler events on night of 22 to 23 December If the Geminids whetted your appetite for meteor showers, then you are in luck. This week it is the turn of the Ursids. Admittedly, they are nowhere near as plentiful as the Geminids, producing a maximum of just 10 meteors an hour, but there is a unique satisfaction to witnessing one of nat... View Source

Chinese OpenAI contenders MiniMax and Zhipu AI offered the first look into their business models and profit prospects in listing filings, revealing revenue constraints compared with their deep-pocketed Silicon Valley peers... View Source

Shein is proving that it’s here to stay in Paris, even after a political backlash and controversy over sales of sex dolls and weapons. Jenny Che explains how French efforts to resist the fast-fashion retailer are falling flat. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

PayPal’s Honey browser extension has been lauded for years as an easy way to find coupons online. But some are calling it a “scam” after a deep dive from YouTuber MegaLag, who accused Honey of “stealing money from influencers,” and returned one year later with a second video that says Honey targeted minors, collected data on people who never signed up for its service, and exploited small businesse... View Source

Chinese chipmakers are rushing to the IPO market, raising funds that are key to the nation’s goal of technological self-reliance and winning the global race on artificial intelligence... View Source

We asked more than 700 industry experts to name the best streaming service, worst CEO and next big movie star... View Source

Big Tech's dominance of AI infrastructure is shrinking as a host of other players pile into the arena — with global economic consequences... View Source

Enjoy some out-of-this-world fun this Christmas with my selection of the best space board games available right now... View Source

Waymo’s driverless ride services were a high-profile victim of a power outage that affected large swaths of San Francisco, with cars freezing mid-ride across the city and disrupting traffic... View Source

OpenAI gave its AI chatbot a professional makeover with the latest GPT-5.2 release, and some users are already complaining about its tone. For anyone who's finding ChatGPT rude or sassy, OpenAI has some welcome news since it's letting users further customize its personality with extra warmth or enthusiasm.  You can now adjust specific characteristics in ChatGPT, like warmth, enthusi... View Source

A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus has agreed to acquire Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc. in a deal valuing the investment and accounting software maker at $8.4 billion including debt... View Source

There may not be any reports of stick drift with the ROG Xbox Ally yet, but that doesn't mean there won't be. If you'd rather not end up with joysticks that have a mind of their own, GuliKit revealed its latest TMR Electromagnet Joystick Modules made specifically for your Xbox handheld. GuliKit said it worked directly with Asus to develop these joystick upgrades, which match the exa... View Source

Waymo driverless car is not able to detect traffic lights after a major power outage in San Francisco, California, | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images A power outage struck San Francisco on Saturday that blacked out about 130,000 customers at its peak, according to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, but also caused another problem: stranded Waymo vehicles. Posts all over social media... View Source

OpenAI has squeezed better margins out of its enterprise business this year, as it races to maintain its pole position in artificial intelligence, according to a report in The Information... View Source

Several of Waymo's autonomous vehicles were seen stuck in the middle of San Francisco streets following a significant power outage that took out the city's traffic lights. Waymo responded to the power outage by suspending its ride-hailing services in the city, but images and videos on social media showed the self-driving taxis stopped at intersections with hazard lights on. "We have... View Source

Santa knows how to boogie. | Image: AFP via Getty Images It's the holiday season, and Christmas music is utterly inescapable. Look, I love Mariah Carey and Wham! As much as the next guy. But at some point, you get really tired of hearing the same handful of Christmas songs over and over again. So here are 10 suggestions to add to your holiday playlist that are hopefully a little less obvious. Tom... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on robotics and AI, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. We're taking a winter break! The Stepback will be back on January 11th, 2026. Meanwhile, you catch up on past issues here. How it started I have a soft spot for rob... View Source

In just 25 years technology has raced from Y2K fears to smartphones to the birth of artificial intelligence. Caroline Hyde charts the transformation while Sam Palmisano and Craig Moffett explain how breakthroughs from fiber networks to quantum computing and generative AI are reshaping business and daily life. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets... View Source

The Verge art team's favorite projects this year spanned the circus surrounding DOGE, the myths of the Vietnam War, the privacy crisis for trans people online, the vast surveillance network aimed at tracking down Iranian military dissidents, and much more. We built a kaleidoscope to showcase some standout products from The Verge's gift guides, sent an illustrator to the crowded halls of the courth... View Source

Park Chan-wook's 12th feature-length movie, No Other Choice, begins with Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as a proud patriarch at the barbecue, a vision of the platonic ideal domestic life he will spend most of the movie defending. In the long middle where life is lived, the movie offers its audience mirth and pathos and deep social critique. Also: murders. After being laid off from a paper company, Man-su... View Source

Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new rocket and the first-ever fully successful private moon landing... View Source

I waited for the Nintendo Switch 2 for a long time. Rumors of an allegedly-real-but-never-released Switch Pro swirled around for years as I watched fewer and fewer AAA third-party games make their way to Nintendo’s little console that could. There were always enough first-party titles and indie games to tide me over, but I watched with some envy as games like Elden Ring took the world by storm, kn... View Source

If you were an internet user around the turn of the century, there's a good chance I could play a one-second long sound of a door opening and memories would immediately come flooding back. Memories of running home from school and logging onto AOL Instant Messenger to chat with your friends or your crush. Maybe memories of how AIM changed the way your company did business. Certainly memories of you... View Source

A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus is in advanced talks to acquire investment and accounting software maker Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Ursid shooting stars may be visible throughout the night on Dec. 21-22... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 110, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy holidays, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about mall Santas and malleable software and phone bans, wondering how I barely know any of the songs in DJ Earworm's annual mashup, waiting patiently fo... View Source

As the veteran 'Who' antagonists get ready for their close-up, we look back at 50 years of underwater history... View Source

The commercialisation of the cosmos is already underway, and our current laws aren’t fit for purpose If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception.The ancients believed that everything revolved around Earth. In the 16th century, Copernicus and his peers overturned that view with the heliocentric model. Since then, telescopes and sp... View Source

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better... View Source

Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky... View Source

Black Friday offers massive discounts on a host of products, but you don't have to wait until the next one to save big. From Boxing Day to Prime Day 2026, we investigate which is the next best sales event... View Source

New York governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Friday aimed at holding large AI developers accountable for the safety of their models. The RAISE Act establishes rules for greater transparency, requiring these companies to publish information about their safety protocols and report any incidents within 72 hours of their occurrence. It comes a few months after California adopted similar legisl... View Source

You don't have to search the upside down to find the best Stranger Things gifts outside of Hawkins, so celebrate season five's release with these top gifts... View Source

The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a dress rehearsal for launch day on Dec. 20, 2025. From left are CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and... View Source

Faraway road trips just got a lot easier, at least for the passengers. Sony Honda Mobility, the joint venture between the two Japanese conglomerates created to produce electric vehicles, announced that its Afeela EV will come with PS Remote Play. While playing video games in a car may be a niche feature, it means drivers will have something to do when parked, and passengers can chip away at their... View Source

Michaela Benthaus from Germany soared 65 miles above the Earth’s surface in 10-minute Blue Origin flightA paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers on Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.Severely injured in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, Michaela Benthaus became the fi... View Source

Gamers who prefer physical copies of their favorite titles may be getting a major win with the Switch 2. In an unexpected announcement from retro video game publisher ININ Games, Nintendo reportedly has "two new smaller cartridge sizes" for its Switch 2 console. For ININ Games, these rumored game cartridges with smaller storage capacity allow the publisher to recalculate production costs... View Source

If you’re feeling the stress of having procrastinated on your holiday shopping — and you missed out during Black Friday and Cyber Monday — we’ve got you. We’ve found a variety of gadgets on sale that make for great gifts, many of which will ship in time for the holidays. One of the standouts is the current promo on Sony’s noise-canceling WH-1000XM5 headphones, which are on sale with a free pair of... View Source

If you still haven't bought into the Steam Deck craze, it'll cost you a little extra to take the plunge now since Valve is only offering OLED models. Valve announced in a note on its Steam Deck page that it's "no longer producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model," adding that "once sold out, it will no longer be available." As of this article's publishing, the... View Source

Holiday shoppers, it's time to finish knocking out that seasonal wish list. At this point, your online purchases may not arrive in time unless you're willing to pay extra for priority shipping - or you happen to get lucky. Still, gifting anything at all is awfully nice of you, regardless of when it arrives. If you're shopping on a budget of $50 or less per item, we've crafted this gift guide speci... View Source

RIP LCD Steam Deck. The most affordable Steam Deck, the $399 LCD model, is not available in the US. And, according to the Steam Deck site, it won't be coming back. Underneath the listings for the various models is a note that says: We are no longer producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model. Once sold out, it will no longer be available. And, well, it's no longer in stock on the US site. Valve's dec... View Source

Telecom Italia SpA won a long-running legal case against the Italian government that will provide the former phone monopoly with a windfall of about €1 billion ($1.2 billion), according to a legal ruling seen by Bloomberg... View Source

As Avatar: Fire and Ash makes its cinematic debut, here's James Cameron's best directorial sci-fi movies to date – and the list is earth-shatteringly impressive... View Source

One day, video game critics and journalists will put together a comprehensive study on the impact Balatro had on the industry - of how so many games that came after tried to capture its essence by adding complex systems to otherwise simple, easily understood games. Until then, I'm gonna play Dogpile. Dogpile is a deckbuilding match-3 roguelike that builds on the style of merge games like Suika Gam... View Source

The new Gulikit joysticks for Xbox Ally handhelds. | Image: Gulikit Even at $1,000, the Xbox Ally X handheld didn't ship with magnetic drift-resistant joysticks, and neither did the $600 model. But for an extra $20 at Amazon, you can change that today - with officially Asus-approved and sanctioned TMR joysticks from Gulikit, the company that's made a name for itself by supplying aftermarket drift-... View Source

On Episode 190 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look back at the past year in space — its ups, its downs, its all-arounds... View Source

When a friend invited me to play a new game called REPO earlier this year, I thought I was wasting my money - not because the game looked bad, but because it looked like Lethal Company. The surprise-hit 2024 co-op survival horror game has players wander through unnerving ruined structures collecting trash while evading monsters. Lethal Company was popular with my friends (and just about everyone e... View Source

Google wanted to remove Assistant from most Android phones by the end of 2025 and replace it with Gemini. But now the company has announced that it needs a bit more time to make its AI assistant the new default digital helper for most of its users. Google said that it's adjusting its previously announced timeline to "make sure [it delivers] a seamless transition" and that updates to... View Source

Hated rivals Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. find brotherhood on a desolate planet in Wolfgang Petersen's cult sci-fi classic... View Source

RJ Scaringe is sitting in Rivian's Palo Alto offices, explaining why the adventure-themed EV company suddenly decided to build its own self-driving cars, when an unexpected guest glides by the window outside: Waymo. A robotaxi from the Alphabet-owned company pulls up outside the office. The passenger, an analyst from Goldman Sachs, briefly takes a selfie before climbing inside. The Rivian founder... View Source

The administration’s pro-industry tilt—across three executive agencies—is feeding the MAHA movement’s growing discontent... View Source

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew... View Source

If you told me last year the Nex Playground would outsell Microsoft's Xbox, even for two weeks, I would have laughed my way out of the room. It's a three-inch cube of a game console that's likely less powerful than your phone, one which uses a single camera to track your body. It only plays curated, certified kid-safe games. Though frequently compared to the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect, the... View Source

Show the space enthusiast in your life that you love them to the moon and back with the best last-minute holiday gifts available... View Source

Are you behind on your holiday shopping or holding out for some final pre-Christmas bargains? From telescopes to monoculars, we've rounded up the best last-minute savings on optical equipment... View Source

Moore Threads Technology Co. introduced a new generation of chips aimed at reducing artificial-intelligence developers’ dependence on Nvidia Corp.’s hardware, just weeks after pulling off one of the most successful Chinese IPOs in years... View Source

In this episode of Next Africa, we dive into the continent’s fast-evolving tech landscape, from booming fintech to startups tackling Africa’s digital divide. Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola says the company is on track to achieve profitability. Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada shares how the firm aims to expand across the continent and abroad after its blockbuster IPO. Plus, we explore how Fibertime... View Source

China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants, telling them not to impose unreasonable restrictions on merchants’ ability to set prices... View Source

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Sample Return Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover MAVEN Mar... View Source

Wall Street is pouring billions of dollars into artificial intelligence but it’s showing little interest in how some companies are actually using the technology. Jo Constantz has more on the latest Bloomberg analysis (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On "Bloomberg Real Yield", Rashaan Reid, co-head of global FICC sales at the global markets division at BofA, and Patrice Altongy, head of debt capital markets at HSBC Americas, speaks with Scarlet Fu about demand for debt, the AI boom and M&A funding. Companies are hurrying to the bond market for cheap M&A funding. That’s made this quarter the biggest in four years for acquisition financi... View Source

Today was the deadline for Google to reveal how it's complying with Judge James Donato's order to crack open Android for third-party app stores, stop illegally tying its Google Play Billing system to its app store, and let developers link to ways to download their apps outside the Play Store in the US. But Google isn't just letting app developers do things however and whenever they'd like. The com... View Source

This week, Wall Street Week looks back on a quarter century of change. In the first 25 years of the 21st century, capitalism endured a remarkable series of shocks - from the Y2K, to the Great Recession, to a once-in-a-century pandemic. We explore how these turning points reshaped markets, growth, and the public’s faith in the economic system. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you've purchased from Google Play and YouTube will now show up as part of your Movies Anywhere collection. Films from Google Play and YouTube became unavailable on Movies Anywhere on October 31st, but now they should sync to your account again. "Support for Google as a digital retailer has been re-enabled," Movies Anywhere says in a... View Source

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Katie Greifeld, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses the plans for a US-majority-owned TikTok. Plus, former TikTok boss Kevin Mayer shares his thoughts on that deal and the broader media landscape. And Oracle shares rise as the company plays into some of the year's biggest deals. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Dina Powell McCormick, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, is stepping down from the board of Meta Platforms Inc. just eight months after she joined... View Source

Gemini on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google isn't quite ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices. The company said on Friday that it will "continue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into 2026," instead of its original plans to make the switch by the end of 2025. "We're adjusting our previously announced timeline to make sure we deliver a seamless t... View Source

Today on the Big Take: Why Disney cut a deal with OpenAI after decades of safeguarding its intellectual property, what it stands to gain — and why now... View Source

On Friday, retro and arcade game publisher ININ Games surprisingly announced it's been able to "recalculate production" on offering a physical version of R-Type Dimensions III for the Switch 2 because "Two days ago Nintendo announced two new smaller cartridge sizes for Nintendo Switch 2." Physical games on the Switch 2 have been something of a contentious topic; full physical games are reportedly... View Source

Elon Musk won reinstatement of his 2018 pay package as chief executive of Tesla, after the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the finding of a judge who said the billionaire had improperly influenced board members who came up with the compensation plan. Jonathan Levin has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Anthropic is finally letting more people use Claude in Google Chrome. The company's AI browser plugin is expanding beyond $200-per-month Max subscribers and is now available to anyone who pays for a Claude subscription. The Claude Chrome plugin allows for easy access to Anthropic's AI regardless of where you are on the web, but its real draw is how it lets Claude navigate and use we... View Source

3 Min Read Meet NASA’s Astronaut Class of 2025 – Webby Submission Teams are evaluating how to train for lunar surface operations during Artemis missions, in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA NASA engineers are laying the foundation for the moonwalks the first woman and next man will conduct when they land on the lunar South Pole in 2024 as part of the... View Source

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."... View Source

President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 Thursday with measures that further the bipartisan push for next-generation nuclear power plants. The Trump administration has embraced the technology as a new energy source for data centers demanding greater amounts of electricity for AI. Many Democrats, meanwhile, have championed smaller and ostensibly chea... View Source

Robinhood’s Guild: AI Trade Under PressureStephanie Guild, Chief Investment Officer at Robinhood Markets, says earnings growth could be stronger than expected outside of tech, while select tech companies with clear utility may also outperform. She speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-opening."... View Source

Tiffany Wade, senior portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle, says the fact that investors are focusing on free cashflow and return on AI investment is a sign the market is in a good place. Wade discusses her expectations for the year ahead with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek USS Enterprise is Lego's first-ever Star Trek set, and you get a free gift when you purchase it before Christmas eve... View Source

OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want "more" or "less" of these personality traits, or stick with the default. There are also options to tweak how often ChatGPT uses emoji, headers, and lists. You can find these settings by tapping the menu at the top left corner o... View Source

Amy Webb, CEO of Future Today Strategy Group, says China has the edge in the AI race because it's ahead of the US in building out key infrastructure. Webb discusses why the US needs a coordinated effort to stay competitive in tech development. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me, a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO Timmu Tõke shared in a LinkedIn post. The acquisition is part of Netflix's new games strategy, which puts an emphasis on approachable multiplayer titles and adaptations of the strea... View Source

4 Min Read NASA’s Wideband Technology Demo Proves Space Missions are Free to Roam An artist's concept of the Polylingual Experimental Terminal transmitting data in space. Credits: NASA/Morgan Johnson Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving space missions can do the same b... View Source

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers. Reddit also sued SerpApi, along with two other data scrapers, in... View Source

JP Morgan Global Market Strategist Stephanie Aliaga discusses how investors are reacting to AI spending and private market fundraising. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

From left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.Credit: NASA As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts... View Source

Odin Space and Arkisys are teaming up to provide customers with pioneering insurance for spacecraft specifically to cover space debris collision events... View Source

European Union governments agreed on a common position on the digital euro, marking an important milestone for the project that’s seen as crucial for the bloc’s monetary sovereignty and the joint currency’s global role as the US touts dollar-denominated stablecoins... View Source