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Kenya’s government is yet to engage the board of Safaricom Plc about a potential plan to split its biggest company into three separate firms, according to Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa... View Source

Anna Menon, one of NASA's 10 new astronaut candidates, already has a spaceflight under her belt — SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission to Earth orbit in September 2024... View Source

Auterion, a startup that provides software to military drones, has raised $130 million to expand its operations abroad, including in geopolitical hotspots Ukraine and Taiwan, a further sign that private investors are pouring money into defense... View Source

Taiwan is requiring pre-approval for chips going to South Africa, citing national security concerns... View Source

Microsoft is starting to test experimental AI-powered features through a new Windows AI Labs program. Some Windows testers spotted references to the Windows AI Labs program in pre-release updates to Microsoft Paint last week, and Microsoft has now confirmed to The Verge that the program is designed to provide early access to new AI features across Windows. “The Windows AI Lab is a pilot accelerati... View Source

Tado’s Auto Assist gets an AI update. Smart thermostat company Tado is launching new AI-powered features that aim to help users heat their homes more efficiently. Tado says the AI Assist update builds on the company’s existing Auto Assist options by introducing “advanced machine-learning” that “learns, predicts, and optimizes” heating in real time. AI Assist is available in Europe and the UK today... View Source

Jumia Technologies AG’s Chief Executive Officer Francis Dufay said the global trade war is benefiting Africa’s biggest e-commerce company by increasing its access to Chinese goods... View Source

A Nigerian fintech firm is partnering with a US bank to enable customers to link their bank accounts in both countries via a single digital wallet... View Source

ASM International NV cut its outlook for second-half revenue, citing lower-than-anticipated demand from some of the semiconductor equipment maker’s clients... View Source

Huawei Technologies Co. openly admits its silicon can’t match Nvidia Corp.’s in raw power and speed. So to pack the same punch, China’s national champion is counting on its traditional strengths: brute force, networking, and policy support... View Source

Hideo Kojima first announced he was teaming up with Xbox for a new game in 2022, before a teaser revealed the OD name and some cast last year. We’re now getting a better look at exactly what OD is, in a new three-minute teaser trailer that holds true to Kojima’s promise that the game will be unique and immersive. The trailer opens with Sophia Lillis’ character opening a red door, and then lighting... View Source

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s new government will unveil plans for short-term economic stimulus to boost consumption and help those struggling with heavy debt, racing to broaden support in its next four months in power... View Source

Flipkart India Pvt., backed by Walmart Inc., is investing $30 million in its fintech unit Supermoney as the e-commerce giant accelerates its push into lending and stock broking, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI have been quick to unveil plans for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers, but they have been slower to show how they will pull in revenue to cover all those expenses. Now, the consulting firm Bain & Co. is estimating the shortfall could be far larger than previously understood... View Source

A screenshot of Palworld: Palfarm. Palworld won’t hit 1.0 until next year, but developer Pocketpair is already announcing a farming spinoff: Palworld: Palfarm. Basically, it sounds like the Palworld version of farming simulator games like Stardew Valley. “Each Pal will lend a hand in farm work by making use of their unique abilities,” Pocketpair says in a press release. “From sowing seeds and wate... View Source

Jurors will be allowed to hear expert testimony about the impact of social media on young users during coming trials against tech companies over alleged harm caused by their platforms, a Los Angeles judge ruled... View Source

Nvidia Corp. assured customers that its landmark deal with OpenAI to invest $100 billion and expand AI infrastructure together won’t affect the chipmaker’s relationship with other clients... View Source

The common pain reliever is safe when used as directed, research shows. But scientists remain puzzled by one aspect: how it reduces pain and fever... View Source

Oracle Corp. would provide security and help oversee the re-creation of a new US version of TikTok’s algorithm under a deal taking shape to sell the popular Chinese-owned app to a consortium of American investors, a White House official said, addressing a key concern raised by lawmakers in Washington... View Source

People walk through the hallways at an Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia, on May 9, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Even if AI turns out not to be as much of an energy hog as people are making it out to be, it could still spell out trouble for power grids across the US. Tech companies are already burning through increasing amounts of electricity to train and run new AI models. And they're askin... View Source

T-Mobile US Inc. is promoting Chief Operating Officer Srini Gopalan, to the top job, teeing up a new era for the US’s second-largest wireless carrier as it competes for customers in a market that now also spans home internet and satellite service... View Source

Facebook Dating has added two new AI tools, because clearly a large language model is what the search for love and companionship has been missing all this time. The social media platform introduced a chatbot called dating assistant that can help find prospective dates based on a user's interests. In the blog post announcing the features, the example Meta provided was "Find me a Brooklyn... View Source

The Trump Administration’s crackdown on perceived left-wing threats following the death of Charlie Kirk continued on Monday evening, with Trump announcing an executive order titled “Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.” The order directs federal departments and agencies to “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist... View Source

A cryptocurrency with ties to Binance Holdings Ltd. struck an all-time high as speculation builds that the digital-asset exchange’s co-founder Changpeng Zhao will be granted a US presidential pardon... 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 analyzes last week’s announcement that Nvidia would invest in rival chipmaker Intel and the companies would combine on some products... View Source

EventVPN, a new freemium VPN built by the same team and on the same infrastructure as ExpressVPN, launched on September 18 for iOS and macOS. It comes with unlimited free bandwidth, a relative rarity among free VPNs, and carries over ExpressVPN's kill switch and post-quantum WireGuard protocol. Free users get 35 server locations and one device connection, while paid users get 125 locations and eig... View Source

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our staff’s favorite submissions... View Source

New simulations suggest sub-Neptune planets may be drier than thought, challenging the "water world" hypothesis and reshaping the search for life beyond Earth... View Source

A Fox Corp. investment in TikTok would give the Murdoch media empire a platform with 170 million US users to promote a broad range of TV programming — from the NFL to The Simpsons  — and a chance to redeem the family’s catastrophic purchase of MySpace 20 years ago... View Source

Steam's seasonal sales are usually the peak moments to add new software to your library, but right now, Valve is offering a notable hardware discount. The Steam Deck starter model is currently on sale for 20 percent off its usual $399 price tag. That means you can snag yourself the gaming handheld with an LCD screen and 256GB of storage for $319. Steam hasn't set an end date for this offer, so it... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss plans for Oracle to recreate and manage a copy of TikTok’s algorithm for US users. Plus, CEO changes abound, with Oracle promoting Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, and T-Mobile elevating chief operating officer Srini Gopalan to the top role replacing Mike Sievert. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. exercised “overwhelming control” over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren’t its employees, US labor board attorneys told a judge Monday... View Source

The Supreme Court has voted 6-3 in favor of hearing a lawsuit brought by a former member of the US Federal Trade Commission, CNBC reports. Democrats Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya were fired from their posts as commissioners in the FTC by President Donald Trump in March. As has been the case with several of the Trump administration's actions to remove possible critics from their ro... View Source

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show is returning on Tuesday after Disney pulled it off the air over comments made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In a statement on Monday, Disney said it planned to resume production after having “thoughtful conversations” with Kimmel. “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation... View Source

Oracle Corp. accelerated its succession plans for top leadership in recent months following a massive acceleration in its cloud business and stock market rally... View Source

Stellantis — the parent of several auto brands including Dodge, Ram and Chrysler — said customers' personal information was included in a data breach. The automaker said in a statement that "contact information" was procured, but not "financial or sensitive personal" data, as that is not stored on the third-party platform that was breached. "We recently detected unaut... View Source

A massive earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in late July triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific — and NASA’s experimental detection system tracked the event in real time by monitoring the atmosphere above... View Source

Steam has taken down a game containing malware that drained the cryptocurrency wallets belonging to hundreds of players, as reported earlier by Bleeping Computer. The free-to-play 2D platformer, titled BlockBlasters, took more than $150,000 from victims, including $32,000 from a streamer raising funds for their cancer treatment. In a post on X, malware tracker vx-underground revealed that bad acto... View Source

The Justice Department opened its offensive to force a breakup of Alphabet Inc.’s Google Monday in court before the Virginia federal judge who ruled the search giant illegally monopolized advertising technology markets... View Source

Perplexity has introduced a new feature dubbed Email Assistant. With this resource, users can direct an AI chatbot to execute basic email tasks such as scheduling meetings, organizing and prioritizing emails, and drafting replies. At launch, Gmail and Outlook are the only supported email clients. Email assistant is only available to members of the company's pricey Max plan, which costs $... View Source

The Steam Autumn Sale starts next Monday, but Valve dropped an early treat in the form of a rare Steam Deck LCD discount. The 256GB model that normally sells for $399.99 is $319.20 through October 6th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. I, for one, thank Valve for dropping this deal now instead of when the servers inevitably hiccup at the start of the game sale. For anyone out there deciding between the Steam De... View Source

At a time when stocks are yet again roaring to all-time highs on the back of big tech companies, investors should be “responsibly bullish,” according to Tony Pasquariello, head of hedge fund coverage at Goldman Sachs Group Inc... View Source

Lettuce Find Healthy Space Food! Citizen Scientists Study Space Salads Volunteer members of the OSDR-Analysis Working Groups examined the nutritional quality of crops grown in Low Earth Orbit and the physiological effects of space-induced nutrient deficiencies on astronauts. You can join the team here! Credit: npj Microgravity/Barbero et al., 2025 Missions to the Moon and Mars pose nutritional cha... View Source

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. plan to tie Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin... View Source

Test your knowledge of the Artemis program—from cutting-edge tech and lunar missions to the astronauts leading the way... View Source

On Monday, more than 200 former heads of state, diplomats, Nobel laureates, AI leaders, scientists, and others all agreed on one thing: There should be an international agreement on “red lines” that AI should never cross — for instance, not allowing AI to impersonate a human being or self-replicate.  They, along with more than 70 organizations that address AI, have all signed the Global... View Source

Oracle Corp. on Monday promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to become co-chief executive officers, signaling the company’s focus on its rapidly expanding cloud computing business... View Source

TikTok has been tagging videos from war-ravaged Gaza with product recommendations, as reported by The Verge. The publication detailed a scenario in which footage of a Palestinian woman walking amidst rubble presented TikTok shop recommendations that matched what she wore in the video. The algorithm suggested products with names like "Dubai Middle East Turkish Elegant Lace-Up Dress" and... View Source

Facebook Dating is getting new AI features to help users avoid “swipe fatigue,” Meta announced today. The new features include a new “dating assistant” AI chatbot that helps you find potential matches as well as a new “Meet Cute” feature that automatically matches you with someone using a “personalized” algorithm. With the dating assistant, you can type out specific prompts to try and match up wit... View Source

US stocks were on track for another all-time closing high on Monday, rallying from an earlier decline, as traders awaited Federal Reserve speakers and looked ahead to a key inflation measure due at the end of the week... View Source

SpaceX's lunar lander has run into a snag and may not be ready for a mission to the moon that was scheduled for 2027, according to a report by Space News. The company's Starship Human Landing System (HLS) is a variant of the typical Starship spacecraft that has been designed to transport astronauts between lunar orbit and the surface of the moon. “The HLS schedule is significantly challe... View Source

SpaceX launched the latest set of "proliferated architecture" spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office today (Sept. 22), sending them up from California's central coast... View Source

It feels like July’s four-day Prime Day just happened, but Amazon’s annual fall sale event is about to make its return. Prime Big Deal Days kicks off on Tuesday, October 7th, at 3AM ET and lasts through October 9th at the same time. For those who haven’t shopped this event in previous years, think of it as a Black Friday / Cyber Monday primer that lets you get the jump on your holiday shopping. Bu... View Source

US tech companies could have a harder time attracting foreign workers after President Donald Trump raised the application fee for H-1B visa's to $100,000. After Trump made the announcement late Friday, some companies had to tell affected employees to return to the US right away and to not travel overseas. Bloomberg's Michael Shepard reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the ChatGPT maker sets out to build at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers using NVIDIA chips and systems. The strategic partnership announced today is gargantuan in scale. The 10-gigawatt buildout will require millions of NVIDIA GPUs to run OpenAI's next-generation models. NVIDIA's investment will be doled out progressively as each gigawatt com... View Source

IC 348 is a star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, X-rays from Chandra are red, green, and blue, while infra... View Source

NASA revealed the members of its 2025 astronaut class, the 24th group in the agency's history — some of whom may be among the first people to set foot on Mars... View Source

When Disney-owned ABC put Jimmy Kimmel Live on indefinite suspension, the broadcaster's logic was easy to understand: Kimmel's joke - a riff on the way Donald Trump started talking about construction on the White House's new ballroom after being asked how he felt about Charlie Kirk being shot - was mild. But the bit prompted Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr t... View Source

Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year... View Source

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on Sept. 22, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are: U.S. Army CW3 Ben Bailey, U.S. Air Force Maj. Cameron Jones, Katherine Spies, Anna Menon, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erin Overcash, U.S. Air Force Maj. Adam Fuhrmann, Dr. Lauren Edgar, Yuri Kubo, Rebecca Lawler, and Dr. Imelda Muller.Credit: NASA Lee este co... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Months into an administration that has already suffered several basic security slipups, it's not exactly surprising to see President Donald Trump airing complaints in a public Truth Social post that seemed intended for Pam Bondi's DMs. In the post, Trump directly addresses U.S. Attorney General Bondi, criticizing the lack of legal action against his adversaries. "Pam: I have reviewed over 30 state... View Source

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said his state would leave America’s biggest power grid if its operator won’t make changes to rein in surging energy bills... View Source

La NASA anunció su promoción de candidatos a astronautas de 2025 el 22 de septiembre de 2025. Los diez candidatos, que aparecen aquí en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la NASA en Houston, son: el suboficial mayor de 3.ª clase del Ejército de los Estados Unidos Ben Bailey, el mayor de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos Cameron Jones, Katherine Spies, Anna Menon, la capitana de corbeta de la Marina... View Source

In a video from a Turkish broadcaster, a Palestinian woman walks among the rubble, wailing. "Where are my three daughters, my husband, and my cousin?" She went out to get flour, she says, and came back to find her home collapsed, her family apparently trapped inside. Hit pause on the clip and something strange happens: a prompt reading "Find Similar" pops up. When a viewer clicks the prompt, TikTo... View Source

Nvidia Corp. said it will invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI to support the building of new data centers and the infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence workloads... View Source

Gemini is officially available on Google TVs, now that the TCL QM9K series TVs are out in stores. At the moment, they're the only television models that feature Google's AI assistant, but Gemini will be available on more devices later this year. Google says it will make its way to the Google TV Streamer, Walmart's onn 4K Pro streaming device, certain Hisense TV models and more TCL T... View Source

In a first-of-its kind operation, the United States repositioned one of its spacecraft to inspect an ally's satellite... View Source

You can now buy TCL’s new QM9K series QD-Mini LED TVs, and they run Google TV, are the first to come with Gemini AI, and have a built-in mmWave presence sensor, as reported by 9to5Google. The TVs start at $2,999 for the 65-inch model at Best Buy, with the price going up even more for the bigger versions (up to 98 inches). Using the mmWave presence sensor, the TVs can automatically turn on or off w... View Source

Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. says a former head of one of its US natural gas trading teams misreported transactions in 2024, resulting in “tens of millions of dollars” in losses for the commodity trading firm... View Source

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form... View Source

Hello! This is Hank Green, general internet guy and cofounder of Complexly. This is my last time in the Decoder guest host chair unfortunately, unless Nilay decides to have another kid someday, but we’re making the best of it. Today, I’m talking with my friend Sam Reich, who is the CEO and, I at least think, founder of Dropout TV. You’ll hear him argue with me about being the founder, and that’s o... View Source

Data-labeling startup Scale AI is launching a new public benchmarking system to rank the best-performing artificial intelligence models for different regions, professions and age groups... View Source

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line... View Source

Space company Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA's Perseverance rover samples back from Mars... View Source

The AirPods Pro 3 are on sale for $239 ($10 off) at Amazon. AirPods Pro 3 are among the best earbuds we’ve tested recently, and you can pick them up for  $239.99 ($10 off) at Amazon. The small discount is notable because Apple’s latest earbuds have only been available for three days. In our tests, the AirPods Pro 3 were an improvement over their predecessor in three significant ways: fit, act... View Source

The US will not hold a golden share or equity position in a new entity that will control TikTok’s American operations, according to a White House official, even as President Donald Trump has taken steps toward unprecedented government involvement in other businesses during his second term... View Source

XAI Colossus 2’s is targeting ~1 Gigwatt as soon as possible. They have natural gas turbines for primary generation, batteries for stability, and grid for long-term scalability. XAI Colossus 2 has power from seven installed SMT-360/Titan-350 Natural Gas Turbines. The seven turbines in question are deployed at the Southaven, Mississippi site 6 miles from Colossus ... Read more... View Source

A couple of years ago, I helped start a bike bus in my suburban town in North Jersey. The pandemic was still raging, and we were all looking for ways to get our kids out of the house and on to their bikes so they could get a little physical activity before school. One of the things that helped me get the bike bus started was an electric cargo bike. At the time, my kids were too small to ride the t... View Source

Wall Street banks are set to rely more on their Indian business support centers following President Donald Trump’s shock move to impose $100,000 fees on new applications to the widely used H-1B visa program... View Source

Disney, a company that definitely isn’t dealing with a major crisis right now, has released a trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu. The movie follows on from the events of Disney+ series The Mandalorian — a show that director Jon Favreau created — and the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi. It's set to hit theaters on May 22, 2026. The 94-second clip doesn’t offer much in the way of pl... View Source

Newly discovered comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will soon be gracing our evening sky. Here's how to see it and what to expect... View Source

Major record labels have escalated their lawsuit against Suno, alleging that the AI startup knowingly pirated songs from YouTube to train its generative AI music models. In the amended complaint filed on September 19th, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) accuses Suno of unlawfully “stream ripping” tracks on YouTube — a practice that involves turning content captured from streamin... View Source

Apple Inc. shares broke into positive territory for the year on Monday, the latest milestone in an advance that has put the iPhone maker within striking distance of record territory... View Source

The Roku Streaming Stick Plus is on sale for just $29. That's a discount of 27 percent and the lowest we've ever seen it. Roku has held the top spot in the TV OS market for years thanks to its user-friendly interface, an affordable range of streaming devices and its own lineup of TVs. We picked the Streaming Stick Plus as the best streaming device for free and live content, thanks in large part to... View Source

Ryu and Ken are excluded from these deals, but the rest of the SF6 gang is much cheaper than before. You might have already spent a ton of money building up a modest collection of amiibo, Nintendo’s NFC-equipped figures for Switch and Switch 2. But whether you’re looking to add extras, or you’re just starting out, GameStop has several amiibo figures starting at just $5.99. On Bluesky, Wario64 poin... View Source

ASML Holding NV’s recent rally got a fresh boost on Monday as Morgan Stanley joined the ranks of the stock’s bulls, signaling that the chip-equipment maker may at last show a major uplift from artificial intelligence demand... View Source

The partial solar eclipse was visible to over 16 million people when it darkened the sky over the Pacific on Sept. 21-22... View Source

T-Mobile is replacing Mike Sievert as CEO more than five years after he took on the role. The mobile carrier’s chief operating officer, Srini Gopalan, will become CEO on November 1st, while Sievert will become vice chairman. Sievert took over for the outspoken John Legere following T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint in 2020. While at the helm, Sievert has overseen many acquisitions, including T-Mobile’... View Source

Intel Corp. shares are flying high after the firm secured a string of high-profile backers, but the cash infusions have done little to fix the company’s biggest problem — its money-losing chip-making operations... View Source

Here at The Verge, we try to help our readers by offering news, reviews, and analyses about tech and its relationship to how we live. But one of the things that can most affect our lives is books. Whether they're fiction or factual, whether they're fun or philosophical, whether they offer a story or a recipe, books can impact us in a variety of different - and important - ways. We asked the staff... View Source

Newly-formed Strive Inc. agreed to acquire Semler Scientific Inc. in a deal that combines two publicly-traded Bitcoin treasury companies... View Source

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean... View Source

NASA's Artemis 2 mission will launch toward to the moon in 2026. To help prepare, its four astronauts practiced observing Earth's nearest neighbor in a mockup Orion capsule... View Source

Your desk should feel truly yours. If you want a boxed copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo next to your high-end monitor for no reason other than it makes you happy, go for it. However, it's important to balance fun with function; your desk space needs to be equipped to help you get work done. Everyone's desk is going to look different, and it's clear from... View Source

President Donald Trump’s move to curb skilled visas for foreigners adds a fresh blow to US-India ties that only last week appeared to be on the mend, creating new hurdles for a speedy trade deal... View Source

Europe’s economy will continue to rely on imported natural gas for decades to come as the transition to solar and wind takes longer than forecast, according to energy company OMV AG... View Source

A revamped CDC advisory committee faces vaccine debates, studies reveal brain changes in athletes, and climate change drives deadly heat waves across Europe... View Source

The Achilles heel of the iPhone 17 Pro. The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max appear to provide little resistance to scratches and scuffs around the sharp edges of the camera bump. Tech blogger Zack Nelson demonstrates this weakness in a durability test on his JerryRigEverything YouTube channel, explaining that the anodized aluminium layer on the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max “does not stick to corners... View Source

The master of viral videos now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his “banger content” an even wider reach... View Source

After more than a year of negotiations, the US and China are nearing an agreement to hive off the US operations of social media platform TikTok to a consortium that includes software giant Oracle Corp. If the deal is finalized, it would resolve a persistent issue in Beijing-Washington relations that has become entangled in broader talks over trade... View Source

Astronomical fall begins on Sept. 22 as the sun moves southward across the celestial equator... View Source

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power... View Source

On Friday President Donald Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the US legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world's prospective expat workers. The US President slapped a $100,000 application fee on the widely used H-1B visa program, a move that would drastically increase the cost of visas heavily coveted by some of Am... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is trying to attract established brand names on Amazon.com Inc. to its global e-commerce site AliExpress, stepping up efforts to expand its footprint on the Seattle-based firm’s home turf... View Source

Microsoft has started testing the ability to use video wallpapers on Windows 11. The feature has been spotted in the latest builds of Windows 11, and allows you to set video files like MP4 or MKV as your desktop wallpaper background. The videos play every time you view your desktop, much like third-party solutions like Wallpaper Engine. Microsoft previously supported video wallpapers in Windows Vi... View Source

Nordic power companies stand to win big from Europe’s data-center boom, as cool weather and lower power prices entice more mega-projects northward... View Source

Canal+ took effective control of Africa’s biggest PayTV firm, MultiChoice Group Ltd. and plans for the combined entity to be among the biggest media firms worldwide, its chief executive said... View Source

Cryptocurrency traders saw more than $1.5 billion in bullish wagers liquidated on Monday, triggering a sharp selloff that hit smaller tokens hardest... View Source

The so-called reference price for Sony Group Corp.’s spinoff listing of its financial unit was set at ¥150 ($1) by underwriter Nomura Securities Co., as the entertainment and electronics company tightens its management focus... View Source

Even suffused in otherworldly fog, Silent Hill F's picturesque period setting gleams with authenticity. Traditional hardwood buildings line narrow alleyways, while babbling brooks and small footpaths crisscross soaking paddy fields. The ephemera of 1960s everyday life is everywhere: glossy magazines, vintage toasters, exquisite flower arrangements. Yet beyond this moody sense of place, the details... View Source

The top lawmakers on the House China committee called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to investigate Chinese electronics and phone accessory manufacturer Anker Innovations Technology Co. for what they called unfair pricing and possible illegal evasion of US tariffs... View Source

Conjunction is easier to spot from southern hemisphere because Antares is in southern constellation of ScorpiusThe moon all but kisses the brilliant red supergiant star Antares this week. It is a spectacular meeting but one that will require some effort to spot from the UK. To stand a chance of seeing the conjunction, you will need to find somewhere with a clear southern horizon. A hill to stand o... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares jumped to their highest in more than a year after reports the Korean chipmaker has won long-awaited approval from Nvidia Corp. for its high-bandwidth memory chips... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s swelling weight in Japan’s equity benchmark is pushing even its skeptics to buy the stock... View Source

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. faces a fresh crisis at its Australian division Optus after the government started an investigation into an emergency call outage that resulted in multiple deaths... View Source

India is developing a plan to improve its ability to protect satellites from attacks, people familiar with the matter said, after a near miss in orbit highlighted risks to national security posed by other spacecraft... View Source

VodafoneThree picked Ericsson AB and Nokia Oyj for a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) contract to expand the newly formed mobile operator’s network across the UK... View Source

NASA is apparently giving its ice-scouting moon rover mission another try. The space agency has announced that the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project — which was called off last year after a series of delays and mounting costs — could catch a ride to the moon with Blue Origin in 2027 under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Blue Origin must first pla... View Source

Witness the first images of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse... View Source

While it seems like a foregone conclusion that there will be a foldable iPhone, possibly late next year, there hasn’t been much info about what it would look like. In the latest installment of his Power On newsletter Mark Gurman says he’s being told it will look more or less like two iPhone Airs stuck together.  That means it should be pretty thin, though potentially thicker than a Pixel 10 P... View Source

Satish, a graduate student from India studying in San Francisco, thought this fall would be about finishing his business degree and then lining up an H-1B visa, the work permit that’s become a mainstay for skilled immigrants in the US... View Source

Early shoppers are taking to the web to warn about the potentially scratch-prone nature of specific iPhone 17 model and color combos. According to a Bloomberg report, those demoing the latest iPhone in-store noticed that the iPhone 17 Pro in Deep Blue and the iPhone Air in Space Black models already had very noticeable scratches and scuffs. The report is backed up by social media posts following t... View Source

A new hypercar has dethroned Bugatti's record for the fastest production car, and unsurprisingly, it's an electric vehicle. During a livestream at the Automotive Testing Papenburg testing site in Germany, the YangWang U9 Extreme hit a facemelting top speed of 496.22 kmph, or around 308.33 mph. That metric edges out the previous record from the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+, which achie... View Source

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo took to X on Wednesday to claim that a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen was expected to enter mass production by late 2026. Today Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is following up to remind us that he was reporting on a touchscreen MacBook Pro way back in 2023. He confirmed Kuo’s timeline was correct. Since Gurman’s original story, the launch date has been pushed back from late 2025... View Source

Amazon is about to face a roughly month-long trial against the US Federal Trade Commission in Seattle to defend its Prime program from claims it tricked tens of millions of customers into signing up for the membership and made it hard to quit. It's one of several Big Tech trials the US government has initiated that's taking place this year, but the first major one in recent history against Amazon... View Source

Donald Trump’s sticker shock on H-1B visas risks disrupting Indian tech firms’ US projects, and is forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to once again deal with the fallout from America First policies... View Source

Apple manages to hold onto its recent repairability record with the latest iPhone Air, which maintains a provisional 7 out of 10 in iFixit's teardown. As seen in the teardown, the iPhone Air can easily swap batteries, has a modular USB-C port and offers day-one repair guides. Even though the iPhone Air represents Apple's thinnest iPhone ever at 5.6mm, iFixit said the slim design makes re... View Source

If you’re the kind of person who owns leather driving gloves in multiple colors to match your different Jaguars, then there hasn’t been a digital paper option that could live up to your lofty luxury standards until now. But Montblanc is finally delivering a truly bougie take on the e-ink writing tablet. The $905 Montblanc Digital Paper writing tablet combines a basic black-and-white e-ink screen w... View Source

President Donald Trump suggested that Fox Corp. Chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch are involved in the US takeover of the video app TikTok from its Chinese owners... View Source

From original content to additional features, here's our ranking of the best value streaming services for Sci-Fi fans looking to get the most for their money... View Source

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SpaceX launched its 119th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Sept. 21), sending 28 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast... View Source

One Kindbody clinic's staffing crunch sets the stage for an error that would lead one woman to give up on her dream of motherhood... View Source

NASA will announce its new astronaut class on Monday (Sept. 22) and discuss its upcoming Artemis 2 moon mission on Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept. 23 and Sept. 24). Here's how to watch the events live... View Source

Donald Trump has never made his distaste for immigrants a secret. It's been a cornerstone of his political movement since he descended that escalator on June 16th, 2015 and started hurling racist vitriol in the general direction of Mexico and Mexican Americans. On the surface, his assault on the H-1B visa program seems like part of the White House's ongoing campaign to reduce the number of immigra... View Source

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations... View Source

Last week's Apple event meant we were in for a barrage of reviews this week. We spent lots of time putting the iPhone 17 family, including the new iPhone Air, through its paces. We also tested the AirPods Pro 3 and Apple Watch Series 11 that were unveiled just over a week ago. In non-Apple reviews, there's in-depth analysis of a premium Chromebook and the latest Tamagotchi device. Read on to catch... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of gaming and technology, follow Sean Hollister. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started They used to be called the "console wars," and to the victor went the spoils. When Sony's PlayStation and PlayStation 2... View Source

After years of modest upgrades, Apple finally has a standout new iPhone on its hands. Here are my first impressions. Also: Meta launches game-changing display glasses while touch screen Macs get closer to reality... View Source

PDFs remain a common way to share documents because they preserve formatting across devices and platforms. Sometimes, however, you end up with several separate PDFs that would be easier to handle as a single file. Perhaps you’re sending a client multiple contracts or keeping all your scanned bills in one place. Whatever the reason, combining PDFs is simple once you know which tools to use. Adobe A... View Source

An ambient star projector that you can use outside? It sounds like a good idea, but in practice, it's severely lacking... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 98, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please tell me if you bought an orange iPhone, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about competitive massage and space soda and how people really use AI, checking out Adolescence now that it won all those E... View Source

September's new moon occurs on Sept. 21 and will partially eclipse the sun for skywatchers in the southern Pacific Ocean and Antarctica... View Source

Here's what you need to know to make the most of the partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, as the moon takes a 'bite' out of the sun... View Source

Airports in Berlin, London and Brussels faced continued delays on Sunday after a cyberattack on a key airline check-in system forced staff to process passengers manually... View Source

Australian phone company Optus will implement any recommendations from an independent review, Chief Executive Officer Stephen Rue said, after an emergency call outage that resulted in at least two deaths... View Source

It's barely been two weeks since Apple announced the AirPods Pro 3, but you can already find them at a slight discount. The new earbuds are currently listed as $239 on Amazon, which is $10 cheaper than their normal price. The AirPods Pro 3 were introduced at Apple's "Awe Dropping" iPhone event, boasting Live Translation, heart-rate tracking and significant improvements to sound quality and active... View Source

With new restrictions and fees on work visas in the US set to take effect at midnight tonight, it’s no surprise that many employers are advising workers abroad to return to the US. Leaked memos from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been circulating on social media that instruct instruct any H-1B visa holders currently traveling to immediately make travel arrangements to land in the US before 12A... View Source

A few months after the release of Grok 4 and an extremely problematic antisemitic meltdown of its chatbot, xAI is already trying to move on with its latest AI model. Elon Musk's xAI announced the release of Grok 4 Fast, a faster, more efficient reasoning model compared to its recent predecessor. According to xAI, Grok 4 Fast offers similar performance to Grok 4 while using 40 percent fewer th... View Source

According to a report by The Washington Post, scientists with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water were told by "political appointees" to stop work on studies that were headed for publication, as they'll now be "subject to a new review process." Staffers were reportedly given the instructions in a town hall meeting this week. The only papers exempt ar... View Source

Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and other tech companies warned employees with H-1B visas to return to the US on Saturday and refrain from overseas travel after President Donald Trump slapped a $100,000 application fee on the widely used program... View Source

Unlike the joy of exploring the underwater world in Subnautica, diving deeper into the Subnautica 2 lawsuit is the furthest thing from rewarding. The latest update in the convoluted lawsuit between Subnautica's developer, Unknown Worlds, and its parent company, Krafton, represents a complete 180 with one of the case's key claims. According to a PC Gamer report, Krafton said that "documents relatin... View Source

All the fawning by tech CEOs wasn’t enough to convince Donald Trump to back off his crusade against immigrants. Yesterday the president announced that the government would be adding a $100,000-a-year fee on all H-1B visas in an effort to discourage their use.  While many industries make significant use of the H-1B program to attract highly skilled foreign workers, the tech industry is particu... View Source

I live in silicon valley which means I am well aware of the hype around the term Unicorn startups. The unicorn term was coined by Aileen Lee in 2013 for $1B+ private startups. It was not just to quickly get early investors eager to invest in startups. It was in a pre-AI world where billion-dollar ... Read more... View Source

From a disastrous AMA on Monday to disappointing Legion Go 2 preorder customers on Friday, the Lenovo team is having a hell of a week. To kick things off, the Lenovo Legion team hosted an AMA on Reddit revolving around its gaming handheld launch. The Legion Go 2 generated a ton of hype, being Lenovo's next-gen gaming handheld with more powerful specs and a higher price tag, but the team only... View Source

A three-month Kindle Unlimited subscription is free for Amazon Prime members right now. A cool new perk recently became available for Prime members: for a limited time, you can get a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited. If your ebookshelf is looking bare, Amazon is currently offering a three-month subscription to Kindle Unlimited for free. The service typically costs $11.99 per month, so... View Source

Larry Ellison is the second richest person in the world. The Oracle co-founder net worth is about $380 billion following a 36% surge in Oracle shares. He has made big moves into big media. Big Media is relevant for political influence but also for data and reach that is useful for winning in AI. Paramount ... Read more... View Source

Hadfield's 'Kaz' Zemeckis returns for this third entry in the bestselling author's 'The Apollo Murders' series... View Source

Barely over a week after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk's public killing at a Utah campus, speech attacks in the name of the self-proclaimed free speech advocate are piling up. Law enforcement officials have custody of suspected shooter Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah who prosecutors allege was in a relationship with a transgender woman and opposed Kirk's "hatred." Utah Gov. Spencer Cox... View Source

They’ll Need A Crane. You’d be forgiven for assuming the iPhone Air would snap like a twig under pressure. It’s almost impossibly thin at just 5.6mm. But, its titanium frame is not only stronger than aluminum, it’s also more elastic. YouTuber JerryRigEverything demonstrates this with his usual bend test. While he’s able to get some slight bowing by pressing his thumbs into the center of the screen... View Source

2021 would prove to be a difficult year for Kindbody, leaving some families questioning everything they'd been told about the startup’s state-of-the-art care... View Source

This skywatching quiz will test your knowledge of how eclipses, when to see them, and what makes each one so spectacular... View Source

Dina and B arrive at Kindbody for the embryo transfer they’ve dreamed about for years. But their doctor delivers news that will make them question whether coming to Kindbody was a mistake. In Episode 2 of IVF Disrupted, The Kindbody Story, Bloomberg reporter Jackie Davalos investigates what went wrong and discovers that this error wasn’t an isolated incident... View Source

The Seklin Galaxy Projector may be inexpensive, but unfortunately it shows in the quality and performance... View Source

In Henry Halfhead, you play through the life of a person named Henry. But there are a couple twists. Henry is only half of a head - just eyes, ears, nose, and the top of their head - meaning they move around by sliding on the floor and jumping up and down. Also, Henry can possess everyday objects. It's a strange concept, but the developers at Lululu Entertainment use the goofy ideas to tell a poig... View Source

How did humans survive catastrophic volcanic explosions to piece together the story today?... View Source

Starting Monday, the US government will get another crack at convincing a federal judge to break up Google, after a different judge decided to keep it intact despite finding it to be a monopolist. Lawyers for Google and the Justice Department will return to a federal courthouse in Alexandria, VA for a roughly two-week trial about how to restore competition to the advertising technology markets tha... View Source

On Episode 178 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Virts, a former shuttle and ISS astronaut, who is running for the U.S. Senate... View Source

"Alien: Earth" has adopted a much looser approach to canon than most of its sci-fi counterparts, allowing it to tell good stories without restriction... View Source

A banner depicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer masquerading as President Donald Trump is held up in a crowd as South Korean workers, detained in an ICE raid at Hyundai’s Georgia EV plant, are expected. | Image: Getty For years, foreign automakers have been sending their employees to the US to open advanced manufacturing and battery plants in states like South Carolina, Geo... View Source

A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it’s feasible is another matter... View Source

Some of the year’s biggest blockbuster games have just dropped or are coming very soon. But among the likes of Borderlands 4, EA Sports FC 26 and Battlefield 6, there are a ton of neat indie games popping up. We’re here to tell you about some of 'em and what else is going on in the space with our weekly indie games roundup. There were showcases this week from Critical Reflex (which was packed... View Source

A fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive model to train another model for less... View Source

Astronomers have discovered a rare cosmic alignment that may reveal hidden dark matter, offering a new way to study the invisible substance that makes up most of the universe... View Source

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures... View Source

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are among the US firms that have in recent days pledged to invest £31 billion ($41.8 billion) into artificial intelligence projects in Britain, but industry experts say the commitment could be undermined by the UK’s aging power grid and some of the world’s highest electricity prices... View Source

Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A30 earbuds. Anker's latest Soundcore Sleep A30 sleep buds do what its A20 buds promised but couldn't deliver: mask snoring. It accomplishes this with the inclusion of Active Noise Cancellation in the buds and a microphone inside the charging case that actively adjusts masking audio to cancel out the sound of sawing logs. Of course I want that! said my monkey brain when I f... View Source

Online travel booking platform Agoda apologized for including “inappropriate” language as part of severance agreements in Singapore, after drawing criticism for warning laid-off staff not to raise the matter to authorities or labor unions... View Source

Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam has asked central bank Governor Rama Krishna Sithanen to step down, the Le Défi Plus newspaper reported, citing unidentified sources... View Source

Chinese robotaxi operators WeRide Inc. and Pony AI Inc. are partnering with local companies to expand in Singapore, choosing one of the world’s best-mapped cities as a first stop for driverless ride-hailing in Southeast Asia... View Source

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order, which adds a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications. It's not a one-time fee either: The New York Times has reported that companies will have to pay $100,000 a year for any employee it brings over to the US on the visa for up to six years. The Secretary of Homeland Security will restrict approval for visa applications unless accompanied... View Source

President Donald Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the US legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world’s prospective expat workers... 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

Optus, the Australian unit of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., is investigating a technical failure that affected emergency calls and resulted in three deaths... View Source

SpaceX submitted FCC filing SAT-LOA-20250916-00282 on September 16, 2025, requesting authorization for up to 15,000 additional low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites dedicated to enhancing its Direct-to-Cell (DTC) Starlink service. This filing builds on prior approvals for ~29,988 broadband-focused satellites and leverages spectrum acquired from EchoStar in a $17 billion deal, enabling hybrid satellite-... View Source

The long-promised deal to "save" TikTok remains elusive even as the US and China seem to be inching toward an agreement. On Friday, President Donald Trump did little to clarify where the deal currently stands following a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said both that the two had "made progress" on "approval of the TikTok Deal"... View Source

A 10 percent stake in Intel, 15 percent of Nvidia’s China sales, a “golden share” of Nippon Steel — what price will Trump extract next in exchange for favorable treatment? Well, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Administration is “expected to collect a multibillion-dollar fee” in exchange for negotiating a US takeover of TikTok’s US business. That fee will come from TikTok’s US i... View Source

The situation with the fiscal year 2026 budget for the United States is, to put it politely, kind of a mess. The White House proposed a budget earlier this year with significant cuts for a number of agencies, including NASA. In the months since then, through the appropriations process, both the House and Senate have proposed their own budget templates. However, Congress has not passed a final budg... View Source

Sales at Elon Musk’s X dropped slightly during the second quarter from the first quarter, signaling that the social network has struggled to build on the spending that rushed in when Musk was at the center of US politics... View Source

xAI will raise $10 billion in a $200 billion valuation funding round according CNBC co-anchor David Faber. The fundraise follows a $5 billion debt raise. A $200 billion valuation would bring xAI above Anthropic’s $183 billion valuation secured this month. OpenAI raised at $300 billion and is looking at a new $500 billion valuation round. ... Read more... View Source

Michael Eisner, Disney's former CEO who ran the company for 21 years and oversaw its acquisition of ABC in 1995, does not think his successor, Bob Iger, made the right decision in moving to put Jimmy Kimmel Live! On indefinite pause following threats from Trump-appointed FCC chairman Brendan Carr. In a post to X about the Kimmel situation, Eisner - who once opted to suppress the theatrical release... View Source

No one could accuse the European Space Agency and its various contractors of moving swiftly when it comes to the development of reusable rockets. However, it appears that Europe is finally making some credible progress. This week, the France-based ArianeGroup aerospace company announced that it had completed the integration of the Themis vehicle, a prototype rocket that will test various landing t... View Source

Commissioners from Doña Ana County, New Mexico, approved a $165 billion industrial revenue bond package and a sweeping set of tax incentives tied to a sprawling AI data center project, moving forward with one of the largest economic development efforts in New Mexico history... View Source

NASA's ice-hunting VIPER moon rover has officially come back from the dead: Blue Origin will land the wheeled robot on the lunar surface in 2027, the agency announced today (Sept. 19)... View Source

Have enough Copilot buttons in your life? No you don’t — have another one! This one pops up in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview when mousing over an open app in your taskbar; it lets you share the contents with Copilot Vision. Want to know who is celebrating in that dogpile on the mound, or dig a little deeper on that sculpture you took a photo of? Just click that “Share with Copilot” button... View Source

Fresh analysis of Perseverance rover data reveals Jezero Crater experienced repeated episodes of water activity, strengthening the case for habitability and raising the stakes for Mars Sample Return... View Source

In a chaotic meeting, ACIP voted not to recommend a prescription requirement for Covid-19 vaccines. Some panelists seemed unaware of the point of the meeting, while others went on strange tangents... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss headlines coming out of a call between US President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping about a framework agreement for TikTok's US operations. Plus, Apple rolls out its new iPhone 17 models in stores with long lines and reports of scratches. And FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez talks about the suspension of the Jimmy Kimmel show and threats from the T... View Source

Titan's shadow will fall on Saturn in the early hours of Sept. 20, one day before the world shines at opposition in Earth's sky... View Source