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Nintendo is raising the price of the original Switch “family of systems and products,” the company announced on Friday. Along with the first-generation Nintendo Switch, the price change also affects the Switch OLED, Switch Lite, and “select” accessories. It’s also raising the price of some Nintendo Switch 2 accessories, certain amiibo, and the Nintendo Alarmo. The price of the Switch 2 console, as... View Source

High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzling light effects like "sun dogs."... View Source

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine... View Source

A consortium consisting of General Atlantic and Oakley Capital is nearing a deal to buy Brevo in a deal that values the French software-as-a-service business at about €1 billion ($1.1 billion), people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired, and offers lessons for today... View Source

This is the one Pixel 10 image Google has released officially, and we think it’s the Pro. Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 series is launching this month. We even know what one of the phones looks like, thanks to the official image up above. But beyond the few tidbits Google has shared officially, there’s an awful lot more we th... View Source

Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that?... View Source

The rally that’s propelled the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks 45% higher since April looks stretched, Bank of America Corp. strategists say... View Source

Nintendo has already sold 5.82 million Switch 2s since the console went on sale on June 6th and still expects to sell 15 million units by the end of its fiscal year in March 2026, the company said in its latest earnings report. If that pans out, the Switch 2 would easily outsell the original Switch, which took a full year to hit that same 15 million sales number — making it a rare bright spot in t... View Source

SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday (July 31), to help prep the vehicle for an upcoming test flight... View Source

Windows 11 SE running on a low-cost laptop. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after it launched the operating system on low-cost laptops that were designed to compete with Google Chromebooks. Windows 11 SE was only available on devices for education customers, such as schools, and it was supposed to convince them not to switch to Chrome OS. “Support for Windows 11... View Source

Models are getting better at winning, but not necessarily at following the rules... View Source

Scientists are uncovering how spinning black holes launch jets, warp spacetime and shape the cosmos... View Source

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wanted to make Google dance two years ago, with an AI overhaul of Bing that was designed to steal Google's all-important search market share. Now, there are plenty of signs that Microsoft has successfully taken search share off Google, both in the US and worldwide. Earlier this week Microsoft reported that its search and news advertising revenue had grown by $1.6 billio... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.05 of the Rocket Report! One of the most eye-raising things I saw this week was an online update from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center touting its work on cryogenic propellant management in orbit. Why? Because until recently, this was a forbidden research topic at the space agency, as propellant depots would obviate the need for a large rocket like the Space Launch System... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Natsuko Katsuki reports on the poignancy beneath the popularity of Japanese manga character Chiikawa... View Source

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg published a memo outlining his vision to build AI "superintelligence." Citing "safety concerns," he wrote that Meta would need to be "rigorous" about what it open sources and what it doesn't. The line stood out, as Zuckerberg has made open source pretty central to Meta's approach to AI. In fact, his comments differ from wha... View Source

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsung’s community forum started reporting issues with their TVs at around 5PM ET on Thursday, finding themselves unable to open apps like YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu, and Prime Video. While apps were still visible on the Samsung TV menu, attempting to open them would displa... View Source

African trade flows may shift further away from the US after President Donald Trump announced a slew of new tariffs, the head of Citigroup Inc.’s regional office said... View Source

A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness... View Source

New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formation of the universe's first stars, but did they help or hinder?... View Source

Prof Michele Dougherty, first woman to hold position, is upbeat about role of private sector in space explorationThe Royal Society was right to keep Elon Musk as a fellow, the UK’s new astronomer royal has said, adding there was a benefit to the private sector playing a role in space exploration.Speaking to the Guardian after becoming the first woman to hold the 350-year-old position, the planetar... View Source

Your new iPad is sleek, powerful and ready to tackle everything from binge-watching to serious productivity — but without the right protection, it’s also one drop away from disaster. One of the most important iPad accessories is a solid case. Whether you want something rugged to handle everyday wear and tear, a slim case that keeps things lightweight or a keyboard cover to turn your tablet into a... View Source

Nintendo’s financial year is off to a bumper start thanks to explosive sales of its Switch 2 console. Following its launch in June, the Switch 2 console has now sold 5.82 million units according to Nintendo’s Q1 earnings report, more than double the 2.7 million unit sales achieved by the original Switch in its first month. “Currently, demand for Nintendo Switch 2 is exceeding supply in many countr... View Source

WeRide Inc. plans to ramp up spending, even as it continues to post losses, as the Chinese autonomous driving company bets that its ambitious international expansion plans will eventually see it reach profitability... View Source

Chinese chipmaker InnoScience Suzhou Technology Holding Co. surged as much as 64% in Hong Kong on Friday after it was identified by Nvidia Corp. as a supplier... View Source

The second-generation (Gen 2) Tesla Semi has new batteries and design improvements like new mirrors for better sight lines and aerodynamics, plus a “drop glass” for easier cargo access. The initial 32 prototype Semis have been produced at Giga Nevada and delivered to priority customers like PepsiCo. The Gen 2 Semi is set to launch ... Read more... View Source

Nintendo Co. sold more than 6 million units of its Switch 2 console over its first seven weeks on sale, but kept its full-year forecast unchanged... View Source

The largest Cogito v2 671B MoE model is amongst the strongest open models in the world. It matches/exceeds the performance of the latest DeepSeek v3 and DeepSeek R1 models both, and approaches closed frontier models like o3 and Claude 4 Opus. Deep Cogito extend their work on building superintelligence using Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA) ... Read more... View Source

SAP SE, Europe’s most valuable company, will buy San Francisco-based human resources software specialist SmartRecruiters... View Source

What once took place in the dark corners of the internet is now a sprawling ecosystem of illicit activity operating in plain sight - and one Cambodia-based operation seems to have made a lot of it possible. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meituan and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. vowed Friday to curb “disorderly competition” and cease the price-based rivalry that’s threatened to pressure margins and prompted warnings from government agencies... View Source

The LeapMove could make gaming a more active pastime. | Image: LeapFrog LeapFrog has announced a new electronic learning system that swaps controllers for a camera. In fact, the LeapMove looks like an oversized, kid-friendly webcam, but is designed to connect to TVs like a console and get kids off the couch using educational games that require full-body movements to play. It’s reminiscent of the X... View Source

Starbucks Corp. has shortlisted about a dozen parties including private equity firms and technology companies into the second round of a process to invest in its China business, people familiar with the situation said... View Source

China accused the US of exploiting a flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s email servers to steal military data and launch cyberattacks on its defense sector... View Source

Apple has shipped its three billionth iPhone, Tim Cook has revealed during a call for the company's third quarter earnings. The company released the first iPhone in 2007 and sold its billionth iPhone in 2016. It is believed to have shipped its two billionth sometime in 2021, and now only four years later, it has reached the new milestone. Apple's CEO said the iPhone enjoyed a double digi... View Source

US cybersecurity startup Armis said Monday that it’s preparing for an initial public offering in 2026 after closing a $200 million funding round that valued it at $4.2 billion... View Source

The comedian and Saturday Night Live alum has found a winning formula in hosting festive, comfortable interviews with her funny friends... View Source

The Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson AB is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Intel Corp.’s networking infrastructure business, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple Inc. posted its first sales growth in China in two years, saying that new Mac computers and demand from city-dwelling phone customers helped fuel the rebound... View Source

The price gap between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s American depositary receipts and its Taipei-listed shares surged to the widest level in more than 16 years, reigniting concerns that the euphoria surrounding artificial intelligence may be overheating... View Source

OpenAI CEO Altman prerecorded video claimed AGI was solved on July 31, 2025, at around 6:33 AM GMT. However, the statement was about a European data center which does not have all of its power issues worked out and is far smaller than existing AI data centers by XAI and others. 10,000 B300s is about ... Read more... View Source

Chinese robotics stocks are drawing fresh market attention as investors look for new catalysts for the rally sparked earlier this year by DeepSeek’s advances in artificial intelligence... View Source

The design firm’s blockbuster IPO is bringing billions to its early venture backers... View Source

Top AI startups are increasingly turning to Middle East investment funds to help cover the significant cost of developing new models. But first…... View Source

Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as an actual search engine. During the company's latest earnings call, Huffman said search is one of the top priorities for Reddit. "We... View Source

Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But Reddit is also investing in improving its own search capabilities, and in its latest note to investors, CEO Steve Huffman says that the company is “concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing... View Source

Reddit Inc. shares jumped after the company reported its most profitable quarter to date and projected third-quarter sales that far surpassed analyst expectations, signaling the strength of its growing advertising business... View Source

Tim Cook sure knows how to sell an iPhone. Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism over the past year, from its AI missteps to a strong distaste for its new design ethos. But the numbers don’t lie, and if Apple knows how to do anything it’s sell iPhones. Specifically, three billion of them, as CEO Tim Cook announced on the company’s earnings call today. That’s an impressive number... View Source

First Solar is in a greater position of strength after the passage of President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending law than it was following Joe Biden’s landmark 2022 climate law: CEO Mark Widmar on co.’s earnings call... View Source

Apple leadership discussed results and updates today in its third-quarter conference call, including some statements about its AI endeavors. As reported by CNBC, CEO Tim Cook said that the company is "significantly growing out investments" in artificial intelligence, which shouldn't be much of a surprise for any players in the tech space. However, Cook did acknowledge that an acquis... View Source

The discount makes the 256GB configuration cheaper than the model with 128GB of storage. | Image: The Verge During the most recent Prime Day, the Google Pixel Tablet with Wi-Fi and 256GB of storage briefly dropped to just $309 ($190 off) — but the deal disappeared in a matter of hours. Fast forward to today, and the deal is back, but this time it’s available at Best Buy. Unfortunately, the discoun... View Source

Clorox Co.’s full-year outlook came in below expectations as a switch in the company’s key operational software changed retailers’ purchasing patterns... View Source

Apple is spending a lot on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the duties could add $1.1 billion to its costs during the September quarter. Cook says Apple has already spent around $800 million during the June quarter, which is less than the $900 million that the company predicted in May. “The bulk of the tariffs that we paid were the IEEP... View Source

Apple Inc. reported third-quarter revenue that handily topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by surprisingly strong sales of the iPhone and products in China... View Source

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics' uncertainty principle... View Source

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is “open” to mergers and acquisitions as it “significantly” increases its investment in AI, as reported by CNBC. Cook’s statements were made alongside the release of Apple’s third-quarter earnings results, which revealed that the iPhone-maker raked in $94 billion between April and June, marking a 10 percent increase over the same period last year. The remarks co... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde speaks with Figma CEO Dylan Field from the New York Stock Exchange as his company goes public in one of the year’s biggest IPOs. Plus, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon joins Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow to discuss how the company is adapting to declines in handset demand. And Arm CEO Rene Haas says the company made a conscious decision to invest heavily in the previous quarter. (Sour... View Source

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. projected operating income in the current quarter that fell short of analysts’ estimates, worrying investors that the tech giant is spending too much to keep up with competitors in the race for artificial intelligence... View Source

Fall is often first-person shooter season, and looks like this year's release calendar will include the next entry in the Battlefield series. Battlefield 6 is launching on October 10, and will be available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC via Steam, Epic Games and the EA Play app. The previous trailer for the first-person shooter only showed content from the game's single... View Source

We knew DJI had a hard time importing its drones into the United States to the point that many shelves have gone bare, but it’s not just drones anymore. Today marks the first time it’s formally skipping the US with a non-drone product, its 8K Osmo 360 camera — and it’s not clear if it will ever officially stock it here, DJI confirms to The Verge. But the Osmo 360 does have a page on DJI’s US websi... View Source

Marcos Galperin, co-founder of MercadoLibre Inc., said he’ll focus on artificial intelligence projects after stepping down as CEO, as part of a leadership transition at the e-commerce and financial technology giant... View Source

NASA/Cory S. Huston The Sun rises on the morning of July 31, 2025, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was postponed due to an unfavorable weather forecast. Teams are now targeting 11:43 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 1. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimi... View Source

With the Switch 2, Nintendo seems to be closing the release date gap with some of its third-party games. It's a problem that plagued previous Nintendo consoles, which often received games years after other platforms, if at all. While today's Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase may have lacked the splash of anticipated third-party games like Hades 2 or FromSoftware's The Duskbloods, what was on displa... View Source

Airbnb Inc.’s business chief said a loyalty program is “under consideration,” with the launch of the company’s experiences and services business putting the home-sharing platform in a “better position” to reward customers... View Source

Google's attempt to appeal the decision in Epic v. Google has failed. In a newly released opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to uphold the original Epic v. Google lawsuit that found that Google's Play Store and payment systems are monopolies. The decision means that Google will have to abide by the remedies of the original lawsuit, which limits the company's abi... View Source

Ford is preparing a major electric vehicle announcement that CEO Jim Farley calls a “Model T moment,” as reported earlier by InsideEVs. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Farley said the company will reveal plans to design and build a “breakthrough” EV, along with a new platform, at an August 11th event in Kentucky. Even as Ford’s EV business took a $1.3 billion hit, the automaker’s “skunkworks... View Source

Salesforce Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. are each in advanced talks to invest about $750 million apiece in Genesys Cloud Services Inc., according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July 31), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea... View Source

Following an appeals court victory on Thursday, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted that “the Epic Games Store for Android will be coming to the Google Play Store.” This is despite Google’s plan to appeal the Ninth Circuit panel’s decision, which declined to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that Google’s app store and payment system had become illegal monopolies. There’s no detail yet on timing, but it... View Source

As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations... View Source

Oracle Corp. founder and Chairman Larry Ellison gave $1 million to support Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s bid for reelection, a new Federal Election Commission filing shows... View Source

NVIDIA is calling time on its Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, with one last significant driver release scheduled for October. This means that all graphics cards belonging to the GeForce GTX 7-, 9- and 10-series categories will only receive quarterly security updates beyond the October cutoff, with support ending entirely three years later in 2028. While they’ll still work after that, they won’t be... View Source

There have been published papers by the Air Force Research Lab and NASA on rotating detonation engines having 10% or more efficiency gains. A rotating detonation engine (RDE) uses a form of pressure gain combustion, where one or more detonations continuously travel around an annular channel. Computational simulations and experimental results have shown that the ... Read more... View Source

When people viewed virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brain triggered an immune response... View Source

A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites... View Source

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a follow-up to The Social Network, and Jeremy Strong is reportedly the lead candidate to play Mark Zuckerberg. “Sources say no formal offer has been presented but that he is the top choice to play the Facebook founder,” according to Deadline. Jesse Eisenberg played the role in the first film. Deadline reported on the new film, The Social Network Part II, late... View Source

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is proposing to spend $400 million to offset some of the Trump administration’s massive cuts to scientific research funding at Boston’s prestigious hospitals and at schools like Harvard University... View Source

Uber Eats has added a slate of AI features designed to, theoretically, help merchants earn new customers and ease the shopping experience for users. AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads. In the press release, Uber Eats shows an example in which pictures captured very close to the food are transformed into wider field-of-view shots of plated... View Source

Venus Aerospace has not publicly released detailed specific impulse (ISP) data for their Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) or the VDR2 (a rocket-based combined cycle engine integrating RDRE with ramjet modes) across Mach speeds. However, based on their claims of 10-15% efficiency gains over conventional rocket engines, partnerships with NASA and DARPA, and general RDRE ... Read more... View Source

Check out Scientific American’s fiction and nonfiction book recommendations for July... View Source

Epic has won again. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will not overturn the unanimous jury verdict from 2023 that Google’s app store and payments system had become illegal monopolies. Today, that appeals court affirmed the lower court’s decision in Epic v. Google, according to an full opinion you can read at the bottom of this story — and Google will now appeal to the Supreme Court, the company c... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google lost its appeal of a judge’s order requiring an overhaul of the technology giant’s app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Fortnite-maker Epic Games Inc... View Source

Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one highly anticipated title is now unable to be sold despite containing nothing objectionable. It started in early July, when payment processors including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal established new regulati... View Source

Microsoft and Meta both beat earnings expectations by large amounts and the reason was because of AI helping their basic business. All of the forward guidance was also going to be superior because of AI. If they were not supply constrained growth would be even better. AI played a decisive role in the better-than-expected earnings ... Read more... View Source

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering... View Source

Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, which will send crypto billionaire Justin Sun and five other people to the final frontier... View Source

Tesla’s newly-launched ride-hailing service in San Francisco isn’t quite ready for the “robotaxi” designation. After launching its robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, with a “safety monitor” in the passenger seat last month, a video of Tesla’s service in San Francisco shows a vehicle arriving with a human at the wheel, as reported earlier by Business Insider. California requires companies to obtain t... View Source

The WHO believes one in five children in Gaza are acutely malnourished, with the health effects potentially lasting for generations... View Source

SpaceX halted the launch of a crew to the International Space Station about a minute before liftoff on Thursday citing unfavorable weather conditions... View Source

Thursday's Nintendo Direct showcased some interesting games, but none seemed more relaxing than one called Chillin' by the Fire. This is a campfire sim from Oink Games in which you'll build and grow a fire. You'll split and stack firewood, dry out wet logs before adding them to your blaze and fan the flames by blowing on 'em. It's important not to have too little or t... View Source

The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response... View Source

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff today (July 31) after clouds intruded... View Source

Microsoft’s stock price has risen so much today that it has passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to be valued at $4 trillion, after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month. Microsoft has reached this milestone thanks to better-than-expected earnings, and the company reporting its Azure r... View Source

A notorious Russian hacking group is impersonating a prominent cybersecurity firm and using the country’s internet providers to spy on foreign embassies, according to a report published Thursday by Microsoft Corp... View Source

The well-regraded 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller is on sale for just $18 via Amazon. This is nearly 40 percent off and a record-low price. Typically, this controller doesn't go any lower than $25, so this is one heck of a deal. There's one major caveat. The deal only applies to the pink colorway, which may not be everyone's bag. It looks pretty good, though, as you can see below. The Ultimate 2C is... View Source

The UE Wonderboom 4 is on sale for $79.99 ($20 off). Believe it or not, summer break is winding down and it’s almost time to head back to school. It’s sad, I know, but look at the bright side: retailers like Amazon are using the occasion as an excuse to launch yet another sale. We’re not complaining, mainly because the deals encompass a wide range of solid dorm essentials, some of which include a... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said that US sales of its latest, high-end foldable phone are outpacing the prior model by 50%, a sign that the category is establishing at least some momentum with consumers... View Source

The iconic tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies is getting an HD remaster. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted heads to the Switch and Switch 2 on October 23, as revealed during this morning's Nintendo Direct livestream. As the name suggests, it's a remake of the very first PvZ game, going all the way back to 2009. This is the first time we're seeing a version of the original title on a... View Source

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the modern-day cultivated potato... View Source

The Thumby Color and Thumby handhelds. It's always a risk betting on new video game hardware from a little-known company: what if game developers never show up? But the $50 Thumby Color, on sale this week, is an easier sell - the two-inch handheld is cute as a button, fits on your keychain, lets aspiring programmers build and publish games right on the web, and I'm finding it so much easier to pla... View Source

The Agnelli family’s love affair with trucks began with the Fiat 24 HP that rolled off its Turin factory floor in 1903... View Source

Lyft has received the required regulatory clearance to finalize its acquisition of the European app-based taxi company Freenow. First announced back in April, Lyft’s approximately $197 million agreement with BMW and Mercedes-Benz allows the company to expand outside of North America for the first time. Freenow’s service will continue to operate as normal, but Bloomberg reports that users will... View Source

Personally, I like the white sunglasses look. It was a sweltering Sunday in Brooklyn. Instead of being wasteful and spending $10 on a five-minute Uber, I decided to walk the 20 minutes to a cutesy Japanese stationery cafe with an even cutesier name. Despite the 85 percent humidity, my vanity demanded I wear a full face of makeup with a snatched nose contour. Sweat was leaking out of every pore, me... View Source

Roblox Corp. shares hit a record high after the popular video-game company reported daily active users and bookings in the second quarter that beat analysts’ expectations. Roblox’s record-breaking game Grow a Garden spurred much of the growth, attracting 22 million concurrent users in July... View Source

The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart... View Source

Leaked images of the base Pixel 10 lineup. We’ve already seen what every Pixel 10 model looks like, and now we might know the pricing, too. A new leak from Android Headlines suggests the base Pixel 10 with 128GB of storage will have the same $799 starting price as its predecessor, while the rest of the lineup isn’t seeing any major changes, either. The price of the Pixel 10’s 256GB model also appe... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Min Jeong Lee explains why the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is launching an AI assistant... View Source

Google has introduced a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations that it says can function like a "virtual satellite." The model uses a system called "embedding," which works by taking big volumes of pubic information from various sources every day, such as optical satellites, radars and climate simulations, and then combining them all together. It then divides lands and coas... View Source

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. To view this video... View Source

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1... View Source

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. Today, I’m joined by Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter. We’re talking about the AI talent wars and why some researchers are suddenly getting traded like they’re NBA superstars. If you’ve been paying attention at all to the AI industry this past month, you’ve likely s... View Source

Figma Inc. shares are set to begin trading Thursday after the design and collaboration software company and some of its backers raised $1.2 billion in one of the year’s most anticipated US initial public offerings... View Source

The Nintendo Switch was a great place to play Persona games, and it looks like the outgoing console has passed on the torch to its successor, with last year's Persona 3 Reload kicking things off when it comes to Switch 2 on October 23.  Reload is a full remake of 2006's Persona 3 (later ported to the PSP as Persona 3 Portable), which Engadget's Mat Smith called "a gorgeous... View Source

About two years ago, we ran an article in which Verge staffers talked about their favorite backpacks and other bags. It’s time for a new one, and so we asked the staff to tell us about their favorite travel packs, day-to-day bags, and other ways to carry stuff around. Here’s what they told us. Backpacks Tom Bihn Synik 30 Where to Buy: $345 at Tom Bihn I like to travel light, but as a dad, that’s a... View Source

Comcast Corp. reported better than expected sales and profit, even as it continued to lose internet and cable-TV customers... View Source

Brilliant Labs is the startup behind Frame, the open-source smart glasses designed for hackers and other creative types. Today, the company is launching Halo, a new pair of glasses that, predictably for the age we live in, are being sold on the back of their AI features. Halo is a wayfarer-style pair (compared to the Panto-styled Frame) and, if you’re a spectacles wearer, you’ll be able to get pre... View Source

View of the NASA Glenn Research Center hangar from the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport runway during a testing flight on Thursday, June 13, 2024. The Operations and Integration Building sits to the hangar’s right.Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian Hanna NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking proposals for the use of its historic aircraft hangar, along with a parking lot, tarmac, and... View Source

A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star... View Source

Nvidia is releasing a new GeForce Game Ready Driver today that expands support for Windows 10 devices, alongside some games and G-Sync displays. Windows 10 Game Ready Driver support will now be available for GeForce RTX GPUs until October 2026, a year beyond when Microsoft is planning to stop supporting the operating system on October 14th, 2025. The expanded support from Nvidia will ensure that u... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Anaconda Inc. has raised a new funding round that values the company at $1.5 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

A new cybersecurity "breach" has revealed the personal information of various celebrities, and while it won't let you steal their identities, it will allow you to... judge them. The "Panama Playlists" details the Spotify song choices of notable people ranging from Vice President JD Vance to talk show host Seth Meyers to tech bros like Palmer Luckey. And technically, it was... View Source

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization... View Source

Spock may be renowned for his impeccable logic, but "Strange New Worlds" has offered a glimpse of the Vulcan's surprisingly complicated love life... View Source

It’s been a little over a month since the Switch 2 launched, and Nintendo’s ready to share more of the games coming to the console. Today’s Nintendo Direct presentation will be a short one at only 25 minutes long, and focused exclusively on third-party games. It’s likely that Hades 2 will make an appearance. The game, out on PC in early access, got a huge update recently, and it... View Source

Klarna Group Plc is considering reviving its potential New York initial public offering as soon as September, people familiar with the matter said, following a recent surge in fintech stock prices and strong debuts of recent US listings... View Source

DJI is finally taking on rising rival Insta360 with its first panoramic action camera, the Osmo 360. The company dug into its deep engineering toolkit in an effort to one-up the competition with features like a new sensor design, up to 8K 50 fps 10-bit log recording and a smaller, lighter body. It also matches or beats its rival in other areas, with similar battery life and superior low-light capa... View Source

Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning... View Source

The Osmo 360 is DJI’s first 360-degree action camera. | Image: DJI DJI has announced the company’s first 360-degree action camera designed to compete with the Insta360 X5 and the aging GoPro Max (which the company is planning to replace soon). The new DJI Osmo 360 slightly edges out the X5’s recording capabilities by capturing 8K videos at 50fps instead of 30fps, and features a design that’s both... View Source

Plans to reduce staff spiked in July to a level that was well above the average for the month since the pandemic, with technology firms leading sectors trimming their workforce, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas... View Source

As Earth spins through space, its rate of rotation changes. Here’s why... View Source

Lyft Inc. has gained the necessary regulatory clearance to complete its acquisition of European taxi app Freenow, setting the stage for the US rideshare company to expand its operations into Europe... View Source

In examples like those garlic knots on the bottom left, Uber Eats’ AI would have to generate sections of the food itself. The menus on your next Uber Eats order may be embellished using generative AI. The food delivery service is rolling out new features that aim to help businesses advertise and communicate with customers, which include  AI additions to menu descriptions, food photos, and rev... View Source

The disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country this year, with the virus continuing to spread rapidly... View Source

Podcasts hosted by venture capitalists set the narrative in tech, changing the way that insiders—and everyone else—learn about the world of startups... View Source

Apple Inc.’s earnings report is unlikely to give investors the catalyst they’ve been looking for to revive the iPhone maker’s struggling stock price... View Source

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, the JWST has found the planet could be a water-rich ocean world... View Source

Microsoft first started using the "Xbox PC" term in a blog post announcing the Gears of Wars remaster in early May. It was a new branding effort designed to signal that games are available on PC through its own Xbox PC app and store. The Xbox PC branding didn't last long though, as Microsoft has now started using "Xbox on PC" instead. Which one is it, Microsoft? The Xbox PC branding has been picke... View Source

Apple Inc.’s iPhone exports to the US from India will remain untouched by President Donald Trump’s latest 25% tariffs on the South Asian nation, for now... View Source

We all have so many gadgets now that we use and take with us regularly, and there's a good chance that at least a few of yours support wireless charging. Whether its your phone, wireless earbuds, smartwatch or all three of those things, you can power them up cord-free using a good wireless charger. And if you do plan to rely on wireless power-ups for your most-used devices, a multi-device wireless... View Source

South Africa’s top court upheld Vodacom Group Ltd.’s appeal against another court’s ruling that it pay a former employee billions of rands in compensation for an idea to develop a popular call-back service that he proposed more than two decades ago... View Source

Chinese authorities summoned Nvidia Corp. to discuss alleged security risks related to its H20 chips, casting doubt over the domestic business of the world’s most valuable company weeks after co-founder Jensen Huang met senior officials in Beijing... View Source

Tokyo Electron Ltd. slashed its full-year outlook below estimates after Chinese chipmakers slowed down efforts to stock up on equipment... View Source

Whether you're listening to playlists on your daily commute or zoning out with a podcast at home, wireless headphones can make your audio experience much more comfortable. With no cords to untangle or get caught on your bag, they’re a great pick for anyone who wants convenience without compromising on sound quality. If comfort and immersive audio are high on your priority list, over-ear wireless h... View Source

UK power generator Drax Group Plc will extend its share buyback program by £450 million ($597 million) over three years after it paused two major investments... View Source

The US sealed a trade deal with Pakistan as their officials wrapped up talks in Washington, agreeing to develop oil reserves... View Source

Sam Altman OpenAI will expand its Stargate project to Europe with the construction of a new data center in Norway... View Source

EchoStar Corp., the broadband company that’s missed debt payments, is being pushed by federal regulators to sell some of its airwaves to address concerns it has failed to put valuable slices of wireless spectrum to use... View Source

Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of chips that run smartphones, fell in late trading after reporting lackluster growth in that market, fueling concerns that tariffs will take a toll on the industry... View Source

Arm Holdings Plc, which provides the most widely used technology in computing chips, gave a lower-than-expected profit forecast for the current period after ramping up spending on new products... View Source

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 31), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Grab Holdings Ltd. reported quarterly sales that beat analysts’ estimates, a sign of sustained demand for ride-hailing and delivery services in a Southeast Asian economy rattled by global trade tensions... View Source

Chinese-founded startup Manus is rolling out a feature that allows broad research by assigning tasks to scores of AI agents working in tandem, in potentially the biggest update since launching its signature artificial intelligence platform in March... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is taking advantage of its lucrative advertising business and stepping up spending next year, with executives saying now is the time to seize on investment opportunities in artificial intelligence... View Source

Microsoft Corp. said it will spend more than $30 billion in the current quarter to build out the data centers powering its artificial intelligence services... View Source

Samsung have started earlier than TSMC going to 2 nanometer GAA process chips. They will start mass production late in 2025. Elon Musk and Tesla was using semiconductor processes one generation or so behind Nvidia for the Tesla Dojo chip. Samsung has challenges with lower yields (around 40%, compared to TSMC’s reported 60%). They have ... Read more... View Source

EBay Inc. shares jumped about 10% after the company projected sales that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting optimism for continued consumer resilience at a time of shifting US tariff proposals... View Source

SpaceX Starlink launched T-mobile satellite across the USA. This will enable millions of people to use Starlink anywhere for $10 per month. Starlink will get about half of the money from Tmobile and many other cellphone partners. Internet and voice everywhere is coming by the end of year. This will matter as it grows to ... Read more... View Source

Figma Inc. and some of its backers raised $1.2 billion in an initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range, in one of the most in-demand listings of the year... View Source

FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based semiconductor startup seeking to challenge Nvidia Corp., secured $125 million in a financing round to accelerate production of its artificial intelligence chip... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree is costing a lot of money. His investors don’t care. Meta’s stock price shot up over 10 percent on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings. Revenue generated in the second quarter was $47.5 billion, up 22 percent from a year ago. Daily users across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp grew to almost 3.5 billion. Meta also warned Wa... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor division reported profit that fell far short of expectations, reflecting a deepening crisis at the world’s largest memory chipmaker... View Source

Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com Inc. offered to acquire Ceconomy AG in a deal that would value the German electronics retailer at about €2.2 billion ($2.5 billion)... View Source

A new set of rules governing stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong takes effect on Friday as Asian authorities step up regulatory efforts in response to President Donald Trump’s campaign to stoke the growth of tokens pegged to the US dollar... View Source

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg shared a rambling memo outlining his vision to build AI "superintelligence." In the memo, Zuckerberg hinted that the pursuit of more powerful AI might require the company to be more selective in what it open sources. Citing "safety concerns" he wrote that Meta would need to be "rigorous" about such decisions. The line stood out to many a... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is set to become the second company in the world to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization after reporting quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, sending the stock soaring in extended trading Wednesday... View Source

TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling. The first batch of TikTok’s "short, engaging missions" focuses... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second star played a hand in sculpting the death of the primary star... View Source

AbbVie Inc. is in talks to acquire mental health therapeutics company Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals in a deal highlighting growing takeover interest in the sector, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google's upcoming Pixel 10 may support wireless Qi2 charging natively (without a case), which would make it the first Pixel model and one of the few Android phones to do so. A new image from mega-leaker Evan Blass shows a Qi2 charger attached to the back of a naked Pixel 10 device, meaning it likely has the magnets required to support the fast-charging system. Rumors bubbled up last month tha... View Source

Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 astronaut mission to the ISS on Thursday (July 31)... View Source

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free — for all countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong. The White House says the change goes into effect on August 29th. Per the executive order, for the n... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow speak with the heads of Palo Alto Networks and CyberArk about the $25 billion acquisition deal the cybersecurity companies have reached. Plus, investors look for signs of growth and payoff from AI spending as big tech companies prepare to release earnings. And Anthropic nears a fundraising deal that would value the AI startup at $170 billion. (Source: Bloomb... View Source

President Donald Trump's latest economic move is to halt the de minimis exemption, a provision that made international shipments of low-value items cheaper. When the exemption ends on August 29, shipments valued at or under $800 will be subject to duty fees when sent by any carrier other than the international postal network, no matter what country they are coming from. According to the White... View Source

The lawsuits offer a closer look at the safety environment at SpaceX... View Source

Dropbox is discontinuing its password manager. The tool, Dropbox Passwords, will be discontinued on October 28th, and the company is recommending that you transfer your passwords to another app like 1Password ahead of that date. The company will shut down Dropbox Passwords in phases. Starting August 28th, Dropbox Passwords will be view-only from both the mobile app and the browser extension, meani... View Source

Sachin Dev Duggal helped Builder.ai reach a $1.5 billion valuation. Then its board ousted him amid allegations of inflated revenue and the startup filed for bankruptcy... View Source

Spotify is introducing new requirements to confirm the ages of users in the UK trying to access explicit content. The streaming platform is implementing a facial scan process in partnership with Yoti, which also provides its services to Instagram. UK Spotify users may be prompted to perform this age check when they try to view or listen to age-restricted content. This type of approach to checking... View Source

From rocketships and exoplanets, to FTL and black holes, there's something for every space fan in Marvel's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps."... View Source

Have you ever wondered what bops powerful figures are listening to on Spotify? You'd be amazed what you can get with a profile search - but just in case you want them all in one place, there's the Panama Playlists, a newly published collection of data on the musical listening habits of politicians, journalists, and tech figures, as curated by an anonymous figure. The site appears to have data for... View Source

Microsoft Corp. said its Azure cloud-computing unit generated more than $75 billion during the 2025 fiscal year, the first time the company has put a dollar figure on a critical business it has spent more than a decade building... View Source

Fable, a startup designing tools to generate animated TV shows from scratch, is launching an AI-powered streaming service this week, Variety reports. The service is called Showrunner, and it will allow subscribers to generate scenes, view content created for Fable's in-house AI-generated animated shows and even insert themselves into the animations they generate. Showrunner is launching in al... View Source

You’ll have to wait a big longer for the Analogue 3D, but 8BitDo’s N64 controller remake is now avialable. | Image: 8BitDo Analogue’s 4K remake of the Nintendo 64 has been delayed again and again due to the US tariff situation. But at least you can get 8BitDo’s updated take on the N64 controller, which was announced alongside the Analogue 3D, while you wait. You can get one through Amazon in white... View Source

A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED... View Source

Robinhood Markets Inc. posted second-quarter revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, boosted by strength in cryptocurrency trading... View Source

Of all the new iOS 26 features that Apple previewed at WWDC in June, AirPods updates were only briefly mentioned. Studio-quality audio recording and improved call clarity got top billing, while the addition of a camera remote control was also quickly discussed. However, when the beta software arrived last week, it turned out there were actually more features than described at the event, making thi... View Source

NASA's next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a turbulent time for the space agency full of budget cuts and workforce reductions... View Source

Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 billion in revenue and a net income of $27.2 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by 24 percent. Like clockwork, cloud services are the strong point of Microsoft’s revenue this quarter. Azure revenue grew 39 percent year-over-year, and Microsof... View Source

Surge AI, a leading data-labeling startup, is in talks to raise about $1 billion in its first round of funding at a valuation of at least $25 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful content policy this week. The update, the company's first change in three years according to the site's own changelog, removed a line that stated the company prohibits the misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals. The change, which was first noted by the organization Open Terms Archive, was the only modification to the "hateful and... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has released a new proposal opportunity for industry to tap into agency know-how, resources, and expertise. The Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), managed by the Space Technology Mission Directorate, enables valuable collaboration without financial exchanges between NASA and industry partners. Instead... View Source

Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate that owns outlets like CNET, ZDNET, PCMag, and Mashable is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, for a total of 23 people. The majority of layoffs are coming from CNET, where 19 people will lose their jobs — even as Ziff Davis goes on a shopping spree. The layoffs will hit CNET coverage areas like the finance, broadband, and sleep beats, as well as th... View Source

Buyout firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a stake in Trading Technologies International Inc., which plans to use the additional resources to scour for acquisitions... View Source

It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app sent a push alert to some users promoting a Nazi newsletter. The company told Engadget the notification was an "extremely offensive and disturbing" error. The Substack newsletter i... View Source

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will study experimental technology in orbit... View Source

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced plans to dig tunnels under Nashville, creating a loop that will connect the city’s downtown with the Nashville International Airport. The Boring Company says it will begin construction “immediately” following approval and expects the first 10-mile phase to be operational as early as next year, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In 2021, The Boring Company o... View Source

Earlier this month, buzzy consumer tech startup Nothing thought it was kicking off its transformation from an eccentric gadget brand into something much bigger. Instead, its latest device — the Phone 3 — has been mired in controversy among the same customers who rallied behind the company’s past products... View Source

Dropbox is saying goodbye to its password manager after five years of service. This leaves current customers in a lurch, as the company has also announced that users only have a few months to extract all of their data. This discontinuation will happen in phases, but October 28 is the day Dropbox Passwords will be entirely shuttered. On August 28, the platform will become view-only in both the mobi... View Source