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4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor packs the power of a full system-on-a-chip. This next-generation processor is made to survive deep space while delivering a massive leap in computational speed compared to current spacecraft technology.NASA/JPL-Caltech NAS... View Source

SpaceX will launch its Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station this evening (May 12), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Anker’s foldable charging station lets you charge three devices simultaneously. | Image: Anker Anker’s Prime Wireless Charging Station is a small, yet powerful 3-in-1 charger that can charge your iPhone, Apple Watch, and earbuds simultaneously, and now it’s on sale for $104.99 ($45 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. The price has only dropped this low one other time since it launched in Februa... View Source

Wispr AI Inc., the developer behind the popular voice dictation tool Wispr Flow, is in talks to raise a new round of funding that could more than double its valuation to $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

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3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Kathleen Harmon Kathleen Harmon, Artemis II Mission Interface Manager for NASA’s Deep Space Network, in the Charles Elachi Mission Control Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Listen to this audio excerpt from Kathleen Harmon, the Artemis II Mission Interface Manager for NASA’s Deep Space Network: 0:00 / 0... View Source

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Mystic Leaks’s video shows “Android” as the OS in the Settings app. | Image: Mystic Leaks via Android Authority Aluminium OS, Google's upcoming version of Android for PC, may have just leaked a few hours before Google's Android Show presentation. As Android Authority reports, leaker Mystic Leaks shared a 16-minute video on their Telegram channel that appears to show a lengthy hands-on demo of the... View Source

Kevin Hartz, a co-founder of Eventbrite and longtime startup investor, has watched as venture capital firms unveil multibillion-dollar funds to back cash-hungry AI companies at every stage of their lifecycles. He’s taking a different approach.A-Star, the early-stage venture firm Hartz launched with former Coatue investor Bennett Siegel, is set to announce on Tuesday that it’s raised $450 million f... View Source

Amazon Now is coming to "dozens" of locations in 2026... View Source

NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to get a boost from the Red Planet... View Source

A Waymo drives across Congress Avenue on 8th Street in front of the Capitol Building as rain arrives in the Austin area on Friday, Jan. 23, 2025 ahead of anticipated drops in temperature and freezing rain over the weekend. (Sara Diggins/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images) | Image: Getty Waymo is recalling its autonomous driving software that allowed its vehicles to drive on flooded roa... View Source

US derivatives exchange CME Group Inc. and index provider Silicon Data are teaming up to create a futures market for computing power, a key source driving the AI boom... View Source

Items like groceries, medicines, and electronics are now available in less than an hour. | Image: Amazon Following a limited test run in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia that started last December, Amazon Now is officially available to millions of Amazon shoppers across the United States. In addition to Seattle and Philadelphia, the 30-minute delivery service is now also widely available in Atlan... View Source

Canadian IT consulting firm CGI Inc. appointed a new chief executive officer after the company’s share price tumbled about 40% in a year, largely due to concerns about disruption from artificial intelligence upstarts such as Anthropic PBC... View Source

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Star Catcher Industries just raised $65 million to build a constellation of power-beaming satellites, which the Florida company thinks will supercharge the off-Earth economy... View Source

Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management platform, says it has "reached an agreement" with hackers that breached its systems last week to prevent stolen data from being leaked online. The ShinyHunters hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack before Canvas was briefly taken offline. The group threatened to publish 3.5 terabytes of student data if ransom demands for... View Source

Electricite de France SA is working with an adviser to sell its renewable energy assets in China as the French state-owned utility refocuses on European nuclear power projects, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

The company will focus instead on classic reboots and movies... View Source

Waymo is recalling thousands of robotaxis to fix a software issue that could cause the autonomous vehicles to drive on flooded roads... View Source

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Wildfire-derived ozone appears responsible for 2,045 excess deaths, on average, per year across the U.S., 20 years of satellite data reveal... View Source

Its like a “Wrapped” but for your entire Spotify listening history. | Image by Spotify / The Verge Spotify is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving listeners a "fully personalized look at their entire music history." Starting today, Spotify mobile app users can access a new Wrapped-like experience that features "never-before-shared data" going back to when they first joined the service. The "... View Source

Private credit may have been hit by negative headlines, but inflows are unquestionably strong, says Sanjay Jhamna, Head of Global Credit Trading at JPMorgan. He says the fact that recent AI model releases did not result in a negative market reaction shows that the shock has passed for the software sector. Jhamna joined "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" at the JPMorgan's Global Markets Conference in... View Source

Russ Koesterich, Global Allocation Fund portfolio manager at BlackRock, says investors don’t want to miss out on “remarkable” earnings and sees bond yields as “relatively contained” in the United States. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The reaction may set in motion a hostile takeover attempt from GameStop... View Source

Google I/O is still a week away, but Google's big announcements kick off today with the "Android Show: I/O Edition," where it's expected to announce the major Android ecosystem highlights coming to its annual developer conference. When the Android Show will happen and where you can watch it Android Show: I/O Edition will be streaming live on YouTube and the Android website on Tuesday, May 12th at... View Source

Sea Ltd. reported quarterly earnings that topped analysts’ estimates after warding off rivals in Southeast Asia’s competitive e-commerce market rattled by economic and political challenges... View Source

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No thank you, we’re good. | Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and how the acquisition will be financed. In a letter to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen on Tuesday, eBay's board of directors said it has "concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive." "We... View Source

EBay Inc. rejected a $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen, calling the unsolicited bid “neither credible nor attractive” in a letter from Chairman Paul Pressler on Tuesday... View Source

SpaceX has stacked and fueled the new version of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever, gearing up for a test flight that could launch as soon as this week... View Source

Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mushrooms can help people through it... View Source

As water risks are exposed by the Iran War and AI data centers, startup Atoco is preparing production of a device that can produce 4,000 liters daily. Katie Meyer has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Amanda Lynam, chief credit strategist at Goldman Sachs, says the scale of investment in artificial intelligence is forcing corporates to increasingly diversify their funding outside the US. She speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's part of yet another ambitious pivot for the UK car maker... View Source

iRobot upgrades its lidar-based robot vacuum line with eight new models. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its prior lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include hi... View Source

Telenor ASA agreed to sell a stake in its internet-of-things venture to Verdane Group as the telecommunications company overhauls operations to focus on the core Nordic business... View Source

The Helios platform is now available to customers through Quantinuum’s cloud service and on-premises offering. It has 98 Physical Qubits and 50 logical qubits with very low error rates. Launched Nov 2025, Quantinuum trapped-ion, Helios system is in a fully entangled GHZ state. They are fully error-corrected logical qubits at a ~2:1 physical-to-logical encoding rate ... Read more... View Source

Bain Capital and LY Corp. have submitted a joint offer to acquire Tokyo-listed Kakaku.com Inc., the $3.7 billion price comparison site operator fielding a takeover by EQT AB... View Source

DUBAI, UAE, May 11th, 2026, TechnologyWire OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced several milestones that together position the company as foundational security infrastructure for the agentic AI era: the deployment of a real-time zero-day tracking and disclosure system designed to notify affected organizations of active exploit activity; acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyb... View Source

Kevin Rose says Digg will introduce new topics in the future... View Source

Prosus NV is targeting $3.6 billion in revenue from Just Eat Takeaway.com in a year as it looks to boost efficiency in its European food-delivery business at a time of rapid consolidation in the sector... View Source

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The Reon Pocket Pro Plus delivers a 20 percent improvement in cooling performance over last year’s model. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The latest version is an upgrade to last year's Pro model, and while the new Reon Pocket Pro Plus isn't a complete overhaul of the hardwa... View Source

European companies have sold controversial surveillance technologies to countries known for violating human rights, a new report has found... View Source

Titan CFO, Ashok Sonthalia, says there could be a temporary slowdown in demand if the government implemented any measures to curb gold-buying. That's after Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, called on Indians to avoid buying gold for at least a year to preserve foreign-exchange reserves. Sonthalia appeared exclusively on Bloomberg's Insight with Haslinda Amin (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google has rolled out updates to make Gemini for Home faster and more useful... View Source

Risk appetite is returning to China’s tech sector, with margin lending, trading volumes and benchmarks all climbing back to highs thanks to growing bets that a recent rally will continue... View Source

Global equities have rallied to record levels, fuelled by euphoria over artificial intelligence. Investors' risk appetite has held up despite volatility in energy markets caused by the war in Iran. Bloomberg Markets Live Executive Editor Mark Cudmore and Bloomberg TV Markets Producer Anthony Stephens discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Australia’s financial crimes watchdog warned of a heightened threat of money laundering linked to artificial intelligence that has been used by crooks to scale up activities, automate processes and create fake documents... View Source

A South Korean policymaker has suggested paying citizens a “dividend” using taxes on AI profits, fueling sharp swings in Korean stocks. According to Franklin Templeton’s Christy Tan, such programs show that “Asian economies do want to provide a signal of ownership in the shared future that involves digitalization and AI.”... View Source

South Korea should pay all citizens a share of AI profits, a top policymaker has urged, as a labor dispute threatens to disrupt production at Samsung Electronics Co.’s chip division... View Source

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SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son has held talks about unveiling an ambitious French AI data center project with President Emmanuel Macron in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

OpenAI has launched a cybersecurity initiative called Daybreak, powered by GPT-5.5 and Codex Security... View Source

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Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Bank of America Securities' Jill Carey Hall, Brown Harris Stevens CEO Bess Freedman, Jeffries' Brian Tanquilut, Grain CEO & Founder David Grain, Cambria Investment Management's Mebane Faber, Hirtle & Co.'s Founder... View Source

Novo Nordisk A/S agreed to hand over an experimental therapy for Parkinson’s disease to a Mark Zuckerberg-backed AI startup to potentially speed its development... View Source

India is considering emergency steps to shore up foreign-exchange reserves, including curbing non-essential imports like gold and electronic goods, and hiking fuel prices, to help cushion the economy from the fallout of the Iran war, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said his stake in the ChatGPT maker is worth roughly $7 billion, making him one of the largest individual shareholders in the artificial intelligence startup... View Source

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OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher risk ones. Its launch comes just over... View Source

Grain Management CEO and founder David Grain discusses what's next for telecom and digital infrastructure. He sees real workloads absorbing infrastructure and says they're 'very' active in deploying capital. He speaks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adding significantly more detail means better future investigations into the universe's past... View Source

The company behind the robot lawn mower that ran me over has changed its tune. Yarbo now plans to completely remove the remote backdoor access that could have let bad actors reprogram the robot over the internet. Yarbo customers will be able to decide whether that feature even gets installed in the first place, co-founder Kenneth Kohlmann pledges to The Verge. Yarbo had already promised on Friday... View Source

Angi CEO Jeff Kip joins Bloomberg’s Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec to discuss the company’s latest earnings, AI efforts, and Angi’s outlook on the housing market.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In May, 2025, Trump’s Middle East tour (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE) where he brought 40+ executives including tech/finance heavyweights like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Boeing, Amazon, Blackstone, resulted in major announcements for the big CEOs. May 2025 Middle East Deals were announced on-site or within days. Massive investment pledges into the U.S. — ... Read more... View Source

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people "collaborate with AI the way we naturally collaborate with each other - they continuously take in audio, video, and text, and think, respond, and act... View Source

GitLab Inc., which makes software that helps developers on coding projects, said it is cutting jobs to free up money to spend on the market opportunity for artificial intelligence agents... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Cerebras’ increased IPO plans as the AI chipmaker and data center operator boosts its offering plans by one-third to as much as $4.8 billion. Plus, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire explains what drove the company’s first-quarter revenue and his vision of an agent-led future. And, Google researchers say they have uncovered the first-ever zero-day attack buil... View Source

Software company ServiceNow Inc. is looking to raise about $4 billion from a potential US high-grade bond sale tied to the software firm’s recent acquisitions... View Source

2 Min Read Nicholas Houghton: Engineering Crew Safety for NASA’s Artemis Missions Nicholas Houghton, right, supports crew suit-up operations during Underway Recovery Training 12, an end-to-end practice recovery run conducted at sea to prepare for Artemis II. Nicholas Houghton always dreamed of working at NASA and one day becoming an astronaut. Today, he helps design systems that keep crews s... View Source

Denise Paulonis, President and CEO of Sally Beauty Holdings, said that the beauty industry remains resilient to concerns around affordability as consumer remain consistent in buying beauty products that 'matter to them' like hair dye and nail accessories even if they are not replacing pricier items. Paulonis said that she remains optimistic about her company's growth as consumers explore new e-com... View Source

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The bear cases against Tesla are being defused and destroyed. Profit Margin Back Over 20% and Increasing. Car sales increasing in China and Europe. Car exports from China increasing. More margin from FSD. FSD TAM will double in Q3. 500,000+ quarterly car sales can finally happen. Robotaxi unsupervised making steady progress. Tesla Semi mass production ... Read more... View Source

The core stage for NASA's Artemis 3 rocket has been raised inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, and is awaiting engine integration... View Source

Microsoft Corp. targeted a $92 billion return from its large early investments in OpenAI, a landmark arrangement that helped usher in the current AI era... View Source

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Quera show 580 and 1156 logical qubits with neutral atom quantum computer simulations. April 2026 breakthrough (with Harvard/MIT) they shiow high-rate codes achieving over 50% encoding rate. They are using about ~2 physical qubits per logical qubit or better in simulations, with logical error rates in the teraquop regime. (e.g., 1,152 physical → 580 logical; ... Read more... View Source

If you’ve always liked the idea of the Philips Hue Go portable lamp but couldn’t justify the $100+ price tag, Govee recently released a much cheaper alternative, the Govee Table Lamp Classic, and it’s already receiving its first discount. Right now, you can pick the rechargeable smart lamp up at Amazon for $63.99 ($16 off), which makes it less than half the price of Philips’ portable smart lamp. G... View Source

Rezolve AI CEO Dan Wagner discusses the reason behind his company’s hostile bid for Commerce.com, including what he called an “embarrassing growth rate” by the takeover target. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Students from the United States Military Academy (West Point), dressed in safety gear, prepare to enter the mining arena with their robotic miner during NASA’s LUNABOTICS competition on May 24, 2022, at the Center for Space Education near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. More than 35 teams from around the U.S. have designed and built remote-controlled robots for the mining comp... View Source

Dury captured shooting stars glowing with the Milky Way from the remote Scottish Island of Skye... View Source

AI is set to have a profound impact on the workforce and productivity, but by how much and how quickly are still being debated and bet on by academics. Bloomberg’s Stacey Vanek Smith describes the $400 wager on the future of work. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Google Threat Intelligence Group said its proactive measures stopped a "mass exploitation event."... View Source

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX... View Source

There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?... View Source

Stablecoin issuer Circle says it’s moving closer to a future where AI agents can make financial transactions. The company saw a 20% revenue surge in its first-quarter, though net income declined amid volatility in cryptocurrency markets. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Fresh satellite images reveal volcanic heat melting snow around Russia's relentless Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula... View Source

In late April, Palantir - the software company that, in recent years, has perhaps become best known for its defense industry contracts and work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement - announced that it would be adding new products to its merch store. The latest offering was a cotton chore coat. At $239 and in bright blue and black options, the jacket looks like a standard offering that has, by... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. was sued by Santa Clara County, California, over allegations that the company “knowingly facilitates and profits from billions of scam advertisements” on its social networks, including Facebook and Instagram... View Source

This should make it easier to connect appliances to demand response programs... View Source

Apple now lets you have encrypted RCS conversations with Android users through the Messages app on iOS. As part of iOS 26.5, which was released on Monday, Apple added support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging in beta, meaning that Apple and Google can't see your messages while they're sent. With iOS 26.5, you'll see a lock icon and a small "Encrypted" message at the top of the chat to note wh... View Source

Carol Schleif, chief market strategist for Bank of Montreal, says the buildout of AI infrastructure is lifting a broad cross section of stocks, not just a handful of tech names. She speaks with Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Tianzhou 10 freighter delivered nearly seven tons of supplies to China's Tiangong space station early Monday morning (May 10), about five hours after launching atop a Long March 7 rocket... View Source

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, accusing the company of turning its back on its promise to remain ad-free and safe for kids. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, claims Netflix has "opened Texans' data for inspection by the same Big Ad Tech community it once criticized for exploiting users in this same way." In the lawsuit, Paxton claims Netflix drove up subscriptio... View Source

Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon... View Source

Jessica Noviskis, OCIO portfolio strategist at Marquette Associates, says market optimism is largely driven by strong earnings and the resurgence of the AI sector despite potential risks. "We are entirely pricing markets off of the good things that are happening," she said, "and ignoring the risks and the war and the potential for inflation and maybe rate hikes." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

New users will automatically have post visibility set to friends only instead of public... View Source

If your baby monitor looks something like this, it’s probably a Meari. | Image: Meari A baby's eyes peer directly into the camera lens. A kid with a striped shirt looks up, then away. A boy in a policeman's costume, a gold star on his chest. A messy bedroom that reminds me of my own daughters, with an unmade bunk bed, a little girl's hat and headband, and Hello Kitty plastered on the wall. One tho... View Source

Michael Burry, the investor made famous in The Big Short, is warning that the Nasdaq 100 Index is headed toward a dramatic reversal after a “parabolic” surge that has driven technology valuations to unsustainable heights... View Source

SpaceX has its second attempt to conduct a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the Flight 12 full stack vehicle (Booster 19 and Ship 39) today. First full stack of Starship V3 pic.twitter.com/l2s7U7ndCs — SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 9, 2026 Starship and Super Heavy V3 together at the Starbase launch pad for the first time pic.twitter.com/YGs81Ud5xB — ... Read more... View Source

The astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission that flew around the moon had to learn to describe their observations using language that would help lunar scientists gain a deeper understanding of the lunar environment. What they saw was a surprise to everyone... View Source

For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), "prominent cyber crime threat actors" were planning to use the vulnerability for a "mass exploitation event" that would have allowed them to bypass two-factor authentication on an unnamed "open-source, web-based system administration t... View Source

Mike Pyle, Deputy Head of BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why AI isn’t a bubble and how it’s  reshaping the global economy. He breaks down the short-term inflation hit vs. long-term productivity boom, and why traditional 60/40 portfolios are failing to diversify in an AI-dominated market. He also warns investors may be underestimating the economic r... View Source

The Little Green carpet cleaner can do more than just suck up unmentionable pet-created disasters. It’s great for getting out coffee stains, too. | Image: Bissell A big part of my job here at The Verge is to find deals on tech that readers will like. But in my personal life, I’m not spending anywhere near as much money on tech as I am on food, litter, and other supplies for our two cats. Sad, but... View Source

Mary Ann Bartels, chief investment strategist at Sanctuary Wealth, shares her long term outlook for stocks. She believes a secular bear market will kickoff the next decade after a nice rally over the next four years. She speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Florida's attorney general also opened an investigation into ChatGPT recently on similar grounds... View Source

SpaceX will launch a batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government this evening (May 11), and you can watch the action live... View Source

General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a proposed settlement filed on Friday, GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California drivers the ability to stop its OnStar service from collecti... View Source

OpenAI will acquire a consulting company to contribute to a new private equity-backed joint venture to help drive adoption of its artificial intelligence software across more businesses... View Source

NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir sits for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Sept. 23, 2025. This photo was chosen as one of the 2025 NASA Photographer of the Year finalists. Meir launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station in February 2026 with fellow NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Soph... View Source

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, too... View Source

Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol, which sends signals between the grid and the home, announced an agreement to work together. This should make it easier for connected appliances to participate in demand response programs (DR) and, hopefully, save you mo... View Source

Verizon Communications Inc. is tapping the US dollar investment-grade debt market as part of a push to refinance debt... View Source

The Nitro Rewards program also includes discounts on Logitech G and SteelSeries gear... View Source

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My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of my cofounders here at The Verge, and also just one of my very closest friends. I mention that because Joanna just left that lofty perch at The Journal to start her own media company called New Things... View Source

Security researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google said they believe a cybercrime group used artificial intelligence to create a hacking tool that can bypass defenses in a widely-used tool to administer computer systems... View Source

An M5.7 solar flare triggered radio blackouts over the Atlantic... View Source

Discord is announcing the launch of Nitro Rewards today, a new program for subscribers that bundles benefits from third parties like Microsoft, Logitech, and SteelSeries, into a Nitro subscription. The main addition is that Nitro members will now get a new starter edition of Xbox Game Pass at no extra cost. Xbox Game Pass starter edition, which leaked last month, allows PC and Xbox owners to downl... View Source

Fervo Energy Co., a geothermal energy developer, is seeking to raise as much as $1.82 billion in a US initial public offering, raising its target from $1.33 billion... View Source

Unencrypted files were downloaded from Steam and shared by pirates... View Source

While making history on the first human moon mission in more than 50 years, the Artemis 2 astronauts captured incredible pictures of our home planet... View Source

TikTok is preparing to roll out a paid, ad-free version of its app in the UK. The new subscription announced today will be available to users over 18 "over the coming months," according to TikTok's announcement and will cost £3.99 (about $5.40) per month. In exchange for that, TikTok will remove ads from the user's feed and promises to not use their data for undefined "advertising purposes."... View Source

Chinese e-commerce giant Shein and rival Temu have swapped legal blows at the start of a UK trial that’s expected to shine a light on the world of ultra-fast fashion... View Source

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Wordle could be the next great game show. NBC has greenlit a game show version of The New York Times' popular puzzle game, and it's set to debut in 2027 with Savannah Guthrie as the host. The show will be produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio "in partnership with" Jimmy Fallon's production company and the NYT, according to a press release. Here's an overview of how the new "fast-pace... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. increased the size of its initial public offering, now seeking to raise as much as $4.8 billion, as demand for the artificial intelligence chipmaker and data center operator’s shares continues to build... View Source

Venmo is starting to test a big redesign of its app, and as part of the changes, it will be implementing a major new privacy measure: the onboarding process for new users will set their posts to only be viewable by their friends by default instead of being public. It's a notable update for a platform that has struggled with privacy in the past. In 2021, BuzzFeed News tracked down President Joe Bid... View Source

Retail traders largely sat out a record-setting advance in chip stocks in April. Now they’re diving in just as worries mount that the group’s rally may be losing steam... View Source

It's the first time an ad-free subscription has been offered in an English-speaking country... View Source

The US tech firm, UAE partner G42 and the Kenyan government appear at an impasse... View Source

Microsoft is currently testing a new speed boost feature in Windows 11 that is designed to improve app launch times and make things like the Start menu feel more responsive. The feature, which is reportedly called "Low Latency Profile," will ramp up CPU frequency in short bursts to improve the speed of menus, flyouts, apps, and more - much like how macOS handles similar tasks. Windows 11 testers h... View Source

The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers... View Source

Germany’s largest defense company and its biggest mobile phone carrier plan to jointly develop a defense shield against drones and acts of sabotage to protect critical infrastructure in their home country... View Source

Wise Group Plc is making its trading debut in the US with a Nasdaq listing as the financial technology firm tries to take advantage of a larger stock market and its legions of investors... View Source

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a multi-ringed crater with a central peak... View Source

The full version of Playground Games' upcoming Forza Horizon 6 has leaked online over the weekend and has already been cracked by pirates. The download appeared on file sharing sites after some Steam users were allegedly able to obtain access to an unencrypted preload version of the game. Forza Horizon 6 isn't supposed to launch until May 19th on Xbox Series S / X and PC, but cracks to bypass onli... View Source

Grace Peters, global investment strategy co-head at JPMorgan Private Bank, discusses artificial intelligence investment, inflation risks and portfolio diversification. "We want to be in there for the equity bull market that we still see ahead, but we do think that there's still portfolio resilience that needed to be added to capitalize on some of these trends," Peters tells Bloomberg Television. (... View Source

You might think this looks like a phone at first glance, but it isn’t — it’s a mouse that’s folded in half. | Images by Logitech / shared by WinFuture Logitech is reportedly developing a new wireless mouse that folds in half to make it easier to carry around in a bag or pocket. According to leaked marketing images shared by WinFuture, Logitech's foldable mouse caused "22 percent less muscle strain... View Source

Amazon.com, Inc. is preparing to issue Swiss franc bonds for the first time, as Big Tech hyperscalers turn to new debt markets to fund artificial intelligence spending... View Source

Turkish mobile gaming startup Grand Games Oyun ve Yazilim AS raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital’s Growth Fund, as investors continue to pour money into Turkey’s fast-growing gaming industry... View Source

Africa’s growing gambling use is sapping income that would ordinarily be flowing into groceries, entertainment and mobile phone bills... View Source

A $3.5 billion multi-asset fund at Pictet Asset Management has sharply raised its equity exposure, shifting as much as 30% of its cash-equivalent holdings into artificial-intelligence heavyweights across Asia and the US... View Source

Prosus NV is selling a 5% stake in Delivery Hero SE to Aspex Management, according to an e-mailed statement on Monday... View Source

Emerging-market equities rose on AI trades as investors brushed off concerns over stalled peace talks between the US and Iran... View Source

South Korea’s military is exploring a strategic partnership with Hyundai Motor Co. to potentially deploy robotics to the front lines as Seoul accelerates investment in AI-powered, unmanned systems to tackle a deepening troop shortage... View Source

Situated between the much brighter Leo and Libra, Virgo is well placed for observation in the northern spring monthsThe constellation of Virgo, the virgin, is particularly well placed for observation during the northern spring months. Virgo is one of the fainter zodiacal constellations, meaning it sits on the imaginary line in the sky that is followed by the sun, moon and planets.It is situated be... View Source

South Korea and Taiwan’s artificial intelligence-fueled chip booms are set to swell both economies’ trade surpluses and pressure their central banks to raise interest rates later this year... View Source

In this episode of Merryn Talks Money, Merryn Somerset Webb speaks to Tom Slater, manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and partner at Baillie Gifford, about his provocative paper, “AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job. It’s Coming for Your Mind,” and why the real risk may be a world that looks more productive while quietly losing the judgement, learning and expertise that make progress possible... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s mobile unit said it plans to begin large-scale battery cell manufacturing at its Sakai, Osaka plant to address growing power demand for AI services... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its targets for South Korean stocks for the second time in less than a month, citing improvement in the semiconductor cycle, corporate governance reforms and industrial-sector growth... View Source

Alphabet Inc. is planning to issue yen bonds for the first time in a move that may help fund investments as artificial intelligence competition intensifies... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares plunged the most in three months after the company forecast hardware and software sales declines, a sign that the Switch 2 has yet to create a self-sustaining demand cycle... View Source

Running a software upgrade on a fridge feels strange, but these are the times we live in... View Source

Clinicians will be able to see users' health data... View Source

It’s already raised over $700,000 on Kickstarter. | Image: Bastl Make no mistake, the Bastl Kalimba is a synthesizer, you just play it like a kalimba. Its tines don't really make much sound. There is an internal mic that you can blend in for a little acoustic spice, but it's mostly driven by the synth engine that combines physical modeling and FM. The tines are actually touch and velocity-sensitiv... View Source

A new deal with Authentic Brands is seen by some employees as the beginning of the end... View Source

General Motors collected driving data through OnStar and sold it to data brokers... View Source

The singer accused the tech giant of illegally using her likeness to sell TVs... View Source

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple could introduce Organize Tabs feature with the next major software update... View Source

Subnautica 2 will be available in Early Access on May 14... View Source

The changes are meant to improve legibility issues with lists and text-heavy areas... View Source

I can’t wait for a proper full length. | Image: Blitzcat Records I've got to thank my oldest friend and concert buddy, Tim, for turning me on to this one. Ashnymph is a London band that blends post-punk melodies with Krautrock rhythms and industrial grime. Their debut EP, Childhood, drifts between dreamy vocals buried in layers of reverb and four-on-the-floor dancefloor pounding. It's a thrilling... View Source

The desk-friendly Cricut Joy 2 comes in multiple colors. | Photo: Sheena Vasani / The Verge I've always been skeptical of products that claim to help you lead a more creative life. But one recently won me over. I've spent three weeks with the Cricut Joy 2, a smart cutting and drawing machine that made it easy for me to get back into making stickers, cards, bookmarks, and more. The small $99 gadget... View Source

Also: The latest on iOS 27 and the truth about the Vision Pro... View Source

'Designing something new as a creator is incredibly exciting, but at the same time, it’s an extremely challenging endeavor.'... View Source

Substack, the once buzzy newsletter platform, is losing a new swath of writers to rival platforms most people haven't heard of. Just last month, The Ankler, one of Substack's most popular publications, left for a platform that gives it more control over its site. Others who have departed Substack within the past year voiced similar complaints and cite the platform's increased focus on social featu... View Source

A major Microsoft Corp. data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government over the company’s request for guaranteed payments, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Every year, Filipinos working overseas send $35 billion back home — and a growing share of those transfers are being executed using stablecoins. The blockchain technology promises to make cross-border payments cheaper and nearly instantaneous, offering an alternative to traditional remittance channels. But even though the opportunity could be huge, stablecoins remain a tiny part of the globa... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Netflix, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Boggle has become a spectator sport in my household. Everyone crowds around the TV while one of us plays, and the crowd either helps shout out words or wa... View Source

The X300 Ultra is mostly let down by its rather dull design. A few months ago, I wrote that the telephoto camera is the only lens that matters any more, at least when it comes to Ultra-class flagships. As phones got better, cameras became where manufacturers tried to stand out. As cameras got better, telephoto lenses became the next point of focus. The most recent Ultra phones from Xiaomi, Oppo, a... View Source

From volcanic landscapes and a sunset eclipse to six-minute totality, here are the pros and cons of the next two total solar eclipses... View Source

South Indian film star C. Joseph Vijay’s party secured support of smaller parties to reach a majority and form the government in Tamil Nadu, one of India’s most industrialized states and a key hub for automobile and iPhone production... View Source

Malaysia is studying actions to be taken against Meta Platforms Inc. for failing to curb fake accounts involving the country’s Malay rulers, Bernama reported, citing Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil... View Source

Banking groups are floating last-minute changes to a compromise on stablecoin yield as a key Senate panel begins considering a landmark digital asset bill... View Source

The space agency is planning to put astronauts on the moon in 2028... View Source

The startup has expanded to more than 230 cities across the world, but has yet to become profitable... View Source

The German automaker said it would refocus on its "core business."... View Source

SpaceXAI has launched a multi-billion dollar business that will let them make $100 billion in 2027 and trillions by 2030. Huge sustainable profits that will be many multiples of Amazon and Coreweave. XAI renting 300MW to 445 MW of colossus 1 data center. Dedicated AI data centers rent for ~2 to 2.4 X the cost ... Read more... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice to allow software and firmware updates until January 2029... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

The 360 Vis Nav impressed us with its exceptionally powerful carpet-cleaning performance. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge. If you’re tired of running your vacuum multiple times just to get the dirt and debris out of the carpets in your living room, Dyson’s 360 Vis Nav is worth a look. It’s one of the more powerful robot vacuums currently available, and now through May 11th (or while s... View Source

Discover the tales behind four famous spring constellations... View Source

The Trump family media group posted a net drop of $405.9 million in the first quarter, largely driven by unrealized losses in cryptocurrencies held by the company... View Source

On Episode 209 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Garrett Reisman and Steve Lindsey, the leaders of the new organization Astronauts for America... View Source

And just like that, Mother’s Day is tomorrow, May 10th, which is too soon for most online purchases to arrive in time. That said, you aren’t alone if you waited too long to pick up a gift this year, and you definitely aren’t alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something your mom can unwrap. But here’s the thing: digital gifts can still unlock memorable experiences, be... View Source

Central banks must review the resilience of financial infrastructure given the rise of artificial intelligence, as well as defend their role as the ultimate guarantor against risks posed by stablecoins, said European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá... View Source

Kenya plans taxes on mobile phones and banking fees to help raise nearly $1 billion in revenue in an effort to trim the nation’s fiscal deficit to its lowest in a decade and tackle debt challenges... View Source

It's the best Mortal Kombat film yet... View Source

Voyager, the iconic twin spacecraft that NASA launched in 1977, are still flying in interstellar space. But their power is dwindling, and it's unclear how much longer they can last... View Source

Water gets all the credit. When gaming companies want to show off new graphics technology, things tend to get wet; splashing waves that are only possible with the latest physics engine, or puddles that can reflect the world around them thanks to ray tracing. But there's something special about snow. It might not be as technically impressive as water, but when it comes to creating a mood in a game,... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 127, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, my Scorpion challenges your Sub-Zero to a duel, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Hasan Piker and lines and David Sacks and sleep learning, catching up on Andor (for me) and Young Jedi Adventures (... View Source