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NASA A thin sliver of Earth’s edge is brightly illuminated against the vast darkness of space in this April 3, 2026, image taken during the Artemis II mission. Artemis II was the first crewed flight in a series of missions to test NASA’s human deep space capabilities, paving the way for future lunar surface missions. See more imagery from the Artemis II mission. Image credit: NASA... View Source

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter's moon Thebe... View Source

The 2027 BMW iX3 is now available in the US, and its starting price my surprise and delight fans of the Bavarian automaker. The iX3, which is the first vehicle built on BMW's next-gen Neue Klasse platform, starts at $62,850 including shipping, which is about $5,000 less than the equivalent gas-powered BMW X3 M50 xDrive (starting price $67,850). US customers can start configuring their vehicle now... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies were already unpopular before the billionaires started fighting in court... View Source

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3 Min Read NASA-Supported Small Spacecraft Launches to Study Solar Particles The Solar Neutrino Astro-Particle PhYsics (SNAPPY) CubeSat launched at 3 a.m. EDT (12 a.m. PDT) on Sunday, May 3, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenburg Space Force Base in California. Credits: SpaceX Through NASA, a university-designed small spacecraft is paving the way to studying... View Source

The Fitbit Air can be preordered today and will be available starting May 26th. | Image: Google It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbit Air and my wrist, where I'm wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double? But as my press briefing went... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Thursday launched the Fitbit Air, a $100 screenless fitness band aimed squarely at taking on Whoop Inc. and other makers of health and fitness wearables that forgo displays... View Source

It's basically a small Fitbit Inspire without a strap... View Source

Members of NASA’s CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) mission 2 pose for a group photo. (From left to right: Ellen Ellis, Ross Elder, James Spicer, and Matthew Montgomery) Credit: NASA The four crew members of NASA’s Mars simulation recently marked 200 days into their 378-day Red Planet mission on May 7. Currently, the crew is in a simulated two‑week loss‑of‑signal period that... View Source

A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Mars... View Source

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it through their AI of choice to create audio summaries and personal podcasts, this lets you save them right alongside the latest episode of The Vergecast and Welcome to Night Vale on Spotify. To set it... View Source

The shares of Datadog Inc. surged by the most in more than six years after the software developer raised its full-year outlook for sales and earnings, far exceeding Wall Street’s expectations... View Source

The Bean isn’t wireless so you’ll need to pair it with a USB cable. | Image: Ploopy Ploopy has announced another open source mouse alternative that skips touchpads and trackballs. While the new Ploopy Bean looks like a tiny travel-friendly mouse, you don't need to move it around. Instead, surrounded by four buttons is a red pointing stick similar to the TrackPoint that IBM included on its ThinkPad... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the leading challenger to Nvidia Corp. in AI computing chips, soared to a record in early trading after a flood of data center spending bolstered its sales forecast. Second-quarter revenue will be $11.2 billion, plus or minus $300 million, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That compares with an average analyst prediction of $10.5 billion, according to data compi... View Source

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics... View Source

The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts hosted the Dreame Next 2026 Tech Summit last week. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Hundreds of influencers, media folks, and a few C-list celebs (sorry, Woz) filled the cavernous halls of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts last week. They were assembled for Dreame's launch event, ostensibly into both America and a much bigger ecosystem of products... View Source

Brazil’s lower house approved a bill to regulate the exploration of critical and strategic minerals, a step toward realizing the potential of the nation’s vast reserves as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva prepares to meet Donald Trump... View Source

It makes it easier to record yourself from afar with the higher-quality rear cameras... View Source

BlackRock Inc. cut the value of its publicly-traded private credit fund by about 5%, as it struggled under the weight of troubled loans, markdowns and lower returns... View Source

The EliteBoard sure will make some IT managers out there happy, though... View Source

About 346,000 U.S. visitors — roughly the equivalent of the population of Honolulu, Hawaii — came to Florida's Space Coast during the Artemis 2 launch campaign... View Source

Billionaire pays $1.5 million in settlement over disclosures of Twitter stock purchases... View Source

Before he became NASA administrator in 2018, Jim Bridenstine was a naval aviator who then served as a US representative from Oklahoma for three terms, sitting on the Committee on Armed Services. Now, five years after leaving NASA, Bridenstine is returning to those military roots. This week, Bridenstine was named chief executive of a Maryland-based company building "advanced maneuverable spacecraft... View Source

Peloton Interactive Inc. raised its guidance for the full year, suggesting that a turnaround fueled by new commercial offerings and upgraded equipment is on track... View Source

A year before Bob Lee was killed, San Francisco recalled its progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin, in a campaign heavily funded by venture capitalists. They rallied around fear of crime... View Source

Planned job cuts continued to mount in the US technology sector last month, bringing the year-to-date total to a three-year high even as overall private-sector layoff announcements receded... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Students from Cornell University are shown working with an air transportation management tool in which a real drone flying over a remote field thinks its operating with imaginary drones flying in a simulated urban environment. Their work is the result of a NASA grant that is part of the agency’s University Student... View Source

Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. said a “small number of roles” in Singapore will be impacted as it phases out local fulfillment including Amazon Fresh in the city-state... View Source

India is being viewed as lagging the global AI trade as investors prioritise chips, compute and infrastructure. Ruchir Sharma explains how low R&D spending and exposure of software and outsourcing jobs are weighing on sentiment. He also outlines potential positives, including strong nominal GDP growth, a valuation reset opportunity, and the chance for India to benefit later as AI adoption shif... View Source

Two Indian conglomerates are looking to spend nearly $1 billion to build domestic capabilities in electric-vehicle and battery technologies, people familiar with the matter said, reflecting a growing urgency on the part of the country’s biggest companies to reduce their reliance on Chinese technology... View Source

The game, from the creators of Yakuza, will focus on the founder of the Tojo clan... View Source

Kembara, a technology growth fund backed by the European Union, made its first investment, supporting a British startup that builds quantum computers running on silicon chips... View Source

The feature would allow users to get into a safe position or call for help... View Source

Fabio Bassi, head of cross-asset strategy at JPMorgan, discusses market sentiment as global equities rose on optimism that the US and Iran were nearing a deal. "The AI upstream theme is a critical diver of the dynamic of the equity market," Bassi tells Bloomberg Television. He adds that despite the oil supply shock in response to the situation in the Middle East, the message from earnings is still... View Source

Silex Microsystems AB surged in its first day of trading on Nasdaq Stockholm after an initial public offering that raised about 2 billion Swedish kronor ($220 million) for the specialist microchip-maker and its Chinese shareholder Sai MicroElectronics Inc... View Source

A mishandled blacklisting of tech giants Alibaba and Baidu gives a rare window into an administration often at odds with itself on how to approach Beijing... View Source

Short on sleep but flush with new funds, the head of Australian data center operator NEXTDC Ltd. has a message to investors: You snooze, you lose... View Source

Andreessen Horowitz has led a $16 million funding round for Pit, an artificial intelligence startup based in Sweden... View Source

China’s early lead in humanoid robots will help power the next phase of its global manufacturing and export dominance, according to new research from Morgan Stanley... View Source

Skyroot Aerospace Pvt. has become India’s first space-tech unicorn after securing $60 million in fresh funding from GIC Pte and Sherpalo Ventures, lifting its valuation to $1.1 billion... View Source

The torrid stock rally in Asian chipmakers is driving a divergence between China’s two internet giants, with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. gaining an edge over rival Tencent Holdings Ltd. due to investor enthusiasm about its ambitious semiconductor unit... View Source

Moonshot AI has raised about $2 billion in its latest funding round, signaling growing investor appetite for Chinese startups rivaling Silicon Valley’s leaders... View Source

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said the US government would refrain from choosing winners and losers in artificial intelligence, the latest signal from a top aide to President Donald Trump as his administration prepares new AI policy directives... View Source

A water-soluble battery binder developed by Hong Kong-based GRST enables battery recycling with less pollution and greater recovery of critical metals, the company's chief strategy officer, Frank Harley, said in an interview at the BloombergNEF Summit New York on April 22, 2026. The firm "is making the first stage of recycling a lot simpler," Harley said. Hong Kong-based GRST is "working with seve... View Source

Chinese households picked up their pace of spending over the recent Labor Day extended holiday weekend, according to preliminary figures economists are assessing for a turnaround from a disappointing March... View Source

Montage Technology Co. has overtaken Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. as the most expensive dual-listed stock in Hong Kong relative to its mainland shares, propelled by surging demand for AI chips... View Source

South Korea’s equity market has overtaken Canada’s as the world’s seventh largest, propelled by insatiable demand for chips powering artificial intelligence... View Source

GameStop Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Cohen is raising money to help pay for his proposed $56 billion takeover of eBay Inc., one pair of socks at a time... View Source

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC, which originally aimed its Claude chatbot at businesses, is looking to capitalize on recent inroads with consumers by making the software more appealing to everyday people... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Eldridge CEO Tony Minella, JPMorgan Asset Management’s Jed Laskowitz, Charlesbank CEO Michael Choe, Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, Milwaukee Brewers Principal Owner Mark Attanasio, Bruin Capital CEO George Pyne, Former Wells... View Source

The Ultimate Child Shield batteries also turn the victim's mouth blue... View Source

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk's children, was… what's the best way to characterize this? A Musk advisor? She denies she was a "chief of staff" but says she worked for Musk's "e... View Source

Singapore’s lawmakers unanimously passed a motion affirming that the country will not have jobless growth amid the artificial intelligence transition, CNA reported... View Source

The reimagining of the N64 game offers a more cinematic take... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sits down with Tim Stenovec to talk the US-China moon race, vying with SpaceX for top talent and navigating Capitol Hill. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sits down with Big Take Podcast guest host Tim Stenovec to talk the US-China moon race, vying with SpaceX for top talent and why there’s probably alien life out there. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NAS Ames Science Directorate Stars of the Month: May 2026 Portrait photos of the NASA Ames Stars of the Month for May 2026. Pictured left to right: Lora Jovanavić, Tammy Moore, Frances Donovan, and Jaden Ta. The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Lora Jovanavić, Tammy Moore, Frances Donovan, and Jaden Ta. Their commitment to the NASA... View Source

It turns out Fox McCloud's appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surprise announced the first new Star Fox game in two decades. The game is called, simply, Star Fox, and it's out very soon, launching on June 25th. Nintendo says that it's "based" on the classic space shooter Star Fox 64, but with redesigned characters and upgraded visuals. Essential... View Source

Fortinet Inc. shares rose as much as 24% in post-market trading after the cybersecurity company raised its full-year revenue outlook above expectations, following its largest billings expansion in over three years... View Source

The planned AI search feature for Snapchat never fully rolled out... View Source

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. ... View Source

Elon Musk at one point considered recruiting Sam Altman to serve on Tesla Inc.’s board of directors, jurors were told Wednesday at the trial over the feud between the two titans of artificial intelligence... View Source

Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent... View Source

Tesla now has at least 38 unsupervised robotaxi. Austin is up to 27 unsupervised, which is over half of the 53 robotaxi. The count from robotaxitracker is likely only 70% or less of the actual based upon how many Waymo vehicles have been confirmed out of 200 expected vehicles. Tesla FSD 14.3.2 is rolling out ... Read more... View Source

By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the process... View Source

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology voyaged to other Google products." Google first revealed Project Mariner in... View Source

A group of banks led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expected to shoulder paper losses of more than $500 million on a debt deal for software firm Qualtrics International Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Range operators at the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range at NASA’s Armstong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, provide voice and tracking support to the International Space Station. In this Friday, Dec. 6, 2025, photo, Alex Oganesyan, left, and Deming Ingles are at their workstations, where they support communi... View Source

The Pentagon awarded a $500 million contract to Meta Platforms Inc.-backed Scale AI to help sift through data and assist in decision-making, the latest step in the US military’s effort to rely more on artificial intelligence... View Source

AI and Crypto Czar David O. Sacks speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education at the White House. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You rea... View Source

Bloomberg's Allison McNeely joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." Blackstone and KKR are in talks with Alphabet to give the companies they own access to Google’s artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

1 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Aerial view of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility main base in Wallops Island, Virginia.Courtesy of Patrick Hendrickson To facilitate discussion and information sharing on activities at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, a public information session is being held 4–6 p.m., Wednesday, May 1... View Source

Charlesbank Flagship Managing Partner, CEO & Co-Head Michael Choe discusses going ‘back to basics’ in private equity and the opportunities facing middle-market investors. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. Original filename: 20260506_184408_Interview_of_Michael_Choe_on_Software_Stress_and_PE_Reset.mp4 (Source... View Source

AI responses now also recommend in-depth articles and links to sources you already subscribe to... View Source

1 Min Read test article Teams are evaluating how to train for lunar surface operations during Artemis missions, in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA... View Source

Space Rider, a novel spacecraft concept from the European Space Agency, is passing key milestones in its tests and qualifications to bring the vehicle to flight readiness... View Source

The black and white versions of the latest Tile Pro is $10 off, marking its best price of the year. | Image: Tile If you’re struggling to find a Mother’s Day gift under $30, location trackers are a good investment, helping mom keep tabs on keys, bags, luggage, and other valuables. The latest Tile Pro is one of the best on the market, and it’s on sale for $24.99 ($10 off) at Amazon and directly fro... View Source

Bloomberg's Spencer Soper joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Deals." GameStop is trying to buy eBay for about $56 billion in cash and stock, a bold attempt by Ryan Cohen to take over a storied e-commerce name several times larger. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The gothic horror-inspired action-adventure game from the makers of Shovel Knight maker is almost here... View Source

If you’re looking to indulge mom this Mother’s Day, a gift that makes her feel a little more taken care of is a good place to start. Fortunately, if you’re looking for something to make her feel pampered, we know a thing or two about beauty tech, which can deliver on that front. Some of the options below let your mom achieve professional-level results at home, including high-end tools that re-crea... View Source

Apple will let users choose from a range of outside AI services to power features across its software, according to sources. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman explains how this builds on a strategy to turn its devices into a comprehensive AI platform. He joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is also interested in SpaceX's planned orbital data centers... View Source

XAI gets to about breakeven by renting half of their AI Data center and Anthropic can serve its models and more money and can get to a better IPO. Both get to IPO before OpenAI. Both stronger against OpenAI. OpenAI IPO is hurt. Anthropic is already at pre-IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion. SpaceX XAI will ... Read more... View Source

Two Russian satellites got within 10 feet (3 meters) of each other recently, demonstrating a sophisticated set of orbital maneuvering skills... View Source

We’ve been reading your feedback on the new homepage. All of it. The kind and encouraging comments, the brutal ones, the “actually this rules,” the “please undo this immediately,” the bug reports, the feature ideas, and yes, the eternal request for dark mode. We appreciate it. A lot of you took the time to share detailed, thoughtful reactions right after launch, and that kind of feedback is useful... View Source

The biggest US power grid needs a revamp to cope with the unprecedented surge in electricity demand stemming from the data-center boom, said Chief Executive Officer David Mills... View Source

Around 170 roles are said to be affected... View Source

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI's legal department determined a new AI model did not need to go through the company's deployment safety board. "As you understand it,... View Source

A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month... View Source

Pitney Bowes CEO Kurt Wolf told Bloomberg Open Interest that his company is seeing strength in the economy despite global uncertainty, with consumers remaining strong and businesses continuing to invest in the future. Plus, he shares insights into Pitney Bowes’ turnaround and potential strategic moves. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DeepMind will research player behavior in the space-based RPG... View Source

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft supporting NASA’s SpaceX CRS-33 mission approaches the International Space Station on Aug. 25, 2025, for an automated docking to the Harmony module’s forward port. Credit: NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting 7:16 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 12, for the next launch to deliver science, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This will be the... View Source

A new recipe of dark matter that interacts with itself could be the solution to three separate and vastly different cosmic puzzles... View Source

SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Texas, according to a filing with Grimes County... View Source

Microsoft revealed last month that it's planning to offer long-serving employees in the US the ability to voluntarily retire. While the terms of the buyout were supposed to be announced to employees tomorrow, sources at Microsoft tell me the company has posted them on its internal HR website a little earlier than expected. US employees whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70 o... View Source

The astronauts flying aboard the Artemis II mission to the Moon last month took a lot of pictures, and a few dozen of the best ones were released during and shortly afterward the flight. But it wasn't until last weekend that NASA released the whole trove of more than 12,000 images, dumping them onto the Gateway to Astronaut Photography. The astronauts used three different cameras on the mission: a... View Source

Coded language helps avoid moderators, researchers say... View Source

Komplete is a complete music production bundle even if you don’t spend $2,000. | Image: Native Instruments The latest version of Native Instruments' Komplete music production bundle is here with 62 new additions, including the wonderfully weird Absynth 6. Komplete 26 comes in several flavors, starting with three $99 Select bundles: Beats, Band, and Electronic. Prices jump pretty steeply from there... View Source

Apple is set to revamp Siri and will let users choose from a range of outside artificial intelligence services to power features across its software, building on a strategy to turn its devices into a comprehensive AI platform. Mark Gurman explains (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In 2011, Thor proved himself more than worthy in his roaring MCU debut. Since then, the thunder has turned into laughter... View Source

The Nutribullet Chill won’t demand as much counter or storage space as other ice cream makers. | Image: Nutribullet For the past few months, I've defiantly walked past the Ninja Creami at Costco as I think about our air fryer, toaster oven, breadmaker, rice cooker, and stand mixer already vying for limited counter space. Nutribullet's new Chill ice cream maker could finally break my resolve with i... View Source

Technology companies are selling bonds anywhere they can to help pay for their gusher of spending on artificial intelligence, according to Matt Brill, head of North America investment-grade credit for Invesco. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It feels like not a day goes by at the moment without some Xbox news, and today is no different. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma just announced that Xbox owners will get a new boot up sound and animation on May 13th. The console boot animation is the new Xbox logo, complete with a slight twist on the existing boot-up sound. Microsoft first revealed its new Xbox logo last month, and the company has already re... View Source

Google has proposed changes to how it displays news results across its search engine in a bid to avoid adding to its €9.5 billion ($11.2 billion) running total of European Union competition fines... View Source

There's no opt-in, and the file reappears if deleted... View Source

A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the early universe in recent years.NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; adapted by K. Arcand & J. Major A new “X-ray dot” found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory – which could look like this artist’s illustration released on April 28, 2026 – could explain what the hundr... View Source

Jun Aslan and Phaedra share a quiet chat in Archetype Entertainment's latest Community Update... View Source

Scooping cat litter isn’t hard, but scooping after each and every litter box use can get annoying. The Litter-Robot 4 self-cleaning litter box is worth considering, not just because it’s one of the best-performing models, but because its accessory bundle is currently available for $799 ($60 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. The last time this deal came around was in early January. Litter-Robot 4 Supply... View Source

The White House is looking into an executive order that would create a vetting system for new artificial intelligence models like Anthropic PBC’s Mythos in a bid to protect business and government networks from AI-related cyber risks, a top economic adviser said Wednesday... View Source

This artist’s concept shows an isolated neutron star as an ultra-dense stellar remnant, packing more mass than the Sun into a city-sized sphere and radiating energy as it slowly cools in the depths of space. NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will search for, and could measure the mass of, isolated neutron stars using astrometric microlensing.NASA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astro... View Source

Nikon's new Action 7x50 binoculars: A good buy for astronomy novices... View Source

Was I writing with pen and paper, or a stylus on a tablet? It’s getting more difficult than ever to tell.  The Remarkable Paper Pure is a follow-up to 2020’s Remarkable 2 and a couple of premium color E Ink tablets. As with Remarkable’s first two digital notepads, the Paper Pure features a black-and-white E Ink screen that sacrifices lighting for writing. The screen’s textured finish feels mo... View Source

SOC Investment Group, an adviser to union-affiliated pension funds, is urging US regulators to probe SpaceX’s financials ahead of a Wall Street debut that could value the company at more than $2 trillion, citing concerns over its relationships with Elon Musk’s other ventures... View Source

Cryogenic engineer Adam Rice tests the Lunar Environment Structural Test Rig at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to simulate the thermal-vacuum conditions of the lunar night on Thursday, May 22, 2025.NASA/Jef Janis As NASA looks to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond, researchers must develop materials capable of withstanding the extreme temperatures found in space and on other planets and... View Source

Providing good luck to the first Martian to find it... View Source

Blink’s new doorbells offer up to 2K video resolution. | Image: Blink Amazon-owned Blink has two new video doorbells, the Blink Wired Doorbell 2K+ for $49.99 (according to the Amazon listing) and the Blink Battery Doorbell 2K+ for $69.99 (or $79.99 bundled with a Sync Module). The doorbell cameras join Blink's 2K camera lineup announced last fall, and also work with Blink's smart video description... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s debt issuance in Europe and Canada underscores Big Tech’s relentless drive to find funds anywhere to pay for the industry’s stampede into artificial intelligence, according to Matt Brill at Invesco... View Source

Good night, sweet prince. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It's not the Mini, it's me. Nearly five years after it launched, the 13 Mini is still the best phone ever made. That hasn't changed; it's just that I changed. And as painful as it is to admit this, after using it again for a couple of weeks, I think it's time to put my iPhone 13 Mini to rest. The Mini is an underdog. An outlier. It's a we... View Source

On this episode of Bloomberg Primer, we explain how companies and governments are rethinking where chips are made... View Source

From desert badlands to hilltop villages, these off-the-beaten-track locations offer clear views of Spain's rare sunset total solar eclipse... View Source

Want real human feedback related to your search results? Google’s AI now fetches it for you. | Image by Google / The Verge Google is updating its AI Search features to make it easier for users to find information from sources they know and trust. One of the more notable changes introduces "a preview of perspectives" from firsthand sources like social media, Reddit, and other web forums, effectivel... View Source

Wall Street banks are getting ready to raise billions of dollars taking data center companies public, even after IPO investors have already piled into anything that looks like a bet on artificial intelligence spending... View Source

Remarkable announced a new paper tablet today - albeit one without the advanced color screen found in its recent Paper Pro and Paper Pro Move tablets. The new Remarkable Paper Pure instead features an upgraded version of the black-and-white E Ink display found in the Remarkable 2 that launched over six years ago, and once again skips any screen lighting. Thanks to the new display and under-the-hoo... View Source

AI isn’t ready to replace your fund manager — and the public experiments testing it are showing why... View Source

It's consciously designed to appeal more to corporate buyers... View Source

The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolved over billions of years... View Source

The safer coin batteries are available in 2032, 2025, and 2016 varieties. | Image: Energizer Energizer has announced a new line of lithium coin batteries it claims are the world's first to eliminate the risk of ingestion burns if swallowed. Its Ultimate Child Shield line includes three sizes available starting today - 2032, 2025, and 2016 - that are commonly used in devices like remotes, wearables... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. provided a better-than-expected forecast for bookings, signaling that robust demand from US commuters and travelers will offset impact from geopolitical tensions in the Middle East... View Source

There's an obvious conflict between business and ordinary users... View Source

Microsoft's LinkedIn CEO, Ryan Roslansky, took on an expanded role at the company as head of Office last year, and he's now getting more responsibilities as part of the latest leadership reshuffle inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that the Microsoft Teams organization is moving to report to Roslansky, who will now lead a new Work Experiences Group at Microsoft. The changes are part of a broader re... View Source

With shares on their worst streak in a decade, investors signal displeasure... View Source

From AT-TEs to Baby Yoda, save big with these last-minute Star Wars Day deals, before they disappear into hyperspace... View Source

Earlier this year, after a tumultuous period serving as the former second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino went back to what he is perhaps known best for: video podcasting. After Bongino exited the role in January, he began promotion for the return of his podcast, The Dan Bongino Show. He bought out a billboard in Times Square in New York; he dropped teaser videos for his first new episode in mo... View Source

Hut 8 Corp., a cryptocurrency miner that is shifting to developing artificial intelligence data center capacity, has signed a lease worth at least $9.8 billion over 15 years to provide computing power to a “high-investment-grade company.”... View Source

Saudi Arabian venture capital firms are pressing ahead with fundraising and deployment as they navigate disruptions from the regional conflict... View Source

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall to Earth faster... View Source

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage are now discovering that Chrome is installing a 4GB weights.bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI featu... View Source

Toby Neugebauer, the ousted leader of Fermi Inc., is calling for a special shareholder meeting on May 29 to expand the nuclear data-center developer’s board and elect himself and several additional directors... View Source

Thailand approved 958 billion baht ($29 billion) of investment projects, led by TikTok System (Thailand) Co.’s planned expansion of data infrastructure as the country pushes to become a regional hub for artificial intelligence and cloud services... View Source

Billionaire Nvidia Corp. director Mark Stevens and his wife Mary are gifting $200 million to the University of Southern California to advance AI research and education across the school... View Source

Semiconductors power modern technology, from AI to everyday devices. Now, global tensions and rising demand are forcing the chip supply chain to adapt. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Uber and Nuro plan to start fully autonomous testing later this year... View Source

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks with Vietnam President To Lam in New Delhi on Wednesday, with the two Asian nations looking to strengthen economic and defense ties while tensions persist in the Middle East... View Source

Its parent company Aylo says age-verified iOS users in the UK will now be able to fully access the adult website... View Source

Hyundai Motor Co.’s robotics unit released a video showing its production-ready Atlas humanoid robot performing complex gymnastics, marking a first-of-its-kind live demonstration that could signal the machine is nearing commercialization... View Source

Insight with Haslinda Amin, a daily news program featuring in-depth, high-profile interviews and analysis to give viewers the complete picture on the stories that matter. The show features prominent leaders spanning the worlds of business, finance, politics and culture. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s main chip-sector investment fund is in discussions to lead a fundraising round for DeepSeek at a valuation of about $45 billion, the Financial Times reported, citing people with knowledge of the talks... View Source

Infineon Technologies AG forecast revenue that beat analysts’ expectations in the current quarter as the German chipmaker benefits from a spending boom on artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Some bondholders to Lumen Technologies’ Qwest Corp. unit have organized with law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell after the enterprise network giant kicked off a debt swap that would remove their lender protections, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Guggenheim Partners Executive Chair Alan Schwartz warned that the US risks falling behind in artificial intelligence development if it fails to address critical infrastructure challenges facing the nation’s electrical grid... View Source

Anthropic has unveiled a set of new artificial intelligence agents designed to handle a broader mix of financial services tasks, part of the company’s push to win over Wall Street. Bloomberg's Avril Hong reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Match Group Inc. reported first-quarter revenue that beat analysts’ estimates as a decline in Tinder users moderated, suggesting its turnaround strategy is resonating with younger daters... View Source

Stack Infrastructure Inc., a data center company owned by Blue Owl Capital, is considering options including a sale of its Asia operations, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. has reached a $1 trillion market valuation following booming demand for its chips used in artificial intelligence. Bloomberg's Sangmi Cha reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Super Micro Computer Inc. shares leaped in extended trading after the company reported improved margins and gave a profit forecast that suggested it’s controlling the costs of getting powerful AI servers into customers’ hands... View Source

Coupang Inc. warned revenue growth will slow this year after a bigger-than-expected March-quarter loss, reflecting the extent to which a historic cyber-intrusion is depressing spending across South Korea’s biggest online retail platform... View Source

CDC Data Centres is forecasting a surge in earnings over the next three years after agreeing Australia’s largest data center contract, stoking the value of its largest holder Infratil Ltd... View Source

One is a TTRPG, and the other an entirely new video game... View Source

Christina Minnis, Goldman Sachs global head of the Alternatives Origination Group, discusses the transformative impact of AI on both private and public markets during an interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The feature is also coming to desktops soon... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. has reached a $1 trillion market valuation after booming demand for chips used in artificial intelligence saw the world’s largest memory maker’s stock more than quadruple over the past year... View Source

The virtual event will showcase some of the biggest changes to the OS in years... View Source

Beijing’s veto of the Meta-Manus deal has shaken the AI industry. What this means for Chinese startups aiming for the global stage... View Source

OpenAI is deploying GPT-5.5 Instant to all users starting today... View Source

Beijing blocked Meta’s $2 billion Manus deal. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, we discuss what the fallout means for Chinese AI startups with global ambitions. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Activision Blizzard seems to be focusing on next-gen platforms... View Source

"There's a lot of attractive opportunity to invest," Pimco CEO Emmanuel Roman says while discussing data center financing and the company's debt deal pipeline at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Make and mod your own accessories if you've already got the gamepad... View Source

Oaktree Capital Management cut the value of one of its private credit funds by almost 4% as the firm marked down its software assets... View Source

This five-year deal is one of many circular agreements keeping the AI sector afloat... View Source

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Advanced Micro Devices gave a strong forecast for the current period while Super Micro Computer shares gained in extended trading after the company reported improved margins. Michael Shepard reports on "Balance of Power: Evening Edition." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The proposed settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit filed in California... View Source

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant's ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better at handling recurring and all-day events and allow users to "move around" up... View Source

Billionaire Nvidia Corp. director Mark Stevens and his wife Mary are gifting $200 million to the University of Southern California to advance AI research and education across the school. USC President Beong-Soo Kim details how the donation will be used on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The AI assistant is no longer coming to consoles and will be removed from the Xbox mobile app... View Source

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Mexico City is one of the fastest subsiding cities in the world, dropping by up to 14 inches every year... View Source

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence features. The proposed settlement would apply to people in the US who purchased all models of the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15 Pro between June 10th, 2024 and March 29th, 2025. The settlement will resolve a 2025 lawsuit, alleging Apple's adve... View Source

Courts may restrict access to the popular abortion medication mifepristone in the United States. Telehealth providers have backup plans in place... View Source

SVP founder and CIO Victor Khosla says the concerns about software stocks are warranted. Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Khosla details why he is worried about the credit market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

European law requires large platforms to offer alternative feeds... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-biggest maker of computer processors, gave a strong forecast for the current period, showing that it’s cashing in on the flood of AI spending... View Source

Both remakes were already released on Steam and the macOS App Store... View Source

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You could spend hours scrolling through the thousands of photos just released by NASA from the Artemis 2 moon mission... View Source

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third-party chatbots to power its AI features system-wide in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all expected for this fall. In addition to running Siri, compatible third-party AI models, called "Extensions,"... View Source

Thoma Bravo is model agnostic when it comes to AI models and has relationships with OpenAI and Anthropic as well as Google, says the company’s managing partner Seth Boro. Boro discusses AI cybersecurity and deployment costs with Bloomberg’s Dani Burger at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

iPads and Macs are also expected to embrace external options for generative AI... View Source

A video captured by a newly launched SpaceX Starlink satellite shows us what it's like to zoom above our beautiful blue planet... View Source

Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team - where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox - to the Xbox side of the company. Sharma, on X: Xbox needs to move faster,... View Source

The CEO who helped define the meme-stock era has proposed a brash, unsolicited $56 billion offer for the online commerce company. Cecilia D'Anastasio has more (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

State investigators found a chatbot that claimed it had a medical license and could write prescriptions... View Source

After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists on those project teams. These volunteers made incredible contributions like: Spotting comets, gamma-ray bursts, and brown dwarfs in data collected by space telescopes.  Observing a... View Source

Software shares continue to feel the impact of AI uncertainty, with news coming out about job cuts at PayPal and Coinbase as well as disappointing commercial sales from Palantir. Lauren Webster, managing director in the technology investment banking group at Piper Sandler, discusses the market moves with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company also updated Gemini for Home for those in an early access program... View Source

A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is now available for people to learn while showing their artistic side. The book, titled “Journey Through the Heliosphere: The Sun-Earth System in Color,” has twenty-eight, 11”x14” pages, and includes science facts and coloring pages for ten themes, including the Sun’s... View Source