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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

Nearly a year after rolling out Threads direct messaging to everyone on mobile, Meta is finally bringing the feature to the web. Meta says it's "testing" DMs on the web now, but plans to make the feature "available to more people soon." In your DM page on the web, you can see your inbox and message requests. Like on mobile, you can also choose to let anyone DM you or just people you follow. The co... View Source

CoreWeave Inc. has secured lower borrowing costs on a first-of-its-kind $3.1 billion loan backed by customer contracts for microchips, benefiting from strong investor demand for artificial intelligence exposure... View Source

Well, that was fast... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock PIA26723 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Curiosity Rover Frees Its Drill From a Rock GIF (50.56 MB) PIA26723 Figure A GIF (48.45 MB) PIA26723 Figure B GIF (50.24 MB) De... View Source

A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star... View Source

In terms of pricing, the original AirPods Max remained stubbornly high even years after their debut, which made them hard to recommend over the Bose QC Ultra or Sony’s XM series headphones unless you were an Apple die-hard. The AirPods Max 2, however, have been out for just over a month, and we’re already seeing a $40 discount at Amazon and Best Buy, bringing the price down to $509 across all five... View Source

Bloomberg's Emily Nicolle joins Isabelle Lee and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Crypto exchange Coinbase will cut around 14% of its workforce, citing a need to manage costs in volatile markets and technological advances in artificial intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The class action suit concerns unauthorized scraping by Llama AI... View Source

5 min read NASA Research Shows Early Life Relied on Rare Metal Timeline of Earth’s history in billions of years. The new study indicates that life used molybdenum as far back as 3.3 to 3.7 billion years ago, long before levels of molybdenum in the oceans increased to modern levels. Other events in Earth’s history are marked for context. NASA NASA-funded scientists have discovered that life on Eart... View Source

Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the process of creating a believable but striking lunar adventure... View Source

Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and moving Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox, Sharma is now reorganizing the Xbox platform team at Microsoft today. The changes will see some veterans depart, promotions, and new faces with more... View Source

Apple Inc. 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... View Source

This is the upgraded smart assistant's debut on a non-Amazon device... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Chris Williams calls down to mission controllers during Crew Medical Officer training while inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module.Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir Students in Florida will hear from NASA astronaut Chris Williams as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineeri... View Source

Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon... View Source

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on h... View Source

Steven Mnuchin, founder of Liberty Strategic Capital and former US Treasury Secretary, says he supports the proposal released by the Securities and Exchange Commission that will allow US companies to choose to report earnings semiannually. Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Mnuchin also comments on the economic impact of AI, the conflict in Iran, the f... View Source

CEO Brian Armstrong blamed a downturn in crypto markets... View Source

1 Min Read NASA’S Juno Misson Captures Jupiter Moon Thebe PIA26751 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’S Juno Misson Captures… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’S Juno Misson Captures Jupiter Moon Thebe JPEG (152.30 KB) Description NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second... View Source

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly co... View Source

Crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc. will cut around 14% of its workforce, citing a need to manage costs in volatile markets and technological advances in artificial intelligence. Around 700 employees will be affected by the changes, with cuts expected to happen mostly in the second quarter, and the company expects to incur as much as $60 million in restructuring expenses. Bloomberg's Paul Gulbber... View Source

It's another stacked lineup, with Mixtape also among the games joining Microsoft's subscription service... View Source

America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 5, 1961.NASA On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. Over the next 15 minutes, Shepard ascended to an alt... View Source

Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want to debut it in 2027... View Source

Astronaut Alan Shepard, May 5th, 1961. | Photo by Photo12 / UIG / Getty Images On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in bacon, scrambled eggs, and orange juice), strapped into the Freedom 7 rocket, and blasted off into space, becoming the first American astronaut to do so. Shepard's historic flight - and the first c... View Source

Citadel’s former Chief Technology Officer Umesh Subramanian is joining private investment firm Motive Partners, where he will lead its artificial-intelligence push. Subramanian and Motive's founder Rob Heyvaert speak to Bloomberg's Dani Burger at the Milken Global Conference. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The spinoff will be playable on PS5 and PC via Steam... View Source

Still fresh off its recent $375 million jury verdict against Meta, New Mexico attorney general Raul Torrez's office began arguing for even greater asks in the second phase of a landmark trial. On Monday, an attorney for the state, David Ackerman, pressed the court for a $3.7 billion abatement plan that would require Meta to fund programs for mental health providers, law enforcement, and educators... View Source

Anthropic PBC 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... View Source

Form Smart Swim 2 LT loses the heart-rate monitoring, keeps the rest... View Source

Want a Star Wars vehicle that can't be taken down with a bit of string? Loaded with extras, this imposing Clone Wars-era Lego Star Wars AT-TE Walker set is $28 off... View Source

It’s clearly a looker. | Image: Telepathic Instruments The Telepathic Instruments Orchid has been unavailable for a few months now. But a new batch is ready to drop on May 5th for $649, and the company is celebrating with a limited edition clear Orchid: Arctic, which will cost slightly more: $699. The Orchid was designed in part with Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, and it draws inspiration from chord... View Source

Wall Street securities dealers and money managers are increasingly relying on algorithms to execute even the biggest corporate-bond trades, the latest sign of movement toward electronic trading in a $12 trillion market that was long one of the biggest holdouts... View Source

The company is also expanding its teen account detection systems to Facebook... View Source

There are three pipelines operating now to take oil around the Hormuz blockage. The East-West Crude Oil Pipeline (Petroline) in Saudi Arabia, and the UAE’s ADCOP pipeline and the Iraq Kirkuk–Ceyhan (Turkey) Pipeline. The Iraq Turkey pipelin is at an initial ~250k bpd but could ramp over the next month or two to 400k-650k bpd. ... Read more... View Source

OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. As reported by MacRumors, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming OpenAI is "fast-tracking" it and aiming to start mass production in early 2027. According to Kuo, the phone will run on a "customized version of the [MediaTek] Dimensity 9600," which is expected to lau... View Source

Enter, a Brazilian AI legal startup, has tripled its valuation to $1.2 billion in a new round of funding, vaulting it into the upper ranks of artificial intelligence companies in Latin America... View Source

It's Lego Batman's origin story, balancing his greatest hits with some new gameplay upgrades... View Source

A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas the size of Jupiter, less massive than stars. There’s one for every three or four stars near the Sun.  Although brown dwarfs are common, they... View Source

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is the new CEO of Quantum Space, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft for use by the U.S. military and commercial operators... View Source

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." C... View Source

Duke Energy’s CFO Brian Savoy joins Bloomberg Open Interest to break down a strong earnings beat and explains why the company isn’t raising guidance yet. He reveals how AI data center demand is reshaping the power grid. He says the real edge is Duke's  “speed to power” strategy that gets customers online years faster while managing grid strain. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Commerce Department will use the access to conduct security evaluations... View Source

Cambridge, MA, 5th May 2026, CyberNewswire... View Source

The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer - which is plenty of time for a lot of tastes, politics, and gas prices to change. That's one reason car manufacturers are so enthusiastic about the potential for AI to help speed up certain parts of the process, from model-making to wind-tun... View Source

Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine is joining Quantum Space, a startup developing maneuverable spacecraft for defense missions, as chief executive officer, the company said on Tuesday... View Source

The Galaxy A37 isn't the the flashiest device, but it's got solid components and a sturdy design for a reasonable price, which is all we can really ask for... View Source

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission... View Source

It's a big year for Remedy Entertainment. Last year was marred by the ill-fated launch of the multiplayer shooter FBC: Firebreak, which was so disastrous it led to former CEO Tero Virtala stepping down from his position. Now, with the much-anticipated sequel Control Resonant slated for later in 2026, the studio's new boss Jean-Charles Gaudechon - who took over in March - is offering some reassurin... View Source

Italian cable maker Prysmian is scouting the market for a potential acquisition, Chief Executive Officer Massimo Battaini told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. Potential targets could be similar in size to Encore Wire — acquired in 2024 — with an enterprise value of around €4 billion ($4.68 billion). Battaini spoke on "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" on Bloomberg TV. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

DeepMind workers in the UK have voted to unionize... View Source

Bose Corp. announced a trio of products under a new “Lifestyle Collection” that’s intended to meld the company’s audio technologies and innovative engineering with elegant hardware, pitting it against familiar rivals like Sonos Inc. and Apple Inc... View Source

The new speakers will be available May 15... View Source

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks in the early hours of May 6... View Source

The new Bose Ultra Speaker can be used individually, as a stereo pair, or as the rear speakers in an Atmos setup. Last Thursday, in a staged home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I sat on a couch that was a bit too low and a tad too deep in front of a small, beige-colored smart speaker sitting on the middle of a trio of arched midcentury storage cabinets. On either side of the smart speaker sa... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to give the US government early access to their artificial intelligence models to assess the systems’ capabilities and help improve their security before the technology is released to the public... View Source

Bill Smead says he’s not sure where GameStop will find the money... View Source

Facebook and Instagram have a new way to detect and remove users under 13: AI bone structure analysis. In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta - Facebook and Instagram's parent company - says its AI system will scan photos and videos posted to its platforms for "general themes and visual cues," including height and bone structure. "We want to be clear: this is not facial recognition," Meta says in the blo... View Source

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is coming off its best month in the stock market since the dot-com era, and with the chipmaker’s first-quarter earnings due after the bell, investors will get a chance to see whether its shares have gotten ahead of its fundamentals... View Source

Italian cable maker Prysmian SpA is scouting the market for a potential acquisition of about $4 billion enterprise value, Chief Executive Officer Massimo Battaini said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday... View Source

After Artemis 2, NASA's moon return hinges on two unproven commercial landers, each of which faces major technical and timeline challenges... View Source

Staffers at Google DeepMind's headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm's technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union be recognized as joint representatives, with 98 percent of CWU members at DeepMind voting in support of the mo... View Source

"It was actually pure dumb luck," said Tom Sisto of the successful search for an organic compound that would eventually form the basis of his company's flow battery. Sisto is the chief executive officer and co-founder of XL Batteries, a firm with a bold goal to help "store one third of the world's electrons". He spoke in an interview at the BloombergNEF Summit New York on April 22, 2026, touching... View Source

Microsoft is finally giving up on showing the junk feed of MSN news when you open the widgets feature in Windows 11. After allowing Windows 11 users to disable the MSN feed more than two years ago, Microsoft says it will soon hide it by default as part of an effort to make widgets "quiet by default." "We're working to make Widgets feel less distracting and overwhelming by making the experience qui... View Source

Shares of Star Sports Medicine Co. in their Hong Kong trading debut on Tuesday, extending a run of strong listings in the city in recent months as investors showed that appetite for Chinese stocks extends beyond companies linked to artificial intellgence... View Source

Apple is concerned about its lack of supply chain flexibility... View Source

GameStop Corp. is trying to buy eBay Inc. 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... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing a new “Create a Pass” feature for its next major iPhone software update, allowing users to build and customize their own digital tickets and gift cards within the Wallet app... View Source

Key Nvidia Corp. partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a 29.7% increase in April revenue, underscoring persistently strong spending on hardware essential for AI... View Source

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman testified that his stake in the startup is now worth almost $30 billion, prompting an attorney for Elon Musk to ask why he had not donated the bulk of his earnings to the ChatGPT maker’s nonprofit foundation... View Source

Alphabet Inc. has kicked off its latest megabond deal as it returns to the euro market just months after selling nearly $32 billion of dollar, sterling and Swiss franc-denominated notes... View Source

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde’s push to speed up plans for a digital euro is part of a broader geopolitical effort for independence and autonomy, where the bloc is less reliant on others and can reduce exposure to major economies like the US and China. Bloomberg's Anna Irrera reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple has held exploratory discussions about using Intel and Samsung to produce the main processors for its devices in the US. According to people familiar with the deliberations, Apple had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting the company's chipmaking services. Apple executives also made visits to a Samsung plant under development in Texas. The move would offer a secondary option beyond lo... View Source

The upcoming video game is expected to be one of the biggest entertainment releases of all time... View Source

Janus Henderson CEO Ali Dibadj says the firm is “energized” about the Trian deal, which will allow for investment in technology and AI to improve performance. He also talks about plans to launch US ETF products in the global market. He speaks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Disruptions caused by artificial intelligence are threatening private credit firms’ potential recovery rates in the software sector, according to Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP chief investment officer Tony Yoseloff... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Ahuachapán and Its Restive… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. raised its revenue outlook for the year and beat analyst forecasts, offering a bullish forecast for a polarizing company at the nexus of debates over data, surveillance and artificial intelligence-enabled warfare... View Source

Shares of Star Sports Medicine Co., a maker of medical devices, surged as much as 204% in their Hong Kong trading debut on Tuesday, extending a run of hot first-day performances in the city... View Source

Apple Inc. has held exploratory discussions about using Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. to produce the main processors for its devices, a move that would offer a secondary option beyond longtime partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co... View Source

Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO at Starwood Capital Group, discusses the company's business strategy and investing in AI and data centers. He speaks with Romaine Bostick from the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. granted Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke stock options estimated to be worth $132.4 million in 2031 if the company meets annual performance goals... View Source

Grab Holdings Ltd. reported first-quarter profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates, helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery in a Southeast Asian market rattled by economic and political challenges... 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 Man Group CEO Robyn Grew, Goldman Sachs’ Marc Nachmann, Allspring Global Investments CEO Kate Burke, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn, BlackRock’s Joe DeVico, eMed CEO Linda Yaccarino & Fmr. NFL Quarter... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is working on a financing package for a data center in El Paso, Texas, that could total roughly $13 billion, underscoring Big Tech’s growing reliance on debt to bankroll the infrastructure behind the AI boom... View Source

Starlink supplier projects 100M starlink high speed internet terminals 2028 and 200 million 2030. This is inline with my projections from last week based on looking at customers and price points. I divided up countries into high speed internet subscription tiers. And I have project may ten Starship launches in 2026 and 100 in 2027 ... Read more... View Source

We still don't know when Valve will launch the Steam Machine, but we may not have to wait too long. Valve just imported roughly 50 tons of "Game Consoles" into the United States in the two-day period between May 1st and April 30th, according to import records viewed by The Verge. That's on top of the "ton" of shipments that Valve watcher Brad Lynch mentioned late last week - and there's reason to... View Source

ServiceNow Inc. projected it would generate $30 billion of subscription revenue in 2030, attributing the strong outlook to traction from its AI products... View Source

When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high scho... View Source

Alvarez & Marsal wants to generate 50% of its revenue from artificial intelligence work by 2028, which would represent as much as $3.5 billion in earnings... View Source

Citadel’s former Chief Technology Officer Umesh Subramanian is joining private investment firm Motive Partners, where he will lead its artificial-intelligence push... View Source

Pinterest Inc. shares jumped almost 20% in extended trading after the company reported first-quarter sales that topped analyst estimates, and gave an outlook for revenue in the current period that was higher than anticipated... View Source

Last year, the SEC sued Elon Musk over the way his acquisition of Twitter (now X, and a part of SpaceX) started, and today it announced a settlement that looks like a massive bargain, while Musk's own lawsuit against Sam Altman continues to play out. A week before the Trump administration took over, the department had alleged that by not disclosing he'd purchased more than $500 million in Twitter... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses GameStop's $56 billion offer to buy eBay, a company four-times its size. Plus, AI chipmaker Cerebras is looking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in its upcoming IPO. And, OpenAI raises more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that aims to help businesses adopt its AI software. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Musk did not admit wrongdoing... View Source

Morgan Stanley Co-President Dan Simkowitz discusses current market conditions, AI financing, and a solid dealmaking backdrop fueling a 'resurgence' in M&A. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A working group could vet new models before they're publicly released... View Source

Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke, T.D., 3rd from left, signs the Artemis Accords during a ceremony with Chief of Staff in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs William Cappelletti, left, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, and Ambassador of Ireland to the United States of America Geraldine Byrne Nason, right, Monday, May 4, 2026, at the Mary W. J... View Source

In conversation with Space.com, the new Planetary Society CEO talked about the fight to restore NASA's funding again 2027... View Source

Sonos Inc. shares climbed after reporting revenue that jumped 8% and said that it is filing for tariff refunds totaling $40 million that could help counterbalance rising memory costs... View Source

4 Min Read NASA Fosters Development of Lunar Resource-Seeking Technologies Earth sets at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. Credits: NASA To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such as hy... View Source

BNY CEO Robin Vince discusses the impacts of AI on business, including product improvement, operational efficiency, and providing cost cutting for clients. He talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Keep those private conversations truly private... View Source

The European Union is in talks with Anthropic PBC about getting its companies and banks tested for any vulnerabilities that the new Mythos AI model uncovers... View Source

During a high-volume deluge test on the new Orbital Launch Pad 2 one of the methalox gas generators that supplies high-pressure nitrogen for the deluge system exploded. The explosion sent roof panels and debris flying. There was the target launch of May 12 for the 12th SpaceX Starship flight. This could be delayed by 1-2 ... Read more... View Source

Thoma Bravo brands itself as the world’s largest software-focused investment firm. And it’s only looking to get bigger in the space... View Source

Catch the stream the day after Summer Game Fest's 2026 showcase... View Source

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly analyzed the surface of a distant super-Earth, revealing a dark, airless, Mercury-like world... View Source

US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner discusses affordability and government efforts to cut regulation. He speaks with Bloomberg Balance of Power co-host Joe Mathieu from the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

They are like pets, but without all of that pesky love... View Source

SwitchBot’s Bot Rechargeable can be attached to pretty much anything with a button, including monitors. | Image: SwitchBot If you want to give mom something that helps lighten the load, the SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable makes for a great, inexpensive gift. And now through May 10th, you can buy it for around $26.99 ($7 off) from Amazon and SwitchBot (with code FORHER20) as a part of its ongoing Mother... View Source

Crypto-focused investor Haun Ventures has raised $1 billion across new funds. CEO Katie Haun discusses the firm’s expansion into AI investments and opportunities in the agentic finance sector. She speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Credit: NASA The Republic of Malta became the 65th signatory to the Artemis Accords on Monday during a ceremony in the town of Kalkara with NASA and U.S. Department of State officials present. “Today, it’s my pleasure to welcome the Republic of Malta to the Artemis Accords community,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said in recorded remarks. “By joining this growing coalition, Malta affirms shar... View Source

Watch Eta Aquarid meteors streak across the sky live from observatories and sky cams around the world... View Source

The CEO who helped define the meme-stock era has proposed a brash, unsolicited $56 billion offer for the online commerce company... View Source

Tesla has added another 7 unsupervised robotaxi in Austin, Dallas and Houston. There are hundreds parked and ready to be added. This is likely an undercount because the crowdsourcwed robotaxitracker.com miss over half of the supervised vehicles for Tesla and Waymo. Just getting Dallas and Houston to the Austin level with population and other adjustments ... Read more... View Source

US transportation stocks plunged Monday after Amazon.com Inc. announced expanded logistics offerings that will turn it into a major competitor for parcel carriers and air freight companies, and also impact truckers and third-party brokers. Bloomberg's Lee Klaskow joins Bloomberg Intelligence to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The traffic management sim will include the new area later this year... View Source

Students had the opportunity to practice their science communication skills during the poster session portion of the Findings from the Field Symposium, held in Portland Maine. On March 30, 2026, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and the NASA Science Activation program’s Learning Ecosystems Northeast (LENE) project hosted the third installment of the Findings from the Field Student Resear... View Source

Does the cancellation of 'Starfleet Academy' suggest that lean times are ahead for 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars'?... View Source

Google's next round of Pixel phones could be a downgrade compared to the Pixel 10 lineup due to the ongoing RAM shortage. Leaked specs for the Pixel 11 lineup shared by MysticLeaks include a possible starting configuration with only 8GB of RAM, rather than the current 12GB, as Android Headlines reports. According to MysticLeaks, Google may also add a second configuration for the Pixel 11 Pro, Pro... View Source

Julie Ask, a tech futurist and advisor specializing in consumer behavior, discusses the robust demand for Apple products among the company's affluent customer base. She highlights that despite broader market challenges, high-income consumers remain eager to purchase key Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

However, students reported improvements in overall well-being in later years... View Source

Environmental testing of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander has been completed inside Thermal Vacuum Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander funded by Blue Origin as a commercial demonstration mission to advance Human Landing System capabilities in support of NASA’s Artemis program. The tests in in Chamber A repre... View Source

The first “Familiar” from Colin Angle’s new startup, Familiar Machines & Magic, is a robot that is designed to live in your home and interact autonomously with family members. | Image: Familiar Machines and Magic Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people's homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc.’s John Zito argued private credit is the safer place for investors to be even as the rise of artificial intelligence is dramatically shifting the environment for “the whole ecosystem of investing.”... View Source

A bright waning gibbous moon may wash out this week's Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak — but early risers could still catch a few shooting stars... View Source

May the Fourth be with us all on this Star Wars Day. While things have been relatively quiet with the multimedia gold mine that is Star Wars, with just some murmurs about upcoming movies (The Mandalorian and Grogu excluded), a lone live-action show on the horizon, and a long way to the release of the Fate of the Old Republic game, it’s nevertheless a day to celebrate the franchise. And by that, I... View Source

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $1.75 billion in a US initial public offering, offering investors the chance to capitalize on a surge in building artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker and the PHANGS-HST Team In this new picture from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump). As a nearby spiral galaxy, this target offers astronomers an excellent opportunity to study the cyc... View Source

Strategic Value Partners founder Victor Khosla expects years of elevated defaults in credit markets and is preparing to take advantage of opportunities created by greater dispersion among private credit managers... View Source

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the attention of local galaxies... View Source

Amazon might have a part in delivering all kinds of stuff to your door soon, as its massive shipping network opens up to other companies outside its marketplace, more directly competing with giants like DHL, UPS, and FedEx. The new Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) will offer freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping to businesses "of all types and sizes," including Protcor & G... View Source

European finance ministers are pressing Anthropic PBC to let local companies see the new Mythos AI model so they aren’t exposed to digital attacks and fall behind US peers... View Source

Tune in Wednesday for a closer look with the game's developers and cast... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Record-Setting Retreat of… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble:... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. It’s become something of an annual tradition to have Dara join us in the studio when he comes to New York for Uber’s big GO-GET event every year, and it’s always a lot of fun. The big news this year is that Dara is really starting to think about Uber as a much larger platform for travel — starting with the ability to book hotels in the Uber app,... View Source

Katie Haun, a former Andreessen Horowitz general partner and federal prosecutor who made her name investigating digital assets before investing in crypto startups, has raised $1 billion for new venture funds... View Source

4 min read For NASA’s TESS, Stellar Eclipses Shed Light on Possible New Worlds A study of NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data on stellar pairs undergoing mutual eclipses has uncovered more than two dozen candidate exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system. This method allows the mission to locate planets it couldn’t otherwise detect.  A gas giant planet looms in the foregr... View Source

Looking like a scene out of "Star Wars," this image shows the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) beaming four separate lasers into the sky towards the Tarantula Nebula... View Source

We've crossed yet another one of Elon Musk's self-driving thresholds. Tesla's fleet of vehicles using the company's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system has driven over 10 billion miles, according to the company's updated safety page. That means the company has crossed the line Musk set earlier this year for "safe unsupervised" driving. But Tesla owners did not suddenly wake up today to find thei... View Source

Elon Musk messaged OpenAI President Greg Brockman two days before the start of his courtroom showdown against the artificial intelligence startup to gauge the ChatGPT maker’s interest in settling the case, according to a legal filing... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center helped complete prelaunch testing of the Laser Geodynamic Satellite (LAGEOS). LAGEOS was the first satellite devoted exclusively to laser ranging studies.NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center On May 4, 1976, a spacecraft resembling a disco ball entered orbit almost 3,70... View Source

GameStop has made an offer to acquire eBay for $56 billion, which comes as part of GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen's plan to transform the online marketplace into a "legit competitor to Amazon," he tells The Wall Street Journal. In an announcement on Monday, eBay says it will "carefully review" the unsolicited proposal, adding that it had "no discussions with or outreach from GameStop" before receiving th... View Source

Anthropic PBC is partnering with Blackstone Inc., Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to form a new company that will bring artificial intelligence to a broad group of midsize companies... View Source

The company is encouraging accounts that frequently post Gen AI content to use the feature, but isn't requiring it... View Source

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks this week, but will you be able to see it?... View Source

Hisense didn’t wait to reduce the UR9’s price by over 40 percent. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge The Hisense UR9 - the first RGB LED TV to be released this year - is now available for much less than originally revealed. The 65-inch UR9 is now $1,999, while the 75-inch model is $2,999 and the 85-inch is $3,999. (There's no updated price yet for the 100-inch.) That's between $1,500 and $2,000 off... View Source

OpenAI has raised more than $4 billion for a new joint venture that will focus on helping businesses adopt its artificial intelligence software, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source

Homebridge, the popular software solution that allows you to integrate non-HomeKit devices like Ring cameras into Apple Home, is adding support for the Matter smart home standard. Today, May 4th, Homebridge 2.0, which has been in beta for over three years, officially launches. Along with other improvements, the update brings the "initial groundwork for Matter support," according to a post on the r... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. heads into its first-quarter earnings with something to prove to investors: That it’s been wrongly caught up in the selloff that has gripped software stocks for months... View Source

Star Wars superfan and YouTube sensation Zach King recreates the seminal 1977 sci-fi film using cardboard... View Source

The app’s rapid-fire auctions are inspiring customers to spend big, for better or worse... View Source

The first to sign up are P&G, 3M, Lands' End and American Eagle... View Source

From Japan to Turkey, celebrate Star Wars Day with this global collection of original trilogy posters... View Source

The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda... View Source

Warnings about various risks to humankind are a typical part of the billionaire’s rhetoric... View Source

On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years... View Source

Some state healthcare sites sent personal information — location, race, immigration data — to TikTok, Meta and other big tech companies. Experts say existing privacy laws aren’t enough... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in an initial public offering, as the artificial intelligence chipmaker and data center operator looks to counter rivals in the red-hot sector... View Source

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, gobbling up gas and spitting out stars with a furious intensity. A new model helps explain why things were so different back then... View Source

GameStop is proposing to buy eBay for about $56 billion in cash and stock, offering $125 per share in cash and stock for the online marketplace, or about a 20% premium to its Friday close. Neil Campling reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A new study shows the mechanisms of how coffee modifies the microbiome, reduces inflammation, and influences mood. Even decaf has its perks... View Source

Strong US corporate earnings led by a buoyant tech sector are overshadowing fears that the Middle East conflict could weigh on stocks, according to strategists at Morgan Stanley... View Source

Since Mayor Brandon Scott first took office in 2020, he's fixated on a very visible problem in Baltimore: the tens of thousands of vacant homes that dot the city. It's hard to build new houses when there are so many that sit empty and unused. And the process of tracking down owners, convincing them to sell their vacant properties, and then converting those homes into usable housing supply is a tal... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. shares’ recent underperformance against SK Hynix Inc. may intensify as a looming workers’ strike weighs on South Korea’s most valuable company versus its rival chipmaker... View Source

Best seen before dawn, the shower will reach its peak on the night of 5–6 MayThe Eta Aquariid meteor shower bursts upon the skies this week, reaching its peak on the night of 5–6 May.Best seen before dawn, the chart shows the view looking east from London at 4am on 6 May. By this time, the shower’s radiant point will have climbed into the south-eastern sky. Continue reading... View Source

Singapore Airlines Ltd. said it will begin rolling out a Starlink broadband service on its flights from 2027, with the system promising faster connectivity than its existing inflight offering... View Source

Australia’s stock exchange operator warned businesses not to exaggerate the impact of artificial intelligence on their operations, saying it monitors the market for instances of so-called ‘ramping’ up of share prices... View Source

On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke SkywalkerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAstronomers have discovered 27 new potential planets that orbit two stars, like the fictional desert planet Tatooine from the Star War... View Source

Brendan Carr doesn’t need Disney to cancel Jimmy Kimmel to declare victory... View Source

Those affected will see their PlayStation Network accounts automatically credited... View Source

The Wall Street Journal reported that the offer could come as soon as this month... View Source

RIP to the original AI search bot... View Source

NASA astronaut Chris Williams photographed a fireball from above recently, capturing the stunning site from aboard the International Space Station... View Source

It's not playable, but it's still pretty cool... View Source

The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 come in a variety of colors, including a traditional black hue. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge If you’re looking to pick up a pair of open-ear headphones for yourself — or your mom — Shokz is running a Mother’s Day sale. Now through May 10th, the company’s best pair of bone conduction headphones, the OpenRun Pro 2, are available from Amazon, Best Buy, and Shokz for ar... View Source

Way back in the DS days, Nintendo decided to stop selling to Amazon. During a recent lecture at NYU, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé said it was because Amazon was seeking preferential treatment that would have hurt its relationship with other retailers, and potentially broken the law. The two sides have since made amends, and you can buy a Switch 2 through Amazon. But... View Source

Lego's larger Yoda models do not have a great track record, but this Lego Star Wars Yoda bust is such astonishing spectacle I have to own it. Or several... View Source

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The human heart shrivels away in space, but researchers have found that mini-hearts grown from human stem cells sprout in space significantly faster than in labs on Earth... View Source

You can update this photo as often as you want. I love when my friends have their fridges covered in Polaroids. It’s often a visual crash course of what’s been going on in their lives chronicling recent adventures, get-togethers, and other fun moments. But I don’t love the idea of schlepping around a clunky instant camera or paying a premium for instant film with hit-or-miss results. That’s why I’... View Source

Downey at home in LA with one of his channel’s frequent guest stars. | Image: The Verge; Shutterstock It's not hyperbole to call DualShot Recorder an overnight sensation. It took only 12 hours from the time it was released to hit number one on the App Store's list of top paid apps. It was a surprise success - but what's even more surprising is the app's origin story: it all started with a cadre of... View Source

From chasing the Milky Way to using your eyes as nature intended, here are some often-overlooked truths that make all the difference under the night sky... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how AI is changing music and the music industry, follow Terrence O'Brien. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018'... View Source

Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflightIt should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the moo... View Source

Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp... View Source

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency said it has summoned former economy minister Rafizi Ramli for questioning following a probe into a deal involving Arm Holdings Plc... View Source

The list of Asian stocks that benefit from business partnership with Nvidia Corp. is getting longer, as the region further integrates into the AI chip giant’s business ecosystem... View Source

It's like Microsoft's Clippy, but useful... View Source

The Aura Aspen offers a bright, vivid display that looks surprisingly lifelike for a digital photo frame. | Image: Aura Aura’s digital frames are kind of like living photo albums that get better with time, which is why we often recommend them for Mother’s Day. They’re gifts that keep on giving, in a way, and right now, a number of Aura’s connected frames are on sale ahead of the holiday. One of th... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. But the next stage of the fight could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large. Beginning Monday, attorneys for Meta and New Mexico will return to a Santa... View Source

Spirit Airlines planes are parked on the tarmac at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 02, 2026 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Getty Images The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and canceled all flights at 3AM ET on Saturday morning. Its website now redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to go to... View Source

The cars made at the Giga Shanghai factory start at $39,490 CAD, or roughly $29,000 in USD for a Model 3 Premium Rear-Wheel Drive variant... View Source

SpaceX will launch 45 satellites to orbit from California early Sunday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Finally, Mando's sleek N-1 starfighter gets the Lego Star Wars UCS set it deserves and, if you're fast, you can claim a free Lego model of the fabled Darksaber... View Source