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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

Actor Ben McKenzie, known for his role in The OC, discusses his transition from acting to investigating cryptocurrency through a new film he wrote and directed: Everyone Is Lying to You for Money. McKenzie explains to Bloomberg This Weekend's David Gura and Christina Ruffini he was motivated by pandemic boredom and a suggestion to buy Bitcoin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Episode 208 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Space.com's Mike Wall about the risks and realities of the new space race to the moon... View Source

SpaceX Starship Flight 12 is scheduled to launch May 12, 22:30 UTC / 17:30 CDT An advisory has appeared on the CADENA Operational Information System. – NEW Trajectory – Afternoon Launch Window... View Source

Granular Unit Economics per MW Cruseo CEO Lochmiller broke down the inputs/outputs with high precision (April 2025 contract pricing and the talk) Upfront capex is ~$59M per MW of developed capacity. Roughly half (~$30M) is IT (GPUs, CPUs, networking, storage, etc.). The rest covers data center build, power plant/generation, and other infrastructure. Annual revenue (pure ... Read more... View Source

You know it's thriller, thriller night... View Source

Generative AI has turned coding from a specialized skill into something anyone can do with a simple prompt. A warehouse owner is revolutionizing his shipping software with AI and a creative designer vibe coded her first app with zero technical experience. Computer programmers are doing it too, but a director at Google Cloud AI says vibe coding does not mean the end of serious engineering. As profe... View Source

The company has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, whose staff is joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs... View Source

Not only is Lego launching a host of new models this Star Wars Day, there are some fantastic sets out there already. We've harnessed the power of the Dark Side to bring you the very best... View Source

I’ll never stop gushing about 2-in-1 USB-C cables. They’re really nice to have because, at this point, I’ve amassed so many devices that charge via USB-C. It’s also common for more than one to need to be recharged at a time, which is where they come in handy. I can charge my Nintendo Switch 2 and work-issued MacBook Air, or my Google Pixel 9 Pro and Kindle, without taking up more than one port on... View Source

Photos from around the space team... View Source

It took me a while to get into Esoteric Ebb, a new CRPG from developer Christoffer Bodegård. The elevator pitch is basically Disco Elysium, but in the fantasy style of Dungeons & Dragons: You play as a cleric wandering around a small town who's trying to figure out, among other things, the mystery of why a tea shop in town exploded, and all the while, you're having conversations with dif... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 126, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I need 10 or 15 skirts from Calvin Klein, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Happy Ruthless Self-Promotion Week! We're dedicating almost all of this issue to the stuff we've been making recently. Personally, I've been reading about t... View Source

Plus, more Ball x Pit is never a bad thing... View Source

Shooting stars and the occasional fireball may be seen whenever the constellation Aquarius is above the horizon... View Source

Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline May's skywatching, with stunning moon pairings and a three-planet display... View Source

The Flower Moon will be followed by a rare full Blue Moon on May 31... View Source

A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilize the domestic labor market with a global race to develop AI technologies... View Source

Two years ago, Citadel's Ken Griffin paid almost $45 million for a stegosaurus skeleton, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. So why are dinosaur bones joining the collections of millionaires instead of museums? How does the private market for fossils actually work? And how similar is it to the market for art and other antiquities? In this episode, we speak with Salomon Aaron,... View Source

A data-center developer sold $999 million of junk bonds for a project leased to a SoftBank Group Corp. subsidiary, capping April’s surge of debt issuance to help fund artificial intelligence efforts amid some concerns that such spending won’t pay off... View Source

The Pentagon has struck agreements with more technology companies for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence tools on classified military networks, according to a Defense Department statement and two defense officials briefed on the matter... View Source

Roblox Corp. is launching a new product that will position its popular video-game creation software to better compete with Unity Software Inc. and Epic Games, whose engines are used by most big-budget game-makers... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots, as part of a major initiative to build humanoid technology... View Source

Elon Musk set out to tell a jury that his falling out with OpenAI was a simple tale of betrayal... View Source

BMO Chief AI and Quantum Officer Kristin Milchanowski discusses how cutting edge AI and quantum tech will impact business, and the banking sector, for the foreseeable future. She talks with Katie Greifeld and Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Twilio reported its fastest revenue growth in over three years, fueled by a massive surge in AI-driven demand. Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler discussed what he called a “milestone quarter” with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bank of Montreal is betting on artificial intelligence and quantum computing to help predict earthquakes and respond to wildfires as part of the Canadian bank’s expansion in the US... View Source

Winnie Cisar, global head of strategy at CreditSights, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." After a $300 billion AI debt binge that spanned every corner of the credit market, investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

EBay Inc. jumped more than 13% in after-hours trading on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported that video-game retailer GameStop Corp. is preparing a bid for the company... View Source

They didn't get a parade, but they're certainly being paraded on the big networks... View Source

Microsoft is testing its much-needed refresh for the Windows 11 Run menu, offering a modern interface that the company says is faster and comes with support for dark mode. The redesign is rolling out now to Windows 11 Insiders in the new Experimental Channel. In a blog post explaining the changes, Microsoft says it decided to drop the Run menu's "Browse" button - a shortcut to user files - after f... View Source

Walt Disney Co. senior executives are discussing how to unify the company’s disparate mobile apps and turn its streaming service into the first stop for all things Disney, a place where users can book park tickets, buy merchandise, play games and watch movies, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 after the company pulled the $599 option with 256GB of storage from its online store, as spotted earlier by MacRumors. The model's discontinuation comes just one day after Apple CEO Tim Cook said during an earnings call that a chip shortage will impact its Mac products in the coming months. "If you look forward to June, the majority of our supply constraints wil... View Source

Apple Inc. raised the starting price of its Mac mini desktop to $799 from $599, adjusting to inventory shortages driven by AI demand and the tight supply of processors... View Source

The compact desktop Mac now starts at $799 and comes with 512GB of storage... View Source

Semianalysis AI Value Capture – The Shift To Model Labs Anthropic is now making $44 billion per year run rate and this is heading to $100 billion per year by the end of 2026. Vera Rubin VR NVL72: V for Value – Rubin delivers a step jump in performance per TCO. ROI is going more ... Read more... View Source

Former BET Chair & CEO Debra Lee discusses the changing media landscape, why good content will always find its audience, and her new luxury handbag line. She talks with Romaine Bostick for "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Will that stop them from taking over?... View Source

A recent report raised concerns about OpenAI missing its growth targets... View Source

Drone-mounted radar flown over glaciers on Earth show how the technology can map buried ice in detail, helping future Mars spacecraft choose exactly where to drill... View Source

Online casino-style games like Monopoly GO! are huge. Could new scrutiny challenge how they do business?... View Source

The NEXT 01 JET Edition Car at the Dreame NEXT event during the Silicon Valley Summit at the Palace of Fine Arts on April 29, 2026 in San Francisco, CA. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric vehicle with physically impossible-sounding performance specs, I immediately thought James Dyson was up to his old tricks again... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Apple’s strong outlook amid the continued memory supply crunch. Plus, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki discusses the gaming platform’s "aggressive push to enhance safety" that tempered user growth. And, Bloomberg spoke with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar who pushes back on a report that the AI leader is missing its own targets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Few went to see the movie in theaters, but 'Slither' still proved that Gunn was a director to watch... View Source

Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called "Copy Fail" that allows any user to give themselves administrator privileges. The exploit, publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday, uses a Python script that works across all of the vulnerable Linux distributions, requiring "no per-distro offsets, no version checks, no recompilation," acc... View Source

Roblox stock plummeted after the company slashed its full-year bookings forecast, admitting that new age-verification and child-safety features are creating major short-term friction for user growth. Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Just don't expect it to work with many iOS or Android apps yet... View Source

From crafting machines to smart calendars, a number of unique gifts are already on sale in the run-up to Mother’s Day, May 10th. Birdfy smart feeders are another discounted option to consider, particularly the new Birdfy Feeder Metal 2 (4K), which is on sale for $259.99 ($50 off). If you’re looking to spend less, you can also grab the basic Birdfy Feeder for just $99.99 ($100 off) from Amazon or B... View Source

At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next... View Source

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company is meeting objectives and sees a “vertical wall of demand” for its products. Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss those comments on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

What are you buying today?... View Source

This is just one of 29 different Aurora Lux designs. | Photo by Kelsey McClellan / The Verge Dreame, a Chinese manufacturer best known for its robot vacuums but with ambitions to do much more, says it's making smartphones now. I'm not sure I believe it. The company showed off two phones at its own Next event, which took place in California this week, though both had previously been revealed in Chi... View Source

The longrunning online game has a lot of work to do to recover from the disappointing ‘Dawntrail’ expansion... View Source

They're available today from LG's website... View Source

SpaceX Starlink can get a billion customers. Their total market is not only 50 million or their current 12 million. They can get 100X as many customers. This will drive more customers, revenue and profits. Their cost will be very low to get the larger capacity satellites. Whatever prices they need to charge to win ... Read more... View Source

Amazon's built-in price tracking feature now allows you to see how much a product's price has changed over the past year. To use the feature, open the Amazon app and select the "Price history" button next to the item's price, or ask Amazon's AI assistant Rufus. The expansion comes just weeks ahead of Amazon's annual Prime Day event, which California Attorney General mentioned in his "price fixing"... View Source

Now the ex-CEO is waging a battle for Fermi’s future and its vision of atomic-powered data centers in the Texas panhandle. ... View Source

Portrait of Janet Petro, center director for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Credit: NASA NASA announced Friday Janet Petro, center director for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is retiring. Prior to joining NASA, Petro worked in a variety of military and industry positions, ultimately beginning her career at the agency in 2007 and working her way up to center director, a... View Source

A show that began life as a period piece is now unashamedly hard science fiction... View Source

Valve's new Steam Controller goes on sale on Monday for $99, and accessories-maker Mechanism will be ready. As far as we know, Mechanism's new Basegrip is the very first way to attach a Steam Controller to your phone - as well as Mechanism's lineup of accessories, including mounts for hanging handhelds and gamepads on the Ikea Skadis pegboard or just about anywhere else. The Steam Controller mount... View Source

A Russian hacker who helped to breach critical oil and gas facilities in the US, Ukraine and other countries pleaded guilty to charges that carry as many as 27 years in prison... View Source

The system will track potential side effects of various birth control methods... View Source

5 min read NASA’s STORIE Mission to Tell Tale of Earth’s Ring Current Earth’s magnetic field is like a powerful trap. It lures electrically charged particles in space, near our planet, and snares them in an invisible, doughnut-shaped pen around Earth known as the ring current. This captive swarm of charged particles plays an important role in how Earth reacts to changing conditions in space, calle... View Source

Argos UK is celebrating Star Wars Day early with over 20% off this massive 5,000+ piece Lego Star Wars Clone Wars Venator starship, This is literally the best UCS Lego set you can buy... View Source

The unions backing professional NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and MLS players are calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to ban prediction market platforms from allowing users to bet on a player's underperformance or injury, Sports Business Journal reports. In their letter, the unions cite the need for "appropriate regulations" to protect athletes and their families from "abusive and har... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discusses the future of US space travel and the Trump administration’s plans for the moon, Mars, and beyond. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

NASA/Bill Ingalls Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday, April 30, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearl... View Source

Scientists have developed a new material that could shield humans and critical technology from harmful radiation... View Source

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time we've discovered a little more evidence that the phone is on its way to a release. Trump Mobile's T1 Phone has just passed another milestone on its slow road to release. The phone has received the little-known PTCRB certification, a first step... View Source

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund has raised $6 billion for a new fund to invest in later-stage companies, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the firm’s largest haul ever... View Source

Technicians at NASA’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida offloaded eight high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) wall modules and other ground support equipment on April 27. The equipment will support launch processing of the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Each 1,800-pound module enhances the PHSF’s clean room systems,... View Source

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I take my beauty rest seriously. So seriously that, after months of testing, I bought my ludicrously expensive Eight Sleep Pod 4 Ultra review unit. It had a lot of things... View Source

Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, wealth management CIO and head of the investment strategy group at Goldman Sachs, says the US economy has been "incredibly resilient" despite the impact of the Iran war. She joined "Bloomberg Surveillance" on April 30 to discuss how significant AI spending by Big Tech and restrictive monetary policies are shaping market dynamics. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

They join Google, OpenAI and xAI... View Source

Not all trifolds are created equal — just ask our own Allison Johnson, who recently spent time with Samsung’s ill-fated Galaxy phone. Aurzen’s Zip projector is the kind of trifold gadget we can fully get behind, though, and it’s currently on sale at Amazon for $259.99 ($140 off). You can also pick it up in several colors directly from Aurzen for the same price, or in the gold shade for a new low o... View Source

On Thursday, the publicly traded spaceflight company Virgin Galactic shared on social media a new photo of its next-generation spaceship being towed outside of its factory in Mesa, Arizona. You remember Virgin Galactic, right? The space tourism company was founded 22 years ago by Sir Richard Branson to bring spaceflight to the masses. Hundreds of people began buying tickets to space nearly two dec... View Source

Caterpillar Inc.’s biggest Wall Street bear has thrown in the towel after watching the stock more than double on the back of surging demand for the company’s power generation equipment... View Source

The S&P Dow Jones Indices has officially proposed rule changes where megacaps like SpaceX will be included into the index in 6 months instead of 12 months. This would align also with the unlocking of shares of many SpaceX SPV investors after 6 months. When Tesla was included into the SP500 the shares went up ... Read more... View Source

In this donut-shaped bag is a massive parachute. Next stop? Mars... View Source

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left out Anthropic - which it previously used for classified information - after declaring it a supply-chain risk. This builds... View Source

Will OpenAI ever bring a smartphone, or some other smartphone-like device, to market? On this episode of the Everybody's Business podcast, we are joined by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the author of the Power On newsletter and managing editor for consumer technology. He tells Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin whether such a device could succeed and what the next iPhone moment might look like. (Source... View Source

And why it's not exactly a PC gamepad... View Source

4 Min Read Space Out This Summer with Variety of NASA STEM Activities Summer is “Go” for launch, and NASA has a universe of ways to help you to jump in, explore, and create! Whether you prefer to spend this season fueling your creativity, going outdoors into nature, or daydreaming about your future, NASA offers ways to take your interests to the next level.  Here are some opportunities to lev... View Source

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Les Claypool and Sean Lennon discuss AI, art, and empathy in their new concept album 'The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy.'... View Source

The X3 is Xteink’s smallest e-reader. | Photo: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge The Xteink X4 and X3 are excellent alternatives to Kindles and Kobos if you want an e-reader that's as easy to slip into your pocket - just not out of the box. Both devices come with stock firmware that's clunky, limited, and occasionally confusing, but that can be easily fixed by plugging them into a PC to install altern... View Source

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar sees “a vertical wall of demand” for the company’s products as she pushed back Thursday on concerns about missing internal targets in a Bloomberg interview. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

So much for 200,000 EVs a year... View Source

Elon Musk is the one who wanted this trial. He has spent months claiming OpenAI "stole a nonprofit," and saying he was the actual driving force behind one of the most important companies currently in tech. All indications are that he won't win his case against the company, but he's fighting it anyway. So you'd think he'd have done better when it was his time to take the stand. Verge subscribers, d... View Source

Tether Holdings SA bought more than six tons of gold for its reserves in the first three months of the year, extending a buying streak that’s made it the largest known holder of bullion in the world outside of banks and nation states... View Source

Your guide to June's full Strawberry Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights... View Source

In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though, many of these gig workers have embraced the technology in order to meet clients' demands. These workers' profiles emphasize that they can quickly (and cheaply) whip up images and videos of just about a... View Source

Opay Digital Services Ltd. is working with Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. as the Nigeria-focused payments platform prepares for an initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

US stock futures were little changed Friday after a record-breaking session, as investors continued to evaluate corporate results into the end of earnings season’s busiest week... View Source

Did Instagram put its feed slop on notice?... View Source

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

New panoramic views from NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers reveal dramatically different Martian terrains shaped by ancient water and billions of years of geological change... View Source

The analyst who slapped the only sell rating on Shopify Inc. over valuation concerns ahead of its blistering rout said it’s still too soon to jump back in... View Source

It will cover events from Queen Victoria's death in 1901 until Princess Elizabeth's wedding... View Source

Dyson’s newest robot vacuum adds mopping capabilities but takes away the Dyson motor of its predecessor. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't use a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop was "co-engineered," Nathan Lawson McLean, se... View Source

Months before Jamie Dimon’s infamous remark about more than one “cockroach” lurking in credit markets, TCW Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Katie Koch warned the direct lending industry was due for a reckoning... View Source

Xbox mode brings a console-like interface to Windows 11... View Source

The Artemis missions are paving the way to civilizational decisions. It’s time to ask not just what we can do – but whether we should do itThis month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordinary thing to send people into deep space and bring them home... View Source

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeat... View Source

The cloud provider’s deal for Eigen AI will help the inference business... View Source

It's pledged to invest more into its division making ceramics used in the production of NAND memory... View Source

The Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai is Dyson’s first combination robot vacuum and mop. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I'm deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It's the company's best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle detection, and a multifunction dock that takes much of the busywork off your han... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire Hong Kong’s FlyTaxi as part of its expansion plans in the city, Sing Tao Daily reported, citing an announcement by the US-based company... View Source

May's full moon rises as flowers bloom across the northern hemisphere... View Source

Jake Nesler’s AI trading bot got one big decision right in its first week. It ignored the chase... View Source

Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks... View Source

Europe is set for weeks of erratic and increasingly warm weather over the coming month, raising the risk of storms, early season drought stress and increasing cooling demand... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds, hitting the market with a jumbo deal for the second time in six months as investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue... View Source

The global economy is increasingly captive to two opposing forces... View Source

Apple delivered a strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, with sales expected to rise 14% to 17% in the period. The company warned that memory-chip costs will increase and that shortages of Mac computers will persist for "several months." Bloomberg Intelligence's Matthew Bloxham breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Investor 137 Ventures has around $10 billion in SpaceX after writing multiple checks backing the Elon Musk-led company. Ahead of SpaceX’s IPO, Justin Fishner-Wolfson, founder and managing partner at 137 Ventures, discusses the expected windfall and two new funds the VC firm has raised to back startups and founders staying private longer. He speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tec... View Source

Dave Lee from Bloomberg Opinion critiques Meta's positioning as a cloud business, highlighting that unlike true hyperscalers such as Amazon and Google, Meta does not demonstrate healthy growth in cloud sales driven by AI. Despite Meta's substantial capital expenditure of up to $145 billion, its AI strategy appears unconvincing, as reflected in the cautious tone of its leadership during the earning... View Source

Qualcomm shares surged after the company said it was making headway in the lucrative data center market and teased a partnership with a large hyperscaler. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After a $300 billion AI debt binge that spanned every corner of the credit market, investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Cyclone Rains Spur Papua New… 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 Marb... View Source

Scott Rubner, head of equity and equity derivatives strategy at Citadel Securities, says he is not seeing a decline in AI spending and demand. He discusses the buying opportunity he sees in US megacap tech stocks and why he’s bullish on consumer trading. Rubner speaks with Dani Burger on the sidelines of Bloomberg House Miami. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla and Elon have huge partnerships to deliver a surge in tens of millions of chips needed for AI domination. They also have increased their AI and model competitiveness. Tesla and SpaceX tying up with Intel for the most advanced 14nm process chips. This will deliver AI6 and AI7 chips. Tesla TERAFAB and TERALAB will ... Read more... View Source

Kimberly Forrest, CIO and founder of Bokeh Capital Partners, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Toto Ltd. shares soared as much as 18%, the most on record, in Tokyo after the toilet maker said it plans to ramp up investment in its chip components business due to strong AI demand... View Source

Major news organizations, including CNN, NBC and USA Today, have joined an effort to curb the storage of their content in a web archive used by artificial intelligence companies for training chatbots... View Source

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar, rebutting concerns about missing internal targets, said the company is meeting objectives and sees “a vertical wall of demand” for its products... View Source

Investors looking to profit amid the buildout boom in AI infrastructure should favor big-spending “hyperscalers” over chipmakers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Jim Covello... View Source

Three of the biggest names in private credit moved to reassure investors this week about the AI risks facing their software borrowers, deploying proprietary “score cards” and outside consultants... View Source

Reddit Inc. projected sales in the current period that surpassed Wall Street estimates, continuing a streak of strong revenue growth powered by the company’s surging advertising business... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss tech earnings as Alphabet and Amazon see a clear payoff from their AI spending, while Meta lags behind. Plus, Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the AI developer at more than $900 billion. And, Stripe President John Collison discusses the company's new AI tools and partnership with Google. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zach Cregger's take on the video game source material hits theaters on September 18... View Source

It is generally frowned upon to care too much about appearances. We have a lot of little aphorisms discouraging this - books and their covers, beauty being skin deep, style over substance, that sort of thing. Vanity is a risk. Should one put a disproportionate effort into how a thing looks, then said work may very well be considered shallow. But in the world of big-budget video games? That's how y... View Source

Apple Inc. delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, even as it warned that memory-chip costs will increase and that shortages of Mac computers will persist for “several months.”... View Source

It's an expansion of the mobile app's "Hear the Highlights" feature... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta says it may be forced to pull Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from New Mexico if the attorney general gets his way. The state is demanding a host of changes that the company says are impossible to achieve. After winning a $375 million jury award against Meta in a trial that argued the company misled users in the state about t... View Source

Apple delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, benefiting from new products launched in March, including the MacBook Neo and updated iPad Air. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The hotly anticipated sequel has been the subject of all kinds of drama... View Source

Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk's lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was dull and seemed to exist primarily to get some documents read into the record, which sucks... View Source

High frequency trading has transformed Wall Street into a world of algorithms. No firm captures the digital upheaval quite like Jane Street. Many are wondering what’s behind its unprecedented success. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's a rare moment of working across the aisle... View Source

Russia launched its Soyuz 5 medium-lift rocket for the first time ever on Thursday (April 30), and things apparently went well... View Source

Rivian reported its first quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it kicks off production for the crucial R2 electric vehicle. We've already got Rivian's production and delivery statement from the first three months of the year. The company sold 10,365 vehicles in Q1, representing 20 percent increase year over year. And it produced 10,236 vehicles... View Source

Apple Inc. reported revenue for the fiscal second quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, helped by demand for the iPhone and Mac.  Revenue jumped 17% to $111.2 billion during the period, which ended March 28, the company said in a statement Thursday. Analysts had expected $109.7 billion. Apple itself had projected sales growth of 13% to 16%. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana and Ed Ludlow join to break it... View Source

The RG Rotate starts at just $88... View Source

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride. The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday ev... View Source

Apple delivered second-quarter revenue that edged past analysts’ estimates, helped by demand for the iPhone and Mac. Ed Ludlow reacts to the earnings report on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Welcome to the Land of Enchantment... View Source

Artemis 3 slips to late 2027 as Starship and Blue Moon lag, delaying NASA’s lunar return timeline and jeopardizing a 2028 moon landing... View Source

Roblox's daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform. According to its latest earnings report, Roblox currently has 132 million daily active users globally, down from 144 million at the end of last year, which was a drop from 152 million in Q3 2025. In the US and Canada, the number of active users dropped by one million from the previo... View Source

Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners semiconductors and electronics senior analyst, reacts to Apple’s fiscal second-quarter results. Speaking on “Bloomberg The Close,” Goldberg says memory prices could put pressure on Apple’s gross margins... View Source

Linux is having a very busy year... View Source

Credit: NASA Ireland will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Monday, May 4, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Ambassador of Ireland to the United States of America Geraldine Byrne Nason; Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke, T.D., of Ireland; and U.S. Department of State officials for the ceremony. This even... View Source

Apple's iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues impacting the device's processor. During an interview with Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone "demand was off the charts" but added that there's "a little less flexibility in the supply chain at the moment for getting more parts." Apple earned $111.2 billion in revenue during the seco... View Source

Roblox Corp. reported first-quarter users that fell short of analysts’ expectations after implementing safety features restricting how kids, who make up a majority of its audience, can use the platform... View Source

This marks Amazon's first streaming deal with a college team... View Source

The United States Space Force has created a new program to develop space-based missile interceptors, with the goal of being able to demonstrate their capability by 2028... View Source

Rivian announced some changes today with regard to the factory its building in the state of Georgia. The company was planning to build the facility in two phases, each resulting in 200,000 vehicles of annual production capacity, for a total of 400,000 units. Now the company says it is only planning for 300,000 units of annual capacity as a result of a revised loan agreement with the US Department... View Source

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The option is part of a collection of updates Microsoft is making to consoles and the Xbox PC app... View Source

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Shooting stars before dawn, a brilliant meetup between the Moon and Venus and a rare blue moon to end the month The Eta Aquarid meteor shower brings shooting stars before dawn, the Moon meets brilliant Venus after sunset, and May wraps up with a rare Blue Moon... View Source

Close watchers of the Supreme Court knew that the conservative supermajority was about to murder what was left of the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday's decision in Louisiana v. Callais took down Section 2 of the law, clearing the way for racist gerrymandering, because it is now racist to remedy racism. The decision is an affront to the history of the Voting Rights Act, an affront to the history of th... View Source

Earlier this week, Blue Origin posted a job opportunity for a "senior manager" to oversee tank fabrication for "Quattro," and the description contained some intriguing information. "As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers you will be the Senior Manager of Gen 2.0 Tank Fabrication, and will own the production execution of the most structurally complex and schedule-c... View Source

For the past few years, the largest US technology companies have been in a costly race to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems while at the same time providing computing power to a burgeoning field of startups. To chase these goals, they have radically changed how they finance their growth. Long reliant on rich revenues and share price increases, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms... View Source

An SDK will allow developers to start building non-commercial tools soon... View Source

1 Min Read Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars PIA26722 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Odyssey Team Celebrates on a… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars JPEG (18.11 MB) Description Team members past and present from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey o... View Source

Evidence suggests that Venus is still volcanically active, and new data about a big eruption in Hawaii a few years ago could help scientists find out for sure... View Source

Microsoft is now rolling out its Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs. The new Xbox mode adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, much like Steam's Big Picture Mode, and originally debuted as the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) with Asus' Xbox Ally devices. "Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in t... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook aren’t planning a bid for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks... View Source

Extremely OK Games is publishing the project... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Partners from NASA, Texas public safety organizations, industry partners, and the Federal Aviation Administration gathered in the region of North Texas Feb. 18 to understand how public safety drones can operate alongside commercial drones safely and effectively.Credit: Texas Department of Public Safety Our streets are c... View Source

Here’s an early look at the new Gemini assistant on a vehicle infotainment system. | Image: Google Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade from the current Google Assistant according to Google's announcement, and promises to provide an improved experience for natural conversations, fetching vehicle-specific information,... View Source

Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index... View Source

The monitor uses a Mini LED screen and supports AI upscaling for lower resolution content... View Source

Credit: NASA The Kingdom of Morocco signed the Artemis Accords on April 29th during a ceremony in the country’s capital, Rabat, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space. “It is my privilege to welcome the Kingdom of Morocco as the newest signatory to the Artemis Accords,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in recorded remarks. “The accords began as the frame... View Source

'When we started visualizing this world, we wanted to do right by the fans'... View Source

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the "student." Although it's often used legitimately within companies using one... View Source

Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the AI developer at more than $900 billion, according to sources, potentially overtaking longtime rival OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI startup. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Asobo Studio says it also improved the game's performance with the latest update... View Source

NASA/Glenn Benson Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis III mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from April 27, 2026. The SLS core stage traveled 900 miles on the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in N... View Source

Microsoft has released a new Xbox update that adds a bunch of new features, including the ability to disable Quick Resume for individual games. Quick Resume, which lets you swap between your games with minimal wait time, is one of the best features on the Xbox Series X / S consoles. But it can also run into unexpected issues with multiplayer games or titles that require a constant internet connect... View Source

Elon Musk acknowledged there was no written agreement or contract with OpenAI regarding the terms of his donation to the company when it was first founded as a nonprofit research organization more than a decade ago... View Source

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4 Min Read NASA Goddard’s Greenbelt Visitor Center Marks 50th Anniversary This 1976 photograph shows how the visitor center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., appeared when it opened to the public for the first time. Credits: NASA Trimmed in bicentennial pageantry, NASA opened a visitor center at its Goddard campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, in May 1976. Fifty years on, th... View Source

Wispy nebula clouds can be seen reflecting the blue-white light of the Pleiades in the stunning amateur photo... View Source

The Cricut Joy 2 doesn’t take up much desk space and looks pretty cute. | Image: Cricut If you’ve ever thought about making your own stickers for Etsy or just for fun but don’t know where to begin, I’d recommend taking a look at the Cricut Joy 2. I’ve been testing one for a couple of weeks now, and as someone completely new to the Cricut ecosystem, I’ve found it to be a relatively beginner-friendl... View Source

Anthropic PBC has said its new artificial intelligence tool, Mythos, is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can’t be released to the general public. The AI giant released Mythos to a limited number of carefully chosen parties because if a tool this powerful fell into the wrong hands, Anthropic says, it could help attackers more easily steal data or disrupt c... View Source

The extremely British action RPG should translate well to an episodic format... View Source

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: Find local businesses without websites or with bad websites, have AI build them one, then call them up and sell it to them. As part of the campaign, Manus was paying content creators to build out Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts that promote its AI product as an easy, lucrative gi... View Source

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of the human immune system... View Source

A powerful Senate committee backed legislation to require OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc. and other artificial intelligence companies to stop minors from using chatbots, responding to a strengthening public backlash against harm to children and teenagers attributed to the fast-spreading technology... View Source

Xbox Insiders can preview the new tech today... View Source

Q1 Earnings and AI Surprises for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and TESLA Semi Mass Production. Google EPS of $5.11 beat expectations of $2.63. Revenue of $109.9B beat expectations of $107.2B Search: +16% YoY Q1 Youtube: +11.7% YoY Q1 Cloud: +50% YoY FY26 Capex 175B – 185B FY26 EPS: $11.7 Amazon Bedrock had 170% growth instead ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket flew for the first time in 18 months Wednesday (April 29), and a sharp-eyed satellite was watching... View Source

Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way... View Source

Euro-area finance ministers will discuss the challenges that Anthropic PBC’s Mythos AI model poses as officials struggle to get clarity on the new tool’s powers... View Source

A warning for all you nerds out there... View Source

Artemis 2's Orion capsule has returned to its Florida launch site, just three weeks after carrying four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon's far side... View Source

Autonomous vehicles roving California's roads will no longer be immune to traffic tickets starting on July 1st. New regulations announced by the California DMV this week allow law enforcement to give AV manufacturers a "notice of AV noncompliance" when one of their cars commits a traffic violation, like running a red light or failing to stop for school buses. The updated regulations come after yea... View Source