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
On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss ways in which the firm is already using AI to develop innovative products, as well as how he envisions the future of private markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
VC firm 137 Ventures has raised over $700 million to back growth-stage startups. Its portfolio includes SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian... View Source
Nintendo eShop gift cards can be used to buy games, apparel, and even hardware or accessories from its online storefront. No matter what you want to get, you can save a fairly substantial amount by purchasing a twin-pack of $50 eShop gift cards from Newegg. Originally $100, you can get them for $80.50, and there’s a limit of 10 purchases per customer. Buying any more than one set of gift cards mig... 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
It features a bunch of hot-swappable components inside its bundled case and it's even Xbox-certified... View Source
The Ucayali River snakes across the rainforest in this image captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from the International Space Station... View Source
Adam Scott grew up watching horror movies at, as he describes it, "probably too young" an age. But he never set out to work specifically in the genre. Even still, horror seemed to follow him around from the very beginning. His first major film role was in Hellraiser IV in 1996. "It wasn't because I was a Hellraiser fan," he says. "It was because it was the job I got." Later, he took a starring rol... View Source
The National Security Agency has been testing the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s new artificial intelligence model to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in popular software, including Microsoft Corp. products, according to a US official and another person familiar with the matter... View Source
A $160 physical collector's edition includes a rad-looking landspeeder model... View Source
Commissioned in May 2015, the Edmonton Rail Terminal is one of the largest crude oil loading facilities in North America. It will accommodate up to three unit trains per day comprised of 150 railcars each. The facility is capable of loading 76 individual railcars at one time, achieving an ultimate capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels ... Read more... View Source
May the 4th 2026 includes the Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter, which will be seen in the upcoming Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu movie... View Source
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer, and I’m joined by host and very occasional guest, Nilay Patel. Nilay, welcome back to your own show. Hello. I hate being the guest. Now, you have said that in the past, but there’s also a version o... View Source
Polymarket is partnering with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis Inc. to help police its platform as prediction markets grapple with increased scrutiny over insider trading... View Source
It's designed to keep you appraised of what your coding agent is doing, even when you're not at your desk... View Source
Tesla is up to at least 25 Unsupervised vehicles in Texas per the robotaxitracker. Robotaxi tracker is crowdsourced. This means someone who took a ride in a Tesla robotaxi in Texas has to report the license plate to the app or website. They miss over half of the known Waymo vehicles. Austin 19 Dallas 3 ... Read more... View Source
There may be a long wait before the end of the RAM shortage that's driving up prices on everything from phones to gaming handhelds. During an earnings call on Thursday, Samsung predicted that the severe memory shortage, driven by demand from AI data centers, will not only continue next year, but likely get worse, as reported by Reuters. As Samsung memory chip business executive Kim Jaejune stated... View Source
White House officials are preparing a wide-ranging artificial intelligence policy memo that outlines requirements for AI deployment by national security agencies, some of which touch on issues driving the bitter dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic PBC over military use of the firm’s technology, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source
"Verified by Spotify" will start rolling out over the coming weeks... View Source
Spotify is launching a new verification program to combat spam, fakes, and AI. Some artists will now have a "Verified by Spotify" badge and a green checkmark on their profile, indicating that the company has confirmed a real person is behind the music and the profile. At least at launch, Spotify says that AI personas or profiles that primarily upload AI-generated music are not eligible for the ver... View Source
The European Union’s revamped plans to stimulate the semiconductor industry would allow the bloc’s executive arm to invest directly in manufacturing, people familiar with the draft said... View Source
The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content - and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach. Beginning in 2024, the company has made incremental announcements saying it would begin limiting "unoriginal" content from being recommended on Instagram. It meant that if you were downloading and reposting someone's Reels, or spamming the sa... View Source
137 Ventures, a repeat investor in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has raised $700 million across two new funds to back startups over longer time horizons... View Source
Meme creators and others who don't make "material" edits could get their reach throttled by Meta... View Source
Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis EX, to rendezvous with potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis... View Source
Dallas-based genetics and biotech startup Colossal has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from venture capitalists, the CIA, and Peter Thiel, among others. Its buzzy "de-extinction" projects aim to "bring back" lost animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dire wolf - although it isn't creating copies of extinct creatures from ancient DNA, as the "de-extinction" tagline ma... View Source
Iran’s record internet blackout is emerging as a key dividing line between the country’s powerful security apparatus and its civilian government, underlining how the war with the US has extended the military’s control over daily life... View Source
Meta is planning to pump billions more into AI investments this year, despite noting that millions of users have seemingly started to abandon its platforms. In an earning call on Wednesday, Meta reported that figures for "Family daily active people" - the term Meta has coined for all collective users of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger - declined by 20 million this quarter compared to t... View Source
The top maker of chips for smartphones wants in on the explosive AI data center market... View Source
Want to transform a whole room with a stunning stellar display? This Fliti Galaxy Projector offers incredible coverage and it's nearly 40% off... View Source
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted "cyber defenders" in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place "in the next few days," Altman said on X. "We will work with the entire e... View Source
Concern over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over... View Source
Julian Emanuel, chief equity and quantitative strategist at Evercore, examines the role of earnings in supporting the bull market in stocks and offers a timeframe for when higher oil prices will begin to impact equities. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Women are using artificial intelligence at lower rates than men. But are they being “left behind”?... View Source
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The last few decades have been marked by a number of megatrends in finance including the extraordinary growth of asset managers, the rising importance of technology, and the ascent of private markets. BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is emblematic of all these developments. On this episode, we talk to BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein about the company's early technological history, the dev... View Source
Apple Inc. reports quarterly earnings after the close on Thursday, but investors will be largely looking past the numbers and seeking clues to incoming Chief Executive Officer John Ternus’ strategic plans... View Source
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Sony has finally stepped in to clear up the growing confusion around a new DRM (Digital Rights Management) system on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. Users reported that the system's latest updates seemingly introduced a requirement to go online once every 30 days to validate game licenses, but Sony now says this is false. In a statement to GameSpot, a Sony Interactive Entertainment spoke... View Source
The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing malpractice.”... View Source
A $5 billion placement by battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. is setting the stage for a fresh wave of share sales in Hong Kong after volatility triggered by the war in Iran weighed on the deal flow... View Source
The biggest US tech firms now plan to spend as much as $725 billion this year on capital expenditures, primarily on AI data center equipment... View Source
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg reignited fears that the historic levels of investment he’s making to catch up in the artificial intelligence race won’t pay off, a prospect that sent shares sliding after the company raised its spending outlook for the year... View Source
Rumors that Sony's new digital rights management (DRM) system might check PlayStation game licenses every 30 days appear not to be true... View Source
From world record breakers to the most iconic image of all time, these are Guardian Australia’s top three photos for April. Photographer and picture editor, Carly Earl, hand-picks three photographs as her favourites every month and explains the craft and composition that makes them special. April’s edition includes a quiet, intimate moment of record-breaking athlete, Gout Gout, a picture perfect c... View Source
Alphabet Inc. reported high demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, boosting shares and giving investors confidence that its unprecedented investments in AI infrastructure will pay off... View Source
Europe’s software companies are doing better than expected this earnings season, brushing off fears around artificial intelligence and the impact of the Iran war on business confidence... View Source
SoftBank Group Corp. plans to establish and list an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US, potentially raising capital to propel founder Masayoshi Son’s growing bets on artificial intelligence... View Source
Murata Manufacturing Co. reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates, fueled by robust demand from artificial intelligence data center builders... View Source
A frenzied day of earnings reports offered a glimpse at how some of the world’s biggest tech companies are doing in artificial intelligence. The upshot: Alphabet Inc.’s Google is seeing a clear payoff from its AI spending, while Meta Platforms Inc. is lagging behind... View Source
Samsung Electronics Co. earned a far stronger-than-expected eight-fold leap in quarterly profit, underscoring robust demand for AI memory chips in the face of markets roiled by war in the Middle East. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
From the rooftop terrace of Kosovo’s innovation center, Shpend Lila pointed out a red-brick building on a recent weekday morning. Originally the headquarters of a local publishing agency, the modernist structure was Pristina’s tallest for decades. Today, it is dwarfed by high-rises housing a growing mix of tech companies — including SPEEEX, a business processing outsource firm on track to be... View Source
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Banks that recently signed a $40 billion bridge loan with SoftBank Group Corp. for its investment in US tech giant OpenAI have attracted more lenders to the deal in syndication, people familiar with the matter said... View Source
Nitin Rakesh, CEO at Indian IT firm Mphasis, discusses the company's business strategy and its investments in AI. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
OpenAI has met a key milestone for securing AI capacity in the US several years ahead of schedule, boosting the startup’s ambitious plans for data center expansion... View Source
The extraordinary wealth generated from South Korean chipmakers will drive spending and inflation, spurring the nation’s central bank to raise interest rates at least three times over the coming year, according to Mirae Asset Global Investments... View Source
The White House opposes Anthropic PBC’s plan to expand access to its Mythos AI model, the Wall Street Journal reported, a technology that the company says is powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks... View Source
Thomas Reardon, who led the work on Meta Platforms Inc.’s Neural Band, is raising funds for a new startup called Flourish to develop energy-efficient artificial intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source
Uber is adding a host of features to its app for when you're away from home... View Source
Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor arm beat expectations with a 48-fold jump in profit after AI’s reliance on memory delivered hefty margins... View Source
The latest answer to the always-relevant question: "Can it run Doom?"... View Source
Fujitsu Ltd. shares fell as much as 14%, the most in 11 years, after the company’s fourth-quarter operating profit and full-year forecast missed analyst estimates... View Source
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Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life." Musk's direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday - even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him... View Source
Asia’s artificial intelligence-fueled rally is masking signs of strain, with gains in tech names overshadowing the impact of the US-Iran war on the broader market... View Source
The new Razr Fold even has native stylus support, unlike Samsung's most recent flagship... View Source
House Republicans are investigating American technology companies’ use of Chinese artificial intelligence models, part of a broader push by Congress to limit US national security risks and to counter Beijing in the global AI race... View Source
The CEO wants to make an agent so easy even his mom can use it... View Source
San Francisco tech startup, Mercor, is hiring high-skilled workers for a massive undertaking: teaching AI how to do their jobs. On today’s Big Take podcast, reporter Tom Foster and host Sarah Holder break down how Mercor’s college-dropout founders built a $10 billion company aimed at automating the white-collar world. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
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3 Min Read US-Indian Spacecraft Captures Mexico City Subsidence PIA26709 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Bekaert Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal US-Indian Spacecraft Captures… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads US-Indian Spacecraft Captures Mexico City Subsidence JPEG (32.05 MB) PIA26709 Figure A PNG (4.38 MB) Description A sc... View Source
Meta Platforms Inc. shares slid after the company raised its spending outlook for the year, reigniting fears that the historic levels of investment it’s making to build artificial intelligence models won’t pay off. The social-media giant projected full-year capital expenditures between $125 billion and $145 billion, far exceeding analysts’ estimates and marking a roughly 7.4% increase from what th... View Source
At least now you can figure out what to wear without physically going to your closet?... View Source
4 Min Read I Am Artemis: Ryan Schulte Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager, demonstrates using the Orion spacecraft’s flywheel exercise device at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. As the four A... View Source
Anthropic PBC has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the artificial intelligence developer at more than $900 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially leapfrogging its longtime rival OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup... View Source
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Tesla Semi mass production has officially begun. Long Range • Range: ~500 miles • 4680 cells • Fully electric steering assist (vs hydraulic before) • Uses beefed up Cybertruck actuators • 48 volt architecture • Powertrain: 3 independent motors on rear axles • Drive Power: Up to 800 kW • Curb Weight: 23,000 lbs • ... Read more... View Source
The astronauts joined president in Oval Office for a press conference, and it wasn’t long before he praised himselfDonald Trump hosted the crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission at the White House on Wednesday.The four astronauts – commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen – joined the president in the Oval Office for a celebrato... View Source
General atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Grindr Inc. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learning how to politick. If you're not a subscriber but would like to support our work, please subscribe he... View Source
Daniel Flax, Neuberger senior research analyst, discusses what the latest round of tech earnings could portend for AI companies like Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
There are also new generative AI tools, because they must be stuffed into everything... View Source
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Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Walmart is the exception in how it’s pricing preorders for the cartridge version... View Source
DA Davidson Managing Director Gil Luria offers his key takeaways on earnings from Amazon, Microsoft and Meta Platforms. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
A preliminary investigation found the company isn't adequately keeping minors off of Instagram and Facebook... View Source
New data from NISAR shows where Mexico City and its environs subsided by up to a few centimeters per month (shown in blue) between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026. Uneven and seemingly small elevation changes have added up over the decades, fracturing roads, buildings, and water lines.NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Bekaert One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the gro... View Source
Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of its earnings report released on Wednesday. Even though the rest of Microsoft's consumer-focused division took a dip, the company's cloud and productivity businesses continue to soar, driving the company toward $82.9 billion in revenue. Along with declining Xbox hardware revenue, Micros... View Source
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit posted its fastest quarterly growth in more than three years, bolstered by new data center capacity and an increasing slice of business from Anthropic and OpenAI... View Source
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President Trump hosted the Artemis 2 moon astronauts at the White House today (April 29), congratulating the quartet and musing about the possibility of going to space himself... View Source
Google Search queries hit an "all time high" in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai published as part of Alphabet's earnings on Wednesday. "Our AI investments and full stack approach are lighting up every part of the business," Pichai says. "Search had a strong quarter with AI experiences driving usage, queries at an all time high, and 19% revenue growth." He... View Source
Elon Musk spent hours Wednesday telling a jury about his falling out with the other leaders of OpenAI over what he described as their desire to “get rich” off a project that was supposed to serve the public good... View Source
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss expectations for big tech earnings as investors prepare for Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon to report earnings after the market closes. Plus, SoFi CEO Anthony Noto discusses investors' reaction to the financial services company’s earnings as its shares fall. And, Elon Musk continues testifying in his suit against OpenAI over the startup's pivot f... View Source
Sam Altman apologized for not notifying local authorities last week... View Source
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Open Uber's app and you'll see options to hail a car, order some food, or go grocery shopping. And starting today, you'll see something new: hotels. In a major expansion into the world of travel accommodations, Uber says that it's adding the ability to book and pay for a hotel room to its app. The news was announced at the company's annual Go/Get product event, at which the company also unveiled s... View Source
US utility Entergy Corp. boosted its four-year capital spending plan by nearly a third to $57 billion, mainly to build natural gas-fired power plants for Meta Platforms Inc.’s massive data center development in northern Louisiana... View Source
Gotta hand it to Motorola: it’s a good-looking phone. 2026 is shaping up to be a tough year to launch a high-end phone. The memory crisis has phone prices rising across the board, so an already expensive phone risks becoming a much too expensive phone. That might be what happened to the Razr Fold, which will cost $1,900 when it goes on sale in the US on May 14th. That doesn't include the Moto Pen... View Source
SoFi shares fell after the company released its quarterly results. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto says investors appear to be reading its decision to maintain its full-year guidance as a sign of uncertainty. Noto speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are... View Source
The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely draf... View Source
The Federal Communications Commission said it would do an early review of the licenses for eight Disney-owned TV stations. The move is tied to an investigation into the company’s diversity policy, but comes after a feud between President Donald Trump and ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel kicked back up. Bloomberg's Kelcee Griffis joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloo... View Source
Canonical's plan to add AI features to Ubuntu has some users asking for "a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features," while others say they'll stick with older versions of the Linux distro or even switch to a different one. After Canonical's announcement earlier this week that it's bringing AI features to Ubuntu, replies included requests for an AI "kill switch" or a way to disable t... View Source
Apple is planning a major overhaul of the built-in photo-editing features, powered by its Apple Intelligence platform, according to people familiar with the plans. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket will launch 32 of Amazon's broadband-beaming satellites early Thursday morning (April 30), and you can watch it live... View Source
Gillian Morriss-Kay explains why she was also a formidable advocate for womenYour obituary of the astrophysicist Carole Jordan (31 March) describes a life dedicated to making important discoveries about the complex nature of the universe. These inspiring discoveries could not have been made by sending rockets to the moon, but perhaps the excitement generated by the latter will encourage more... View Source
I mean, c’mon. Look, you're not going to find much new on the 2026 version of the Motorola Razr Ultra. There's a new main camera sensor, a slightly bigger battery, and a higher price: $1,499, up from $1,299. But one thing hasn't changed: this is a darn good looking phone. The wood-finish back panel returns, and is joined by a new suede-like Alcantara option in orient blue. To everyone who has comp... View Source
The company’s clamshell phones have gone up by as much as $200, while its first book-style foldable barely undercuts Samsung at $1,900... View Source
The Razr Plus only comes in one color, but it’s a good one. The memory crisis claims another couple of victims. Motorola's midtier and entry-level flip phones cost $100 more than their predecessors, and have few upgrades to show for it. The 2026 Razr Plus costs $1,099, up from $999. It still comes with a Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset - two years old at this point - with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of stor... View Source
Apple Inc. is planning to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into the iPhone’s camera app, adding a new Siri mode alongside the standard photo and video options in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system... View Source
3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A scale model of Boeing’s Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research concept undergoes testing in a 5-meter wind tunnel operated by the company QinetiQ in December 2025.QinetiQ NASA and Boeing have completed wind tunnel testing to study an innovative advanced aircraft design intended to improve aerodynamic efficiency. A tru... View Source
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Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature you can use to virtually try on clothes you already have. Using the photos in your gallery, Google will create a virtual "wardrobe," allowing you to mix and match outfits, save the looks you like, and share them with friends. A video shared by Google shows how Photos organizes your outfits and individual pieces of clothing into a virtual "wardrob... View Source
China said it would retaliate against the European Union if it proceeds with a proposal to ban Huawei Technologies Co.’s equipment across the continent, escalating tensions in the long-running clash over national security and the communications company’s products... View Source
ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image from April 13, 2026. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth. Classified as a barred spiral galaxy, it featu... View Source
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants everyone to know: "We are Xbox." Just last week, she scrapped Microsoft Gaming as the name of Microsoft's gaming division in favor of simply Xbox. Now, to reinforce that message, sources at Xbox tell me that all Xbox employees are getting an @xbox.com email address next month. The new Xbox email address will replace an existing @microsoft.com address as the default way t... View Source
International Business Machines Corp. is deepening its bet on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago, with plans to add 750 jobs over the next five years... View Source
The Deluxe edition of Elden Ring Nightreign comes with DLC and is on sale. | Image: Bandai Namco Amazon’s annual Gaming Week is bringing discounts on video games, accessories, and PC components through May 4th. This event is smaller than Amazon’s other sales, but there are some genuinely good deals. This year, we’ve found deals on popular titles like Elden Ring Nightreign, plus rare discounts on t... View Source
Chinese hackers breached the Cuba’s embassy in Washington to spy on communications of dozens of diplomats as the island nation stared down a US naval blockade, according to findings from the cyber firm Gambit Security... View Source
A prescribed fire set on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, led to smoke billowing up into the sky throughout the area, including near the center’s Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Control Center.NASA/Leejay Lockhart Anyone who has seen a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida knows the agency’s pursuit of the stars involves some smoke and fire. Sometimes, howe... View Source
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Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter's ChatGPT activity. The families allege OpenAI stayed silent after its systems flagged activity by shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar in o... View Source
Uber Technologies Inc. is adding hotel bookings in its flagship app, marking the ride-hail company’s biggest push yet into the travel market as it seeks to create an everything platform... View Source
The White House is seen before sunrise ahead of the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington D.C., on April 6, 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Crystal R. Hines)NASA, Crystal R. Hines NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run extern... View Source
Expressive E is making its Osmose MPE keyboard (comparatively) more affordable by ditching the synthesizer and making it a simple MIDI controller. The new Osmose CE comes in two sizes, 49 and 61 keys, for $999 and $1,199, respectively. Now, $999 is pretty expensive for a MIDI controller, but it's far less than Osmose's $1,799 starting price. It's even a pretty good deal when pitted against its clo... View Source
On this episode of Bloomberg Primer, we explore the gap between futuristic hype and reality—and how quickly it will shrink... View Source
A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space Telescope in search of galaxies bending spacetime... View Source
Oracular spectacular? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a foundation model builder like OpenAI or Anthropic, obviously. It's not quite a neocloud, t... View Source
OpenAI is the target of new lawsuits over the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that allege the artificial intelligence company could have stopped the suspected killer from using its popular chatbot, ChatGPT, ahead of the attack... View Source
Earth's moon is to be on the receiving end of a spent rocket stage in early August - the leftovers from a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch last year... View Source
Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities including Taylor Swift and Rihanna to promote shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. The ads typically show celebrities in interview settings, such as red carpets, podcasts, or talk shows, and often manipulate real footage with AI, the company said. Many promote rewards programs claiming users can earn money by... View Source
Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects, has published a comprehensive report on the impact expected to occur at 2:44 am ET (06:44 UTC) on August 5. The Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage is 13.8 me... View Source
A new crop of defense startups from drone makers to software developers are emerging on Wall Street as governments raise military budgets and refill depleting supplies amid intensifying geopolitical tensions... View Source
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Joby’s electric air taxi at the Lower Manhattan helipad, April 28th, 2026. | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge It was the perfect day for an electric air taxi demonstration - albeit one without passengers. On Monday, an electric aircraft from Joby Aviation took off from JFK Airport for a flight demonstrating the company's future air taxi route to Manhattan. The aircraft - egg-shaped cabin, six tilt-ro... View Source
Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon Technologies Corp.’s first-quarter sales more than doubled, as Beijing’s push for self-sufficiency in critical technologies including semiconductors has fueled local demand for its products... View Source
A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed prior to the dawn of time... View Source
The DualSense controller was one of Sony's main selling points for the PS5. Beyond things like a striking new design and adaptive triggers, the controller's haptic feedback offered genuinely cool new experiences for games. Rumble effects had been around for decades at that point, but the DualSense offered something very different: I'm still blown away by the sand crunching under Astro's feet in Te... View Source
Chinese founders will keep coming to Singapore, even after Manus flashpoint... View Source
A developer has created a method to get Linux running on some versions of Sony's PlayStation 5 console. Andy Nguyen previously showed off a ported version of Ubuntu running PC games on a PS5 last month, and he's now published the installation steps on GitHub this week. This is a soft mod, so it won't persist between power downs or restarts, but the Linux installation will let you play PC games onc... View Source
Earnings reports from Alphabet, Amazon.com, Meta and Microsoft, the four biggest spenders on artificial intelligence computing infrastructure, are due after the bell. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has a preview. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding... View Source
Rogo, started by young bankers around a kitchen table in 2021, just won a multibillion-dollar valuation... View Source
Meta could face fines of up to $12 billion if it doesn’t remedy the DSA breaches. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta is breaching Europe's Digital Services Act (DSA) rules by failing to prevent children under 13 from using Facebook and Instagram, according to a preliminary decision issued by the European Commission. The Commission announced the ruling on Wednesday after an almos... View Source
MakeMyTrip Ltd., an online travel platform listed on the Nasdaq, is considering a listing in Mumbai, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source
New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than single-star systems... View Source
GitHub employees fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in less than six hours last month. Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in GitHub's internal git infrastructure that could have allowed attackers to access millions of public and private code repositories. "Our security team immediately began validating the bug bounty report. Within 40 minutes, we had reproduce... View Source
Billionaire Gautam Adani’s $1.2 billion copper plant has hit a string of technical setbacks since it was commissioned ten months ago, raising concerns about the future of an operation vital to adding supply outside China... View Source
Investors looking for clues on which direction the stock market is headed in the coming weeks will get a rapid-fire reading as soon as trading ends on Wednesday... View Source
Gemini is coming to Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles. | Image: General Motors General Motors is planning to bring Google's Gemini AI assistant to around four million vehicles across the US. Model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles with Google built-in will be eligible for the AI upgrade, which will be rolled out via over-the-air software updates for GM's i... View Source
At WIRED Health, British surgeon Ara Darzi said AI is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant infections. But a lack of incentives means innovation may not reach patients... View Source
Rising geopolitical uncertainty is driving African financiers to tap domestic capital, as governments roll out policies, regulations and incentives to fund projects... View Source
Spanish clean-energy producer Solaria Energía y Medio Ambiente SA has raised about €300 million in a share offering, with the funds to be deployed in expanding its data center and battery storage operations... View Source
Sri Lanka’s government has disclosed a payment lapse involving funds due to the US Post, days after revealing a separate cyberattack, raising fresh questions about its financial safeguards as it continues to recover from an unprecedented default... View Source
The European Union’s executive arm accused Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to keep young children off its services, ramping up a probe that could result in hefty fines... View Source
Amadeus IT SA said it has agreed to buy the public security arm of Advent-backed biometrics technology provider Idemia for €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion)... View Source
Indonesia handed eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah a nine-year prison sentence on Wednesday, concluding a high-profile $300 million financial scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia’s most celebrated startups... View Source
Allen Career Institute, an Indian education services company backed by James Murdoch and ex-Disney executive Uday Shankar, is considering an initial public offering in Mumbai, people familiar with the matter said... View Source
Thailand is turning to livestreamers to clear a looming durian glut, slashing prices as weaker Chinese demand threatens its biggest export market... View Source
US spending on power-generation equipment for data centers may reach $65 billion by 2030, up from $2.6 billion last year, with the rapidly growing industry accounting for the largest share of the total market, according to a report Tuesday from Wood Mackenzie Ltd... View Source
Elon Musk testified Tuesday he’s suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — because the startup’s pivot from a charity to a for-profit business is wrong and sets a concerning precedent for other philanthropic efforts... View Source
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Fires Rage in Georgia 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: Next... View Source
"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Andreessen Horowitz Former General Partner Arianna Simpson, The Digital Chamber Founder and Chair Perianne Boring, eToro Co-Founder and CEO Yoni Assia, and Kalshi Head of Enforcement Robert DeNault. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
An artificial intelligence system can spot pancreatic cancer long before it shows up on scans, raising the prospect of catching one of the deadliest tumors early enough to successfully treat, a study found... View Source
The AI startup Manus, once hailed as a breakthrough that would challenge Silicon Valley’s dominance, is turning into a cautionary tale for Chinese entrepreneurs after Beijing authorities ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to unwind its $2 billion takeover of the company... View Source
The artificial intelligence rally exploding across Asia is now spreading deeper into the supply chain... View Source
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s staff in Hong Kong no longer have access to Anthropic’s Claude, an AI agent that speeds the process of writing computer software, according to a person familiar with the matter... View Source
Noboru Saito, Director and CEO at Japanese electronic components maker TDK, discusses the company's latest earnings and the business impact from the AI boom. He speaks with Shery Ahn on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Arianna Simpson, former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Bitcoin was lower on Tuesday. The original cryptocurrency reached a record $126,000 in early October, just before the prices of digital assets collapsed. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Perianne Boring, founder and chair of The Digital Chamber, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Boring discuss her conversation with SEC Chair Paul Atkins at the Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
The UAE had steadily increased production to around 3.6 million bpd. The UAE’s stated crude oil production capacity currently stands at 4.85 million bpd, with an official target to raise that to 5.0 million bpd by 2027 through continued upstream investment led by ADNOC. Only the UAE and Saudi Arabia currently have pipelines around the ... Read more... View Source
Yoni Assia, co-founder and CEO at eToro, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The US Securities and Exchange Commission gave the go-ahead for sweeping changes to a restriction on day-trading activity by small investors earlier this month in a move cheered by retail brokers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
In the days since this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist that the entire situation was a false flag operation. These kinds of theories are nothing new, but the way they're spreading now is a reflection of how reaction video culture is reshaping our social media l... View Source
NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in late trading after giving an upbeat revenue forecast, a sign the chipmaker is bouncing back from a prolonged auto industry slump and tariff uncertainties... View Source
Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I've seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and unprepared. The only times he showed real animation were when he was bragging about how much he'd done for OpenAI... View Source
Booking Holdings Inc forecast worse-than-expected second-quarter revenue growth and cut its outlook for the full year as travel demand suffers from the conflict in the Middle East... View Source
On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, how North Korea’s rapid missile buildup is challenging US defenses and reshaping regional ties... View Source
BerkeleyCAL is convening a select group of scientists, technologists, and global thought leaders at the University of California, Berkeley on May 2nd and 3rd to explore the frontiers of aging, longevity science, and their broader societal impact. The conference will feature a keynote by Her Royal Highness Dr. Haya Al Saud alongside prominent scientists such ... Read more... View Source
The US Department of Justice has once again indicted James Comey - this time, for an alleged threat the former FBI director made toward President Donald Trump on Instagram, as reported earlier by CNN. In its indictment, filed in a North Carolina federal court on Tuesday, the DOJ cites the now-deleted image Comey posted to Instagram last May, which showed a seashell arrangement making up the number... View Source
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the fall in stocks linked to OpenAI after a report from the Wall Street Journal said the company failed to meet its own sales and user targets. Plus, a jury has been selected for the trial between OpenAI and Elon Musk over whether the company abandoned its founding mission. And, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel defends comments he made that prompted Pres... View Source
Thanks to Google Home's latest update, users may be able to get offline devices working again with less troubleshooting. Now, whenever a device goes offline, users may get "instant account-relinking prompts" in the app's device controller pages, which will tell users right away if an expired partner link is the reason one of their smart home devices isn't connected. Google's new "Home Vitals" prog... View Source
When Lee Kun-hee, the patriarch behind Samsung Electronics Co. died in 2020, his dynasty soon dealt with a crisis on two fronts: first, a multi-billion-dollar inheritance tax. The following year, his son Jay Y. Lee was jailed after being convicted of bribing South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye to win support for his succession... View Source
This image of a special object, dubbed the “X-ray dot,” represents a discovery from Chandra that could help explain the nature of a mysterious class of sources in the early Universe. The optical and infrared image from Hubble show the region around the X-ray dot, while the Chandra X-ray image shows the close up. Prior to this discovery, “little red dots” seen by the Webb telescope had not been kno... View Source
Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the center of our galaxy as you might imagine... View Source
Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however, the legal system intersects with technology in complicated ways - and Swift's efforts may be a long shot. In trademark applications filed last week, Swift's team asked for protection for two phrases... View Source
Robert Denault, head of enforcement at Kalshi, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Prediction markets have quickly grown from a niche corner of finance to a multibillion-dollar industry with big Wall Street investment, but a growing list of insider trading allegations is bringing concerns about the platforms all the way to the White House. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself as a savior. In the high-profile trial between him and his fellow OpenAI co-founder, now CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going through his background. He went as far back as being raised in South Africa and arriving in Canada for college with "2,500 in Canadian travelers' checks and a bag of clothes and books," then spent an unusually long time talkin... View Source
Robert Denault, head of enforcement at Kalshi, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Prediction markets have quickly grown from a niche corner of finance to a multibillion-dollar industry with big Wall Street investment, but a growing list of insider trading allegations is bringing concerns about the platforms all the way to the White House. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Texas Instruments graphing calculators have helped many a student with algebra, pre-calculus and upside-down anatomical slang. Now, the company is back with an upgrade for the modern world, the TI-84 Evo. The new device lets you get your math on with a faster processor, a new icon-based home screen and a redesigned keypad.TI is marketing it as something akin to the Light Phone of calculators. Unli... View Source
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic airplane sits parked in front of its new hangar home at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. The facility originally was constructed in 1968 and for nearly 60 years has hosted a number of research aircraft and programs.NASA/Christopher LC Clark There’s no... View Source
The Federal Communications Commission has ordered the ABC stations owned and operated by Disney to file for an early license renewal, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In a filing on Tuesday, the FCC claims it made the decision as part of an investigation into Disney's policies on diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI). The move comes just one day after President Donald Trump demanded A... View Source
Bloomberg's Anna Irrera joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Decentralized finance is in the midst of the largest coordinated rescue in its history. This comes a week after a security breach at a small crypto protocol called KelpDAO triggered a $10 billion run on Aave, the largest DeFi lending protocol. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source
Apple reportedly plans to fix bugs and expand the capabilities of Apple Intelligence with the release of iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27 year, and it seems like tweaks to the company's AI could go beyond a more functional version of its Siri assistant. Bloomberg reports that this year's software updates will also include new AI-powered photo editing tools that will let users change things... View Source
When we build things on wonder, it naturally opens the mind... View Source
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting "fully customizable" multiview. Users have "full control to mix and match live streams" and can "build the personalized viewing experience you've been asking for," Mohan says. You can pin up to four streams in your multiview window. YouTube initially introduced multiview in a more limited form in 2023 as a way to watch preselected... View Source
OpenAI pushed back against concerns over its sales growth on Tuesday, saying its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders” despite a report about the AI startup missing internal targets. The ChatGPT creator said it continues to see growth in demand from business customers and its nascent advertising business. “The mood internally is incredibly positive,” the company said in... View Source
Traeger’s first non-pellet grills debuted in 2023. Jumping into the griddle craze, the company introduced the Flatrock series in a three-burner model — later adding the smaller, two-burner option. Now Traeger is back with two new griddles, the two- and four-burner Irontop, which actually offer more cooking area than their predecessors. Plus, these new griddles are more affordable, too.Traeger prom... View Source
